454
STETTIN.
Weekly Wages.
Weekly Hours of
Labour.
Chemical Trade:—
Skilled men ... ... ... ... ... 25s. to 50s.
Unskilled men (the great majority) ... 18s. „ 20s.
Pottery, etc., Trades :—
Cement makers ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d.
Fireclay wares :
Brickmakers ... ... ... ... 28s. 6r/.
Retort stampers ... ... ... ... 22s.
Special or form block stampers ... 26s. 9d.
• Mixers and preparers ... ... ... 26s. 11 d.
Barrow wheelers (emptying and filling 27s. id.
kilns).
Labourers ... ... ... ... ... 16s. 6d.
Food Trades :—
Sugar refining :
Sugar boilers ... ... ... ... 24s. 6c/.
Labourers ... ... ... ... ... 17s. 5d.
Brewing :
Maltsters ... . ... ... ••• 23s. Id.
Brewers ... ... ... ... ••• 30s.
Coopers ... ... ... ••• ••• 26s.
Draymen ... ... . ... . • 36s.
Labourers ... ... ... ... ..; 18s. to 20s.
Bakers ... ... ... ... ... ... 17s. „ 18s.
Cigar making ... ... ... ... ... 17s. Id. to 19s.
Municipal Employees :—
Road construction and maintenance :
Paviors ... ... ... ... ... 33s..
Rammermen ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d.
Road makers ... ... ... ... 19s. 10í7.
Street cleaners ... ... ... ... 18s. 10r/.
Gasworks :
Gas stokers ... ... ... ... 24s. Id.
Yard labourers ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d.
Waterworks :
Engine and boilermen 30s. M.
Labourers *... ... ... ... ... 17s. 10r/.
Electricity works and Electric lighting :
Enginemen • ... ... ... ... 21s. Id.
Stokers ... ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d.
65-70
70
60
60
60
60
57&
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
72
58
60
60
60
63
78*
72*
84
60
60
60
Including intervals.
Comparing the wages for the building, engineering and printing trades
shown in the above table with the corresponding figures for Berlin, and
representing the latter by 100, the following index numbers are obtained :—
For the building trades, 79 for skilled men and 67 for labourers ; for the
engineering trades, 71 for skilled men and 83 for labourers ; and for the
printing trades, 90.
The data obtainable with regard to dock and riverside labour and the
tailoring and ready-made clothing trades were too fragmentary to warrant their
use as a basis for calculating predominant weekly rates of wages for those trades.
The agreement in force between the stevedores and the association of ship
owners, brokers and agents of Stettin, while providing for a time-rate of wages
{Id. per hour for day work and 9d. per hour for night work) contains no stipu
lation limiting the daily or weekly duration of work, and consists for the most
part in a detailed statement of the rates per ton to be paid for loading and dis
charging various kinds of merchandise. The pay-sheets of one of the leading
firms of shipowners showed that 66 men employed by the firm during the
month of October, 1905, worked an average of 22 days each, their average
earnings per day (piece-work) being 8s. 3d. The average stevedore in Stettin,
it was stated, earns, on time-work, from £60 to £75 a year by working four or
five days per week all the year round for a regular line of steamships. The
best stevedores, working 12 hours (nett) per day for 240 days in the year, earn
on piecework £115.
