Klots Throwing Company.

The Klots Throwing Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1894. The business had been founded by Henry Durell Klots and George Klots, silk throwsters, in New York City in the 1880s. The expansion of the company was largely the work of Marcus Frieder.

Frieder was born in Szinna, Hungary, on February 7, 1860, and emigrated to America in 1890, where he became a bookkeeper for the Klots brothers. The New York mill burned in 1894, and at Frieder's suggestion, the business was relocated to Carbondale, Pennsylvania. This was part of a general movement of the silk industry into the anthracite and bituminous coal fields, where the wives and daughters of the coal miners formed a large pool of untapped labor.

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