The Hickman courier., 1872-03-23
Miseettanu.
Wages Of Labor In Various
Countries.


ed each day The following is synoP-
sis of the information:
In the British reports We have refer
red to we find details and thorough in
formation as to the condition of the la
boring classes in the counties of Europe,
as well as in large portion Of Asia aud
North and South America. The stats
tics as to the wages and hours OF labor
are Of great interest.
In Austria the average wages of the
agricultural laborer are reported as only
twenty to thirty dollars year We re
duce the currency of the various coun-
tries to American money in each case as
most simple aud convenien). Wages Of
mechanics vary from Zoe (the miuimum)
to 81 80 Qhe maximum) per day. A
good journeyman shoemaker makes Is
much as two forms (80c) day. Weav
ers make ouly zoe a day. Iron workers
aud smiths do better, earning from 9Oc
to 81 40 a day Builders are in great
demand in Vienna, yet head workmen
receive only zoe a day. Printers and
type founders number at Vienna about
two thousand workmen aud seven hun
dred to eight hundred apprentices. Av
erage wages of type settlers 81 % per
day of ten hours. In most Of the other
trades the hours of labor are twelve a
day.
Charles Lever Cthe noveIisD, now
British Consul at Trieste, reports the
hours of labor to be ten per day, aud
the wages of ordinary mechanics vary
from fifty cents to one dollar, and some
time 81 25 per day.
In Belgium, wages are greatly lower
than in England, and even below the nv
erage of Continental Europe. The
wages of workmen living in the country
vary from 80 cents to 10 cents per day
In the manufacturing districts they are
higher, averaging 90 cents. The hours
of labor are twelve.
Wages in France are, so far as devel-
oped in this report, the rates paid IN
Paris, where the rates of compensation
for labor have risen over % per cent
within few years. B!acksmiths receive
from 90 cents to 81 so, daily wages; ba
keTs get only rs cents to 81; boot and
shoe.Lakers 81 to 81 20; carpenters S /
2O-working twelve hours. Dressmakers /
only 30 to go cents day; hatters so /
cents to 81 10; masons 90 cents for un
skilled laborers, and 81 10 for skilled /
ones house painters 81 20, aud printers I
81 to 81 20 for day work men, or 10 to
12 cents the l 900 letters for piece work
meD.
In the French departments, the wages /
Of skilled mechanics vary from so cents
to 81 90 Agricultural laborers receive
from 80 to 62 cents.
In Denmark, bricklayers, carpenters.
&c. receive so to 75 cents for IA days
work. Weavers aud other manufactur
ing hands, 65 to 50 cents; painters about
the same, aud shoemakers only 80 cents
day.
In the Kingdom Of Italy skilled me
chanics receive 80 to 60 cents per day of
eleven hours. More ordinary workmen
20 to 40 cents. Printers receive only
from 90 to so cents per day, according to
their skill and experience at their pro-
fession.
In Sicily, laborers employed in rail-
way construction and road making re
ceive from 20 to 30 cents per day, the
working hours being from sunrise TO
sunset.
At Rome the ordinary wages of the
working man is three pauls (33 cents
per day.
In the Netherlands factory laborers
get from 30 cents to s. per day, the
hours of labor being eleven or twelve.
In Norway agricultural laborers re-
ceive from 81 % to 81 70 per week, OF
an average of less than p cents per day
In wooden and cotton mills the wages are
better and reach from % to 90 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 cent.
a day and board.
In Portugal field laborers receive Il
to % cents per day. Skilled mechanics
labor is paid from % to 80 cents day
In Prussia common manual labor il
agriculture is paid from IS to % cent?
per day. The hours are Il to Is in sum
mer, and 8 in winter. In the manufac-
turing districts the hours OF labor are
to u. being sometimes as low as 10, bu
more frequently above 2 The price o
skilled labor varies from 80 to 55 cent:
per day.
In Russia agricultural laborers receive
an average compensation of sixty five
cents per day, which, however, has tC
keep them in holidays; and these die,
nom are in Russia more numerous than
any other part of the world, numbering
with Sundays, los days, and leaving on
ly 202 working days in the year. Most
of the respectable Russian workmen say
that if they could work six days in the
week, they would be satisfied with hall
the present rate of wages. Skilled Ia
borers in the various trades get from sc
to 90 cents per day, subject to these out
rageous limitation of holidays counted
out.
In Sweden, the laborer's condition i.
not hattering. The average of an arti
san in Stockholm, and other large Swed
ish towns, ale equal to fifty cents per day
In the case of skilled workmeD, occupy
ing the position of foremen, they some
times reach as high as one dollar per day
Switzerland is full of industry froI
one end OF the country to the othe
Cotton, fax, aud WOODEN factories pa
their operatives thirty to eighty cent
Printers get forty five to eighty cent
and lithographers (Which class of art
saus abound in Switzerland), fifty cen
to eighty cents for each days work.
MORTALITY IN LoNDoN.-Perhaps fe
statistics will more readily convey to tt
mind the populous character of the grei
English metropolis than the week
exhibit of births and deaths will do. I'll
figures at the present time by actu
registry average 1900 births and 1,3C
deaths each week There is scarcely