New-York tribune., 1886-01-29
REPLYING TO SHOEWAKERS.
LYNN NO LONGER CONTROLS THE TRADE
THE ANSWER OF KEENE BROTHERS TO THE THREATS
or THE BoYcOTIERs.

OF THE BOYCOTlERS.
I}osT0N Jan. % (SpeclaD. D.-Keene hrothers,
of Lynn the shoe manufacturers who are threatened
with bovcott in few days unless they comply with the
demands Of the Knights OF Labor, explain Io-uay 'ne
diricp,ties under which they and other New-Engand
manufacturers are struggling As far as they ana ther
employos were concerned their relations were noS'
cordial. There had been no strike at Lynn po'"o'"
theirempoyes and themselves, and IN Maine oy ~"
men out of 500 were dissatisfied They desired " uo
large and increasing business In Lynn Oh hhei
GRADES The changes in the last Few years
IN the busIpess bad mado 1t necessary 10
make the coarser grade of goods in the country but hat
would pot injure LyDns trade, for they couu maze "
equally large quantity Of no goods III Lynn Dn' II 'y
were Obliged to abandon the manufacture Oh tLer co
mon goods at skowhegan, these goods have TO so vest
rs they could not be made here, and the business "oe
A. Ivnu would also be reduced for the sale OF line 81
cheop foods IN connection with fine goods give an oppor
tuuity to sell a larger quantity OF hne gOou' III
the West Lynn could not hold ana increase H9
Western and Southern trade unless 1t made part VI
ts goods in the country. generation ago inc Sn'e
factory ofhand work had its thousand employees III tho
woods Of Maine and New Hampshire, and on the shore
from Eabaut to Cape Aun Twenty years ago came the
Introduction OF machinery, and tho exodus from tAo
country into tho cry Since then Lynn mas tWico Ic
built herGusness centre first in wood from looO 10 Io'
then IN brick from 1870 to $50 Now appears tAe rau
DEVELOPMENT OF shoe manufacturing West. To-day the
prairie shocmnlers of the West army 10000 strong
are making more shoes than made In all NcW-Ang-
land and by their side stands the prison shoemaker OF
tho West making onctenh part OF all the goods west AZ
wholesale aud twice many shoes as Lynn makers I"r
tho same market Massachusetts,, with Its product OF
$4,000 900 iu shoes tho West, meets SlOOOO0oJo
in western made shoes to-day against
onehaf that amount ten years ago
Tho supremacy OF the state has g0ne never TO return
What the sherman shoemaker nas been IN the past e
prairie shoemaker Will be IN the Inture. Ihe wOrhueh
.ad last september Way dOat yOu ave us cents
mir extra Go ahead and sell your goods at the advance
and everything Will work Out satisfactorily Ihey nave
mana.ed the sles since last SIMMER ana herc Is 10 Ds'-
uess. Nhyl Because cents pair advance means 7oa
cale OF sixty pairs, and no 100000 cases Lynn
makes il amounts @9OOOOO and the whole pronts III
Gynu $2OJ, 900 year. IN tact uot halt o
tyat for Lynn Increase million IN hVe year.
How rouII A. succccdR Their ideas arc contrary
to the spirit of the 0se All manufactured
products VIII be sold ycar by year cheaper nOt
higher. in prcc. The trouble Is not 700
Little silycr to-day, but too much steam. Five cents
pair in Lynn. at tho sources o; supply means Sret
deal at OF the river 10 represents an adEcr
OF twenty live cents by our frcnds,bc Jobhels ahdhy
cents To consumer People. Nou must IenehDcrou ou'
West don't DO business for pnIInthroIY or 70 lui
benevolent small rise here means great
ana ulUSs.h advance there Rather than pay that a
vance Il will pay the farmer to stop raising Whea,
ot KING at seventy cents day. aud set MS boys hu
what they are doing, and prairie shorm'her5 WIN
machinery and factory il the trOncldd we meet Whe
we ct out Ehcr shoes VIII be SOLD cheaper by
tho East to the West. eastern shoes Will not % SON
hcrc at all The history OF Lynn Is written Gs an2Ob
trial factor OF the Nation, West