Connecticut western news., 1879-10-01
Wages in England.
AN INTERESTING TABLE FROM THE AMERI- CAN CoNsULs SHOWING THE RATE OF WAGES IN THE OLD COUNTRY,

WAGES IN THE OLD COUNTRY.
 From the statistics sent to this coun- try from the American consuls abroad, we clip the following items relative to the pay of labor in Englands In Man chester, the great cotton center, we find that pickers in the cotton mills received, in 1878, 55 cents per diem spinners, from 55 to 65 cents weavers, 62 cents. In Bradford common hands in the wool len mills obtained year ago 87 cents a day, and skilled hands $1.25. The lat ter stipend was also earned by me- chanics. All operatives and artisans in Bradford work ffty.six and half hours per week, or ten hours per diem ex- cept on Saturdays. The requisite out lay for rent and clothing is not stated, but we are informed that workingman and his family can manage, with ex- treme frugality, to subaist on $5 or $6 per week. Passing to the Nottingham industries, we learn that wsrpers in the lace works receive from $486 to $9.72 per week of fifty-s even hours.
 At Leeds, according to the statement of Consul Dockery, boiler-plate makers received, in 1878 $964 per week of 54 hours, while riveters got $732, and ma- chine men in general earned from SC. 72 to $7.68. In the same city the weekly earnings of blaoksmiths range from $7.20 to $7.6S, those of carpenters from $9. 12 to $9. 9.62, while those of bricklay- CTS average $8.64 Consul Cookery con- putes the minimum cost of living for 6 workingman's family in Leeds at $5.54 per week.
 In the Northumberland coal pits the average daily wages earned by coal getters have been diminished from $2. 25 to $1.ss for steam coal, or $1.21 for manufacturing coal. Moreover, the num- Der of days worked per week, by coal getters had been reduced from five to three and half days.
 In the ship-building trades of Liver pool, according to Consul Fairchild, carpenters earn $l0.20; mast and block makers, 80; sailmakers, $S.75, and painters, $8. p per week of 54 hours. In the house-building trades, joiners and stone masons received, in 1878, $9 ; bricklayers, $l0, and plasterers, $9. 72 per week. Brickmakers when working 60 hours week could gain from $12. 15 to $19, but they are seldom employed &hor snIo Iv1rI hn year. Skilled coopers obtain on an aver age $1O. weekly for piece work, and printers receive $10.68. Teamsters in Liverpool are paid $7.C5 per week, the work of each day, excepting Saturdays, comprising II hours, and navvies en- ployed on railways and public works earn from $6.34 to $73O.
 In Cheshire the average weekly sti- pend of farm hands is $3.60, but this is supplemented by certain perquisites, viz., food and beer in harvest time, straw for pigs, milk or whey for chil- dren, and in some instances 8 potato patch almost gratis. There is also an increase of Fl to 96 cents per week dur ing the harvest month. Cottages coupled with garden patches, varying in area from one. eighth to one-half an acre, are here rented to the laborers at about $24. 84 per annum. Immediately south of Cheshire wages range, in the agri- cultural districts, from $4.26 to $4. SC per week, the number of working hours varying from 544 to 60, but. the per quisites are much less considerable. In Somersetshire the maximum weekly stipend paid to farm hands does not ex' ceed $3. 66, and in some quarters of Wilt. shire and Devonshire it sinks to $2. 16. In the country districts about Leeds agricultural laborers, who five years ago got from $4.32 to $5.75 per week of 6( hours, now receive only $3.84 to $5. 28. In the vicinity of Sheffield farm hands obtain, in addition to small cottage and garden, from $4. IA to $4. 86 in money