Date: 1897
So if it had been pos sible I would gladly have let the new machinery stand idle until the feeling against it had passed away; but as I see that the mill has been running at a loss ever since prices fell, it is quite clear that we must use it at once."  The next morning Ned called the foreman into his office at the mill, and told him that he had determined to set the new machinery at work at once.  "I am sorry to be obliged to do so," he said, "as it will considerably reduce the number of hands at work ; but it cannot be helped, it is either that or stopping altogether, which would be worse still for the men.