People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — WORK FOR THOUSANDS. [ARTICLE]

WORK FOR THOUSANDS.

Big Silk 'Mills in Connecticut tn Resume Operations. Rockville, Conn., Nov. 12.—Cheney Bros., the big silk manufacturers of South Manchester, announced Sat* urday that they would to-day start a »number of important departments of their mills on full time. The throwing, winding, warping and velvet weaving departments start on full time and all other departments in the mills will begin running fifty hours per week, instead of forty-eight hours. All departments will soon be running full time. The mill employs 2,600 hands.