The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-07-30
"orkinSmen Framed the Tn PIN.

"orkihSmen Framed the Tn Plnte
Sehettie
In ferez,t tsaue the New York Times
sai,s o'A ii'iies
fF.ere are several gsntias't q, in Mime
apolis whQ Should het overlook this news
~ !. e, ao9Ht my strlkesl. One of them, is
II, IL o'lvef, chairman of the conventions :
SUD committee on the tariff. who reported
70 The iron and steel manufacturers gflrr
lue passage o. the Mckinley bill lhai fhtt
rates III the new iron and stne, s:h,Y,i,ie
were those pserosnd y TIT manufactur-
tio -, ,p,'ni,selNeS, AHotner is eX-Speaker
ha,. -" W. cared that the manufacturers
"Ts obtained Just what they wanted
In answer TO this the American Econ
ohlst makes these valuable srtgeEtions
Tor the consideration df The free traders
and the s'tr'AGrs As for the tin nlare
rceef,0ia, The only important one in
| winch higher duties were imposed. We
propose to show how and by whom
that schedule WAS framed. In lsss
| While the Mills bill was under discus
sion, tho Amalgamafcd Association OF
Iron and S~ee7 Workers, the very asso-
cation R'fl6ae members are now having
t1en3ie over the ad diustment of the vase
scale, petitioned Congress as follows,
The Mills pill places tin rlate tn The
Tree list. Nhateyef professions Of
ir,chaship .et IjartIality to American
iatat TN majority of the WAYS and
."eans committee may have made. this
act OF theirs III placing tin plate on the
free list clearly indicates theis rea, ir-
tentions of ultimate free tad It Is
| an act soiety antf absolutely IN the in
tererts OF British capital and labor. Sc
curing TO theEi monopoly of tin plate
| manufacture needed to supply the
! needs and wants of the American ree-
| pie. 1t ls an act that imrlirs the
inability of American labor to rrojtcr
| tin plates, or that il IA fett5t {: 'cnirlCy
| British lsh,,r st rtw wages 10 supply us
with in plate, rather than permit the
| same to be de,;e by home labor at rea-
| sonable Wages.
Il Is unnecessary that - should en-
| Ter here into tbs ..lotory of the tin plate
! questfo" III this country. Suffice il to
] ''a,. that although strenuous attempts
| We're made between 1872 and 1sss tc g.
| tablish tin plate anuf'ctrfU IN this
| country, all failed frf lack OF proper en-
| couragenen' '!y the government 1t is.
| there;cfe, evident to our minds that
| the real benetiClarles of free tin plates
would be the foreign producers Of the
| article, foreign merchants and i'm
| porter,
! 10 the American worklngmnn AMI
ClIel consumer no matps'.' E2netIt
whatever would aocs.t*. On the other
| hand, Is wats n".rners, our workingmen
wenl5 &c greatly injured. In the name
y,f the iron and steel workers we there
lore protest against the action of the
majority OF the ways and means cutn-
mittee in placing tin plates en- tie fee
\ hot, ~, oeaii1,. of,S f.sts tct.oo tho
present duty. NeFt further and earn
| estly lstItS6S congress to seriously
| rtedtsaEc as TO the ACCESSIBILITY of plac-
! ire protective duty on tin plates, a
dtlty commensurate with the higher
labor cost II this country; thus secur-
ing employment to American larcf in
the production Of tin rlsies 81 wages in
harmony with ih~>G now existing In
cur iron a-d 5,eei manufactures.
Ft.o petition then goes on to show BY
i figures and statistics that the difference
betw cen the cost of producing one 100
pound box of lC tin plates III Great
Britain and the hteG States, owing to
our highet wages and other elements
- = 10, this cost being S5.25 in this
country and Sj.l35 IN Great Britain
This makes difference i'll labor cost ot
PIP cents per pound. And the rate oi
duty imposed by the Mckinley law Ii
D. cents per pound.
There is no free trade rafHf Nhicl
| will be fair enough to publish these
facts.