Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-17
A C0MPENSATING WAGE
Baker Answers Hepburn and
Flags the Trusts.
A PROSPERITY WINDBAG PRICKED

~ MOI Ultl " lNODhU RlOA L.
The REAL Truth About the Conditio,
of Labor In This Country-Not Tru,
That There IL Work For All - !
80 tompensnting Wage" That Hn'
TuIlcu Bcisind COST of Living
Several Democratic congressman hav,
tlhcn congressman Hepburn Of low.
- task tor his reckless and unfouude5
assertions on Nov 10 that
"'rh're is labor in every part Of t..
country for very man who wants .
2tpe 10 work, and there is a eoHl~hn
aflas wage for eycry nan 40 x =
2eaiarln Il days work
Eist ms other eoagre~~ man has mse5
NJ Hepburn and his Statements a
pear quite as ridieulons To rsa H.
tarHs. rs did Congre essman EaI"r
I'feelziyaH in his maiden Speee.lI II cor
&reSs. Tho following is II part Of !.
ooturaa report Of Nr Bakers spec
It's it appeared III flle N"@ York Tim
O bee b.
"I> tAerr any mau, eN"n upon the I,
publican Side" he ASKED, las we :"
growing up gigantic fortunes aino.
beyond calculation and in our greal
cities hundreds of thousands OF il
lividuals who scarcely know Whpr
h,j l,rn [, faN ST = I
morning. who will pretend that thea.
hundreds of thousands Of individuals
who have none of the wealth OF the
world have received compensatin1 :
wages for their toll?
"Compensatlng W ges, we are told, eX-
list for every man who desires to work,
and yet the evidence was brought out
before the coal strike commission that
under the system of slavery that eX-
listed in the anthracite coal regions OF
PENNSYLVANIA persons had worked for
fourteen years and never received one
solitary penny in wages.
cardinal Gibbons says Of the per,
sons employed in the clothing indus
try in Baltimore: They are living on
starving wages The result is that III
a few years they become incapacitate0
for work When they become incapac
itated for work, where are they goine
to receive the cotNpensatinS wages tha
are to support til IN:
This condition is not unique L ~
in nay own city Of New York for HeA1lN
two years men have come to my lome
almost every day to ask mo for what
little influence | have to get them q
lob in the city parks. That pays 50 pes
day, but a foreman in that department,
tells me that on an average the mel
only work four days week.
These men are begging for an op,
to earn IS a week i'll til2
great city Of New York, where rents
are so high, where prices have been ln-
creased in this period Of prosperity
where trusts have been able to sQuetZ
labor down and raise prices up.
The cost of living has gone up 81 per
cent during this period of 50 called
and, at the best, wages have
not gone up more than 10 per cent A
loupcnsating wage, Is it conpen-
satng wage that gives to the toller one,
fourth OF the increase and makes him
pay the whole Increased cost of his
I'm the great state of Iowa fHep-
burns State,, where We are told every
man has his bank account, he declar
I'd, tho farm laborers do not recriN"
in wages as much as the mileage that
IS paid to the gentleman from Iowa to
congress.
A gentleman who at the time of tn"
great labor trouble at Homestead waa
very careful to remain secluded at
Skibo castle, who was very careful not
to respond TO cablegrams sent him
asking him To use his influence to see
that the struggle should be ended. An
drew Carnegie, has Il great deal TO say
about the .benetieaDt system instituted
by the United States Steel corpora9 .nn
which Is called their bonus, for their
employees,
Says Andrew Carnegie, In the bo-
nus granted to employees "" >;fT
ptooi Vi ttEdlu iol tlltlH NiisH 'aiilio,
but tell, and the distribution Of >hu:f :
in the concern has an aavartagp w ieh
SO far even no partnership has enjoy ID :
Yes. Never before in any large Way,
on any large scale has an industrial!
corporation been able to foiSt Upon -
workmeu stock at S2la which sells to-
day In New York at o233s -
The Hanna Plan OF Redcmption
When Senator Hanna made his spec.