The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
NO CONTRACTION OF THE CUR.
RENCY TO RESULT FROM
The Bond Calls-RepOrts of COnsuIs
on Labor and Wages in Ger
many-6eneral.
ESPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.I

| WARRINGTON, September 27.-The
State Department is receiving a large
amount of interesting information
from our Consul Corps abroad. Among
the recent reports the following is in
relation to wages and labor in Ger
many:
The common workmen in the mills
around Crefeld, Germany, receive
50 so week and the days work is a
little less than twelve hours. Carpen-
tiers, machinists, spinners, etc, are
paid from 50 81 to S. "a per we k.
| Consul Potter reports that these peo-
pie manage to live on these wages not
withstanding that coffee is SO cents a
pound, beef IA, butter 81 and salt pork
Is. One mill operative gives figures
to show that his family OF four costs on
an average SO cents per week for each
for food. 1t is wonderful how they
can do it. Cottages are rented to en-
ployes by the mill owners for about
S45 per year, and ii the family occu-
pies the cottage continuously for
nineteen years, then, by a provision
of the contract The property becomes
abs olu' ely theirs. II the premises are
abandoned before tue period, the
renters accumulated tights are for
feited. The advantage OF this system
to employe and employers is evident.
The proprietor secures and obtains
good and skillful workmen, while the
employe, through kind OF compus-
DRY system Of saving, secures a home
for his old age.
1t can thus be seen how difficult it
is FIR American manufactures to
compete with the cheap hand labor OF
Europe in the production of silk
seods.
Farm laborers about Crefeld receive
about $71 per year with board, when
in charge of teams. Second lsborers
are paid only $50 with board. A farm
hand when living separately can earn
s AZ, the wife being paid $ll 80 during
harvest time. With the sale Of goats
milk, a pig and vegetables the labor
er's family receive 1928 per annum.
Farming around Mayence, in the
Grand Duchy of Hesse, is not con-
Quoted on the most advanced prize
pies, and the land is very much cut
up into small parcels and worked by
multitudes OF pyoprietors, and hand
labor plays an important part. Twelve
years ls the full length OF time for
which farm is rented, reports Con-
sui Smith, and the rent is about 81 %
an acre each year.
Consul Harper reports that farms
rented in Bavaria at from So 40 TO
SIS 20 per acre, according to size.
Farm laborers receive from $23 to ST.
per year, with board. Day laborers,
without board, are paid from 3S to
t, AZ cents per day for men and from
90 TO So for women. The shortest
days work in winter is ten hours and
the longest in summer is fifteen hours.
In Brunswick Consul Harper re-
ports that the method Cf farming is
intensive and that the soil is worked
to give the greatest possible yield, es-
pecia 'ly where the sugar beet is cult.
waited. Here the demand for labor is
extended and all classes of hands are
employed. Country schools are closed
at such periods that the children may
help in welding out the beets. On the
larger estates there are families which
have a bit of land leased from the
proprietor at nominal Ieuta sand the
member b Ed themselves to work en-
the estate. Members of the family
receive the market wages. In the
vicinity of Gandeishein a man, wife
and child will earn 1854 year. The
proprietor Of the Watsum estate pays
men SO cents day, summer and win
ter, working. eleven hours daily.
Women bind the grain behind the
scythe, and are paid for such work
from 30 to 81 cents per day. Men
earn from go TO II cents in moving.
Consul Dittmer at Ste tin, reports
that proprieiors of the large estates
use the American threshing machine
to come extent. Farm laborers are
paid 373 cents per day. They gener-
ally live in small houses belonging to
the estates.
Consul Tanner, of Chemnitz, Saxony,
writes that there are large number
of ponds which stud the fields in
every dire ction and are a source of in
come to the owners. These ponds
TEEN with carp which are left to look
out for themselves until a year old,
when they are fit for the market,
bringing from ~ to 20 cents per
pound. In winter the ponds yield
ice which is sold at fair price. The
customary weges paid to hired SER
wants on fans are about $57 annually
for men and 500 for women, with
board. Field hands receive SO cents
per day without board, women sly
cents.
Consul Bishoff, of Sonnebergh,
Thuringia, states that In Siegel's Fan
mel Factory at Pressneck, common
hands are paid 81 81 per week. spin.
ners, So 81; weavers, So 81.
In Bremen, Consul Looming reports
that in the Osnabruck Iron and Steel
Works the wages paid per week Of
sixty hours are from 80 to 50 so to
ordinary laborers, and S. to SO 10
skilled hands.
Ia Breslan, Consul Dittmar reports
that agricultural laborers are paid
from $40 to $24 per year in cash, be-
sides food and cottage, and the wife OF
the laborer is bound to work in the
field, whenever required, at 10 cents
a day. Agricultural laborers are paid
in Eberield % cents per day with
board, or 80 to 624 cents per day
without board.
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WASHINGTON, September PA