WAGES AND COST OF LIVING.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WORK- ■ MEN. By Telegraph-Press Associatjon-Copyrieht London, April 12. A Board of Trade report on wages, rents, and the prices of the necessaries of life in industrial towns in the United States shows that a workman, on shorter hours, in America earns two and a quarter times as much as a workman jr. England; On the other hand, rent in the United States is twice as high, and food costs one-third higher than in England. But the cost of living altogether is as a hundred and fiftytwo to one hundred. Mr. G. R, Askwith, Controller-Gen-eral of the- Commercial, Labour, and Statistical Departments of the Board of Trade, in a prefactory summary, remarks that the comparison is based on tho assumption that tho English workman has an average family, maintained under American conditions, and at tho same standard of consumption in regard to food as he (the American) is accustomed to, and on that basis the wages, with shorter hours, are about one hundred and thirty per centum higher in the United 'states than in Great Britain.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 5
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183WAGES AND COST OF LIVING. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 5
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