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ESSEN. 
Weekly Wages 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Engineering Trades :— 
Moulders 
Fitters ... 
Turners ... 
Smiths ... 
Pattern-makers... 
Milling machine men 
Planers ... 
Strikers 
Labourers 
Rolling Mills : — 
Welders—1st men 
„ 2nd „ 
„ 3rd „ 
First rollers 
Other rollers 
Heaters 
Cutters-off 
Labourers 
Collieries :— 
Hewers .. 
Repair hewers ... 
Trammers 
Horse-drivers ... 
Engine-drivers ... 
Stokers ... 
Coke-burners ... 
Overhead labourers 
Food and. Drink Trades.— 
Bakers—1st men 
¿nd ,. ... ... ... ... 
Brewers and maltsters 
Brewers’ coopers 
„ draymen 
„ labourers 
Printing Trades :— 
Hand compositors, book printers and machine 
minders. 
Machine compositors—news 
„ „ jobbing 
36s. to 41s. 
30s. ,, 39s. 
32s. 6(7. to 39s. 
30s. „ 36s. 
37s. 
33s. 
33s. 
28s. 10(7. to 30s. 
20s. to 23s. 
60s. to 63s. 
42s. ,, 45s. 
37s. 2d. to 39s. 
45s. 
33s. to 39s. 
25s. 2d. 
21s. 
18s. 
30s. to 31s. 2d. 
24s. to 28s. 10(7. 
18s. to 19s. 2(7. 
14s. 5(7. 
34s. 7(7. 
22s. 10(7. 
22s. 10(7. 
20s. to 22s. 10(7. 
23s. 1(7. to 25s. 5(7. 
20s. Ad. „ 23s. 1(7. 
27s. to 30s. 
27s. „ 30s. 
22s. „ 24s 
21s. 7(7. to 24s. 
25 s. 11(7, 
32s. 4(7. 
33s. 8(7. 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
48 
48 
48 
48 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
54 
48 
54 
The following were the wages of municipal employees at the same date :— 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Weekly Wages. 
Street and Road Department ;— 
Road-makers ... 
,, sweepers... ... ... 
Carters ... 
Gasworks :— 
Gas-stokers ... 
Labourers 
Watenvorks :— 
Labourers 
Electricity Works (private company) 
Engine-drivers ... 
Stokers ... ... ... 
Tramways (private company) i— 
Drivers ... 
Conductors 
20s. 5(7. 
18s. 7(7. 
23s. 10(7. 
27s. 
21s. Id. 
21s. 
2os. 5(7. to 27s. 8(7. 
30s. 
25s. 2(7. to 32s. 10(7. 
23s. 1(7. „ 30s. 9(7. 
66 
60 
66 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
It will be seen from the above table that wages at Essen are comparatively 
high, Kepresenting wages at Berlin by 100, the level of wages of skilled men in 
the engineering trades and of labourers in both the building and engineering 
trades is indicated by an index-number of 99. The index-number for skilled men 
in the building trades is, however, much lower, viz.—83. In the printing trades 
it is 92. •“