The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
SOME PROTECTION FACTS.
WHAT M'KINLsY DOES FOR LABOR.
The List of Reductions in Wages, Lock
Outs and Strikes Since the New
Tariff Took Enect-Haw Labor
Has Been Benefited.

"a popularity OF the tariff discussion is
that, while free-traders are always dwell
ing on theory, protectionists are always
pointing to facts" Thus sac-ly comments
the Journal Every one viii remember
that the chief argument on the stump and
through the newspapers in favor of that
cap sheaf OF protectionisrn, the Mckinley
bill, was that its enactment into law would
greatly benefit the workingmen. Accord
ing to the protectionist theory-for pro-
tectionists theorize occasionally as well as
free-traders-the passage OF this bill was
to Immediately result in the great adj
vancement of wages in all projected in
dustries and with like sympathetic effect
in the unprotected industries. Let us see
what the effect has actually been. Below
will be found some facts taken from the
news columns of the Indianapolis papers,
showing how labor has been faring since
the Mckinley act took effect last
October. Not all the reductions that have
taken effect have been covered, rs q mat
illustration. They all tend 10 prove what
all so-caled free-traders believe, that pro-
lection tends to make the rich richer and
the poor poorer. 1t is not at all probable
that the protectiOnists will he found
pointing to facts as found in the follow
ing list of labor troubles occurring since
Oct. l, by months:
October.
Jacob Schetzberg, cloak manufacturer,
New FORK, reduces wages 10 per cent
Haugh, Ketcham * Co, iron factors,
Indianapolis, reduced their working force.
Nordyke & Marmon, iron factors, In
dianapolis, reduced their working time to
five hours.
indianapolis car works shut down.
The Malleable iron works, indianapolis,
reduced its working force.
The Woodburn-Sarven wheel works,
Indianapolis, reduced wages.
Carpet factory, Hartford, Conn.,, re-
duced wages 10 per cent.
Silk mills, Paterson, y. j., reduction OF
20 per cent.
Plush mills, Catasaque, Pa, reduc-
ton.
Wooden mills, Valley Falls. r.. l., re-
duction of % cents week on girls.
Folks canning works, Greenwood Ind,
reduction OF Sl.00 a week on certain
branches
Carpenters of Cleveland. O.. reduced D
cents an hour, to take effect Nov. 5.
November.
Coal operators at Morris, ILL.,, advance
prices % cents per ton, but refuse an adj
vance OF 10 cents for labor. Strike begun.
Two thousand miners strike for 3 per
day at Brazil, Ind.
Merrimac mills, Lowell, Mass, reduc-
ton OF 10 cents day on spoilers.
Thompson-Houston company, Lynn,
Mass, armature-winders reduced.
Wooden mills, Ashland, Pa, wages OF
seventy girls reduced.
Cotlon-weavers, Lonsdale, r. l., reduced
Is cents per cut and size of cut increased
five yards at the same time
December.
The Lackawanna shuts down all its
mines in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre.
Two thousand miners on strike in the
vicinity of Paramount.
United States rolling stock company,
Anneston, Ala, strike because they could
not get their pay.
Oliver iron and steel mills, Pittsburg,
shut down indefinitely, throwing out 5000
men.
CARPET tack makers, Birmingham, Conn,
reduction of 20 per cent.
Underwear mills, Birmingham, Conn.
reduction OF 20 per cent. on women's
wages.
Merrimac mills, Lowell Mass, reduction
OF 8 cents per 100 on mule spinners.
Potters, Trenton. \. j., reduction Of
from 10 to 20 per cent.
Tool works, Plainfeld, \. j., reduced
the working force by discharging a num-
Der OF their employees.
Pullman car works. reduction OF 10 per
cent, 900 men affected.
Shoemakers at Rochester, y. Y, and
Massachusetts, reduced.
Ciark's thread mills begin the importa-
ton of yarn spun in Scotland in order TO
break down organization OF American
spinners.
Two thousand employees in Carnegie.
Phipps & Co.'S Homestead steel works re-
| duced 10 per cent.
Fairfield Chemical Co. Bridgeport,
Conn, gave their employees Christmas
present of a reduction of 10 per cent. in
wages, although the Mckinley bill takes
sulphuric acid, the principal product OF
this company, OFF the free list and inn
poses a duty of one-fourth OF cent a
pound.
Coal miners. Birmingham, Ala, strike
against a reduction of wages.
january.
Pittsburg marble, slate and encaustic
tile LAYERS, with their helpers, strike for
eight hours and 81 per day.
Four hundred men laid off at the Scran-
ton. Pa. steel mills on account of dizziness
OF trade.
Window glass works at GAINESVILLE, o.,
shut down for an indefinite period, throw
ing out 100 men.
Eighty-fve weavers in Clay q Groo-
cocks silk mills. Paterson, \. j., strike
against a reduction OF I! per cent. on gros
grains.
NEEDING mills, Paterson, \. j., reduction
of 74 per cent.
Lackawanna coal and iron company, re-
duction of 20 cents day.
Cambria iron company, Johnstown, Pa,
reduces wages of 5000 men 10 per cent to
take effect Feb. /.
Reduction of wages of iron miners,
Ishpeming, Mich.
Potte's in Bell Bros. pottery, Findlay,
O., strike against reduction. Bell Bros.
are in the recently organized pottery trust.
Three hundred and fifty men in sanitary
ware potteries, Trenton. \. j., strike
against reduction from 10 10 % per cent.