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PLAUEN.
Wages and Hours of Labour in the Principal Occupations, October, 1905.
Predominant
Weekly Wages.
Weekly Hours
of Labour.
Building Trades* :—•
Masons and Bricklayers
Carpenters
Joiners ...
Plumbers
Stucco workers
Painters ...
Slaters
Glaziers ...
Smiths (iron structures, &c.)
Labourers
Printing Trades :—
Hand Compositors,
Pressmen.
Machine Compositors
Machine Minders, and
News
Jobbing
26s. 5d.
26s. 5d.
24s. 4d.
26s. 5d. to 29s. Sd.
27s. „ 30s.
34s. Id.
29s. 8d.
26s. 'Id.
26s. 5d.
19s. 10c/.
24s. 9c?.
Embroidery and Lacemaking :—
Embroiderers at shuttle machines
Enlargers (of designs)
Curtain Manufacture.-—
Twist hands
Tambour workers
Threaders
Warehouse Porters
Bleaching, Dyeing and Finishing :—
Bleachers
Dyers
Stiffeners
Packers ...
30s. lid.
32s. 2c?.
25s. to 29s.
26s. „ 28s. 6c?.
23s. 6c?. „ 30s.
18s. „ 20s.
20s.
17s. 6c?. to 21s.
17s. to 19s.
17s, „ 19s.
17s. „ 19s.
20s. „ 21s.
66
66
54
66
60
72
66
59
66
66
54
48
54
60 to 66
54 „ 60
60
55j „
55&
60
551r to 60
66
66
66
66
* The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week
in summer.
Taking wages at Berlin as 100, the index numbers for the building trades
at Plauen are .81 for skilled men and 77 for labourers, and for the printing
trades 88.
The public services in respect of which the municipality ranks among the
larger employers of labour in Plauen—apart from the construction and cleaning
of the public thoroughfares—are the supply of water, gas, and electric power
and light. Street paving is given out to contractors, and the electric tramway
system is in private hands.
The predominant rates of wages and usual hours of labour per week of the
principal groups of municipal workers at October, 1905, were as shown below :—
Road construction (labourers)
Road cleaning (labourers)
Gasworks :
Stokers
Labourers
Waterworks :
Skilled men
Labourers
Electric power and light supply :
Fitters and installators
Enginemen
Stokers
Other skilled men
Predominant Weekly
Rates of Wages.
18s 6c?.
17s. to 18s.
25s. 2c?. to 28s. 8c?.
16s. to 18s.
26s. to 27s.
18s. 6c?.
23s. to 30s.
23s. to 30s.
24s. to 27s.
24s. to 30s.
Weekly Hours
of Labour.
60
63
66
66
60
60
66
66
66
66