The record-union., 1895-06-18
RETURNING PROSPERITY.

1t is no longer a matter Of speculation,
doubt or estimation-the upward march
of Unemployment and wage increase is
strong, and the column heavy and fast
moving. The New York Times publishes
list, filling column solid, Of names of
manufacturing firms that have volun-
tarily advanced the rate of wages and
either resumed or enlarged operations.
The list, which is an addition to one
published for the preceding fortnight, is
altogether too long to be reproduced
here, but it is notable that the employees
affected number 10000, and that the in
crease of wages ranges from to 80 per
cent But since the skeptical and the
aDarchistic, such as voted to boycott the
Fourth of July in Oakland and San Fran
cisco, may have proof positive, we list
some of the firms. that these calamity
howlers may have opportunity to prove
the untruth ofthe statement, if they can.
We take the names at random:
Dodge-Davis Manufacturing Company.
fiannels, Bristol, \. H., 20 per cent; Poland
per cent; WilliamstoWn anufacturing COM
pany, l 2 per cent; North POwnal Manufact-
uring Company, Vt, IL per cent; Mills,
North Adams Mass, IL per cent; Merino
Electric Company, Windsor Conn, 10 per
cent; 5. *. Wilson, woolen mill Trenton,
\. j., 10 per cent, 700 employees; Edwards
Manufacturing Company, Augusta, Me-, 10
per cent, 1900 employees; the three cotton
factories in ouncoOK n. H., 900 employees;
Norwalk Mills Company, wooiens, Norwalk,
Conn, 10 per cent; John y. Stearns & Co..
silk manufacturers; Williams port, Penn, /
cent per yard. 400 employees; Paige Tube
Company, Warren, Ohio. 10 per cent; Min
nesota Iron Company, operating all the IRON
ore mines on the Nernillon Range. 10 per
cent; Oil City Tube Mills and Oil City
Boiler Works, Oil City, Pa, 10 per cent,
/ 900 men, Hamilton and Ludington Mines,
Iron Mountains Mich; the Nichols Mill
Tarkiln, K. L; Morristown Wooen Company
Morristown, Pa, 10 per cent; Union Mills
Moosup, Conn; National Tube Works and
Rolling Mills, Mcheesport, Pa, increase of
10 per cent, 1000 employees Riverside Iron
Company, Wheeling. W. Va, increase of
o per cent, 1900 employees; Wheeling Steel
and Iron Company, Wheeling, w. Va, in
crease of ! 6 per cent, restoring the old rates,
$500 EN- plOyeS: cOatmakers in Baltimore,
an increase of from 20 to so per cent, 1000
Workmen MoOrhead Brothers, iron manu-
facturers, PittSburg, Pa advance of 1 0 cents
per ton to puddiers; Sligo Iron Works, Pitts
burg, Pa, advance of 40 cents per ton to
puddlers; foundries i'll Cleveland, Ohio,
wages of 500 mOlders Increased by 10 per
cent: Thomas Furnace Company, Niles Ohio
increase of D per cent, a restoration of the
old wages; iron furnaces IN the vicinity of
New Castle, Pa, former wages restored" on
Nav 2d, 1.-The total reductions had aggre-
gated 80 per cent" 500 men; Walthan
Bleachery, Waltham, Mass, increase of 10
per cent being Il restoration of the rate; the
Carnegte Steel Company, nearly l ), 600 men
employed at the Edgar Thomson Furnace
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Duquesne
Steel Works, Homestead Steel Works Lucy
Furnaces. keystone Bridge Works Upper
Union Mills Lower Union Mills and Beaver
Falls Mills increase of 10 per cent; AmerI-
can Iron Works at PittSburg, voluntary in
crease of 10 per cent. on May 10th, 200
employees affected; Biwabik Ore Company,
iron ore mines in MeSaba Range, increase OF
10 per cent; Moorhead Brothers, NesuVIus
Iron Works, Sharpsburg, Pa. increase of 10
per cent; Pencoyd Iron Works, West Mama
yunk, Pa, increase OF 10 per cent, 5000
men.
Whether these restorations, resump-
tious and advances are due to the Demo-
cratic adjustments of the tariff, to recent
Republican successes, to absolute neces-
sity for resupplying depleted stocks, to
batter understanding Arrived at between
employes and manufacturers, cuts no
figure in the consideration we have in
mind. and which relates solely to the fact
that prosperity is returning. Why it is
so may be considered secondarily. along
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