Show WORKERS STATE THEIR the Duty is Reduced it Will U i Mean Reduction in i May A demise of 20 cent in the wages to thousands of hosiery in this city is predicted lie Senate strikes out the new s Kit bill to increase the duty on le grades of as 1 for in the bill passed Manufacturers declare the additional it will be impossible to com-T Jfe with the German goods and 1 the present scale of which is nearly three times t paid the German f say that the bers an department stores will P ones benefit by a in the There j are approximately 7 workers in dl as the manufacturers every effort to have te maintain the hosiery as it stood when the bill the This schedule aes a slight increase in D hosiery which sells for I ts more a but the operate thoroughly ommittee of ten young er from this and the presenting the trade go to Washington protest to the finance committee the Senate any reduction in the duty they represent and will carry more than resolutions adopted by co-workers in all parts of the country against any change in the hosiery schedule as prepared by the How very the hosiery and other manufacturers get for the poor underpaid laborers whenever Congress the Just see what enormous wages the protected knitting factories pay their bloated One of the largest hosiery factories in Philadelphia is the Glen Knitting at the corner of Second and Westmoreland It employs two hundred and fifty Previous to it paid experienced knitters the enormous sum of or 32 cents per dozen pairs for knitting stockings complete from top to The 38 per dozen was for Cashmere stockings that retailed for about 75 cents per the 34 per dozen wag for Lisle thread stockings retailing from 35 to cents per and the 32 cents per dozen was for common cotton hose retailing for about 25 cents' per In the Glen Knitting Company concluded that it was over-paying its American consequently it cut the prices to 31 These American operators struck to maintain the old The company soon supplied their places with Greek and Polish girls at the Thus so-called protected American laborers under a high protective tariff were supplanted by free-trade laborers from Greece and The cost of making a pair of stockings is not 15 per cent of the selling and if the Germans spoken of by the Republican worked for nothing and paid the a tariff of more than 15 would be unjust per cent on hosiery to the American The Glen Knitting Company paid the best wages of any hosiery factory in bulletin 29 of the Department of Labor in In many of the knitting factories of North Carolina the average wages paid male working 11 hours was 80 cents per and the average wages of the females for the same period amounted to the enormous sum of 37 per In other those protected and over-paid girls had to attend two or three knitting machines 20 minutes to earn one tariff-protected The tariff-protected cotton mills of the Southern States pay the lowest wages in the world for the amount of work In one protected cotton factory in employing hands of both who work an average of 66 hours per the daily wage is from 20 to 66 cents per day or a general average of 56 The wages paid in Philadelphia are but little higher than in Georgia or South and all these mills enjoy precisely the same amount of The protective tariff on trust-made goods is an outrage to the American |