Bulletin of the Bureau of Labour: May. (Government Printing Office,
Washington, U.S.A.) — This Report deals with the budgets of German families,—income, expenditure, wages per hour and week, Ice. Let us take the last first. Coal-miners earned an average of not quite .91 Gs. per week ; workers in sale, copper, and iron mines something less ; masons and carpenters received Gs. Gd. per day of nine hours ; their labourers, 4e. 61. ; painters and plumbers, 5s. 9d. Among the wood-workers, a great and varied German industry, the working day varied from ten and a half to nine and a quarter hours. Not quite half the earn- ings went in food, sausage being a prominent item. Generally the budgets show a balance on the wrong side,—four Inuelred and thirty-nine deficits against four hundred and six surpluses ; but some of this is due to errors in accounts. On the whole, we do not see that Germany is the artisan's or labourer's paradise.
Previous page
