WAGES IN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 7248, 27 June 1887, Page 4

WAGES IN AMERICA

y» n.uu j xxi iiuiuivxvAi TO THK EDITOR.

Snt,—l have road with interest the remarks made by your correspondents auent the rate of wages paid in America, and more recently those (piotcd by Mr Neil bearing upon the building trad-'. Likij Mr Neil, I have had some experience of American life, having lived for some time in the second largest city in the States. Wh-le there I took the opportunity of making inquiries from a number of parpenters employed by a large manufacturing house, and I found there that men received 10dolaudl2dolper week-the latter being considered exceptionally good pay—for ten hours' work, and no Saturday half-holiday— » thing recognised nowhere in the United Statta. Doubtless in New Yprk city, where salaries jn every branph of business are higher than in any other State, the rate paid would be in ex<ess of those named, but against this must be reckoned the proportionately high cost of living. I have seen something of the working classes in various parts of the world during the i nst eighteen months, and venture the opinion that tliffjo employed in the colonies, even in these periods of depres.ion, have much the best of it. I am, etc., H. Dunedin, June 27.