Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-31
GERMAN WAeE-WoRKERs.
omeiaI Figures Full of Interest to Ameri-
can WoriSIngmen.

OnleiaI Figures Full of Interest to Ameri-
can Wor;slngm'n.
The State Department is receiving a
large amount of interesting informa-
ton from our consular corps abroad.
Among the recent reports is the follow
ing in relation to wages and labor in
Germany:
The common laborers among the
weaycrs in the nils around Crefeld.
Germany, receive S2.S6 per week, and
the day y'swork is little less than twelve
hours. Carpenters, machinists, spin
ners. etc, are paid from $3.57 to 1924
per week, Consul Potter reports that
these people are able to live on these
wages, notwithstanding that coffee is
retailed at 30 cents per pound, butter
at 81, beef at II and salt pork ut Is.
One mill operative gives figures to
show that his family of four costs on
an average 80 cents per week for each
for food 1t is wonderful how they do
it. Cottages are rented to the 'cm-
ployes by the mill owners ut about
S4j per year, and if the family occu-
pies the cottage continuously for -
years then, by provision of the CON
tract, the property becomes absolutely
theirs. If the promises are abandoned
before the expiration of that time the
renters accumulated rights ar for
feitcd. This advantage Of this system
to employees and employers is evident
The proprietor secures and retains
good and skiltul workmen, while the
employe, through a kind of compul-
sorry system of saving, secures home
for his old age.
Farm laborers about Crefo'd receive
S7l per wear with board, when in
charge of teams. Second laborcrs are
paid only $50 annually with board A
farm hand when living separately can
earn Sl42 the wife being paid Sll.!0
during harvest time. With the sale Of
goats milk, pig and vegetables, the
laborer's family receives S22S per an
mum.
Farms around Mayence, in the Gran |
Duchy of HcsSe, are not conducted on
the most advanced principles, and the
land is very much cut up into small
parcels and worked by multiludcs OF
proprietors, and hand-labor plays an
important part. Twelve years is the
time for which farm is rented, reports
Consul Smith, and the rental is about
$7.25 per annum per year.
Consul Harper, at Munich, reports
that farms in Bavaria are rented at
S2.40 to Sl.7S per acre, according to
size. Farm laborers receive from S23
to 81 per year, with board. Day la-
borers. without board, are paid 80 to
AZ cents per day for men, and % to 80
for women. The shortest days work
in winter is ten hours, and the longest
DAYS work in summer is fifteen hours.
In Brunswick Colonel Fox reports
+ that the method of farming is cXl en-.
sive, and the soil is worked to give the
greatest possible yield, especially where
the sugar beet is raised. Here the de
mand for labor is extended, and in beet
raising all classes of hands are em
ployed. Country schools are closed Al
such periods that the children may hclI
> in wedding out the beets. On the large,
!. estates there are families which have ;
bit of land leased from the proprietol
at a nominal rental, the members bind
ing themselves to work on the estate
;, Members of the family receive the
d, market wages.
,, In the vicinity of Gandersheima II man.
wife and child will earn Sl84 pei
annum, The proprietor OF tho Watsun
, estate pays men 3G cents per day, sum
mer and winter, working eleven hours
: daily, Women hind tho grain benin,
the scythe, and are paid for such worl
80 to "a cents per day. Men earn G.
I to II cents.
Consul Dittmer, at Stcttin, report
3 that proprietors of large estates use th
Il American threshing machine to som
:, extent. Farm laborers are paid 3
cents per day. They generally live Il
j small houses belonging to tho estate
e In Alsace-Lorraine, Consul Ballo'
states that the farm-owners are combin
e ing for an exchange of work, and tn
J ia6orers are demanding higher wages
} Consul Tanner of Chembitz, Saxony
> writes that there are a large numbe
II of ponds of all sizes which stud tn
fields in all directions and are a souro
Il of income to the owners. These pond
II TEEN with carp which are left to shit
IS for themselves until they are yea
Is old, when they are fit for the market
y bringing from u to 20 cents per pound
c In the winter the ponds yield ico whic
e is sold at u fair price. The customar
'l wages paid to hired servants on farm
Ia S57 to men and S29 to women pc
o year with board. Field hands receive &
,r cents per day without board, women3 8
n cents.
Consul Bishoff, of Sonnchergh, Thr
III ringia, states that in Siegers tlannt
lc factory at Pressneck common hand
H. are paid $1.67 per week, spinner
Y 1921. weavers 1857.
In Bremen Consul Looming repor
o" " that in the OsDabruck iron-steel worl
~ the wages paid per week of sixty houl
:. are SO to $3.50 to ordinary laborel
= and So to Sc to skilled hands,
~ In Bresau Consul Dithmar repor
y that agricultural laborers are paid frol
4. Sl9 to S24 in cash besides food an
IN cottage, and the wife of the laborer
= bound to work in the field at y cen
" per day, Agrio tural laborers al
~ paid in Elderheld 25 cents per day wit
. board or 56 to 62l without board
10 10 Cor. 81. Louis Chronicle.
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