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PAGE SIX HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1930. 3 Losing tke Cop. t tb- l ' (Lid J r- V I s V. 1 IV UA. 1 . tab. c i.l ! i; .V. 11 The European wage-earner could never hope to become a landowner. In the Massachusetts colony only landowners were citizens, but to keep good workmen in the colony, grants of twenty acres or more were made to numerous blacksmiths, car penters and others. The citizens of Haverhill raised a subscription to purchase a house and land which they gave to a blacksmith on condi tion that he remain there at least seven years and work for nobody but the 20 subscribers. In 1656 the town of Lowell gave William How 24 acres on condition that he set up there as a weaver, thus laying al most three hundred years ago the foundation for the great textile in dustry which has made Lowell one of the important manufacturing centers of the nation. In Virginia so many wage-work ers left their trades to become far mers that laws were passed to keep them in the towns. Wages were paid in tobacco instead of money. In 1660 a court order fixed the wag es on a certain Job at 20 pounds of tobacco a day, which at the then prevailing price amounted to about 30 cents. The beginnings of prohibition are found in old court orders of that period, forbidding employers to compel workers to accept wine as part of their pay, since that is "a great nursery or preparative for drunkenness." The reason for high wages in Am- IM OF AMERICA ALWAYS H H WAGES Labor Department Sheds Light on Earnings Here 300 Years Ago. By CALEB JOHNSON. Ask the man who was born in Eu rope why he came to America. You know the answer before he speaks. Nine times out of ten it is the sim ple one, "To make more money." Ask the immigrant's son why his father came over. The answer is the same. Go back a hundred years, ask the same question, you get the same answer. Two hundred years, three hundred years ago, the same reason was the principal cause of our fore fathers leaving their native lands and braving the treacherous ocean to set themselves up in an unknown country. We like to think of these founders of our nation as actuated by entire ly noble and altruistic motives. It sounds so much more "classy" to say that they came to America in search of religious liberty and to escape the tyranny of kings, than it does to say that they found it hard to make living in the Old Country. Both motives for emigrating did obtain, but the religious and politi cal tyranny which they sought to escape would not have been so un endurable if it had not, in many cases, taken the form of depriving the man who disagreed with auth ority of his chance to work. What has brought the peoples of the world to America is the fact that wages have always been higher here than anywhere else in the world. The first complete and auth oritative historical study of wages, in terms of actual money, that has ever been made, has just been com pleted by the Bureau of Labor Stat istics of the United States Depart ment of Labor. It not only proves conclusively that higher pay has al ways been the chief attraction of America, but that from the very earliest Colonial days employers were as impatient with the demands of workers for more money as they are today! The earliest American wage fig ures seem pitifully small today. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 it was ordered by the Council that "Carpenters. Joyners, Bricke- layers, Sawyers and Thatchers shal not take above 2 shillings a day (48 cents) and 16 pence (32 cents) if they have meate and drinke, nor any man shal give more under paine of 10 shilling to taker and giver; and that sawyers shal not take above 4 shilling sixpence the hun dred for boards, att six score to the hundred, if they have their woode felled and squared by them, and not above 5 shilling sixpence if they fell and square their woode them selves. . . . Laborers shal not take above 12 pence a day for their worke and not above sixpence with meate and drinke under paine of 10 shilling." Those wages seem trifling com pared with the $1.25 an hour which carpenters in the same Massachu setts get today, but they were large enough to attract skilled men from England, as soon as the news got across the ocean, for they were far higher than good workmen could get in London. And that even those high wages were not the maximum is indicated by the number of old court records showing fines impos ed upon employers for paying more than the legal scale. Perhaps the wages alone would not have been enough to bring the best workmen overseas in those days. There was the added induce ment of cheap land, often free land alga isiiii mmm M. D. Clark : Hiatt & Dix YOU GET MORE PER DOLLAR at a Red & White Store PHONE DELIVERY CREDIT More actual dollars and cents value in your food purchases. More and better service More ..satisfaction ..thru ..Owner Service You will find that it will pay you to confine your food purchases to these stores. Let these Specials introduce you to Red & White Service erica then, as always, was the scar city of labor, as compared with the demand for labor's products. In 1618 a man sentenced to be hanged for murder was reprieved because he was a good carpenter and car penters were scarce! England be gan the practice of sending crim inals to the American colonies in stead of to jail. They came as bond-servants, their services being sold to the highest bidder for a term of years. Even their working conditions were better than prevail ing in England, according to con temporary records, fro they did not have to work before sunrise or after sunset No landless man could make a living with his bare hands in Europe on such short hours as that The importation of Negroes from Africa put an end finally to the white bond-servant, though not un til after Benjamin Franklin had thundered against the practice for fifty years. The introduction of machinery in industry increased the demand for wage-w o r k e r s everywhere, and while in the early days of the ma chine the pay was miserable and the hours intolerable from modern standpoints, conditions were always so much better here that European governments complained that Amer ica was draining Europe of its best workers. And Europe has not yet discovered what America has learn ed. that wages high enough to en able the worker to buy out of his surplus above living costs the prod ucts which he himself makes, with hours short enough to give him lei sure in which to spend and enjoy his surplus are the secrets of Amer ican prosperity, and that such wag es can be paid when the worker's arm is strengthened and his pro duction multiplied by giving him power machines Instead of hand tools. Mrs. W. P. Mahoney went from The Dalles to Seattle, following the wool growers meeting. She will vis it with her daughter, Vera, and her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mahoney. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Ring of lone are the parents of an 8-pound girl born at their home Sunday. Owen French is confined to his home because of illness. For Sale 40 head work horses; harness fo 30 head; 3 3-bottom plows; .doubletrees and 8 12-horse hitches. Four miles north of Lex ington. Chas. A. Marquardt 42tf. 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