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LEIPZIG. 
Bookbindmg.—The standard time-wage for bookbinders, as stated in the 
Table, is 25s. for a week of 54 hours. The books of a firm employing 118 men 
of this trade, however, showed that the majority of these men earned 35s. per 
week of 54 hours in October, 1905. 
Woodworking Trades.—Cabinetmakers form one of the largest groups of 
skilled labour in pianoforte and music-box manufacture, and their standard 
time-wage is 25s. bd. for a week of 53 hours. The hours actually worked in 
the pianoforte trade are 53^, in which cabinetmakers on piece-work earn from 
30s. to 40s. For men of the same trade employed in music-box manufacture 
the predominant piece-work earnings are from 30s. to 32s. in 54 hours. 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Building Trades* :— 
Bricklayers and Masons 
Stonecutters 
Carpenters 
Joiners 
Plumbers and Fitters .. 
Smiths (for Iron Work on Buildings) 
Glaziers : 
On Buildings... 
In Workshops 
Painters, skilled 
„ unskilled 
Labourers 
Fitters 
Turners 
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Engineering and Metal-working Trades :— 
Machine Construction ... 
Paraffin Burner Manufacture ... 
Manufacture of Music Boxes, 
Typewriters and Motor Cars. 
Machine Construction ... 
Paraffin Burner Manufacture ... 
Smiths (Machine Construction) 
Founders (Paraffin Burner Manufacture) ... 
Drillers, Planers and Milling-Machinemen 
(Machine Construction). 
Patternmakers 
Typefounders 
Machine Construction ... 
Paraffin Burner Manufacture .. 
Labourers 
Textile Trades :— 
Worsted Yarn Spinners 
Wool Sorters 
Wool Combers ... 
Wool Dyers 
Storekeepers, Packers and Labourers 
Fur Dressing :— 
Furriers ... 
Labourers 
Pianoforte Making : — 
Instrument Makers 
Metal Workers ... 
Japanners 
Machinists 
Labourers 
Manufacture of Music Boxes, Typewriters and 
Motor Gars:— 
Mechanical Movement Makers 
Machinists 
Wheelwrights 
32s. bd. 
30s. to 32s. 
32s. bd. 
31s. 10(7. 
27s. 
24s. 4(7. 
24s. 4(7. 
29s. 8(7. 
29s. 6(7. 
26s. 
23s. to 25s. 
30s. to 33s. 
35s. 
30s. to 32s. 
32s. „ 33s. 
35s. 
33s. to 35s. 
30s. 
32s. to 33s. 
27s. „ 34s 
30s. 6(7. f 
18s. to 24s. 
25s. 
26s. to 28s. 
22s. 6(7. 
18s. 
23s. 
18s. to 21s. 
30s. 
21s. 
30s. to 40s. 
28s. „ 30s. 
24s. „ 26s. 
24s. „ 28s. 
20s. „ 24s. 
30s. „ 32s. 
26s. „ 30s. 
28s. „ 30s. 
54 
54 
54 
53 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 to 57 
594 
54 
54 to 57 
594 
54 to 57 
60 
54 to 63 
54 „ 57 
54 
57 to 60 
594 
62 to 65 
62 to 65 
65 
65 
62 to 65 
60 
60 
534 
534 
534 
54 
54 
54 
* The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in 
summer. 
t Average weekly earnings in 1905.