Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-16
AUSTRALIA.
A Land Where Industry Re-
ceiVes It's Proper Recon-
pense.
Chicago Times.

Almost every one in the Australia
colonies travels more or less on hollis
day time, a fact which is mentioned
chiefly to show the comfortable condi-
tlon OF the Australian working classes
This evident comfort, according to a
yankee claimant, is what emigration
from the old land has affected. and
makes one wishful that more people
OF the swarming millions who COM
pete at home for bare living would
60 out to the sunny land where work
Is plentiful and wages are good
House-rent, perhaps, is the only item
that IS extravagant, but a working
man can afford 10 pay $3.50 or 50, or
Tor three rooms and kitchen up to
Us 5O per week, when even a common
laborer gets $3.50 and Sl.75 per day
which is the very lowest daily pay.
The Government day rate for a Ia,
6orer Is Sl.S5, and Jumpers or steve.
dores' men get $l.75 per day in Syd,
ney and Melbourne. Engineers EN-.
ployed by stevedores to run donkey
engines and men at ordinary work on
board tug steamers get from seventy
to ninety dollars per month. Mel
bourne ship carpenters get $3snd
1925 per day for eight hours.
In the iron trade boiler. makers and
pIaters get per day from 80 so to So 30.
riveters, from 81 % to 1915: black
smiths from 50 80 to 50; hammerers
from Sl,75 to 81; mouldera, from 81 250
to W. engineers, from 81 to So; filters,
from " 5O to S3i and turner's in iron
from " 30 to S3. There is a great
deal of such employment in Mel
bourne and Sydney, both in the private
business establishments and govern
ment. workshops. In the building
trades, in all the Australian colonies
labor has been in great demand for
the past year and Q halt. The hours
OF labor In these trades are eigkt hours
per day.
LaborerS get per day from $3.50 to
Sl.T5, carpenters and ioiners, $3.50.
masons N the same, slatersS9 plasterers
Sz75, plumbers and gasftters $3.50
Workers IN brass and copper get from
" to So per day, and superior |
hands in that line are not plentiful
Painters and GLACIERS get from 81 so to |
S275 per day, and cabinet makers
earn from $40 70 S2Dpee week, accord. |
ing te vneir varied skill, they being |
chiefly paid by piecework. Brushs !
makers have not as yet a very large |
field, aud they work on the piece avs !
TEN, earning all the way iiGm $40 to |
ties. '
Coach building is one Of the rising
industries. Railway cars are built in |
tue government shops and in private |
establishments, and this Will cause |
and insure a great amount Of work of |
that aeSeription.. Coaolsmitbs eorn
from Sl5 to $50 per week, wheelers |
from so to S2l per woek, coach bodyI
makers and painters about the same
and trimmers from $40 10 SIS per
week. P''
WV SiV0ulnS NTdu6 Juere is large |
held Tor both men and women, espe.
Glally In Melbourne and Sydney
When iailors work in order shops
they. are paid about "a cents per hour,
but IN the majority of shops the earn
ings range from Sl0,75 to Sl5 per
week. The Tatpg for cutters range
widely, from Sl5 to S26, $50 and even
$40 per week. In some exceptional
cases they go still higher, as much As
SoC per week. The tailorssses ht,,d I
strike ~ ra0'n.ii;5 .i5 aud were successful
Ihere are numerous large boot and
shoe l2otS;ies ~ all the Australian
gltles, ana good workmen can earn
from $40 to $40 per week, the same
pay as that prevailing for dry goods
clerks. Tanners and curriers' earn
from Sl0to SIS per week, and harness
makers DO better, Printers in Mel.
bourne and Sydney get 2A cents peY
thousand, but there Is soon to be an
increase TO 30 cents. Wstchmakers
earn from Sl5 to $25 per week, lew.
elers something less, and tinsmiths
galvanizers, etc., $40 and $l5.
In the la trade the work is all mid
by the piece, bodymakers from s. to
81 80 per dozen for low crowns and
s450 to 80 per dozen for regulars