Arizona republican., 1896-10-16
NOT A PLEASING PICTURE.
Who Would Change Places
 With Mexico'S Laborer
Under Free Coinage System He Is Worse Off Than the Negroes Were In This Country Before the War Interesting Report.

CHICAGO, Oct 15.-nhe committee of the trades and labor assembly, sent to Mexico by that organization Ito in vestigate the condition of the laboring classes of that country" has returned Its report in part is as follows:
 Wages in Mexico, except to skilled and steady mechanics-always foreign ers-are very low. On railroads wages are as follows, in Mexican money:
 Engineers (American) on passenger trains, S210 per month.
 "Firemen (Mexicans), $1.85 per day.
 Freight engineers (American), $250 per month
 Freight fremen CMexican), $1.50 to $1.75 per day.
 Passenger conductors (American), $160 per month.
 Passenger brakemen (Mexican), $1 50 per day.
 Freight conductors (American), $2OO per month.
 Freight brakemen CMexican), $57 to
 0S per month.
 Pullman conductors, $80 per month (American money).
 Pullman porters, $2S per month (American money), with s5 per month extra for being able to talk Spanish.
 "The National soldiers Irregular army) of Mexico, called rurales, and i who are all ex-bandits, receive $1 per 1 day.
 I "In a broom factory near the depot at Juarez, the men are paid 50 cents, women and children, 25 to S71a cents per day.
 "In the cotton mills, seed oil mills and soap factories at Torreon, men are paid 4711A ito 50 cents; women and chil- dren, 25 cents per day.
 Common laborers can be hired for IS to 50 cents per day.
 House servants, male or female, re- ceive $3 to $5 per month and board themselves.
 ''In or near cities, peons live in adobe houses and pay a rental of S3 a year for the ground that the house stands on. When leaving this for an- other location, all improvements the peon has made go to the landlord or owner of the land, who pays no taxes l whatever on the land.
 'FThe days work in Mexico runs from ten to fourteen hours. The bakers work twenty hours, and workmen who
 take work ito their homes work as many hours as they please. The Mexi- can laborer works easy, compared witt the American laborer. ''The question of shorter hours tc Mexico is a long way off for country
 in which labor is so cheap and plenti full that it is offered as an fnducement to bring foreign capital in and its toil CTS will be compelled to work as many hours as they are physically able, ant thanks to organized labor or tht
 American workingman would be in tht same condition today as his Mexican brother.
 "On asking an American who wa.
 conducting a prosperous business il
 one of the cities which your commits sion visited why it was that the for
 eigners all seemed to be making mone, , no matter what business they were en B gagged in, he, with characteristic Yan
 kee frankness, replied: The labore
 here is different from the laborer il , the states. Here labor is cheap ant p we have no brains to contend with 9 1.-The American workingman is g prince compared to the workingma1 g of Mexico. In this country all stan, 0 equal in social and political life, an, l in that political right they should ex t ercise with care the faithful discharg t of their duties, unprejudiced and un l. biased, by supporting such principle } as will do the greatest good to, th s greatest number, irrespective of part !. politics or the machinery of eithe
 party, who may manipulate condition
 and measures for personal gain to tn a detriment of the whole people, The delegates claimed in submittin
 their report that they carried out thei 4 mission in an unbiased and non-par a tisan manner, and they simply picture
 the low state of the working classes i
 Mexico as it was, without reference t political questions.
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