Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — Lowest Wages in Thirty Years. [ARTICLE]

Lowest Wages in Thirty Years.

[Dispatch from Reading, Pa.) Later returns from the iron ore miningdistricts give additional details of the want and destitution among the miners in the East Texas mining districts. Some or tbe firms are paying as low as 62 cents a day. These firms only give their men work when the weather permits. Much of the work is surface raining, and is done in the more Severe weather. Iron ore is sold as low as $25 per ton, delivered. The miners can buy only the coarsest food, and tbe purchase of clothing, etc., is out of the question. Sixty-two cents per day and twelve hours’ bard labor is the lowest figure reached for thirty years.