Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-03
AFFECTS ALL BRANCHES.
Depressing Effects Of Labor Trouble
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! On Business.
 Said a New Haven observer yesterday: ''The general effect of strikes upon business l is depressing. That is we'll accepted fact With 10, 900 men out of work men who earn
 $500 per day, there is $50, ,O00 day loss
 to somebody and to whom more than the
 workingmen, and with 5O,0O0 men out of
 work the loss is correspo ndingly greater
 At the present time it is es timated by some
 that there are 100, 900 men 'out on strikes. ,
 In New Haven not a large number of men
 are thus out of employment. There are
 from 100 to 15O carriage body makers out of work and about 125 carpenters There are 1 1000 persons out of work by the shutting down of the L. Candee manufactory. But in the last case it is the annual shut down con- sequent upon the season. But the bad ef- feet of strikes is not confined to the Men who strike alone The labor troubles and strikes paralyze business. Men out of work spend less money with the merchants. Trade consequently languishes. A Chapel street merchant said to us yester- day: "We never saw it so dull in our busi- ness as it is at present." Strikes and labor troubles unsettle business. Said a promi- nent real estate dealer: f'I can show you a score of cases where persons who intended to
 build houses have put off the work to some future day. This is because the price of la bor is unsettled. Builders are waiting They
 don't want to figure on contracts now until
 they know what the labor item of expense
 is to a certainty. Here in New
 Haven, as well as elsewhere competition is
 close and persons about to build get prices
 on the contracts from 8 number of different
 builders Hence all figure as low as they can afford to in order to get the job and keep their men at work I think it safe to say that the carpenters strike and the masons' demand for higher wages (which was grant ed) have given building in New Haven a black eye, to speak aetaphorically, this spring. I think the facts will easily bear out that claim. Then the halt called in the car riage business owing to the carriage body makers strike has given the carriage busi-
 ness black eye It is conceded that
 the spring trade has been ruined. Now I
 am saying this, not from prejudice to any
 the tumble in the stock market when the
 big strikes out West were threatening, and
 did cause, disaster to the railroads, the pro-
 ducers and the consumers. The depressing
 effect on business in New Haven by the la
 bor troubles is felt more largely than ap-
 dressmakers get less work, millin-
 branches of trade feel it. These are facts
 that nobody can deny. Then the effect in a natoinal point of view. One branch of trade or business is closely interwoven with anoth- CT, and with the uncertainty attending busi- ness all branches of manufacturing is affect ed. Buyers wait to see what's up and what's coming next. This lessens the call for man ufactures. The big shops consequently feel it and run less hours as the orders slacken tell you humanity is great thing. High and low, rich and poor, capitalist and wage worker, are ali parts of one common whole in the surging tide of human 1ife."