Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — Protection Wages Again. [ARTICLE]

Protection Wages Again.

Reductions of the wages of protected Pennsylvania labor still go on. Here are a few of the latest: Allentown—Crane Iron Company, 10 per cent, reduction. Pottstown —Glasgow Iron Company, puddlers wages reduced from §3.75 a ton to $3.50; also a reduction of 7 per cent in the plate mill. Potts Bros. Iron Company made similar reductions. Pittsburg—lt is almcst. certain that the coke operators will rcduce,wages 20 per cent instead of 10 per cent., as previously announced. Harrisburg—Wages of puddlers in all the mills about the city to be reduced 25 per cent. March 16. And such is protection to American labor! /