The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-03

.,--knoWn writer and the au-
...-.. The Rise and Decline Of the
s..a-.aads." Modern Germany"
.e-..s Britain and Greater Britain. /"
British Socialism," four books
...l are considered standard books
Great Britain and which have
.. published in the United States
Ill.
outlook for protection in Eng
aid Mr.. Barber recently.
aetly favorable. The work
in England are I'm al
teTment which is due TO the
dissatisfaction with the labor
IS prevailing in that country.
under free trade conditions
. exist in England are deter
~ the lowest wages prevailing
... H-rIng countries An English
....tan-Hrcr can compete only if he
soils his Goods in the free English
Ia.s.-- q. the same price at which
tEa. =re sold BY his foreign com
...Gors. If foreign competitive goods
are sold al much lower price than
British goods, the British manufac-
turer must reduce his price, and he
can do so only by reducing his cost
of production, among which wages
are Of course the most important
/ give an instance. Mr.. w. J. d.
Walker, Industrial adviser and in
spector of the Congested Districts
Board Of ireland, stated before the
British Select Committee on Home
Work in March, 1908:
You cannot raise the wages when
the whole world can come in and
compete with you. Here is a table
cover, &c So, and the wholesale
price in London to-day is fOrty-fOur
shillings a dozen for the work of
Donegal Ureland). Here is Jap
anese table cover, made at thirty
seven shillings a dozen, and with a
great deal more work upon it. 1t
shows you the extent to which Bel
fast is hit in that industry, and when
your wage board comes to arrange
the scale of wages, you are Compel
ing with the yellow man"
Owing to the free and unlimited
competition of goods from any and
every country, of goods made by
white and colored labor, wages in
England are frightfully low. Accord
ing to the tables published by the
Official Board of Trade Gazette, a we'll
known government publication, the
average wage per worker in full en-
plOyment is as follows:
In the cotton trade, $3.50 per
week. In the wooden trade, $3.50
per week; in the worsted trade,
$3.50 per week; in the linen trade,
$2.75 per week; in the lace trade,
$500 per week; in the hosiery trade,
1918 per week; in the silk trade,
$3.25 per week; in the boot and shoe
trade, $3.50 per week. The foregoing
industries are the greatest exporting
industries in Great Britain. Great
Britain's success in cotton and other
textiles is founded on cheap labor,
and especially on the exploitation o.
women.
If one compares the census of
Great Britain with that of the United
States, one finds that the percentage
of women employed in the mills and
factories is exactly twice as great in
Great Britain as it is in the United
States. Low wages in Great Britain
are not restricted to the factories
and especially those which work for
export, but they are unfortunately
universal.
The maximum wage of the London
;c
week, or a little more than $500 per
week. The Boston policeman re-
ceives after five years service, ST.
200, and the New York policeman
$1,400 per year. English typists and
shorthand writer's who have left the
shorthand school receive, as rule,
from $500 to $3.50 to commence
with, and their maximum pay is from
5000 to $4,000 per week, but $40
is really exceptional even for most
experienced shorthand writer's and ty-
isas. Mattresses in the popular cafes
and bar maids receive, as rule,
$3.50 per week, but they receive no
gratuities. Out of this $3.50 they
have to spend from 81 90 to $3.50 on
fares, washing, and food so that
their net earnings for ten hours
work per day comes to the lament
ably low sum of from $500 to $3.50
Per week.
Whether wages are high or low de-
Ponds, after all, not only on their
nominal amount, but on the cost of
living. The English free traders con-
stantly asserts that the cost of liv-
ing in the United States is enor-
"ously high owing to protection.
Mhen | came over to America
July expected that the cost of living
was very much higher than in free
'raQe england, but I found that this
was not the case, at least as far as
people or small means are concern
ca nave had excellent meals for
70 cents at Child's in New Work and