Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-03
An Enlarged High-Tarlff Diary.

| lie bOSIOu OOuTtut copies Will
some evidence of glee a suggestion O
the Press of this city that the EUenin.
| Post make the following additions t,
its 'High-Tariff Diaryn.
August Two hundred and fifty cornice
makers succeeded in their strike for highe
| wages, New York.
August II to 17-Resumption of puddlin.
mill of j. w. Friend & Co., Pittsburgh
PENN, after two years of idleness.
| Painters IL Sons mill, Pittsburgh, PENN.
goes on double turn.
| Increase of wages 8 to 10 per cent. by the
Columbia Iron Company, Lancaster, PENN
| Ella furnace, MiddleseX, PENN, goes intG
| blast.
Blair Iren and Coal Company's furnaces
Holhdays5urgh, PENN, go into blast.
| Cumberland Iron and Nail Company's
works, Bridgeton, Ohio, resume.
| Benwood and Belmont mills, Wheeling
| go on double turn.
Connellsvilie, PENN, coke operators sign
new scale of increased wages.
| Thirteen hundred journeymen plastererS
resume work at advanced wages after strike.
| New York.
August 19-Pennsylvania iron works OF
| Lancaster PENN, resume operations at 1O
per cent. advance in wages of puddlers af-
ter five months deneSs.
September 2-Kolling mill, pipe and tube
mills, and foundry of the Reading Iron Com
pany, Reading, PENN, resume work after
Mclllvaine's rolling mill, Reading PENN,
resumes with an advance of 13 per cent. in
puddlers' wages.
Savfert's pudding will, Berks County,
PENN, resumes at highest wages for pud-
dler's paid in the Schuylkill Valley.
Pottstown Iron Company's pudders Potts
| town, PENN, obtain an advance of ! per
cent. in wages.
Glasgow Iron Company's pudders, War
wick, PENN, get an advance of per cent.
to,Ha
Sharon, PENN, makes an advance of 10 per
cent. in wages.
We comply with the suggestion of
our esteemed contemporaries with
pleasure, and go beyond it. There is
in circulation in New England peti-
ton to Congress asking f'r the aboli-
ton of the duty on coal and iron ore.
A nong the sgners of this petition are
Oliver mes, the Republican Governor
of Massachusetts; William E. Coffin,
an iron-manufacturer for more than
fifty years; John Reed, Treasurer of
the Bay State Iron Works, Adjutant-
General of Massachusetts, through the
war under Gov. Andrew; Nahum
Seetson, an niron-manufacturer for more
than fifty years; Peleg Mcfarland, ex-
State Senator from Plymouth County,
Mass, Albert N. Parlin, Treasurer of
G. War, proprietor of the Franconia
Iron and Steel Company; E. Phillips
e. Sons; tack-manufucturers; William
B. Dart, treasurer of the Rhode Island
Tool Company; David B. Gurney.
tack-manufacturer,a and others. Among
the reasons set forth in this petition
for the changes asked for are the FOL-
lowing;
There are to day half u million at least of
Pennsyivanians fed and clothed by doing, di-
rectly and indirectly, the iron and steel man
ufacturing and manipulating that ought to
be going on in hundreds of New England
villages, in rolling, casting, forging, machin-
ing, chipping, filing, and otherwise finishing
the iron that is used in New England. And
it follows, as a consequence, that there are
half million less of people fed and clothed
IN New Eng and than there might be, if the
duty imposed on coal and crude iron did
not deprive New England of the privilege of
manufacturing her own iron and steel goods
for her own consumption.
In the light of this petition the ad-
ditional items for our "Tariff Diary"
furnished by the Press and seconded
by the Journal are very useful. It
will be noted that these high-tariff or
gans have to draw their illustrations
of industrial prosperity almost entirely
from Pennsylvania. In new England,
under our tariff, manufactures may be
closed and vast industries ruined; but
in Pennsylvania the fires burn bright
ly and wages are increased.
1t was only the day before yesterday
that the organ of protection founded in
this city by Horace Greeley declared
as an economic axiom that "protection
cannot be politically maintained nor
logically justified as partial or one
sided affair. If it does not benefit
American labor as whole, it will be
voted down" We need add no COM
ment.-NeoD York Post.