The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-07-16
WAGES IN IRON MILLS
a WHOLESALE cur TO Be MADE
IN SPITE or TsiE TARIFF.

AIcKinley.s Frohiassory Duty. Made by
the Manufacturers Themselves to Raise
the Poor Mans wages mas an Entirely
Different Erect.
Our high tariff friends are beginning
to admit that a serious reduction of
wages-a wholesale cut the Philaiel-
phia Press says-is soon to be made III
the iron and steel mills. but their COM
ments are discordant. For example, the
Pittsburg Dispatch is moved by the i'm
pending reduction at Mr.. Carnegie's fac
tories to say:
ssIf the iron manufacturers wish to
strike every tariff advocate dumb and
paralyze the entire campaign for protec-
ton, they could not do SO more etfectu-
ally than by confronting them during
the campaign with the spectacle Of mills
standing idle through the forcible at
tempt to reduce wages 90 per cent. in
protected industry"
The Philadelphia Press complains that
it has been forgotten by certain persons
"that the Mckinley tariff reduced the
duties ON all forms of iron manufacture
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taking place or has taken place" The
Boston journal makes the same asser-
ton. But neither Of these papers has
said that the reduction Of wages has
been caused by the slight reduction of
outies In parts OF the iron and steel
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scneauie. Iney know very Wei that IN
nearly every instance the duties which
Were slightly reduced by the Mckinley
act had been practically prohibitory,
and that the corresponding duties as
they stand now have substantially the
same enect. Inc ola auty on steel or
iron beams, Tor example, was US per
ton; With the assistance OF that very
nlgh outy the manufacturers IN THIS
country VINO haa been IN COMBINATION
Tor years, exacted from consumers ring
price OF Soo.4f per ton. Inc auty was
reduced from 40 TO sso'lo' owing TO
the dissolution OF the trust combination
the price OF steel OF IRON beams has fallen
from $o9.4a 10 S4s.oo' Inc reductlon OF
duty was S.oi per toni the reduction OF
price, caused py the olssoiuelon OF an
unlawful ana greedy combination and
the restoration OF compeutlon, Is SSo.ss
per ton- Inc duty is sun prompitory.
Inc manuiaoturers 90 not suner py rea-
son OF lmportatiohs, ior the duty Is 100
hlgn 10 permit iniportatlohs TO Dc made
SO long as the price at nome Is deter
mined by that competition winch the
manufacturers s1rahgieu ior sixteen
years.
Our hlgh tarin irienas should not Tor
get whao their own leaders nave SAID
apclt tncse duties IN the present iron
ana steei scheunie' AFTER the enactment
OF the new tai1if the following comments
were puphshea IN Inc Bulletin OF the
american iron ana steer ASSOCIATION,
whlch is the onlciai organ OF the manu-
iacturers VINO nave SINCE reduced the
wages OF their wofkmen ana are now
preparing 10 make iufther ana greater
reductions:
rake II all IN all, the new metal
scneuuie is Soou one, ana our IRON ana
steel manufacturers VIII never see bet
ter one. IL has been secured with much
enort ana no NIUE anxiety IL Is the
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ned.
w mic MI. hchiniey ana ms associates
We're making TINS schedule MI. Henry
oilVer, OF f'lttspurg, was IN Washing
TON as representative OF the IRON and
steer hlanuiaceurers anu as an ADVISER OF
the majority OF the Mchlnley ways and
means committee AFTER the passage OF
the Dill ne returned 10 flttspurg, ana
there made report IN winch ne declared
tnat the rates Oh duty IN the new sched-
ule were .hose proposed by the manu-
iacturers themselves AS speaker Reed
said aftef tne eiection or io9V, the manu-
Iacturers OF IRON ana steel mad obtained IN
tne new tarln just what they wanted"
Inc speaker was complaining then that
tne manufacturers mad SHOWN lngrai-
tuae IN not contributing Tor the cam
palgn IN leso SO nperaily as they had
contributed IN 1855. As Mr.. Reed also
declared IN lesO That the object OF th'
MCKINNEY tarlH was 10 raise the poor