Show prosperity NOT HERE YET mckeesport McKee sport concern reduces the wages images of men because of bad business mckeesport MCKEE SPORT pa march 7 i the national tube works of this I 1 city has posted notices in its big 1 mills here that a t general 5 reduction 1 in wages wages r ranging daugin za from 5 to 12 per cent w will I 1 ill M go go into effect tomorrow common labor will be paid only per day general alana manager er crosby says the company has bas been putting off the reduction reductio n from week to week in the hope of an improvement the company employs men they are re not organized and think it be useless to strike this is the second big company in keesports mckeesport McKee nic Kee sport to reduce wages this week the other being the monongahela steel works N Y world we are not at all surprised to learn larn of the facts iu in the above report in reality they are just what we ve expected and predicted during the presidential campaign of 1896 one of the chief contentions of the republican orators last fall was that if their party were entrusted with the affairs of the government of the united states that the work 1101 11 fiig 01 ra mau man would receive more work and higher wages than they chev would under any democratic administration this t good cod c news was heralded from ocean to ocean and from canada to Al mexico exico the g 0 p representatives declared in earnest and unequivocal terms that the laborer k re r is worthy of his hire yes they are those who can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow their own teaching pennsylvania vou you are one of our sister states who has almost inva invariably gone after the republican party but here as that party has but stepped upon the threshold of government it turns and smites the hands bands that placed it in in power your sons are the first to receive the cutting r lash of its tyranny and greed will some liberty loving truthful and consistent republican tell us w what hat part of this prosperity the be working 1 I man gets the reduction redaction announced is from 5 to 12 per cent of their wages we always understood that per cent is all of anything and that if A As s wages are reduced 5 per cent he receives only 95 per cent of what he formerly did or in in other words he is looser 1 20 if mr Bs BA wages are cut 12 per cent then he receives but 87 per cent of his former wage or a loss of J the republican stumpers often accuse us of the offense of wanting cheaper clothing and boastfully proclaim that a cheap coat means a cheap man this argument they say always kills our free wool ideas deader than alan a door nail if mr republican a cheap coat means a cheap man and no ignorant democrat would dare to deny it what does a cheap wage mean the late leader of the republican campaign mr hanna can answer it by producing three hundred and fifty four dicent men employed by him in the panhandle mine in the republican state of pennsylvania well mr republican in spite of your philanthropic ic heart you have a cheap man you yon also have a dear coat for you have or will put a high tariff on wool can the cheap man buy your dear coat of course not he an can wear shoddy while your poor poo r sheep man can wear his woolens and under the democratic administration the poor man received higher wages and bought at ata lower prices the cutting and slashing of mens mena wages during the harrison administration awful troubles at homestead in pennsylvania are still fresh in the minds of the people peo ale it looks as if history were again A repeating hersell herself prosperity thou art aft a jewel but tew the who fia fim tyoa A JB 4 t ia V |