The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-12
PRESIDENT CAMPBELL
Gives His Observations Among
Wage Workers in England.
GIRLS EARN TEN CENTS ADAY.
A Weeks Wages in England Equiv
alent to Days Pay Hcrc-what
Free Trade Has Done for Bel
sium, England, ireland.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. l1.-Jamel
Campbell, President OF the American
Window Glass Workers Association
and Master Workman OF District Assem-.
bly, 800, knights OF Labor, who returned
yesterday morning from Europe, where
he attended the biennial Convention ol
the Universal Federation, gave re-
porter an interesting statement on the
labor question. During his absence Mr..
Campbell visited the leading points Of
interest and had talks with workingmen
in the various industries OF Ireland,
England, France and Belgium. He said !:
On July 81 last, we left Pittsburgh to
attend the convention of Window Glass
Workers in Charleroi, Belgium, which
met on August l. After the convention
adjourned we set about gathering in.
formation on the condition OF labor in
Belgium. We would 90 into a work.
shop, or in coal pit, or stop on the high
way and interrogate the workmen
through an interpreter in Belgium, in
the following manner: ave are Amer
leans, and tue people who are now ad-
yocating u reduction OF tile tariff say
that you people receive MS high, il not
higher, wages than the American work
man." and we were always answered
freely and kindly by all whom we APP
preached. In helgium, common labor
receives from so to 10 cents per day, and
We found in manyinstanCes where little
girls ~ and II years old working for
10 TO 10 cents per day, Painters wages
are 90 to sQcents per day, a good lnachin-
lists SO cents, coal miners 90 cents, wo-
men and girls in the pit, 25 TO 80 cents
day and less; all other labor about in
the same proportion.
WHERE THEY RAT MULES.
In Charleroi beef ranges from 10 to 30
cents per pound; ham Is to q cents per
pound; bread about the same price as
we pay here in Pittsburgh. In Charleroi
and surroundings there are about $780,
900 people, there are fifty meat shops
that do u thriving business in selling
horse and mule meat, old horses and
mules that are unable to work any
longer are fattened aud sold to the butch
ers who kill and Sallthem TO the people,
who are unable TO buy the dearer meats.
The belgian people are very clean in
their habits at home, and are the most
economical people ever came in con-
tact with, and will produce more from a
given quantity than any other people in
the world, and they are importing raw
material in the shape Of ore from Eng
land, making 1t up into finished product
and sending 1t back to England, and
Belgium has closed up several iron mills
and number OF bottle factories in Eng
land. According to the official report,
Belgian exports into England last year
amounted In round numbers to about
S4a, ,001,000, and Belgian trade with the
United States increased last year SO per
cent over the year previous.
In London we called on the workmen
Of the great Midland Railroad, and got
the following Information from an en-
plays vino has worked for the road over
seventeen years:
LIST or MEN AND THE WAGES THEY RECEIVE.
EnpInneFs Hll.ntln trIn and rninsn 81 m