The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-07
INTERESTING STATISTICS.

.sNearly 500, 900 yards Of cotton and woollen
goods are made at Lowell every week The aver
age wages of the females are dollar and seventy
FIVE cents per week, erciuding what they pay for
board-a dollar and quarter; of the males, exclu-
sive of board, 10 cents per day."
ILopeH correspondent of tie NJ Y. Commercial.
The following is written by large cotton manu-
facturer in England, who, with his father, for the
last half century, has carried the same establish
ment in a small country village. He represented
the town of Manchester in Parliament for several
years:
"Feb. "a, Is45.
"DEAR SIR: In reply to your inquiries about the
rate of our wages at Quarry Bank, would pre-
mise, that being old concern, some old ma
ehnery, and having to take families, consequently
men, women, and children, though some of them
may be unequal or unsuitable to their work, wages
are nomnally lower than in to,rns populous manu-
featuring foci.
ain such country places, according to distance
from markets, the wages lower, nomnally, 10
to so per cent; this difference being partly nomi-
naly only less; for, reckoning by ,cegM produce
turned out, such country labor is actually higher
than in town. partly the difference is real, and
makes up for the expense Of transportation, which
of course is greater in distant mills.
"At Quarry Bank, our wages per ,ceek are fully as
high as tocn ,rages, nominally 10 to is per cent
lo,oer. In round figures, should put down our
women and girls, at Ss. Cd. net or 50 GA per week.
Men, not overseers, COS. ais, say 90
Lads 10 years old, l2s. l5s. /" SO
Children, IS. IS. average W
Pieces at the spinning frames, los. l4s or 50 90
"If you add IS per cent. about to the above, you
have Manchester wages; add 10 per cent, Stock
port wages; 20 per cent, Ashton wages--the highest
Of all.
"At Lo,relI, New England, the same women and
girls get 80 and boardor used to do, for there has
been a reduction of wages there's
o,reu labor. and that a Ashton. about on q
par, both for money and efficiency.
tThe outcry about pauper labor in the manufac-
turing districts of England is utterly without foun-
dation."
Ina communication which appeared in the New York
Evening Post e a na' on on
England labor and capital fourtenths of the
gross profits whereas in this country the result was pre-
esely the rsyerseiabor taking but and capital
six tenths At the present moment capital still shares the
Feeling desirous Of disabusn the mind of the american
public upon the subject of Of labor in the manufac-
turing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire wrote TO
gentleman "a native of New England but now some two
years resident Of Manchese Tor the information which
Is appended may be relied having been obtained
from the most authentic and the writer closes his
letter thus: ~ believe all written strictly
The rates will be much higher than the American tariff
The pound sterling reduced into decimal currency at
the rate Of 81 s4iOO which is the current value here
YORKSHIRE.
Woonen cloth district.
This includes variety of employmens, but
men in inferior capacities earn los Us per
Rather superior, embracing the greater part,
21s. PAS 81 a 8 80
In some few cases they zoos. 90 "a 90
Throughout the manufacturing district, labor
ing employed by the day in heavy work,
digging, removing rubbish, &C., will get
2s Cd. to Is, per day 60 nc.
LANCASHIRE.
Cotton manufactured
week 81 &c Al
Throstle spinners. (women) I2s $50
Weavers attending looms, (women) 22s ~
Do do 2 do do lis 66
Those having looms pay assistant "a girl
shout Is, leaving 1855, or 4se
as the net earning
Pieces (chldren) about SIS. TO los. % , a
Handloom weavers, according TO description of
work, los. to 12s a. Q 90
Mach makers OF looms (of looms spinning
jenny, &c - 30s. to 32s. 20 a 7 10
Those who are clever and work by the piece,
35s. to 50s.. 5Ca u 90
All have much as they do.
Carpenters joiners, bricklayers, is per day 20
Porters in warehouses 20s TO 30s per week s4a d
All industrious persons in the manufacturing districts
have been fully employed for the last twenty months
Will not some home manufacturer, disinterested
than the open his wagesbook, and illuminate the
minds of the Of his articles upon the subject
wages in the United Statesf
| am you obedient, &C.,
MERCATOR.
Reduced, after tariff Of lsa2. to 81 10 per week.