The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-26
WAGEs PER DAY.
Trs. Cutters BldsterS Helpers. Logdsrs Ld5orsrs.
1888. g2s3 s2O7 $40 sI7s sl.6l
1889. Pa 2O9 LIS ISD I.%
1890. 80 2O7 In LIS 1.53
1891 23j 225 III ISS 175

July Q, 1s91.-Au but one of the flint and win
dow glass factories in Findlay. o., have shut
down for the summer. Over 900 employees will
get two months vacation.
Glass factories always shut down dur
ing the summer months. The rules of
the glassmakers' unions require it.
December Il, 1S9l.-The coopers employed at
Matlhieson 81 Weicher's sugar refinery, Jersey
City, are on a strike against reduction Of
wages, brought about, it is alleged, by the intro
duction of machinery.
April TO- 1sg2.-F'ifty Of the best paid workElen
at the Edgar Thomson steel works Of Andrew
Carnegie, Al Braddocl;, 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, iS91.-At Syracuse. ". Y, go
coOpers, uEorganized, were surprised last week
by the announcement of q 10 per cent. reduction
OF wages They left the shop, organized hastily.
demanded the same y ages and nine-hour day,
and resumed work within thirtysix hours, their
demands having been granted
This reads like an increase instead of
decrease.
in straw goods the workers Of that trade are
expecting general reduction Of wages through
out the country and the dismissal OF many union
men, rs 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
ner 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 ii Mr.. Warmers 473 items repre-
sentcd each bona ide strike or lockout,
the smallness of the number would still
be tribute to the Mckinley law. His
search embraced a period of 20 months,
covered the whole Union. and could find
only 473 cases 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 473 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 4T3. For strikes have occurred in
past years in far greater numbers. 1t
is safe to say that no other pe-iol of
twenty months in the last half a CEN
fury could be selected during which as
careful d search as Mr.. Warner made
would not have revealed more than 4I3
labor disturbances. 1t is beneath the
dignity OF the place he occupies in pub
lie life to resor: 70 such disreputable
method in his efforts to create prejudice
against the new tariff.
,. Tint tie Mckinley tariff has reduced
urG2S.
Mr.. Warner says that during the time
the new tariff has been in operation,
1.-The museum men have sought in vain
for workingmen in protected indus
tries whose wages have been raised"
He knows better. This paper has cited
many cases of increased wages under
the new law. We have shown above
that wages in the Illinois coal mines
were higher in 1891 than in three years
before. We know of no other official
report covering the period in cont-over-
81. But here are "a few individual eases
which we hope Mr.. Warner will bring
TO the attention of the museum men:
ExAaP.Es OF WAGES UNDER TIRE MRISLEY
TARIFF.
(. nj Nf~Licar
lad, : Ce= cent increase.
Wooster & Stocdarj, Walden, y. US Per
sent Increase.
Cc-1acn Wooden Company. Camden, Maine.
T. rer cent Increase.
.iiier Engine Company. walden, y. Y. 10 per
cent. increase
hawthorne Mills Company. GIeruville, Gem,
= y cc1t- Increase.
Ard Dodge, Do,gcvlis, y. Y. 20 yer cent,
incr ase.
LIS" SIpe-:or Lumber COn-any, SAIL Ste
&1r.e. Mich, Is per cent iac-ease
>. =. Pass. Rcxtoro.N C.. = per cent increase.
Il Z. Chapman White Pigeon. aisi, Is per
saJ ta1ceass-