466
STUTTGART.
Weekly Wages.
Boot and Shoo Trade :—
Cutters (sole leather room)
„ (uppers)
Lasters ...
Bottomers and Finishers
Unskilled men ...
Glove Factories :—
Cutters
Food and Drink Trades :—
Breweries—brewers
„ coopers
„ draymen
„ bottlers
Bakeries—1st men
„ 2nd men
Other Trades :—
Soap-makers
22s.
24s.
27s.
27s.
18s. lid.
31s.
32s. 5d.
32s. 5d.
30s. 5cl.
24 s. 10<7.
22s.*
18s. to 19s/
22s.
Weekly Hours
of Labour.
54
54
54
54
54
54
60
60
60
60
84
84
58
10s. being taken as the equivalent of board and lodging.
Comparing the wages in the building, engineering, and printing trades
shown in the above table with those for Berlin, and representing the latter by
100, the following index numbers for Stuttgart are obtained :—Building trades,
skilled men 75, labourers 81 ; engineering trades, skilled men 84, labourers 83 ;
printing trades 94.
The following were the weekly wages and hours of municipal workmen at
the same date :—
Weekly Wages.
18s. to 21s. Id.
24s.
20s. 5d.
24s. 2d.
30s.
21s.
29s. M.
25s.Id.
23s. 5d.
23s.Id.
20s. 5d.
25s. id.
25s. Id.
25s. lOd.
27s. 2d.
Weekly Hours of
Labour.
60
60
60
84
48
57
68
67
60
60
60
65
63
67
65
Street Department
Road workmen
Cartwrights
Road sweepers
Carmen ...
Gas Works:—
Stokers ...
Yard labourers
Water Works ;—
Enginemen
Stokers ...
Erectors, installers, and pipelayers
Fitters
Labourers
Electrical Works :—
Enginemen
Stokers ...
Erectors and installers
Fitters
Some of the larger employers of Stuttgart, both in private and company
undertakings, have special benevolent institutions, apart from the obligatory
insurance funds, for the benefit of their workpeople. Several firms relieve their
employees of all payments on account of sickness or old age insurance.
Others support funds for the relief of exceptional distress and need, and others
out of special funds increase the old age pensions obtained under the Imperial
law. Vested funds of £5,000 and £6,000 exist for this purpose in two cases,
and additions are constantly being made to them by the firms concerned, while
