Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-11-25
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OF the Dlstresa La tn. Low 1srsn Years.
SOME PREDICTIONS MADE rNNKpiArrrr
AFTER THE PASSAGE or ruE wAiKEa
TARIFF hill
The country will be flooded with for
eign goods. many manufactures will be
stopped. and others will work Mt half
price; the home market now being built
mp will be injured. ruinously low prices
of agricultural products will follow.
and the day laborcr will b~ required to
work for reduced wages Tho conse-
quence of such excessive importations
will cause n balance of trade against us
exceeding the amount OF specie within
the country, which must DC sent
abroad. followed perhaps by derange-
ment of our monetary system.-N. Y.
Courier and Enquirer, July 80. isaG.
Wherever the news will GO IL will
sound a death lSnell in the ear OF indus
try and enterprise No saddcr tidings
fer many n year have reached all
branches of labor. and the cutlery.
therefore. is general N. Y. Express,
July so. 1916,
A reduction of tho prices OF labor Is
one OF the inevitable effects OF the re-
peal OF the American tariff act OF lsls
and the substitution OF McKay's British
tariff bill Tho latter deliberately takes
away the sure protection To American
labor which the act of lsss had so hap
PLY and wisely thrown around It, -
Baltimore American. July 80. is40.
rnEiR FuLruLLMENr.
from the New York Tribune, Dec. iS 1884,
We publish, to-day, collation. OF
facts obtained expressly for the Tribune
from the various classes OF mechanics
and tradcsmen of this city. regarding
the Immediately drcary and prospec-
lively desperate condition of industry
and commerce. To such original state
mcnts are added extracts from various
journals in different quarters OF the
Union, which. with hardly an excep-
ton. exhibit kindred distrcsscs. These
all have the force and invulncrnblcness
of arithmetical details They prove
that the chief industries necessary TO
the life of the nation are now partially
or wholly collapsed; armies of toilcrs
are hurled from the factory or the
shop into the street, awaking I'm the
morning to'the prospect of stealing for
subsistence or starving outright This
may bc matter of indifference To the
slave drivers who have shaped the ma
tional Legislation OF this country from
the start; but To the worlxmcn OF the
north, who are not yet on chain gangs.
IL IN question OF wild cxtrcmitics-of
life or death In keeping with this
state OF things generally, this city,
which, according 10 Secretary Walkers
report in is47. with his British free
trade doctrines, was To advance majcs-
tically In unbrolsen prosperity. up TO
the time she became 1.-THE clearing
house of the world" has, under that
system, fallen to condition which In
Europe is considered the attendant OF
revolutions: for insurrcction there Is al
ways accompanied by want of work.
Let MS glance at the industries of our
community:
IRON WORKS.
The iron business I'm this city IA very
much depressed, and large numbers OF
worlsmen are destitute OF employment
In n recent tour through the foundries
and machine shops we learned that
upon the average. not more than half
of the men are now employed. and the
nnticipations for the future hold out
still gloomicr prospects. In Brooklyn
some 800 men have been recently thrown
out OF employment.
PRINTING.
Many of the leading Offices have dis
charged two-thirds OF their employees,
and have reduced the remainder TO two
thirds OF a days work.
sTEREoTYPERs
This business, as consequence, ex-
hibits much the same state OF depres-
sion as pcrvades that OF printing. Not
more than onc-third of the stereotypers
arc employed.
TYPE FOUNDERS.
In this branch scarcely anything is
doing. We are informed that one house
alone in this city, for the past month.
showed decline Of business 20 the ex-
tent of some 10000 pounds OF type.
BOOK BIspISo.
OF the 1000 men engaged In this
branch OF industry, between 200 and 800
are out of work.
BUILDING.
The builders have scarcely ANYTHING
under way. a large contracting mason
says that no. more than 1000 of the
5000 TO 7. 900 masons usually employed
In New York are now at work. House
carpenters are among the principal suf.
ferers Many of the small employers
have closed their shops, while the more
extensive master carpenters have
greatly reduced the number Of their
employees and curtailed the hours OF
labor OF those yet at work. The major
ity OF the operative ship carpenters ia
this city, numbering many hundreds
OF men, arc now out Of employment.
and the number augnents daily by
the completion OF the work In progress.
In the nine shipy OF Greenpoint and
Williamsburgh. employing on the aver
age, in good season. an aggregate Of
1000 persons, only 237 are at work The
depression in this branch OF industry
necessarily affects large numbers OF
operatives in other professions. as rope.
makers. blockmakers curriers'. rigQcrs
and host Of others
or the 1900 plasterers usually EN-.
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