Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17

get, and also the prices they pay for
their daily necessities You can then
judge Of their ability to support "a civil
ization like ours.
IN THE JAPANESE FACTORIES.
only a short time ago everything in
Japan was made by hand IN the houses.
Then, were no large establishments and
practically no factories. Today there is
stiu an enormous house industry. but
there are, am told over 10000 factories
and they employ altogether about 500
900 workmen. There are thousands Of
men who labor I'm the mines, and mil
lions In little industries OF every kind
which go on IN the homes OF the people.
AS 20 the factories. I have already
written OF the shipyards and cotton
mills I'm the spinning factories the
women are now receiving about %
cents a day and children as low as o
cents. while men get, on the average.
about "a cents cotton weavers receive
about the same and silk weavers
cent or two more.
The seat of the silk industry rs here
in Kyoto. but there is an immense deal
of silk made 800 osaka and that place
has more textile workers than any
where else u Japan Coming TO it
is like approaching Pittsburg or Chi
cage. You see the smoke pollutiug the
air; there are hundreds of stacks ris-
ing above the low black houses and
the surroundings are those of the new
Japan The city now has more than
million people and IFS population
is largely composed Of those who work
in the factories OF various kinds There
are long ines OF low houses. the homes
of the workmon and life seems hard.
In osaka some off tho factories work
their hands six days of the week.
Others work seven and boo the textile
trades the bours arc l0 every day.
There is considerable child labor but
not $50 much as is generally supposed
Iu am Japan only eight hands out OF
a. hundred are under 10, and of these
four-hfths are girls ln the house iu-
dustry the proportion of children is
much larger. Fully 90 per cent of tho
factory employees are women and only
30 per cent men, Am increase of WOO
men aborers. ana the females are do
ing more than their share of the work
of the country This is so uotWith-
standing their wages are often only
one-half those of the men and the work
quite as hard
HIGH WAGES FOR JAPANESE.
have before me uble of wages
which has just been made 10 has been
gotten at first hand from the child
employers OF Osaka and k,oto and Do
may Doe relied upon as correct N shows
the Increase Boo wages Zoo the past three
years. and the present wages which
are considered exceptionally high. Take
the clothing factories. whore women
arc now getting 25 cents day. working
seyon days OF the week off mine hours
each They received only 10 cents 10
years ago aud no cents m la06 Sewing
machine operatives uro now getting
% cents per day for their work. They
were paid go cents three years ago. and
only no cents n 1895 AS 90 taIiou they
now receive from 80 90 Al cents 20 day
and are getting about three times as
much os thcy ala 20 year ago.
They have nme glass factories ler.
Tho blowers, Who are especially high
prioad mon. are getting 20 cents. and
they have only two rest days dm-us tho
month Some of the uag aIe aa low
as 20 cents and a few arc paid as much
as ST. but this is only FOR extra dime
on niFht work Cigarette mokar work-
ing mine hours get from l2h 90 o' cents
per day, ana the girls in the lia4o Io-