Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-30
lf productIOn:

Out Of every hundred dollars spent by
the manufacturer in making goods,
labor gets S95.66, or about one-fourth.
The cost OF the material is more than
double the cost Of labor. If the tariff
were designed to cover the entire COS, OF
wages, an average tariff Of t'Centy-sir
per cent would be sufficient. II the tar
iff we're designed TO cover only the dB-
ference in wages between the United
States and other countries, less FORUM
ately placed by nature, a tariff Of less
than twenty-six per cent would effect
that result, for, Of course, the foreign
employee does not work for nothing.
Foreign labor does not only not work
for nothing, but in England in many
Industries the difference between wages
there and here is so slight as to require
considerable figuring to find out wheth-
er or not any real difference exists.
The table quoted above ought to be
put in every workingman's hands, and
with it ought to be put the rates of
tariff granted to the tariff barons by
Mckinney, forty, fifty, seventy, eighty
and in some industries over 100 per
cent.-whne labor gets about 25 per
cent.
The great labor convulsion in Penn
sylvania is not a strike Of workmen TO
secure an increase Of wages which they
were promised that McKiRleyism would
bring them; it is a refusal Of workmen
to accept the reduced wages which they
were promised that McKinleyism would
protect them from, but which the chief
advocates and benefciaries of the Nc
Kinley tariff are now trying to force up
on them. The CARNEGTEs alone employ
in one Of their works, at Homestead,
q, 500 men, who with their families make
up a population Of over 90, 900, to whom
misery is brought by the proposal to
make a reduction of 90 per cent. in
wages Thus it is proposed at
a blow to cut of one-ffth
Of the income of these workers.
reduction so great that it means dis
tress. The Republican organs have
.warned CARNEGIE and the other iron
masters that to make such a severe cut
in wages in the chief OF the protected
industries, and thus precipitate lock-
out Just at the beginning Of polit-
ical campaign in which Mckinley
ism is on trial, would be to give prOtec-
ton a deadly blow in the house of its
friends; but Millionaire CARNE-
GLE heeds no such advice. He seemed
determined not to give up a cent Of the
millions Republican protection has
given him, but to make the wOrkmen
surrender one dollar in every five Of
their wages. We have never heard that
any Of these workmen are multi-million-
aires or even single millionaires; there
is probably not one among them who
has been able TO save enough in his
whole life TO keep up CARNeEIE's Scot
fish castle for one day. But the work
men are the under dogs and CARNEGIE
q Co. show them no mercy.
1t is said that elaborate, and perhaps
murderous, preparationg are being
made to protect the Homestead works
from any invasion by the loeked-out
workmen, who, as CARNEGIE apparent
" thinks may be driven to des-
peration. LEWIS MYERS, Of Scran-
ton, is quoted as saying that
Carnegie, Phillips & Co., have built a
I big wire fence around their works at
/ Homestead. There are over three miles
Of the fence, and il consists Of five strands
/ of bar0ed wire. It IS said 10 be so ar
ranged that every wire can be charged
/ with electricity, aud for this reason it is
supposed that it has been built TO keep
strikers away from the big plant in time
of strife. The laborers are causing no
| trouble\ now, but big strike is expected
there any day, and when it comes ID. Will
/ be a struggle between the firm andAtSe
AmalgaIsated Association
ana alA this occurs under the higf
~o'ptry has ever had.