Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — EFFECT OF TARIFFS ON WAGES. [ARTICLE]

EFFECT OF TARIFFS ON WAGES.

In connection with the question of the effect of tariffs on wages the New York Timeß presents the following statement of recent reductions of wages: Brooke iron oompany, Birdsborongh, Pa., closed Feb. 2, and 450 men thrown oat of work because they refused a reduction of about 7 per cent. Ellis & Lessig steel and iron oompany, Fottstown, Pa., dosed Feb. 2; 700 men thrown out of work because a reduction of 12$ per cent, was rejected. Hopedale fabric mill, Hopedale, Mass., wages of weavers reduced 2$ cents a yard last week. Silk mill at Warehouse Point, Conn., wages of winders and doublers reduced from $1.37 to $1 per day. Stnrtevant blower works, Jamaica Plain, Masß., redaction from 10 to 30 per cent. Pottstown iroD company, Fottstown, Pa,, redaction of about 7 per eeut. Bethlehem iron company, Bethlehem, Pa., redaction of 10 percent. Feb. 2. Pennsylvania steel oompany, Steelton, Pa., reduction of from 8 to 10 per cent. Feb. 1. Lickawanna iron and coal oompany, Soranton, Pa., an average reduction of 20 oents a day on Jan. 1. Homestead steel works, Carnegie, Phipps & Co., 10 per cent, by agreement. Pullman palace car company’s works; new soale making a reduction of about 10 per oent.; brought forward Jan. 1. Otis iron ana steel oompany, Cleveland, 0.; reduction 30 per cent. Coal mines, Duquoin, Ill,; reduction 69 to 60 per ton. Bibbon weavers in Paterson, N. J., reduction of 15 per oent. Coal mines near Leavenworth, Kas.; reduction of 11 per cent. Oooheoo manufacturing oompany; wages of weavers reduced 4 p er oent. Manufacturers of pottery, Trenton, N. J.; wages of sanitary ware pressers reduced 22 per cent. Merrimac mills, Lowell, Mass.; wages of mule spinners reduoed 3 cents per hundred. Bnckeye mower and reaper works, Akron, O.; reduction of from 30 to 60 per oent. reported on Feb. 3. Saxony knitting mill, Little Falls, N. Y., reduction of about 20 per cent. The workingmen who voted for protection to American labor in 1888 must find great comfort in statistics of this character.