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Overlooked by laymen is the fact that the Tubize plant at Hopewell made nitrocellulose rayon, not the more adaptable and durable acetate rayon upon which the present position of the industry (and that of Tubize Chattilon itself) is each day more firmly dependent. Many chemical engineers would have risked even money on the line that, even if labor had been willing to operate the plant at a collective wage of $0.00 a week, manufacture of nitrocellulose yarn at the plant would have ceased by August 1936. They would tell you, too, that it is probably as cheap to build...
...throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont plant was dismantled. Hopewell was again about to fade off the map when Tubize Artificial Silk Co. built a new plant on the site of the du Pont factory, began making something new out of nitrocellulose ? rayon...
...happy years Tubize (now Tubize Chatillon Corp.) made rayon yarn at Hopewell. By last April, when labor troubles first visited Tubize Chatillon, it was third largest manufacturer of this material in the U. S. Then a United Textile Workers' Union was formed at Hopewell, began to solicit members. The company objected to the method of solicitation. Its workers, it claimed, were thrashed if they refused to join up. Some non-union employes were not allowed to enter or leave their homes. Others the company undertook to smuggle out of town for their own safety...
...Making rayon out of nitrocellulose is a delicate chemical process involving the use of ether, alcohol and acids. A sudden shut-down at Hopewell ruined not only the material being processed but collodion solidified in the pipe lines and spinning pumps, and the acids ate into the neglected machinery...
...least three months to repair and renew the Hopewell machinery wrecked by the night raid of the strikers. Such repairs, he said, would cost thousands of dollars?far more than Tubize Chatillon stockholders would be warranted in investing in a rehabilitation of Hopewell. The company would make no more rayon yarn in Virginia but would import whatever was needed for use on its Hopewell looms from its yarn plant at Rome, Ga. Closing the yarn plant would put 1,500 of the company's 1,858 employes permanently out of jobs...