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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
-I
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.
