The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-06-18
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POSITION on LABOR
UNIFIED STATES TWELFTH AN:
NUAL CENSUS BULLETIN.
Wages Lower in, His Factory During
Prosperous Times Than During the
Depression-Figures That Do Not
Lie-His Views In Opposition to
Labor 4::

Mr.. D. M. Parry's position as presi-
dent Of these three organizations: :
LIST, National Association of Manu-
facturers.
End, Citizens,: Industrial Association
of America. -.
3rd, One Of the largest, if not the
largest, carriage works In the world.
His views in opposition to union la
Dor rules and it's business agents has
induced us to give some time and
thought to the industry in which he is
personally and prominently identified.
Twelfth Annual census Bulleting, No.
241, dated August Sth, 1902, pertains
to facturers-carriage and wa
CONS. We have: tried to be fair in get
ting the average conditions from table
4.
In 1890 eight states had: over 200
establishments, = cnamely New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan,
Missouri, Indiana and Massact ftsetts.
In 1900 Wisconsin, New Jersey, Cali
fornia and Iowa also had over 200 es-
Establishments, or IL, states in all.
In Indiana the average yearly salary
Of salaried officials, clerks, ETC., in
1890 was $786, and in 1900 1914, or an
increase of $16S per year between 1890
and 1900 while the average yearly
wages Of the wage earners was $432
in 1890 and $425 in 1900, or decrease
of 81 per year between 1890 and 1900.
Those figures should furnish some
food for reflection for those who ad-
mire the great carriage manufacturer
Of Indiana in his efforts to tell of the
good or bad traits of organized labor.
Since he commenced his agitation for
| the abolition of labor's business
agents and the establishment of open
shops hundreds of thousands in this
| country have had their wages cut, and
brought condition that reminds us
| of Scotlands pet poet who said:
| MANS inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn"
The manufacturers in Indiana paid
the smallest yearly wage in 1890 of
the IL states noted. And yet was it
a just or covetous policy that caused
a further reduction? Mrs. Etherbert
Stewart is quoted in the International
Wood Worker as saying: 1.-THE woman
who weds man with an income OF
nine dollars a week must possess
courage greater than that Of the war
rior, for she must know the struggle
of establishing a family on such re-
sources will be bitter" Yet the aver
age weekly wages Of the wage-earners
herein noted was less than $40 pei
week in 1890, and in 1900, during the
reign of King Prosperity, even less
We are of the opinion that in the worst
days of the Irish tenants, or American
lslavery, the producers received as much
j, of the wealth they created as those
wage workers did, as in 1890 the value
Of the product exceeded the total sal
aries, wages, cost of material and mis-
cellaneous expenses over $1,689, 1855 and
in 1900 over $1,74Q,487.
! Just think of the skill and strength
required to work in any department
of a carriage shop or factory. Anc
from a Fatherhood Of God and Broth.
erhood of Man view ask your own minc
are those conditions anything like just
to the wage earners be they organized
or otherwise? If those wage Garner:
had what Mr.. Parry don't want, tina
is business agent for each 1000 O.
less of them, they would command
more respect and higher wages thai
heretofore from those who emplo,
them and thereby leave better condi
ton for their children and those VIII
follow them.