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Weekly Wages
Weekly Hours of
Labour.
Woodworking Trades :—
Furniture Making :
Cabinetmakers and Polishers
Turners
Parquet-layers
Wheelwrights
Food, &e. Trades :—
Journeyman Bakers (employed by Co
operative Societies).
Brewing :
Brewers and Coopers
Draymen (Bottled Beer) ...
„ (Cask Beer)
Assistant Draymen
Enginemen and Stokers
Labourers (over 20 years of age)
Printing Trades:—
Hand Compositors
Machine Minders
Pressmen
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Machine Compositors
Music Printers
Stereotypers
Electrotypers
Engravers
Etchers ...
Retouchers
Bookbinding :—
Binders
Pressers and Operatives at Cover-making
Machines.
Warehousemen and Porters in Bookselling Trade
25s. 5d.
23s. 10 d.
35s. 8d.
24s. 4c?.
25s. 2d.
28s. to 30s.
27s.
23s. to 25s.
21s. „ 23s.
22s. „ 24s.
20s. ,, 22s.
27s.
33s. 9d.
35s. M
20s. to 24s.
27s. „ 33s.
30s. Id*
39s.*
32s. lid*
32s. Id*
25s.
33s. 6d
18s. to 25s.
53
53
51
54
52
60
60
60
60
60
60
54
48
54
54
54
54
481
521
521
54
54
60 to 66
Average weekly earnings in 1905.
Wages are comparatively very high in Leipzig—much higher than in any
other town in Saxony. Representing wages in Berlin by 100, the corresponding
figures for Leipzig are—for the building trades, 88 for skilled men and 95 for
labourers ; for the engineering trades 95 for skilled men and 96 for labourers ;
and the printing trades 96.
By way of concluding this section of the report a few particulars are added
as to the conditions of labour of municipal workers. So far as employment of
labour is concerned the most important of the services undertaken by the
municipality of Leipzig is that of the gas supply, including street lighting by
gas. The total number of workpeople employed in this service at the end of
1905 was 661, divided into four wage classes. The first and best paid class
comprises the stokers in the retort houses and a small number of the more
experienced artisans (masons, carpenters, pipe-layers). The scale of pay for
this class ranges from 4s. Id. per day in the first to 5s. 2d. after the fourth year
of service ; that is to say, from 27s. Qd. to 31s. per week, and it may be
assumed that the majority of those employed at any given time would be men
who have completed four years of service and reached the maximum rate of
their scale. The stokers in the retort houses only work 45 minutes to an hour
at a stretch, after which they rest for an hour to an hour-and-a-quarter, so that
of the 12 hours during which they are on duty in the retort house their time of
actual work at the furnaces only amounts to four-and-a-half to six hours daily.
Stokers are required to bring two shirts every day besides the one in use, so as
to be able to change after each spell of work at the furnaces. Coffee and warm
shower baths are provided free at the works, and few if any of the men neglect
to avail themselves of the latter at the end of their shift.
The second wage-class comprises the general body of skilled artisans and
the leading men in the ammonia factory. The wages range from 4a. 2d. to
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