SOME EFFECTS OF PROTECTION

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1814, 22 July 1891, Page 6

SOME EFFECTS OF PROTECTION

The following are stated to be a few of the results of the passage of the M'Kinlay Tariff:— Sixteen thousand Pennsylvania miners have been on strike since their wages were cut 10 per cent. The pottery workers of Trenton have had their wages cut down 22 per cent. The ribbon weavers of Paterson's wages have been cut 15 per cent. The spinners of Lowell's wages have been cut 3c per 100. The coal miners of Illinois have had their wages reduced from 69c to 60c per ton. The employed of the Buckeye Reaper works have suffered a reduction of 30 per cent. The employes of the Otis Iron and Steel Companies, of Cleveland, have had their wages cut 30 per c-nt. The Hopedale weavers' income has been reduced 2£ cents a yard. The Cocheco weavers' wages have been cut 4 per cent. Two thousand five huridred employes of the Illinois Steel Company are on strike against a proposed reduction. The employe's of the Crane Iron Company, of Allentown, have had their wages cut 10 per cent. The 600 Providence weavers struck i against a proposed reduction six weeks ago, i and are still out. | The Willimantic spoolers' wages have been cut Idol 50c per week. The furnace workers of Cleveland have had their wages cut 10 per cent. The coal miners of Evansville (Ind.) are still on strike. The employe's of the Jacksonville (111.) Underwear Company struck against a reduction. The Lewiston cotton workers do not like even a reduction of 3 per cent. The wages of the hafcmakers of Methven (Mass. ) have been cut 25 per cent. The Chatanooga steel- workers' wages have been cut 10 per cent. The employe's of the Saxony Knitting Company, of Little Falls (N.Y.), have had to put up with a reduction of 20 per cent. The steel-workers' employed by Mr Carnegie lose 10 per cent. The Scranton iron-workers are in the same box, The Steelton, Bethlehem, and Pottstown iron-workers lose respectively 7, 10, and 12 per cent. The wages of the silk-workers of Warehouse Point (Conn.), have been cut 27 per cent. Twelve hundred brick-workers at Trenton struck against a 20 psr cent, reduction. The wages of the engravers and chasers employed by the Middletown Plate Glass Company hays been cut 15 per cent. The cigarmakers of New York and Baltimore are on strike against a reduction. The leather finishers of Salomon's Newark factory revolted at a 14 per cent, reduction. The employes of the New Haven Rolling Mill are still out on strike because of a 10 per cent, reduction.