The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-09-29
HIGH COST Of LVNG
HERE AND ABROAD
RetalI Prlees d Food.

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food, the report notes that co-opera-
ton is not as strong in London as in
the north of England-although there
is one society of working people, at
Woolwich, twhere there is an arse
mad, with 26.146 members, and at
stratford-at the east end of London
there is a cooperative society with a
membership of over $4,000. The prices
given below were those prevailing in
19O5-and It should be noted that
prices of food stuffs the world over
were lower that year than they are
now:
Tea, per lb., from CSC to sec.
Sugar, white graduated, per lb., &c.
Sugar, Demerara, per lb.. 4c to sc.
Cheese, per h.. from 12c to Ice.
Eggs, from - to 16 for 24c.
Bacon, per h., from lac to 24c.
Butter, foreign and colonial, per lb.,
from 24c to CSC.
Potatoes, per lbs, &c to &c.
Flour, per z lbs, from Ice to &c.
Bread, per lbs. from &c to lie.
Milk, per at. SC.
Coal, per cwt., GID pounds from
&c to &c.
Coal oil per gallon, 12c to 14c.
Beef. per lb., ribs, from 15c to 2lc
for British; from &c to 16c for foreign
and colonial.
silver-side Ground of beef, for boil
ing). lac to 19c for British, for for
eign and colonial &c to 15c.
Rump steak 24c to CSC for British,
for foreign and colonial Ice to 24c.
(NoTE-In England. the beef car
cass is not ordinarily cut up as In
America, and except on special orders
the porter house" and "sirloin" are
not cut into steaks. but are included
in joints).
Mutton, per h.. leg, from 15c to
2lc for British, for foreign and CO.
lonial DC to 14c.
Shoulder, lac to 19c for British, for
foreign and colonial, &C to 1Sc.
Chops, trimmed, zoe to CSC for Brit
ish, for foreign and colonial, 12c to
zoe.
Wages in London.
Following were the standard trade
union weekly wages paid in London
in 19O5-and without exception the
standard was higher than throughout
Great Britain generally:
Building
Brlcklayers, masons. carpenters and
ioiners, 991.
Plumbers and plasterers, s11.14.
Painter from $50 to $9.11.
Laborers, sos.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES turner's and
smiths, $9.4S; pattern-makers, from
$1O.46 to $1O.64; laborers, $3.50.
Boiler-making-Platers, s1O.s4; rlv-
etters and caulkers, 1924.
Furnishing-Cabinet makers, from
Sob to s1O64; French polishers.
1857; upholsterers, s9,4S to $1277.
Compositors, Gobbing), s9.4s.
Draymen-single horse drivers,
$3.50; pair horse drivers, $3.50.
Lightermen tbargemen). full night
or full day. s1.46.
Boot and shoemakers. from $6.O7 to
1923; minimum. no maximum given).
Bakers, from 1929 to 1915; (mini-
mum, no maximum given).
Brewery laborers. from $3.50 to
1929
Gas stokers. from s1.s9 to s1.4s for
shift of eight hours. time and half
and double pay on Sunday.
Dock laborers, from 12c to 14c per
hour.
In Great Britain GoneralIy-Rent.
Housing accommodations for work.
ing people which prevails generally is
the self-contained cottage or house in
England and Wales. and the tene-
ment or fiat" in the towns of Scot
land There is little in common be-
tween working class houses in Scot
land and those in England. The typI-
cal residence of the English or Welsh
workingman, whether laborer or skill
ed mechanic, is cottage of three,
four, or Ave rooms; in Scotland the
cottage disappears, and its place is
taken by flats of two, three or four
stories.
Throughout England and Wales
with the exception Of London). the
prevailing rents dncludlng taxesl In
1905 were:
Two rooms, from 7Sc to s5c per
week.
Three rooms. from ole to slO9 per
week.