The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, October 22, 1896, Image 6

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    FREE TRADE MISERY.
Hathaniel McKay Tells of His Tci r
Through British Marufac
turin? Center?.
PEEP AT POVERTY IN LONDON.
Working Women at Masculine Labor
Stern Facts for Our Wage
Earners.
Free-trade slavery still exist in the
British empire uotw itbsiainling the re
duction of the American tariff, which
benefits the Kmilish manufacturer, luit
does not reach the British workman.
Eight years ago 1 visited England for
the purpose of studying the condition of
Thin "court" h'hp honw-sh.s .attero
tic! -ontaiiied H bouses li dwchincs
5 oil olio side ami I oil tile oilier. fclid
!iee three . . s t were all there was
or this whole ;"iiiiirt.'
Hoard aud l.Mttlug.
These hovels are ins-i-ted by the e
lice. I found a certificate in the hall f
one of them dated March 22. I'fiCi. an. I
-igue't "A i . V oo!, ch'cf olice super
intendent." These certificate are signed
at hi- ..Hi. e. mill prot.ahl,v he uever vis
its the iilaci-s.
One man told rue he had for his hrcak
faM bread and butter a lid tea no meat
and for hi dinner hn-ad aud bacon,
but meat wax a luxury he could not af
ford. The tenant lbs-ted around nie by
the dozen in Miller's court. I would
have Is-eti glad to have taken some pho
tographs of these scenes and "courts."
but the weather nan too cloudy for any
satisfactory results.
I pased from thiM court to another,
and. going to a disir. I asked. "What
do you do for a living?" The man there
answered. "1 take in lodger."
"What do you charge':" "Fouris-noe
its tvntsi per nieht or soveupence (14
cents) a couple." (The man saw there
were two of us.l
Pas-itig on, we came to the largest of
it kind, containing :Ct."i beiis. (in the
ChaJnmaken of Cradley Henih earnl'ig from f ! jn 1.50 rer week, working tea boors per day.
Taken Aug nut 'b; lw, by X. MrKoy.
the working people and comparing their ground floor of thi lod (fin ghotise
wages with those of Americana, r our large room for the men to ait
TDaPH airn t iti'iiIm m bii.viiuI viutr fnr thft !
same purpose ami on August 1 li. LSlHi, I
left New York, for the third time, to
make another investigation. I arrived
in Manchester on August 21 and there
began my invest 'srntioo, where 1 found
more deslituth-n ibui. I had ever seeu
in any other city.
The "Cesspool" of Manchester.
Standing, looking no Ansel meadow.
graveyard on the left and behind one
of the worst "courts." in (Jrest Britain, j
public homes of course, and all around i
a population Krruggiiiig iu the ocean of !
is a
The
moral and social degradation, it has
been called the "cesspool of Manches
ter.'' Its history is a history of dirt.
Tile crime, drunkenness, riot, cruelty
and robbery. The houses are low and
dilapidated, and many are villainous
holes, unventilated. unilrairied, corrupt,
reeking with suiellx, utterly infamous
and sickening faith to body and mind
all thin within a few minutes' walk of
the Queen's hotel, the Exchange and
railway stations.
There are scores of rooms furnished
kiichca b.low contained a large closed
cooking riuge, which was red hot, and
the odor of the cooking going on made it
anything hut enviable to he iu. The lodg
ers all cook for themselves anl have a
variety of thing to cook and tbey are
not very particular as to how mauy dif
ferent things are cooked together in the
same pot. We went upstairs and saw
.'J!l5 beds, w hich are let at three differ
ent prices ti, 8 and 12 cents per night.
The 12-ei-iit lodger hag a place boarded
off to himself no water, no towel.
Wealth and Poverty Miami.
Manchest-r, with her 500.000 popula
tion, boasts of her wealth and manufac
turing resour.-ea ami one would suppose
that all of the people alike lived in pal
aces; hnt to examine into the exact con
dition I find quite the reverse. Thou
sands of these people live otj alcohol.
When they earn any money, it goea for
alcohol chiefly.
( 'oTuitig back to my hotel, the Queen's,
facing one of the finest streets in Man
chester, is the Royal infirmary, all along
the front of which there are Meats which
Mrs. Ells Hssd. age , ehainmsker of Cradley Heath. The background shows on the left the
vw.v-iu.i.l mvfi uii me riKiu inc noine. ene makes fj.iea week.
Taken Auguit 26, 1SS, by N. McKay.
with a table, a chair, a thing called a
bed and a few pots. These rooms are
an I let for 18 cents a night for two
size 12 by 10 where people eat, cook
and sleep. I entered some of these
houses if such a name could be given
to the hovels I saw and iu one I asked
of a woman:
'! you rent this?" "yes," was the
reply.
"What do yon pay for it?" Fonr and
six ($1.08) a week."
"Have yon the whole house?" "No,
sir: only this room." (Size 12 hv 10.)
"Io you sleep in here?" "es, sir:
we sleeps, eats, cooks and everything
here."
"Von have a room above np the
stairs?" '"No, sir; that's another par
JyV" t'an I go np?" "Yes, I dare say he
will let .vim."
"Befoie I go tip 1 would like to ask,
'What o yon do for a living?"' "My
hn-!'i:d sells sandstone, sand and bine
mole, or he gives the stone and geta
rags, l-ottles, bone or old iron for
them."
"AVlat does be earn in a week?"
. t 'his niieattou the woman smiled.
"Well." It depends sometime more.
snniettn' s less. One day perhaps a shil- ! shoddy
line cents;, saoiner oay i ana world.
(2M rsv ts) sad so on."
I sbwuhl say here that the agent finds
the put, paaf bed and fire, such as
they are, far I wtU nt sfteaapt to de
erlbe thn. This I will say no dog
of mine sbonld ever he allowed to sleep
on wi st is called a bed in Umnh places,
The whole oattl was not worth 10
'"'"Msr. mm a tsv.4 rardT "No. sir."
'wlstl kt yoar chwet, then?'
are occnpieil by prsir people from the
sitima. I was informed that many aat
there the whole night, so 1 arose early
the next morning and went across to the
seats and found that HI), 12 of whom
were women, one with a child, had sat
there all night because they had not the
necessary 0 cents for a bed.
The trade of Manchester is very much
depressed at present awaiting the pres
idential election in the lnited Ktales.
The merchants of the United States are
making very small purchases now, lap
cause they fear a new tariff hill and
because American consumption is less
ened through the idleness of the people
and their inability to buy. The manu
facturers and shipiiers here do not want
any change in the present American
tariff. Bm they say they would rather
have McKinley for I'residcnt than Bry
an, for if Bryan is elected and a silver
standard declared in the 1,'nited States,
they cannot sell their goods at all to
America. Yet they despise JIcKinley
for, as the London Times stmed a few
g, "his Infamous tariff bill."
Trade I'srsly.l. in Nrwllord.
Leaving Manchester. 1
ford, which is the largest woolen ,.,!
maniifatciiring district in the
Trade is lmralrxed them r..
I as Lniten states shipments are ron.
j re rued at present, '('he manufacturers
i nre awaiting the election of the Presi
! dent of the United Pt,ncs. to know
! whether he will he a free trader or a nro-
(cetionlst. The merchants sre very much
agitated on this account for fhev can
get hut few orders from file C'nfted
Ktales. I said to one of tbera:' "Voti
hare now the whole British empire (In
cluding India l. with a tKiimlation of al
most .flna,uuo rant r;M b her majea
tft U Mpplyi wh ar fou aot saUsftail
to manufacture vnor go.s and sujij ly
your o u p-ode ;"
His answer w as: "We want the Anwr
icau market. It is the greatest market
in the world and during the time the
Mi Kii'lcy lull was a law our manufac
turers were o,uite paralysed."
There was cxned from Bradford
during the last nine months of the ex-istciu-e
of the M.-Kinley law JI.17H.lMi
worth of giusfs. This was frntu Jauiiiry
1. 1VH. tu Scptemts-r .'ill. iM. Iuriiig
the -orresKinling eriod of the following
year (from .lanuarv 1. lS'.C. to Septein-U-r
l, 1S!C,.,. under the Wilson bill,
the ejjHirts from Bradford amounted to
$21.1Tl.oisi. Five times as mwh under
the Wilsun bill as under the McKinley
bill. The total exports for the year lstCi
from Bradford amounted to (Si.'iTt.ionK
These exs(i-ts include thirty-seven items,
but consist chiefly of card clothing, col
ton gisjds. iron and steel, machinery,
hosiery, stuffed goods, worsted goods,
yarns, silks, etc.
Mr. Meeker. United States consul at
Bradford, furnished me these statistics,
which were taken from his reports to the
state department.
We manufacture similar goisla in
America, but on account of the Wilson
tariff bill we have been deprived of the
chance to manufacture them, and the
money which should have been paid to
our own working people ha been paid
to the laboriug people of tireat Britain.
Our chimneys have ceased smoking,
while theirs are in full blast. Our
working M-ople are idle and deprived of
a living on account of this iniquitous,
free trade, Wilson tariff.
Butluess Thrives la Birmingham.
I left Bradford on August 24 for Bir
mingham, passing through Leeds and
Sheffield, whose iron aud steel works are
in full blast. Not only in these places,
but all over England, this line of in
dustry is prospering. And the factories
are running full time, and the greater
part of their product ia snipped to the
United States. And while their works
two) and he told me it was bis wife,
who was very iuck. All around were
signs of poverty. It was n.it hi for hu
man beings. It made me chill with
pilv aa 1 looked on this terrible scene.
lining through a little mint l ut lux
Hi feet, iu the rear of this tnw. I caiue
to the shop where one of his d:iu:htrr
makes chain with another woman. I
asked her name and she told me Clara
Boxa-y. Her age is 22 years.
She has lieen making rbaiu for five
years and receives from Jl.". to 2.1'i
a week for her work. She insk.-s three
eighths inch chain and is paid fl.'C for
112 is. mills. For breakfast she has
bread and butter and lea and sometimes
a piece of bacon. She t"ld me sh
worked from i ocl.sk in the morning
until 7 iu the evening; ibal the only rea
son she staid there was because sin
could not save enough money to pay her
fare awar from the tow n.
The buildings look as if they had stood
for centarios. and as I passed through
the little court leading into (he house
and which is walled ou every side by
houses I counted tiftisn little children
from 2 to li years of age playing tie
get her in all the filth that could sur
round a blacksmith shop in ties district.
Across the alb v was iui.it Kir s'oii where
another daughter was making chain.
She is married, has one child aud uiakci
J2.1U iT week.
She has been muk.iig chain for twenty
vcars. having coinmciu-cd w heu she was
12 ve;irs old. Her husband, a chain
maker also, earns from ?i to M..SI a
Week.
Mrs. Pi.lly 1'ow kes has fmir daugh
tors making chain. She is 54 years old
aud has made chain since she was
years of age, but is now !si old to work
at it any inure. Kach of the daughters
makes from f.2 to Jl.Tsf per week.
I'liey live in a little old hulls.-, with
stone flooring. Here they cook and eal
ami live in the same risuu all huddled
together. The girls are very smart at
the forge. 1 set five girls to work
ciAotc vTrtw FtCXT
Emily lroni, ge 32, Crsdley Heath. Ens.. V) yer s rhsinmkr. Work" ten hunrj per dy sic
earnitilsa week. The building Is her b! lomlib shop. TsUn Aug. ISM, by N. Mrkaj.
are running full time our is-ople are idle.
Today the goods that are being made iu
Leeds and in Shcflicld would, were it not
for the Wilson bill, be made in the
United States.
I spent a day in Birmingham, which
is another thriving and prosiiemus manu
facturing center. Here also the people
are very desirous that no change be
made in the present American tariff
si hednle which would result in depriving
them of our market for their goods.
The British Chain Ciang.
After leaving here I went to Cradley
Heath among the women chainmakers
and women blacksmiths to witness the
misery there which 1 had visited in
bboe Worn by Wlgan Women.
18.SS and iu 1S!2. There are women
there by the thousands who make chain
for a living in old, low buildings adjoin
ing their houses.
One man, William Boiler, said he
was 56 years old and earned 00 cents a
day as a laborer, w hen he could work.
He has five daughters aud five sons.
Three of this daughters are chainmakers
and one works in a brickyard, carrying
brick. I went into his house. On the
lower floor was a room with a stone
the blacksmith shop. They worked .'W'
minutes and made uie 14 pounds ',
three-eighths chain. Each piece wsi
over two feet long, and they worked Ilk.
Isaveni to see who could make the long
est piece. They work fen hours u day
I gave them a shilling apiece when the
all came into the room, and I asked
them how long it would take to earn
that amount. 1 hey replied. "It wool'
take more than a day" (to earn 2."
cents). I thought. "Miserable England:
Women foal Miners,
I did not visit Wigan this time (.is 1
have done twice Iwforel, but there is no
change in Inlsir there; the oorhoiie
which I described aud reproduced in l)fi2
still stand. It is a pitiful sight to wit
ness the poor women there, half starved
and half clad, wheeling coal on the to
of the pits for the small pittance ol
40 to .VI cents for ten hours' work. I
reproduce here a cut of the shoes thai
are worn by the women in these dis
trieta. heavy clogs with big nails in the
bottom.
The situation has not changed yet. Ai
long as there is coal in the pit there will
be women to wheel it. At one time thii
class lived and had their families Ui th
coal mines, but Parliament prohibited
this, and now they do the wheeling or
the top of the pits. With this chesi
labor no wonder coal is cheap in thi
country. This coal is used on the very
steamers and vessels which carry Eng
laud's free trade labejr product to Amen
ca to compete with our labor and maim
factnrea.
Charles L. Snowdcn of Brownsvilti
Pa., writes me: "We pay our miners 7
cents per ton. or $2.i0 per 100 btishi !
(70 pounds to the bushel). One man i .'i
put from l.V) to 2t0 bushels per da;
and can earn from to $4 daily. Ther.
A soap shot taken In w hiter ) pel. stiowfni bow the poor get their rest.
Tsksn August 2i, IMS), t,y a. Mt Kay.
floor and an old fashioned fireplace
with ovens on each eide and a (dace lor
eon! in the midiiV. iinck of this was a
little space for a no broom where there
is room for only ois .icrson. In the front
room all the enokl'itt i. done and it Is
also used for a living room and dining
room. Upstair is k room Hxl2 feet.
As I entered here I notleed a woman
lying om the h4 (there wtte
are no Kiorhouses in Brownsville st.irlu;
these working people in the face. Tloo
make from six to eirht times the wn,;.
of the poor sople at Wigan. ami tic '
nre no women at woik wheeling coal :
t'te United Htstes.
funpsra in the llrltlah Knjplre,
rnp'ilallon of Oreet Britain snd
Ireland, OT.TttMrJ'
Pauper. . i., ,(, . ... .., IioHMrjn
Os pauper to every 37 nristis Tweoty
eifUt pMUT Iu ecrv lew all et.ilia.
(.'..( ! uiaiulatu llftc- psiiifer
suuusily .'.". siV.tT5
Cost to iiislntslu tlie jueen aud
tbe royal f.u.i.v fi!Ct,770
Cust I., lnaiutilill the presldeut
sail bis wrrlarim is.'. OCi
The lsipiilatk.il of the I'.ritish empire,
including India and the eol.mics. is ;Ui.
''. There are .".11 colonies -.nd 4"
distinct overnuielits.
I.lf lu IRiton.
I arrived in London August 3N, aud
made a visit to White. Iimh I. I risilcl
a hslging bouse on Osls.riie street. I
asked for the proprietor and was intro
duced to him. They call him "the gov
ernor" to distinguish bim from other
There are .119 friendly societies of
trades union in Ureal Britalu sitli a
iiicmisrsiiip ,f Lie).'!.'""! (taken fruui re
(sirl of House ef ( V.niiiiotisi. Several
of these . M-tie sre l.s-ated in luudon
and include some .f ttie trsdi-s enuuicr
ated iu the Bith table. The so. wiles
control the e of lbr various trades,
and were it not for the stand they lake
their wages would be reduced by the
manufacturer to a lower standard tUn
tiny are st present, which is less than
one-half of what is paid in America.
Higher Wage In America.
Our last census report of gsve
us 4.712.022 people employed in manu
facturing, the average yearly earning of
each person being f4Wt. The average iu
Daugbten of Mrs. Fokes, chainmakers of Crsdley Heaih, earn II 20 I f s week.
a day. Tsaru August X. IB'.s.. by M Mi Ky.
Work ten hoar
men. His name Is W ildemouth. He
lodges imtsous in his house every
night. His rooms sre by ft feet am) he
receives 12 cents ier night for eai h of
these rooms.
I went from thereto Commercial street
(in liitoohapeli where I saw a place
ailed the Victoria borne (kept in the
same manner as the one on Oshoriie
street 1. where the roomers pay from (i
to 12 cents per night. Then I went
through the thickest part of Whit.s hsMd
an alley called Petticoat lane. I be
meat hanging in the stores and on the
sidewalks was so filthy that it sickened
me and I could not tarry long enough to
ven ask the price of it. I asked the
nnce of herrings 1 cent each. Bread
was 1 cent a loaf, and it was hard look
ing bread; potatoes one-half cent a
isnind: onions one-lmif cent a pound; ,'1
isutnda of carrots for 2 cents. Such a
filthy trading market would disgust a
stoic. They live in filth, br.sd iu filth
aud die in filth, knowing no' lung else.
The 'Casual Ward."
Then I went to a public institution
known as a casual ward, the same one
I visitei eight years ago. 1 foiiej h
jhsi as ii was iu i .-vi--
guardian, told me this
The kecil... or ! per
ward had Is-cft ' of
England for each person (taken from
reports published by Pariiumciiti is about
t2. a difference in favor of America
of $2iN js"r capita. Now there arc thou
sands of people iu England who do hut
receive one-half this Jl'SO. We pay our
angle iron smiths r:i er .-cut. more thrui
they r; paid in England; our blink
smiths. 10'' s-r cent, mote; our boiler
makers, 47 ier cent, more; our brick
layers. l'Jo iht cent, more: our istjlcr
shop helper". !l.1 r cent, more: our
carpenters, lisi per cent, mure; our con
ductor bm express trainsi. .'il!l per cent,
more; our locomotive engineers, llil per
cent, more; our uo!i. e. 2'KI s r cctn.
more; our telegraph operators. Ki: j,er
cent, more; our train lipatc!ier. ::Ki
m r cent, more, and our common labor
ers, loS p-r cent. more. The difference
in all classes (if labor Is the same a
thi-se example I mention.
The engineers who run the fastest ex
press trains on the road ill iighitul get
but $1C Sl ier week for ten hours per
day. The firemen get ."i.li2 per week or
!1H cents M-r day. The gmirds (who
correspond with our conductors I get
from jM.NO to iftl.72 mt week. Tlie s.r
ters i we ei.ll them brakemen) gel $4."!
week. 1 Ins is a sample ol the pay
English lalsir. Our engineers in
in existence for more Ihiin finny year
and that there were thirty such plains
in Ixuiilon at present. These institutions
are kept as public places and are reallr
xKirhonses. If a mau has no muv. he
can go there and apply for admittance.
whicB begets il the place ts not already
filled. When received, they are kept in
confinement for two nights and one day,
America on the expr.-ss (rains receive
:il.."l S r week, our eondiicior $211
and our brakenian 513. We pay more
than dotibli- the wages paid in England,
where railroad fare is higher and the
coal che.'tjMT than in America.
The following table of wages answers
ail the free-trade fallacies of the Demo
cratic party and cannot he disputed:
.11 aKJWiWon;
mmm
Mill
r n
'
ftA-A'DT. i r
La- j r j -- .a m i'. i
O V. i WJ. ' i i. ' l
Mr. Fowkes' daughter work l n bouts mt dav. earn from Sl.m 1.S0 per wsek.
Taken at Cradley liusth, A ugiw ISM.
it the expiration of which time they ure
discharged.
Nobody is allowed to come to these
, ibices more than un.-e a month, and he
can stay no longer than the time pre
crilcd. The ward I visited accoiii
uiodated fifty-five nieu and thirty-two
women. The beds consist of a narrow
strip of canvas stretched like a hammock
lietwcen two iron rods about a foot from
(he floor. The applicants are admitted
after 6 p. m. in tlie summer time and
after 4 p. m. iu the winter time. As
soon bs they are admitted they nre given
a bath in one of the six baths iu tin
ward and their clothes are fumigated
and disinfected. After the bath they
have their sups-r of six ounces of bread
and a pint of gruel. Eor their tail they
are given three blankets. Eor breakfast
they receive the same food as for sup
per. For dinner, in addition to the bread
and grtiel, they are given l',4 ounces of
cheese. The total cost for caring for
these people, during the period of their
rontinemetit, including the five meals, is
') cents each.
A.I vice to American.
My advice to every American working
man Is, as I have said before, to pro
tect hia own rights and the rights and
privileges of his family and not to fol
low the whims, cries aud falsehoods of
the free-trade politician who seeks lo
have goods imported into the United
States which are made by cheap pauper
labor laetiu he thinks the goods inn be
sold cheaper than if they were made
In America.
If the wages of the American working
men are not reduced to the standard of
i hose in England, and the goods are not
made in America, he has no money
lo purchase these cheap goods with. Be.
rng deprived of work, where are they to
'ct their money to make their purchase
vith?
Kehor In London,
The following statistics are taken from
Booth's "Life sinl l.aiH.r ol the People
TAKEN FROM OFFICIAL 80UHCF.8.
Per Week.
ts
(Is
Allele Iron Mill I In. . . ,
llollermaker. .......
lion ksmii hs
Itrb kin vers
iiollershop helpers.,
i'alkcrs. .............
Carpenters, house. ...
Csrtteuiers, ship
Conductors, express.
( ar .Irlvers. l-.ng.
VI hr.. Anier. 12.
Kngineers, l.ninkin and
.Northwestern and V
V. Central
Firemen, express
If.Mtcarriers.
Holders on, boiler shop.
Joiners, house, I.lvrroiMjl
Laborers In al reels, Lon-i
non. , ,
'longshoremen, N. Y
diM-ks TJl lu toe per hr;
I.tidon dorks 12e per
ti r
Machinists, 1st rfsss..
Machinists, 2d class., .
M sons, H hours
Mol.lcr. Iron
I'stnters ,
plasterer.
Plumber ,
Platers
Printers, Job
Policemen.
I'M . era
Tllveler
IMirgcr
Xtngc drivers (same
lu.ise cr rtrlversi. ...
Teiegriiph operators...
r.iiiilniol -
f London," showing the number of pen- j -i'eriige nrst years serv
e empioyeu in uh- mnous iiue in me
tv ot ixiiiuoii:
Pallors wi.Ti'l
os-it and slcs'tiiskers Isi.iiM
Hatters " -i
N,ssmnssr Ti ItlliMiI'-ra. , , i
Milrtmker 17'JI
-lachlnUl. .
I.rai.er snd hosiers Si.:.i7
ks .- si,.,.,.
Cabmen, eoseiimen. nusuien, etc.. ,. viii,i ).
Hallway service, moor, eic
amen -. -. I ..'t
lon'k service, laoor. corn neaver.
porll IS. .lrnrri., -S..UI
-neriti in'ior. fiictoi' 'shor , if r. . f ' -
.-lne driver anil arlNaita 4."i,:::i'
Ave' age tea years' serv-
c. . . , t ,
T rain dispatcher
Cc 'i.oiou luborcr
J j Mortnr umker ., . .
siri.Mii
t i .. .'
Kurj
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I hcnpness will bo still more dearly
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i we continue a free-trado policy iu Amer-
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I piesent this sLiloiiienl lo the Itcpub
i.iin iintioiiiil con. luit lee, free of charge,
id trust they will attend lo the diie
i ti lloitioll of it.
i Nathaniel McKay.
Tendon, Kept. 4, IWHi.
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