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our quarter of a dollar. I have also brought all wages to a weekly basis, taking the average yearly rate of fifty-six hours to the week in the British yards: British rate.American rate. Pattern-makers$9.00$18.00 Machinists8.5015.00 Riveters7.5012.00 Calkers and chippers7.8015.00 Beam and angle smiths8.4015.00 Holders-on4.209.00 Fitters-up7.8015.00 Ship-carpenters9.6018.00 Joiners9.0016.50 Painters9.6018.00 Ship-shed machine men7.2015.00 Furnace-men6.0010.80 Riggers7.2011.00 Plum bers9.6019.50 Drillers6.4011.00 Sheet-iron workers8.5015.00 Coppersmiths8.6018.00 Moulders, iron9.0014.50 Moulders, brass9.0015.00 Laborers4.20$8 to $9 These figures are taken direct from the books of representative ship-yards in the United States and Great Britain. The comparison tells its own story. Brushing aside sophistry and cant, we have in front of us a plain proposition, the logic of which no man can evade. It is simply this: A vote for English free ships means a vote t