The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-05-13
MORE HUGE REDUCTIONS.
How the MeKinIey Tarin Works In rifts-
burgh.


burgh-
The following letter TO the New York
Evening Post from it, Pittsburgh cor
respondent shows how the Mckinley
tariff is working there:
Five announcements this week. bear
ing directly or indirectly on the tariff
question. furnish iittle comfort to the
American workmen. especially those
who labor in iron and steel Simrltan--
ously with the news Of = great vic
tory ", Rhode Island. comes the warm
ing from an organ Of the manufacturers
70 the iron workers that wages must he
reduced this year. Along with the
actual reduction Of wages n Andrew
Carnegie's T~wenty-ninth street mill in
this city. | hear hat VI. l.. Abbott.
chairman ~ Carnegie. phipps & Co.,
who commenced work a. nineteen wears
81 are in the humble position ~ time
keeper. j. - retire al forty with 4 mil
lion: also that Mr. Henry rhippS has
leased for the sumsncr knebwortli. he
ancestral home Of Lord L~ytton's family.
with It's 5000 acres. in HcrtfordSLire,
England.
lIt AlT ttflNttAf aht - NAtf TIL mar
kct j. 4 puzzle n the outsiders The
organs ~ the manufacturers. the Iron
I Age. ~ New York. the Iron and steel
! Bullctin. II Philadelphia. and the Amer
lean Manufacturer. Of Pittsburgh arc
placing the market in its worst light.
puddlerS to-day are paid 50 a ton The
Iron Age says they must come down to
a.. the lowest rate since the civil war.
The Iron Age does not say 50. but they
evidently expect the puddlers-the
hardest worked employees Of the mills
% humbly acquiescc- for il claims that
the great fight will b. on the rates for
finishing iron. and incidentally IL men
toned the fact-humorous 70 fair
minded peOple-thar there must b. .
new scale of wages for sheet rolling. in
order that the great American tin
plate manufacturers may have m OPP
portunity to thrive and do business
The numerous blast furnace firms Of
the Mahoning and Chenango valleys ~
western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.
have reduced wages ten per cent. aud
several thousand men are concerned.
hut these two regions arr affected BIZ
local conditions, in that they arr more
distant from the Concllsviilc coke re-
gion than Pittsburgh. and the latter
cityiS said ~ b.. favored in freight rates.
Fifty ~ the best paid workrnen At
the Edgar Thomson steel works ~ An
drew Carnegie. at Hraddocx. we're dis
charged this week. They wcrc replaced
Dy the improved machinery 81 a direct
process for maixing steel from zig ircn.
The axle-hammermrn ~ Carnryies
TWENTY ninth street mill iii this ely are
on a strike against A reduction IN wages
amounting "a FROM . To per cert. The
wages ~ the blacksfniths az this mill
were at the same time reduced from
$3.50 to ss.75a day. and their helpers
from 81. 80 10 si.60. Both branches ara
unorganizcd from the labor union stand
point. and the black~miths philosophic-
ally accepted the situation. while the
axle-hammerInen. who evidently had
more spunk. threw down their tools
and left the shop. They vii. b. graft
fed 70 know thatonc Of their employers
partners. Mr.. phipps. has invited Mr..
Carnegie 10 share the prospective occu.
pancy IT n castle across the sea. and
that his eldest daughter Is about "a
make her entrance in British society. '
AT Paterson. n. D.. two strikes arr
on-onc ~ twenty helpers NJ the Phoenix
silk mills and the other II the Dolphin
!utc mills, where one hundred dofcrs
arc out The mill has been shut dowr
and the spinncrs and other WORKINGS
have been thrown out o. work