Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — More “Prosperity.” [ARTICLE]

More “Prosperity.”

Residents pf Pullman. the “model" suburb of Chicago, are having trouble. Of 7,000 heads of families who work in the carshops, the town’s sole industry, only a few still are on the pay-roll. It la estimated that more than 3,000 workmen are idle. It is feared that the shops soon will close indefinitely. "The trouble is that we are paying higher wages than other car companies with which we are brought into competition," said one official of the company, “and a reduction seems inevitable." The foregoing is a sample of what is going on the country over in a greater or less degree, according to locality and industry, and yet the Republicans insist that this is a time of great prosperity. But when the Pullman employes’ wages are reduced, who is going to reduce for them the cost of living?