A record for father-and-son employment was claimed yesterday by J. Wiss & Sons Company, scissors manufacturers, here. Twenty-eight fathers and their 29 sons are among the 360 employees.

Heading the group is J. Robert Wiss, president, whose son, Richard, also is in the business. Frederic H. Rauh, general superintendent, also has a son, Frederic Jr., in the plant. Oddly enough, the fathers of both the senior Wiss and the senior Rauh held the same jobs before them.

Mr. Rauh is the father longest in service with the company. He was employed there in 1899 and has been superintendent since 1913. Next in line is Frank Hoffer, foreman, who has been with the company since 1902. He is followed by William Marshall, employed since 1904, who succeeded his father as a foreman.

The son with most years to his credit is John Cervanka, who started in 1923.

The Wiss company, established in 1848, also has men still in active daily service who worked under the founder, Jacob Wiss, in the old plant on the present site of the Prudential Insurance Company nearly 60 years ago.

A few are Albert Lehman, who started in 1876; Gottlieb Ott, 1879; Jack Bohle, 1880, and Paul Lee, 1881.

Executives of the company encourage the hiring of sons of their employees, believing that "a chip off the old block is usually a more dependable individual." The policy, they add, increases enthusiasm for work and aids co-operation and discipline.