Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — Foreign Wages. [ARTICLE]

Foreign Wages.

The weavers of Manchester, England, earn on an average $6.63 a week of fifty-six hours. The spinners average 38.53. Girls from 18 to 20 years of -age receive from 34.30 to 31.50. I’iecerS earn on an average 34.38 a week; bobbin boys from gi 76 tn SL9.V In France, the daily wage for fortyone hours’ work in Cambeesia and the Department de I’A i.-me is from 13% to 19% cents, for weavers. The representatives of a large German factory employing 1,500 hands and running 90,000 spindles reported inlß9 z the average earnings of girls and women at 31.45 for a week of six-ty-six hours. ' -k'. Japan is-taking away from both Manchester and Bombay and is monopolizing "the Chinese trade. Last year 360,000 spindlers were in operation in Japan and by the end of the present year the number will have been increased to ”50, 000. The Japanese factories are at Osaka. They have the advantage of cheap coal as well as cheap labor. The average wages at Osaka are 16 1-5 cents a day for male operatives and 8 cents a day for females.

The question of securing foreign laagket&for American cotton goods and also of retaining the American market for American manufacturers, under the Wilson bill, rests on the ability of American workers to accept foreign wages.—Seattle Post-Intelli-gencer.