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Wages  and  Hours  of  Labour  in  the  Printing  Trades.
The  wages  shown  are  the  Standard  Time  Rates  of  wages  per  week.
The  Hours  of  Labour  are  9  per  day  in  the  case  of  Hand  Compositors,  Machine
Compositors  on  jobbing  work,  Machine-m  nders  and  Pressmen,  and  8  per  day  in  the  case
of  Machine  Compositors  on  news  work.

Town.

Hand  Compositors,
Machine-minders,
and  Pressmen.

Machine  Compositors.

News.

Jobbing.

Aachen  ...
Aschaffenburg
Barmen  ...
Berlin  ...
Bochum...
Bremen  ...
Breslau  ...
Brunswick
Chemnitz
Crefeld...
Dantzig  ...
Dortmund
Dresden
Düsseldorf
Elberfeld
Essen
Hamburg-Alton
Königsberg
Königshütte
Leipzig  ...
Magdeburg
Mannheim
Mülhausen
Munich  ...
Nuremberg
Oschersleben
Plauen  ...
Remscheid
Solingen
Stassfurt
Stettin  ...
Stuttgart
Zwickau

s.
24
22
24
28
24

25  11
25  11
25  11
25  4

24
24
25
26
25
24

25  11
28  2

24
23
27
24
25
22
26

25  11
22  6

24
24
24
22
25
26
24

s.  d.
30  11
28  2
30  11
35  2
30  11

32
32
32
31

30  11
30  11

31
33
31

30  11

32
35

30  11
29  6
33  9
30  11

31
28
33
32
28

30  11
30  11
30  11
28  2

31
33
30

32
29
32
36
32
33
33
33

d.
2
3
2
7
2
8
8
8

32  11
32  2
32  2
32  11

34
32
32
33
36
32
30
35
32

32  11
29  3

34
33
29
32
32
32
29

32  11

34
31

Wages  and  Hours  of  Labour  of  Employees  of  Local  Authorities.
(a)  Road  Department.

Town.

Aachen  ...
Aschaffenburg
Barmen
Berlin
Bochum
Bremen  ..
Breslau  ..
Brunswick
Chemnitz..
Dantzig  ..
Dortmund
Dresden  ..
Düsseldorf
Elberfeld  ..
Essen
Hamburg-Altona
Königsberg
Königshütte
Leipzig  ...
Magdeburg
Mannheim
Mülhausen
Munich  ...
Nuremberg
Oschersleben
Plauen
Remscheid
Solingen  ..
Stassfurt  ..
Stettin
Stuttgart..
Zwickau  ..

Weekly
Hours
of
Labour.

60
57  .
60
60
63
57+
67+
57+
60+
60
63
60
60
60
66||
60
60
60
54
57
57
60
59||
60
6011
63
60
60
60||
60+
60||

Weekly  Wages  of

Road  Makers.

15s.  6d.  to  22s.  lOd.
14s.  3d.  „  16s.  6d.
15s.  „  21s.
21s.  6d.
15s.  Id.  to  28s.  lOd.
25  s.  8  d.
15s.  2d.
20  s.
23s.
21s.
21s.
21s.  Id.  to  23s.  5d.
21s.
19s.  6  d.
20s.  5d.
21  s.
15s.
15s.
23s.  9d.
21  s.  Id.
18s.
19s.  2d.  to  24s.
19s.
14s.
18s.  6d.
22  s.
18s.  to  21s.
21s.
19s.  10  d.
18s.  to  21s.  7d.
16s.  2d.

Paviors.

27s.  to  36s.

30s.
25s.  8d.
32s.  3d.
28s.  6d.
28s.  10  d.
37  s.  10  d.
48s.§
34s.  6d.
31s.  Gd.
31s.  10  d.
28s.  10  d.

30  s.
35s.

28s.

30s.  to  33s.
33s.
33s.
30s.

Paviors’
Labourers.

21s.  to  24s.
22s.  10  d.
17s.  lOd.
17s.
21s.
22s.  lOd.
27*.§
21s.
28s.  10  d.
15  s.

21s.  Id.
20  s.
20s.

21s.
19s.  2d.

•  Road  Sweepers.

12s/

21s.  to  24  s.
16s.  lOd.  to  21s.
21s.
16s.  Id.
20s.  +
23s.
17s.  3d.
18s.  to  21s.
19s.  lOd.  ..  20s.  5d.
20  s.
21s.
18s.  Id.
22s.  10  d.
21  s.
19s.  5  d.
16s.  Gd.
21s.  7d.  to  24s  2d.
18s.  „  25s.
18s.  „  24s.
20s.  lOd.
12s.
17s.  to  18s.
18s.

18s.  10  d.
20s.  5  d.
17s.  2d.

Carmen.

18s.  to  21s.
24s.
21s.  Id  to  23s.  Id.
22s.  9d.
20s.
17s.  3d.

22s.  6d.
23s.  lOd.
23s.  5d.  to  24s.
20s.  9d.

19s.  Gd.
21s.  to  29s.

24s.  2d.

*  Men  incapable  of  full  work.
+  Except  for  Carmen,  who  worked  63  hours  per  week  in  Bremen,  76  hours  in  Breslau,  66  hours  in
Brunswick,  54  hours  in  Chemnitz,  and  84  hours  in  Stuttgart.
X  Road  Sweepers  in  Brunswick  work  (at  night  only)  42  hours  per  week.
§  Average  piece  earnings.
II  Except  for  Road  Sweepers  who  worked  60  hours  in  Essen,  65  hours  in  Nuremberg,  63  hours  in  Plauen
and  Stettin,  and  66  hours  in  Zwickau.