Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — THE GREAT CARNEGIE LABOR WAR. [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT CARNEGIE LABOR WAR.

The Indianapolis Journal has now discovered that the locked-out workmen oi Homestead were earning too much any way, and had no right to demand of Mr. Carnegie any portion of the bounties paid him by the people—“to protect American labor”—amounting to something like a million and a half a year. It was the Indianapolis Journal which declared some four years ago that “$S a week is far from pauper wages.” The personal organ of President Hanrison is coming out in its true colors again. II is the mouth-piece of a money-made aristocracy which has for years coshered upon the people and it now echoes the sentiments of Carnegie, Frick and the real of them, “The people be damned.”— Kokomo Dispatch. What a travesty is this high protective tariff doctrine on American intelligence, anyhow. Not a single dollar has been added to the wages of American labor in the iron industries since the passage of the McKinley bill. On tht contrary wages have been reduced. The only beneficiary of the tariff is the capitalist. Carnegie, the head of the firm that insists on a reduction of wages, lives in a baronial castle in Scotland, his native country. He came to this country a poor boy, Snd the government so thoroughly taxed the people for his benefit that his annual profits are millions. What more evidence of the injustice of the McKinley tariff does the people want ?—Rochester Sentinel.

The most potent tariff lesson of the year is Fort Frick, which Scotchman Carnegie has built around his protected steel works near Pittsburg to keep hie “protected” working people from tearing his temple of Mammon to pieces. These are the working people whom the tariff framed by Carnegie’s friend McKinley was to make the lords of creation; whose pay was to increase indefinitely; who were to grow fat on roast beef and plum pudding; who were to fcevel in luxury on taxes forced by the robber tariff from the farmer, merchant and professional man.—Daviess County Democrat. So-called “protection to American labor” can score another conflict with the labor by means of which it has accumulated its millions. At the great works of Carnegie & Company, on Wednesday, last week, a fierce battle raged from early morning until late in the evening between several thousand workmen and nearly 850 Pinkerton hirelings, who were employed by the masters to shoot down the men who should undertake to defend the bread they were earning by the sweat of their brow.— Warsaw National Union., They are now reaping their reward. Carnegie has set out in a determined effort to crush out of existence the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers, this association being the sole remaining bulwark between the American workingman and the pauperism of Europe. The workingmen must yield to Carnegie or be shot down like dogs by hired assassins. Thanks to God and a Democratic legislature, no Pinkerton men can be brought into Indiana to murder wage workers, but in Republican Pennsylvania it is different.— Marion Leader. They have been told by Carnegie to support McKiuleyism in the interest of their wages. They were told an increase of the tariff increases wages. Instead of this, they have seen their wages twice scaled down since the passage of the McKinley bill. They have seen wealth pile up as if by magic in the hands of Carnegie and his partners who live in castles and revel in luxury, made possible by the labor of the workmen.—Franklin Democrat. We do not wonder that President Harrison frequently inquired of the telegraph operator what the news was from the bloody battle field at Homestead. Protection wasn’t protecting the son of toil from the rapacity and greed of monopoly. The blood shed at Homstead, by labor, for its bread, was the blood of martyrs to be avenged against class legislation in November.—Frankfort Crescent.

The Republican press and leaders are perfectly dumbfounded at the Homestead affair. They see in it the exposition of the protection fallacies, and the honest ones will leave the party. The laboring men are leaving the tariff party by the thousands. The leaders of that party are aware of it, but they are powerless to stop it.—Bluffton Banner. The Carnegie steel works, owned by the tariff pampered lord who was first to congratulate President Harrison upon his renomination, closed down last Wednesday night, throwing 3,800 men out of employent. The men protested against a horizontal reduction of their wages, and the tariff protected baron shot them down like dogs. Great benfit to labor, this wonderful McKinley bilL—Lebanon Pioneer. What do the Homesteaders think, now, of the promise of 1888—that the election of Harrison and the enactment of a “raised” tariff would result in higher wages?—Noble County Democrat. With Reid on the presidential ticket, and Chase for governor, both with a record of opposition to the interests of labor, will cut a sorry figure posing for the labor vote.—Plymouth Democrat

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