The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-24
DAVIS AND THE GLASS INDUSTRY

ID DAVIS AND TUE GLASS INDUSTRY &
We have shown very clearly how the votes Of Congress-
imam Davis on the tariff schedules were cast against the pros
pey of our tin mills and the welfare Of the men employed
therein.
We have shown upon the testimony of the highest author
y that had not President Taft vetoed the metal bill it would
have become law and would have forced ClaFsbgs lar
qeSt SinuIe industry to close down.
we have pointed out day after day, how such calamity
as this would have affected every man, woman and cFha CALI
# IS onv necessary to remark in passing, that in the
seven years that the Phillips Tin Plate Company has been doing
business in this city, 1t has paid out in wages nearly So 400
1000 That money went into the pockets OF the people OIL
IGlaFkSburg.
contributed TO the growth wealth and busting prosperity Of
our people and show equally striking manner how dan
protective feature in tariff to continue 70 represent-oFi
rather msreHresenthe tariff views OF great majority OF
the people residing within the great industrial empire compS
ing the First Congressional district.
We refer to the glass industry. ,.
This important factor in our industrial emInencehaS oe
veoped within twelve years. The Laayette WINDOW GIasS
Company the pioneer. It vas followed by the Peerless
Tuna, West Fork, Travis CarSburg Wmdo" GiaSS the up
aeseent, HazeI-Attas and Ovens companies.
Approximately 200 are employed N these glass
factories you estimate for yourself ABOUT now EaE
and children are dependent upon feT STEADY employ
ment at good wages for their homes and happiness. 49,.
The initial investment of the first plants was ToFe tla
half million dollars and the annual paid out to men EN-
ployed amounts 10 approximately $500 600 annually:
This money like the money paid out to our IN mn! WORK
ers is money that stays al home-money that cTcuateS
The value OF these industries 10 any community Is e4do 70
the money paid out in wages.
The men employed in the glass factories work
age 1872 hours week as AGAINST 90 hours week py hea
felow-Vvorkers in European glass factories.
They earn as high as $40 week here, while abroad taef
highest wage is SIC and as low as 81 week:
The cost of living, according to Edor hearst is as fhgt
IF not HIGHER, abroad than It is here
But foreign Wornen in this industry do not pretend 1o
live as the men in the glass factories here do
The American standard of living for It's IaboFIng class IS
the highest in the world Il ought to be- tor American aoor9
men are the highest paid iabornq men in the world
The protective tariff made i So ~.
There is no business which needs protection more than
The GLASS business The smallest tariff changes AFFECT from
the highest skilled man to the commonest abore aoout e
works. ,;..+ +i4.E
This business is sensitive to even the slightest udesi
that flow and breeZeS that blow IN the trade seas
This business is in direct competition with foreign manu-
featured goods. Prices annually liked wage scales TOT
mIated and contracts made with terrific foreign compet
lion ever before the who the captains OF this great
industry 49,
Almost every labor trouble in glass factory has as s
basis the fierce competition of foregn-made goods
There is such wide difference in the cost OF productol
here and abroad that the foreigner can and does snip over his
glass products, pays the tariff and completes with us IN our
own home markets. ;,.. ..ss
And RIGHT there is where you seeat vital thing tariff
is TO This industry and to the men employed in It,
Right there, is where you cannot he out see e ua
Ger of haVinu Congress, the majority OF the emoerS e.
which opposed to the principle OF protecuon laying ou
tariffs.
will learn nothing from experiences who VIII NOT go 10 MS OWL
front door and look out upon city OF factories DoT eae!
and nourShed by the application OF the poIeCuVe Tariff u
by nothing else He is blind to the employment gwen ana me-
hqh standard of living maintained r,I
Mr.. Davis voted against our glass INDUSTRY as ne Hu
auanst our tin plate Industry He does not believe that the
labor there employed should have consideration IN laying tar
ifs To him. to have mind the PROTECTION OF labor IN lay