Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-11-27
CORRESPONDENTS IN RAILROAD
cENTERs REPORT.
MANY OUT; STILL GOING
Factories Suffer From countermand
orders-Great Retrenchments Are
Shown by Figures on DismissaIs
and Reduction of Hours-Expect
Stringency.

lHSlTuCllOuS 70 AAfCSdzdtt t1Au iSPoA
on he number of workers recently
laid OFF by manufacturers and rail
roads, correspondents conditions a:
follows:
Newark N. Manufactures 70I
men laid of; 1870 jewelry manufactor
les. employing 5000; so leather plants
the hat and electrical works on re
duced time.
Chicago-Ninety per cent of ths
factor es and workshops have reduced
forces and curtailed hours for lack O
orders or of currency. At eight mod
erate-sized plants visited 965 men haC
been aid off. Forty per cent. of thc
building trades workers are idle; TWEEN
ty-five per cent of the wood worker:
are out, the machinists are on shor
time and more moulders are idle thar
ever before at this season.
Peor. a--Manufactories 40 laid of
several farm implement plants closed
all concerns reduce running time.
Canton IE.-Ore Of tn larges
farm machinery plants in the country
practically closed; also all distilleries
formerly employing 1000; railroads re
due ng construction forces.
More Worren than Men Go.
Wheeling Manufactures, $500;
railroads 400.
Indianapolis-Fifty per cent reduc
ton in forces OF all large manufactor
les and several hundred dismissals
no railroad reductions.
South Manufactures 1,600;
some big factories running full forces
several plants suspend; coal mine:
may close for lack of currency; rail
roads full forces.
C ti-Manufactories, 1000 t.
5000 workers laid off; majority o.
them women.
observation-disclosures, 1000 tt
LOO; steel trust stops construction
on new plants; several big iron ant
tin mills half time.
Manufactures, 1000; De
tro.t stove works shut down; rail
roads, 1900.
Grand Rapids-Countermands or
orders pouring in, and factories grad
ua,ly dismissing workmen and reduc
ing running time.
st. Paul-Twenty-one saw mills in
northern Wisconsin close. throwing
out 5000 men; mines in iron range
will lay off for the winter 1000 min
ers by November Is; Great Northern
road discharges 90 civil engineer:
here and reduces construction work.
Manufactures, 700 out o.
1000 employees out; above normal FOL
this period of the year.
Slump in Delaware.
Wilmington, De,-Mills and factor
les, 1000 out; the Harlan & Hoiinss
worth Corporation discharges 1906
of it's 1900 workmen. reducing its
payroll from $4,000 to $1,000.
Schenectady, N. General Elec
trio company dism. sses 17s men.
Troy-No dismissals, but collar fac
tories wifi hereafter close from Fri
day noon until Monday.
Manufactures. ESQ out
Utica Knitting Co. ceases, for frs
time in years, to operate at night.
Augusta, Maine-Sixteen iron mills
here running full time and forces
railroads, $40 men out and reduce
hours.
Savannah, Ga.-Railroads, 800 Oh
400 out; factories, no reductions.
Montgomery, Observation-Disclosures
SOD out; railroad shops, 800.
Birmingham, Ala.-Mills and coke
ovens, 500 to 900 out; merchants, 20(
to 800; railroads, 1900; 1000 furnace
men discharged Friday.
Sheffield-Furnaces $50 out; ant
nearly all industries on shorter
time.
Weatherford, Texas-Counterma
orders on Gotten goods coming from
all over country and mills closing.
Passaic, N. J.-American Cigar
company reduces week to FIVE days;
all other concerns running full.
Waterbury, Conn.-Railroads, ZOO
out; manufactures, 200; American
Brass Company, fewer hours.
Meriden, Conn.--No dismissals anC
little time reductions.
manufactured mills and ma
chine shops running full and over
time; orders to cotton and silk NILS
nra nfinafIv eaaca. No dicrniccaIc 4 81
Hartford. Conn.-Manufactorie 1,
900 out: running time reduced.
Bridgeport Manufactories 4.5J0;
nearly all big factories on short time
Lowell-One msuufactory, 800 out;
merchants, 200: al other mills full
capacity: railroads force above high
water mark
Lynn-General Electric Company
1000 out. $500 shoe operators out oil
on ha,f-time: railroad o. X.
er-Manufactolies. $50 out.
general reduction of working hours
with promises of complete shutdown
Depression worst in ten years.
Brockton-Slight reduction OF tme
in shoe factories: 30 discharges.
Fall River-New York and New
Haven road increases its force; nc
curta,lment by manufacturers.
rg-Manifactories In radius
OF fifty miles. $4,000 ont: railroads. q.
NOn.
Reading. acknowledgements. ! @hn
ont (estimatedl: Reading railroad