The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
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Labor Statistics.

| III AuSCfia the average wages q
the agricultural laboref are rePorte,
as only twenty to thirty dollars
year. 1--WE reduce the currency o
the various countries to American
money IN each csee asamost simpl
andc0uvenieAt3 9kceDfm mechanic ic
vary from forty cent 3fhe minimum
to $50 THE Eiax xlmnm per day. Ia
good Zimmerman shoemaker make
as much IS fN0 Qxinf Mighty cents
aEiay. WH6ter8 nnaf6 ohly seventy
cents. q day. Iron WofkersAnd SMITH
| do better, earnipg from ninety ce Mt
to 81. 40 day. builders are in grea
demand in Vienna, yet head work
men receive only seventy cents a day
Printers and typefounders numberla IA
Vienna about two thousand work
men and seven hundred to eighl
hundred apprentices. Average wages
of typesetters $1.25 day of ten hours
In most of. the other trades the
hours of labor are twelve day.
Charles Lever (the novelist), now
British Consul at Trieste, reports the
hours of labor to be ten per day, and
the wages of ordinary mechanics vary
from fifty cents to. one dollar and
sometimes Sl.5O per day. ,is &.
In Belgium, wages are greatly
lower than in England, and even be-
low the average. of Continental Eur
ope. The wages of workingmen liv-
ing In the country vary from 80 to 40
cents per day. In the manufacturing
districts they are higher, averaging
so cents. The hours Of labor are
twelve. sme- f..Fels .-ll t1sr ,7ssr1,
Wages in France are, SO far as de-
veloped in this report, the rates paid
in Paris, where the rates of compen-
sation for labor have risen over % per
cent. within a few years. Black
smiths receive from 60 cents to S1.6O,i
daily, wages; bakers get only 40 cents
to 81; boot and shOemakers 81 to 5. 20;
carpenters $L2O-working twelve
hours day. Dressmakers only 30 to
60 cents a day +; hatters, so cents to
S1.75; masons 80 cents for unskilled
laborers, and $1.10 for skilled ones
house painters 81. 20, and printers 81 to
$1.20 for day workman, or 10 Ito II cents
the 600 letters for piece workmen.
In the French Departments, the
wages of skilled mechanics vary from
so to S1.50. Agricultural laborers re-
ceive from so to 60 cents.
In Denmark, bricklayers, carpen-
ters, &C., receive 20 to IS cents for a
days work. Weavers and other
manufacturing hands, 65 to 80 cents.
Painters about the same, and shoe
makers only SIS cents day.
In the Kingdom of Italy skilled
mechanics receive 80 to 60 cents per
day of eleven hours. More ordinary
wOrkmen 20 to 40 cents. Printers re-
ceive from 20 to 60 cents per day, ac-
cording to their skill and experience
at the profession.
In Sicily, laborers employed in
railway construction and road MAX
ing receive from 90 to So cents per
day, the working hours being from
sunrise to sunset. '-i.
At Rome tho ordinary wages of the
working man is three pauls (33 cents
per day.
In the Netherlands factory laborers
get from 80 cents to 81 per day, the
hours of labor being eleven to twelve.
In Norway agricultural laborers re-
ceive from $1.25 to Sl.75 per week, or
an average of less than 25 cents per
day. In woolen and cotton mills the
wages are better, and reach from 25
to 60 cents per day, according to skill.
Printers, type founders and book
binders wages are stated at from so
to so cents per day. Ten hours is
considered a days work. Farm
laborers receive only 6 to s cents a |
day and board.
In Portugal field laborers receive
Is to % cents per day. Skilled me-
chanical labor is paid from % to so 4
cents day.
In Prussia common manual labor
in agriculture is paid from eighteen
to twenty five cents per day. The
hours are twelve to thirteen in sum-
mer, and eight in winter. In the
manufacturing districts, the hours of
labor are eleven to twelve, being |
as low as ten, but more |
above twelve. The price |
of skilled labor varies from thirty to |
fifty-five cents per day.
In Russia, agricultural laborers re-
ceive an average compensation ofsix-
ty-five cents per day, which, how
ever, has to keep them in holidays |
and these dies non are in Russia more |
than in any part of the
world, numbering with sundays. 163
days, and leaving only 202 working
days in the year. Most Of the re-
spectacle workmen say that if they |
could work six days in the week,
they would be satisfied with half the |
present rate of wages. Skilled labor
ers in the various trades get from |
fifty to ninety cents per day, subject
to these outrageous limitations of
holidays counted out.
In Sweden the labOrer's condition |
is not fiattering. The average of an |
artisan in Stockholm, and other large |
Swedish towns, are equal to fifty |
cents per day. In the case Of skillful
occupying the position of
they sometimes reach as
high as one dollar per day.
Switzerland is full ofindustry from |
one end of the country to the other. |
Cotton, flax, and woolen factories
pay their operatives thirty to eighty
cents, the general average being for |
man forty cents. Printers get forty
five to eighty cents, and lithograph-
ers (which class of artisans abound
in Switzerland), fifty cents to eighty
cents for each days work.