THE PROFITS ARE FOR THE BOSSES.
Slowly the logic of events is teaching mill operatives throughout the country that whether tariffs be hgh or low they get only the going wages. There was fervent pleading for the poor hosiery kniters when the McKinley tariff was under consideration. In the interest of the poor workingman the duties on hosiery were heavily in reased. Wow comes news that the American Hosiery Company, one of the largest concerns in Connecticut, has cut wages 10 per cent all around. Why not ? The profits of the sacred tariff are for the bosses, not fur the toilers at loom or knitting frame — &1 entown (Perm.) Democrat.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 7315, 9 March 1892, Page 4
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110THE PROFITS ARE FOR THE BOSSES. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 7315, 9 March 1892, Page 4
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