The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-11-13
Manufacturin and Business News.

The Mcrrimac Hat Company Of Salisbury
have shut down for the month of NoYenl-
Der.
Factories in Westport. Conn, have re-
luced their force are running on short time.
and will probably shut down soon
The Amesbury wollen mills commenced
running on one-half time Friday The
Salisbury mills ar" running on three-quar-
ter's time
All the heavy manufactures III Taunton,
Mass. are running on short time and re-
iuced wages, excepting the large firm OF
Reed & Barton, silver works
At Valley Falls, T. L., the Abbott Rum
Company mills have stopped. and wages
il the Valley Fails Company mills viii be
ten per cent less on and after the 10th inst.
In Norwalk, Conn.,, there is almost com
plete sta@nation Of business The straw
and other hat business, employing many
hands, is nearly suspended One hat estab-
lishment, employing usually 800 hands,
has now but -.
Numbers of the foreign population OF
Fail River are making arrangements 10
return to Europe on account Of the dull
times.
The Manchester. y. H.. Print Work, will
do no more printing till December first.
About five hundred people are thus out Of
work The mills have shut down this week
and ii i understood will ram lour day~ II
week hereafter
In many manufactures Of Springfield,
Mass, there is the usual cutting down OF
hours and pay The envelope. paper collar
and other paper factories arc reducing
hours The United States Armory and
Wr5toM> firearms are Increasing their
works.
There are over twenty-five cotton mills
III the State of Maryland, sixteen Of which,
employing about 5000 hands, are located
near Baltimore. All are somewhat para
lived. some are working only half time,
though but one, the Laurel Manufacturing
Company. on tie parXent river, has en-
tirely suspended operations. The wooden
mills. four in number. are not 50 much af-
tected as the cotton mills,
Two hundred and thirty men were dis
charged this week from the lumber wards
in Green Point l.. l. One hundred labor
er, We're discharged at Long Island One
hundred cabinet makers We're discharged
in Brooklyu -Four hundred men from the
Brooklyn City Works and three hundred
from the Prospect Park improvements.
The Rubber Comb Factory at College
Point, l., l., have reduced their time TO four
day pcrweek- employing six hundredmen.
Tie Exeter Manufacturing Company re-
duccd the time OF running its cotton mill,
in Exeter, \. H., TO eight hours a day. and
live days a week, in consequence Of the
times and the alterations in their mill,
meccssitated hy the erection Of tic new
mill the past season. NoreduUjon in wages
is made The same reduction in the hours
Of labor has been made ut the mill in Pitts
field which is owned substantially by the
same stockholders.
The Cochcco Manufacturing Company
has issued Il circular TO lis Dover operatives
stating that although ''the times are out Of
Joint" and the company can purchase
goods for printing, at considerably less
rates than they themselves can manuact
hre them, still they propose to stand by
their help. keep their mills running ON full
time, pay the usual wages, and only ask
the operatives that they practice the strict
est economy in their work, 50 that the loss,
ii any may he reduced to 4 minimum