New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-12

men, women and children are worked IN
the briekyards of that country, has at
| tracted much attention, and the more
philanthropic are forcing the notice OF
| the government to the subject.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
| in recent letter from Berlin, descants at
length upon the subject of labor and the
wages of laborers in Germany. There IS
| an evident strife going on between capital
| and labor in Berlin, Dusseldorf and other
German cities. Seven thousand mechanics
were recently on ''strike' in Berlin. and,
according to the Trib,me's correspondent,
''showed no signs of an inclination to
| give up, though it is question OF starva-
ton, somewhat as in the American jury
room" A superabundance Of workmen IN
any department of labor will always
render doubtful the success OF ''strlkes
among workmen, no matter how Just
they may be. The best remedy for evils
| of this kind that beset the laboring classes
in cities of the United States is to go into
| the country and cultivate the soil. But
| the workingmen of Europe are not blessed
with the same chances of doing this IN
their own country. It is impossible for
poor man there to become the owner OF
| few acres of land on which he can make for
himself and those dependent upon him
permanent home. He has no remedy but
emigration. He can, if he has the means,
come to this country. If he is a mechanic
and finds there is a superabundance OF
laborers at work at his particular calling,
he can 90 into the country, and, by indus
trious habits, soon become the possessor of
farm. In Louisiana, Texas and other
| Southern States it is an easy matter at
this time to obtain land. The abolition
of slavery has opened wide the door to
immigrants from Europe. If the imml-
grant has not the means when he arrives
to purchase fifty or hundred acres Of
land by working year or two on farm,
he can realize sufficient to purchase
home and make himself independent for
| life.
These are matters that may not be
generally known among the laboring
classes in Europe. The tide Of emil
grafton from the European States has
heretofore been principally confined to
the Western States of the American
Union. 1t is believed that with proper
exertions made by those who are inter
! ested in the settlement and cultivation OF
| Southern lands, this tide of emigration
may be made, in a large degree, to flow
in the future into the Southern States,
where the climate is genial and the ad-
van ages for farming and stock raising
are great. Immigration is the great
desideratum of the South at this time;
and while making this acknowledgment
we must be permitted to add that no
country, in our estimation, offers superior
advantages to the thrifty immigrant in
search of home.
Speaking of the strike" that has been
inaugurated in Berlin and the low rate
of wages paid to the workingmen, the
Tribune'S correspondent says;
What lies at the ground of the strike is
generally thought 70 be the social demo
| cratic agitations, the leaders being in close
connection with the internatiOnals. There
| is however, state of things in Germany
which would make the workingmen rebel,
even if they had no prospect OF obtaining
anything better.
The average earnings of workingman is
| four thalers per week Ia thaler is sixty-six
and two-third cents of American gold, while
it requires for a family of six members at
| least eight thalers. 1t is only a master
| workman that commands one thaler per
! day. | know of one vino, TO secure this
sum, which is absolutely required for his
family rises at three in the morning, and
| manages a steam engine until nine o'clock
| at night. Occasionally he must work
through the whole night and all Sunday
! without any additional wages. A common
| day laborer who has mastered no trade, Is
| glad to get employment at twenty cents
day. Walters in the hotels and restaurants
do not average this. Male help" gets
about 81 a month A servant girl earns
about SIS year. Higher work gets grad
ually better paid, yet only in comparison.
| A teacher in the common schools gets from
| $50 to $500 year. In gymnasiums, or
what corresponds to our colleges, the pro
fessors, who are required to be graduates of
one of the great universities, get, on an
average, 5000 A professor in the universe
| ty gets rarely more than $500, besides the
| fees OF his hearers.
The battle between capital and labor
will always be the same in Europe under
existing governments. There is no feeling
in common between the aristocracy and
the great body Of the people, which
embraces every department Of labor. The
aristocracy are enabled by law to monop-
Ollie the wealth of Europe, and bloody
revolutions have never yet ended in any
permanent good to the working classes.
Their only hope for the future consists in
becoming citizens of the United States,
and it would be a benefcent work to
enable those to reach who are in want
of help.
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