New-York tribune., 1895-09-30


June so and II. and third time as located at
Chadwick. The cotton mills of Adams. Mass
are given. and then the Berkshire and Renirew
separately. The Qunnebaug Is given as three
different mills. with 1000 hands. The Lewiston
bleachery is repeated twice The fact about this
industry Is that the rise of over s12 per bale on
more than 900 600 bales bought by Northern mills
when cotton was cheap has enabled them TO do
remarkably well, and II Is rather a matter OF
surprise that, after scraping the whole country
carefully that many concerns are included
more than Under different names. only 3d.
10 hands appear to have gained an advance
averaging less than per cent during the last
year, out Of POI 5S5 hands employed five years ago.
wOoLLEN MILLs-REPoRTs INFLATED.
In the woollen industry the Implications and
exaggeratons betray consuming anxiety to in
fate the list as far as possible. So several mills
are inserted first as having promised an advance
and afterward giving one; several are inserted
as having resumed work in statement pretend
ing to show rise in wages. and others are in
serted because they increased their force without
any change in wages. The Providence mills are
given as a body and also the Riverside once as
at Providence. twice as at Waterford and once as
at Olneyvile. The National and Providence,
Weybosset Atlantic and Saxon are separately
given with the Saranac. National and Nanton as
of Olneyville. The Nicholas Mill. at Tarkiln.
which has only twenty-one looms. is given as
having 1000 hands. Scott mill Of Lowell, and
also a Stott mill of Lowell and also the Belvidere,
of which Mr.. Stott is in fact treasurer are separ-
ately given. The Somerset, OF New-Brunswick,
is given twice, but Is unknown to directories at
all. The woollen mills OF South Berwick are given
as a body. and then the Newickawanck, Of that
place. twice as having 500 hands. though 1t has
175 and then another mill of the same town.
The Woodstock Of Morristown. Penn. is given
with 200 hands. gain 10 per cent, and once
with 100 hands gain 20 per cent Six woollen mills
of Philadelphia are given without naming them,
and then several are given separately. Another
IS given for Morristown az having 1.2SO hands.
which is unknown TO directories. Another mill
at North Adams is given under three different
names. The Fulton Mil at Oswego. is also given.
and also the Oswego Falls Woollen Mil. both
raising wages "5 to 20 per cent though not
known TO directories. After eliminating
Implications the fact appears TO be that 4l.23O
hands In woollen mills have gained an average
of per cent IN wages, counting all second ad-
vanccs out Of 2l9 1872 hands employed In that In
dustry Ave years ago.
SWEATsHOP WORKERS AND MINERS.
1t has been found possible to ascertain the
facts regarding 273 concerns but 236 Of these were
in the iron. cotton and woollen manufacture, and
only thirty in all others. The boot and shoe
industry contributes only three. with 1000 hands,
out Of 200 employed The silk industry con-
tributes two small concerns one being repeated,
with less than 1000 hands out of $1,000 hands en-
plOyed. There is one entry Of tanners number
not known, half the reduction restored. There
are two cigar concerns, number not known The
same sanitary concern is repeated twice. and
two or three paper mills are included with one
glass concern having 900 hands, cut of 5000 en-
ployed in the country The list is so anX!ously
padded that employees Of two electric always. one
street railway and two steam railroads are in
Cluded in statement purport!ng to cover wages
in manufa cture. besides all the dock laborers at
Erie. all the city laborers at joliet. the gas-coal
miners and. the coke workers. But perhaps the
most shameless padding appears in the item
"cioakmakers Of Cincinnati. $4,000 10 per cent"
manufacturing establishment All the
clothing manufacturers in that city OF all kinds
employed. according TO the census. only 1888
hands and Of these garment workers only frac
tion were ClOakmakers 1t would be astonishing
81 a fifth of the whole number or 5000 persons were
actually engaged in that special branch. An
other entry gives 25 per cent increase in wages TO
1000 clothing makers of Bal!mcre the per cent
being obviously too high. as the advance was
substantially equal To the 10 per cent gain in Gin
cnnat and the 10 per cent by garment workers In
Philadelphia. who are said to number 1000 but
do not. Certainly the addition OF 10 per cent for
5000 hands in tailoring establishments in Bati-
more is fraud. after the % per cent the month
before - 1000 garment workers In these four
items 45 900 hands are added 10 a statement pur-
porting to show the advance in manufacturing
works and as to the propr.ety Of including the
advance gained by strikes against the sweatshOp
system there need be no argument. Probably not
more than a third Of that number Of hands
aHected in the three cities
MINERS MULTIPLIED.
Another glarGg fraud appears In a statement
of iron mining wages in the Lake Superior
gion All the companies of the Mesaba range are
included as body with $4,000 hands, and then
the Minnesota Iron Company. owning about half
the mines In that range, with all its mines IN a
separate entry. 27OO hands, and this dupca-
tion is itself duplicated. though with but 1000
L. ,.f..
given with 200. and the Iron Mountain with 300.
These repetitons make 2l.7OO men engaged in
mines which produced not quite 100000 tons
last year and about 1000 900 this year At 81 10
per hand for this army, the 100000 tons would
cost over s. per ton though the ore is sold more
than thousand miles away for half that The
foOl!shness OF the statement appears when 1t is
noted that the Bewabik. which produced 10000
tons last year, is credited with 2 700 hands. and
all the mines Of the Minnesota Iron Company,
with an output Of nearly million tons. also 200,
but in another statement with only 1000 hands.
The average output for iron miners In that region
ranges from 300 tons yearly per man In deep
mines 10 500 in surface mines and in the Mesaba
range great part OF the work Is done the
surface with steam shovels that 5000 hands
would be a full estimate for its total output. If
increased to 100000 tons this year Beyond that
number the additions ale all purely fraud A
separate statement gives the Tilden mine Of the
Gogebic range 700 hands for its output Of 22S.1O6
tons last year, which is also large.
A CORRECTED ACCOUNT
Another item includes the II. c. Frck Coke
Company, with 1900 hands and there
only 500 charcoal. coke and lime burners in the
whole country according 10 the census. this
seems large. 1t is ABOUT the number Of persons
employed by all conc Isrns in the connelsville
region. not only in coke e-making but In the mines.
1t is by such processes these that story Of
increased wages for over 10000 laboring men
was manufactured when the actual numoer of
hands, including women and children. garment
makers. coal and iron miners. hands of street
and steam railroads. dock aborers and city la
borers. does not appear to have been more than
26l 26o. Next II was determined to complete the