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Society, Manners and Politics in the United States

Note AD — LETTER XII.

T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel) Bradford translation

The wages of a mere labourer in the factories at Lowell are from 5 to 6 dollars a week; of a man who has a trade, as a smith, dyer, 8 to 10 dollars, of the engravers of patterns on the printing cylinders, 17 or 18 dollars.

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