334
MANNHEIM.
Weekly Wages.
Weekly Hours of
Labour.
Food, Drink, &c. Industries .—
Bakers—1st men
„ 2nd men
Brewing—Maltsters ...
„ Coopers
„ Draymen ...
„ Labourers ...
Corn millers
Tobacco cutters
Cigar makers (in villages)
Cigar sorters and packers
Chemical, Rubber, Celluloid, &c. Industries
Chemical works :
Furnacemen
Apparatus workers
Labourers
Rubber and Celluloid works :
Acid workers
Camphor workers
Rubber „
General labourers ...
Carmen—1 horse
„ 2 horses
Plate Glass workers
Soap and Oil works—Labourers
Cement makers...
25s.
20s. to 21s.
31s. Id.
31s. Id.
28s. 8c?.
25s.
22s. 10c?. to 25s. 2c?.
20s. 4c?.
12s. to 18s. 6d.
14s. 5d. to 18s.
24s. to 30s.
35s.
18s. to 21s.
22s. to 26s. 5d.
21s. Id.
24s.
18s. to 20s. 5c?.
24s.
25 s.
25s. 2d.
19s. 10c?. to 22 s. 10c?.
20s. 8c?. to 24s.
84
84
58&
58&
75
58i
60
53
60
54
60 and 70
70
60 and 70
60 to 61
60 „ 61
60 „ 61
60 „ 61
80
80
60
60
60
Wages are comparatively high in Mannheim—higher than in any other of
the towns in South Germany investigated. Taking wages in Berlin as 100,
the index numbers for the building trades in Mannheim are 81 for skilled men
and 89 for labourers ; for the engineering trades, 96 for skilled men and 101
for labourers ; and for the printing trades, 90.
The following were the rates of wages paid at the same time to municipal
employees, and harbour and dock employees :—
Weekly Wages.
Weekly Hours of
Labour.
Road Department :—
Foremen
Paviors
Pavions' assistants
Road makers
Road cleaners
Gasworks :—
Stokers ...
Labourers
Waterworks :—
Enginemen and stokers
Labourers
Tramways {Electric) :—
Drivers
Conductors
Electric Works and Lighting
Enginemen
Stokers ...
Erectors and fitters
Labourers
Harbours and Docks {State)
Wharf foremen
„ labourers
Cementers
27a.
30s.
21s. 7c?.
21s. Id.
21s. 7c?.
29s. 3c?.
22s. 3c?.
26s. 2d.
21 s. 7c?.
26s. 11c?.
25s. 9c?.
29s.
28s.
26s., 27s.
21s.
18s. lie?, to 24s. le?.
18s.
19s. 10c?.
57
57
57
57
57
60
60
60
60
60
60
69
68
64, 65
60
60
60
60
