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


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Taklng the manufacturing industries
IN the large part of the country just
mentioned as a whole. during the ten
noh'hs tolloWlng september J. l9l 3,
they had shown a falling off such as
mas never marked any corresponding
period in the history of this country
In tcW specially favored lines, just
as there always must be, there were
exceptions To this rule. Physicians
and druggists are uFcrWorked during
periods of pestilence.
During the year beginning with
June |, 1914 1t was the writer's privi-
lege TO travel widely over much of the
more important manufacturing Sec
tions of the country, and to he en-
gagged In work that required that he
should make canvass of industrial
conditions
During the six months previous TO
that time President Wilson had tried
in vain to make the workless work
insmen believe that their troubles
were simply psychological. and Sec
retary Redfield had gone up and down
throughout the land making speeches
before commercial bodies. telliAg his
hearers OF the great prosperity that
abounded in spite of the silent factory
wheels
Statistics that would entirely put
those OF Mr.. Redfield quoted Ivy Mr.
Price, In the shade might be present
ed to show the number of motionless
factory wheels and workless factory
employees that were in the country
during the two years under consid-
Grafton
without going into those statistics
In detail, however, 1t can be stated
that, taking manufacturing Industries
as a whole throughout the country,
the rapidly increasing depression that
began about September /, 1918, had
reached stage by June and July.
1914. so that at that time the manu-
featuring of the country wa. between
so and 65 per cent Of normal. That il.
n little over one-third of the employees
of the country either were out Of
work or were working on not to ex-
ceed two-thirds time.
That statement applies to the hun
dreds of thousands of textile factory
employees of New England, knitting
mill employees of New York, Wiscon-
sin and other states, brass and other
metal workers of New England and
tho Atlantic and middle western
states, and in fact, to employees in
most lines OF manufacture.
The steel industry, taken as the in
dustrial barometer, did not reach
quite as low n stage as was the case
In some lines; but from the begin
ming OF l9li until nearly a year attcr
the European war started the steel
industry Of the country was from 70
to 40 per cent below normal.
The manufacturing industries OF
New York state arc probably as NarleI J
as those of any state In the union'
and, with few exceptions, as impor-
tant as those of any state.
During Juno and july, 1919, the
writer visited every county and every
city and town of any importance In
New York state.
In Hudson Mt that time the great
cement plants were running at about
/ 90 per cent of their capacity. because
OF the slacknoss in building and con-
struction work which tho entire coun-
try was then experiencing. At iaver-
straw and other hrickmaking ccnters