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crease, 80; employes, 5,127; increase, 1,134; 

 wages paid, $2,034,413; increase, $266,858; 

 value of product, $7,812,113; increase, $2,- 

 077,872 ; average annual wages, $397. 



Plate-Glass, Establishments in the State, 

 17; employes, 2,174; increase over previous 

 year, 760; amount paid in wages, $1,194,286; 

 increase, $346,577; value of the product, $2,- 

 154,710; average annual wages paid, $550. 



Printing-, Wall-, and Writing- Papers, and 

 Binders' Boards. Establishments, 63 ; em- 

 ployes, 2,650; wages paid, $1,019,576; value 

 of product, $5.932,702; increase, $611,539; 

 average annual wages, $362. 



Rollin g- Mills. Establishments, 119; de- 

 crease 23 ; employes, 32,751 ; decrease, 708 ; 

 wages paid, $13,S81,848; decrease, $970,050; 

 average annual wages, $424. 



Saw-mills. Establishments, 923 ; increase, 

 219; employes, 11,138; increase, 3,182; wages 

 paid, $2,590,520; increase, $257,765; value of 

 product, $11,949,122; annual wages, $233. 



Slate. Establishments, 48 ; employes, 777; 

 wages paid, $744,046 ; value of product, $1,- 

 158,347; average annual wages, $311. 



Street Passenger- Railways. Companies, 44; 

 employes, 4,398 ; wages paid, $2,535,378 ; av- 

 erage annual wages, $577. 



Tanneries. Establishments, 303; decrease, 

 90; employes, 5,090; decrease, 1,022; wages 

 paid, $2,017,327; decrease, $398,000; value 

 of product, $23,098.870; increase, $913,053; 

 average nnnual wages, $359. 



Miscellaneous works, manufacturing axes, 

 shovels, spades, saws, brass, bronze, copper, 

 bolts, spikes, nails, bridges, builder's hardware, 

 chairs, elevators, electric supplies, files, rasps, 

 forgings, furnaces, gas and steam fixtures, gal- 

 vanized ware, guns, rifles, injectors, cocks, 

 safes, pipes, tubes, railings, scales, testing-ma- 

 chines, screwy shaftings, springs, axles, ships, 

 ship-engines, smelting bronze and brass, steel 

 pens, tin cans, boxes, tools, wire goods, and 

 wheelbarrows. Establishments, 169; em- 

 ployes, 13,101 ; wages paid, $5,441,101 ; value 

 of product, $24,342,229. The annual wages 

 range from $240 to $700. The general aver- 

 age wages is about $450 a year. The aggre- 

 gate number of employes in the various manu- 

 factories of iron and ito products last year was 

 91,899 ; average weekly wages paid about $8, 

 and average number of days employed, 275. 



The number of steam- railroad employes is 

 reported at 79,210. 



The 98 industries reported show 457,987 

 employes; wages paid, $182,989,624; average 

 days employed, 267; average weekly wages, 

 $7; value of product (including railways), 

 $537,678,692. The total amount of annual 

 wages was paid to a greater number of em- 

 ployes than has been reported. The number 

 of employes in each industry cnly represented 

 the average number employed during the year, 

 while the wages paid per annum in each in- 

 dustry was divided among all persons em- 

 ployed, whether for a long or short period. 



If full allowance could be made for the pro- 

 portion of wages paid to persons not retained 

 among the average employed, the pro rata 

 share of all would be much less than is shown. 

 Political. The Republican State Convention 

 met at Harrisburg on June 30, and nominated 

 the following ticket: For Governor, James A. 

 Beaver; Lieutenant-Governor, William T. Da- 

 vies; Auditor-General, A.Wilson N orris; Sec- 

 retary of Internal Affairs, Thomas J. Stewart ; 

 Congressman-at-large, Edwin S. Osborne. The 

 following is the platform adopted: 



To the end that our industries may be symmetrical- 

 ly developed, our commerce extended, labor receive 

 just rewards, and capital find remunerative employ- 

 ment, we demand that the system of protection known 

 as the " American system," Avhich has been re-estab- 

 lished, built up, ana fostered by the Kepublican party 

 for twenty -five years, be maintained in its integrity. 

 And we demand further that this system, under 

 which the wealth of this country has been more than 

 trebled in a single generation, and which affords a fair 

 and reasonable protection to our agricultural and 

 manufacturing interests, and the industrial classes 

 employed in connection therewith, be also extended 

 to our commerce, so that by the establishment and 

 maintenance of a commercial marine, we may diver- 

 sify industry, find new channels for the overcrowded 

 ranks of labor, make use of the products of forest, 

 mine, and mill in building our own ships, and pro- 

 vide for the nation's defense as well as the preserva- 

 tion of the nation's honor, by training a body of men 

 for service on the seas, furnishing ships which can be 

 transferred to the service of the nation in case of need, 

 and securing the establishment of ship-yards and ma- 

 chinery which will enable us, as a nation, to construct 

 entirely within ourselves, when necessity requires, a 

 navy which can meet the demands of modern naval 

 warfare. 



The products of the farm and dairy should not be 

 lost si<rht of in the list of American industries to be 

 protected under the American system, and both na- 

 tional and State Legislatures should protect them 

 from dangerous and unjust competition, and from any 

 or all adulterations or counterfeits. Our unqualified 

 hostility is proclaimed to the Morrison bill, not only 

 because it ,is an avowed step in the direction of free 

 trade, but because in design it is intended to permit 

 raw materials to be imported duty free, and thus it 

 strikes at the prosperity of the farm, the mine, and the 

 workshop. 



We deprecate the nefarious work of importing for- 

 eign pauper, criminal, and contract labor, or the prod- 

 ucts of European convict-labor, and demand the pas- 

 sage of a national law summarily prohibiting such im- 

 portation under any pretext whatever. 



Labor and capital are of right, and should be 

 through custom and law, perfectly mutual ; and to the 

 end that their mutual relations shall be strengthened, 

 we advocate at the hands of the national Congress 

 and of all State Legislatures the enactment of proper 

 laws, affording facilities for conference and arbitra- 

 tion, based upon the principle that all men are free 

 and equal, and directly recognizing the equality of all 

 the interests involved the workers, the employers, 

 and the people at large. 



That Congress should no longer grant any of the 

 public lands to railroad or other corporations, and 

 should confine the sale of public lands to American 

 citizens. We demand the prohibition of large landed 

 ownership, either by syndicates or alien holders. 



We indict the present national Administration for 

 inconsistency in the methods employed to promote 

 promised reforms ; indifference to our industrial and 

 commercial interests, and inefficiency through lack of 

 experience and ability to meet any of the grave ques- 

 tions of the day. 



