Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 1738032973

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116975

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹič http://d-nb.info/gnd/118640402

Title:: Lenin on organization

Place of publication:: Chicago

Publisher:: Daily Worker Pub. Co

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 235 pages

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: V. Party mebership (From "One step forward, two steps back", written towards the beginning of 1904)

Collection:: Economics Books

466 STUTTGART. Weekly Wages. Boot and Shoo Trade :— Cutters (sole leather room) „ (uppers) Lasters ... Bottomers and Finishers Unskilled men ... Glove Factories :— Cutters Food and Drink Trades :— Breweries—brewers „ coopers „ draymen „ bottlers Bakeries—1st men „ 2nd men Other Trades :— Soap-makers 22s. 24s. 27s. 27s. 18s. lid. 31s. 32s. 5d. 32s. 5d. 30s. 5cl. 24 s. 10<7. 22s.* 18s. to 19s/ 22s. Weekly Hours of Labour. 54 54 54 54 54 54 60 60 60 60 84 84 58 10s. being taken as the equivalent of board and lodging. Comparing the wages in the building, engineering, and printing trades shown in the above table with those for Berlin, and representing the latter by 100, the following index numbers for Stuttgart are obtained :—Building trades, skilled men 75, labourers 81 ; engineering trades, skilled men 84, labourers 83 ; printing trades 94. The following were the weekly wages and hours of municipal workmen at the same date :— Weekly Wages. 18s. to 21s. Id. 24s. 20s. 5d. 24s. 2d. 30s. 21s. 29s. M. 25s.Id. 23s. 5d. 23s.Id. 20s. 5d. 25s. id. 25s. Id. 25s. lOd. 27s. 2d. Weekly Hours of Labour. 60 60 60 84 48 57 68 67 60 60 60 65 63 67 65 Street Department Road workmen Cartwrights Road sweepers Carmen ... Gas Works:— Stokers ... Yard labourers Water Works ;— Enginemen Stokers ... Erectors, installers, and pipelayers Fitters Labourers Electrical Works :— Enginemen Stokers ... Erectors and installers Fitters Some of the larger employers of Stuttgart, both in private and company undertakings, have special benevolent institutions, apart from the obligatory insurance funds, for the benefit of their workpeople. Several firms relieve their employees of all payments on account of sickness or old age insurance. Others support funds for the relief of exceptional distress and need, and others out of special funds increase the old age pensions obtained under the Imperial law. Vested funds of £5,000 and £6,000 exist for this purpose in two cases, and additions are constantly being made to them by the firms concerned, while

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