Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Steel Raile [ARTICLE]

Steel Raile

The thirty-six steel-rail makers in the United States produred In 1889 1,513,045 tons, on which they had protection to pay the “difference in wages” of sl7 to $20.16 per ton. This at sl7 was equal to $25,721,765 to pay the “difference in wages. ” But the actual total wages paid per ton in in 1890 was $5.30, and the total wage 3 for 1889 was less than $8,019,138, enabling the thirty-six rail-makers to -‘cal from the trust fund for wage's $17,702,627, and get their labor free of cost. The McKinley bill has reduced their protection to $13.44 per ton. reducing their stealings from their workmen, but the wages paid per ton has also been reduced. w hst is true of the protected steelrail maker is true ot every other really protected employer. He has absolute pauper labor, supported by public contributions, an l his profit come 3 mainly from what he steals from his woikmen. For them to resist the robbery of them is “against the law.”—T. E. Wilson.