Work and Wages the World Over.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 66, 17 March 1894, Page 12 (Supplement)

Work and Wages the World Over.

A teamster in Peru makes £2 10s a week. A Persian cook can earn 13s 6d a month. A weaver in Germany receives 28 6d a day. A native painter in India earns Is 8d a day. A mule-driver in Morocco earns 5d a day. A Mexican mason earns from 2s 6d a day. A railroad conductor in Turkey gets £5 10s a month. A boss mason in Ceylon can earn 12s 6d per week. Policemen in Saxony receive £52 a year as salary. A thrasher in Turkey can command Is 8d a day. Farm labourers in Belgium receive 2s a day. : An engraver in Rio de Janeiro can make £2 108 per week. Music teachers in Hamburg are paid lOd an hour. A blacksmith in Jerusalem can make 8s per vveek. Shop-girls in France receive an average of £20 a year. A camel-owner and his beast in Palestine are worth 4s a day.

In' Mexico seamstresses are paid Is 6d a day; weaver 3, 2e. Fig-packers in Asia Minor, if skilful, can make lOd a day. Railroad clerks in Germany are paid an average of 2s Id a day. Chinese soldiers get 4s a month and have to board themselves.

Waiters in Turkey, if they have good places, can make £3 8s a month. Builders in London receive 25 shillings a week and work fifty-two hours. Glasgow shipbuilders receive 16 shillings a week and work fifty-four hours. Freight handlers on Prussian railroads ' make an average of 2a 2d per day. In Strasbursj bricklayers are paid 16a 6d per week of 00 hours ; hod carriers, 12s 6d. The total weekly expense of a German family of seven persons is generally about 14s. Native labourers in Palestine work for 7d a day ano 1 p>>/ all their own expenses. The avetape weekly wages paid to female labourers of ali classes in Germany is 8s 9d. Women coal carriers at the Lisbon docks receive Is 3d a day; ojak coal carriers 3s 4d. Wages in all departments of labour have steadily increased since the beginning of this century. In the textile trades and mines of Austria a week of seventy-two to ninety hours is not uncommon. A Swiss silk-ribbon weaver regards himself as fortunate if he averages 2s a day the year round. The wages of female servants in Prussia range from £3 10s to £18 per year; of males £6 to £24. In a German sewing-machine factory a male employee earns £35 to £54 a year ; a woman £12 to £30. '"'".' The lowesjb wages in Europe are. paid in j Italy. A baker there makes FOs a week, a tailor IS?;, a painter £1. In the Krupp Gun Works ab Essen there are 10,000 men employed, and the average daily wages paid are 3s 4d. An agricultural labourer in India is supposed to receive 2£d a day, but in general his wages are nob so large. The food of German miners consists of bresd and vegetables. It is very seldom they can afford a bib of meat. An Italian labourer has soup in the morning, soup, bread and potatoes at dinner, broad, wine and macaroni for supper. German editors receive an average of £1 I 10s salary per week ; proof-readers, -£1 2s ; I compositors, 16», the devil gets 6s. j On many raUroade of Germany the | station agents are permitted to keep bees, I which thus form a small source of income. Station labourers on the German railroad 3 are required to be on duty from 5.30 a.m. to 10.50 p.m. seven days in a week. The food of working people in Holland is mainly potatoes, vegetables, beans and pea 3. With the exception of horse fle&h, fresh meat is a rarity. Farm labourers in most parte of Germany are engaged by the year, and have a cottage with a bib of land. They receive 4£d a day in the winter and 5d in the summer. A German female farm band, employed in hoeing the fields, receives 6d to 8d a day, with schnapps ab 9 o'clock, potatoes and coffee at noon, and black bread and beer at I o'clock. The greater portion of farm labonr in Austria and much of the work in factories, mills and mines fall on women, who work longer each day and are paid from 25 to 50 ! per cenb less than the men. The wages of seamen in sailing vessels are about the same all orer the world, avereging 60 shillings a month, with food } seamen employed on steamers receiving abonb£s. 6)