AMERICA AND BRITAIN
A COMPARISON OF WAGES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, April 12. The Board of Trade report on wages, rents, and prices of necessaries of life in i 1 histrial towns in the United Stales show* that the workman on shorter hours e;" 'is two and a quarter times as much as f'e workman in England. On the other I:;rM rents are twice a.s great and food one- ' ; rd higher in cost, but the cost of liviirr altogether is as 152 to 100 (wages being as 225 to 100). Mr. R. Askwith, in a prefatory summary, remarks that the comparison is based on the assumption that the English workman with an average family maintained under American conditions the same standard of consumption rewarding food as he was accustomed to, and, on that basis, the wages, with shorter hours, Avere about thidty per cent, higher in the Lnited States than in Britain.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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152AMERICA AND BRITAIN Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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