New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-30
THOUSANDS LOSING WORK.
MILLS AND MINES CLOSING AND REDUCING
FORCE
SUSPENSION AND CUnTNI MENT OF OPERATIONS
IN ESTABLISHMENTS GREAT AND SMALL
MANUFACTURERS FEAR TO GO on
WITH FREE TRADE STARING
THEN IN THE FACE.


THEM IN THE FACE.
Braddock Penn. July cot Is reported here t"''
the Edgar Thomson steel Works are 10 clos" indeh
piteiy In all departments. either during next "eC"
or the week following. Two of the furnaces were
blown out on Thursday and another yesterday. TINS
lends color TO the report that the mill VIII suspend
operations The officials will neither conhrm nor
deny the rumor. six furnaces in blast. but 400
men have been laid on.
Wheeling W. Va, July 20.-Thc Riverside steel ana
Iron Works. the largest plant III this part OF the
Ohio Valley closed down to-day indefinitely. The
plant EMPLOYS over 1000 The state OF trade
Is tho reason given for the shut down.
DuIutb Minn July 20.-Word has been received
from, Chicago directing the entire suspension oil the
mining operations the Vermlllon range. on August
l. Work Will clos" at both the Chandler and Mime
sofa mines About 1000 will he thrown out OF
employment. About 900 we're laid off AT these
mines a few weeks ago An imrense amount OF ore
is I'm the stock piles, and shipping operations will con
tinue.
Dover ~ H. July o0.-WllllamsS belt factory
shut down this morning. Work will be- resumed on
Monday, but with only One-third OF the help. Tie
cause Is lack OF orders. Moulton, sho" shop also
shut down this morning on account OF inability TO
make collections In the two factories 100 persons
are thrown OF WORK.
Camden. y. J.. July 20.-Thc condition of business
here is bad. Most of the factories running on
shut down for three months. The Camden woollcn
Mills have closed for week Retail merchants com
plain of small sales and slow pay.
Pittsfeld Mass, July % lilnSdale Brothers.
woolen manufacturers at Hnsdalc will tonight shut
down two OF their thrc. mills. throwing 80 hands
out Of employment. The largest order ever received
by the firm recently cancelled, and the outlook
Is too discouragng to continue business at present
The third mill will run five days each week for the
present employing 100 hands. Mr.. lflnsialc Saih
this afternoon thu, he could not market the goods ana
he was compelled TO shut down.
d. NJ. Colans & Co., who operate large knit
ting mill In this city. find business slac! THAI
they will probably shut down the whole plant "a
waterville, Me-. July 20.-The Nassalbor' woollen
mills, which ii was recently announced would clos"
for a time, shut down last night and Will remain
closed for one month at least Three hundred per
deprived of employment.
Providence X. L., July 20.-Thc ROdman Man
ufacturng company. Of Lafayette. engaged in the
manufacture OF Kentucky jeans. has decided to close
all its mills during August and por, OF scpt"mb'r
1t is reported that other mill owners In the town
will soon follow suit
Boston, July o9.-Tbe Boston Manufacturing Cum-
pany and the Waltham bcachery and Dye Works.
under management, in Wal,lam, Will close on
August 5 for one week. On August II. If business
warrants, the mills will be operated one week, bat
otherwise they will remain shut down during the
rest OF the month.
Hartford, Conn. July 29-Work has been stopped
at the copper mine at BRISTOL which has been con
sidercd to promise ultimately yield COED results.
The managers say that they abandon working the
mine for the present owing to the difficulty in rai>-
ing money. Pumps will De kept at work 10 prevent
the mine from flooding.
NorthbOro Mass. July 2o.Ill the she'll and horn
goods manufa ctOrics are closed account OF IN"
state OF trade.
Danielsonvile Conn. July 20.-The = L. saylcS
Manufacturing Company of Killingy, Conn, wooll"n
manufacturers, assigned to-day 10 lncI"as" W. Car
;penter, OF Norwich.
Utica. y. ", July 90 tspeclall.-The Remington
typewriter Company Mt ilon yeste day gave notice to
It's employees that beginning to-day another shutdown
for two weeks will take place Williams knitting
mills at Rome furnish employment only four day.
week now. Heretofore the mills were operated on ca
ira time three nights each week. The Globe w0ollcn
mills of Utica will only five days each week until
further notice. The knitting mill al Fonda is sun
closed Hundreds OF people are now out Of employ
ent In the Mohawk Valley, and there Is the distress
ing prospect that there viii be- hundreds more In the
course Of a short time
In Little Falls fully 800 people ar ont OF work a
knit goods manufacturer of the Mohawk Valley who
has Just closed his MILL said yesterday: :" ! much re-.
gret that have to lay of my help, but II Is ont OF
the question to think Of continuing business al The
present time. Nearly all the orders FOR knit goods
were cancelled and manufacturers cannot afford 10 pile
What Cleveland ought to do is to say TO The country
that the present tariff law will b" disturbed, and
ilen business of all kinds would boom again. The
tariff question Is of vastly more Importance Than that
OF silver
As Is generally lNown, the Mohawk Valley Is the
broom manufacturing centre Of the country At
present the trade is duh some Of the factories are
closed, while others being only part Of the
are much disturbed over the outlook. and particu,
iarly Is this true Of the hundreds OF women anc
girls who find employment in the knitting mills. For
three or four years the business has been remarkably
good, the manufacturers have made money ana wage
carriers have been proitably employed The pc
sibility tina, the Democratic policy Win give the
country free wool has much 10 do wliE the anxiety
They possbl, chance Of buying goods cheaper
later. The outlook Is indeed discouraging TO The
n noticeable fact that the Democratic politicians do not
care TO discuss the situation.
Chicago July 20 (>pecial)-Afcr being compelled
to close It's large works al Joliet and Bridgeport aud
after making gradual reduction IN It's laborng force
it Necessary 10 reduce the force small one cmpioycd
In the fittngshops OF the North Chicago works. over
1000 men thrown out Of employment when the
Joliet and BIidgcpor, works shut down, and al
though more than SIX months have passed since then
II has been impossible for the company to resume
operations At Milwaukee and the North Chicago
works gradual reductions have been going on all the
year, and time advances things TO grow
Instead Of better The reduction yesterday North
Chicago was small one. but large considering III"
Sany on Zoo me-" were engaged in the s
Stops. and 10 per cent OF the force was discharged.
ing OF the situation &" IL is the way all over
The country. Manufacturers simply waiting until
Congress meets again. They don't to pile up a
lot OF goods In the face OF the declaration Of The
Democratic party to carry out It's low tarih ideas.
n il Is decided after Congress meets 10 keep the
tariff so far as steel is concerned all the mills IN
the country will open and owing TO The long lapse
thing in that direction Is done TO reasSure the manu-
mills will continue to close down and re-
a,ce their forces until few In the country will he In
operation" ,, , 49,
Buffalo. July 29.-The Barber Asphalt Company has
a,schorrrd 600 men because Of the dull times. W.
" Warren, cashier OF the company. said that the
company had been employing an unusually large num-
her OF men during the season and had let them 60
becanse the work is mostly completed II IL not
true, ne said, "that the reduction In our working
srcs IL caused by The discount banks refusing 10 take
our city warrants they have other city per cent
warrants