Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-08
UNDER PROJECTIONS SHIELD!
AS 1t Gu ght To Be.

[According to Republican Campaign Promises
We print with qualification the fol-
lowing dispatches from all over the
Union, showing the great prosperity of
the country under Harrison, and Pro-
lection firmly established, and the re-
lief Of the people from Cleveland's Free
Trade nightmare. 1t will be observed
that every promise of high wages, lots
of work, and great prosperity. made
by our patriotic standard-bearers dur
ing the late campaign, has been fully
redeemed. Our restricted space allows
but a few of similar dispatches which
burden the daily press:
PROVIDENCE, Il. l., March 30.-Berkeley
Mills made another voluntary advance in
wages to- day. Two hundred additional men
employed. Everything booming.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 1.-Pennsylvania
Steel Works advanced skilled labor 30 per
cent, aud unskllled labor % per cent.
Twenty five hundred men made happy.
BOHDENTOwN, n. j., April 2.-Downs Il
FoX's shirt factories decided to employ one
thousand additional men, and pay increased
wages. Tally one more for Protection and
our Home Market.
BRAZIL, Ind, May 2d.-Wages voluntarily
advanced by the block coal company, from
80 cents to $1.10 per ton, for mining. Two
thousand additional miners employed.
Great rejoicing among the laborers, and an
era of glorious prosperity.
EVANSVILLE, lad, May Wages adj
- tor, for mi, i,tu hrQa
hundred additional men employed.
BRAZIL, Ind, May 2l.-Miners whose
wages were recently advanced are prosper
Gus: building houses and having them furn-
ished with artistic furniture, including
pianos, organs and electric lights.
BRAIDwOOD, Ill, May 21.-Pinkerton's
force di,banded. The great and general
prosperity of the country, high wages, and
unlimited demand for labor of all kinds, has
knocked them out. Their occupations gone.
This is another result of tine killing of Brit
ish Free Trade last fall. America for Amer
leans forever!
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 13.-Amalgamat-
ed Steel Association met to congratulate
themselves upon the recent advance of 20
per cent. in wages made without solicitation
by Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, in consequence Of
general prosperity and increased demand
and prices.
AS IT UNHAPPILY Is:
March S0.-Two hundred weayers of the
Berkeley Mills strike on account of 4 cut in
wages, Providence, L. l.
April l.-Penusylyania Steel Works, Har-
rlsburg, Pa, reduued skilled labor per
cent. and unskilled labor 10 per cent. Twen-
ty-five hundred men affected.
Apri! 2.-One thousand employees depriv-
ed of work by the shut down Of Downs Il
FoX's shirt factories at Jamestown and
Bordentown, n. j.
May 1.-Two thousand block coal miners
at Brazil. Iud., strike against all extraOrdi-
nary reduction of from ninety to seventy
cents for mining.
May Shut down at Evansville, Ind,
men refusing to accept reduction of wages
to siXty-five cents a ton for mining. Three
hundred miners out.
May 2l.-A dispatch from Brazil, Ind,
says that the miners who struck against a
starvation.
MAJ PA company of militia ordered
from Joliet To Braidwood, ILL.,, to put down
striking miners.
June 13.-Amalgamed Association of Iron
and Steel Workers met Ia Pitlsburg and
object to Andrew CarnegIe's proposed re-
ductIon in wages of 20 per cent.