APPENDIX VI. 
WAGES AGREEMENTS AND MINER’S WAGES TICKET. 
I.—Agreement in the Berlin Engineering Trade. 
1. The working hours shall be 10 per day. 
2. On Saturdays work shall cease half hour earlier than on ordinary days, but wages 
for a full day shall be paid. On the day before Easter, Whitsuntide, and Christmas 
respectively, work shall cease at noon and only half a day’s wages shall be paid in 
each case. 
3. When work is slack the management, before resorting to discharges, shall reduce 
the working hours as far as possible to six per day. 
4. Overtime, as far as it is absolutely unavoidable, shall be paid at the rate of 
10 pfennige (l^e?.) extra per hour. As overtime shall be considered all hours exceeding 
those fixed by clauses 1 and 2 of this agreement. 
5. In all cases of piece-work and before commencing a job, a piece-work ticket must 
be handed to the workman and the piece-rates be definitely fixed. If in consequence of 
technical changes, &c., the piece-rates have to be altered, any such alteration shall only be 
made after arranging with the workman affected, or with the Workmen’s Committee, as 
the case may be. If an agreement cannot be arrived at in this way, the workman 
affected shall be assured the time-rate. 
6. In the case of piece-work done by workmen working in gangs, any surplus 
accruing shall be divided amongst his helpers on the part of the ganger in proportion to 
their time-rates and paid to each individually by the firm. 
7. If piece-workers lose time owing to an interruption to work which lasts more than 
one hour, they shall be compensated in wages reckoned up to the dinner hour, or up to 
leaving-off time in the evening, according as the interruption occurs in the forenoon or 
the afternoon. 
8. All workers in receipt of a time wage of less than 35 pfennige (4^e?.) per hour 
shall receive an additional 3 pfennige (§d.) per hour, and all earning from 35 to 
49 pfennige (4\d. to 6d.) shall receive an additional 2 pfennige (£d.) per hour. 
9. Any higher rates than the foregoing remain unaffected. 
10. All material required by piece-workers shall as far as is practicable be delivered 
to them at the machine. 
11. Members of the Workmen’s Committee can only be discharged with the consent 
of the management. 
12. All tools and machines shall be delivered and kept in good working order ; should 
they be injured or broken owing to malice or gross carelessness, the damage shall be 
made good. 
13. Machines and work-places (“ stands ”) shall be cleaned during working hours. 
14. Sufficient facilities for washing and dressing shall be made for the workmen, and 
the firm shall provide good drinking water and adequate ventilation and heating. 
15. For the execution of large jobs a smithy fire shall be provided when the 
preliminary trials show the necessity. 
16. All work done away shall be paid at the rate of 10 pfennige (1J&) per hour extra, 
and travelling expenses (third-class fares by rail) and the time occupied in travelling shall 
be paid for. 
17. If the work is so far away that a workman is obliged to spend the night away 
from home, he shall be paid according to special agreement. 
18. In the event of disputes occurring which, in the opinion of the workmen 
concerned, might give rise to a stoppage of work, there shall be negotiations with the 
Workmen’s Committee for the purpose of settling the differences. 
19. No one shall be penalised for carrying out the terms of this agreement. 
II.—Agreement in the Berlin Metal Trade. 
(Agreement concluded between a Berlin Firm and the local branch of the German 
Metalworkers’ Union.) 
1. The working hours shall be nine per day. 
2. Overtime shall be worked only in urgent cases and shall be paid at the rate of time 
and a quarter. 
3. During scarcity of work the working hours shall be reduced to at least six per day 
before any discharges take place.