The New England magazine . r somewhat lowerwages. The five or six thousand granite-workers get a minimum days wage of $3,for eight hours work. The union leaders ofRutland, which is the capital of the marbledistrict, tell me the three thousand work-men employed by the Vermont MarbleCompany, the Proctors property, are di-vided into a thousand skilled workmen whoreceive an average of $ a day and twothousand unskilled workmen who average$ a day. Their day is ten hours Proctor told me these figures werenot correct, but he did not give me any fig-ures to set in their place. The
The New England magazine . r somewhat lowerwages. The five or six thousand granite-workers get a minimum days wage of $3,for eight hours work. The union leaders ofRutland, which is the capital of the marbledistrict, tell me the three thousand work-men employed by the Vermont MarbleCompany, the Proctors property, are di-vided into a thousand skilled workmen whoreceive an average of $ a day and twothousand unskilled workmen who average$ a day. Their day is ten hours Proctor told me these figures werenot correct, but he did not give me any fig-ures to set in their place. The Scotch and a high grade of Italianssupply most of the labor in the granitequarries, whose central point is Barre; inthe marble quarries most of the foreignlabor is Hungarian, Polish, and granite quarrymen average $ a day,exceeding the minimum wage, and as a re-sult Barre is one of the most prosperouscities of its size in New England. The Scots-men of Barre work hard, draw good pay, 20 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. Senator Dillingham live well, play golf on a nine-hole course forthe sport of it, and are an element that anyAmerican community would be proud towelcome to its citizenship. The foreignersat Proctor and in the other marble quarrytowns of Vermont are little if any lessindustrious, thrifty, and orderly. They sendto their old homes in Europe hundreds ofthousands of dollars annually, which bringsa constant stream of new-comers to jointhem. The Swinging of the Pendulum Before the Civil War Vermont was mainlydevoted to manufacturing. In almost everytown in the State there were from one to adozen factories. The inventive genius ofthe old Yankee stock there had full men of this stock, true to Vermonttradition, no sooner heard of a fight thanthey wanted to get into it. They did getinto it, with the result that the constructive WHATS THE MATTER WITH VERMONT? 21 and administrative brains were shot out ofhundreds of Vermonts little factories. Themen who had mad
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