The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-03-13
PRoTEogIoNI NUGGETws. Is
How the Times are Improving
The American System As
SHE Ia.

DOEtHS -ulcu W uu1t UP tu6 pay :
envelopes in which they received
their wages before the election last
fail, and study the protective mix
inns and promises Set forth upon
them, as we'll the skillf1lly drawn
pictures presented Of the dangerous
that were menaced by the .free
trade policy of Cleveland, Mills &
Co" They will finnish most ex-
cellent mental food just at this time,
when we are entering upon a four
years term of assured prosperity
under the operations of the Abene-
ficient principle,' and will help to
vile away an idle literally hour.
And then having taken; a retrospee-
tive observation in this direction, let
them look upon this picture of the
"Americ;tn system as she is" and
with Harrison, Blaine, Wanamakcr,
Carnegie and the protected BOSSES
and tools generally justready to step
upon the sold machine and force ON
few more pounds of steam:
Farm mortgages in Nebraska ag-
gregate $3.50, 100000.
The Glendoe Iron Co., at Easton,
Pa. has redncedswages II per cent.
and discharged 200 menace 7slfa
On Harrison s inauguration day
there will be a general reduction of
wagesin thepuddlers department of
theron works about Harrisburg, Pa.
Puddlers will receive $3.50 pen. ton
instead of 1918 and helpers will have
their wages scaled down 1Olper cent.
The Congressional Investigating
Committee of the Reading Railway
strike of a year ago willsreport that
"there are many suspicious facts, in
truth almost entirely satisfactory in
ternal evidence, that the authorities
of the Reading Road deliberately
brought about the strikes both
mong it's minors and among its rail
way employees only after the Read
ing had mined all and transported
most of its full quote of coal as
agreed upon by the Anthracite Pool
or Board of trade. x 4 x Tho Amer
lean people are virtually paying a
tribute OF at least SIS, 900, 900 Il year
to the Anthracite Pool as efiectually
as if seven robbcr bands exacted it
at the pont of pistol, the only
restraint upon their rapaeity being
the competition of inferior btu
minous coal.
a Sunbury, Pa, dispatch of the
22d reports the suspension of the
Mahoning rolling mill, and the con
tinued shutdown of the Danville
Nail Works. A general wage re-
duction is anticipated. The excuses
offered by the mill superintendents
for the reductions are various.
Several incline to doleful view,
and declare that there can be no
cure for low prices and low wages
until large number of mills shall
be permanently shut down. a
prominent official in one of the lar
gest plants in the country stated
that he believed that in the reduc-
ton of the duty on raw material lay
the only hope for the iron business.
This would enable the Pennsylvania
manufacturers to compete with
other nations.
a Reading, Pa, dispatch of the
Goth says that 1900 men will be af-
fected by the reduction of wages in
the mills there that went into effect
Monday. Lack of orders and a large
surplus of stock on hand are the
causes of the trouble.
The 400 employees of the Hig-
gins carpet factory, who were COM
PEELED to walk in the big Harrison
procession in New York last fall to
illustrate how protection helped the
laboringmen, and who struck Jan.
because of reduction of wages,
are still out.
From Mt. Carmel, Pa, on the 23d,
came this glowing picture of the
prosperity that has followed the
protection victory of last fall in that
locality: OF the eleven collieries
grouped about this once thriving
mining town only four of the small
est are being operated, and two Of
these only on two-third's time
Thirty two hundred men have been
out of employment for nine weeks
because the coal operators are deter
mined to keep up prices in the
markets, and refuse to relieve the
gIut by selling their coal at .
reasonable profit. a prominent bu-
siness man here said to-day; The
bald truth is aat the operators are
forcing the miners dangerously near
starvation or the poor house. 1t IL
undeniabfe facs thar the miner
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