Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — MANY ARE IDLE IN GOTHAM. [ARTICLE]

MANY ARE IDLE IN GOTHAM.

Labor Troubles Cause 165,000 Men to Lose $3,090,000 Weekly. There ore 165,000 idle men in New York City, notwithstanding the fact that every line of business is booming. There men, only for strikes, lockouts and dissensions among rival labor unions, would be earning a total of SOOO,OOO a day or $3,900,000 a week. Not only is every penny of this stupendous sum lost to them, but industries and firms representing a total capitalization of $550,000,000 are at a standstill, with a consequent loss of profits. Trade paralysis there has reached «• stage more extensive than any heretofore known, even during periods of great industrial depression. Most of the workmen are idle not for any act of their individual unions but fordbe acts of other unions or because of the recent decision of the employers to stand together and fight the demands of one union by throwing the workmen of many unions into idleness. ,