The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-07-03
Such AS Accorded Work.
ers in Trust Plants
PRICES OF MUTILATEO BODIES
Are Fixed by TruSt-WOmen
and Children Most De.
Sirable Workers.
"PROTECTION" Is ALL ONE WAY
(Rv c. II. Tavenner.l

Washington, June EFF in or
der 10 be convinced that the pres
ent policy of high protection is a
mistake, the American public sirnp-
~ demands evidence that workers
in the most highly protected indus
tries receive no protection whatso-
ever, then the country will go over
whelmingly Democratic this fall.
The evidence is accessible.
The Lawrence, Mass, strike re-
vealed that the men, women end
children workers in the great wool
en- mills-the most highly protect
ed industry of all-receive IS, sc
and 81 a week wages for full time.
The Stanley Committee showed that
the workers in the blast furnaces
OF the steel mills-the second most
highly protected industry-work ~
hours a day, seven days week and
are miserably treated and under
paid.
And now comes the most damn
ing revelations of all in the report
of the New York State Factory In
vestigating Commission showing
that there are 296,000 women at
work in the highly protected fac
tories of New York City, and that
the average wage of these women
toilers is IS. The proprietors of
the factories told the investigators
time and again that they use wo- /
men in place of men wherever pos
sible, as they are cheaper and do
not strike for better wages or con-
dltions."
The report of this commission
has been gone over and substantial
ed by Independent investigators
paid by big New York newspaper.
Here are some of the ways the fac
DRY and mill owners protect"
American workinmen: !
Boys fingers, when cut OF by
punch" machines in the metal
working shops, are quoted at $500
he pair; amputated singly, they are
worth $3.50.
Girls fingers, when crushed by |
he machines in box factories, are
not paid for, as the machines are
run at the risk of the girls.
Women, some gray-haired, stand
n the slaughter houses for ten
hours daily, stripping pork and
making sausages.
Women, some young and others
I'D, work at core-making in the
steel and iron foundries while. they
breathe carbon nonoxide, a poison
Jus gas, liberated by the ovens in /
he same room.
Women polish marble With corro-
'ive acids in many of the marble
shops. This work would tax the
strength OF a robust man.
Women, as a rule, work imme-
lately before and two weeks after
hey gave birth to children, that they !.
nay support the little ones after
hey come into the world; they can
not afford to lay off.
Many thousand children are le-
sally employed long hours doing
the work of adults; children can
do some classes of work as fast |
as men, and they work cheaper, for |
SO or S4 week; in one factory the |
entire output is made by children;
the only adult in the place is the
owner.
Men, women and children are
worked to the injury of their health
under the pace-setting, speeding up
and other features of what is known
as scientific shop method sys-
tens.
Query: The manufacturers who
use their help this way receive pro-
lection which enables them to build
up enormous fortunes, on the
ground they desire to protect"
their employees. Since they are, not
protecting their employees why
should they be permitted monopo-
y