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Show JAPANESE SKILLED ' LABOR WELL PASO TOKIO, Oct. 10. Skilled labor In j Japan is now receiving tho highest 1 wages according to the Toklo cham-I cham-I her of commerce. Before the war, car-ipentcrs car-ipentcrs were paid the equivalent of 65 cents a day; and riow are getting 75 cents. Other trades by increases now receive as follows: Masons, 95 cents a day; roofers 75 cents; bricklayers brick-layers $1; joiners 75 cents; gardeners, 60 cents; shoemakers 75 cents; foun-drymen foun-drymen 31; printers and compositors 67 cents; unskilled laborers 65 cents. oo Slowly but surely the high French heci Js giving -way to tho sensible military heel. |