MÜLHAUSEN.
355
Printing Trades :—
Compositors, Machine minders, and Pressmen
Bookbinders
Other Trades :—
Chemical workers, skilled
„ „ unskilled..
Bakers, 1st hands
» 2nd „
Carters
Weekly Wages.
23a.
27a. to 30s.
18s.
20s. 6d. to 25s. 6c?. t
' 18s. 6c/.f
18s. to 24s.
Weekly Ht urs
of Labour.
54
54
60 to 63
60 "63
84
84
61
* Agreement rate, but in practice 27s. is usually earned,
t Including 10s. as equivalent of board and lodging.
From the above figures it is seen that wages at Mülhausen are very low.
Representing wages at Berlin by 100, the index numbers for Mülhausen are—
for the building trades, 69 for skilled men and 76 for labourers ; for the engineering
trades, 67 for skilled men and 81 for labourers ; and for the printing trades, 80.
The majority rates of wages for workmen engaged in the municipal
services were as follows at the same date :—
Street Department (Municipal)
Paviors ...
Pavior’s assistants
Road makers
Road sweepers
Carmen ...
Water Works (Municipal) :—
Labourers
Electrical Works (Municipal)
Engine man
Stokers ...
litters and installers ...
Labourers
Gas Works (Private) :—
Stokers ...
Labourers
Electric Tramway (Private) :—
Drivers ...
Conductors
Weekly Wages.
35s.
20s.
18s.
18s. to 25s.
21s. ,, 29s.
20s. ,, 23s.
28s.
26s.
28s. to 37s.
22s.
26s. Id.
18s.
24s. 6(7.
23s. Id.
Weekly
Hours of Labour.
57
57
57
57
57
57
74
78
69
67
84
60
734
73&
The wages of day labour employed in the service of the town have greatly
increased during the past several years, and this increase has not been without
influence on the wages paid by private employers for similar labour. Where in
1902 the town paid 2s. 8d. per day of 9|> hours, it paid in 1903 for the same
labour and hours 3s. 1§&, and in 1904 4s. 0\d. The large gang of outdoor
labourers employed during winter similarly received in 1904 3s. 4J(/. per day
against 2s. 8d. in 1902. For permanent unskilled labourers in municipal
employment a schedule of wages has been drawn up, according to which
labourers of the first class receive from 18s. to 25s. per week and labourers of
the second class from 16s. to 21s. in the following gradations :
Years of Service.
2-4.
First-class men
Second-class men
s.
18
16
s.
20
17
5-7.
8-10.
S.
21
18
s.
23
19
11-13. Over 13.
S.
24
20
s.
25
21
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