Show WORKERS IN IRON TOR ear MODE OF HERE AND ABROAD DESCRIBED kind of fool they I 1 eat at and how ilow ilia rag In ChLloW the they live and how they spend their v arnina facts not knot tle the orle orles the sixth annual report of the commissioner mi ioner of labor on the cost of production conof of iron and steel gives somo some interesting facts about comparative income nd d cost of living anion among american and european iron workers judging by the statistics coming from this reliable source our protected iron workers live more comfortably and save more money than thin their european brothers thus showing that while under protection we have lecome become the greatest iron producing aaion in the world this has been accomplished complis hed by no grinding down of labor in order to curtail cost of production but paying our workingmen nearly I 1 twice aa as much we have outstripped great britain in one of her most cherished hed industries and have proved the truth of protections cardinal doctrine st the best paid labor is in tho the end iwais the most efficient one of the post important tables is the following which shows the comparative standard of living co or FOOD rood PER individual ADULT united states europe potatoes 1 51 bushels bushels gagar arar ft pounds 2265 pounds 13 butter titter 18 pounds 2163 poun pounds ds pounds pounds aggs MX 1338 dozen 1363 l dozen pounds pounds coffee pounds pounds tea t pounds poun pounds ds in spite of the far higher standards of cring in the united states wa we find that the average cost per family of all kinds of food is proportionately much less being in the united states and in europe of 2490 families reported for the united states own the houses in in which they live or about one in ev every cry five fire while of the european families reported only thirty one own the houses in which they live or about one in every twenty five again when we consider the number of rooms to each family mong among those families who do not own their own houses we find that among 1782 families in the united states t the he is 41 rooms to the family while is europe the averal p number of rooms per family is only 37 and on the other hand the average european family is larger than the american in 1017 of the be 2490 american families the husband supports the whole family in the other families keeping a boarder or two is the principal other means of support the wife and children contributing to the income of the family in comparatively few cases of european families tho the husband is the solo source of suppo support rt in only in the remaining families the other source of support is the work ot wife and children another other interesting tabla is the table of expenditures for incidentals the grenage sum spent per family for different items is shown as follows united great states britain life insurance 1 I 31 21 00 09 9 49 property insurance muce babur organizations 62 other organizations 1060 10 CO 7 55 religion 7 80 4 63 charity 2 too intoxicating liquors 1960 1900 23 2317 17 other purposed purposes 30 ca 1717 17 17 the total average expenditure for all purposes per individual is in the united states as against in europe while the average income per individual for the european families is as against 11 in the united states in other words the family of the average american iron lion worker living comfortably often in their own home and supported by the labor of the bus has tend saves on the average seventy five dollars while the european family supported by the labor of husband wife ud children huddled into three rooms ini na with a far lower standard of living cm un barely scrape together twenty five dollars to lay by against a rainy day facts like these are the premises on thich which the advocate of protection builds bargum his argument ent they illustrate conditions not theories and being facts tay are worth books and books full of free trade arguments based Q B hypothetical ideas of an economic man that never had and never will have vj UY existence |