New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06
THE NEWS AT THE CAPITAL.
LABOR. POLITICS, AFFAIRS.

| olhltMENT-A LETTER FROM GkNERAL WALhbH
| MINOR NEWS.
The volume on Labor in America and Europe,
prepared by the State Department from
the reports sent in at the desire of Mr..
Evarts, is ready for distribution, and the
Department issues an important state
ment about the wages of workingmen.
General Walker has replied to the attack
made upon him 10y Mr. Kennedy. Gen.
eral Newton's report on the work in the
Harbor of NewYork has been sent In. 1t is
discovered that the Democrats have been IN
Intentionally sending out Republican dOcu-
ments to Ohio.
| A VALUABLE WORK BY MR. EVARTS.
FACTS CONCERNING LABOR IN EUROPE AND AMER
ICA WHICH REVEAL IMPORTANT AND ALMOST
| STARTLING TRUTHS.
! GENERAL PRESS DISPATCH.
| WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-The following has been
furnished by the Department of State:
The reports from the United States Consuls on
the condition of labor in the several countries of
Europe, which have been prepared for publication
by the Department of State, their publication being
provided for the last day of the recent session of
Congress, will be ready for distribution in few
days
These reports cover all phases of the labor ques-
ton EurOpe viz: the rates Of wages the hours of
labor, tho habits of the working people and their
manner Of living capital and labor strikes, drink
ing, trades unions, socialism, communism, etc. The
| condition of the working people Of Europe-their
continued struggle with most adverse circumstances
as compared with the condition the working peo-
pie of the United States is well portrayed in these
| reports.
The following startling facts are clearly proved
by these reportsi
| /. That wages In the United States are double
those of Belgium, Denmark, France and England,
three times those Of Germany, Italy and Spain. and
/ four times those of the Netherlands.
| 2. That the prices of the necessaries Of life are
! lower In the United States than in Europe. and
that the aborer in the United States. he salts
fled with the scauty and miserable fare upon which
the European labOrer must live can purchase like
food for less money than can be purchased for in
| Europe.
| 3. That the French working people, with far less
wages, are happier than the working people OF
| Great Britain, who receive the highest wages in
] Europe on account OF the steadiness and the eco
nOmica habits of the former and the strikes,
drinking habits and consequent recklesness of the
| latter.
| 4. That more misery results from strikes drink
| ing socialism and communism in England and Ger
| times included.
As Congress only provided for the publication OF
900 copies of these reports-S00O for the House,
| 900 for the Senate and 5000 for the Department
of State-Senators and members OF Congress will do
we'll to get their allotted number for distribution
| among their constituents at this most opportune
| time of investigation into the depressed condition
| of labor in the United States.
The reading OF these reports will remind many OF
| the naturaZed wOrkinQmen in this country (whO
are so fierce in denouncng the condition of affairs
i'm the United Statesj of the hopeless condition OF
that labor from winch they escaped by emigration
to this Republic and open their eyes TO the superior
position OF the workingmen in this country II Will
| show the native American workinRmen the differ
| ence between labor DISTINGUISHED, degraded and
| hopeless IN Europe. and labor free, independent,
honorable and all equal sharer III political power IN
| America.
careful reading OF these reports will do more to
solve and settle the labor problem in the inteli-
gent Judgment of the country than the fragmentary
Investigations which have thus far been the only
| public Inquiries undertaken by the Government.