Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1855 — Jasper Employment Society. [ARTICLE]

Jasper Employment Society.

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v .MjuMoClrtut:— X« felt ,by community in the probable smotent and prtaes ot labor, to be obtained in this county the approaching season, I wish tonite the following statements: 1. The amount of labor to be appro- ; printed to the commercial and agricultuI ral interests of the country vdepends on • the amount which is required in other oc- . cupatfons. JKbr several yean past a grea t deal bf labor hast "booh expended on rail- : wads, canals, harbors, and in mechanical ‘Shops which were necessary to complete 'these Works. Mow nearly’all of these, great Works are finished, or, on account; of the revulsion in the money market, we i suspended and the many thousands of persons who were engaged on them are 8/The vast military preparations of Europe, have forced the enlistment of, many into their armies who would, other-1 wise hare emigrated to this, country and if the war continue Ath w will considerably; check emigration from some of the European States. If an armistice,'-dr twn

peace Should be immediately agreed upon, they cannot disband their armies soon enough for them to arrive in this country in season to engage in .agricultural labor this year, yet we may look for a eotrttattal and heavy emigration from abroad.— l The result of these two causes operating somewhat to neutralize each other, will probably be not to depress the price of ag ■ ncuTtiifal labor, but still it will reduce it some, so that we may confidently except! more laborers tn this department of busi- , ness this year at reduced rates of wages from what was paid last year. The value of provisions at the present time will engage many in farming, but the tendency of this will be to reduce the price of labor. 3. Last year, hands on the publicworks obtained from 81 to 9 1 25 a day, and their board. The rules on the public works are for hands to work only during fair weather and' only at such seasons of the year as may be most profitable to contractors, so that much of the time they are out of employment, and when they ar# not at work they have to pay for their board, and the consequence is, that, at the end of the year, they are not so well off 1 * as they might have been I if they had had steady work at lower prices, in farming, by the year, at lower wages, have done better on the whole than those who have been engaged on the public works. 4. Many of the people engaged on the public and heavy works of the country have been employed along our great thoroughfares, or have returned to the large cities for Aiployment, where labor is, and must be for some time very much depress- j ed. Those,.therefore, who live off of the great thoroughfares and wish to obtain help, must send there for it, and those who wish to obtain the best wages, must goback in the country to work, -Rut men in the country do not know those in the cities who are out of employ, and they of the cities do not know where to find employers. If they could only be made acquainted with each others wants, they could enter into arrangements that would be mutually beneficial. For the purpose of obtaining and giving information of this sort, the Jasper j Employment Society was organized near ! the first of the present month as your | readers have been informed before. ( It costs an emigrant to noma from New' York city to Bradford station—viz: forj R. R. ticket 812, fare by the way from eight to twelve shillings.. When naviga-: tion is open on the lakes, the competition | will be such as to reduce the fare to four of five dollars. - “ ' Men’s wages, or. farms, range now from eleven to fifteen dollars a month, by the year. On the public works, sister the first of June, they will probably be from 87cts. to 81 per day, for the time they may be employed at attLC best of the season. Much of -the public works in this: State, I am informed will be suspended this summer if wages are higher than this. Female help may be obtained in families by the year, at from 75cts. to 81 25 per week. Respectfully, yours.

R. B. JAMES,

Cor. Soc'jf.

The “good time coming” for Itea| the door. The large estates which are loaded dowhfour deep with mortgages, are sold law of Parliament and the land is passing into the hands of the poorer classes J The good effects are visible eyery-j where in that beaUtiful land. Ire-] land will yet be a home for a freehand prosperous people. -