Show WAGES BREAK DOWN SUDDEN disappearance OF A LIST OF BOGUS WAGE ADVANCES kroics that in IB creso in protected industries had a no foundation in fact attempt to hoodwink wage wae earners the world published several weeks week s ago a compilation of COO strikes lo 10 lockouts k and wage reductions in protected industries immediately the protection ests sent pent out orders for quick returns of increases of wages find and the land was searched aiom one end to the other at length returns from twenty eight establishments were received receive il pretending to show that wages had h d been increased in them under thu the mckinley tariff law on its face the showing could not bo be said to be ba satisfactory but mr john do witt warner has examined the lie beggarly lib list and has found that even it exaggerates exaggerate the benefits of the mckinley act to the wago wage earners in the first item it was shown that just before the passage of tho the mckinley bill wages iu in tho the establishment had been reduced twenty five cents a day in one department and 13 cents in another after the passage of the act the wages were restored I 1 cents a 3 day ill all around I 1 le leaving the wages of the iron molders still less than they had been ir u 1888 tile the second establishment four men inca and about twenty girls an ali increase of 5 3 per cent it had ad been reported the operatives assert however that there was no increase whatever tile the same tale is told of the third establishment in which an advance of 10 per cent was claimed thesis this is what is said of 0 the fourth establishment by tile the agent who invest gated its reported in increase creaso in wages if f 10 per cent this report of an of wages in their works is a deliberato and barefaced lie there has been nu no increase whatever in ten years in the fifth establishment an employee in on oil being shown the report that his bis wages had been rai raised aed exclaimed what a lie in the sixth the only changes hal been in reduction of wages the seventh employed fifteen or twenty hands and wages had not boon been raised there was vas no buch establishment as the ilia eighth the ninth employed two men the pay of one of them had been raised frow froia twenty five cents to fifty cents a day while that of the other remained baa at wages in tile tenth bad not advanced there las has not been a single advance is is the tha report but there have ben b en scores of reductions one of the arro prie tors of the eleventh establishment said that there lad had been no advance adding the INIc mckinley Kinley bill has lor IOE helped us nor has it had any material effect on our business he is a big highly obly protected his tariff tax in ing been increased from 50 to 71 74 aud and au per cent another the twelfth thought that his wages might have acen raised but ho be was very uncertain r ert aill in tile the thirteenth concern ilia mer men said that their wages were slightly advanced because they were aaita agitating tin the iho subject of a strike in the fifteenth an advance of 3 t per cent was made this year although in 1 1888 the employers had promised a substantial increase if If arilson was elected in the fifteenth the men obtained at ai increase of 10 percent after it a fight and this advance to quote quota one of them diall t put lut them alf bick back where we was eight I 1 or ten years igo ago in the sixteenth seventeenth and eggli eighteenth teen 1 it establishments there had been no increase in wages there was no do buch establishment as the ibe nineteenth in the twentieth hageb had been raised front from three to four dollars a week in the t went first twenty second twenty third and twenty fourth there had been io advance in the twenty fifth the pay p ay iy ofa of a few individuals had bad been increased the employees in m the twenty si 1 l said that they would bot hare havelt known of the alleged inci increase case ease if they bad baal not read about it in the new newspapers papers rh in the twenty seventh a few itic inc paa hid bad been accompanied by more i leduc deduc eions lit in tho the twenty eighth wages had bad titon been inci incila eased sed in answer to ilia demands of tile the operatives who however wine baill satisfied dis tho the ellort to discredit tho the world worl ta s list of strides and v ago reductions reductio 13 by twenty eight falsehoods about in cleuie of waged cannot lie io call called d eminently the wage earners carriers know too much about the their iroNim own incomes to mako possible such a game as that tried by tho the hard pressed protectionists projectionists N new 3 ew world |