The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-10-26

summer OF lSt4 the great Gem an
plants were running at abol 90 per
cent because of the slackness in con-
struction work over the country.
At Haverstraw and other brick
making centers the lSilns We're being
operated at less than half OF their
capacity.
More than half OF the great barges
shat ordinarily carry crushed stone
from TIL Hudson river quarries We're
tied up along the banks.
At Troy the largest factorys head
stated that the plants of that city
were working about IS per cent of
normal and later this was reduced
still more.
At Gloversvlle, the greatest glove
manufacturing center of the country
the factories We're running less than
80 per cent of normal and the Demo-
cratic tariff was ascribed by every
manufacturer and employee as the
cause for that industrial misfortune.
The broom factories of Amsterdam
We're working so per cent of normal
and the knitting mills Of that city,
employing many thousand hands, cut
their operation to less than so per
cent of the ordinary output.
The enormous electrical and loco
motive works of Schenectady, which
had given employment to nearly go
600 hands, had decreased their work
ing forces 25 per cent and those still
employed We're working only -four
and five days week.
In Utica, a wooden mill employing
over 5000 hands was closed down
entirely. as direct result of the
change in the tariff, and it has never
reopened.
The knitting mills of Utica and
nearby places in the Mohawk valley
We're running at about so per cent
| IF normal.
/ At Syracuse one big typewriter
plant had shut down entirely and al
/ Ilion and Syracuse other typewrit
| er plants were running at about hal
/ their capacity.
Even the starch industry at Os
wego had fallen of more than one
! third.
At the cordage factories and agri
cultural implement works at Auburn
the pump works at Seneca Falls, the
4 IRON mines at Port Henry and the
locomotive works at Dunkirk, thu
story was everywhere the same
4 working from 20 per cent down TO Al
per cent of the normal output.
In the city of Detroit, with pop
ulation of 100000. during the win
ter of 1914 and 1915, there wer
more than 100000 workmen out o
! employment.
/ During that winter there was no
a city of Importance in the countr.
4 in which there were not more mel
4 out of employment than there ha'
+ ever been before, even the "sou1
house" era of the Cleveland admins
I tration being greatly eclipsed in TIL
number OF voorhees, workingmen.
Ii was only the enormous artificial
demand for war materials that res
cued the country from this nation
wide depression. which developer
with deadly celebrity following tn
Inauguration of the Democratic fisca
policy.
Now if the cleveland administra
ton was accompanied by terrlol
depression and il the Wilson admins
tration within two years develope
lanother panic even more severe tina.
the one of Cleveland's time, and if
required a war engaging most of tn
rest of the world to save the Unite
States from blghting business dis
!, aster, then what have we to eXpec
from a continuation OF the Demo
cratic tariff policy, once the war an
its abnormal demands have passed
Is not Gov. Hughes logical in nj
insistence that it is of supreme i'm
portance to the people OF the Unite
States that there should be a
abundance of work.
Is he not right in saying that thi
is matter of much greater concer
, than the fixing of wages in any ii
dustry?
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