Show DESTROYED BY TRADES UNION I Twenty years ago the cities of Albany and Troy were the center of stove manufacture In America About that time the competition of some westerly points began to be felt While the stove manufacturers of Albany and Troy appreciated the danger their skilled employees banded together Inn in-n strong Holders union ignored It f and argued that the then existing con I I dltions could not be changed Their I locality was nearer the source of the pig iron supply and could therefore always command cheaper Iron and beyond all no other points had the same molding sand and without that successful competition against Troy and Albany stoves was impossible So strike followed strike In many of these the men carried their points The conditions governing the employment of apprentices the hours of labor and the amount of work produced per man were all satisfactorily controlled but I the development of the natural resources I re-sources of the great American Northwest North-west was not Today the blast furnaces of the Hudson River valley are a tradition tradi-tion and the stove foundries of Troy and Albany are diverted to other uses or else crumbling ruins while those of Detroit Aurora Milwaukee and other cities further west are echoing the thud of the hammer the clank of the molding mold-ing machine and the blast of the r cupalo Robert W Hunt in Casslers Magazine for March I |