Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-21

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uralized recently.
He and his brother, and his otner
partners In the Homestead Steel Works
near Pittsburg, an enormous plant
covering 400 acres, are now engaged in
q determined and even desperate effort
10 force down the wages Of their thous-
snds o. employes an average Of about 20
per cent or one fifth To protect the
"pauper labor" that is to be secured TO
take the place Of their former employees
they have turned their works intoa gar
rlsoned fortress. A ten feet high tight
fence topped OH with several strands OF
barbed wire has been built around the
works, and cook-houses and barracks
provided inside.
AN this warljke preparation must
have cost o pretty penny, and gar
rison of Pinker.on or other police TO
hold the fort must cost much more. II
am the money wasted on these very I'M
American hostuities against the iron
workers. together with that which will
De lost otherwise, i'm case Of q strike
were put into wages, the sum would
verv likely be sufficient TO satisfy the
men.
The American people are tremend-
ously taxed on the steel they use, 10
understanding 70 MCKINLEY and his
school-to enable the CARNEGms to
pay their men higher wages. The
CAevEa1Es pocket the money that the
Protective taxes produce and then cut
down the wages.
As Mr. McLUc6IE, OF the AmaIga-
mated Association put it at the meeting
i'm Homestead on Sunday eve have
voted for high tariff and have got high
fences, Pinkertou detectives and
militia"
I'm its report Of the Homestead meet
ing, the Republican Pi,tsburg Leader
says:
1t seems there was q delegate on the
Amalcamated side who keeps himself Wen
posted in everything pertaining To the IRON
trade. This gentleman sat quietly Tor hours
listening TO Mr. Cr0nemeyer and John Jar
rett telling the workmen WY 10 became
necessary that there should be cut no. their
wages. Mr. Jarrett it is said, told the com
mittee how low the WAGES Of the English
iron workers were. and vet how be man
aged 20 live nicely on them. He then went
on't0 show how nicely the American iron
worker could stand reducuOn-say from
20 TO 40 per ceut-and yet live comfortably.
The delegate referred 20, when Mr. Jarrett
had finished arose and said;
"Mr. Jarrett, YOU propose 90 so GA the
stump this year in the interest of the he
publican National ticket, do you not.'
ayes, sir,' responded the late consul, TO
"WelI. SIR" said the other, 'I VIII tell
YOU now that YOU have been tridlng with
the w0rkmen of tins country for the past
ten wears and the time has come when you
can do 10 no longer. i propose 20 let the
vOrkmeu know the stand YOU have taken
today and let their bollOts do the rest. ]
have bean a Republican all my life and
supported Harrison as strongly as anyone
could but this year If the proposed scaleot
the manufacturers goes into effect you
viii find me Just as strong Democrat as
Fl
Then turning TO Mr.. CrOnemeyer, the
Amalgamated delegate said;
"Did YOU not say, IF the Mckinley bill
passed at the last session of Congress. YOU
and all the other manufacturers would be
enabled 90 pay the wages asked FOR by the
Amalgamuted Association
Mr.. Cr0uemeyer as, sir.
"Have you not been quoted i'm the press
of Pittsburg 20 that e1ect.'
ayes, sir.n
"Wel. 10 does not look as though YOU
propose 20 make your word good. Now,
gentlemen, / can assure You that N the
DroD0sed reduction is enforced the Anal
ramated Association viii cast It's vote al
most TO a man for the nominees Of the
Democratic party.
Shortly after This pointed talk the con
ference adjourned.
Our Plttsburg contemporary goes on
TO say:
There is no use i'm beating about the bush
iu discussing thisvitally important matter;
no use iu whining, like the Dispatch, that
wage scales are private business, and that
the excellence Of the protective tariff sys-
TEN iustfes the manufacturers in pauper-
ling their employees, If they want 70; no
use in affecting merriment like the Times,
for the edifcati0n of Mr.. Campaign Fund
Contributor. and inviting the public 20 note
the fact that ''the wages of those employed
iu the business developed under the tariff
have no more TO do with politics than with
.oigiOu.'
The Republican party pledged itself to
stand or fall by the Mckinley bin, the Cos
bel of high tariff, and it's ablest representa-
uves told the W0rkingmen Of this state
and of the whole country that the cOnserva-
ton OF high Wages depended entirely on
the passage OF that bin. Mckinley himself
came 20 Pittsburg and told us So. John
sherman came 90 Pitts burg and told US so.
John j.. Ingalls, came 90 Plttsolrg and told
us So Every campaign orator that talked
tariff 90 q Pirtsburg audience OF late years
emphasized the fact that the Republican
party was the implaCable foe of cheap
.abOr' and the Jealous guardian or the
wOrkingman's rights and, above all, of his
wages.
And she wages OF protected Ameri-
eau labor have been steadily going down
pan the while.
This is the sort Of protection to
American labor that the American
people as asked TO justify and continue
5y voting for HARRISON.
ARE WE
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