New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-02
Avg earn
Total average per MAJ

week. IL IL ~ W
The English work men, however, claimed ihlt me
part referring TO the English trade was 90 highland
a careful statement furnished Consul Lane III
behalf Of the men showing that the average earn
lnes were only CT L.. about 81 30, per w''N
against SlS 80 in the United states. But pointed
ont TO Mr Lane that these averages DID not indicate
the earnings OF the majority of the pottrrs IN Ing
land nor in the United States, and / snSgc'l'i 10
him that 10 complete the work he shou'd hhd ou'
what proportion, say Ill one hundred, wero hollow
ware presser jiggers, receiving 81 62 week. ana
what proportion were ovenmen receiving only
So So. In compliance with this request have TINS
morning received the following from Mr. Lane
In an earthcnware manuiactory for making pam
white goods employing say 700 people OF DUN
sexes and all ages. including the skilled hanis ana
their attendants, there wall be on an average 81 uich
IN the different branches ct work as ion INsS:
makers 4 hand basin makers !: cup-makcIs - :
samcer-makcrs 4 handlers ?; turner's 4; s'gSsi-
makers > Oyeumen II mold-lnakffs =; to.ai %
of what NAV be called skilled wOTkmcn. IA tho
ware made is to be printed, but OtEerWlsc OF Tue
same kind as above, 40 employees muS1 DC aducu
for that department
Here then are about three fourths of the operators
at IS IA and Sc SO week. If We take the en-
ployts' estimate (Which is disputed by the mem.
Then the printers Of whom Mr.. Lane says there
would be 40 III Il factory employing 200 hands IN
white ware are the lowest paid OF al--only ~ %
per week All three of these classes a2grcgatlng u-
doubtedly over three-fourths OF the entire sAllcd
labor of tho Pottery District receive far less than
the average ! have merely gone into these details
TO show the absurdlty OF averaging wages. The I'M
skilled hands IL those potterIes make from 4s orPl
to perhaps 81, or 50, week.
How much do you maAep said TO dark-eyed
young woman in the PRINT shop.
"Ab moost do a many 10 mex DOT nah dees
work"
"HOw much money week meanT
cob we doant make more than ten shillns."
The only fair method of comparing wages Is TO
take the same department of work III each country.
For example, plate makers III England average 81 80
a week III the United States $40 30 English dish
makers make SO O.; Americans $40 -. English
cup-makers. SO 92 Americans $40 o. And 80 on
through the list. II is not much IN the skilled
work that the British workman has cause IL com
plain, but have found throughout England that
great suffering exists among the laboring classes
and those whose work does not require much skill.
For example, in the English pOttcres, according TO
the masters. the hollow presscr the 0ven-nan,
and the printer representing over tlree-iourths of
the skilled labor receive SIS II, So SO and SO 30
respectively; while III the United States they re-
celve $17 30. $13 Is and Sl3 SO respectively. In
short. with the additional high nav in the United
States for the uuskilled labor and for the lads and
girls il puts what may call the bono and sinew of
the trade on living basis, where they can live
comfortably and save money, own their homes and
he men ana women. Ii is this class that feel more
severely than any other a reduction OF wages. and
it IS this class for they after all the many. that
give strength character and prosperity 10 "A coun-
try. 1t is an undoubted fact that three-fourths of
the people of the entire pottery district live on Dos.
(y6j OF less a week per man. What that buy
.henf Consul Lane has kindly given me an aver
age estimate OF the weekly expenses of a man with
a wife aud two children Ia small family IN Eng
land. whose income Tor the year round averages
2Js $50 week Here IL h. and a perisa shows
the grote quencss OF The cry Of cheap cloths Adj
ting there is any difference IN the price OF the
common grades Of clothing which begin seriously
to Doubt AT home and here, the bulk of English
potters. according ~ theII own Statements nave