Wages Paid In Michigan

Lansing, Mich., Jan. 18. - During the last few months of last year Labor Commisioner Cox had made a special canvass of neaiiy 12,000 tradesmen and laborers, his object being to ascertain as near as possible the average wages that were being paid in the state. The result showed that in most employment the men were receiving more pay than was supposed by the department, although some were receiving very small pay. Day laborers receive $1.25 a day, with an average of eight months' work a year; cabinet makers $1.40 a day, nine months work; machine hands $1.35 a day, nine months work; cigar makers $1.66, nine months work; carpenters $1.72, nine months work; machinists $2.02, ten months work; printers, $2.2S, ten months work; finishers $1.37, nine months work; bookkeepers and clerks, except clerks in stores, $1.55, eleven months work; saw filers and tinners $1.95, eight months work; teamstera $1.63, eleven months work; shoemakers $1.81, seven months work; painters $1.62, nine months work; wood turners and carvers $1.90, eight months work; mili hands $1.35, eight months work; blacksmiths $1.88, eleven months work; stove makers $2.12, eight months work; tanners $1.42. eleven months work; barbers $1.57, eleven months work; shop foremen $2.64, eleven months work; packers, craters, etc, $1.37, nine months work; bakers $2.04, eleven months work; firemen, except locomotive, $1.53, ten months work; carriage workers $1.71, eight months work; pattern makers $2.22, ten months work; bookbinders $1.66, eleven months work; metal workers $1.95, nine months work; linotype operators $3.70, eleven, months work; boiler makers $2.13, nine months work; masons $2.71, six months work; bicycle makers $1.65, nine months work; coopers, $1.86, eight months work; tinners $1.79, ten months work; glass workers $1.42, nine months work; plumbers $1.98, ten months work; tailors $1.65, nine months work; stone cutters, $2.80, eight months work.