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PRODUCTION AT MILL REDUCED
[Welland Tribune January 15, 1940]
100 Men Laid off as One Unit Maple Leaf Plant Shut Down
About a hundred men were laid off by the Maple Leaf Milling Co., Ltd. At Port Colborne on Saturday as the mill resumed operation on one of the 6,000 barrel units this morning after a shut down of both units for a week. The company had been operating both units since the plant was speeded up to wartime production peak in October. About 425 are still employed in the mill, feed plant and bag company, according to Manager W.H. Cowan.
Mr. Cowan informed The Tribune this morning that the men laid off were men employed in October when the second unit was put into operation, bringing production up to the full capacity of the mill 12,000 barrels of flour per day. They had been told at the time, he said, that their work would last only as long as both units were operated.
The reason, said Mr. Cowan, was that sufficient orders could not be got through to warrant operation of both units. The second unit would remain idle, hr said, until such time as conditions adjusted themselves.
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