New-York tribune., 1901-07-21
COLLAR MAKING IN TROY T..
HOW THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY HAS
GROWN EFFECTS OF THE
STRIKE FEARED.
STRIKE FEARED.

rhe news from the headquarters of the Anal
eamated Association of Iron and Steel workers
last week eclipsed the strike news from Troy
although the people in that place were more
deeply interested in the matter than is generally
known to the world outside Of the Collar Clty'
The collar cutters strike, if successful, would
deprive thousands of men. women ana chliuren
Of work and would cripple the industry which
has made the city of Troy known in all parts
OF the country.
We know what strikes and labor movements
CON do for a place said prominent resident
of Troy '.and for that reason we look upon the
collar cutters strike and similar movements
with fear Troy WAS once upon a time one OF
the most important stove manufacturing places
IL the country. Its goods were known Wherever
stoves were used. but the labor organizations
began to run matters. the manufacturers got
discouraged and gave up their plants, and TO-
day nobody would know that this had ever been
a stove making place. If the foolish labor move
mems continue the collar business will follow
stove making
The CITY of Troy bears the brand of the colla
and cuff Industry so conspicuously that enc can
NOT ne in the place long before he discovers It.
Factories of gigantic proportions and Other
sroaller ones and shops located in various
narts Of the city. Some of these are near the
railway stations, where the collar and Gun
signs may be seen by the travelling community
others are in the main business streets, and
some are in the new part of Troy. which was
known as Lansingburg until a short time ago
COLLAR SIGNS EVERYWHERE.
Machine shops laundres box factories and
other nlaces of business dependent on the collar
Industry for business display the word collar
on their signs and at every step one is reminded
of The fact that he is in the home of that I'M
nortant article Of wearing apparel But one
would know that he in the Collar City IL ne
6id not see because the article and its process
of uaEufAct.re .. e SC sssed so much Not only
the storekeepers and the men and women VINO
are directly de pendent on the factories taIk
collar" but people in all walks of life know
all about turning" "pastinG." stitching ana
"boxing" and the news from the collar world IS
Interesting to every one.
1T is only natural that this should be so.
said a Troy merchant, and no more to be Won
sared at than that the physician or clergyman
IN Pittsburg should know all about steel the
doctor in Solingen know about cutlery or the
LAWYER in Fall River about print cloths. We all
take q deep interest in the business. because it
did much 10 build up our city, and because the
industry gives thousands of persons employ
n7ent without reducing them To the level OF ordi-
nary factory help
II is about seventy-five years since collars
were first made in Troy At that time shirts
were made with collars attached, and the de-
tachable collar a remarkable reform in
mems wear The wife of a Troy blacksmith has
been credited with making the first separate
collars for sale. These were cut with scissors on
a paper pattern, and were sold to Troy store.
Then the merchant took up the business, who