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(1902) [MARC] Author: Niels Christian Frederiksen
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important matter of all, it has workmen of a race entirely
different from the Russians, the latter being unreliable,
demanding much supervision, making continual
mistakes which use up material, and, finally, seldom
furnishing first-class work. Von Schultze-Gävernitz calls
these other workmen Esthonians, who belong to the
same race as the inhabitants of half Finland; it is
more likely, however, that the workmen are
inhabitants of Ingermanland; but these too have been
and still largely are true Finns. In this factory
one man can supervise 20,000 bobbins; and it is only
here that the finest thread (No. 90 S.) can be made;
Egyptian cotton and combing machines are used.
Where piece goods are made, one weaver takes charge
of two or three looms, and one man can supervise
fifty workmen. The result is that one workman here
produces goods annually of the value of 402 roubles,
against only 146 in Moscow and 141 in Vladimir.
What is said about the workmen in this particular
Russian factory undoubtedly holds good about the
workmen in Finland. The Finns are inferior to
Englishmen; their hands are less good; they make
more mistakes. It takes time, of course, to train
country workmen. But English superintendents allege
that they will be able to bring the Finnish workmen
to as high a condition of skill as their English
companions. Even if the result is less productive than the
English labour, it will probably be at least as cheap; the
pay, if high according to Finnish standards, will be lower
than the English. The average wage in Finland for
the spinners and weavers in cotton factories is 637
marks, against 423 for the spinners and 467 for the
weavers in Russia; for the weavers of woollens 521
marks in Finland against 466 in Russia; for
the spinners of flax 480 marks in Finland against

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