Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — How Workmen Are Protected. [ARTICLE]

How Workmen Are Protected.

From London one Henry Tuckley, who affixes D. D. to his names, writes syndicate letters for the national Republican committee on the labor question. In one of his letters published by the Indianapolis Journal, he says the wages paid to railroad men are, for engineers, $1.50 per day for twelve hours; firemen, $1.09; passenger guards, $6.80 per weekgoods guards, $6.32: watchmen, $5.34, and passenger porters, SB.BO. Countermen in dry guuds stores receive S2OO a year and policemen only $7.20 per week. Of course these figures are not correct. The report of the United States commissioner of labor, a Republican, tells a different story, however, The Journal, commenting uu the wages as “rejwrted” by thV committee’s hired “faker” says: ‘“What would a locomotive engineer in the United States t uink of $1.50 a day for twelve hours, or a conductor of less than $1.20 a day. What would a dry goods salesman think of less than SIOO a year or an American policeman of less than a dollar a day?” Yes, just think of it! Were it not for protection the American engineer would have to run his engine in competition with a “pauper” engineer of England and the American policeman would tie' reduced to SI.OO a day by the competition of the “pauper” policeman of England! Thq only trust smashed since the election of Harrison is the school book trust* which the Democratic legislature of Indiana wined out in 1889.

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