The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15

OuG OL WOrK mere, DuG was or the OpIQ-
ion there would be thousands added in
the winter unless there was a whole
sale exodus in the meantime.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 4-Outside
of the professional loafer, who is less
numerous in the city than usual. there
are 5000 unemployed men in Cincin-
natl, according to the reports at the
central office of the Building Trades
Council and estimates based thereon.
Or these the carpenters are the most
n numerous, about n e-third of the 1900
enrolled being out of work.
Of LOO members of the painters
union, fully one half are idle. OF 1000
moulders, union and non-union, fully
one-half are unemployed. several mills
having shut down and others running
on one half or even one third time.
John q. Weaver, president of the
Building Trades Council, said to day
that 5000 is a conservative number of
unemployed. The cause he attributed
primarily to the ~stripgency of the
money market.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 4-''More than
One-half of the men employed in the
mills, mines, glass houses and several
thousand railroad employees of Pitts
burg are idle al a result of the business
depression, " said President Garland, of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers, to day:
"Ot course the summer shutdown
has something to do with IT," he con
tinued, ''but if the dull season had
struck us in the fall or spring I am
satisfied the result would be the same.
A fair es timate of the number of men
out of employment in and around Pitts
h1Tu 10 R0 100 Onn hole Ne %h0c0 - vo
employed in the iron and steel mills.
IL, 900 r from the glass houses and
8, 1000 are miners. The remainder are
railroad employees and small factory
hands.
THE only remedy I see for the i'm
provement Of the labor market in the
iron and steel trades is a general bust
ness Improvement. The latter can be
secured by the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman silver act and a
promise from the next Congress that
there will be no meddling with the
tariff.
Secretary Hochstetter, of District
Assembly No. 8, K. of L., said: Fully
one half of our membership is out of
work. The small factories and com
mercialhouses felt the depression early,
and the first thing the employers did
was to reduce their forces wherever
possible. The general opinion is that
there will be little change until after
the extra session of Congress-"
Everybody seems to be waiting to
see what somebody else is going TO do"
said Secretary Kunzler, of the Flint
Glass Workers Association. "All the
glass houses are shut down, as is the
custom during this season of the year,
but there is some doubt about when
they will resume. The shutdown gen
orally lasts six weeks. 1t will be pro
lOnged this year. The manufacturers
are afraid the tariff will be assailed.
This is partly the u of the trouble"
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. A tightness
of the money market is attributed as
the u Of the large number Of men
thrown out of employment in this city.
Industrial enterprlF es are plnChed for
lack of capital, manufacturers and
iobbers lack custom from the interior
tor the same reason, and in consequence
a lessening of the amount of products
is necessary. Men have been laid off
until the situation is easier.
According to a conservative estimate
San Francisco's unemployed number
about five thousand. Many of them
ore skilled artisans, but they are cared
for by the trades unions and there is
hardly any suffering. The greater
number, however, is of unskilled labor,
and among them is considerable dis
tress. A great number of the unem-
ployed do not properly belong In San
Francisco, as large numbers have e
Gently come from other States, espe-
cially Colorado.
Of carpenters alone it is estimated
there are about three hundred local
men out of employment and as many
more have recently come in, drawn by
prospects of work on the buildings for
the midwinter fair.
James 81. Barry, prominent in labor
circles, does not think there is less
money in the country than usual, but
thinks the abuses growing out of the
private ownership of land r largely
responsible for the distress. His rem
edy is to compel the opening of large
plus labor population.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Aug. labor
leaders estimate there are ten thousand
men idle in Buffalo.
Delegate William Dobson, Of the
Central Labor Union, said: "Iattribute
the lack of work here to the lack of
money. When money is withdrawn
from circulation, as it now is, the en-
ployers find themselves unable to pay
their men and so let them So" %
GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 4.-There
are about twelve hundred unemployed
men in this city. This includes about
seven hundred and fifty men who find
employ ment on the docks as screw
men, longshoremen and in the cotton
congresses and pickeries during the
day run from 50 to Sc, according to the
nature of their work.
There are very few among the skilled
laborers out of employment and there