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 to seven dollars for thirty days of hard work, there being no rest on Sundays.

The two-dollar men are apprentices—boys who have had & slight education and are learning to set type.

Editorial writers are fairly well paid, some receiving as high at thirty-five dollars a month, while reporters get twenty-five cents and upward per day. Some space work is done, and correspondents are paid for what they send in according to the valuation of the editor.

The Pittsburg Gazette-Times, of Feb. 18, 1912, quotes W. H, Donner on the subject of wages in China:

Mr. Donner declared that laborers in Hankow, which is just across the river from Hanyang, near the steel works, receive ten cents, gold standard, for a twelve hour day; skilled laborers, such as brick-layers, carpenters and machinists, receive thirty cents gold for the same twelve hour period of labor. They feed and clothe themselves and save a little.

The Chinese coal miner is paid seven cents for a day of twelve hours; in addition he receives his food from his employer, but this consists only of about one cent's worth of rice and meal. Coal at the pit's mouth in China is sold at thirty-five cents a ton.

The coal is transported from the mine to the river or railroad by coolies, the lowest class of Chinese labor. The coolie is paid one cent for carrying on his back a four hundred pound load of coal in same instances a distance of more than a mile from the mine to the export station. These coolies work only every other week.

According to Mr, Donner it costs a Chinese workman about ninety cents a month to live.

"The Chinese practice economy in a way that is almost beyond comprehension," he declared. The average American wasts more food than the average Chinaman consumes, and more expensive food at that. It is possible for a Chinaman to secure an abundance of wholesome food that satisfies him, at three cents a day. They subsist principally on rice and meal and have never known any other kind of food. Then, they have no amusements, such as theaters, nickelodeons and