Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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DANTZIG. 169 Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Steam baking :— Journeymen bakers Ovenmen Machinemen Municipal Workmen :— Street maintenance and cleaning Paviors Paviors’ helpers Roadmakers Roadsweepers and Carters Gasworks : Stokers Labourers Waterworks : Labourers Electric Supply and Lighting : Enginemen Stokers Erectors and Installators Fitters 24s. 26s. 26s. 28s. KM. 21s. 21s. 17 s. 3d. 24 s. 17s. 6<7. 17s. 6(7. 27 s. Gd. 25s. 2d. 24s. 24s. 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 72' 60 60 72 72 60 60 Including intervals for meals, rest, &c. With regard to the large body of labourers employed in the loading and unloading of merchandize no satisfactory data could be obtained for calculating weekly wages and hours of labour. A statement based on the pay sheets of 15 master-stevedores for October, 1905, showed the wages per day of 10 hours to be from 4s. Gd. to 5s. Gd. for stevedores. It was added that “ the men work only three to four days per week and are therefore unemployed about six months in the year.” The wages of quay labourers are given as 3s. Gd. per day, or with overtime, 4s. Wages at Dantzig are comparatively low. On the basis of figures given in the above table the following index numbers have been constructed, wages at Berlin being represented by 100. Building trades, skilled men, 74 ; labourers, 72 ; engineering trades, skilled men, 67 ; labourers, 85 ; printing trades, 88. Housing and Rents. Among the large cities of Germany, Dantzig has long had an evil reputa tion for defective housing. Until the year 1896 the city was completely surrounded by a line of ramparts and moats similar to those remaining until the present day around Königsberg. A constantly growing. population with no room on which to build further dwellings inside the fortifications and the maintenance of prohibitive restrictions by the military authorities in respect to building for a considerable distance outside the fortifications made increased overcrowding inevitable. The first step towards removing the cause of this evil was taken in 1896, when the municipality purchased from the military authorities a portion of the land occupied by the ramparts on the western and northern side of the town. Much of the land set free in this way has, however, been used in providing a number of ornamental open spaces, and in particular a stretch of wide promenade along which the best hotels and modem buildings of Dantzig have been built. Little of the new land has so far been used for the erection of houses containing the kind of tenement (two oi three rooms) which the working classes could afford to rent. The absence until recently of traffic facilities to suburbs sufficiently far out to permit of building unhampered by the War Office restrictions applicable to fortress towns (these restrictions are still enforced round the greater part of Dantzig) has also delayed the relief which might otherwise have followed from the razing of part of the walls.. By the year 1900 the housing question had become acute, and the town council appointed a committee consisting of members of the executive of the council, and of working men, to inquire whether any dearth of working-class dwellings really existed, and if so, what remedial measures should be taken by the municipal authority. Y 29088

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