Does this Coupon Mean $20,000 to YOU According to statistics compiled from the United States Bureau of Labor and other sources the average wage earnerfireman, carpenter, machinist, masonearns about $720 a year. His average working life is 40 years and he therefore makes $28,800 during his life. The average foreman, superintendent, manager, and executive official-the man whose position has required him to secure a technical training-earns $1.200 a year and acquires during his life $48,000. Then the difference in the life earnings of the untrained wage earner and the technically trained official is in round numbers $20,000. This is the value in actual dollars and If there is any possibility of SAMUEL GOMPERS, Editor Official Magazine of the American Federation of Labor 1908 Contents for April. Representatives of National and International Labor's Protest to Congress 260 261 By SAMUEL GOMPERS, President, American Federation of Labor. Labor's Great Conference. Press Misrepresentation of Labor's Criticism of Supreme Court Decisions. |