Ogden Daily Standard | 1892-05-04 | Page 2 | Work and Wages in St. Louis

atoru and nd wages in st bouls A preliminary report issued by the census office on tho the mechanical and manufacturing industries of the city of st louia louis shows that in the ten years from 1880 1860 to 1800 1690 the number of establishments lish ments mentz in that city lias bas increased fro from m 0 2921 to the number of hands e employed from to and M the wages paid from to in the short period of aen ten years t therefore he employment has been furnished to more bands hands and the average yearly wages paid to each workingman which were in 1880 and wa in 1890 have I 1 increased or 33 per cent in view of the fact that the country is said to be rapidly going to the dogs on account of the robber barons and 11 tariff monopolists this 33 per cent advance in wages is interesting pro in the past bavo vo not dwelt enough upon the fact that there is indeed a tariff t monopolist the tho american workingman wor bingman who is enabled by our protective policy to live in comfort and save besides almost as much as eurol european in workingmen earn thia this report will wili drive another nail into the coffin of the calamity shri oker