The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-02

ings company, employing 900, have
both advanced wages, and other Cleve~
| land firms are proposing to do the
same. The president of the Eberhardt
company in making announcement Of
the advance says: when business
was dull we were compelled TO make
a reduction The prospects are bright
er now, and it is no more than proper
that the men should be given the ad-
vantage of the situation The rolling
mill CT Wood & Bros. at Consho-
hocken, has Increased the wages of its
worknen u per cent. Fully LOCO are
affected. The firm states the business
outlook was never better than at
present.
The Engineering and Mining Jour-
nal announces that:
A raise of 10 per cent in wages has
been announced by the Howard-Har rl-
son Iron Company, of Bessemer, Ala.
The management of the Pennsyl-
yania Bolt and Nut Works Company,
at Lebanon, Pa, has announced a 10
per cent increase in wages in the pud-
ding and rolling mill departments, to
take effect July LIST. More than 800
employees will be affected.
The rolling mills of John Wood &
Brother, of Conshohocken, Pa, have
given notice to their employees of the
restoration of the former scale of
wages, to take effect July 1st. This
means an increase of u per cent.
The Illinois Steel Company has given
official notice that on July 1 10 per
cent increase will be made in the
wages of employees of the Joliet works,
except those working on a sliding
scale.
The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
advanced wages 10 per cent in all de-
partments June Is. The advance was
voluntary.
The Cohoes IN. " Rolling Mill en-
! ployeeS, whose wages were reduced
! year ago, commenced work on June
18th on the former schedule. The
| puddlers received an advance of from
$3.50 to SO ton.
A Pittsburg paper commenting on
the increase of the iron industry in
Pennsylvania, makes the following re-
marks:
But it is too big a work to recapitu-
late the individual instances in wages.
Since the middle of April not less than
300 manufacturing establishments have
! reported increases, and it is within
bounds TO say that 500, 900 Workmen
have been benefited. This would rep
resent dependent population of con-
flying thing about these advances is
that with very few exceptions they
have been granted voluntarily by en-
ployers, and strikes are exceedingly
rare. The Cleveland manufacturer
quoted put the whole matter in nut
she'll when business was dull" he
said, Eve were compelled to make
reduction. but prospects are brighter
now, and it is no more than right that
the men should be given the advantage
of the situation"
AT the risk of disturbing the diges-
ton of our near contemporary, and ex-
citing it to the use of those favorite
explosives to which it resorts when
unable to reply with arguments, we
remind our readers that all these i'm
provements in business and in wages
have come as the ''calamities'' that
were to follow the passage of the
Wilson law, and as legitimate conse-
quences of Democratic tinkering
with the tariff" Every Republican
prediction of woe as the fruits of tariff
reform have utterly failed, and the
results of Democratic tariff legislation,
even in this short time, have demon
strated that it's opponents were COM
pletely in the dark.