Contemporary French Politics Volume 25 download pdf

Contemporary French Politics Volume 25. Raymond Leslie Buell

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Author: Raymond Leslie Buell
Page Count: 150 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230260044
File size: 23 Mb
File Name: Contemporary.French.Politics.Volume.25.pdf
Download Link: Contemporary French Politics Volume 25
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...railway labor received 4 or 5 francs a day. The Government paid its laborers even less; thus the roadkeepers received from 500 to 1,000 francs a year; foresters, 975 francs; prison-keepers in the provinces, 1,365 francs; mail-carriers, 800 to 1,200 francs in the country; canal-keepers, 500 to 700 francs; customs collectors, 1,100 to 1,200 francs. Such a salary was virtually a starvation wage, even before the war. It was little wonder, consequently, that repeated demands were made for increases to keep up with the tremendous bounds which the cost of living made during the five years of the war as elsewhere. This cost rose out of all proportion to the rise in wages. If one considers wholesale prices in France in 1914 as 100, this increase would be denoted as follows: Quoted in Lysis, Vers la Democratic Nouvelle, 65. December, 1914 113. June, 1915 140.3 January, 1916 166.7 June, 1916 192.4 January, 1917 207.8 June, 1917 271.8 January, 1918 279. June, 1918 380. September, 1918 410.6 Retail prices likewise increased, but not to the same extent. Thus, the retail price of food products increased in towns of more than 100,000, 233 per cent between July, 1914, and April, 1918. In other words, it would take $233 to buy at the latter date what $100 bought before the war. According to figures published in Le Petit Journal10 the price of beef, mutton, pork, and veal increased nearly six times between 1914 and March, 1919; eggs, cheese and butter increased four times. Eggs were selling in the spring of 1919 at nine cents a piece; and butter rose from forty cents in 1914 to two dollars a pound in 1919. According to the statistics of the C. G. T., it would take 9,000 francs ($1,800) a year for a famiry of two to live upon decently--an amount far greater...

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