The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-09
NUMEROUS PAPER
MILLS SHUT DOWN
Business Depression Felt in
Hinsdale, AshuelOt
and Putney
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
is AFFECTED ALSO
About $50 Hands Affected in Hinsdale
and AshuelOt and About 40 in Putney
Paper Mills Making Other than Tis-
sue Continue Running.


sue Continue Running.
Conditions in the tissue paper indus
try are chaotic at the present time, and
in the textile industry they are not
much better. In consequence in the
towns where these industries predomi-
nate the bottom has fallen out of busi-
ness, and the towns are passing through
a period of depression, with no definite
indications as to when relief will come
With incomes shut off. many employees
are looking elsewhere for work, some of
them leaving for other places, and mer-
chants in those towns are feeling de-
pressed.
In this locality the slackening down
is noticeable principally in Hinsdale and
Ashuelot, and Putney, where the tissue
grade of paper is made. Mills making
other grades of paper are running on
orders as a general rule and are hopeful
that no shutdown will be necessary. y
few of the tissue making mills are run
ming on orders, but do not know how
long they Will continue, as with declin-
ing prices they viii not accumulate
large stocks of goods for the sake of keep
ing the mill running.
All the Robertson paper mills in IIins-
dale and Ashuelot are closed, as well as
some other plants, affecting some 250
hands. The Robertson Brothers mill
closed about three weeks ago, the f. G.
Robertson & Son mill two weeks ago and
the W. +. Robertson x Co. mill yester-
day. These are all one-machine mills
owned by +. {. Robertson and son, w.
F. Robertson. and the +. W. Robert
son estate, who also are proprietors of
the Paper Service Co. which is a con-
verting company but does not manufac-
I. ture. The four concerns employ about
90 hands in the tissue paner industry.
The Fisk Paper Co., which employs
about p hands making tissue paper,
shut down last week. This is a one
machine mill.
George ~ Robertson & Co, who own
"a two-machine tissue mill on Canal street,
have been shut down about two weeks.
| They employ about 30 hands.
The Hinslale Paper Mfg Co. and the
| White-WaShburn Co. the former a it's
sue-making concern and the latter a con
verting company. whose mills are to-
gether. employ about 90 hands. They
have been closed part of the time the
past few weeks, but are running in part
at present.
The Ashuelot Paper Co. in which
Richard G. Ayerill of Brattleboro is fl
nancially interested, is running at pres
ent on orders. but there is nothing GER
tain as to whether it will continue to
do so.
/ .AIr. Ayerilrs woolen mill. the former
/ Amidon mill which employees about a
| hands. is closed. The company is known
as the Hinsdale Woolen Co.
/ The Eagle Iron foundry in Hinsdale
/ formerly the Tilden foundry. which en-
ploys 20 or more hands. will shut down
/ tomorrow for the rest of the week.
/ Both paper mills in Putney. makers
/ a
! derS are received in sufficient quantity
to warrant starting up. The w. A.
Cole Paper Co. employs 2S hands and
William Robertson's Sons about hall
! that number.
| There has been no change in the textile
past several weeks. The Fort Dummel
mills. which employs about go hands
/ Isl running SIS. hours week. as it has
/ been the past two months, and so far a
| the superintendent knows no immediate
+ change in the schedule is contemplated
| At the w. II. Einton & Son paper mill
off Canal street, where high grade ster-
| eotype paper is made, no depression has
been felt, in fact the mill is running il
hours a day. whereas in the middle o1
the summer the mill was running on {
10-hour schedule.
/ No special curtailment in production
has been made in Bellows Falls where
| the bulk of the paper made is other thar
tissue. The International Paper Co.
| Robertson Paper Co.. Moore & Thompson
and Blake & Higgins are all running OF
orders.