LEIPZIG. 
305 
Weekly Wages 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Woodworking Trades :— 
Furniture Making : 
Cabinetmakers and Polishers 
Turners 
Parquet-layers 
Wheelwrights 
Food, &e. Trades :— 
Journeyman Bakers (employed by Co 
operative Societies). 
Brewing : 
Brewers and Coopers 
Draymen (Bottled Beer) ... 
„ (Cask Beer) 
Assistant Draymen 
Enginemen and Stokers 
Labourers (over 20 years of age) 
Printing Trades:— 
Hand Compositors 
Machine Minders 
Pressmen 
( News 
| Jobbing 
Machine Compositors 
Music Printers 
Stereotypers 
Electrotypers 
Engravers 
Etchers ... 
Retouchers 
Bookbinding :— 
Binders 
Pressers and Operatives at Cover-making 
Machines. 
Warehousemen and Porters in Bookselling Trade 
25s. 5d. 
23s. 10 d. 
35s. 8d. 
24s. 4c?. 
25s. 2d. 
28s. to 30s. 
27s. 
23s. to 25s. 
21s. „ 23s. 
22s. „ 24s. 
20s. ,, 22s. 
27s. 
33s. 9d. 
35s. M 
20s. to 24s. 
27s. „ 33s. 
30s. Id* 
39s.* 
32s. lid* 
32s. Id* 
25s. 
33s. 6d 
18s. to 25s. 
53 
53 
51 
54 
52 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
54 
48 
54 
54 
54 
54 
481 
521 
521 
54 
54 
60 to 66 
Average weekly earnings in 1905. 
Wages are comparatively very high in Leipzig—much higher than in any 
other town in Saxony. Representing wages in Berlin by 100, the corresponding 
figures for Leipzig are—for the building trades, 88 for skilled men and 95 for 
labourers ; for the engineering trades 95 for skilled men and 96 for labourers ; 
and the printing trades 96. 
By way of concluding this section of the report a few particulars are added 
as to the conditions of labour of municipal workers. So far as employment of 
labour is concerned the most important of the services undertaken by the 
municipality of Leipzig is that of the gas supply, including street lighting by 
gas. The total number of workpeople employed in this service at the end of 
1905 was 661, divided into four wage classes. The first and best paid class 
comprises the stokers in the retort houses and a small number of the more 
experienced artisans (masons, carpenters, pipe-layers). The scale of pay for 
this class ranges from 4s. Id. per day in the first to 5s. 2d. after the fourth year 
of service ; that is to say, from 27s. Qd. to 31s. per week, and it may be 
assumed that the majority of those employed at any given time would be men 
who have completed four years of service and reached the maximum rate of 
their scale. The stokers in the retort houses only work 45 minutes to an hour 
at a stretch, after which they rest for an hour to an hour-and-a-quarter, so that 
of the 12 hours during which they are on duty in the retort house their time of 
actual work at the furnaces only amounts to four-and-a-half to six hours daily. 
Stokers are required to bring two shirts every day besides the one in use, so as 
to be able to change after each spell of work at the furnaces. Coffee and warm 
shower baths are provided free at the works, and few if any of the men neglect 
to avail themselves of the latter at the end of their shift. 
The second wage-class comprises the general body of skilled artisans and 
the leading men in the ammonia factory. The wages range from 4a. 2d. to 
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