Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-12
AMERICA THE LEADER
In High Wages, Low Cost of Living
and Better Employment
FOR ALL KINDS OF WORKTNGMEN.
Wanamsker Asks for Speedy Investigation
of Leake's Charges.
FEED FINDS A VENT FOR HIS SARCASM

WASHINGTON, May II. - Carroll D.
Wright, Commissioner of Labor, to-day
sent to the President the seventh annual re-
port of the Department of Labor. Extracts
from it follow:
In a cotton warn esta blishment in the
Northern district of the United States it was
found that 3Ss different employees earned on
an average 81 0s each per day, but worked
only 70 days out of six months, their average
earnings being for that time $50 per capita
In the Southern district of the United States
in an establishment working six months,
347 employees, earning 6915 cents each per
day, worked on an average of 81 days, earn
ing SIS each during the time worked In an
establishment in Great Britain, which
worked six months, it is found there were
30S different employees, earning 66 cents
day on the average and working on an
average f3l DAYS out of the period, earning
thereby SS6. For the three establishments
the direct comparison is as follows: Taking
all the employees in each establishment, they
earned in the establishment in the Northern
district of the United States 81 o. per day
each; in the establishment in the Southern
district of the United States 6913 cents each,
and in the British establishment Go cents
each.
Wages Earned Here and Abroad.
On full time each employe in the establish
ments named could have earned, the one in
the Northern district of the United States
sl59, the one in the Southern district of the
United States sl09. aud the one in Great
Britain Sl0S The total average income from
all sources for the following different coun-
tries was:
For the cotton industry s657 in the United
States, 1866 in France, S302 in Germany, $3.50
in Great Britain and 1856 in Switzerland. In
the woolen industry the average family in
come from all sources. 1868 in the United
States, S424 in France, $275 in Germany and
S5l6 in Great Britain. In the glass industry
the family incomes were in the United
States sSI5, in Belgium s62 and in Great
Bringing these averages into comparison
with those of incomes in other industries,
the commissioner finds that in the United
States the total average income of families
en- aged in the pig iron industry was 1891, in
Belgium 1914 and in Great Britrin $4j6 The
bar iron workers are wellpald class, and
their incomes per family were follows:
For the United States, S7s4: for Belgium,
$3.50; for France, 464: for Germany, Sssa, and
for Great Britain, S515.
Comparative Cost Of Food.
The expenditures for food by the families
of cotton workers in the United States was
on the average s2S7, in France Sl64, in Ger
manySl42 and in Great Britain s246. For the
families engaged in the wooden industry the |
average expenditure for food in the United |
States was S262, in France $780, in Germany
$40 and in Great Britain s223 For the fam
lilies of glass workers the AVERAGE cost OF |
food in the United States was 1924, in Bel |
gium S237 and in Great Britain $500 |
Examining the total average expenditures |
per family for all purposes, it is found that |
the families in the cotton industry in the |
United States expended S610, in France |
1888, in Germany $3.50, in Great Britain |
$500, and in Switzerland S346 The fam
lilies in the wooden industry in the United |
States expended 1894, in France 1884. in
Germany S2S1 and in Great Britain S4S1
The families engaged in the glass industry
in the United States expended $769, in
Belgium S492 and in Great Britain $3.50.