The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-28
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has been pointed out as being.
The condition of the farm labor
er is, financially and otherwise,
superior to that of the factory en-
ploye.
The money wages Of farm labor
increased about 2.5 per cent dur
ing the past year, and about 1l.O
per cent during the past four years.
Since 1902 the increase has been
about 36 per cent.
Wages Of farm labor tended up
ward during the decade of the
seventies; they were almost sta
tionary during the eighties, and de-
elined from 1892 to 1894, since
which time they have steadily
tended upward. Farm wages now,
compared with wages during the
eighties, are about IS per cent
higher; compared with the low year
Of 1894, wages are now about 81
per cent higher.
The current average rate of farm
wages in the United States, when
board is included, is, by the month,
$2l.3S; by the day, other than
harvest, $ll6; at harvest, $l.57.
When board is not included, the
rate is, by the month, $30.31; by
the day, other than harvest, $l.5C;
by the day at harvest, $l.94.
Wages in different sections Of
the United States vary widely.
For instance. the monthly rate,
without board, is $3.50 in Nevada,
$54.00 in Montana, and $5l.00 in
Utah; but 1890 in South Caro-
Lima, 1880 in Mississippi, and
$2O.20 in Georgia. The highest
state average, $3.50, is thus seen
to be 3.2 times higher than the
lowest rate, $3.50.
This wide difference in the wage
rates in different sections of the
United States is gradually lessen
ing. In seven Investigations made
between 1865 and 1881, the aver
age of wages of farm day labor
without board) in the Western
states (where wages are highest)
was about 100 per cent higher than
in the South Atlantic states (whsre
wages were lowest); whereas, in
seven Investigations made since
1898, the Western states averaged
about 10 per cent higher than the
South Atlantic, and in the past
year they were only about 80 per
cent higher.
The money wages of farm labor
have increased relatively more than
wages for labor in city manufac-
tories during the past twenty to
thirty years.
A comparison of the average of
wages per employe in manufaetur-
ing industries, as reported by the
census Of 1910, 1906 and 1890, in
dicates that the wages of such en-
ployes increased % per cent in ten
years (19G0 to 1870, and increased
only 90 per cent in the twenty
years. the increases in farm labor
wages were approximately 81 per
cent in the ten years and abont IS
per cent in the twenty years. This
relative gain OF rural upon urban
wages acts automatically vpoa the
movement from country 80 sity.
Wages of farm labor have been
increasing rapidly, not only N the
United States, but in most, Il not
all, other countries Of the world
In Hungary ths wages OF ag-icui-
tural laborers increased about 60
per cent in tie ten years FROM
1897 to 1907. In Denmark, from
1892 to 1905 wages of fara lshtr,
with board increased about 2G psr
cent, and without board Sa ps, oens.
In Sweden wages of agricultural
laborers increased IS per cert in
the ten years rom 1893 to 1903.
For Norway we have data show
ing the wages in country and in
towns, wherein is shown that
wages with board, increased 10 per
cent in country and Is per cent in
towns, during the ten years of 1898
to 1905, thus showing a greater
gain in country than in tom
wages. IN Jap@n where economic
conditions havo been charging