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WAGES IN 1873.

WAGES IN 1873.

Rise in Wages.

Not attributable to strikes.

The recent strike in South Wales.

Proposal of the International for an universal strike.

In extreme cases strike may produce results beneficial to workmen. Orderly conduct of men on strike in South Wales.

Advance in price of coal.

Mr. Lothian Bell.

Rise of wages in collieries.

Increased profits of colliery proprietors.

Rise of wages has followed advance in price of coal.

Causes which will lead to a reduction in price of coal.

Hours of labour.

The double-shift system.

Coal-cutting machines.

Waste of coal in domestic consumption.

Captain Galton’s fireplace.

Mr. Bessemer’s inventions.

Reduced consumption of coal in steamers.

Inventions of Mr. Siemens.

Substitution of peat for coal.

General prospects of the iron trade.

American competition.

A monopoly of the iron trade impossible.

Shipbuilding.

The engineering trade.

Rise of wages on Continent.

Low wages and cheap production not convertible terms.

Belgium.

Russia.

Switzerland.

France.

Increasing production with the same number of hands.

Employment of children in Belgium.

Employment of women in England.

Shorter hours of labour.

Decline of pauperism.

Emigration.

Wages in America.

Arbitration.

Legitimate province of the trades unions.

Foreign competition.

Communism in Germany.

Co-operation.

Demand and supply determine wages.

Forethought.