Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-25
California the Place for
All Who Desire Work.
COMPARISON OF WAGES PAID,
An Interesting Report of the
Committee of the State Board
Of Trade.


first, steady employment; second, good
wages; third, cheap living.
Steady employment Is alltmportant. The
opportunities that laborers have in Califor-
MIA to get work, and the facilities for doing
the work they have, make this the best
place for the bread-winner to live in. In
this State, in almost every field of industry
where skilled or unskilled labor is en-
ployed, the worker gets q fair reward; for
the labor market Of California, and espe-
cially in the interior and among the farm
ing community, has never yet been fully
supplied. Owing to the salubrity OF our
climate man can work more days In the
year and accomplish more in given nun.
ber of days than in any other place. for the
heat is never oppressive or the cold severe.
If it be true man can work here more
days than elsewhere, he necessarily re-
ceives more wages, because the employer
can afford to purchase labor the year
around if tho work can be well done and
seasonably lone, in winter as well as in
summer. There is nothing in the climate
Of California to prohibit even farm work
from being done during all the winter
months
Then we submit that as steady employ
mont is Of the first importance to the man
who must work. even at the wages paid
elsewhere, he can earn more and save more
here.
The bricklayer in California can work
at his trade at least ten months in the year;
the plasterer can work every day in the
year-cold weather never impedes or inter
1erE W1tn the cXerCiSe OF nlb UfAQe. Inc car
penters and builders construct houses in
all our cities and towns the year round. and
although during the rainy season they may
be obliged to stop work for week at a time
Sule building GOES ' on % in caiifornia from re
one years end to the other without any
permsnentOr marked intermission.
The farmers in California commence
plowing the moment the rain falls, say in
November, and plows and sows until his
grain is all in, say in February. Then If he
has vineyard or an orchard, he commences
to prune and cultivate. and continues to
plOw and cultivate until about the time
haying and harvesting begins, which is in
May. From that time on he harvests his
fruit hay and grain until the last of Octo-
Der. Rain never Injuries his crop or stops
1t will thus be observed that the laborer
who does any portion of his work out
doors has more time to do it in California
than in any other part of the United States.
The farmer has more time to sow his grain
and a longer time to securely harvest it
than in any other place in the world. Thi
is attributable to the fact that we have no
severe winters or heavy frosts, and that
nights. To be exact, our winter is simply
rainstOrm and our simmer is rainless.
WAGES.
The wages of unskilled farm hands in
California, is from 500 to $50 month.
The average wages is 81 day and board.
other two months of the year, during the
harvesting, the same man gets from 81
to So. SO day and board.
Lumbermen and loggers receive from $40
what they do. Mechanics in every branch
OF skilled labor receive in California from
So to 90 day.
where nearly 1000 men are employed, that
the mechanics and other employees there
receive from So SO to $5 day, depending
on the department they work in and their
1t Is stated by the heads of the Educa-
tional Departments in this State that the
average salaries paid female teachers
throughout the State is from $50 to $50 per
Girls as house ser wants receive from $50 to
$30a month and board. Good teamsters
are never paid less than from $25 to $40 a
month. And the demand for all of the
above classes of labor has never yet been
fully met.
PRICE OF LABOR EAST.
The most instructive lessons as to the ad.
.Yantages OF our State over any other State
Wf the Union, relative to the labor question,
can be obtained by comparing the prices
paid for labor in other States Of the Union
, with the prices here the amount of time in
each year that the laborer here and there
can work, the opportunities to get work in
ing here and there.
In New York, Boston and Philadelphia,
wages OF skilled labOrers In all the various
10 to So per cent less than they do in Cali
fornis, and except only ia large factories
these skilled laborers cannot get work at
their trades but part of the year.
twas officially reported by the heads of
some Of the industrial societies in the East
that ca penters did not average to work
more than seven or eight months in the
year; p.asterers not over six months of the
t.1~1 wn.NA AxSA rrx
months Of the year, and it is well known
fact that farm hands only unemployment,
as rule, from six to eight months OF the
year.
ygreat Ceutral and Northern States of the
. On, farm labOrers receive not to exceed
$14 to x20 month for term of six
t0eight months Of the year. in the Southern
house-servants get from SO to $12 month
throughout New England and In the Central
States of the Union receive only from SIG 10
go Month MOI and that for but Part Of the
continuous employment except the house
servants and factory employees.
There is large class of people working in
factories in New England, New York and
Pennsylvania, who mostly work by the
piece, and who have continuous employ
ment, but they labor for such small wages
that continuous employment, as rule, only
serves to give them continuous bread.
CHEAP LIVING.
California Is especially food-producing
country. The supply of all the bread -stuffs,
fruits. meat and fish far exceeds the de-
mand. The result Is that most of the foods
are cheaper in San Francisco by from 10 to
50per cent. than in any other seaport town
Good mears are cheaper in San Francisco,
according to the published schedules
Of prices, than they are in New York
by 80 per. cent. Fruits are cheaper in
Erop oic c0O han in nf f1.a
large cities Of the Eastern States by over
so per cent. Thus 1t will be noted Cali
fornia furnishes the necessarfes Of life
cheaper than any other State OF the Union,
To show the condition of the laboring
classes Of California, we refer to the re-
port of the Bank Commissioners Of this
post posit in the banks Of Savings in California,
J $62, 100000. The population of our State
1t this time does not exceed 1,15O,OOO.
The population Of the whole Union has
returns from the proper authorities It ap-
pears there are less than s. 200 ,OOO, 900 in
all the savings banks Of our country. 1t
wtllthus be seen that California has one
twentieth Of all the money deposited in the
and i Yet our T population Is louly about
one fifty sixth Of the population OF the
whole nation, And although this is new
lous and monetary centers of the world, yet
our laboring people-those who make de-
posits In savings banks and who live by
their toil-are better off by vast percentage
than any other like number of people in the
United States or in the world.
Our products here ale 20 varied, and the
lines OF labor so many, that the opportun1-
ties for every man and woman who wishes
to toll to get remunerative employment sur
pass any other place within our knowledge.
In this connection. and to ada to what has
been already said, we may observe that as
grain is soWn at different season in this
State than in any other Slate in the Union,
and that harvesting continues for a much
terval between the sowing Of the grain and
the harvesting Of It is 30 large that the In
fermediate time is filed up and more than
filed mp by the use of labor In the great and
growing industry of horticulture and viii