The White Sewing Machine Co. Standard Tool Co. Cleveland's machine tool industry also followed the New England tradition of encouraging talented mechanics and engineers from other machine tool shops to set up new businesses of their own.
Francis Pratt and Amos Whitney, co-founders of one of the most successful machine tool companies in America, worked 10 years for another machine tool shop in Hartford before opening their own. Foote, founder of Foote-Burt Co. The years between and might be considered a "golden age" of machine tooling in Cleveland and across the Midwest. With the introduction of mass-produced automobiles to American consumers, manufacturers could hardly keep ahead of the demand for new machine tools.
In response to the rapidly expanding automotive industry, a small explosion of new machine tool companies in the Midwest occurred. Although Cincinnati remained a hub of machine tool production, not only for Ohio but for much of the midwest, Cleveland attracted many smaller companies and fostered healthy growth for its larger manufacturers.
Other small businesses would be driven from the market by the eventual concentration of automotive production in southeastern Michigan, giving machine tool companies in Illinois, lower Michigan, and northeastern Ohio a competitive advantage of proximity over Cleveland.
Frank A. In his extensive writings on the machine tool industry, Scott was not only a promoter of the industry during boom years in the early s, but in some ways a prophet for the eventual decline of the machine tool industry following the s. Scott recognized that the industry in Cleveland and the nation was built by men who were better trained in engineering and mechanics than in merchandising and finance, but that its conservatism had protected it financially through lean years in the past.
He recommended that in order to keep a wider margin of earnings, smaller machine tool companies must eventually consolidate to raise productivity and diversify in their product base to survive economic downturns.
Scott recognized that the machine tool industry would always be adversely affected by a decrease in the demand for raw materials.
Scott, however, could not have foreseen the extent of the decline of the U. The city's machine tool companies, both large and small, had been producing at capacity during World War I, and most of the companies that retooled successfully during the postwar era had been able to survive the Depression and take advantage of war production during WORLD WAR II and the flush American economy in the following years.
During the s, Cleveland's machine tool industry remained healthy, although its boom years were over. The census placed machinery production second among the leading industries of Cleveland, both in employment and value of products. Unfortunately, the concentration of Cleveland's industry on producer's goods, such as machine tools, created instability during recession years. Severe fluctuations in U. Despite a healthy economic outlook, the entire U.
All of these factors have left Cleveland's machine tool industry a shadow of its former self. Although a small recovery is possible with the strengthening of the American automotive and steel industry and an increased demand for machine tools in foreign markets, Cleveland will, in all probability, never regain the status it once held as a center for machine tooling in the Midwest.
Go to case. Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. For the reasons stated in Section III, infra, the motion is hereby denied. During the course of the hearing the Trial Examiner made several rulings on other motions and on objections to the admission of evidence. The Board has reviewed the rulings of the Trial Examiner and finds that no prejudicial errors were committed.
The rulings are hereby affirmed. After the hearing the Company submitted a brief which the Board has considered. Almost all the raw materials used by the Company come from outside the State of Ohio, and approximately 90 percent of its finished products are sold and delivered outside the State of Ohio.
The Company admits that it is engaged in interstate commerce within the meaning of the Act. At the hearing there was introduced in evidence a report prepared by the Regional Director showing that the Union represented a substantial number of employees in the unit found appropriate in Section V, infra. The report We find that a question has arisen concerning the representation of employees of the Company. Subscribers can access the reported version of this case.
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