The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-16

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walk the streets and crowd the saloons
restaurants and grill rooms, with care
thrown to: the winds. =. = -. 7@. -: J.
Public counting is no uncommon
sight. George and Gertie, William and
Wanta, sJohn and Julia saunter alloIng
the thoroughfares hand in hand or
take excursions on the top Of the cars
arm around waist, obliYious to sur
roundlngs and content to be in each
others society. have tried to account
for this public display of mutual admir-
alton and objections, and, wonder. if it
is not because the homes Of these
people are too uncomfortable, too mis-
cradle IN fact, to make counting salts
factory amid such surroundings. When
an entire family is living in two rooms
parents and three to five children
one is certainly more alone in a crowd
with ones best girl than at home.
At supper time these best girls are
taken to the restaurants-some to the
public bars-and treated to a square
meal,' or to ale and meat pies, to be
seen on almost every saloon counter.
whether or not this is the custom in
all the manufacturing centers in Ian
cashire and Yorkshire I am unable to
state definitely. Manchester, by reason
OF it's up-to-date system of municipal
street cars, is particularly wei favored
for becoming a show town for the sur
rounding country. The question Of the
success or non success Of municipality
owned street cars is subject suf-
f1ciently large to be treated by itself,
but I might say, in passing, that the
contrasts between privately owned and
municipality owned street cars are SO
favorable to the latter that I doubt if
the British public will ever again con-
sent to the chartering of companies to
conduct this branch Of public utilities
England No Soft Snap For American
Manufacturers,
TO sum up my Manchester experien-
ces, I should say that the trade unions
have increased wages, making the aver:
age pay better than in unorganized To-
calities, they have also produced a
higher standard of workmanship, which
at least offsets any advantages non
union workshops elsewhere may seem
ingly possess in the way Of low wages
I am also satisfied that the comm ercia
supremacy of England is still long
way from being lost, and that her man
ufacturers and workmen will be able
to meet the competition for the worlds
markets, and with a margin to spare
as soon as they awake to the necessity
of taxing out of private pockets and
into the public treasury, in lieu Of al
| other taxes, unearned increments ir
the shape Of ground rents and royalties
| on iron, coal and ii mines have foun9
people so rich that their only difficulty
is in disposing Of their incomes; anC
I have found others just as honest anG
sober and more Industrious, who were
so poor that a penny is a prize and E
few shillings mine Of wealth. To be
sure, this simple fiscal reform which
can easily be applied here, will moi
clear up all the knotty points con.
! nected with the labor question, but il
will certainly go a. great ways in dis.
posing of distractions that now pre-:
vent q: cleasr view Of the greatest prob
lem Of the universe:
p rrsadforrd ord tbs the center Of the WooleI
cloth trade; leeds; an ndustrial sbiYs
|f,or#a y kinds shefnsld
famous pf odpce :;of' inesa
steel utensils and n aim Sc tVrers
beckonla We, and Fl d r will next write 81
some Of the. interesting things ! saw
in these f1ourtshin1g cities.