Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1926 — Page 17

FEB. 19, 1926

‘REAL WAGES’IN U. S. TUMBLE, SURVEY SHOWS American Workers Highest Paid, but Food Prices Are Higher. Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—American workers are the highest-paid in the world, hut they must pay the highest prices for food. “Real wages,’’ meaning the value of wages when used to buy the necessities of life, have fallen steadily in America since 1924. They have increased in most other parts of the world. These are conclusions drawn by the International Labor Office of the League of Nations, which has compiled the prices of sixteen leading articles of food in about twenty representative cities of the world. In Philadelphia, selected as a rep resentative American city, these articles cost about $2.45. In Talinn, Esthonia, the cost is about $1.25. In London it is $1.88; Berlin, $1.79; Sydney, $1.93; Copenhagen, next highest to Philadelphia, $2.12; Paris, $1.43. Most of the other cities are low. Then the labor office, using the food-price wage balance in London in 1924, as 100, sought to translate the wages received toy workers into "real wages.’’ This resulted in a figure for Philadelphia of 176, which had dropped from 212 in 1924. Two other cities showed “real wages’’ above London: Ottawa, Canada, and

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