SOME EFFECTS OF PROTECTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2982, 25 August 1891, Page 4

SOME EFFECTS OF PROTECTION.

Tin; following are said to ho a few of the results of the passage of the M'Kinley 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 wag2S have been cut 15 per cent. The spinners of Lowell's wages have been out lie per hundred. Tho coal miners of Illinois have had their wages reduced from (jfJc to 60c per ton. The employees of tho Buckeye reaper works have suffered a reduction of 30 per cent. The employees of tho Otis Iron and Steel Companies, or Cleveland, have had their waj.'cs cut 30 [ er cent. The H opedale weavers' income has been reduced cents a yard. The Oocheeo weavers' wages have been cut I per cent. Two thousand five hundred employees of the Illinois Steel Company arc on ■ triku against a proposed reduction. Tho employees of the Crane Iron Company, of Allentown, have had their wages cut 10 per cent. Six hundred Providence weavers struck n«iin--t a proposed reduction six weeks ago. and are still out. The Willmantic spoolers' wages have been cut Idol f>oc per week. The furnace-workers of Cleveland have had their wages cut 10 per cent.. The coal miners of F.vansville (Ind.) ale still on strike. The employes of the Jacksonville (111.) Underwear Company struck against a reduction. Tim Lewiston cotton workers do not like even a reduction of 3 per cent. The wages of the hatmakersof Methveu (Mass.) have been cut 25 percent. The Chatanooaa steel-workers' wages have been cut 10 per cent. The employes of the Saxony Knitting Company, of Little Fal's (N.Y.), have had to put lip with a reduction of "J0 per cent. The steel-workers employed by Mr Carnegie lose 10 per cent. The Scranlon iron-workers are in the same box. The SteeHon, Bethlehem, and I'ottstown iifn-workers lose respectively 7, 10. and 1'? per cent. The wages of the silk-wor'--.era of Warehouse Point. (Conn.), kv.v l ion cut 'J7 ner cent. Twelve bundled brick-workers at Trenton struck against a I'O per cent, reduction. The wane' of the engravers and chasers employed by the .Middlcton Plato Glass Company have been cut 15 per cent. The cigarmakera of New i ork and Paltimore are on strike against a reduel ion. The leather finishers of Salomon's Newark factory revolted at a 14 per cent. reduction. The employes f the New Haven Rolling Mill are still out on strike because i.i a 10 per cent, reduction.