Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1910 — CAN A SANE MAX VOTE TO CONTINUE THIS CONDITION. [ARTICLE]

CAN A SANE MAX VOTE TO CONTINUE THIS CONDITION.

The woolen trust has things its, own way, under the “projection" of the Republican tariff laws. Some of the trust mil’s pay annual dividends running from 67 percent, to 100 per cent But how is it with employes in these mills? In the woolen mills of Massachusetts the average wages of male spinners is 513.16 a week: of weavers SI 1.60 a week and of dyers 58.58 a week! The woolen mills employes, in other words are already ground down to a wage basis on which they are barely able to live and rear other mill hands to take their places when they are gone. They couldn't he paid less, for they couldn't live and bring up children on less! -How is it with the consumer of woolen goods? The cloth in suits that now sell at $lB to S3O is the same cloth that used to be offered at $8 and $lO. Serge that sells at 34 cents in the United States sells in Holland for 11 cents. A little better grade sells here ofr 45 cents and in Holland at 26J4 cents. Mbhair that sells here for $1 sells in England at 27J4 cents. Our $1.37 serge sells in England at 67 cents: our 51.50 serge sells in England at 78 cents, and our serge sells in England at /Scents! The above figures show three things: First that the woolen trust makes enormous and unholy profits: second, that trust mill employes are paid niggardly wages; and third, that the purchasers of woolen goods are robbed to the limit. Will any ane man vote to continue this condition ?