ns 
BRESLAU. 
Weekly Wages 
Weekly Hours of Labour. 
Food, &c., Preparation Trades :— 
Breweries : 
Brewers 
Coopers 
Labourers 
Steam Bakeries : 
Journeymen Bakers 
Labourers 
Corn Mills (Millers) ... 
Sugar Refineries (unskilled men) 
25s. to 26s. 
25s. „ 26s. 
18s. „ 20s. 
20s. „ 26s. 
18s. 6d. to 20s. 
19s. 
12s. to 16s. 
60 
60 
60 
53-60 
60 
72* 
60 
Including intervals for meals, &c. 
On the basis of figures given in the above Table, the level of wages of 
skilled men in the building trades is represented by an index number of 76, and of 
labourers by 78, wages at Berlin being taken as 100. In the engineering trades, 
wages are comparatively higher, the index numbers being 95 for skilled men 
and 88 for labourers. The index number for wages in the printing trade is 92. 
For the tailoring trade, wdiich (ns has already been seen) employs more 
workpeople than any other single trade in Breslau, the wages and hours of 
labour obtaining at October, 1905, could not be ascertained with any degree 
of certainty, owing to the very large number of small workshops among which 
the workpeople are distributed, the preponderance of the piece-work system and 
the fact that uniform conditions of labour were not introduced until April 2nd, 
1906, under an agreement concluded on March 18th of the same year. Under 
this agreement, which relates to the u bespoke ” tailoring trade, the hours of 
labour in workshops are fixed at 10 per day, or 60 per week, exclusive of 
mealtimes, and each establishment is placed in one of four classes according to 
the quality of goods made. For journeymen employed on time wage the rates 
are fixed at 24& or 25s. per week in Class I., 23s. in Class II., 21s. in Class III. 
and 19s. in Class IV. 
The weekly wages and hours of labour of certain of the principal classes of 
workpeople directly employed by the municipality at October, 1905, are shown 
below :— 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Street Maintenance and Gleaning .-— 
Road Sweepers 
Carters ... 
Gasworks :— 
Gas Stokers 
Yardmen (Labourers) 
Waterworks :— 
Labourers 
Electric Tramways :— 
Drivers ... 
Conductors 
Electricity Works and Electric Lighting 
Enginemen 
Stokers ... ... ... ... .. 
Fitters .* 
Installators 
16s. Id. 
18s. to 20s* 
30 s. 
18s. 
19s. to 25s. Id. 
20s. 4d. 
19s. 2d. 
22s. Id. 
20s. lOd. 
18s. lOd. 
16s. 2d. 
67 
76 
72 and 96 
in alternate weeks, f 
60 
64 
75A 
77“ 
60 and 70 
in alternate weeks. 
60 
* In addition, the men receive allowances in respect of house-rent and uniform 
amounting in all to £8 per annum or 3s. Id. per week, 
f Intervals for meals and rest are here included. 
Housing and Rents. 
In December, 1900, the most recent period for which full and precise data 
are available with regard to housing conditions in Breslau, there were found to 
be 101,128 dwellings in the town. Of these, 92,157 were being rented, while