Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — Promise and Perform ance. [ARTICLE]

Promise and Perform ance.

[Philadelphia Record.] The Promise— Meat ie the pot three times a day il be wants it; abundant bread from the best of Dakota wheat; good schools for his children; a cot-, tugn for a residence; handsome cloth • ing for his wife und daughters, and Je suits for his bovs; newspapers and books; reasonable pleasures and bits of travel-these are t e conditions of life on which ihe At-ner ican mechanic should insist. If his labor tn<l his relation to his employers are sufficiently protected by a customs tariff he will possess these con-ditions.--New York Tiibuno editorial, September 54th. The Performance,- Reading, Pa., September 23.—A nance is posted iu tie works of the Brooke Iro* com pany of Birdsboro, of a 10 per cent, reduction in the salaries and wages of the employes, except the Ray laborers.—Nt w York Tribune, September 24 (telegram.) Holidaysburg. Pa., September 25 Notices have been posied in ipe {'urn ucsj of the Cambria Iron and Co-*l Co., announcing areduct: n of 10 per cent, in wages, to take eff-ct October 1, and all those who will not agree to accept the reduction will be paid off and discharged. When the wages are reduced some of the employes will receive but eighty- o.ie cents per day.—Associate Press dispatch to N. Y Tribune.