CONTINENTAL WAGES.
A stay-at-homk man can have only a very vague idea of the position of Eoiflaud as compared with foreign countries, especially he can have little idea how much levelling up has to bo done with the wages or most Continental workers. If we say that from a half to one-third of the wages is the rate over vast regions of the Continent, we should not be far wrong. They are excessively low in some districts of southern Italy as on the plains below Vesuvius, where 5s a week for a man is not uncommon, and the agricultural labourer of Bohemia is not much better off. The normal condition, almost everywhere, is so far below ours that it constitutes a danger to u*. aud a cause for the migration of trades, which are always seeking the easiest and most profitable lines. A traveller, who, during the last three years has travelled over 30,000 miles of various European countries, declares that ho has not once seen wages equal to those at Nottingham. —Manchester Textile Mercury.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2769, 12 April 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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175CONTINENTAL WAGES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2769, 12 April 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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