Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-08-24
WoYkinrmen in ENGLAND.

Professor L. vi in his book on :" The Working
Glasses" estimates thst there are 500 e0i per
sons employed in England IN the generAl aud
local goyernn emf and defence OF the country
or this nmber all but 600 are men. About
1890 are doekyard laborers, LOCO pos-men,
soldiers or sailors and The annual income OF
the whole class amounts to $4,000 In the
second class are 600 domestic servants,
nearly all OF them women, whose yearly wages
amount to s295, O0o oCo, an average sum o. $3.50
a head per week being included in that anno unt
for remuneration in the way OF maintenance.
There are 7oo, 600 per- ons engaged in CONNER
ciaI ways, that s, in The conveyance OF men,
AMIN als, goods and messages. OF these zoe, 900
are railway servants. $4,000 are coachmen,
cabmen and carmon, 7.000 are bargemen and
watermen. 10000 are seamen, $4,000 are dock
lahorers, and 125,000 are warenousemen, mes
sengers and porters. Their entire earnings liz
year are estimated at 100000.
All these classes Of work people taken
together are just as numerous as the agricul-
tural laborers, OF whom there are said to be
about 2,0Co,0f6 men and 100000 women and
children, earning in all S42o,00O,OOo year.
the laborers in manufacturing and mining
pursuits. numbering about 3,OO0.UeO men and
100000 women and children, and receiving
$3.50, 000,0o0 year in wages. The entire
prise II 100000 persons, of whom nearly halt
are women and children, and receive each
year 80 $4,000 IN payment for their work. The
average weekly receipts OF boys and men under
twenty, is 7s Sd. sterling; of girls and women
under twenty, 7s. 1Od. sterling: Of grown up
men, 19s. sterling; and of grown up women,
liz. sterling. Skilled work people OF course
receive a great deal more than that, and com.
mon laborere proportionately less.
COMBINATIONS OF WoRKMRN IN FRANCE
Six journey men tailors who took q leading
part II the serious strike a. Paris, in March
last, were tried on Friday by the Correctional
Police for having belonged 10 a society of more
han 20 persons without authorization. The
prosecution originally embraced many other
grounds, but the law officers were ultimately
OF opinion that LII the proceedings of the pris-
oners. except the one on which it was at last
resolved to frame an indictment, were iustif1-
ed by the new law on coalitions of 1864. Ad-
vocate General Lepeiletier said that the pris-
oners in order to keep up the strike. had falsely
given out that they had received 100000 from
sympathising English workmen, whereas in
point OF fact the utmost they had got from Eng
land was 750f- The prisoners said they did not
think to do any harm their object was to keep
from the Judge president Delesyaux) the OBJ
servalon: "The dignity of man as Journey
man tailor" MN. Floquet Picard, Arago ana
Durier defended the prisoners. They could
scarcely deny that the association. TO which
the prisoners admitted upward Of 1900 persons
belonged, was one not allowed by law: but
they argued that 1t was but inchoate as the
whole thing broke up before there was time for
the statute to be acted upon. and moreover that
the act unCer which the indictment was drawn
ought 10 be repealed If the law permitting
coalitions was to receive its full effect. The
Court found the prisoners guilty, but with ex-
ten ua'lng circumstances, and sentenced them
to fines Of 500 francs each.-Hanchester Guar