Armory Significantly Reduces Wages

REDUCTION OF WAGES.

We learn, with much regret, that peremptory orders have been received from the War Department, to reduce the wages of the artisans employed in the Armory at Harper’s Ferry 25 per ct. This is a serious event to the workmen citizens of that place– indeed it may be termed a calamity. We have not been in the habit of saying much in favor of the present Administration, but really we feel confident, that a re-consideration of this measure would move the authorities at Washington to a prompt and cheerful reversal of the order. We cannot believe that the President will suffer so large a body of useful and meritorious men to be reduced to a condition of absolute and fruitless drudgery. — Charlestown Free Press.