Girls at American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Company strike for higher wages
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[Newspaper] Publication: Akron Daily Democrat Akron, OH, United States |
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McKINLEY WAGES IN AKRON
How wicked it was for the young ladies employed by the A. L. Dyke Toy Marble Co. to strike for higher wages! They were receiving $0.04 a thousand for rolling lumps of clay into marbles, and by unceasing work ten hours a day they could make from $0.25 to $0.35 a day! Last Friday when the girls struck for $0.05 a thousand instead of $0.04 Mr. A. L. Dyke informed them that hereafter the Company would pay only $0.035 a thousand. At the old wages in half a day last week one of the girls earned $0.04! or $0.08 a day! These were the wages paid under McKinleyism! Now that Tariff Reform and better times are here the girls want better wages, and everybody in town should assist the girls to win their fight!
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