New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14
TIE COST or LIB0R.
IT'S RISE SINCE 1SG0-wAGEs OF MECHANICS IN
THIS CITY.

IT'S RISE SINCE 1S60-wAGES OF MECHANICS IN
THIS CITY.
Much has been said and written relative to
the increased cost living the breaking out OF the
fate war Attempts constantly being made to create
feeling of uneasness in this regard among the me-
chanic labor classes 1t hoped thereby to turn the
political power Of the against the party to whose
persistence in the right the preservation OF the Union
attributable and but for whom the Government would
have been split into fragments and American natonahy
made a by-word. The people are not however, to be
fooled" BY these empty declarations are they 10 be
ted from sense of Justice by any such means rs are
being brought bear for that purpose Inc truth Is ga
fact by the bye mentioned by COpperhead pohi
cians-that While the cost OF living has very percepby
Increased the cost of labor has advanced IN IKE ratio
No mechanic labOrng man works IN 1865 Tor e wages
that prevailed in 1860 In many instances the appreca
ton In aborprces has far oustrpped the relative az
ing 10 report OF the Special Commissioner OF Reye
nue. labor value has adv anGed IN many pctS tns
State of Massachusetts Sit per sentu Over nS PieS
pad before tie war. In the city OF Baltimore ana Seln
y 100 per centm has been added 10 the wages OF car
penters aud wood-Workers geneIay; W d pluD t
and nsmiths labor has gone up from 70 To per centrum
aborng work In the state is about 6J per eentnm
In western New-York the increase IN wages OF skilled
farm abOrels been 70 centum for month anu day
ahoIrrs 80 to 90 centun; for mechanics aOor
IRON 80 70 V gr the Whole country since 1890
may be set down at from G5 TO 20 per eentum In the re-
port OF the David A. Wells Special Commissioner OF
Revenue Introductory bill prepared by him as sub.
the customs laws now in force may be found
following given illustrative % the recent advance
In wages: go ~, -,
careful examination OF rolling mil m Pittsburgh,
Penn making band-iron showed a disbursement oi
wages per week. $500 in 1885, against sOO In 1860 ana
is6l-he mill working to the same capacity and employ
ing exactly the number OF hands III both cases Inc
avera ee wages earned by METERS fOrgers and rollers,
employed the stcelwOTks of Pittsburgh. and working
nine hours per day during the month OF October 1865
was reported TO the Commissioner as - per day Inc lo
lowing rates also reported to nave been pau
dungthc past in the same city, IN the nanufacture
Of iron and glass skilled hanmermen, WORKING on an
average five days per week. 81 per day headnaels SUI
pcrntending machines, si1 per day. blowers OF bot
lies and glass, 1915 per month"; During me months
of April and May 1906 the rates of wages PAID IN certain
OF the glass works Of Pittsburgh reported to have av
eIagedS 80 per day. BrickJyers and masons have re-
ccycd from - to 81 day in different sections OF the
country during the past year III Iurtner
aprear from an examination OF the United States
statistics manufactures in lot0 that the average
monthly wages employees, i'll all branches OF manufac-
lures was OF males S27 TO- aud OF females. s2 80 While
y the census the state of Newly Or, IN lot5, the aV-
eage monthly wages in the whole state was, Tor males,
So and for females $50 being an increase over the wages
OF sCO6 per cent for males ana 90 per cent Tor e
males"
All who have had occasion TO employ mechanics or Ia
bOrers since know full well how large has been the
Increased prices they have been obliged TO pay for their
services. The following comparative table made up from
various sources, shows the averages Of advance IN the
I.ho fort l9SsW Ophmel