Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — The Glassware Industry. [ARTICLE]

The Glassware Industry.

Just as in its effect on the wages of workmen, on the prices of the finished products and on trus.s in other industries, the McKinley tariff is rapidly vindicating itself in the glassware industry. We have shown how the manufacturers of g ass ware took adiantage of tho increased duties and formed a trust under the name of the Unit d Btates Glass Company last duly; how this trust promised not to raise prices, but (mined ately did so, and at the same time threw manv workmen out of employment, and now comes tho announcement of another reduction in wages. The Crockery and jlass Journal publishes the following: “A dispatch from Anderson, Ind., Nov. I<>, sa-a* - : The glass-blowers employed at the Pennsylvania Glass Works, which has been considered o e of the most prosperous in the city, struck this morning and walked out of the factory because tho Board of Directors at its meeting yesterday ordered a reduction of 25 per cent, in iheir wages. The company is a co-operative and non-union factory, and last year.pal t a dividend of 61 per cent. The clai n made by the management is that the pre ent state of the glass market comp is this step. Tho men didn't see it that way, so th»y quit. The works are now deserted, but the managemc t will endeavor to replace the strikers witli new men.” Surelv the editors of the New York Press, the higli tav tariff organ of New York, were right when they said some time ago t' at the McKinley tariff was passed to make profits b g. WmiK in Fall Elver the writer has learned one thing about the wages of cotton operatives that m ist be interesting to the public in general. An old English weaver, who lias been several times across the ocean, has Just returned from Burnley, England, one of tho great

weaving centers. He says that a weavel working fifty-four hours per week in that town makes 612 yards of cloth, for which be receives $7.04, or £1 9s. per week. The same weaver in Fall River has to run eight loom machines instead of four, as in England, sixty hours a week, and weaves 2.304 yards for a little more than $9. In other words, nearly four times as much work is done m this city for one quarter more per week. To add to this difference, every weaver in England is allowed a helper.—New York Times.