Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Lowest Wages in Thirty Tears. [ARTICLE]

Lowest Wages in Thirty Tears.

[Dispatch from Reading, Pa.] Later returns from the iron ore mining districts give additional details of the want and destitution among the miners in the East ’ Texas mining districts. Some of the firms are paying as low as 62 cents a day. These firms only give their men work when the weather permits. Much of the work is surface mining, and is done in the more severe weather. Iron ore is sold as low as $25 per ton, delivered. The miners can buy only the i coarsest food, and the purchase of clothing, ■ etc., is out of the question. Sixty-two cent* per day and twelve hours’ hard labor is the I lowest figure reached for thirty years.