The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-18
Received by Them in Various Lines
in Europe and in
America,
Annual Report to the President
of Carroll .. Wright, Labor
Commissioner.
and H0use-A Noisy Confab Be-
tween Two Members

| D. Wright, commissioner Of labor has
| transmitted to the president his annual re-
port. In that part of tho report relating ia
cost of living, facts are given from 5.284
families. representing 27,577 persons. These
families are distributed through the cotton
and glass producing states of the United
States, Belgium, France, Germany, Grea,
Britain, and Switzerland, and constitute
tho most extensive collection of data rela-
tive to the cost of living that has ever beer
published
The total average income of families
| from all sources for different countries. for
the number OF families for which budgets
we're obtained in ench country, was: For
the cotton industry $657.7G in the United
States. $3G5.94 in France, $302. II il Ger
many, $55G. IA in Great Britain, and 1858 66
in Switzerland. In the woolen industry
1868. 13 in the United States, $424.51 in
France. $275.99 in Germany, and $51564 in
Great Britain. In the glass industry, in the
United States $859.64, in Belgium S627.65,
and in Great Britain $5O1.G9.
Bringing these averages into comparison
with those Of incomes in other industries,
as reported in the sixth annual report, the
States the total average income Of families
engaged in the pig iron industry was
$59l.61; in Belgium, $374.53, and in Great
Britain, $456.86 The bar iron workers ara
well-paid class, and their ineoraes per
family were as follows: For the United
States, $784.11; for Belgium. $359.37; for
France, $46f.74; for Germany, $28220, and
for Great Britain, $5l9.99.
Looking at some of the items of expenses
Of families in different countries, and for
different industries it ia learned from the
report that in the United States the aver
age csst of rant for the families reported in
the cotton industry was $72.58; in France,
$34.7G; in Germany, $27 SO; and in Great
Britain, S51.24. For families engaged in
the woollen industry in the United States,
$9O.87 in France, $33. 25; in Germany,
&25.45, and in Great Britain, 1924. For
families in tbs glass industry, in the United
States, $1O9.57; in Belgium, 1885, and in
Great I. .itain, $5O.73.
The sums expended for amusements and
vaeation indicate very clearly the tendency
OF the families Of workingmen. For the
| families in the United States in the cotton
industry, the average cost was 1896; in
France, $1602; in Germany, .$19.33. and in
Great Britain, $500. The glass workers
in this country, however. spent moro
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