Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-24

hands. Nr. Peck answered mo" To the
question following, as to the difference in
payment for labor for nine months ending
September so, 1892, compared with 1890
and 1891, he owned up to an increase OF
162$ per cent. Why was this? Mr. Peck,
the namesake of the now distinguished
Commissioner, answers in his comments
upon the circular: Paying higher prices
Cor work.
The Ludlow Valve Works of Troy, n.
Y, manufacturers of water works supplies,
was another firm that had the courage to
say no, but they mad an increase OF per
cent in payment for labor. Because why?
The company answered, because there Is
more demand for labor.
S. Fitch Sons s. Co., of Rockville, Conn.,,
makers of knit goods, have ITO hands. They
said the Mckinley tariff had not increased
their business; but, though they declined to
furnish percentage of increase OF money
paid in wages, they admitted that wages had
besn increased. Those negative replies and
the remarks accompanying them should
prove as good reading for the laboring men
as for the Democratic committee.
Anew of the Many Alternatives.
Now, TO some of the affirmatives-some Of
the names that the Democrats were so
anxious to obtain from Mr.. Peck:
The Rome Steel knitting Mills. of Rome.
n Y, make gauZe underwear: employ $500
hands. The Mckinley tariff has made diff
terence of 10 per cent in the money they nay
for wages. The circular asks, why? The
knitting company answers: Because we
are making styles now that we could noS
compete with formerly"
j. IL. Decker, Johnstown, gloves: 400 hands.
% per cent increase in wages. Titus Sneard
Mills, Little Falls, knit underwear: 300
hands. per cent. J. ID. Parkhurst. Milburn,
" j., binders and trunk boards; so hands, 10
q per cent. I. w. Bliss Co., limited, Brook
fvn, machinery: 5S3 hands, increase paid in
wages 81 per cent: increase in business is
per cent. Daniel X. Brown, Brooklyn,
roofing materials, l65 hands; increase paid
in wages. 35 per cent: increase in business,
100 per cent Joseph Richards, Port Oran.
n j., mining iron ore, 400 hands; 10 per cent
increase paid Tor labor: % PER cent increase
in business. James Gillies Sons, cutstone
for building, 60 hands; per cent increase for
labor
The Canastota Cutlery Works, Canastota,
y. Y, makers oc pocket knives, have 61
hands. Their expenditures in wages in
creased so per cent and their business 80 per
cent. Hanan & Co, of New York, the famous
shoe manufacturers, have 450hands at work,
and increased their pay Tor labor per cent.
All Manner of Trades Represented.
And so it goes on over all manner of
trades in all quarters of the States in which
the League has made investigation. There
has been careful effort in arranging and
tabulating these figures, as there was in the
gathering of them, to take no view that
could merit the charge of having any rain
bow in il. In most cases where the COM
pliers have had range of percent
ages to choose from, they have chosen
for publication the lower; in every case,
below the medium. The cases which have
been cited above are, as has been said, only
a few selected from an enormous mass but
the names are there, the facts are there. fig
ures are there and the eternal lesson is
there. If Nh. Peck needs any further vim
dication than is embodied herein ample ma
terisl is at hand TO furnish it His Demo-
cratic accusers car hardly question the reli-
ability or authenticity of those figures, as
they came direct from manufacturers them
selves, even signatures Now, what is the
voter going to do about it?