The Forrest City times., 1891-01-30
STILL ONE MORE TRUST.
IS COMBINING TO REAP THE
 M'kINLEY SPOILS.

The Maksrs of Table Glassware Mako
 Combination-Thry Mean to Have Uni-
 form Pricss-How Labor will Be Pro-
 tected.
 One of our latest Mckinley trusts is that of the glass tableware manufactur- CTS. Nineteen manufacturers of Penn syivania, Ohio and West Virginia have just entered into a combination "to bring about uniform prices" Their plea for keeping up prices is as follows: If at any time business should be dull at one of the factories, that plant will close down and it's orders be transferred to other factories. should general dullness ensuo, the trust will operate only as many factories as are necessary"
 This is the account of the trust as printed in the Philadelphia Ledger a leading protection journal.
 In protecting itself the glassware in austry makes no provision for protecting labor; yet when representatives of the industry went before Maj. Mckinley year ago to get higher protection they put their plea upon the usual humbug pretense of protection to labor. Not only has the higher protection not been fol- lowed by higher wages, but trust is at once formed whose plan is to throw a part of it's labor out of employment at the first approach of "dullness."
 When the glassware men were before Mckinley last winter one of their num- Der, Mir. Gillinder, of Philadelphia, had much to say about tho low wages paid glassmakers in Germany Besides being manufacturer of pressed glass ware he makes lamp chimneys, shades, etc. Showing the committee nine speci men of these latter, he said:
 .The wages paid where these goods are made are very low, not more than one-third of what is paid in this country. The result is that they can import large quantities of these goods at such prices that it is impossible for us to compete with them. We do not think for this class of goods our men are overpaid, we do not think they average over nine months work in the year; we therefore ask that, in addition to the present rate of duty, you put specific duty on all these articles in addition to the ad vao- rem duty, not asking SO much as the difference in wages, but as per inclosed paragraphs, which we think would en- able us to mako them in this country to . much larger extent than we now do, and would give more employment to the workmen engaged in that branch of the trade"
 Mir. Gilinder was apparently under the delusion that high tariff makes high wages, and he did mot want to sec our well-paid labor put on the same foot ing with those who are said to get meat only once 8 week" Yet he had to ad- init that the wages of glass workers were not as high in protected Germany as in free trade England. This Is q part of his testimony:
 Mir. Fiower-Some statement has boon made as to the efficiency of the German labor?
 MT. Gillinder--I have not been In Ger many myself, but my brother visited there and was very much astonished by the skill and quickness displayed by the German glass blowers.
 Mir. McMillin--Does not your compe- tition come more from Germany, where they have protective tariff, than from England, where they have not?
 Mir. Gilinder--I think that Is true. The reason for that is that labor in En- gland is as two to one in Germany, Where a workman gets SIP in England he gets $6 in Germany.
 Mr McMillin-And yet Germany is protected and England is not?
 ANooWtehSpoAAih6 VhiS knowledge that protection did not raise the wages of labor in Germany, he was willing to try the experiment here. We'll, he got higher protection. The old duty was 40 per cent; the Mckinley duty is 60 per cent But nobody has yet heard of higher wages to the workers in glass ware factories. The only news on the subject is this dispatch, which means that some of the workers arc going to lose their employment
 There was absolutely no excuse for the Mckinley increase of duties in this ease. Even under the old tariff the do- mestic industry was prosperous and de- veloping rapidly. It has recently been stated by reputable trade journal that the number of pots at work in the glassware industry has been increased by 75 per cent. within two years. The same journal states that tho demand for glassware has increased so greatly of late that manufacturers are not afraid to hold their goods for an advance in prices, which is looked for at an early day. The trust will doubtless see to it that this expectation shall not be disap- pOinted