Evening journal., 1913-12-11
INDUSTRIES
OF CITY FEEL
DEPRESSION
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present time they have several large
orders for Mexican cities. but owing
70 the unsettled condition OF that
country tho shipments are being
withheld.
Work at tho New Castle Leather
Company plant is dull. there being
500 men employed out OF the usual
number of 200. Richard Patzowelxy,
the manager yesterday said that the
loutlook was gloomy, and conditions
lin Europe We're equally as bad.
Conditions In other morocco plants
arc depressed, and In one or more
the employees are working five days
Ia week
The hosiery trade Is busy. An Of
fetal of the Delaware Hosiery Com
lpanS. at Fifteenth aud Walnut streets.
said this morning that he would like
TO secure more help. At the pres
ent time there are 250 girls working
thero and this number would be in
creased 10 three hundred or more If
help could be gotten, he said
The hosiery OF y. Sutro and Son.
whose plant recently opened at Fifth
land French street. reports a brisk
trade At tho present time the firm
rs installing new machines.
I The Glen Hosiery Company, Thir-
teeDth and Poplar streets, which em-
lploys 120 girls, is busy. A member
lof tho company said that this morn
ling's mail brought an order for 5000
E tdozen pairs Of stockings this week.
Work at the Pullman Car Com
q 'pany's plant was reported brisk, the
q management stating that orders Oh
J hand assure steady work until mex
& l.lune. The only trouble experience,
A is in receiving steel and iron, 1t wa,
J. explained. At the present time her,
y are l,500fhlen on the payroll. whicf
y lis 500 mere than the number employ.
ed there this time last year. Al
various times within the past month
worlSmen have been laid of until the
: material needed has been received.
/ II. s II. Plant Busy.
c Az the plant of the Harlan & Hol-
lingsworth Corporation the statement
/ was made that the normal force OF
= men is employed, but no new men are
+ being taken on. The shipyard has
? work IN hand TO keep, busy about four
} months, and the car shops have
enough orss~~s TO keep busy for four
or Ave months, it was stated.
An official OF the company today
denied q report that contracts we're
expected soongfor four new ships.
The htF. Shaw and Company, steam.
filters, at Second and Lombard streets
. report trade very dull,especiaily as 10
new work, and while the irm has not
laid OF any employees, it has reduced
working hours. IN speaking OF trade con
ditiops an official said that the firm
usually does much work for l1rge corpor
ations and owing to the unstable condi
tlons Of the industries these corpora
tions were having no work done.
At the Reming, n Machine Company
= plant twas said that the working hour
8 Of all employees in the shops had beer
reduced an hour a day. This is neces
sary because the firms export trade will
Mexico has fallen oil because Of the in
s ternal Or ,nhles in that country.
l. Although half Of the working force o.
il the Pusey and Jones Company has beer
e Temporarily laid Off. there being but 4OI
q men vt work, fficers Of the company ar,
hoping that they viii be able 70 lxeel
their entire force busy within few
weeks The frtn has assurance tha
new work will be ready within a shor
y time and the drawing room force
p working ON plans day and night. tha
y may mean better conditions in shipvar,
~ and shops.
The steel plants at New Castle. tn
Baldt Company, the Brylgon Steel plan
and the Edgar Allen Company ali ar
l. working reduced hours. The clipper
of and moulders in the three plants ar
J. working three days a week, and in on
or two plants the other employees ar
working forty hours q week.
During the past few weeks two hun
q dred OF. more employees Of the Hilles an
E Jones Company have been laid off at tn
present time, but two hundred and twen
81 ty-iive men are employed there
B Henry Whitley, president Of the Nc
X Cullough Iron Company, stated thi
& morning that the plant Of his compan,
Il IS still running full time. and none O
a the ken have been laid off. How lon.
d this condition would last be did no
81 know. AIR. Whitley said that work wa,
Il being gotten from day to DAY and no bi,
n contracts had been secured which woul,
a be large enough to keep tho plant work
ing full time. without other work. Will
a none Of the men at the plant have beer
81 laid of or their hours shortened, wage.
q were decreased recently.
b About half Of the men at the plant o
y the Lobdell Car Wheel Foundry Com
Il pany have been laid of on Saturdays
q th0s reducing their working hours iron
& 81 TO 40 hours a week. This only apple
3 toabcut halfof the ePlant. The other bal
b is working full time.
n G.. +. Wollaston. secretary and treas
q urer Of the company, stated this morn
b ing that business conditions gave no in
n dicatiops OF a change either way, and h
could not say whether the time Of th
men would be further reduced or in
4 creased.
A careful study OF the Wants LEAD
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