The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-13

out OF an annual payroll OF 81 AZ
1923 900 to- ore rntner, .coal+ miner
sailor and blast furnace worker, be
sides scores OF other5 trades directiy
involved. y
SCurtaflment has not ended at the
point indicated N the taibulated ns-
Isres For. since Januaryy1. when
these furnaces were collected, other
furnaces have, been prepared to blow
out one being Alice stack, OF the
Valley Mold and Iron Company, at {
SharpsyfIle, Pa; Harriet x, OF the
7Snea Cofrfgan !, "a Mckinney and Com /
"a ~ stack at Cle&eIa1fd. and Grace |
stack. of the Br.er Hill Skeeli Com
ma N.Y. 5tounE stowns In DECEMBER,
Steel Company closed |
-down fifteen blast furnaces and Inc
National Tube Company eight the
Steel Corporation as whole puttins
-ou, OF activity tWenty-seyen stachs
in December alone, The Eaekawt1n-
ma Steel Company now is Operating
only, one blast furnace OUT of seven
at Buffalo. -,
ssMany OF the idle furnaces noted
in fine table are the most modern,
economical producers Of pig iron 70
be found anywhere on eartn, anu
they would not have been put out OF
blast With all the attendant nnanclaI
loss except as the result OF extreme
necessity.
chant blast furnaces is being caused
by the steady dropping of IN the ae-
lmand for finished steel products, tnlsl
resulting in some steel works now
generating at thirty per cent OF ca
lpacity.1 others at forty per cent, anu
still others at sixty per cens, iDut tns
latter are few in NUMBER! This rs
granh scaIly indicated in the steady
| decline OF untitled orders OF the
lIInIied States Steel Corporation
witch fell from 1856. Ss3s tons. on
Tlacenqler AZ 1912, to 4,2I5 20 90 7o1
December. 81. 1918. The cuEeais!F
iment of steel works activities mas re-
4stEfted.~in 5,ye09-,woFk1len s9etng la ll..Sl
loH by the IackaWannay Steei S on
lpany, 1000 men by the Betnlehem
Steel Cornpany,se7 900 men, by, the
/ illinois and Indiana Steel Companies
Ib n hOOs men by the Carnegie steer
-6.000-~men ny gthe 1on JONES',
/ ana I5auEhlin Steel. Company ana
4 600 men by the Baldwin Iocomo-
tive Works The Maryland steer
Company has closed down. It's steer
works at Sparrows Point MO- C an
the Columbus, o., works or the Gar
pePie Steel Company has locked It's
gates The Otis Steel Company Is
.oDeratina its.C1eVelandt works single
turn. and the Empire, Union anu
Lake Erie rolling mills, at Clevelanu
are running alternate weeks or POT
'ttons Of weeks. The Inland steer
Company. of Chicago, has closer
down It's Highland mill. There Is
excellent authority for the statement
that IS 900 iron and steel workmen
are idle in the PittSburg district
aIrrA 81, - 49,. ~ Si u
.tThe United states Steel Corpora
:fIon through its various subsidiaries
has laid on fhetween 10000 and 90
900 workmen and its plants aetiV-
tiles arc down to fifty per cent.
Pennsylvania Steel Company, is run,
ming three days week with iull
force a reduction in activity OF hfty
ney. cent. The normal force em-
DIoyed by the Pennsylyanta and
MARYLAND companies is about IL 'oOo
men. The Allan Wood Iron anu anu
Steel Company has laid on 1,oVV
men and is operating about forty pr
cent OF capacity The Republic IRON
ana steel Company has laid OF about
900 men and is operating under
dffy-ayes per cent capacity. the
American locomotive Company has
between. s. 900 and 10000 of its men
ON the idle list and Is operating at
twenty-five to thirty per cent OF ca
pacity. It's tRlchmOnu, va
which employs 5000 men, IS down
entirely. The Pittsburg Steel Com
pany is operating at fifty per cent Oh
I'm I'm addition to the blast furnace
facts and typical steel mill instances
gwen above, careful investigation
aided bv conservative circulation
made at leading industrial and trade
centers by staff representatives. 4 OF
the Daily Iron Trade the last ten
DAYS. shows that over 1,O0OO oe
JR,orkmen Unidentified with or directly
dependant upon the iron,y steel anu
metal trades of the United StatesS'
ARE Idle todSy.
q "tAf1Eof these men wereTousAly en-
pfpyed SIX months ago ST
The combined wages fhese idte
workers would have recekyed at tRSI
CONSERVATIVE average of about 81 al
cffty, would have amount re d to- - ?
no osB00 a day, or $4,000, 900 Al
month of twenty-five working days
or s600,00O. a year.
sss'T'his total of / 1000 idle worlSme4a
ia being decreased SO steadily an&l
fapidfv that at the December rate OBJ
closing down. works, shops, factories
and fouIidrfes, 1.-The total VII reacn1
1.25O,0oo men before the end OF
'Jan1iary,S 1 81 A..
''The fortnightly report of the
American Railway Association, Is
sued Yesterday, shows that the net
surplus of idle cars on January i,
1914, was 1888, $50, an increase OF
Q zonE tale carz IN December 10, II