The age-herald., 1901-08-26

provides.
 To estimate the loss in wages the strik- CTS have suffered Is difficult When for mer President M. M Garland, of the Amalgamated Association, was before the Congressional committee on ways and means some years ago in labor en- quiry, he estimated the average wages of steel workers at $3 per day. Calculating that 10000 men are idle from the present strike, to accept the association's figures, the loss in wages Is $360,OOO per day.
 The total number of men idle up to the declaration of the general strike was es- tlnated at 10000. Those were out twenty eight days before the 5000 others (the associations figures) were rendered idle by the second call of President shaffer and the sympathy strikes that followed. The following table will give an idea of the mems loss:
 Strikers Loss. saOo, 600 per day for nine days ....sS, ,24O, 900 $12o,0OO per day for 2S days ...... 3,300,O00 Total wage loss thus far .$6,6OO,OOO The actual loss in money to the steel corporation is largely problematica1. The following figures are approximately cor rect, making, however. no allowance for the fact that business lost is in many cases merely business deferred
 Steel Corporations Loss.
 Profit on SoO,0OO tons. at BIO ....s 100000 Loss in business and contracts
 (estlmated) ........ ............. 100000
 HsOOOOOo Deduct wages saved .............. 600000 Net loss to trust ................s6 .s6, 100000
 Cost of Strike.
 Loss to merchants and other
 business men (estimated) ...$ COOL 900 Loss in stocks and securities af-
 footed by the strike (estimated) 25oo0.ooO Loss to workers ...........-...... 6000000 Loss to Steel Trust ............... 6,40O.000 Total to date .sS9, ,OOO,O GOO List of Men Affected to August 21. Men out American Tin Plate Co.,. 25,0Oo Men out American Sheet Steel Co 20, GOO Men out American Steel Hoop Co.,. 25. 0O0 National Steel Company .... .. ...... 1000 Mingo Junction ................ 1,5OO National Tube Company ............ @,OOO Elba, Riverside and Republic Iron
 
 Federal Steel, Joliet Bay View ...- 5000 Laborers, stevedores and railway
 men .-....-..- ........--...... 17,OOO
 Total ........ .........................l1
 Recapituiatlon.
 Total men out first order .......... 10000 Total men out second order and
 sympathetic strikes ......... ...... 5000 
 Total to date .......... ........... 120, 900 Total Amalgamated men ...... .... 15,000 l><<-<-<<<<*<<<<< early next week. In that event much corn will be destroyed in the bottoms of Madison, Morgan, Limestone, Marshall and Lauderdale counties. Such rains have seldom occurred in the summer months and the planters of bottom lands are i'll prepared. It will require much activity to get the live stock out of the wood- lands along the Tennessee. river and un- less they are removed the loss will be heavy. The high wind of Thursday night was very destructive to corn.
 From the Scottsboro Citizen.
 The winds and rains of the past week have done much damage to crops in various parts of the state. Madison County suffered severely. The low river bottoms also sustained much damage Early this week the lowlands were par tially flooded and much corn was destroy ed in the bottoms of Morgan, Lime stone, Marshall and Lauderdale Counties The high wind on Thursday nighht was very destructive to corn. Never in the history of the county. say some of the older citizens, has the river reached so high mark at this season of .he year as 1t did the past week. While there has been no loss of life reported the loss to the farmers has been very great. Hun dreds of acres but a few days ago were magnificent fields of corn and cotton were completely submerged and are abmout ruuined. The backwaters got all over the low lands. The malls from across the river have all been more or less delayed. The river is now falling. From the Washington County News: The monster pumpkin of this section was grown by MT. Jas s. Gordy who. judg- ing from the immensity of the one ex- hibited in St. Stephens, would seem to be the king of pumpkin growers-in Wash ington county at least. The pumpkin weighed fifty pounds (no more. no less), and was grown from seed of the ordinary variety with no special claim to assum- ing Large proportions Until some comes forward with a bigger one. MT. Gordy takes the cake as well as the blue ribbon for pumpkin growing.
 Up to the hour of going to press the river is said to be still rising. Some of the crops have been submerged. It is feared a large per centage of the corn and cotton on the lowlands will be de- stroyed. The cutting and hauling out of corn in the green state was begun in the hope that 1t could be cured" and at least a portion of the crop saved; but this was finally abandoned as a futile effort and as labor ill-spent, as the green ears could probably never be sufficiently cured" even for stock feed. The situa- tion Is indeed grave one for our river farmers. Having lost their crops in the spring overfows of last year, and now, after their crops are nearly ready to gather having almost reached maturity. to have them destroyed and swept away is discouraging and disheartening.
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