Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — protection Pictures. [ARTICLE]

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Tho Carneglo Company to pay Its workmen “the difference in wages, Is proteotod from $8.82 to $150.80 per ton an steel billets. The actual pride that it pays its workmen ranges from $1.05 to $1.95 per ton, on billots protected by a duty of $20.10. It has oertlllod to Congress that itwantß and will eolloct tho protection of $20.10 and pay it to Its workmen, In addition to paying them foreign wages. But It actually hands them only $1.95 per ton; steals $18.21 pays no foreign wages, and gets its labor free of oost. Androw Carnegie received $5,000 per day as his slmro of this theft from the wages of tho workers of the mills, and his partners received as much rnoro, but thoy were not satisfied. To steal more of this trust fuud of $20.10 belonging to thoir workmen, of which they arc but the trustees, they reducod tho pittance paid of $1.95 per ton, increased the hours of labor, and hired 300 mercenaries to shoot down the workmen who forcibly resisted any further theft from “the difference In wages” belonging to thbra. What is true of the protected Carneelo mills is true of every proteoted mill. Tho employer has absolute pauper labor, supported by public contributions, and his profit mainly cones from what he steals from the fund paid by tho peoplo for their support.—T. E. Wilson.