AppeEnNDIX “D.” 
STANDARD HOURLY TIME RATES (3 OF WAGES OF ADULT MALE WORKERS 
IN JANUARY, 1930 ), 
{Minister of Labour—House of Commons—16th May, 1930.) (Information vrocured from International Labour Office.) 
Building. 
Engineering. 
Printing 
Hand 
Com- 
positors 
(Book 
and 
Job). 
Transport. 
Local 
iutho- 
rities” 
Jn- 
skilled 
.abour- 
org. 
Town. 
Brick- 
layers 
and 
Masons. 
Carpen- 
ters 
and 
Joiners. 
Catinet 
Makers. 
Labour- 
ers. 
Fitters 
and 
Turners 
Labour- 
ers. 
Bakers, 
Tram 
and 
"Bus 
drivers. 
Motor | 
Van and 
Lorry 
Drivers. 
Ralil- 
way 
Goods 
Porters. 
Great Britain (¢) :~— 
London ... .- ee - 
Birmingham en on on 
Newcastle-on-Tyne ver ver 
8. d. 
8. d. 
L914 14  oilb 
1 7} BIRR 131.1 
1 73) 1250 1 25) e121 
8. d. 
8. d. 
8. d. 8. d. 
133) L 7 16 
1a Is) 14 
1 4 (gp 1 38 1 23 
gd. 
3. d. 
19 
17 
1 7 
19 | 110% 
16 1g 
17116 
L 0 
0 11} 
0 113 
I 
I 
K'rance 1— 
Paris ww 
Bordeaux ... 
Lyons po 
0 114 
0 8i 
1 0 
0 113 
0 8} 
1 of 
0 8 
0 63 
0 10% 
1 0 0 8 
0 7% 0 5 | 
010+ ' © 6% 
11 
55 | 
0 11% 
i 0 
0 10% 
0 11% 
07 
o 73 
0 st 
0 62 
Germany (d) (h) :~ 
Berlin 
Hamburg ... 
Cologne ... 
i 6 
1 61 
53 
0 93] 1 3% 
0 of | 1 3} 
0 it | 1 31 
i 
of 
43 
t 8 
1 8%, 
i 14 
[ 3% 1 
1 
I a} 
i 2} 
1 2f 
1 2} 
2 
13 
1 oF 
1 43 
| 1 3% 
1 1d 
1 43 
1 2% 
1 04 
1 
0 93 
1 0% 
11 
1 0% 
Italy :— 
Rome 3 we “rn as 
Turin ws wi vie wh 
Genoa wis a 52g we 
Czechoslovakia (¢) :— 
Prague ... i. oe — 1 
Bratislava... we ws - ou} 
Brno coe wee oa tao 1 001 00s 
gi) duxeept for Czecnosiovakia, as to which see note (e), 
(b) Except for Paris (October, 1929) and Lyons (February, 1930). 8 . 
(c) Standard rates, fixed by agreements, or recognised by employers’ and workers’ organisations. In some cages the hourly rates given ip the Table 
are calculated to the nearest farthing from the recognised weekly rates, In certain cases in which varying rates are recognised, the rates quoted represent the 
ne 5 these rates. The rates quoted for railway goods porters were subject, at Ist January, to a temporary reduction of 2% per cent., restored as from 
13] a3 
(2) Rates fixed by collective agreement for the highest age class. NN . 
(¢) Actual earnings, based on both time work and piecework, of workers 25 to 40 years of age, including value of payments in kind, various money 
allowances, payments for holidays, and the workers’ social insurance contributions. 
{g) Table hands. 
(7) These rates are now subject to reductions consequent upon recent negotiations and awards. . 
NOTE :—The German figures in thi; official statement do not agree with figures known by industrialists in this country. The general impression is that the 
mounts earned Ly German workpeople employed on systems of payment by results are about equivalent to what are pald hers as time rates. Further, the 
a0urs of Waour, are, generally speaking longer than inthis conntoy 
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