Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Low Wages in Protected Mills. [ARTICLE]

Low Wages in Protected Mills.

It is undisputed that wages are htgher in unprotected than in protected Industries. Carpenters, masons, engineers, and printers belong to the best-paid class of workers. This is not an accident, but is a logical outcome of a tariff that fosters combines. It is but natural that protected manufacturers organized to take advantage of a high tariff by advancing or sustaining prices, should use their consolidated power to dictate terms to their employes. Another reason for the lower wages and Ucusually harsh treatment of labor in the mills of protected monopolists is found in the tact, explained at length by Andrew Carnegie, that the officers of great corporations deal at long range with their employes, do not come into daily contact with them, and lack that sympathy which would often prevent strikes, lockouts and riots. Hence it is that workers in protected mines and mills constitute our worst-paid, mo9t insecure, and therefore dangerous classes. Bcbke wrote the “Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful” when about 28.