The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-31

Corners information is secured under prom
Use of the strictest secrecy as to individual
reports, and he has not violated this prom
ise To have the assertion that he had
violated this promise go out uncontradicted
would greatly impair the value or the Sta
tiStical Bureau
Further than that the author of your
editorials in your issue of Oct. 2S and 20
has willfully mistated the facts both times.
No sane man could read the fourth page of
the folder referred to and actually con-
strue it to mean anything other than that
the wage scales of the factories named had
been advanced as stated in other words,
that in the case of the American Tin Plate
Company, of Elwood its workmen are now
receiving $4,000 month, which is 10 per
cent. more than these 1,S00 employees would
have received under the scale in force in
1894, if it had remained in force. until now:
1t is not true, as you assert, that any OF
the employees of the companies named have
had a reduction in their wages, and to go
even further l can assert that out of some
fifty or sixty factories l have visited or
have received written reports FROM there
is rot one in which there has been a re-
duction in wages since 1894 If should say
to any one that a factory employing one
hundred men at 81 day had advanced its
wages 10 per cent no man would construe
that to mean that ten men had been added
to its force, or that 100 men had been added
and the wages of all cut to 81 a day, yet
that is just what you have done.
Furthermore, it is unfair to assume that
because the average pay in the American
tin plate works is $44.44 a month that tin
plate and rolling mill workers receive only
this amount. The 1900 employees of this
company include several hundred boys and
girls and many women labOrers who are
paid only laborer's wages, while many of
the skilled workers receive three or four or
even five times the average pay making
their pay nearly double what the same
class of labor gets in Wales at the present
time
This letter was sent to the Sentinel, and
any paper with desire to do justice to all
would have printed it. The Sentinel could
then have made any comments on the letter
1t wanted to- but that would not serve the
purpose of the Sentinel, for to have printed
this letter would have explained to its read
ers the fallacies of its own statements.
EVEN OMITTED A LINE.
But that is not all. There is further and
ample evidence that the Sentinel could not
simply have mistaken the meaning of the
second table printed above. 1t did not at
any time reproduce the line under the table
with an asterisk referring to like asterisk
in the table. This line says: Tucker &
Dorseys report says the increase is from
10 to Is per cent" This line would have put
the lie to the whole argument of the Sen
tinel, for 1t shows to any one that the per
and not of the total payroll, for of the
latter there would be no doubt and ii would
be expressed in u definite term, while,
was the case here, some men In a factory
ers received increase of less, running
down as low as 10 per cent.
, Then again. there is another table in the
folder that plainly shows the fallacy of the
page of the folder. and is called the
Fourth Dose" 1t follows in full:
FOURTH DOSE
From the forthcoming report of John B. Conner
state statistcian:
Wages Paid. Increase.