Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-25
The Promise and the Reality.

iiNNii III iiiC y W tiiC "oi n III
people. 1t was promised that if til
high duties of the system were maii
tanned by the triumph of the Republ
can party in the contest, the indu;
tries would receive such an assuranc
of uGdisturbed prosperity that labo
would be abundantly employed at re
munerative wages. The represents
ton was made that all that was neces
sary to secure the welfare OF the work
ing people was to maintain the tariff.
The election resulted in complian nc
with the promises and representation
of the tariff supporters, but what ha
been the effect so far as concerns tn
interests of those who live by thei
labor? The "protective" policy wa
vindicated, but the record of the frs
four months of this high tariff admin
istration, given below, shows to wha
extent the interests of the working
people have been promoted by th'
maintenance of the war tariff, ant
what sort of an industrial millennium
has been secured by the triumph OF The
monopoly party.
MARCH.
1.-The very day Of President Harri-
! sons inauguration, 5000 Iehigh coal
| miners were thrown out of employ
ment, 1000 puddlers for the Brooks
| Iron Company had 20 accept reduced
wages aud the Reading Coal Company
forced its miners to earn less money
by working fewer hours.
| Furnace employees in MahoDing and
| Shenango Valley accept reduction of
10 per cent.
One thousand puddlers. Brook Iron
Company, Pennsylvania, accept a re-
duction of to - per cent.
Five Thousand miues out of work by
closing Of the nine cOllleries of the
Lehigh Coal Company.
Notice given at twenty-five c0llieries
of the Reading Company that miners
must work three-quarter time, four
times a week.
5-F"iIure Reading Iron Works.
Twenty five hundred men out Of work.
All steamboat travel suspended
on Puget Sound and Columbia River
through the action OF the Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation Company reduc-
ton pay of all employees whose wages
We're 500 or upwards 10 per cent.
7-Baker's Union of Chicsgo claim
that bosses are breaking their contract,
ana men are returning to long hours
and small pay.
S-5triking employees Of the Ames
Shovel Works at North Eastern Mass,
notified TO vacate the corporation tene-
mrntS.
The FiudIay (O.) Irou Works as
signed.
Alden, Sampson & Co., ,oilcloth man
ufacturers, Maspeth, l.. l., discharged
l20 hands. In last campaign the men
had to work for Harrison.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Com
pany reduce wages of large number OF
employees 335 per cent.
9-One hundred girls employed at
Eagle Cotton Mills, Madison, Ind, |
strike for reduction of working hours |
to ten day.
n-Fall River weavers strike for an
increase of wages: Ten thousand out |
of work.
Employees of Brooklyn Rubber Com
pany strike against a reduction of 10 |
per cent. in wages.
12-Silk ribbon weavers at Hellmans |
& Sons factory, College Point, l.. l.,
strike for increase of wages.
Notice given that Chicago, st. Paul
& Kansas City Railroad Company will
cut number OF employees down to half
at West st. Paul yards.
i3-Fhe last of the pipe mills of the |
Reading Iron Company closed. Two
thousand men idle.
14-Painters and helpers in Erie |
Railroad shops at J rsey City cut from |
fourteen to twelve cents an hour.
4 pyC
makers at Hahn & Brussels factory, |
New York, strike against 80 per cent.
reduction in wages.
Salt lfters at Leroy, n. Y; strike |
against a reduction of wages.
22--Pennsylvania Coal Company |
notified miners at Scranton that fifteen |
collieries would be shut down. The |
miners had been earning So to $lo a |
month.
27-Failure of weavers' strike at Fall |
River for increase of wages.
Notice issued at Clark Thread Works,
Newark, N J., of reduction of wages |
of spinners . per cent.
30-Two hundred weavers of the
Berkeley Mills strike on account of
cut in wages, Providence, Il. /.
The bread loom weavers in the Cut
ter Silk Mill at Bethlehem, Pa, notifi-
Ell OF Il reduction Oh wages equiv aIellt
to thirty cents per day.
Three striking moulders at the En-
terprise Manufacturing Company's
works in Philadelphia. who were |
charged "with combining together to
held to answer by the
Courts.
APRIL.
Telegram from Galesburg, Ill.,.
that the Chicago, Burllug-
ton d Quincy Railroad Company has
reduced the hours of labor of the shop
men, bridge men and carpenters from
ten to eight hours, with proportion
ate cut in wages. Men receiving SLID
IA day cut to ninety-two cents.
Strike of trainers, painters and gran
ite cutters, New York, for union scales.
One thousand five hundred carpen-
tiers and painters strike at Buffalo, n.
Y. to enforce nine hour work day.
Seventeen hundred carpenters strike
at st. Louis, Mo-, for forty cents an
hour.
PENNSYLVANIA Steel Works, Harris
burg, Pa, reduced skilled labor ) per
cent. and unskilled labor 10 per cent.
,-a bupIrad mon affected