| Show WORK AND WAGES some rome rt Iri ert gure which effectually dispose of claims the recent report of carroll D the national cominess commissioner cOm Iniss ioner of 0 labor contains some facts of interest bearing upon the protectionist claim that hi lili it elli unties ties uro tire levied to enable the people of the th e united wes states st to pay high wages the statistics of ways wage are taken from the ray 11 ay rolls of 1 15 textile and a nd gloss es in thia country and in europe r from it appears eliat working in on full time for MS fix months each employee in ili the establishments establish indents nailed nal ted could have earned at tho the current wages in lit tile the northern district of tho the united states sn in tile ou them district of the united states rind and in ili great gret britain C none of the mills ran the full time and the operators opel acors earned carried on oil an average per day in tile the north 69 11 cents per day in ili tho the south couth and CO 60 cents per day clay in engl england and A digest of the report further says I the ithe total average income of families s from all sources for diffee different ent countries for the number of families for which budgets bud 9 acts were obtained in each country wai for the cotton industry 35 3 li gin in the united states c in ili france in germany in great britain and in switzerland in the woolen industry the average family income from all sources was GG in the united states il in france 27 ado in germany and c 5 in great britain now if the lie tariff regulates the wages as the projectionists protectionists claim the earnings in this country in ili the same line of manu fact lit es should be anif uniformly gormly high all sections of the union are under tile the benign I 1 influence of the same blessed tat tariff iff and anal yet the difference diff arence in the wages at the north aud and nt at the south is almost as great as tho the difference between wages at the coith ani and in great britain A southern cotton spinner earns on an avera average go only 3 ai I 1 2 cents per lay day more than an nEng english lih spinner the average total earning capacity of the sout sont heni bein spinners fur for six months is only six do dollars more than that of the spinner under free trade in ili england the northern spinners earn more because they do more work than either in a given iven time if this does docs not piove giove that skill kill productive capacity the cost of living and the supply of labor fix the wages and not ff no demonstration could mako make that truth clear another fact is that the wages and earnings in ili free trade great britain are lire far higher notice the figures fig tires than in protectionist germany and france the conditions of labor and of living are neatly the same in these the old world countries comparisons between them are fair as comparison with this newer country are not and they prove that wages are iii lii glicr berand and earnings greater in the free trade than in the protectionist countries similarly situated new I 1 ew york world |
