AMERICAN INDUSTRIES SUFFER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 40, 3 October 1914, Page 4

AMERICAN INDUSTRIES SUFFER

I At the time the Inst mails left New ' York llir embargo brought about by , war conditions was causing serious trouble for many American industries. I Some .factories were closing down 1

completely, while others were running on half-time. Many thousands of men had been thrown out of employment. The Corning piano and er'gan factory at Washington- shut down because Europe was at once its 'source of supply for raw materials and its market for finished products. Several silk mills in the same town would be closed when their supply of raw silk was exhausted. Inability of the Paterson and Passaic textile and silk mills to secure dyestuffs was expected to result in wholesale shut-downs in a short time. More than 20,000 men, women, and children were employed in the mills of Passaic alone, I Most of them were poor, and even. I a brief shut-down would mean great lhards-hip. Twenty thousand longshoremen on both sides of the nver Were thrown out of work by the holding up of steamships ifroin European ports. Although many inquiries for American coal were coming in from the German, French, Italian, Austrian, and Russian Governments, no serious attempts were heing made to fill these orders, which were, based on the contingency of the parties being able to ship the coal. War and money risks were so heavy that the American dealers thought it unwise to attempt shipments at that time.