Show FREE TRADERS ANSWERED able article on labor and wages made by the american protective tariff league since alie be inning ot the present yer hie free trade newspapers have been busily engaged in le what they were pleased to term advances in wages though in no single instance liaa it been stated to what previous oue rate of wages alio llio advance related with a view to ascertaining the facie the american protective tariff league lias undertaken an to determine the average number 0 hands employed in different industries during the farat half of the year 1890 and 1895 together with the percentage of wages paid the rate of 1890 being taken as a full standard we have received almost report from eighty live different industries the largest number ot industries eliat ever reported to any census made bv the league As forty of the replica were either unsigned only filled out or both we omitted them entirely from our calculations leaving the following particulars a representing the information elven by different employers of labor the first list kivee in detail the of hands employed hinds employs number employed jn 1 to june 30 industry 1892 and dye in ml and 5 3 jlou and pump factories 10 12 8 3 box making 1 I krass goods 8 brick and tile af 28 13 liall dine nd contracting tr 35 40 31 W cartels cart els 0 chewing 15 30 60 coal and coke 2774 copper refiners cordage 70 aw cotton cotton nd juff aso cut nail and pikes IS 72 st 33 oi drilea GO ll 11 80 5 Kart benware W 15 15 15 15 agg packing 20 15 10 barinin Far inin 13 16 13 12 felt and lumber ellla 20 fiber and ware 10 80 84 furniture 5 5 5 tte laborers CO 75 10 20 general diflo 33 51 14 11 glove ninnfa darlne 42 orain and ferd 4 1 4 4 hardware 1080 eso hardware plumbing and team fining 12 14 0 harness SO 13 hat 1 70 hop 20 25 24 illery Io lery 60 35 hosiery and underwear der wear hotel 11 10 8 iron and steel 1542 8 15 knit goods 1000 92 limp manufacturing I 1 lawyer and planter 45 sa 21 leather board W S lumber 2415 2112 1988 swa mens inar metal rood 15 15 6 mill SO W 25 milling W 2377 2370 1738 inland ini 7 89 racking 18 2410 2550 paper 2271 2333 pottery 03 ft 0 and wind mill railroads Kail roads Ite volTer SOO llibron njane fatturini fac turini metal 70 75 ISO alt 25 20 18 4 bashes brindac blin dAc 24 20 1 12 gaw mill and pumps 30 28 35 sa 43 77 40 35 4 2 belp work slate quarry and factory 40 40 40 40 bilk ine 7 Smelt lne 45 68 1 1 soap inn 42 12 33 43 stationery stationers ers 15 25 30 stove manufacturing IM 1912 afi S turpentine 70 50 40 wason and car 5 WalT 41 79 15 20 water wheels 80 40 35 45 wine ang 15 15 7 ml W 1103 1053 woolen aw woolen an col ton 85 worsted kooda 14 1303 worsteds and woolens 37 2 yarns aw 1050 9 7 yards cord 5 as beturne show eliat the in employed more hands tn 1892 than in 1890 an increase of 14 per cent in 1894 they employed handa leis than in 1892 decrease of 14 cen in the early part of 1895 they more hands than in 89 4 1141 fiands chanin 1892 and 2787 1 even than in 1890 for 1895 the employment of labor shows an increase 0 18 per cent ae amp with 1801 a decrease of 15 per cent as compared with 1892 and decrease of 3 per cent as compared with 1890 next we give the perce nUge wages paid in different industrial establishments jaee industry I 1 1800 lw 78 78 jio ilfra antins nt ins and 80 locomotives aw 81 boltl manufacturing WO 75 W hox and pump factory 90 80 hox making M 80 idrass goods 8 91 W brick and tile 09 73 13 and contracting tr m w carpets 89 chewing gum coal and coke 95 83 7 copper reft ners aco cordage 40 40 cotton wa 94 cotton and lute u 1 70 0 cut nails and spikes 05 75 70 dredging 93 drugs i 1 81 90 art benware 73 72 loo loo i g packing 90 90 0 77 felt and lumber 12 83 fiber 63 74 60 general merchandise 9 ca gloves ita ll 11 rain and feed aco 10 10 hardware 10 74 81 harness W hop 10 75 hosiery hosiery and underwo under wr 80 75 hotel 80 70 iron and deteel M 3 I 1 knit gooda 1 8 67 lamp aco W OS girao 41 27 leather board f lumber 82 81 machinery 75 80 mens 81 88 metal goods 10 00 mill 11 0 75 GO mining ac 62 75 83 S 89 caper 78 73 pottery 10 buo 91 89 printing and book bindrim 93 81 8 and 8 Kall roads 10 IW revolvers Kevol vers i 10 90 hoofing and biding 1 11 roofing elate 97 7 li ibbons 65 salt 1 j 75 70 fiah blinds boora 80 and J 87 sawmills ah 79 sewer piping st sheep 1 ba W snip build ins 02 65 ellk 1 10 8 slate quarries smelling 80 8 80 sugar t 67 tool loii 71 91 turpentine 80 70 00 wagons and carriages buo 7 81 wall aco 90 water wheels 85 85 wine loo 1 wire W m 91 woolen goads 91 1 woolen and cotton IS worsted 10 DO 71 91 wort ted and woolens lot 70 77 yarns 7 ft yarns ciolli 78 83 yarns and cordage X averages 81 W these acta show abat he average of wages paid in were 4 per cent higher than in 1890 in 1893 it was 17 per cent legs than in ISM and 21 per cent less than in 1892 while for alio 1895 period the average rate of wages paid wae per cent lese ahan in per ceat lees than in 1892 and only 3 per greater than in 1891 while those reported advances in wages jiahe leen diligently reported in the of the few industries that have been ennobled to make thein nothing been heard ol 01 the tar more numerous other ineman wherein the wage earners have not been 0 o fortunate investigations made by lie league were mckenly ceni is october chow new or enlarged within two years also that work has been provided for additional dit ional hand cenini october liow alie volam trade as compared with decrease of COX percent in be nf hands employed ft decrease of per cent in the amount of wages paid and A of 2 ia in the average weekly barins ear Ins industrial census october showing a decrease of 6 per cent in the output of compared ith IS a ailing 1 of 30 per cent la the number of hands employ td a faline olt of 45 per cent in the amount of jaees earned a decrease of 55 in average annabal these results can bo briefly tabulated as follows mckinley Me Kinley census 1892 ectra bands new capital invested 40 industrial jeasus 1893 rince no debease Dee ease in labor decrease in wages decrease in tax per cent Num berof hand oat of work total loison average cae in rate of fuges per week industrial census Oel 1894 since census decrease in labor 30 per cent decrease in wage 45 per cent decrease in product value 41 per cent decrease in cost of material 41 percent jaees and labor anus aa bayee employed paid llo with IMS less 14 18 I 1 1 I per cent 3 from tin investigation it ie ap parent i industrial condition of united has more a ha decade six years have lapsed sed since i the taking of census 0 ii and we find that 3 per cent lens labor ie employed nov than then aleo that labor earned vear at of 14 per acsa w than in 1889 results as ap A to the whole country appear in the following ex beneus of 18 of aw hands OU er beut ma wacer earned 14 pi ent ion and a free trade faraldo Uon greg is hat labor wa ca jing ess thie year than in 1889 we have te thank the more conservative democratic that the result is not boise contrast half decade of democratic destruction with the program of the country during three colades of krotec growth or capital 1 1870 v WM of persons employed men women children WW 1870 B W 3 not resumed rel umed total dagres P ald iab f 70 cot or material and value of product cost of vain of material product 70 there are two items in tho above tables that egand out in bold relief of 11 II other total tot employed dxee calil 1880 inert in ten jears 7 Nealry mo million of people given employment in decade two hundred thousand per year this krotec lion and the threat of free trade hae thrown ue back half a dozen years till labor is less buty now than it was in 1889 and ite earning capacity ie leee by three hundred million dollars a year here the suggestion naturally follow that our consumption of goods must be on the babie of our consumption in 1889 at least ae far ae alie wage earnese are concerned if they are in receipt of 1 than in this be the case the effect of our present importation of foreign goods could only be fairly gauged comparing them with our imports of 1889 that we are consuming as much ae a did from 1890 to 1893 ie well known but it the demand haa fallen back to that of 1889 then our manufacture re will certainly leave to curtail their output very shortly we have in tact learned from depre of several industries that thia is likely to be the case american economist |