Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-09
A TARIFF COMPARISON.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIGH TAR.
lFP AND LOW TARIFF.

lFF AND LOW TARIFF.
Continued Waso Reductions Under
High, and Wage Advances Under
Low, Rates-FactsT That Upset Re.
publican Theories and Strike RIO.
publican Editors Dumb.
The Mckinley bill was to be wage.
advancer, mill-opener and prosperity.
producer-so said the protectionists
In 1880. Instead it was wage-re-
Queer, mill-closer and panic .pro-
Queer, although it had the help of
other Republican legislation to pro-
duco the panic. of 1893. Tho whole
mckinley period was one of wage re-
auctions. strikes and riots. Wages
were reduced once. twice or three
times in thousands OF mills With one
exception (The Fall River Cotton
Mills, which advanced wages less than
ten per cent?, there was not, in the
whole four years, wage advance
worth mentioning in any protected in
dustry. Wage reductions began
promptly and continued with increas-
ing rapidity to the end of the period.
Not a week went by without its list of
reductions.
During the first two years the wage
carriers made desperate efforts to re-
sist the wholesale reductions, and at
one time the militia was out in four
different States trying to suppress
labor riots. During the last two
years tho wage earners offered less
resistance, although wage reductions
came thicker and faster. The pro.
tectionists claim that the "shadow of
tho Wilson bill' was responsible for
the trouble of 1898 and 1894, but the
Reform Club in 1892 compiled n list
OF wage reductions in over 1000 pro-
tected mills in 1891 and S92-before
the people had voted to turn the Re
publicans out, Hence, to be entirely
fair, we will compare some of the re-
suits of high tariff in 1S9O-91-92 with
tho results of low tariff since last
August. Here are few of the pro-
tectcd manufacturers who reduced
wnges or closed their mills during tho
first two years of McKinleyism who
have increased wages during the first
ten months of low tariff-both of
these acts being contrary to their pro-
d1ctions and promises.
PROTECTED MANUFACTURERS.
How They We're How They AFRO BE-
Made "Prosner- ing "Ruined" by
ons, by the Nc tho Wilson
BETHLEHEM IRON CO., BEruLEuEM. PA.
May 80, 1895, wages
Doc. }. $780, works advanced II per
closed; lU00 man out. cent: 1000 mon af.
Jan. 20, 1891, wages fccted.
reduced 10 per cont. June Is, 1895, per
alter FEBRUARY l. cent. to 10 per cont,
second Increase.
WASHINGTON WOODEN MILLS, LAWRENCE, MASS.
Disc. 10, 1899, mills April 5, 1885, wages
closed. of 1000 men nd
vnnced.
AcUsHSET MILLS. NEW BEDFORD, MASS
Dee. 20, 1890. spin
oers and back boys Jan. 4, 1895, wages
struck because wages Increased
had been reduced
JOHN CHASE AND Sons, WEBSTER. MASS.
Doe rs, 1890. mill April, 1895, wages
| running on three OF 800 men advanced
quarters time. 10 per cent.
| cAnSEGIE BROS steel. WORKS, HOMESTEAD, PA.
Jan. l, 1891, wages
vcduced per cent.
Feb 81, 1891, 1000
| men out.
April ., 1891, wages
reduced per cent.
Aug. Is, 1891, Open May IA, 1895, wages
Hearth Department advanced 10 per cent
| closed. 800 mon out.
July L, 1892, $500
| men strike against
| heavy wage reduce
| lions. Several weeks
| 81 riot and bloodshed.
ILLINOIS STEEL WORKS, CHICAGO, ILL.
Jan. 8, 1891. work.,
| except blast furnaces
closed; 1900 mon out.
| March G, 1891, $500
men idle-refuse TO
accept reduction. June 20, 1895, wages
July =, 1892, reduce OF 1000 men increased
lion OF 10 per cent; 10 pcr cent.
entire plant shut
| down.
Aug. 3, 1892. men
accept cut of % per
cent.
SANITARY WARE MFG. (porrEnY) TRENTON, n. j.
Jan. 10, 1891, reduc.
ton OF 331G per cent.
| proposed.
April 80, 1891 press
srs reduced % pc, juno 16, 1895, 10 to
cent; men have been 40 per cent. increase.
| on strike many weeks.
May II, 1891, re-
1uced per cent.
LAUdHLIN AND Co., PITTSBURGH. PA.
Jan. 10, 1891, Eliza
furnace closed down. April. 1895. in
Jan. IT. 1891, an crease of 10 10 IL
other furnace closed. cents per day.
May ii, 1891. one stack
idle
bLLLAihE NAIL AND STEEL CO., DELLAIRE, O.
June, 1895, wages
Jan. 10, 1871, idlo OF 1000 men increased
several months. 10 per cent.
Aug. 25, 1892, steel Juno IS. 10 ner
plant idic since July. cent? second in
crease promised
Aug. 1.
IRON WORKS, SHARON, sHARPEsvILLE AND WEST
MIDDLEsEx, Pa
Jan. II, 1891. six
furnaces out OF blast;
20l men idle.
April 3. 1891. Roll May 0. 1895. waoes
ing Mill No. Q closed. of 1900 men In.
Nov. |, 1891, mill creased.
idle some months.
May 8, 1892. two
furnaces to be closed.
PENNSYLVANIA STEEL WORKS, sreELroN, IA.
Jan. II, 1891, after juno 4, 1895. wages
Feb. L, will reduce Of 1000 men In
wages and 10 per creased 10 per cent.
cent