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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KÖNIGSHÜTTE. 291 Comparing the wages shown in this table with those at Berlin and repre senting the latter by 100, the Königshütte figures are represented by 65 for skilled men and 58 for unskilled men in the building trades, and by 8t as regards the printing trades. The coal-mines worked within the municipal area of Königshütte are owned by the State, but the conditions of labour are similar in every respect to those obtaining in the same industry throughout the Upper Silesian industrial district. The following particulars, based on the data as to wages and hours of labour in the whole of the Upper Silesian coal-mines, published by the Prussian Government, may therefore be taken as applicable to the coal-mines worked in Königshütte itself. The average earnings per shift of the principal catagories of adult male workers in and about the coal-mines of Upper Silesia in 1905 were as follows Average Earnings per Shift. 4s. 4 d. 2s. 9c?. 3s. 3c?. 2s. 8c?. Hewers Putters and trammers . Other underground men Surface men These figures represent the net earnings, after allowing for deductions in respect of insurance against sickness, old age and infirmity and in respect of blasting materials, lamp oil and tools. The insurance contributions, though compulsory, are for the men’s own advantage and should therefore be added to the earnings shown above. An addition should also be made in respect of certain advantages enjoyed by the men in the shape of free housing, coal allotments, &c. The insurance contributions amounted on the average to 98‘4 pfennige (say Is.) per week of six shifts in 1905, while the benefits in respect of housing, coals, &c., are estimated to have been worth an additional 7d. per week on the average. The average earnings (including all allowances) of coal-miners in Königshütte for a full week of six shifts may therefore be reckoned to have been as follows in 1905 Hewers ... Putters and trammers ... Other underground men Surface men Average Earnings in a full Week. 27s. Id. 18s. Id. 21s. Id. 17 s. 7c?. The average number of hours worked in a full week of six shifts in 1905 by the Upper Silesian Goal-miners was :— For hewers and trammers ... ... ... 59 hours. other underground workers surface-men 61 68 These figures include intervals for meals, but, in the case of the under ground workers, are exclusive of the time occupied in descent and ascent* With regard to the iron and steel making and engineering trades the following Table gives some indication of the level of wages prevailing at October,°1905, at the works of some of the leading concerns in and around Königshütte. The data on which the Table is based have been extracted from 29088 2 0 2

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