The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-25

pies Oh opPoslpe PIAoei.e. CS,
under the control Of the London School
Board, teachers, male and female, usu.
Ally begin at $3.50 9 year, and the greater
number do not reach above $3.50. A
largo lumber Of male teachers are en-
ployed BY the London School Board At
those wages. The ordinary office clerk
gets about the same wages as the school
teacher, and considers his occupation
rather more exaltipg than that Of the
latter. The school teacher Ia COM
monty looked upon as . poor dredge
Who wastes his precious life 10 teaching
ragged, dirty children how 10 read and
spell. In well established endowed
schools good wages are paid; but 10 All
Others The wages Of teachers are fully
thirty per cent lower than in the United
States. Ordinary clerks, who would get
$50 4 month In the United States, are con-
tent in London to get $50.
Wooden goods are cheap, and meme
clothing Is scarcely more than hall as
high as 10 the United statee; aud hence
clerks and teachers are able ON such pal.
try wages 10 keep up q kind Of cheap,
pinchiSg responsibility that Americana
know nothing about. They must under
stand the art Of cutting close corners d.
nancially, for their margin Is very small
In the matter Of food the Britons man
age TO live rather economically, too Tor,
though food Is much higher than In the
United States, the state Of living Is very
dig.rent Americans always have q va.
riety: the Eugli.h do not, aud thus man.
age 10 spend no more, perhaps, than an
American family 10 the same circumstan.
ce., though II they were to live in the
same styleit would doubtless cost nearly
twice a. much. / know that 3 dollar will
buy at least fifty per cent more Of good
hearty living In New York than in Lon.
don.
woRKIsoMEs's PAY.
Laboring mems wages here must be
about the same as In the United States Of
present. About the docks plenty oil men
may be found working at from seventy.
Ave TO ninety cents a day, bntin most en-
pigments uiskilled labor is paid from
ninety cents to one dollar u day. think
that is lower than in New York, but not
seriously 90, perhaps. English middle or
lower class families send their children
out TO service OF ZONE kind very early,
and though they make but from 81 90 TO
$50 week, that amount helps the family
budget very much. Indeed, 1t is some
what remarkable how universally the
families OF those two classes are engaged
in some employment away from home.
Our own boys and girls from twelve to
eighteen years are mostly In school; here
three-fourths Of them must be esrnipg
money, and not going TO school at all.
Ordinary machinists' wages are low;
I give some figures which / obtained
from the secretary Of the union OF that
trade, and they may be relied upon as be,
ing correct. There are some 10000 ma
chInists Ia Great Britain, but only $4,000
are connected with the union. The sec:
rotary tells me that the average wages Of
the union men are about so cents q week
more than those Of non.union men. The
average weekly wages Of machinists N
London are $3.50 (the minimum is 50
and the maximum Sll.25): Manchester
$3.50: Sheffield and Bristol, also $3.50;
Nottingham, Ss.37; Birmingham, s. 25i
and Belfast, Ireland, only $3.50. The es
innate includes only skilled workmen
who get full wages. From these figures ii
will Be seen that their wages throughout
the whole kingdom cannot average
niger than SS.75 a week.
COMPARISONS OF WAGES.
The time worked Is almost universally
81 hours a week-that Is, 8 hours q day.
The wages OF iron founders (mouldersl
are as follows: London, Manchester and
Liverpool, 50 so to SO; Sheffield, SO 10
50 So Birmingham, 50 10 $40 so; Not.
bingham, s. so; Belfast, IS 30 to 50; Bris.
tol, 81 so to $3.50; and Chester So 10 So
The hours Of the iron founders, like those
Of the machinists, are nine q day. Work
mems hours are fully one hour less per
day In Great Britain than in the United
States az an average. More than that
number in any trade is an exception. II
will be seer that the iron founders aver.
age less than 50 q week throughout the
whole country.
Plasterers In Bristol receive 81 pence
an hour-about Sl07Oa week. Stone
cutters In the Bsllanasloe limestone
quarries are paid only S7.50a week. op.
era,ive g~laziers in Glasgow receive q
pence an hour-about Ss45 a week. 0p.
~era,ive painters in Leicester get SSl5 a
week, In Bristol carpenters and joiners
get rather less than s. 80 n week. In
London wages would be 8 trife higher
than Ia most other towns and cities. Mr..
Thomas Brassy Is q good authority In la
Dor questions, and I give q little list Of
wages which is his estimate Of the wages
paid in several trades 10 the United
States, as compared with England. 1t is
valuable as coming from an English au-
thority: In the United States, daily wa
ges OF carpenters. S2.25; blacksmith, So.
IS; bricklayers, $500; m~schinisp, S206;
engineers, 81 62. In England, daily wa
ges Of carpenters, SIPS; blaeksmiths, 81.
so; bricklayers, Sl.37; mAchinists $l.45,
and engineers, Sl.37. His e.timateis rea-
sonably eorrsct-at any rate, as far as
England isconcerned.
The great mason strike in London
ended only a few weeks ago. II lasted
~thirty.two weeks 10 all, and the men have
gone to work at the old wages. For years
past their wages in the metropolis have
been nine penee an hour, and they struck
for an additional peDny-that L., ten
pence. They also work tiity.four hours
. week. It will be seen that their wages
are only about Sl0.l2 week. The atone
masons Of Perth (seotland) get only eight
and q half pence an hour. Careful fg-
uring shows that the long strike cost the
men $4,000 and the employers S420,-