New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-16
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The suffering entaed by this stoppage OF work Is uu-
fortunately very great and Widespread

The suffering entaied by this soppage OF work Is un-
fortunately very great and Widespread
We arrive the conclusion that IT'S 600 men who are
usually employed at rolling mills, furnaces g., are out
OF employment to-day In consequence OF the depression
in the iron business. II 10 these add those mrchan
and Others whose business has not been prosperous.
or has been partly or wholly destroyed because ne ron
business upon which they depended has been prosaied
| and II multiply the grand aggregate Of unemployed
workngmen directly and indirectly dependent upon mo
iron business by the number Of women and children, old
| men and nvaids, whom these w0rkingmen are called
upon support. the amount or privatDn ana suffering
entaed by partial destruction OF a great Industry
appalling and overwhelming, aud without precedent
be considered the hard times which were ushered
in by the crash or 1884,
Communications given from leading ronma'ters.
which contain many items OF interest and show that no
part OF the iron producing sections has escaped the COM
mercia blight Edmund T. Allen ST. Louis, No. says:
Notwithstanding tho present low price o. bitunnous
coal aud coke ps iron, tho salos ot pig IRON are Slow
Rail and bar mills in this part Of the country are nght
ing the strikes OF their w0rkmen, and but few Of
them at work. Altogether the outlook j. Tar from
for purposes not furnace would be ia blast
In this State to-day.
Writing from the Han cling Rock district IN Ohio, VII.
liam NJ Boles makes this gloomy report:
The quantity Of charcoal iron to be made I'm this
district in 1874 will not probably amount To
m,"h over one.hat what it was I'm 1873 A. our fur
naces we would feel like closing down altogether. but
that feel IN duly bound TO do something 10
Iossp 10 when we must submit II We sell at present
prices for in order 10 reduce wages o price Wcl va
can afford pay and bring Us any enumeration Tor our
capital our men could not live Wages have been re-
duced very considerably and are no" about a, 10" ~
they be. with current prices OF provisions. &C.
g. A. Fuller Of Cleveland. ONO IL would be much
easier to answer how many Western mills are AZ work
than how many are idle. Writing on the 2lst ut he
saysi
II tho present state OF things should exist much
longer believe the entire iron Interest viii De com
petely Frustrated aud all the mills and furnaces com
PEELED put out their fires The Ell ct ot the panic nas
Industry than by any other; and even now. when at
tempting obtain barely cost for ris' We are met of
b,fl ~
the East aud discoura cement rst. last, and all tho
| time seems 10 DO the order OF the day
In M,honing aud Trumbu Counties. Oho, III. /. stew
art OF struhers reports that there 10 furnaces out Of
blast and IL blowing All the furnaces now In blast
which are not connected with mills and some that are,
will cease workas as the old ore j. consumed II
business does not improve. There very large amonnt
OF unemployed labor there, and those who have "os'
except perhaps the miners are working for bare Sns
and at loss TO their employers In the shenanso var
lev Penn Mr. Perkins reports Il OF the 81 furnaces out
Of blast aud ii ia understood many more will be A. sooa
as the ore accumulated last year Is consumed & -
Noursc, an old iroumaster, writing from Coluh'',
Penn says that there is furnace az Lancaster ana
two az Marietta out OF blast The Columbia Iron sua
steel Company's rail mill has been idle all the WINTER
and there IL prospect OF Its resuming work me SIS
quehanna Iron Company's merchant IRON mn 49,.
wages are 80 cents day lower than they were IN sep
TENDER last, Wages at iron ore mines are % cchs -
seeking work both as the furnaces and mines than aro
needed. Mr.. Sourse intends 10 put al. three tutu.s
out OF blast In the Summer unless business w a,
In the Lshigh Valley. Penn, there are As ho,
furnaces out OF blast, and A. = schtOpP ~ a.. - 80
states ordinary wages from Vi 10 20 v ~ -.
Mr. Coxe of Reading reports that nine furnaces arc s
OF blast IN schuylkill valley, that hihe lVs hs,
have ceased WORK and four others are tuhhuns on
,'n,e Chester Crswod OF Troy y. Y, saws NAT nNo
or al of the furnaces on tho luison betwen cS.
Nav York are Of blast. that they nave ai ,,,.
| OF iron on hand, but have made no sales WIZ"
| ing ,-- a, g.. an, ,,eneral depre ssioa
| ahoye described The BuliSftH shows that to"o'u"
worth of iron aud steel and Manufacture "eio
n,nored Last wear all OF which could nave b'ch pro
dnred Al home imports have fallen ON cohsdetaoy
mi, year but there Is reason 10 lear shaIP
80! Tread shch will be hurtfu TO American Interests
The prce OF coal "a well as the rates OF aDot nav
Considerably Great Britain, aud IRON has
eorrasnnndtng decne In order 20 avert ths u"s"oso
comnrIion Inc Buietin holds that the zen P,i -.
dncton nor ~ June, IsT2. should De repeheu, 'has
wing caused loss OF els 0OOoO To tue teFtnus
stthont numerically benenting consumers