New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-30

Jones which give employment 10 c. men, no reduction has
De made IN the hours OF labor wages aud the pros
| Winter.
BOSTON LABOR MARKET.
The labor market of Boston is greatly over
crowded. Hundreds OF the city are out OF en-
poyment Thss partly In consequence OF the disturb
ance OF business by the money panic and partly through
the discharge OF workInen employed in rebuilding tho
9usnt District work now almost completed Mr.. Fay,
superintendent OF the Free Employment Bureau OF the
the state against coming Boston, city at present
ovsrcrowded with artisans OF all kinds.
T1tE BLAST FURNACES OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY,
PENN, CLOSED
The agreement of the owners Of blast fur
naecs in Allegheny County. Peuu reduce the wages
OF their employees 10 per cent was TO have gone into
effect on Monday. The workmen, however, refused 10
aecede to the reduction, and all the blast furnaces 10
the county have suspended operations The suspension
Will throw nearly 1000 furnace ont OF work. and
about as many more whose employment depends uDoD
the running of the furnaces such mners and cookers
~ coal aud quarters OF limestone. Tho strike will
duce the production OF pig metal about 10000 per
annum The furnace owners seem 10 regard the matter
with Indifference, as they say there is no money IN the
business at present.
REDUCTION IN TIE HOURS OF LABOR IN MAssA-
CHUsETTs.
The hands in the Boston and Albany Rail-
road repair shops at Pttsed. Mass ana the employees
the wooden factory OF L. Pomeroys Sons have gone TO
work again thTeefOurths time. Wss tack factory,
in common with other tack factories 10 the England
Association, running only three days in the week
In Clinton, the BigelOw Carpet Company have dis
charged a few workmen, but intend TO keep running.
The Clinton Yarn Compony has shut down for the
present. Tho cotton mills West Warren running
says the shoe facOr0s pretty quiet out there
general iechnS among Manufacturers that inc nlhcI
demand for goods will be brisk. The Smith Paper Com
pany OF Lee Will put Their mills on half time next week.
and the other mills are talking OF REDUCTION me coz
mi a Il M,c4 nd IN IN ID
OTIS Company at Ware, are running only i've days
nnc on InIt fine me WaIfban, Watch F,ctoTv Wl run
on fun time from Nov. l. with reduced force and re-
duCtiOn IS per cent wages, the production being
limited TO $50 watches day.
EFFECT OF TIE PANIC ON TIE INDUSTRIES or NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
BY inquiries at the establishment OF the Alb
bottDowning Company at Concord, ". H.. the manu-
facturers Of the celebrated Concord coaches and whore
between go and 800 employed, 1t was found
that their sales for the months OF September and Octo
Der have been good for the corresponding months
last year. hut consequence OF the general unsettled
state OF business throughout the country, they com
menoed this week 10 work eight hours instead OF
ten, and propose further reduction unless tho
evil influences Of the panic speedily subside.
James Il. Hill & Co., tho manufacturers OF the
widely known Concord harnesses, say that their
correspondence from all parts OF the country ind-
Gates that their Gales will probably be lighter than
the Winter eight hours day. The Prescott Organ Com
pary the oldest establishment Of the kind IN the eou
try having been In existence since 1884, represent fall
ing of in their orders for the past three weeks while
they did business In August and September than
ever before In two consecutive months They are now
running full time ami hope 10 be able TO do 50 through
the Porter Bauchards SOus, manufacturers OF
the Blanchard churn manufacture their eonds IN the
Winter for the Spring tradehc sales being ehi during
the Winter mOut!lsud owing 10 the difficulty ~ max
lug collections and the uncertainties OF the
demand in the Spring. they propose 10 employ
only one-lalf their maximum number OF men az
reduced hours for the next few months. Al
other establishments IN Concord 40 was found that
more or less arrangement has already taken place IN
their business, and an closely watching the ln1Ca-
lions and preparing to govern themselves accordingly
The other manufacturing establishments OF Baskerville
represented as being IN prosperous CONDITION, ia
some the hours having being shortened some
what but the whole serious derangenent mas oc-
Cured yet the prosperity OF this busy te manu-
featuring village,
Days It's operatives Sjt0OJO year. last week PAID us
hands in full thus putting nearly SiOOJO In circulation
The mills ut PcterbOrO are running only three ddYS
week Ii j. rumOrG1 that the Manchester mills are u
stOp thelr wooden work within 10 days aud discharge
1900 employees.