ABSTRACT
The main sources of statistics on wages in the United States are the Census and the reports of the Bureaux of Labor Statistics. This chapter presents the average annual wages of all industrial workers in 1900 the gap between the Southern states and all the others. However, there are also a great many valuable publications by the various Bureaux of Labor Statistics. For workers in American bituminous coal-mining we have wage data from the Census Bulletin, and for coal-miners in Germany (at least in western Germany) we have comparable data in the figures of the miners' association in Bochum. For America, merely the figures that refer to the Southern states are taken. People must also determine what in the way of goods the worker can acquire with his much higher wages and thus see whether the gap in living standards between American and German workers is as great as it is with regard to wages.
