New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-13
COLUMBIA COUNTY. n. Y.

MARKED DECREASE IN SALES DURING OCTOBER -
MANY LARGE MILLS RUNNING on SHORT TIME-
EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES ON EXCELLENT
TERMS - MANUFACTURERS HOPEFUL OF 1Ia
FUTURE.
lYRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIDUsEl
HUDSON, n. Y, Nov. 7.-StOttyille is small
manufacturing village, three miles above TINS ciV'
wholly made by stottss Flannel Mills. There are two
mills. which have capacity for 20 sets OF cards Ihe
operatives number $50, and live In dwenT- uc'onua
to the mills, excepting number who have bnlt them
selves homes. These mills produce fannes exclusively
The Gales for October were not oDe-hah the usu"
amount OF other years for the same month. Messrs
stotts have not diminished their force or wages nor Ill
they as there il nothing else their hands eau
do and they have have no other course
than TO keep them employed Tbey VIII
be compelled however, 10 lessen the hours or labor
BY this means all the hands Will be kept from suffering
during hard Winter, and will not have their earnings
permanently reduced It seems 20 be the general
opinion that this method might well recommend itseh
70 manufacturers in general. Liborers appreciate
the necessity which reduces the hours OF labor when
they cannot be content 10 do the same amount OF labor
for less pay than formerly They will eheertuy lie ide
part OF the time when they will grumble at depreea-
on of the price of their labor This at least the view
taken by large number of the manufacturers ia this
section.
Van Allen Co. have three cotton mills at stuyvesant
Falls and have been doing nothing this week. on ac-
count of an accident TO the main water-whee, wDch
occurred Monday. The delay Is only temporary now
ever the repairs viii be completed by the 10Th INST
They employ 225 hands. are running 30S looms with
capacity OF 1900 spndles and turn out 10000 yards OK
print cloth per week Their monthly payroll amounts
TO A. 800 These mills have been running on half tm"
rates of wages remaining the same These gentlemen
think the laborers much better condition than IN 1851
10 contend with hard Winter. Many OF them have
made provision for such an emergency.
LARGE MILLS RUNNING on HALF TINE.
The Undertook Steam Cotton Mill has 49, looms ana
IsOO spndes and furnishes work TO 80 hands ts pay
roll amounting to $4,000 per month THIS mill ceased
work on the LIST OF November and viii not resume until
Spring Geo. ID. EARL is the owner OF this property
Charles Wild has cotton mills at Valae and one at
Columbayile, the aggregate capacity OF which Is 7J
spindes he employs 800 hands, who are working bnt
three days in the week Future developments must de-
termine bow long this will be pursued Cotton IL
depreciating in value, and all the manuiae-
turers are making goods at loss every day
they run their mills The cotton mill belonging
10 J. Carpenter at Valate, which runs IA looWs and
1880 spindles, and employs 10. hands, Is aso running
half tine but must depend upon an Improvements III
uopev matters to insure It's continuance mach lonecr
The Holden Cotton NILS also in Vdlaiie, haVo aSOp'eu
the same plan and running their 400 srihdes ON
half time. They give 100 hands employing fiane's
Heuderson's Knitting Mill, at Vala!ie, Will he closed
within fen DAYS IL prices of wool aud cotton continue 70
shrink Goods will he made muca cheaper next season
,han now and Mr. Henderson thinks that maniac
,,r.rs by closing their mills for a tme VIII escape
nuch worse misfortune. Forty hands are al work ID
this mill all Of " HON in fair circumstances.
The Filmont Hosiery Mil the property o; Nelson r.
Aiken ia 2iset mill running $500 WOODEN splodIes.
Two hundred and eighty operatives arc employed In the
production OF undershrts aud drawers. The monthly
pay-ro amounts 81 Mr.. Aiken is also erostiDe
new mill which work has given employment 10 GO men
and required 5000 per month for paying OF. Up 10
date there has been no reduction OF the working Tore
or conditions of labor but schedule OF prices has
been prepared by which average reduction Of 10 per
cent is made, which will 30 Gto effect the LIST OF
December. In the hands should not consent to
such reduction, the mill will be closed; but no such
contingency is probable since there has always been
perfect ,between tho proprietor ana the
operatives The latter appreciate the SITUATION ana VIII
probably accede cheerlully 10 the proposal
NO SUFFERING CAUSED DELAY IN PAVING WAGES.
n tina ,st M december the entire outside force viii b
dieh.ryed but with the reduction Of wages ali Of the
,.ra,iyas will Ina retained. The stringency Of money
has accustomed hight delay IN paying wages but only
A. GA "a dine the entire inside and outside forces, aud
go, ,,ul he a settlement of this amount on Monday.
whan there is any DELAY OF this Sort here, In oe
Tho nufacturng villages IN this section. the opera.
i,. .uffer little Inconvenience, since the employer
furnishes them orders upon the stores Of the neghbor
mood for whatever they may require, TO the full amouus
of what due them The sales Of this concern were noe
half the usual amount during Octobers up
TO which tine they had been unusually large.