Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-10-13

Parties having Real or Personal Proper.
~ t1r sale can obtain descriptive hand6ills
neatly executed and 1t City Prices.
WAGES BREAK DOWN.
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF 4 Lisr
or BOGUS WAGE ADVANCES.

oooosN ussAPPEARANcE OF 4 LIST
or Bogus WAGE ADVANCES.
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s.vsssszasasa Prove. rh., pr.ssaasa In
ersase n Protected rnaa<sries u.a Ne
Esaaaatisa In F.es-rsoseess.as.,. As-
ssnps 90 Eieea~ink w.xs E.rnsrs.
The World nna,,;sh.., ,..w.s-., .....,..
g.. . ...s.'s.,A - - - "esss
outs ar,d v,s.... rs.,,,e,;,x. i. .s.-.-~.-s
iudustries. Iu,,,.,,,.,.,.. a. ....s.-..--.-
ists sent un, ..r,,..,s e. - -
increase. ~ ,.,.,..... - 49, s-s -
.aa..,,..s s...... -, ). -, !. -
A.s-,-..' s'-ss - 80 sss
-.-s.,s-s's' - .es1 - slo.n ~enty-elgns
!. were received pretending
g. -. ',l q z''st tssfE 1uczeasF4
y xnein unoor ths Mckinley tarid law.
On Its face the showing could not be said
b DO satisfactory, Ina Mr.. John De witt
| Warner has examined M, ,..,v.rl,, ,;.s
and has f,una L., .....,. !. .......--
tho l....f,a ~ ~, s.-..
- -" v f.'o 4sas1~ia'os aes w the
70 az. 60 -.
se Asl "~fn " was shown that
Jnst beiore the passage VI the Mckinley
pil wages ~ the establishment had been
reduced twenty Eve cents a day In one
department and I2I< cents In another.
After the passage of the met th, wages
were restored 1917 ,.,.,.,s /. aay III
arot,,,d ieavi,,., a.. , - .,s
n,ol,,..,s .,,lyf.,, -. -, "."
,sss ~--.-,'-'S' 80 '''''" '''e' ''"A oes" ii
ahe second establishment employed
sour men ana abput twenty girls. An
increase of per cent had been report
ed. Tho operatives assert however, that
there was no increase whatever.
The same tale is told Of the. third es.
tabiishinenf, in which an advance Of 10
per cent. was claimed.
This Is WHAT'S said OF the fourth es-
tapishment by the agent who investi
gated Its reported increase in wages 10
10 per cent.;'sThis report OF an increase
OK wages in their works is a deliberate
and harefaced he. There has been no
increase whatever in ten years"
In the iifth establishment An em.
ployee. on being shown the report that
his wages had been raised, exclaimed,
"W hat a lief'
In the sixth the only changes had been
IN reduction OF wages. The seventh em.
ployed fifteen or twenty hands, and
wages had not been raised. There was
Ilo such cstatl.s.iaeit as the eighth.
The ninth employed two men. The pay
OF one OF them had been raised from
twenty-five cents to fifty cents a day,
while that of the other remained sta
tionary at $i.25.
Wages in the teeth had not advanced.
"There has not been a single ADVANCE y
Is the report. .'but there have baer
scores of reductions" One OF the nro-
prietors of the eleventh establishments
said that there had been no advance
adding, THE MCKINLEY hill has 10.
helped us, nor has IL had anv material.
effect on our business" He IL n highly
protected glovcmaker, his tariff tar nav
ing been increased from 90 TO "a and 40
per cent. Another gloyemaker. .be
twelfth, tlougii. that his wages ni,ht
have been raised, bat he was very nm.
certain.
In the thirteenth concern the rney said
that their wages were slightly Advanced
because they were agitatiup the snh;ect
of q strike.
In the fifteenth AN advance 10 a,< 49,.
cent. was made this wear. altbongb IN
1883 the employers had rrom;sa5 = arb.
stantial increase II Harrison v,.S aIa.,aS
In the fifteenth the men obtained a.,
increase Of 10 per cent. after n fight and
this advance. TO quote one of them didn't
put them .',,alf back where we was eight
or ten years ago"
In tl,e sixfaen,h sava,,..,.l. -