Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-19
SOME MklNLsY BILL ACCOUNTS.
Wages Reduced, Factories Closed and
Men Thrown Out of Work.

Wages Reduced, Factories Closed and
Men Thrown Out of Work.
Credit these to Mckinley. They are
few of the items ON one side of the ac-
count of the ''bravest and wisest of tar
iff measures" the "trust killing tariff, :"
as the New York Tribune calls it. This
bill, that does not sustain "higher rate
of profits, but higher rate of wages"
as Professor Gunton told the Republic
an club, of New York, few days ago.
These are some of the items for the
week ending April Is, 1892. When some
loyal Republican has filed out the other
side of the account, so that it will not
look too one sided, we will continue our
side:
April 8-By strike of 200 girls and
boys in the Dolphin Jute mills at Pater-
son, N. ]. The Press says "the boys
have been getting $3.50 and the girls So
a week" in this protected industry.
April 8-By reduction of wages of
puddlers at McIlvane & Sons Plate mill,
Reading, Pa, from 1915 to $3.50 per
ton, and the announcement that next
week Seifert's two rolling mills, employ.
ing 300 hands, five miles below Reading.
will close down indefinitely.
April S-By the determination of the
Furniture and Cabinet Manufacturers
association to keep their factories closed
until the strikers give up their fight for
eight hours.
April S-By exactions of the rice trust
which led committee of rice mer-
chants at New Orleans to take steps to
build rice mill to circumvent the
trust.
April 9-By consolidation of the six
cottonseed oil mills of Georgia into the
Georgia Cotton Oil company. The
American Cotton Oil company owns 100
mills; for the purpose of economy those
in each state are being merged into
separate corporations. All of the trust
mills are now reorganized under state
charters except those in South Carolina
April 10-By notice of general reduc-
ton of wages in all the furnaces at
Newcastle, Pa. After April II the turn
men will be reduced fifteen cents, the
day laborers ten cents and the iron men
three-fourths cent per pound. This will
give the turn men $1.75 and the laborers
$1.35 per day.
April 10-By closing down of the Dol
phin Jute mill at Paterson, N. j., be-
cause of the inordinate request of the
boys for SO and of the girls for g. so per
week.
April 10-By strike of 200 electric light
men in New York.
April 10-By strike of twenty helpers
at the Phoenix silk mill, Paterson, N. J.
April 10-By the announcement in The
Tribune that Claus Spreckels cleared
$4,000, 900 when he sold his Philadelphia
sugar refinery to the trust, giving the
latter complete control of refined sugar
east of the Rockies.
April 11-Bya big marble trust which
The Tribune announces is being formed
in Georgia "to unite all the marble pro-.
prietorships in the country so that the
output as well as the prices can be regu-
lated" The duty ON marble averaged
about so per cent. under this "trust kill
ing tariff"
April 13-By strike of workmen at the
Monitor Iron works at Sing Sing.
April 14-By the announcement that
the whisky trust, whose total earnings
for the year ending March 81, 1892, were
81, 1923 1877, is to wipe out all opposition
by temporary reduction of prices.
April 14-By the formation of a trust
composed of the thirty type founders in
the United States.
April 14-By the closing of the Spreck-
els enormous sugar refinery by the sugar
trust so as to decrease production and
maintain trust prices.
April 15-By the completion Of the
Diamond match trust, it having bought
the Lebanon Match company, of Phila-
delphia, for $125, 200. This was the last
company to surrender to the trust. The
retail dealers in Philadelphia, upon ad-
vices from wholesalers, at once advanced
the price of matches fifty cents per gross