The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-29
Bal TlW0RE GIRL MURDERED
m A HORRLFY ING MAMIE r
DAVIS rs Our GLASS WORKERS

Especial Privilege affecting that and all our otef lnos
CONGRESSMAN John W. Davis subscrzbes to the same
theory and he promises to uphold the scholar IN poll
fICs'' In his efforts in that direction.
ParentheticalIy how do our glassworkers like that?
merchants, with whom our glassWo1Kers DEAL
regard that particular proposition?
Do The gagsWorkers believe that that would be good
thing for them? Do merchants our landlords and all
counitvs prosperity agree with the theories of Prof
Wilson and Congressman Davis? # they do then they
should cast their ballots for both OF these candloas
If they do not then they had better see to 1t very
scrupplousy that they vote against these two aspiring
Il is hardly necessary to diagram of the size
of the glass business and its sensveness to changes ana
fluctuations for the enlightenment OF our toWnspeop4e
The first element in the business which feels the eff
feet of change either for good bad is labor this
very time labor these factories is getting stead1er en-
ployent higher wages than fer years Any glasswor
You can't tell us, Messrs Wilson and Davis-you
who propose remove the Especial Privilege as you call
the protective tariff which affects these men in the glass
factories that they anything of the kind done On
the contrary they do not want OF that KIND done
They want their business left undisturbed They
want no daying with the end that risk OF lower
wages than they getting under the present most
satisfactory wage scale may be run Not bit OF It,
The protective tariff hurting them It is bene-
ftig them. It is not hurting consumer here nor
hereabouts for the product miles from here It is
the with tin plate production which goes en-
tirely to the Pacific Coast
ers that the tariff helps them to good wages and
maintain high standard OF living and as does hurG
single consumer in this city, district state then why
should merchants bankers real estate dealers, who
rent houses and people who are their neighbor and
posedly their welwishers, be led off by some dreamy
philosopher and impractcable tb6o15st te vote against
these home WoTkingnen?
The duty on window glass is about sc per cent ad
vaorem, and the cities compose an extremely large
part of the home market
Let us eliminate the protective feature this tariff
rate and either eliminate this especial Privilege entire
~, make it 'for only. II is unoo1stltuon
aI' to lay tariff for any other purpose than for revenue
only
this year Of Lord it did in 1892 Candidate Wilson
ly endorses the proposition.
Having wiped out the Protection TO the labor that en-
into the making of window glass, what happens?
Why, this
BeIgium's cheaper produced product lands in our
coast cities and takes that trade CaTksburg window
glass loses market that it is supplying.
Then what happens Why, this
Carksburg's factories either shut down, operate
only upon condition that the who work IN them will
agree to work for much less wagescale than they are
working under.
That is simple the first lesson IN 1GcUfIy Old
fashioned premier.
Let US compare the labor cost in Belgium and in
Carksburg in the window glass industry for you:
Belgium shop consists OF blower, gaEherer, as
istant gatherer and small boy attending to the
ETC. The average days work 95 rollers 36x53, making
13 boxes of 100 feet They paid the roller and the
blower actually receives cents per roller the gatherer
receives roller Is cents; the assistant gatherer
so cent Of the herer wages; and the crane
tender Al 5 cents blowing The Hatcher receives
ceives about $4O per day The freight charges from Ant
werp to New York Ii cents per hundred-Pont Mar
ion to New York. ID cents So, you what doing away
with Especial Privilege" Protection Mister Congress
Davis, will do to ga3sworkeTs
Let us compare the above with what the American
window glass worker hand pIans) receives The blower
makes 65 rollers, 40x58 Ten boxes per blowing at 70
cents pT box would net 90 gatberer $685. fatten-
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