New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-30
PRICE THREE CENTS.
WAGES.
ASTOUNDING FRAUDS IN PUBLISHED
STATEMENTS.

MANY AMAZING OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
INFoRMATIoN-IN ALI. S3Gso HANDS
GAIN TEN PER CENT THE LAST YEAR.
I So much has been said during the last six
months of the list OF establishments which nave
/ raised wages since the new tariff went into erect
and IL has been reprn ted again and again with so
much display and pretence OF confidence In the ar
ray Of facts. that ii has seemed worth wnie 10
give 1t examination. The list is UNDERSTOOD 10
have been compiled by free-trade club and rur-
nIshed from time to time 10 various newspapers
but the latest and by far the most EXTENDED iis''
! the one published by the New-York Herald on
| Labor Day. September 2. was taken as OASIS.
Almost at the first glance 1t was found that the
! list as a whole body of most glaring frauos.
and it would we'll become The Herads" reputa-
! ton to expose the name Of the person by whom 1t
| has been so imposed upon. The nature OF these
frauds will readily understood when II Is stated
| that the Carnegie Company, owning large num-
| Der OF mills in nine separate establishments ana
said employ $1,000 men, is first put down FOR the
full number and then the nine different establish
ments owned by the company are all put down
separately making $1,000 more men whose wages
were advanced. The Mahoning and Shenango fur
naces put down once as a body with 2Wo
hands. the Mahoning separately as having 10000.
and one Of these. the Thomas. Of Niles is given
while OF the Shenango furnaces all the Newcastle
works are entered with 500 and are repeated The
wre-na works Of Ohio given as a body. 5000
hands: then two OF them, the Salem and Finday.
are separately given twice. each time with 5000.
! and again repeated without number while the
Bellaire works, also in Ohio are given with l,ooo
and three times repeated and the Junction works
of Mingo Junction With 500 hands. and the Bell
aire steel works. with 500, are also separately
given. In this fashion tie Carnegie. Ohio wire-
nail and the Mahoning and Shenango works. said
to have 900 hands. are sufficiently repeated 10
| make I'D an aggregate OF 6s,475 hands.
But these are only three OF the more glarns
instances Of reduplication. OF which so many were
found that after eliminating them the entire
number Of establishments was reduced more than
one-third If was asserted al 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 repettions the same concerns be-
ing in many cases given three times under the
| same or different names, and in some cases four
! times the list of statements showing both the
number Of hands and rate Of Increase Is reduced
to $780, and of these fourteen could not be found in
the best trade directories Of the business to whlch
they purported to belong The 166 concerns, atter
correction Of other glaring errors. appear to have
!
found are said have A. IFS hands: in all 21lo4o
men, women and children. instead Of over 100000
laboring men, so that 149 900 were added by fraud
uent reduplications or glaring exaggerations, OF
which details will be given.
IRON WORKS REPEATED.
Besides the important cases above mentioned IN
the iron and steel industry, the Corsondateu
Wire Nail Company is given, with works In AL
entown Pittsburg, Joliet Lockport. Ill, and St.
Louis. aggregating $50 hands. and then the Al
entown. Joliet Iockoort and st. Louis works
are separately given again and tho Pttsburs
works unde: the name Of the Rankin, and the
wire nail works OF Anderson, Ind. with 1000
hands are added twice The Sloss Coal and Iron
| Company of Tennessee appears twice. with 5ooo
hands and Der cent each time; the Bethlenem
twice with 1000 men. and in this case second
increase Is counted. though 1t would be obviously
improper to include 1000 hands; the Cleveland
foundries given. ana afterward the mouiders
of Cleveland: the Columbia, of Lancaster, with
JOc men, is given twice the same date; the Na-
tional Tube Works of NewBrunswick are IN
cluded twice the Conschohocken twice. the
American Of Youngstown twice. the Lebanon
Bolt Works twice and the Lebanon works three
times once with 300 and again with 1000 hands;
the Catasauoua are included with 400 and again
300 and again at the same rate; the Hecksher
works once June 2s with 200 and again July l.
with 300 The Illinois Steel Works are included
May 49, and again June 90. with 1000 men. ana
again July 81 with 500. ana again July with 900
The Moorehead Works. OF Pittsburg are included
twice: also the Brooks Iron Works and the Al
tOona the Lindsay and McCutcheon works IN
Nav and I'm June each time 80 l-3 per cent; the
Maryland Steel Works in June with 1000 and In
July with 700 hands: the Riverside OF wheeling
with 200 I'm May and again In June with 400:
the Reading works with 800 June |, 800 June ..
$50 June % and $50 August /; the Sharon works
with 1900 In May apd 1000 In August the Al
toona twice and the John Wood twice with 1000.
and the Alan Wood twice.
But after all this, and after Inducing about
every concern making sheet-iron about Pittsburs
either once twice or three times. "sheet-iron
workers Plttsburg. $1,000" are added. To take
a single instance. this includes five OF the works
Of the Carnegie Company already mentioned
twice, which make steel sheets and plates. and
50 OF others. And as II this was not enough.
there is also added "tinpIate workers Pittsburg.
f2 0OO"; but It Is quite unnecessary t. say that
there are not that many tinplate workers in
Western Pennsylvania and most Of those are
included unGer separate establishments But
this sort Of padding all through the list
The twenty bar mills. Pittsburg ana ONO ap-
, pear as II these not the works already
enumerated. After eliminating all obvious repe-
. titions though some not detected probably re-
main. the increase In the iron and steel industry
is still magnificent little over 10 per cent ga.r
in wages for IA $50 hands during the year out o
59S 7lo employed I'm all branches OF the industry
! according TO tho census Of Ave years ago. About
, a quarter of the hands have gained 10 per cen
from the extreme pros,ration OF 1894 according
, to the list Yet this industry advanced tn
wages OF more hands than all other manufact
ures put together according to the labored state
ment prepared by the free trade clubs becaus
an advance Of SO per cent In average prices o