The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-03

equal to the 10 per cent gain In ClnCIn.
natl aud the 10 per cent by garment
workers in Philadelphia, who arc said
to number 200. but do not, Certain
" tho addition Of Is per cent for 5000
hands in tailoring establishments IN
Baltimore IL fraud, after the % per
cent the month before to 1000 garment
workers. In these four items 1900
hands are added ton statement purpoTI-
Ing to shaw tho advance in manufacture
ing works, and as to tho proprisLy OF in
Guiding tho advance gained by strikes
against the aWeatshop system there
need be no argument. Probably not
more than a third Of that Number OF
hands was affected Ia tho tnyes cities,
MINERS MuLrlPLIgD.
Another glazing fraud appears In u
statement Of iron mIniug wages in the
Lake Superior region. All the com.
panies OF tho MSsaba range are Included
Ne a body with $4,000 hands, and then
the Minnesota Iron Company, owning
about hall the mines ia that range, with
all ili mines in = separate entry, as
ZOO hands, and this duplication IL II.
aOli duplicated, though with but 1000
hands, and then tho BewAbik niue Is
separately given with 200, and the
Iron Mountain with 800, These rsps.
titions make 2l,7OO men ensaged in
mines which produced not quite ,S0l,'
900 tons last year, and about 2,00J,01J
this year. At Sl75 per hand Tor
this army, the 100000 tons would
cost over s. per ton, though the ore 10
sold more than q thousand milea away
for halt that The foolishness OF the
statement appears when lis noted that
the Beewabik, which produced 10000
ions last yOar, is credited with 200
hands, aud all tho mines Of the Minne-
sofa Iron Company, with an output Of
nearly million tons, also 200, but in
another statement with only a 1000
hands. Tho average output for iron
miners in that region ranges from 500
tons yearly per man in deep mines 10
500 in surface mines, and in the Mesaba
range great part of tho work is done
on tho surface with Gteam shovels, 20
that 5000 hands would DO full estimate
Tor its total output, Ii increased to 1000.
900 tons this year. Beyond that mum.
bar tho additions are all purely fraud,
A separate statement gives the lildun
mine OF the Gogebc range 700 hands
for its output Of 22S l05 tons last year,
which Is also large,
4 CORRECTED ACCOUNT
Another item Includes tho H. G.
Frick Coke Company, with 10. 900 hands,
and as there were only $500 charcoal,
coke aud lime bgraer8 la the whole
country, according to tho censuS, this
SeemS large. II is about the number Of
persons omplIyGi b. all concerns in tho
CounelsvilIu region, not ouly in coke.
making, bni IN tho ninaA IL Is by
such processes as these that a story oil
increased wager for over 10000 labor.
ing men was manufactured, when the
actual number OF hands, including
women aud children, garment.makers,
coal aud iron miners, hands OF street
aud steam railroads, dock laborOrs and
city laborers, does not appear to have
been more than POI 1855. Next 1t was
determined to complete the list as far as
possible, and by searching the best
kAAAH NtAh Ill lllNuN Chhuh hN'
terminlng tho number Of hands approx.
imalelY from the known output OF
works, to ill in corrected statements for
the $50 other establishments" OF
which details arc not given. Data wero
found for l07 OF these, employing about.
II, 92j hands There remain incomplete
statements ot79 concerns, Of which data
could not be found; also Incomplete
statements OF 80 which do not appear
to have any existence, according to tho
latest directories. Thua there were 22j
concerns, after eliminating duplica.
tons, OF which the published list was
incomplete. aud nearly half in number,
certainly far more than half In hands
employed, were traced aud included
under their appropriate Industries.
Thus perfected rs far IS possible, the
list includes 2T3 statements OF wages ad.
yancOd, with number and rate; 70 state.
monts 80 incomplete that they could not
DO included, and fiity.threo OF which no
trace can be found in directories. Tho
273 appear to have employed 3S6,Si0
hands, though Ia some cases where
there IL certainly exagVerAtion tho
numbers given arc included for want OF
data to correct them. Tho rate OF ad.
vance in wages was calculated for zach
establishment, aud the aggregate in.
crease WAS equivalent to an addition Of
"a, 5O2 hands at the former wages, or 10. .
per CEN
1t lie Of especial interest to observe
when these gain took place. ana that
what is called "the rising tide" has not
advanced wages for half as many men
in ANY later month as in June. The
following statement shows the number
OF hands actually gaining in wage. each
month since tho Democratic tariH |
pissed, In each OF the thrOo larger
hranchos, and ia all BRANCHES, tho min.
era and tho swcaiShop wnrknrs inclnI.
oil, aud also the establishments Of which |
data have been found, though not given
in tho original list:
Iron Wool Cotton. Other. Total
septcmber @";; 2Cl 80 "., 2Sl
November. 90 90 see. l,SJJ 200 |
pocambef. 80 ,... a,,, aJg