Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — Protection Rottenness Shown. [ARTICLE]

Protection Rottenness Shown.

As (corporations control the vast majority of factories, the wage of $lO a week (considerably less than $2 a day) paid by the protected cotton industries. may be taken as the average. Workmen in trades that, are not protected receive larger wages- carpenters. $3.50 a day; bricklayers, $4.80; hod carriers from $2.60 to $3, and stone ma,sons, $4. Ten dollars a week is not a living wage for a man with family. Yet this is the average paid by the protected industries.