Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-03-13

the mills of free trade England:
In England, full time per week.
Men. g..
Spinners-$9.50-$12. &c.
Twiners-$9. 1901.
Warpers-$7.5 so.
Weavers (two looms)-$5.50.
Weavers -four looms)-$6.50.
Big piecers- 500.
Women.
Adults (average)-$5.00. -
Girls (average)-s375
In Lawrence, full time, per week.
-- Men.
Spinners$5. 10-7.70
Carders-$6. 00-8 90.
Combers-s5.10-7.70. ~
Drawers-$5. OO-7.70{
Cop spinners-S5.10-7.70.
Twisters-S5. OO16.1O
Mule spinners-$5. 00-14.50.
Weavers az looms)-$10.00.
Women. -:
Combers (adults)-$5.1
Drawers (adults)-$5.0 90.
Cop spinners-$5.1O.
Twisters-$5.00.
Warp spoolors (girls)-$5t50.
Different systems are used in the
two countries, but where q direct
parallel can be drawn the rate OF
pay Is shown to be In favor of the
English workman. The American wool
en- trust pays its weayers by the
piece, and this makes his average
for attending looms about SO cents
per loom, whereas in England the
same sort of workman, for attending
two looms, receives $3.50 per week.
or s2.75 per loom,
The wooden trust is the most
highly protected OF all the trusts.
1t has shouted this cry of Cheap for
eign labor" so long that many peo-
PIE have come to think that the
workers in American mills, working
under what the trusts call the "Am-
erican standard, are magnates be
sides their low paid English breth-
ern. The reverse is true. The wool
en- trust wants protection for the
sole reason that though protection II
Is saved from foreign competition,
and thus left free ito gouge the Amer
lean consumer at will. The workmeu
in the trust mills, meanwhile, are
given no share Of these enormous
profits which the trust takes from
the people
The experts who probed the affairs
CT the steel trust in behalf OF the
Staney Investigating committee
made the announcement that ]. Pier
pont Morgan received 500, 5000. 900, fo1
promoting" the organization. Ii
other words, he received the5
amount for his service in gathering
up all the independent steel compan.
les in the country, and forming
them into one trust.
Almost simultaneous with this an.
nouncement by the Stanley experts
came the announcement from New
York that Mn Morgan was on his
way home from Europe with art col
lections which would bring the tota]
value Of his private art museum, qlp
to $50, 900, O0O..
Therein lies the answer to the
question, often asked: "Where does
the money go?''
The people Of the United Stats
lind 1t necessary to ride on rail
roads and to use buildings made Oh
steel. These railroads and buildings
require a great amount OF STEEL In
their construction, and in order to
pay for this steel the people are
forced to pay high rates to the raj.
roads, both in travelling over them
and in shipping freight over them
thus every man, woman and child
IN the country is forced to con. rlbute
To the fifty million dollar fund with
which Mr.. Morgan buys art treasures
The argument Is often made by the
s9andpatters and reactionaries tina
the trusts create business. These
men say that even though the trus+ s
take money out of the pockets of the
people, they Immediately put it
back into the channels Of trade. SO
that the people, in the long run, get
their money back.
WIZ there be any return, to the
people, of the fifty millicn dollars
that Morgan spent in Europe for
pictures and brio a brac that will do
nobody any good?
The truth IS, the men who own
the trusts take so much money out
OF the peoples pockets that they
are hard pressed at times to know
how to dispose OF it, Morgan spend;
his for pictures. Recently, Mrs.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean, wh~se for
tune was built UP largely by the
smelter trust, spent $4,000 of hers
for one dinner William Wood, pres
ident Of the Wooden trust, spends his
for automobiles and steam yachts
He has so many automobiles that
he has lost all track of the number
Many of the trust magnates buy
foreign nobleme1 fer husbands for
their daughters. Always there is
the golden flood going out for some
such worthless expenditure as these,
and always the source OF this flood
is kept supplied from the peoples
pockets. The people wear shoddy
clothes, and sleep under thin blank
cts in order that Wood may have
his automobiles, and Morgan his art
treasures