Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-30

order for 1900 tons was recently
placed at that price.
SIN CAExEoIE who can give a quar-
ter Of million away in charity has to
cut down wages.
While steel blooms are selling for
$3.50 at the docks in Liverpool, Eng,
CARNEe1E is selling them for about
$500 ia Pittsburg.
Yet this poor "iniant industry" must
have protection and after getting from
Mckinley all the protection it asked
aud IN fact it was permitted to write its
own schedule in that measure-it must
cut down wages and discharge whole
crews OF men IN order that its million
ARE owners may be kept out Of the poor
house.
In explanation Of it all Mr.. Prick
comes forward and says that the
reduction is not so great as the figures
show. lie says that the men who are
reduced are given longer hours and can
make more money by the readjustmeut
the CAEyEGIEs always callit read
iustment, never reductiOn-6ut every
practical iron worker who has read the
published details Of this ''readjustment"
and they have been hard TO get at
knows better. For instance, in the
heating department Of these immense
works-the greatest in the world-the
wages OF the heaters have been cut
down about twenty-five per cent, and
one man is given three mems work.
The other two men are discharged.
The benidcent Mr.. FRIcK says this is
not a reduction because the two men
will make il up in longer hours. Be
fore, six men were employed at a fur
mace, each three working eight hours in
turns Under the "readjustment'
two men have to do the work Of the
former six and work twelve hours each.
If they have the physical ability it may
be true, as Mr.. FRICE saws, that even with
the big cut in their wages the two men
may be able to make as good wages as
before by virtue of the additional work
and the additional hours Of labor. But
10 calculating upon this 'read-
iustment" take your pencil and
figure up what the company saves
in wages: Out Of every dollar paid TO
the six men on the old rate it saves
about IS cents on the new rate.
Throughout the works, if the CUTS not
direct it is some such reimbursement"
as this, which every iron worker knows
is worse for labor than a direct cut. 1t
gives labor more work at less pay and
throws two-thirds out o. employment
altogether.
no wonder CARNEGIE can afford to
give q quarter Of a million TO the unem-
ployed. He saves it many times over
by adding to their ranks.
He pays two cents a ton for rolling
armor plate and sells the plate to the
government for five or six hundred dol
lars a ton-the government furnishing
the nickel that enters into its manufac-
ture.
And vet his poor infant industry-the
largest 10 the world, and which can I'M
derseH the world-must be coddled and
protected from those dreadful foreign
ers by it's Uncle Sam so that it can pay
it's workmen high wages.
Why does it want the protection Of a
tariff since it can undersell the world?
Because it does not want to undersell
the world. The tariff long ago shut
ont foreign competition with this iu-
dustry and in the meantime it has un-
dersold and otherwise broken up or alb
sorbed almost every competing mill in
America. Following this process prices
go up as near the tariff notch as the
conditions of the home market viii
permit and CARNEGIE, FNcK
aud the other stockholders pocket
their millions and look pleasant.
When the dividends do not
come up to high water mark because Of
stasnation or overproduction and CAR
NgGrE does not rake 10 his $4,000 or
SIS. 600 a day the difference has to be
made up BY REIMBURSEMENT" in the
wages OF the men who wrestle day aud
night with the hot iron and steel for a
couple Of cents ton.
CARNEGIE always takes care that
these reductions are made in Winter
when the iron-workers who have wives
and children TO feed, clothe and keep
warm can't afford to strike and must
either work or starye.
This is protection to American
LABOR" with q vengeance.
mIsAPPLIED CHARITY.
Chicago has gone about relieving her
unemployed in the wrong way, and has
finally discovered it. She started IN