Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-09-28

six. ''HOw does sc take care OF them
with fifteen cent q day :" ''Oh.' she
said, III Ct the first washings OF that
restaurant pointing to hotel, flor ten
cents dav. and that feeds them" Does
the free ira er In Massachpsetts want
his wife to work ten hours day. take
care of six children. and buy OF restaur-
ant the first washings with VIII ch to feed
her children
saw very Intelligent man I'm Ger.
many. who ad studied the sub ect OF
wages there and asked HIN II he would
talk with me. lie said he would Said
he, ii will talk with you freely. ] know
what you desire, and / wi h to tell you
that work not in fair condition to-
day in Germany, although 20 see they
are building mills everywhere. Said l:
~ dc, and they ook pros, erous. F"
"Well, said he, 'manGf featuring Is not
so good as il might be-, even in Germany.
There are some nan factL.ers In Ger
many without $ nlls. and the ar set ally
hir ng men and women to-da for any
thing the have mind to pay them.
They are paying, IN one factory know OF,
women TWEEN cents day for their wor f,
while the average they pay the men in
Germany is no over iif y cents a da.
l learned from his gen leman that in
h S OPP Mon, from careful investigation,
the earnings OF men in Germany would
not avera-e 81 year. not over that;
and that he women w uld no average
over :, a year. Now there are families
to be suppOre out OF that 81 r. Another
man | alked with put it hat in Prussia
the average earnings OF men are not over
SOB AVER.
| GREAT BRITAIN.
n w cross ever TO Engan |, TO Scotland,
and To Ireland Take Ireland; IL know
that ii is a fearful condition, without
anybody tellinE YOU. You know that ypu
cannot ride Through tie ives ern part of
| Ireland without hundreds OF men, women
and children following your carriage for
miles, asking for a penny To get foo TO
appease hunger. You know there are
thousan and tens Of housan of poop 4
i'm Ireland to-day right on the ragged edge
of starvation. You may in acme the state
Affairs whe there are thousands and
n lndrt DIS of thousands of men who can
not find employment.
Take England. My opinion, from the
best sources | could reach in fnglan ) Is
that the average wages there are not one.
half the lerage wages in the United
> a cs of America. | W up i'm anches.
ter AMI IN de some in uiries there. They
told me that in Manchester thee were
nearly 90, 900 III II at work i'm cotton mi l.,
two thirds of the work being done by
women, and that hose W men were not
averaging s o year for their wages.
Mind You, you must count out no idays
sick DAYS. feasts, fairs, saints days. and
all that sort of thing and when on come
down to the end Of the year you VIII find
| a, tl,. III Lot. j.. q
mere ba ga ellie. The men in ngland are
not averaging, according 10 the lest light
/ could get, over Sl25 or Sl3J a year.
lake : cot and, which is a fair test OF
wages in Brit in | was in Glasgow an
| fel a profound interest in the lydc.
II had been hurled at my head more than
a thousand times since ! have been in
lngress the Clyde and the shipbuilding
OF the Nde. that they could beat us, tlat
we were handicapped with the tariff and
that sort OF hing. SO | took a deer
interest i'm the & yde. | went up TO the
Longloan iron works. They cover thirty
i've acres ground they are right near
to the coal nd the iron; the average hau
of coal Is two m les, and the average cos
of coal delivered is five shilin a ton the
blast furna Is are Sc en- in number an
he average daily product of these is .0l
tons of pig iron. What are the wages.
Laborers from two shil ings and twopencC
to two shilings ard siXpence day Wha
would pittsburg la orer say 10 that.
skilled labor. three shllngS TO sever
sh lings, an mo o. them a three thar
at sew, n. Coal m ners, S5.j9 % IS. s. {
week and board themselves. IRON min
ers, from SD to So a week. III
hand foreman that is one Of the highest
priced fellows one o. he aristo rats -
FRO &c. % to S6.;2 week. Wages la
&c reased for five years in Glasgow. Mr.
right said in speech that he made
{ at in Glasgow alone 1000 families out
of every 100. 600 lived each in one room
And | should sa". from my obs rvatIOn
hat half of the men and women in elias
cow to-day were GU OF work. Now wha
could you expect wages to be- And the
same is true in England.
was in Liverpool for ten DAYS, an al
most every dav went TO look over ,
docks. ] am safe in saying that have
seen 500 able odied men, looking hungry
as hungry man looks, stalking abou
{ G docks and begging for little work
not getting it; coming down ain after
dinner, | was going to say oming dowT
after the time men ordinarily eat dinner
their numbers augmented and leseechinl
for work, ten cents worth. twenty cents
worth, "any work, for God S sake, and :,
feed nv children. How can wages bt
high where that thing endureS?
But am not going to weary Your pa
thence. l have spen ENOUGH of youl
time on the question Of what wage:
amount to in Europe. ! say. fro n all my
observations made there, and they were
made as carefully as | could make them
and in all honesty OF purpose. there II
only one country in Europe that con- @.
within one half of our wages, and that 1.
Great britain; tina in Germany, France
Belgium and switzerland they are no
onethird of our wages, and i'm italy no
One-ouarter. Now. il labor Is the factor
| said it was. ask you what you are 60
ing to do about thai? III II er was
factor Of importance it is in nltely more
importan to-day.
Now, what are you Americans going t.