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MANNHEIM. 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Food, Drink, &c. Industries .— 
Bakers—1st men 
„ 2nd men 
Brewing—Maltsters ... 
„ Coopers 
„ Draymen ... 
„ Labourers ... 
Corn millers 
Tobacco cutters 
Cigar makers (in villages) 
Cigar sorters and packers 
Chemical, Rubber, Celluloid, &c. Industries 
Chemical works : 
Furnacemen 
Apparatus workers 
Labourers 
Rubber and Celluloid works : 
Acid workers 
Camphor workers 
Rubber „ 
General labourers ... 
Carmen—1 horse 
„ 2 horses 
Plate Glass workers 
Soap and Oil works—Labourers 
Cement makers... 
25s. 
20s. to 21s. 
31s. Id. 
31s. Id. 
28s. 8c?. 
25s. 
22s. 10c?. to 25s. 2c?. 
20s. 4c?. 
12s. to 18s. 6d. 
14s. 5d. to 18s. 
24s. to 30s. 
35s. 
18s. to 21s. 
22s. to 26s. 5d. 
21s. Id. 
24s. 
18s. to 20s. 5c?. 
24s. 
25 s. 
25s. 2d. 
19s. 10c?. to 22 s. 10c?. 
20s. 8c?. to 24s. 
84 
84 
58& 
58& 
75 
58i 
60 
53 
60 
54 
60 and 70 
70 
60 and 70 
60 to 61 
60 „ 61 
60 „ 61 
60 „ 61 
80 
80 
60 
60 
60 
Wages are comparatively high in Mannheim—higher than in any other of 
the towns in South Germany investigated. Taking wages in Berlin as 100, 
the index numbers for the building trades in Mannheim are 81 for skilled men 
and 89 for labourers ; for the engineering trades, 96 for skilled men and 101 
for labourers ; and for the printing trades, 90. 
The following were the rates of wages paid at the same time to municipal 
employees, and harbour and dock employees :— 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Road Department :— 
Foremen 
Paviors 
Pavions' assistants 
Road makers 
Road cleaners 
Gasworks :— 
Stokers ... 
Labourers 
Waterworks :— 
Enginemen and stokers 
Labourers 
Tramways {Electric) :— 
Drivers 
Conductors 
Electric Works and Lighting 
Enginemen 
Stokers ... 
Erectors and fitters 
Labourers 
Harbours and Docks {State) 
Wharf foremen 
„ labourers 
Cementers 
27a. 
30s. 
21s. 7c?. 
21s. Id. 
21s. 7c?. 
29s. 3c?. 
22s. 3c?. 
26s. 2d. 
21 s. 7c?. 
26s. 11c?. 
25s. 9c?. 
29s. 
28s. 
26s., 27s. 
21s. 
18s. lie?, to 24s. le?. 
18s. 
19s. 10c?. 
57 
57 
57 
57 
57 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
69 
68 
64, 65 
60 
60 
60 
60