Work & Wages

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 1, 7 April 1894, Page 3

Work & Wages

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

A teamster in Peru makes £2 lOrja week. D r ., ' A Persian cook can earn ids ocl a month.

A weaver in Germany receives 2s 6d a day. . A native painter in India earns Is 3d a day. r A male-driver in Morocco earns od n day. p o c i A Mexican mason earns from Zs a day. -mi A railroad conductor in iurkey g-ets £5 10s a month. A boss mason in ’Ceylon can earn 10s 9d per week. A Policemen in Saxony receive £52 n year as salary. A thresher in Turkey can command Is 3d a day. Earm labourers in Belgium receive 2s a day. An engraver in Rio de Janeiro can earn £2 10s a week. Music teachers in Hamburgh are paid lOd an hour. A blacksmith im Jerusalen can make 8s per week. Shop-girls in Prance receive an average of £2O a year. A camel owner and his beast in Palestine are worth 4s a day. In Mexico seamstresses are paid Is 6d a day ; weavers, 2s Pig-packers in Asia Minor, if skilful, can make lOd a day. Railroad clerks in Germany are paid on an average 2s Id a day. Chinese soldiers get 4,-, a month and have to board themselves.

Waiters in Turkey, if they have good places, can make L 3 8s a month. ° Builders in London receive 25s a week and work 52 hours. Glasgow shipbuilders receive 16s a week and work 51 hours.

Freight handlers on Prussian railroads make an average of 2s 6d per day. IVag’es 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 72 to 90 hours is not uncommon.

In Strasbnrg bricklayers are paid 16s 6d per week of 60 tours ; bod ■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 and pay all their own expenses. The average weekly wages paid to female labourers of all classes in Germany is 9s 6d. Women coal carriers at the Lisbon ■docks receive Is 3d a day ; male coal carriers, 3s 4d.