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      <div>210 
DÜSSELDORF. 
weekly Wages 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Boiler Works :— 
Angle-ironsmiths 
Boilersmiths 
Boilersmiths' Helpers 
Ri vetters 
Labourers 
Iron and Steel Works :— 
Puddlers 
Rollers ... 
Coremakers 
Shearingmen 
Smelters 
Pipe Welders 
Steel Furnacemeu and Founders 
Labourers 
Printing Trades :— 
Compositors, Machine Minders and Pressmen 
Machine Compositors—news... 
„ „ jobbing 
Bookbinders 
Other Trades :— 
Worsted Spinners 
Glass Bottle Blowers 
Porcelain Workers 
„ Painters 
Bakers—private 
„ factory 
33s. Id. 
31s. 10 d. 
21s. to 24s. 
31s. lOd. 
21s. to 24s. 
50s. to 60s. 
36s. „ 50s. 
30s. lid. 
25 s. 
37s. 5d. 
50s. to 70s. 
31s. 
20s. to 25s. 
25s. 4d. 
31s. 8d. 
32s 11(7. 
25 s. 
24s. to 27s. 
33s. 2d. 
15s. to 18s. 
20s. „ 22s. 
22s. „ 24s.* 
24s. 6d. „ 28s. 6d. 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
72 
60 
54 
48 
54 
54 
60 
461 
60 
60 
66-80 
72 
* Including 10s. 6d. as the equivalent of board and lodging. 
The following were the weekly wages and hours of municipal workpeople 
at the same date :— 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Hoad Department :— 
Paviors and Flaggers 
Paviors’ Labourers 
Road Repairers 
„ Sweepers 
Carmen 
34s. 6d. 
28s. 6d. 
21s. 
20s. 
22s. 6d. 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
Gasivorks :— 
Foremen 
Stokers ... 
Yard Labourers 
Waterworks :— 
Enginemen 
Stokers 
Labourers 
Tramways (Elect? ie) :— 
Drivers ... 
Conductors 
Electric Lighting :— 
Enginemen 
Stokers ... 
Fitters ... 
Harbour Works :— 
Crane and other Foremen 
Engineers, Cranemen, Stokers, &amp;c. 
Shunters 
Gangmen 
37s. 
34s. 6d. 
21s. 
29s. 3d. 
24s. 
21s. 7 d. 
24s. 6d. to 38s. 6d.* 
21s. „ 28s.* 
33s. 7d. 
29s. lid. 
25s. 
24s. 
26s. 5d. 
21s: 
19s. lOd. 
84 
84 
72 
78 
78 
72 
68 
68 
76 
68 
61 
60 
62 
60 
60 
From 1st to 16th year of service.</div>
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