Where the Loss Fell Heavier.
—From the Springfield, Mass., Republican we take this significant item:— The strike of textile workers in Philadelphia, which began in June, has ended in failure, and with losses estimated at $12,000,000 for the employers and $8,000,000 for the employees. Of the 112,000 men who went out, all have gone back save about 1,000. The business of the mills affected for the fall and winter trade has been injured greatly, and thus the effects of the strike will continue to be felt for some time. Another consequence to the employees has been the incentive given to the devising or introduction of new labor-saving machinery, which has been successful in two or three operations—particularly the cotton-mercerizing process, where the new machines each displace five or six skilled men. Whatever gain grew out of the strike went elsewhere than to the strikers.