Show OUR HAPPY WORKMEN WORK The Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury department de de- de furnishes some interesting dat data respecting respect l ing lug labor conditions in ill the iron and steel industries of the 1 United States in contrast with those in the thc United Kingdom dom and European countries generally at nt length th b by bythe bythe These conditions are discussed great the thc commission appointed by the thc British tish Iron Trade association l recently visited the United States and aud thoroughly studied its great iron and steel manufacturing manufacturing man man- This commission consisted consisted con con- c establishments Histed of Mr Ir J J. J S. S Jeans Jeam whose name is s already ahead well known to the people of the time United States as us s an authority au au- au thorit thorit upon these subjects Mr Ir Axel an expert expert ex ex- ex pert in iii blast lIaSt furnace work Mr Il Ebenezer Parkes whose special study was sheet Rheet and bar bill mill practice and Mr 11 Enoch James who gave n special the steel industry while Mr Jeans's leans's special work was to report upon the general ec economic and in industrial industrial indus indus- us trial cond conditions The flie report of this commission according ac tic- cording to some extracts which whelm have reached the time Treasury Bureau of Statistics points out that in n time the I United States States the time iron and steel industries are face to face with conditions that make both oth the dearest ntH and cheapest labor at present ent to be ue found in the the world world the dearest in point of nominal remuneration tion and the cheapest in iii industrial and e economic re- re stilts The Thc workmen at American mills nulls says Mr James in his share of the x report port are generally supposed sup sup- posed to bi be working much harder haher than titan they do doin in inthis this country En England land but this is not my own view After much conversation with man many men in various branches who had been employed ed in similar works in England and some Rome of them subject to my own control the conclusion I have haye arrived at is that the thc American workmen worl do not l hard ard as the men mep in En England land Mr 11 in his section suction of the report I Isa sa says s 's that flint the American workman man generally aspires to the thc hi higher her grades rade of labor le leaving in 1 the tue purely manual mannal labor to workmen from other countries Titus Thus it is he lie says pays that around 1 American blast furnaces time the American is found in a very Yen decided minority lIe He may be a foreman freman master mechanic blast engineer locomotive e er dri or 01 stove sto tender but ut he ho will not work four eighty hours s per pel week shoveling shO ore oie or wheelin wheeling scrap For these duties are mit-c employed ed in the thc South the time negroes and aIll at the Northern furnaces furnace immigrants most mostly I. I I Irish rish Slays Slavs or 01 Italians On this Ju question sti H of hi higher her grade ale work and higher hiher grade wa wages s of A American can workmen attention attention at at- is called to the time fact that in certain works Polish and Hungarian laborers were receiving L 1 to vet per day while American rollers working alongside along lIong side Sile of them were receiving on on the thc average 12 12 per imer perda da day of eight hours The Time report quotes Mr r. r Carnegie as stating staling recently that the average wages of men in his employment at Homestead was 3 3 per da day or oran oran oran an anela average ela c of 87 pounds sterling p per pir r annum against an average of is 08 pounds sterling per annum as the earnings 8 of iron and steel workers in Lan Lan- cash ire und and 79 pounds sterling per pel annum received b by the steel roll rollers rs in South Wales On the thc question of COB cost COlt of living Mr Jr Jeans declares declare as us the tue result of his inquiries that the average American workman in ill most inest of the lime essentials of life can live as cheaply I as he can in the lime old country The Tue importance of the human factor says Hays the London in summarizing sum sum- this thiR report is fully realized realised b by all the members of the commission There has been heen produced pro Ino in America i within a generation an mum industrial potentiality more wonderful and more to be bc feared than tutu all the factories es and machinery y and pIa plants ntH that the these workers have created c The file American workman is is the time mot most pro prosperous peloU most happy and most progressive of all the thc laborers s of or the world i |