The workingman's advocate., 1875-02-20
FROM CALIFORNIA.
Rate Of Wages Of San Fran
cisco Mech a MICS.

We are indebted t. u valued friend in
san Fran lsco for the following comprn-
dium of the industrial statistics Of that
city. IL will be noticed that wher-
into competition with that of the white
mechanic wages have depre eciated from
two IL three hundred per cent
BAKERs-These workers uf the staff Of
life receive from $40 to $50 a month, and
board. Foremen get $40, with board and
lodging IN rare cases they command 800,
while IN few hrst-class hotels, or extry
fashionable restaurants. the chief baker
makes even $3.50 a month. In ordinary
bakeries. second hands have $40, and third
hands SIn. with board and lodging in both
cases.
BAEBEE> Good journeyInen BARRIERS
may depend upon All average pay OF from
Sl5 to $50 week, without board. The
usual wages, Ia the cities and larger towns,
range from SO to $50, depending, of
course, upon the skill Of the workman
and the amount Of costom which the e.rab-
hshment enjoys -
?-.~KsAITHs Readily command from
S. TO ~ = day, and generally work ten
hours . day ln the mines they receive
all average Of SO month, without board.
Foremen get from one-tfth to ne-fourth
more
Boar BUILDERS Work ten hours b day
for g.. This business employs hardly q
hundred men ia all. but they turn out
excellent work and arc steadily increasing
III numbers.
BOILER MAkLks Command X. 70 day,
generally working ten hours. FIange tuT-
Hers receive 81
Book BINDEEs-A May depend upon from
e. 504o g. day boys from S3 so to tl2
& week.
BooK-kEErEks All the way from $50
to 600 month In some banking houses
or large importing OF commission houses,
book keepers receive from $3.50 to 500 a
month, but these are 50 rare a. not 10 affect
the general average which We may safely
set at 1925 month
Bo1-AAAEEs $3.50 day, for ten
hours, upon either paper " wooden
boxes
BRIckLAYEAs From - to So Fore
men, 81 to ~.
BUrcHEEs S4U to SO average. $50 a
month.
CABINET MAKERS Es-Average "a q day.
More than half of those employed in the
city work by the piece, in which, Of course,
IL =. Ia hoa
own skill and dispatch.
CARPENTERS House carpenters com
mand e. 90 /; loren ell from 81 90 to So.
Ship-carpenters OF joiners, - 80 foremen
from 50 to g 90.
CARKIAGE-MAKEks Body-makers and
wheelwrights average S3 trimmers. -;
painters 81 80 to 81 strlpers, -.
CAKrERs 81, where the employer fur
nishes the team when they furnish and
keep their own horse and cart, they get
from 50. 30 to -.
CARvRRs-ln wood easily command
s. 90 8 day /; when they work by the piece
and upon fine work, some make Is high ai
q so, o. even 81.
CAULKERs 50 day for nine hours and
q half
CHAMBgRMAiDs- In families average ~
a month and board ; in hotels from S25 tC
$50
CIGAR -MAKEks-Are nearly all China
men. They get 80 cents q day, some 81
low as rs cents, and even 80 cents.
CONDUCTORS horse cars, $3.50 q
day for from IA to 16 hours. On steam
cars from s. to s.. according to experience
responsibility and kind of service.
OoPPEKsMITHs-&S to 81 for such worl
as pipes, stills, tanks, vats and kettles
DREssMAKEKs-$l a week in shops
those who 60 to the house of their en-
ployers receive from 81 to 50 day anC
board.
DRIvERs-On horge cars g.. 30 day fol
from IL to l6 hours. Drays and trucks
81. 90 to 50 for 10 hours. Express and
delivery wagons $1.50 to &2. 30, arc
found. Coach and hack drivers, Sl.76 Il
$S, and found.
EN0INEERs-For stationary engineers
in mills and mines, wages range from ~. 81
to $6 day. On railroads from $3 to "a
on steamboats, and steamships, from &2.7I
to 80.
ENeRAvEKs-Gen work by tn
piece. When employed upon salary the.
receive from q 90 to $6. In cases of re
markable skill or of unusual urgency the!
command as much as $40 and even $12.6'
day.
! FoUxDKYMkN-Wolk ke1 in iron com
mand from S.76 to o. Some extra skill
full moldsrs get o. core markers, &S 90 Z
o. stove mounters, $3'to IS, 30. Worker
in brass, cupalo or furnace tenders, Is TO
IL hours monldsrs, 4S to $50 for II
hOurs and fnishsrs. eS for 10 houn.
GAs-Fr-r.rsr r,or, ESQ 20 go = month