Show WAGES AND WINDOW GLASS In the course of one of his speeches in September Governor CAMPBELL of Ohio made certain statements regarding the effect ef-fect of tbe tariff on wages among other things saying that wages had never been Increasea in the great windowglass industry indus-try by an increase of the duty in that article The statement was denied by some of the Pittsburg manufacturers and this denial has been repeated on the stump by MCKINLEY and published widely in the Ohio protection organs Recently the Pittsburg Post one of the most reliable of newspapers took up one of these denials ials by a Mr LOEFFLEK and proceeded to answer the gentleman by a presentation of facts A portion of the Poss article is reproduced here What is said with regard re-gard to the wages of glass workers will apply to the wages of workers in other of the protected industries Mr LOFFLER is in error when he states that there was any reduction in the wages of window win-dow glass workers as a result of thC tariff reduc tion in 1SS3 There was a lockout but no reduction reduc-tion in wages indeed there was a slight avance under the sliding scale adopted after the lockout which ended in February JES The reduction accepted by the workers came later and was not influenced by either a reduc lion or advance of the tariff As for the period of depression which Mr LOFFLER says followed by lowering of the tariff in 1833 we must say there was none soar so-ar as window glass is concerned A glance at the stead increase of American production of window glass will we think convince even Mr jOCFFLEii that there was no period of depres son following the enormous tariff reduction of i of a cent per pound jn 1SSJ Dipro dtctionso Import fl bore SOjLbojcs Total 1 SS3 S21651 915690 31G7541 1 055 1 rSJ5SK 32C8221 1 ISS5 VJjl060 OS7C60 3JJS > O I 18S6 2517047 902491 I 3834faCS l 83 2804808 IO > 9gC9 38eM4r i lS3 2752943 la219 39i IGJ ISS9 u 3218830 1249576 446S450 It will be seen that if there was any period of depression it did not make itself felt in the production pro-duction the impoits or the consumption oi window win-dow glass with the single exception of the short fire of 188384 when domestic production was decreased by the strike against a reduction but the Imports and domestic production of 1RS3 r were larger by 75371 boxes than those of 1S82 and the production and consumption of window glass have been larger since 1S83 than in any otheryear since the landing of COLUMBUS The statement of tho workers is that the fact is recoznized that when the tariff has been cut down wages go down and advance when the tariff advances The onlytrouble about this alleged recognized fact is ti at it is not a fact There was no re duction in the wages of windowglass workers following the tariff reduction of ifcSJ and there was a reduction beveral years after Then there was an advance in wages accord ing to Mr LOEFFLEK in lS39 I when there was certainly no advnnce in the tariff There was an advance on all sizesof window glass above 24x3o of 1 cent per pound under the MClvISLEY bill Of course the members of the Window Glas Workers assembly know whether or not they got an advance of wages last week It is so nice for them to rebuke Governor CAMPBELL and denounce those who make false statements In relation to the tariff bat this also applies to those who > assert that wages advance the tariff advances when the last wages settlement proves that so far as window glass Is conceined it does no such thing |