Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-05-22
wsrsnsu and Wage, Ia England.


The year 1877 will be remembered as
q year Of numerous and prolonged
strikes throughout the whole kingdom.
and the present wear is starting out with
A fair prospec, Of rivaling. IL not exceed
inc. its Predecessor. The strikes Of last
n grow ont OF very opposite causes.
The manufacturing industries were uni
yersally depressed, and the strikes were
in opposition TO proposed reductions Of
wages. The building trades. ON tho
other hand, were reasonably active. and
in a few cases there was actually a de-
maud for more vorkmen than could be
hal. and hence in these trades II IL not
10 be wondered at that several prolonged
strikes grew out Of a demand for higher
wages on the part Of the workmen. In
nearly every case the strikes for higher
wages ended in the men going to work
al the former figures.
England pays her Judges, Lord May
ors aud other high officials enormously,
but artisans, clerks. laborers, school
teachers and domestic servants are
striking examples Of opposite practice.
In the schools under the control OF the
London School Board. teachers, male
and female, usually begin at $3.50 n year.
aud tho greater number do not reach
above $3.50. A large number OF male
teachers are employed by tho London
School Board nj those wages. Tho ordi.
nary Office clerk gets about the SAINT
wages as the school teacher. and consid.
srs his occupation rather more exalting
than that VI the latter. The school
teacher IL commonly looked upon rs a
poor drudge. who wastes his precious
life in teaching ragged. dirty children
how to read and spell. In we'll estab.
lishsd endowed schools good wages are
paid. but in all others the wages Of
teachers are fully thirty per cent. lower
than in the cities and towns Of the United
States.
Ordinary clerks who would get $50 q
month In the United States are content
in London To get $50. Wooden goods
are cheap. and mems clothing is scarce
ly more than half ~ high az In the Uni.
tel States /; and hence clerks and teach
ers are able on such paltry wages TO
keep up a kind Of cheap pinching re-
spectability that Americans know moth.
ing about. They must understand tho
art of cutting close corners financially,
for their mar,in il very small. la the
matter Of food the Britons n to
live rather economically, too for
though food Is much higher than In the
United States, tho style Of living is very
different. Americans always have a va
riety. ths English do not. aud thus man.
ACE 10 spend no more, perhaps, than an
American family in the same circum.
stances. though were they to live in the
same styls. il would doubtless cost near
IN twice as much. l know that a dollar
will buy at least fifty per cent. moro OF
good hearty living In New York than in
London.
Laboripg mems waces hero must be
about tbs sam, as In the United States
al present. About the docks plenty of
men NAV be found working nj from
iva to'nin,tv cents a day. but
IN mo., sm,Ioymsnts unskilleJ l,bor /,
nail from ninety cents 10 n dollar n
Law ,hink that il lower han In New
vi INT moi s-sr;on.Ix 40 ,erban..
p,,I;.h ,o;Jua AMI Ioxar class fam.
Lies send their children out to service OF
soms kind very early. and though they
max. but Al 30 10 81 a week, that
amount helps the family budget very
much. Indeed. IL il somewhat remark.
able how universally the families of
thoss two ~elas.es are engaged in some
.mnl,yn.nt aw.y from, home. Onr
o-p ~. AMI ,i,Is from tw,lvs 10
s;,h,ssn wears arc mostly in school;
1870