Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-17

Disaster Marks che Aaweak - xAe 40
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Disaster Marks the Advent - 1eaR 49,
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The ST Louis Post Dispatch reminds
the Democrat that IN its issue
o. October 10 II declared that @inEnedi-
aeefv after the election business boom
Ike that which started vita the re-
sumption Of gold payments N 1879 VIII
set in Another leading republican
editor said- ~The people await tbs
night OF November for the wires %
sersd thrill through the country that
VIII set in motion the millions CT men
now idle How were these prophecies
and promises fulfilled
For few weeks after election. ar
though the wave OF prosperity cid not
appear, employers. self-deluded buf ex-
pec1ant, made No cuts IN wages and
kept their forces Of men Then. finding
that trade did not revive. that capital
did not come forth from its hiding
places. and that confidence had not
been restored, numbers Of employers
and corporations began the process Of
reducing wages and curTaiEing expenses
that Is inevitable under the gold stand
ard. and the process has been going
On ever since Here are few OF the
reductions reported. and which are
enumerated by the Post Dispatch show
ing how prosperity came"
Beginning promptly with the new
year the following firms cut wages or
shut down their works. in many cases
forcing their employees into strikes
Illinois Steel company, cut wages:
Horn Coal company. DuQuoin. IL. cut
wages; Mueller & Hellman's Shoe COM
panr- cut wages; Maple Hill mines, Bar
ton. O.. strike; Massillon. O.. mines, cut
wages. Niedringaraus rolling mills, St.
Louis, cut wages American rattan
works. cut wages Bridge & Beach.
s1oTemakers, reduced number of en-
paoyes and cut wages: Tudor iron mills,
East St Louis. shut down: Panhandle
mine. Pittsburgh mining district. be-
longing 10 Mark Hanna. cut wages 10
starvation point. Keystone rolling mil
and other plants at Pittsburgh. IN which
Mark Hanna IS interested. cut wages
Old Dominion Copper company Globe,
A. T. shut down; keb mines, 0Etumwa.
Ia. imported colored miners 10 take the
places of white strikers: Belleyine nail
mills. cut wages; Westinghouse Air
Brake company, cut wages; Tennessee
Coal and Iron company, cut wages
Rockford, Ill cooper shops. cut wages,
forcing . lockout; 5ouTneyman horse
shoecs. Of ST Louis, on strike for scale
wages: building trades workers Of Chi
cago. forced 10 strike 400 miners At
Jellco. XIV. forced 10 strike: $500 min
ers In Tennessee struck against reduc-
ten: Thurnond mines. West Virginia.
cn4 down wages Of 5000 miners 900
sai1ors in New York forced 10 strike
against starvation wages; SanooxaA,
Ill. mines closed indefinitely
Besides this, on January s, the police
and charity organizations reported TO-
coo men idle in St Louis and at least So
600 in dire need Of food. clothing and
fuel. The Illinois legislature took Of
fetal notice recently Of the fact that
the coal miners OF the state were s1arT-
] inr. and ordered an investigation And
every few days some poor wretch has
fallen out of the ranks Of the destitute
and despairing by ending his own lie
This is how prosperity came as the
result of NeKinley's election What
! would the people not give for another
/ chance at the Advance Agent Of Pros
Derftx."-nIinois State Register