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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KÖNIGSBERG. 279 Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Municipal Employees :— Road making and repairing :— Unskilled labourers Skilled paviors Street cleaning :— Sweepers Carmen Gasworks :— Stokers ... Labourers ... Waterworks :— Labourers Municipal Tramways :— Drivers Conductors ... Electric lighting and power stations Stokers Enginemen Erectors Fitters... Installators 15s. 28s. KM. 21s. 20s. 9d. 24s. (M. 21s. 18s. to 20s. 5d. 21 s. 22s. 9c?. 29s. 5cl. 25s. 6d. 21s. Id. 60 60 54-60 60-72 58| 54 60 68 68 48 54 54 Comparing these wages with those in Berlin, and taking the latter as 100, the index numbers for Königsberg are as follows :—Building trades, skilled men, 80, labourers, 90 ; and printing trades, 88. Metal and Engineering Trades. The two principal concerns in the engineering trades—one manufacturing railway carriages and the other loco motives—declined to furnish data respecting the wages and hours of labour of their men, but, according to the information supplied by the metal-workers’ Union, many of whose members are employed by the firms in question, the predominant earnings in these establishments for a full week of 60 hours were those shown in the Table. In the smaller establishments employing fitters and smiths, e.g., in making and fixing railings and iron structures for use in connection with buildings, the conditions of labour have been regulated by agreement since May, 1905. Since October, 1905, the agreement has been revised, the hours of labour remaining the same, but the hourly rate being increased from 38 pfennige (about 4^d.) to 40 pfennige (about 4\d.) from May 1st, 1906, and to 43 pfennige (about b\d.) from April 1st, 1907. Clothing Trade. The bespoke tailoring trade is of considerable importance in Königsberg, owing to the strong military, official and scholastic element in the population, and the journeymen tailors are well organised. In so far as the work is done in workshops and not given out to homeworkers, its conditions are fixed by an agreement which provides for a working week of 60 hours. Transport and Dock Labour. For loading and discharging, the ship owners deal with the master stevedores, whom they pay by the ton. The latter have now an agreement with the men for a day-shift of 10 hours, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., with intervals for meals amounting to two hours. For work done during the day-shift the rate of wages is 6<i. per hour. The time from 6 p.m. till 8 p.m, is paid for at the rate of 9\d., and every hour from 9 p.m till 6 a.m. at the rate of Is. The above agreement did not exist, however, at October, 1905, when each master stevedore paid whatever rate per hour he could get his men to accept. That the rates were then considerably lower is shown by a return furnished by one of the principal master stevedores, whose men at October, 1905, earned 22s. for 55 hours’ work, for which, under the present agreement, they would have received at least 27s. 6d. As a matter oí tact the same men at October, 1906, earned 28s. for 55 hours’ work. In the coal import trade practically the whole of the work is done on the piece-wage system, each of the principal firms having its own piece-wage list. In each such list provision is made for cases where time work may be necessary, and the rate invariably fixed is 4^d. per hour. Printing Trade. The conditions of labour in the printing trade are regulated by the agreement which exists for the whole of Germany, and fix.es

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