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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. •“
