The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-01-31
STRONG APPEAL
OF WORKINGMEN
Goes Unheeded by the
Trust Magnates.
SOME MORE PLAIN EVIDENCE
Of How Protection" Does
Not Protect the Strug-
CLING Workers.
EXAMPLE OF THE ARGUMENT
Especial Correspondence. }

Washington, Jan. 27.-Here is
some more evidence of how PRO
lection" does not protect the work
ingman.
The following is an extract from
an appeal sent by the $1,000 men,
women and children striking textile
workers at Lawrence, Mass, to VIM.
M. Wood, president of the Wooden
Trust.
I'VE are of the opinion that you
have had ample time to consider the
demands of the men, women and
children who have made the Amer
lean Wooden Company what it is to-
day. In view of the fact that ma
chinery has been improved, the
workers turn off more and more
work, but they are not paid accord
ingly, even though the price of food,
clothing and shelter has in many
cases increased so and even 100
per cent. within the last few years.
1--WE, the committee, are willing
to meet the officials of the company
at any time and submit the griev-
ances of the strikers. So if you be-
lieve in a square deal, you will not
refuse to meet with us, but will
come forward at once and try to
bring the trouble to 2 final conclu-
Cfnn Won hnnp In,
fact that these men, women and
children have not gone on strike
for light or transient causes, but be-
cause they could no longer bear up
under the burdens laid upon their
shoulders. The American Wooden
Company has within the last few
years built several mills, which are
paid for, according to your own fig
ures, and the company has even in
the worst of times managed to pay
dividends.
The workers are Of the opinion
that the only competition left is the
miserable job at Sc, 81 or IS
week"
This is how Schedule x pro
tects" the workingman, solely for
whose benefit the Payne-Aldrich
bill according to Payne and Aid
rich) was passed!
Since the protectionists admit
that Schedule X, which places a
heavy tax on every article of wool
en- clothing sold in the United
States, was designed solely to ben
eft the workingmen in the wooden
industry, and since the Sc, 81 and
$S wages paid by the Wooden Trust
demonstrates beyond successful
that Schedule X does
not protect the workers, why should
the American people longer tolerate
X?
Whenever an American Trust
wants the tariff tax increased, it
bases its plea on the argument that
American manufacturers cannot
compete with the cheap labor of
Europe"
In eleven months of last year the
exports of iron and steel products,
together with agricultural imple-
ments and freight and passenger
cars, amounted to nearly $27O,OOO,-
000-an increase of about $54,-
100000 over the corresponding pc
riod of 1910.
These materials are exported
from this country to all parts of the
world, in the face of the competi-
ton of England, Belgium, Germany
and France. The Steel Trusts for
eign competitors had the advantage
Of that ''cheap labor" which the
trusts pretend to fear so greatly
whenever a proposal is made to
lower the tariff. Yet the Trusts
trade in foreign markets is con-
on the increase. How much
longer will the American consumers
allow themselves to be fooled by
the Trust 'logic?"