Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-01
WAGES IN GERMANY.
Interesting Statistics Furnished by tho
Consul at Cologne,

Consul at Cologne.
WASHINGTON, Nov. William D.
Warner, the United States consul at
Cologne, writes to the state department.:
The bureau of states attorneyship of
the various trades unions of Germany
has just compiled some very interesting
statistics on the wages earned through
ont Germany during the year 1891.
The statistics were collected by the vari-
GUS trade unions at request of said bu-
reau and they embrace the replies from
9O6 cities and 924 unions.
The figures show that wages have in
creased in only seven cities, in 229 they
hsge 4sGlDed- &pQ !p $40 they hade re-
cities want Of employment existed for q
industry, representing 400 local unions
with 1000 members, shows that there
We're only two places in which the wages
have risen; in seventy-two they have de-
clined and In a32 they have remained
stationary, while food products have
been dearer.
AK la Chapelle, Berlin, Breslau,
Buckau, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Duis-
burg, ErfuTt, Essen, Heilsbronn, Leip-
sic, Magdeburg, Nuremburg, Ober-
heusen and Steele. the centers of the
machine industry, show a decrease in
the wages. Only 211 places out of 306
cities showed full employment while in
thirty places complete stoppage of work
existed.
A Berlin machine worker writes: A
family Of five persons requires per week.
For food articles, 1891 rs; for house
rent, 81 .82 1-2; for contribution to sick
and invalid fund, 40.5 cents; for taxes,
il,8 cents; for newspapers, ETC., "a
cents; for clothing, 96.4 cents; total,
$500 2-5, or $33S.l6 per year. By con-
tinued work such a workman earns dur
ing the year @250.60
A Berlin b1icklayer writes: A brick
layer or carpenter earns per year, less
the frosty aud rainy days 1858. His
family of seven persons needs yearly for
food articles, $500. 48; for rent, $65 06;
taxes and contribution, gil. 80; clothing,
etc., $24.0G; total, $301.45. The def
cheney must be made up from what the
wife can earn by sewing etc.
A bricklayer in Erlanger writes l
keep an exact account of wages earned
and cost of living Ny family consists
of myself, my wife and five children of
three five, seven, fifteen and eighteen
years of ago. In 1901 | earned as first
workman IN p stone quarry, $232. 53 tor
binary wCrkuIon earn from $lS0.72 to
$1s7.85). My cost Of living for the year
was rs follows: For food articles,
$2883l; clothing, $58.S7; fires, $l1.S0;
Shoes 500. 80; beer, S97.05; rent, $2S. 90;
total, $393.e5. The deficiency of $le0. 60
had to be inaae up BY the amount earned
by my wife and children.
In the eastern and western parts of
Germany, as web as in the northern and
southern parts, the workman alone can
not earn sufficient to support his family.
1t can be reckoned as requiring, on an
average, for family Of four persons,
1887 for food articles per week, and
from 1891 to 49, for rent for tolera-
bly, good house per month. This makes
for food articles and for house rent a
minimum of $216,SG, and the earnings
can be taken at maximum of $3.50 5.
In Essen a machine worker writes: A
family of four persons earn yearly
$270 60 and expends for house rent $50. rs;
for food articles. Sl92.77; clothing, ETC.,
$4S. 10; for taxes, $3.50; FOR insurance
contribution, $3.50. This shows def
cheney of $3070.
For Burns, Scalds, Bruises and all
pains and soreness of the flesh, the
4rand household remedy is DIR.
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