Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-10-25

At Amsterdam the broom factories
were working so per cent of normal,
and the large knitting mills about so;
but the knitting mills of that city,
employing many thousand hands,
We're decreased to less than so per
cent within a few weeks after | visited
that place.
In Schenectady, where the great
electrical works and locomotive works
are the principal industries. In the
latter part of 1913 giving employ
ment to nearly thirty thousand hands
in the two plants, the working forces
had been decreased % per cent and
those still employed We're working
-four and five days a week.
In Utica, until the Democratic
tariff was enacted, there had been
one of the largest woolen factories in
the country, employing over three
thousand hands. From early in 1913
the business of that plant fell off, as
purchasers, expecting the free tariff
IN woolen goods, slackened their pur-
chases in that line several months
before the Wilson tariff was enacted.
In November, 1913. that great wooden
mill was shut down entirely and not
a wheel in it has ever turned since,
over three thousand people being
thrown out of employment.
The knitting mills of Utica and at
other nerby places in the Mohawk
valley at the time mentioned were
running at about 60 per cent of nor
NAL
AT Syracuse one great typewriter
plant was shut down entirely, and at
Hon and Syracuse the other type
writer plants were running at about
half OF their capacity
Strange IL may spprl tho
starch industry at Oswego had fallen
off more than one-third.
At the cordage factories and agri-
cultural implement works at Auburn.
the pump works at Seneca Falls. the
iron mines at Port Henry, and the
locomotive works at Dunlirk the
story was everywhere the same
working from 20 per cent down to 40
per cent or less of the normal out
put.
II was not until the plaster board
factory at Lockport was visited that
a single factory was found In the
state that was working to its capac-
ity and in which the overdemand re-
quired the erection of an addition at
that time.
What was true In New York at that
time and during the following months
applied also to a large majority Of the
manufacturing industries from
Omaha to Bangor.
one of the proprietors of one of the
largest silk mills in the country told
me in the fall OF 1914 at Hartford,
Conn. that his factory had been run
ming short handed and on part time,
making about so per cent of the nor
NAL output, for several months. but
that the accumulated stock had be
come so large that the next week
they were going to shut down entirely
for time and then try to go ahead
at about half capacity.
just Became Worse.
During the first eight or ten
months after the war began In Eu-
ropc the industrial conditions in this
country did not change much in most
lines. except to become worse instead
Of better. BY January. 1915, the steel
industry had begun TO pick up a lit
tie, but 1t did not reach the normal
until September l. and 1t Ia only dur
ing the past ten months that that in
dustry has enjoyed such phenomenal
prosperity.
Tho automobile industry is tho most
important that has been marked by n
steady increase during tho entire ner-
iod of tho present administration. Be-
cause of that Detroit. the center Of
the automobile industry. has been one