Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1904 — WARNING TO DEMOCRATS [ARTICLE]

WARNING TO DEMOCRATS

Do not move out as your township till after the el action, and remember that you can not change your residence from one precinct to another after October 8. If you do you will lose your vote.

pany; closed last season but promised to run this fall on reduced wages, which employes refused to accept. Employed 200 to 300 men. American Tinplate Company; employs 1,500 men and plays shuttlecock with them. Employes accepted reduction of 18 per cent under promise of steady work, but have received employment only about half the time since reduction went into effect. From the foregoing, which is but a partial list, of course, of the number of men thrown out of employment by the trusts, it will be seen that in the three cities of Muncie, Alexandria and Elwood the aggregate is in excess of 7,000 men. Hil estimate includes hut 750 of the 1,500 employes'of the American Tinplate Company at Elwood, for the mill is not closed, though it gives employment to its men only about hajf the time, making really 750 idle all the time.