The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-24

july Y, lobi-All put ono OF the flint and win
| dow glass factories in Ffndlay, o., have shut
down for the summer. Over 1000 employees
| will get a two months vacation.
Glass factories always shut down dur
| ing the summer months. The rules of
the glassmakers' unions require it.
| Dec. II, i8o1-The coopers employed at Mat
thiesen d Weicher's sugar refinery, Jersey
City, are on strike against o reduction Of
wages, brought about, 1t is alleged, by the In
PRODUCTION of machinery.
April 10, lse2-Fifty of the best paid work
men at tho Edgar Thomson Steel works of
Andrew Carnegie, ut Braddoek, Pa, were dis
charged this week. They were replaced by the
improved machinery of q 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 works2
Dec. 8l. ls91-At Syracuse, N. Y, ESQ coopers,
unorganized, were surprised last week by the
announcement Of 10 per cent. reduction of
wages. They left the shop, organized hastily.
demanded tho same wages and q nine hour
day, and resumed work within thirty-six
hours their demands having been granted.
This reads like an increase instead OF
decrease.
May 7, i60l-From the formation of the trust
In straw goods the workers of that trade are
expecting q general reduction of wages
throughout the country aud the dismissal of
many union men, as black list has been pre-
pared 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 and 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 473 items repre-
sented each a bona fide strike or lockout
the smallness of the number would still
be a tribute to the Mckinley law. His
search embraced period of twenty
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 1859, 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 tar
iff in the whole United States. Is it not
pretty good showing for that measure2
J The only unusual feature about Mr..
Warmers compilation is that it foots up
only 473. for strikes have occurred in
past years in far greater numbers. It is
safe to say that no other period of twenty
months in the last half century could
be selected during which as careful a
search as Mr.. Warner made would not
have revealed more than 478 labor dis
turbances. It is beneath the dignity of
the place he occupies in public life to re-
sort to such a disreputRble method in his
efforts TO create prejudice against the
new tariff.
Third-That the Mckinley tariff has
reduced wages.
Mr.. Warner says that during the time
the new tariff has been in operation ''the
museum men have sought in vain for
workingmen in protected industries
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
1901 than in three years before. We
know Of no other official report covering
the period in controversy. But here are
a few individual cases which we hope
Mr.. Warner will bring to the attention
of the museum men;
EXAMPLES OF WAGES ADVANCED UNDER THE
MkIsLET TARIFF.