Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Protection and Monopoly on Top. [ARTICLE]

Protection and Monopoly on Top.

The following delicious bit of Irony from the Iron Age of Dec. i recalls the riotous times before protection and monopoly were given a black eye on Nov. 8. It Is the last chapter ol a story begun when McKinley made his*’tariff bill- No more such stories will be begun in the new era now opening: At a meeting of the former strikers of the lleaver Falls mills of the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, at Beaver Falls, Pa., held last week, a circular was issued, an extract of which reads as follows: “Assistant roller, reduced from s!> to sti.4o per day; engineer on No. 1 engine, reduced from $2.64 to $2.25 per day; water tenders, reduced from $2.50 to $2.25; firemen, reduced from $2.10 to $1.80; engineer on big engine, reduced from $2.85 to $2.75, his helper *«edueed 15 cents’a day. The heaters lave to work three furnaces for 27 aents, where they should receive 56 cents per ton. These are facts susceptible of proof, and there should be no statements that are not based on facts. To all our friends who have stood by us we return our earnest thanks. To those who have tried to defeat us, and have succeeded in doing It, we say we want no apologies, and we want them to glory In their victory.”