New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-30
4 FREE TRADE FRAUD EXPOSED.

On or first and second pages Will be found IN
astonishing exposure Of frauds perpetrated py
Free Trade clubs and copied all over the country
by Democratic journals, in pretended Hs'S VI
manufacturing establishments which advanced
wages during the first year under the new 'arii'
These lists will have to be retired for repairs lor
In view of the exposure made. no journal pretend
ing 70 care for truth will either copy or quote
them. For instance, it is shown that the list
includes the Carnegie Company with 1o0Oo
hands MAY II, and on the same day each Oh
nine distinct establishments owned by the Car
nerie Company with 1900 hands In all. 1t IN
cludes all wire nail works In Ohio with Oo"o
hands. and also two Of them with G,OO0 hands
each twice repeated, another with 1000 three
times and two others with 800 each making
% 100 hands out Of 5000. 1t includes all fur
nacos Of the Mahoning and Shcnango valleys
ne having 1000 hands. and then the Mahonng
furnaces alone as having 10000, and the Ma
boning furnaces again. and one OF these win
ooO hands. and another Of them with 500 hands
and again with 475, and the Shcnango furnaces
separately twice, and one OF them WIN 'oo
hands. and again part of them. the Newcastle
furnaces. twice 1t includes the Illinois Steel
Company with 1000 hands, and parts of its works
II includes all the Providence woollen mills, and
then most Of them separately once ana one oi
them three times. Twcnty-scvcn iron concerns
are so repeated as to make ninety-'hree' anu
dozen other woollen mills are repeated some
twice and some three times. The cotton Hills
Of Fall River are all included once, ana thcn III
least three Of them separately; the Lower lac'
tories all and then ut least two separately the
New Bedford factories all, and two OF them scpa-
ratelv: the great Lewiston mills win 4,ooo 10
: 900 hands each are repeated twice, not Ten
DAYS apart besides about dozen cotton ana
silk mills inserted twice each.
These Implications alone swell the list by ABOUT
10000 hands. 1920 in iron manufacture aiohe'
but the fraud goes further. Many Establish
ments are included which are entirely UNKNOWN
TO the best trade directories, and some OF them
are repeated twice or thrice The exaggcrations
in stating the number Of hands employed are
simplv amazing. Thus the Mesaba range with
its output Of about 100000 tons this year, IS
reckoned as having 1900 miners. which by re-
publication is swelled to 21.7OO, and this would
make the ore cost about 81 per ton ut the mines
thouch II has sold ut about 81 30 per ton at
Cleveland. In fact. 800 tons per miner Is Inc
average there, and 5000 men would do the WORK
The cloakmakcrs OF Cincinnati are reckoncd III
"a 600 though the whole number employed IN
all clothing manufacture there is but 1J0Oo
according 10 the census. No less than 10000
hands hired by the sweating system are credited
in four cities. wi-.re there are half as many.
The sheet iron works Of Pttsburg. mostly in
cluded already in separate establishments. are
added in a body as 1000 men, and the tlnplate
workers there as 1900. either statement being
absurdly untrue. The anxiety TO initiate the list
fraudulcntly is so great that hands on NV" steam
railroads and several street railroads are IN
cluded. with dock laborers at Erie and city labor
ers at Joliet. and brickmakers on the Hudson
River reckoned at 10000.
Eliminating fraudulent Implications and OK
aggcratons, it is found that the number OF
establishments OF which facts are given is re-
duced from over 400 TO $50. of which only 166
are found in trade directories, and the number
Of hands employed is reduced from over 100000
to 25S0l5 including coal and iron miners. gar
mcnt makers. railroad and streetcar hands,
briclmakcrs and the like. OF manufacturing
establishments proper the number OF hands re-
naming is about d. 1000 but. in order TO make
the investigation complete, facts about as many
as possible Of the go concerns enumerated. OF
which data were not given, have been ascer-
taincd. thus adding 1925 10 the number or
hands whose wages have been advanced. These
added. the actual increase appears to cover 33l,-
$40 han Is divided as 10 industries and as to time
Of advance as follows: