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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292 KÖNIGSHÜTTE. the pay-sheets for the month to which they relate and furnished by courtesy of the firms in question. Range of Weekly Earnings. Number of Workpeople (adnib males only). Total. Under 20s 20s. and under 25s. 25s. „ „ 30s. 30s. „ „ 35s. 35s. ,, ,, 40s. 40s. and over 1,906 2,118 818 508 195 66 5,611 Per cent. 34 0 37 7 14 6 9-0 3-5 1-2 100-0 Thus, out oí a total oí 5,611 men employed in certain of the principal iron and steel making and engineering concerns, 4,024, or nearly 72 per cent, earned less than 25s. per week in October, 1905, including payment for overtime. The average weekly earnings of some of the principal groups of workmen during the same month are shown below. Occupation. Average Weekly Earnings at October, 1905. Blast Furnaces :— Keepers Chargers Mine fillers Slag tippers Assistants of Chargers and Mine-fillers. Coke tippers ... Ore dischargers Labourers Puddling Mills :— First puddlers Second „ Third „ Fourth „ Hammer drive Fig-wheelers Shinglers Rail-weighers Coal trolleymen Cinder trolleymen Steel-making :— First melters ... Second „ Charge - wheelers, Hoistmen. Boilermen Fitters First moulders Second „ Fettlers Labourers Pitmen, Iron Rolling — Heaters... Stokers.... s. 50 35 34 26 17 18 26 15 31 25 23 28 35 19 22 16 17 46 1 34 2 25 11 19 17 38 29 18 16 39 26 Occupation. Average Weekly Earnings at October, 1905. Iron Rolling—continued. Chargers Forkers Cutters Markers Shearmen Wheelers Labourers Steel Rolling :— First heaters ... Second „ Stokers ... Chargers and Rollers Rail finishers ... Rail finishers’ helpers Machine-making :— Fitters Smiths -. Annealers Turners Drillers Moulders Core-makers ... Fettlers Boiler - making and Bridge- building :— Boilersmiths (platers) Caulkers Rivetters Drillers Fitters Strikers Labourers 22 20 34 29 21 19 to 23 14 37 4 33 7 24 10 22 0 25 5 19 10 28 6 31 10 30 33 24 31 25 24 29 26 27 24 99 19 11 21 1 In any comparison of the above wages with those for corresponding occupations in the United Kingdom allowance must be made for differences in

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