The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-03
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Etp York Tribune. Sptel5sr 90.
So much has been said during the
last six months Of the liSt OF ostab lISh-
mcnts which have raised wages since
tho new tariff went into effect, and it
has been reprinted again and again
with so much display and pretence oI
confidence in tho array Of facts, thGtit
has seemed worth while to give 1t OK
animation. The liHt it is underatood to
have been compiled by irso.trade club
and furnished from time'to time to var
ious newspapers, but the latest aud by
far the most extended liSt, tho one pub
lishod by "Tho New York Herald" on
Labor Day, ssptembor2, was taken as =
basis. Almost at the first glance 1t was
found that the list as whole was
body OF most glaring frauds, and 1t
would well become "Ths Herald'S" rop-
utatIon to expose the name OF the per-
son by whom it has been SO imposed
upon. The nature Of these frauds will
DO readily understood when it is stated
that the Carnegie Company, owning a
large number OF mills in nine separate
establishments and said to employ $1,000
men, is first put down for the full num-
Der, ndthen tho nine different establish.
meuts owned by the company are all
put down separately, making 5000
more men whose wages were advanced.
The Mahoning and Shenango furnaces
are put down once as q body with 1000
hands, the MaEouing separately as hav-
ing 10000, and one Of these, the
Thomas, Of Niles, is given separately
with 500 hands, and again with AIS,
while OF tho Shenango furnaces all the
Newcastle works are entered with 500
aud are repeated. The Wire.nRil works
OF Ohio arc given as a body 5000 hands;
then two OF them, the Salem aud Find.
lay, are separately given twice, each
time with 6,00O. aud again repeated
without number. while the BellRire
works, also in Ohio, are given with 1000
aud three times repeated. and the juno
ton works, OF Mingo Junction, with
500 hands, aud the Bsllaire steol works,
with 500, are also separately given. In
this fashion the Carnegie, Ohio wire.
nail and the Mahoning and ShenRnGo
works, said to have 1000 hands, are
sufficiently repeated to make up an
aggregate OF GS, 475 hands.
But these are only three OF the more
glaring instances OF reduplication. OF
which so many were found that, after
eliminating them, the entire number
OF establishments was reduced moro
than one.third. It was asserted at the
start that there were more than 400"
having "more than 100000 laboring
men," besides 250 other establishments,
OF which the number Of employees was
not given. After omitting ropetitions,
the same concerns being in mRuy cases
given three timeB under the same or
different names, aud in some cases four
tines tho list Of statements showing
both the number OF hands aud rate Of
increase is reduced to $50, and OF those
fourteen could not be found in the best
trade directories OF the business to
which they purported to belong. Tho
l6O concerns, after correction OF other
glaring errors. appear to have employed
2j6,S65 hands, aud tho fourteen no.
where to be found are said TO have H..
l75 hands; in all 27l.041 mon, women
and children, instead Of over 10000
laboriug man, so that $4,000 were add
cd by fraudulent reduplications or glar.
ing exaggerations, Of which details will
DO given.