The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-16

and, of course, in commerce which
depends upon the activity of work
shops and factories.
"The outlook for the winter is the
worst that the younger men have yet
faced. One shipbuilding yard has not a
vessel on the docks, and another large
one is employing only a third of its
full complement of workmen The
dominant fact is that there is no life
in shipbuilding, no prospect Of any
revival, no orders in sight of any con
siderable magnitude. Therefore il is
feared that the winter will be a very
hard one. Cautious estimates put the
total number of men, including labor
ers, out of work in Glasgow at from
10000 to 10000 Yarruw's is the only
shipbuilding yard that is fully chi
ployed. The largest forge has reduced
its staff from 1000 to 250O. The rail
way shops have cut down their stads
on account of economies. Fifty per
cent of the masons are out of work
and 25 per cent of the plumbers.
"In the textile trade most Of the fac
tories are on short time or keeping
down their output, so that womon's
wages are in fact reduced from 1S
shillings ($437) a week to 10 shil-
lings (s2.43). Half of the 1000 dockers
are unemployed. The provident So
cieties tell rather doleful tales. Life
policies are lapsing ali around in
short work is scare and threatens t.
become scarcer. Following the exam
pie set by the Glasgow Herald. the lore
provost has opened a distress fund
and liberal response in being made by
the citizens"
The New York Journal of Com
merce, in its issue for Sept 23. re-
viewing American and British foreign
trade, states:
Home Conditions Not So Bad.
"The falling off in American exports
in August amounted to only 1872 per
cent, while on the British side there
was decrease of 1871 per cent Our
own export figures for the eight
months as compared with the ciCh,
months ending with August, 1907, SHOW
a decrease of less than per cent. TEe
British figures for the corresponding
period show a decline of 1O.5 pr
cent
From this it will seem that the sit
uation is much worse in the United
Kingdom and in some other countrics
than it is in the United States. The
British board of trade returns FIR
August show the largest aggregate de-
crease in trade for any month of the
year. The imports fell over S30,009,0Go
in that month, and the exports about
$37,000,000. This enormous decline IL
trade, the London Times says, 'is OF
much Importance to the working
classes owing to the enormous number
of unemployed" A dispatch says:
with the trade declining in the
alarming manner shown by the above
figures, the outlook for the workers
during the coming winter is very
gloomy. The most serious feature in
the point of view of the workingman
is the falling off of exports of manu-
factured goods"
The situation in Germany is much
the same, although not quite so bad as
in the United Kingdom. The Canadian
government, owing to the trade cond-
tions, has adopted regulations to pre-
vent immigrants from coming to that
country unless well supplied with
funds. At the recent session of the
Canadian Manufacturers association
In Winnipeg, the parliamentary COM
mittee reported as follows:
"The one outstanding feature of the
year has been the pinch of hard times
which all of US have suffered in
greater or less degree. The London
labor bureau of the association has
been closed as a result of the indus.
trial and financial depression"