The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-12

~-Sd Ter " ths employees. The mill
are the largest in New York State ant
owned by Charles Fletcher of Provi
dence. r. I. They have been ~runninI
night and day.
Win the Gazette" obligingly give it,
consideration to his fact? And while
it is doing so. it might study this des
patch which was sent out by the United
Press a few days ago:-
PROVIDENCE. r. L.. July 8, 1885
Wages in the wooden and worsted indus;
try all over the State will be increased
during the present month from 7a to Il
In some factories the increase will af-
feet only the weavers for the present,
but in the other departments an increase
Will probably follow by the middle OF
| August.
A leading mill owner stated last night
that the promises made to the operators
in wages was made, were about TO be
fulfilled.
The increase will also affect the big
Olneyville factory district in this city,
where the help which went out on a
strike in May and largely drifted away,
is very scarce. Higher age must be
and spinners back again.
The mill owners, it is learned, have
made better rates on light-weight Cloth
work, the manufacture of which will be-
gin during the present month. This as
sures higher wages to the operatives In
this locality.
at once follow the lead of the Olneyville
mill owners in making. the advances.
During the long -Olneyville strike 1t was
eoag and South County manufactnrers
that wages would be advanced IN these
localities just as soon as the increase
was given at Olneyvile.
And here is one more fact:-At Whit
~insville, Mass, seven hundred looms. at
a cost of $3.50. 600, are to be added to the
plant there. Fifty new tenements are
to be built n 500 additional employees
are to be set to work.
At it's leisure the Gazette will, no
doubt produce a new crop of humbug
and stupidity to offset these facts. But
1t will not do. The people are not to be
imposed on any longer by calamity
bowling. We advise our esteemed con-
temporary to get back to Barney Ford.
He will make more campaign capital
out of him than he will out of the tariff.
"
The estate Gazetteer and the Pot
teries.
The state Gazette keeps on wailing
in the most dismal way about the tariff.
One of its stock grievances is the de-
cline of the pottery trade. 1t likes to
tell the people that this industry has
been ruined by the reduced protection
which the Wilson law allows it, n
II would have us believe that the pro-
prietors are keeping their works open
out of pure philanthropy.
If this be true, perhaps it will nave the
goodness to explain the following item,
which we slip from a Trenton paper OF
this mornings date:-
The articles of incorporation of the
keystone Pottery Company were filed
at the office of the County Clerk yester-
day. The offices of the Company OUT
side of this State are in New York and
Tit capital stock is s1s2, 900, and bust
ness Will be commenced with $4,000, held
eph A. umpleby, so shares; James H.
Lyons. of Philadelphia, 80 shares
1t is just a trife odd that new men and
new money should be going into a bust
ness which is on the verge of ruin from
English competition. Perhaps Messrs.
Brian, Umpleby and Lyons are pure phil
an~thropists.
The State Gazette's'' bowls at
tracted the attention of the True Ameri-
can" which is on the spot and has at
least as good opportunities for obser-
walton as its rival. This paper
the eGazette's'' allegations with the fol-
lowing emphatic sssertions:-
The "True American" a few days ago,
ed up their works, that The depression
in their business is more fancied than
real, and that all those wno AYE ha !
tact are doing a fair business. 1t is
all nonsense to talk about THE new tariff
having injured the business 49, wh,,a
all other industries are booming under
this new tariff that the pottery business
Tho Ssb be the Il the only tg,.i 9ns the f sH }r1a in fTom
tories and everything in the line of man
ufacturing is prosperinS,. employers are
advancing wages, and mills are running
double shifts, except, according to the
"Gazette,' the pottery industry. Isn't
the Gazette bearing the market for
partisan purposes rather han for in
dustrial ones? Isn't it for the hope of
gaining votes for the party rather than
In the business prosperity of the potters
that makes 1t seek to arouse. Jealousy
against the potters of England because
Of the signs of returning prosperity.
We shrewdly suspect, from its tone
that it would be glad to see all the
Trenton potteries closed and the en-
and their families reduced to half
rations for the next three months on the
that they could be persuaded
thereby to vote solidly for the Republican
candidate for Governor at the November