The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-31


dow ghss factories in Findlay o., havd shut
down for the summer. Over 1000 employees will
get two months vacation.
Glass factories always shut down dur
ing the summer months. The rules of
the glassmaktrs' unions require it.
December H. lS9l.-The coopers employed at
Matthieson & Weicher's sugar refinery, Jersey
City, are on u strike against reduction Of
wages, brought about, it is alleged, by the intro
duction Of machinery.
April 10, ls92.-Fifty OF the best paid workmen
at tho Edgar Thomson steel works Of Andrew
Carnegie, at Braddock, Pa, were discharged
this week. They were replaced by the improved
machinery OF direct process" for making
steel from pig iron.
Did the Mckinley tariff invent the
new machinery? Would Mr.. Warner
have kept it out of the cooper shop and
the steel works?
December 81, lS9t.-At Syracuse, N. Y, 80
coopers, unorg lnized, were surprised last week
by the announcement OF u 10 per cent. reduction
OF wages, They left the shop, organized hastily
demanded the same W ages and u nine-hour day.
and resumed work within thirty-six hours, their
demands having been granted
This reads like an increase instead of
a decrease.
May I, lS9l.-From the formal ion OF the trust
in straw goods the workers of that trade are
expecting general reduction OF wages through
out the country and thedi smissal of many union
men, NJ ~ black list has been prepared by the
managers OF the trust
This, it appears, is merely one of the
Worlds typical reports" but Mr.. War
ncr needed it to swell his list for his own
purpoSes. So we might go on and show
the absurdity OF item after item. But
that is not the main point we wish to
make in this connection.
Even if Mr.. Warmers AS items repre-
scented each bona .ide strike or lockout,
| the smallness of the number would still
be a tribute to the Mckinley law. His
search embraced a period of 20 months,
covered the whole Union, and could fin d
only 473 eases which he could construe
as strikes, lockouts or wages reductions.
| Why, in the single state of New York,
according to the report of the bureau of
statistics of labor, there occurred in
1889, before the Mckinley tariff had been
heard of, 1874 strikes in only twelve
months.
Yet Mr.. Warner could find only 47S in
twenty months under the Mckinley
tariff in the whole United States. Is it
not pretty good showing for that
measure?
The only unusual feature about Mr..
Warmers compilation is that it foots up
only Alb For strikes have occurred in
past years in far greater numbers. II
is safe to say that no other period OF
twenty months in the last half GEN.
fury could be selected during which as
careful search as Mr.. Warner made
would not have revealed more than 47s
labor disturbances. 1t is beneath the
dignity of the place he occupies in pub.
lie life 10 resort to such a disreputable
method in his efforts To create prejudice
against the new tariff.
! >. That TIE Mckmty tariff has reduce,
rdges
Mr.. Warner says that during the tim,
the new tariff has been in operation
"the museum men have sought in vair
for worl<ingmen III protected indus
tries whose wages have been raised.
He knows better. This paper has citet
many cases of increased wages unde
the new law. We have shown abov,
that wages in the Illinois coal mine
were higher in 1891 thar in three year
before. We know of nc other ofticia
export covering the period in controver
sy But here are few individual case