Show employees help to rebuild gutted pottery factory SCIO OHIO two months after fire destroyed this town s only in austry employees completely re built the gutted pottery plant and returned to pottery making after the fire the owner surveyed the burned rums of his business and estimated loss at almost two million dollars he ile was ready to quit penniless and unemployed he had founded the company in a dilapidated abandoned factory in 1932 he gathered a handful of townsfolk together and they de the company into the world s largest firm of its kind the climax of their success came at christmas 1946 when was passed out in bonus checks the story of the pottery a employer worker relations received wide ac claim in 1933 the employees got a box of chocolates in 1945 1943 they received 15 per cent pay increases and 75 in cash gifts the pottery workers also obtained such things as household goods and appliances at wholesale prices through their employer a efforts so after the fire the town s phyll clan clergyman and merchants hauled building materials ham nails to steel quonset factory buildings and expedited re juvena tion of the pottery plant typists turned steel builders and tea cup makers became common laborers to restore the plant four kilns have been lighted three more will be ready tor for full production by spring the job took 30 days less than expected |