The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-14
SOME M'klNleY BILL ACCOUNTS.


Men Thrown Out of Work.
Credit these to Mckinley. They are
a few of the items ON one side of the ac-
count of the ''blavest and wisest of tar
if measures" the trust killing tariff"
AS the New York Tribune calls it. This
bill, that does not sustain a ''higher rate
of profits, but "a higher rate of wages"
as Professor Gunton told the Republic
an club, of New York. a few days ago.
These are some of the items for the
week ending April 10, 1892. When some
loyal Republican has filed out the other
side Of the account, so that it will not
look TOO one sided, We will continu" our
side:
April S-By IA strike of 200 girls and
boys in the Dolphin Jutc mills at Patcr-
son. n. j.. The Press says 'thc boys
have been getting $50 and the girls 81
IL week" i'll this protected industry.
April S-By reduction of wages of
puddlcrs at McIlvane g. Sons Plate mill.
Reading, Pa, from 1915 to $3.50 per
ton, and the announcement that next
week Seifertis two rolling mills, employ.
ing 800 hands, five miles below Reading,
will close down indefinitely.
April S-By the determination of the
Furniture and Cabinet Manufacturers
association to keep their factories closed
until the strikers give up their fight for
eight hours.
April S-By cxactions of the rice trust
which led II committee OF rice mer-
chants ut New Orleans to take steps TO
build a rice mill to circumvcnt the
trust.
April 9-By consolidation of the six
cottOnseed oil mills of Georgia into the
Georgia Cotton Oil company. The
American Cotton Oil company owns 120
mills; for the purpose of economy those
in each state are being merged into
separate corporations. All Of the trust
mills are now reorganiZcd under state
charters except those in South Carolina.
April lO-By notice Of general ,educ-
ton of wages III all the furnaces at
Newcastle. Pa. After April I; the turn
men will be reduced fifteen cents, the
day laborcrs ten cents and the iron men
thrco-fourths cent per pound. This will
give the turn mcn ST. and the laborcrs
Sl.;j per day.
April lO--By closing down Of the Dol
phnn Jute mill at Paterson, y. j., be
cause of the inOrdinatc request of the
boys for s. and of the girls for S2.5 30 per
week.
April l0-By strike of POO electric light
men in New York.
April lO-By strike Of twenty helpers
AT the Phoenix silk mill, Paterson. \. j.
April lO-By the announcement in The
Tribune that Claus Sprrckels cleared
s. 1000, 900 when he sold his Philadelphia
sugar refinery 10 the trust, giving tho
latter complete control of refined sugar
east Of the Rockies.
April ll-Bya big marble trust which
The Tribune announces is being formed
in Georgia ITO unite all the marble pro-
prietorships in the country so that the
output as well ms the prices can he regu-
LATED" The duty on marble averaged
about 30 per cent. under this trust kill
ing tariff"
April I3-By strike of wOrkmcn at the
Monitor Iron works at Sing Sing.
April Ii-By the announcement that
the whisky trust, whose total earnings
for the year ending March 81, 1892, were
$t,72s,s.', is to wipe out all opposition
by "a temporary reduction of prices.
April ll-By the formation of q trust
composed Of the thirty type founders in
the United States.
April li-By the closing of the Spreck-
els enormous sugar refinery by the sugar
trust so as to decrease production md
maintain trust prices.
April l5-By the completion of the
Diamond match trust. it having bought
the Lebanon Match company, of Phila-
delphia, for $i25, 600. This was the last
company to surrender to the trust. The
retail dealers in Philadelphia, upon ad-
vices from wholesalers, at once advanced
the price of matches fifty cents per gross.