The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-28
PLANT OF GLASS WORKERS.
Want More Protection, But Are AL
ready Milking Enormous Profits.

Want More Protection, But Are AL
ready Making Enormous Profits.
The manufacturers of window glass
decided two or three days ago that,aII
the factories should be closed on Nav
20. 1t has been customary heretofore
/ to close the factories during the
months Of July and August. This year
work is to be suspended one month
/ earlier, and there seems to be SOME
j doubt as to whether the plants Will be
opened again promptly on Septeunbef 1
Inc action taken by the combinations
winch control the industry will affhct
about $4,000 employees, and in June i've
snail hear all the tariff organs crying
/ out thai the glaSS-makers have been
ruined by the Democratic tariff, AL
though the duties in that tariff upon
al sizes Of glass larger than 16x24
AhcheS exceed 100 per cent ad vaIorem-
we snall also near a great deal about
Hood" Of imported window glass.
although the official reports (Statisti-
cal Abstract OF the United States, page
ZzS) show that the value of the cyiin-
der, crown and common window glass
imported in the fiscal year 1895 Ghe
hrst fiscal year of the new tariff was
only $780, as against 81 O67 7ST fOr
the last year 1888 of the Mckinney
tariff. and an annual average of S1.5iS.-
Isl for the first three years of that
.Wlsest and 0raYest of tariff laws yet
framed"
Before the partisan outcry about the
conditions of the window glass indus
try begins to be heard throughout the
land we desire to invite attention ito
the following remarks in the National
Glass Budget of the 18th inst. a iollr-
nal of the glass industry published in
Pittsburg:
The price of domestic (vfindo1vl
glass must be kept at such figure
that the worst equipped and poorest
managed mis1it factory can keep its
neck above water, and unfair prices
must be squeezed out of the horne
builders, who consume annually he
tween 0G0 and 1000, 600 boxes of
domestic glass. in order to be able to
fritter a portion of it away in q DIFF
ferential in the shape of a bonus TO
jobbers in a vain attempt to keep otIt
100000 or 100000 boxes, the Importation
OF which has been invited induced
and made possible by the short-sighted
makeshifts and penurious policy Of
American manufacturers themseIvesJ
And with these incontrovertibae
facts before them and the country. one
will be compelled to hear from now till
next November hoarse-throated shouts
for Mckinley and protection TO home
industry on the part of manufacturers
and Workmen; protection against tie
more progressive and Superior.y
equipped Belgian manufacturers; pr5-
lection against growing imports, made
necessary by shut-downs at homA;
protection to give suck to the 'bab4s
who have the best and cheapest futl
and the worst factories on earth: pro- ,
lection to 1000 blowers, largely of for
eign birth, who are earning from four
TO ten times as much as the averade
American mechanic and craftsman, so
as to keep the ga, 000, 900 people constant
contributors and tribute payers TO
three of the most short-sighted COM
bines' that ever grew fat at the Ell
pense of the unprotected common peg
pie who foot the bills"
This is very Jlain talk and it combs
from a weekly journal of the glass il
dustry, published in the city which
may be called the headquarters of that
industry and Of Pennsylvania McKfn-
leyism. The Budget also speaks de
'the domestic manufacturers" wh;.
"by their very combination" aA
forced to hold glass at such a point
as viii allow the worst situated, most
crudely equipped and poorest mani
aged factories to keep ahoat, and con !
stantly build bikes so that not a single
farthing from all the tank improvd-
ments, mass production, mechanical
handling of raw materials and the
economies resulting from the applics-
ton Of labor-saving machinery, which
has so markedly distinguished the past
decade shall ever dribble out to the
consumer. New York Times.