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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14 BERLIN. The following were the rates of wages and hours of labour of work people employed in the municipal and other public services of Berlin and Charlottenburg in October, 1905 :— Hoad Maintenance :— Foremen Paviors Road makers Street cleaners Gasworks :— Foremen Stokers Labourers ... Waterworks :— Labourers ... Electrical Works, and Electric Lighting :— Engine-men Stokers Mounters and Installers Fitters Dynamo attendants Electric Tramways :— Drivers Conductors Weekly Wages. Berlin. 21s. 6d 21s. to 24s. 45s. 36s. 4d. 25s. 2d. 21 s. Id. to 24s. 26s. 29s. 8d. 31s. 4d. 5d. to 29s. 8c?. 39s. Id. 23s. Ir?. Charlotten burg. Weekly Hours of Labour. Berlin. 24s. 3c?. to 30s. 24s. 3c?. „ 30s. 24s. 21s. 11c?. to 27s. 8c?. 35s. to 45s. 36s. „ 40s. 24s. ,, 27s. 36s. 32 s. 31s. 32s. 25s. to 33s. 22s. ,, 30s. 60 60 57& 65“ 60 60 66 66 66 66 66 54 60 Charlotten- burg. 60 60 60 64 65 to 70 65 „70 60 70 75 75 60 It will be understood that the wide range in wages shown in several employments is caused by the method of progressive remuneration according to years of service. Many of the industries of Berlin have of late years been greatly disturbed by disputes, and the relationships between capital and labour in general would appear to be very strained. What are called " Trials of strength " (" Kraftproben ”) are of constant occurrence where the organisation of the workpeople seems to offer a fair prospect of success, though many disagreements do not take the form of a strike or a lock-out. Nevertheless, during the year 1905 there were within the district of the Berlin Merchants’ Association 323 strikes, affecting 1,772 concerns and 31,906 workpeople. Of these strikes, 27 occurred in the metal industries, 84 in the wood industries, and 61 in the building trades. During the same year also there were 12 lockouts, affecting 36,665 workpeople, of whom 26,980 were employed in four works. On the side of the workpeople the effect of this constant resort to hostilities is seen in the tendency to a still closer and stronger organisation ; the employers are also combining to a degree never known before, and a form of insurance against strikes is becoming popular in several industries. An attempt has been made to set up labour organisations independent of the militant Trade Unions but only limited success has been achieved. Such organisations are known by the name " Yellow.” The disposition to regulate wages by agreements operative for several years becomes stronger year by year, and, in 1906, 40 such agreements were known to exist in Berlin. The building trades have universally adopted this method of collective bargaining, and agreements have also been concluded, fixing the wages and other conditions of employment of brewers, yellow metal workers, wire workers, pipe layers, furriers, lithographers, wood carvers, balustrade makers, carpet weavers, tailors- in the ready-made clothing trade, carters and draymen, house refuse carriers, transport labourers in the corn trade, &c. Here, as elsewhere, however, the wages agreements are confined—apart from the building trades—either to what is known as the

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