The wages of third mates, doctors, pursers, chaplains, second stewards, under the Cadiz column, are not usual, but are paid by the Trans atlantic Company. The wages paid to oilers, leading firemen, second and third cooks, are not usual and are only paid by the Transatlantic Company at Cadiz. 92 A-LAB -91 Agricultural laborers throughout Spain generally work from sunrise to sunset, with the exception of two hours allowed for breakfast and dinner. They also furnish their own food and lodging. House servants excepted. RUSSIA. REPORT BY CONSUL-GENERAL STANTOŃ, OF ST. PETERSburg. Herewith I have the honor to transmit, in reply to the Department's Labor Circular, the information which it has been possible for me to collect in this consular district and those of the agencies at Cronstadt, Revel, and Riga. I have experienced, through the apathy and indifference of the community on such matters, the greatest difficulty in procuring the data for this report, and my experience is borne out by that of the agents. On being informed by the Central Statistical Bureau, in answer to an inquiry of mine in April last, that they possessed no such statistics at that office, I at once applied to the various Government departments for particulars of the wages, &c., of the laborers in the employ of the Government, and invoked the aid of the legation to the same end. Up to the present date, however, no reply has been received either at the legation or this office. Inquiries made simultaneously of the leading employers of labor met, as a rule, with much the same fate. The greatest willingness to oblige was generally expressed, but nothing, in most instances, came of these professions. The figures forwarded are the result of individual effort, and are as full and exact as it was possible for me to procure. Notwithstanding repeated disappointments I have retained this report, which was written two months ago, in the hope of making it more complete by the addition of data then lacking and which I daily expected to receive. I am compelled, however, to forward the report in its incomplete state, lest the information arrive too late to be of value to the Department. Any particulars now omitted which it shall be my good fortune to receive shall be forwarded later on. The replies to the interrogatories are in the main as applicable to the agencies as to St. Petersburg, the chief difference being that the character and condition of the laboring classes is better in the Baltic provinces and Finland than in Russia proper. UNITED STATES CONSULATE, St. Petersburg, August 1, 1884. EDGAR STANTON, I.-MALE LABOR. RATES OF WAGES. As far as obtainable the rates of wages are given in the accompanying tables, special attention being called to those of agricultural laborers. It is difficult to establish an average rate, in consequence of the different methods prevailing both as to work and to payment. In some factories laborers, being lodged and fed, earn but nominal wages; in others, working by the piece, wages are larger; and in others, again, |