WAGES OF MECHANICS IN EUROPE.
The following figures are from the British Foreign Socrotrry's Report to Parliament, being the average daily rate paid to mechanics, after being reduced to our money :—: — dol. cent. Austria - - - - 1 00 Belgium - 60 France 1 10 Denmark - 60 Italy - 40 Netherlands - 75 Norway - 60 Sicily - ... 30 Portugal - 40 Prussia - ... 75 Russia - ... 75 Sweden - ... 60" Switzerland - 60 When we consider that this is the average paid for skilled labor, and that unskilled or half-skilled labor is only paid one-half as much ; and, again, that many of the workmen labor twelve hours a day, the difference in favor of the workmen in the United States will be very apparent. In England the prices are one-quarter more than those paid on the Continent. — American paper.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 237, 15 August 1872, Page 7
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127WAGES OF MECHANICS IN EUROPE. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 237, 15 August 1872, Page 7
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