Protection in America

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 91, 24 January 1891, Page 3

Protection in America

The American correspondent of a contain porarygivf's a few/facts which show tji« real lendenc\ r of Protictioo in a very miinnier. Here they are : — -" ThVTariff Bill was passed on Sep-i-t'ember 30, and went into effect— except \as to sus{ar, tin, and a few other articles —on the 6th of October. — A few days after the passage of the 8 11 a plush taciory in Catasanqua (Perinsylvannia) -advanced the price of their goods and •iniiide a cut on the wasres of their em ■yloyes. Five hundred operatives struck, and the factory is mm closed, — X tin <jan factory in Indianopolis reduced the \?a2es of their workman, but aWvanc -d oh the price of,their goods 120 p<r cent., thoujih the new duty ou tin does not coaie intd : effecr unl il if uly 1 The rate< pn silks were advanced by the new la w to go into effect on August l. One of the silk mills of Patteivmrn, New Jer>ey, ridtice-.l Wildes 25 per cent on October 15. — The tax on woollens ami worsteds vfts largely i creasel by the Act of September 30.. The Wool Mills Companyi>f Valley Fails, lUiode island, cut t!it' waa|.-s of their women and girl operatives 25 per cent on Ottobe'r. 20.— The cotton weavers of Lonsdale, R.I-, Were.cut 15 p <i r cent on tlirir earnings. — The- spoolers of the Meiiiinac mills liad their pay red u red 7 d a day. — Euss»l: and Co., of; Mos-ilioi, Ohio, manufacturers of agricultural machinery, steam engines, and engineering articles made a cut of 83 per cent in the wage.* oft heir men" .No further proof should be 'required to induce every worker throughout the country to vote dead against any attempt to make proteclion part of; the permanent policy of the country in which he lives.