Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-24
LABOR DOESN'T wANTTHAT KIND
OBJ PROTECTION.

LA DoESS van
OBJ PROTECTION.
The National Labor Tribune Il still ham-
neripR the Republican tariff policy. The
Labor Tribune, it will be remembered, Is
the official organ of the Amaigsmatsd
Association of Iron and Steel Workers,
the Miners Federation and the K. of L.
In its current number 1t says:
This seuseless chatter about the tariff
ana the protection il dOos not give to labor
"a getting % be generally understood by
sorkiuguen, and the effect Of thorough
diseussio. ia one of the noticeable sigUs OF
the day. II the manufactures N capt.
,alists OF the country are 50 interested ID
the Advancement and elevation OF labor,
shy do they not listen TO the appeals OF
labor and grant its requests, and meet It
= friendly spirit?
Have these protectionists held any mass
meetings in the interest Of labor, or have
they made auy suggestions looking owsrd
its emancipation? We have heard OF none,
and We have made inquiry, bnt during the
investigation ~e have heard OF q number
of very high prOtectionists who have
sssailed the only thing thst protects labor,
and tbey have not only aSsalled u, On.
they have ynue farther aud said, Your
organization intsrfeIes with % IN the en-
pIoymeut of OFF ToIkmep, and We Will not
allow you to maintain it" Now what
Kind OF an organization do these high
tariff men object to? Does it interfere In
any way with the process OF msnufaciur-
ing, or with the price of the products IN
open market? Not at all Ii is an organ
ization to protect them 10 their rights and
70 regulate the price Of labor and to pre-
vent its degradation. One would think
that these gentlemen who favor a high
tariff and VINO are constantly clamOriDg
for the protection Of American industry
would be only too glad to organize labor
and educate il, marching snUuider To
shoulder with il in It's demands for just
recognition and an hOnest participation in
its own results. That would seem 10 be
lair, and it would be taken everywhere as
. d~isoosition 20 sustain and protect labor,
and to help TO pat il on that higher plane
that is 90 much talked OF, AID that Il
justified by the advantages that q high
tariff Is supposed TO yield.
Now what are the fae's? Do these gem
tie men do this? No, they 10 nothing OF
the kind. They not only do noe organize
labor, but they disorgsuize it and refuse
20. employ il unless IL is disorganized and
reduced to chaos and made defenseless By
reason Of ita want of unity, order and
leadership. They menace 1t with fresh
mportations of labor from Europe,
,backle it with new and degrading condi-
lions, impose new burdens and throw
about it new restrictions, until every sense
of honor and manhood is shocked and out
ragged, and labor wonders where 1t may
look for that protection promised 1t by
the champions Of American industry and
by the tariff that has been made the rally
log cry Of every Republican MANUFACTURED
in the country.
IL will not do say that the Democratic
party wants to impoyeIish labor, or to re-
duce or cripple 1t. That is 30 much nom
sense, and might pass in the campaign If
the people of the country had worked
themselves into an idiotic condition ; but
when you confront an intelligent commu-
mtg Of Workipgmen and want their res
pect you must deal honestly with them
and tell them the truth, for they
know a well n we do
that more than nine tentbs OF the
men who are protecting themselves and
destroying the protection that should he
Afforded TO others are Republicans No
one will charge Andrew Carnegie with BE-
ing a Democrat, for if We were he would
be advertised North, East and West as the
enemy of American labor. Park Bros. *
Co, Of the Black Diamond Steel Works,
cannot be accused of Democratic tenden-
cies, and they we're among the first 10
break up the organized labor OF their
works and substitute colorsd men from
Virginia. and they have them yet. VIM
Clark & Co., Of the Solar Iron Works, are
higa.tanff men, and want increased pro-
lection on everything they make, bat
when their labor organizes for protection
they disorganize il and refuse to employ
il, and replace it with the cheap imported
labor Of Europe in the interest of Ameri-
can industry ~. No n ever heard OF
Singer, Nimick & Co. favoJing the doc
trine Of Democratic Nothing would be
farther from the truth than a charge like
that. They have ~disorganizsd the organ
izs5 labor in their works and substituted
the cheapest and most dependent labor
they could get.
Does any one suppose ID will stop here?
Not at all. The subordination Of Ameri-
can labor must 20 on, and the importation
of foreign labor must also 90 on as long IS
the product of labor is over protected and
labor that produces 10 free.
The introduction into an article like this
of a maze Of figures to show that wages in
the protected industries are lower than
those Of unprotected industries is like TAX
ing coal to New Castle.
The Democrats believe that war taxes
should be taken of the necessities Of life,
and that the tariff should be revised and
shorn Of its inequalities, and that raw ma
serisl should be brought into the country
free, 20 a. TO encourage manufacturing in
terests and give employment at remuner-
alive rates TO the unemployed labor Of the
country. The cry Of free trade is made to
direct attention from combines, trusts and
monopolies that enrich the few and i'm
uoyerish the million by increasing the
cost of che common Eecessaries Of life and
decreasing the purchasing power of the Ia
borer's dollar. We have had high tariff
since 1916, and the higher it goes the
greater becomes the necessities of labor,
until we have reached that point that q
change is desired, and the sooner we bring
10 about the better.
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