The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-06-21

Such statistics have recently been
collected in England through the
British ConsulS of various coun-
tries, and they may be regarded as
correct indications Of the condition
of the laboring classes in the coun-
tries from which these reports were
taken. Beginning with Austria
we find tie agricultural laborer re-
ceives from twenty TO thirty dollars
q year. Mechanics receive from
40c to 81 SO per day. a good
shoemaker gets soc day; weayers
70c. Builders, though in great de-
mand, receive but 70c q day. The
average wages Of type-setters is
81 25 a day often hours. III most
of the other trades the hours of
labor are twelve day.
The wages in Belgium are lower
than the average in Continental
Europe. Workmcn in the country
receive from 30 cents to 40 cents
per day. The average in manuiac-
turing districts is GO cents. The
hours per day are twelve.
In France blacksmiths receive
from GO cents to 81 GO a day;
bakers from As cents to 81; shoe
makers from 81 to 81 90; carpen-
ters 81 20-working twelve hours.
Skilled drcssmakcrs receive 81 10,
while unskilled get from 30 to 60
cents. Printers are paid from 10
to 12 cents the 1000 letters for
picce-work, or from 81 to- 81 copper
day. i'ouse-paintcrs obtain 81 20
Gay. Farm laborers receive from
50 to G2 cents.
In Denmark from GO to IS cents
are paid to carpenters, brick layers,
&c. Manufacturing hands and
painters get about Is cents, while
shoemakors receive SIS cents q day.
The Kingdom Of Italy pays skill
ell mechanics from 80 to 60 cents
per day Of eeyenhours. Ordinary
workmen get from 20 to 40 cents.
Printers, poor fellows, receive only
from 20 to GO cents day.
Sicily requires her laborers to
work from sunrise to sunset, and
pays them from 20 to 35 cents per
day.
In Rome 33 cents is the wages
per day of q common laborer.
In Norway from 81 25 to 81 IS
per week is paid to the agricultural
workman, Or about 25 cents day.
In woolen and cotton mills wages
reach from 25 to GO cents per day.
Printers receive from so to so cents
day.
Portugal pays her field laborers
from Is to % cents a day. Ne
chanical labor, skilled, is paid from
25 to SO cents.
In Prussia common manual labor
is from IS to % cents per day. The
hours are u to l9 in summer, and
8 in winter. The price of skilled
labor varies from 80 to 55 cents per
day.
Russia has only 2O2 working days
in a year, there being in Sundays
and holidays 1G3 days. Agricul-
tural iaborers average 65 cents per
day here which must keep them in
holidays. Skilled workmen get
from SO to 80 cents. The holi-
day limitation works oppressively. |
In Sweden the average wages of
an artisan in the large cities is
about fifty cents. The pay of
foreman sometimes reaches one dol
lar day.
Operatives in cotton, flax and
woolen factories in Switzerland get
from thirty to eighty cents per day.
Printers receive from forty-five to
eighty cents, and lithogaphers from
fifty to eighty cents.
In view Of these statisticaifscts
is it to be wondered that labor
strikes are now transpiring in dit
ferent countries of EuropeP The
poor in England, on account Of the
Of the wages and want
Oflabor, are kept in ignorance, pov.
erty and crime. In Belgium one.
fifth of the ponnlatinn aro ,,n,,,,o,s.