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The Laborer Loses

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
February
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 17. - At the legislative hearing as to the condition of the cotton manufacturing industry in this state, Representative Ross, for the operatives, said that in most lines wages were higher than they were fifteen years ago, but in the cotton trade this was not so, and at the present time wages were 20 per cent lower than in 1893. Many mili men admitted that the present reduction would not benefit them. The machinery was run at the highest possible speed. If the reduction went into effect the buyer would demand all the manufacturer had taken from the operative, and in a few weeks at the longest all advantages oí the cut-down would be lost. The market was glutted, and nothing would be gained by forcing lower cost goods into it. Mr. Ross said that he personally knew of cases where milis increased their output after reducing their hours of labor. None of the manufacturers bad pointed out a single thing operating against them, except the shortening of hours.

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Ann Arbor Democrat