KÖNIGSHÜTTE. 
291 
Comparing the wages shown in this table with those at Berlin and repre 
senting the latter by 100, the Königshütte figures are represented by 65 for 
skilled men and 58 for unskilled men in the building trades, and by 8t as regards 
the printing trades. 
The coal-mines worked within the municipal area of Königshütte are 
owned by the State, but the conditions of labour are similar in every respect to 
those obtaining in the same industry throughout the Upper Silesian industrial 
district. The following particulars, based on the data as to wages and hours of 
labour in the whole of the Upper Silesian coal-mines, published by the Prussian 
Government, may therefore be taken as applicable to the coal-mines worked in 
Königshütte itself. 
The average earnings per shift of the principal catagories of adult male 
workers in and about the coal-mines of Upper Silesia in 1905 were as follows 
Average Earnings 
per Shift. 
4s. 4 d. 
2s. 9c?. 
3s. 3c?. 
2s. 8c?. 
Hewers 
Putters and trammers . 
Other underground men 
Surface men 
These figures represent the net earnings, after allowing for deductions in 
respect of insurance against sickness, old age and infirmity and in respect of 
blasting materials, lamp oil and tools. The insurance contributions, though 
compulsory, are for the men’s own advantage and should therefore be added to 
the earnings shown above. An addition should also be made in respect of 
certain advantages enjoyed by the men in the shape of free housing, coal 
allotments, &c. The insurance contributions amounted on the average to 
98‘4 pfennige (say Is.) per week of six shifts in 1905, while the benefits in 
respect of housing, coals, &c., are estimated to have been worth an additional 
7d. per week on the average. The average earnings (including all allowances) 
of coal-miners in Königshütte for a full week of six shifts may therefore 
be reckoned to have been as follows in 1905 
Hewers ... 
Putters and trammers ... 
Other underground men 
Surface men 
Average Earnings 
in a full Week. 
27s. Id. 
18s. Id. 
21s. Id. 
17 s. 7c?. 
The average number of hours worked in a full week of six shifts in 1905 
by the Upper Silesian Goal-miners was :— 
For hewers and trammers ... ... ... 59 hours. 
other underground workers 
surface-men 
61 
68 
These figures include intervals for meals, but, in the case of the under 
ground workers, are exclusive of the time occupied in descent and ascent* 
With regard to the iron and steel making and engineering trades the 
following Table gives some indication of the level of wages prevailing at 
October,°1905, at the works of some of the leading concerns in and around 
Königshütte. The data on which the Table is based have been extracted from 
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