Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-07

sons. Machinists in the service Of
printing establishments usually get
thirty marks per week. Printers
| themselves are paid according to a diff
fercnt method of reckoning from that
which prevails in America The
| measurement of matter by ems has
| been discarded here as unfair. because
Of The variation in the "fatness" or
"ieanness' of the fonts. Typesettins
| by hand is paid for according to the
number of letters SGT, ana they get at
the measurement in the following
manner: In 4 stick set to the measure
| desired, the letters Of the alphabet are
set il regular order without Spacing
| ANA without punctuation. When z has
| been set they begin With again ana
| continue until the line is full. The
| letters in the linc ere then counted.
| II Tie line is fraction loose. that
| fraction is counted as one more letter
| so th1t e.tch line is rcckoncd as
| equivalent to an even number Of let
| tiers. Then the pay is reck"ned on tho
| basis of tens Of thousands Of letters
| The pay for setting ten Thousand let
| tcrs varies according to the size AMI
style of type and according to the Ian
guGse in which the matter is set. The
following figures take from the
| Ostober . edition Of the "AIgemeiner
| Anlei;er fuer Druckcrticu," pub
is,ied at Frankfort -on-the- Main. 1t
| Civ, $ the figures ;grr"d upon at the
national convention which closed ut
| Brriin on the second of this month.
When the language is German and The
| type is German the pay for setting ten
| thousand ''letters' runs from tire"
| marks and nintty-SiX pfenlige to four
marks siXty-tWo, according to the size
of type. the higher of these two prices
being paid for nonpareille. If the
language is German ana the roman Cor
as il is here called "Antiqua"D type is
used. the pay varies in like manner
from four marks and eighteen pfenni.se
! to four marks eigi,Ly-fuw for ten thou
SIND letters. Foreign languages
which use til" roman type call for four
| twcnty-nine to five mark six pfenni2e.
Russian. with its own peculiar alpha
bet. fudr marks seven To four seventy
three and Greek four forty to five six.
Fat" type calls for an Increase Of one
pfennige over the above prices. Lead
| ing the matter is paid for by increasing
these prices five pfenniGo. Rule ana
figure work is paid double. Lynotype
operators are pai' as follows: Clear.
correct copy in the German language
and German type one mark twenty
| one for ten Thousand letters. German
language ANA roman type. one thirty
two. Manuscript which is difficult nr
| slow 10 read or composed in a heavy
| German dialect. Latin. French. Eng
| lisil. Italian. etc. call for All increase
| Of thirty per cent, while SlaVic and
| Hungarian call for forty per cent A1
| breViatiuns and proper names when
| numerous cali for an increase OF
| twenty per cent. ana up. During
| call ut q job printing eStabh hnent the
| manager stated that the men were paid
| from furty-fvt to fifty pfennis per
hour. Something in our conversation
betrayed the fact that our linotype
operators Wer" not exclusively men
| In = tone Of great surprise he asked if
| the nlt MS union tolerated the employ
| mrnt of girls. lie called my attention.
to several regulations posted on the
wall II" said that all regulations by
| the firm for the government of the help
| had to b" submitted TO the police be
| fore they could become effective, 50
that nothing oppressive of the help
could lie done ly employers. one
placard stated the precise dimensions
the room il which it was posted, the
cubic space Of air ana the maximum
nnnbcr Of workers who were allowed
to be employed in that room at enc
/ ,,r; l,,.
employers placarls stated that from
| March l. 10 NOV. ! the working time
should lie from 1.15 A. NJ to T. NJ.
| with time allowed for 'hrcakflSt" from
H. To- 90 \. NJ. dinner from II ~ to :.
=. NJ. and supper from to to +. Nj
| nine hours and five minutes Of work
per day. When work was dome %
| Sundays or holidays the day should
| clos" at SO. no time being allowed for
| supper. From the 1st Of November to
the 18th Of March work should begin IT
rs. this half hour being taken out Of
| the incoming. NJ arhy stood a police
notice holding III" employer RESPONSE
Bile for the observation Of the require
ment that In" help must not clt in the
room without first washing their hands,
because otherwise they would take
lrld-rrisun into their systems. Sill
Iannth"r health rule required that the
toors should be kept oiled to prevent
tho injury to health from dust. no
ticr:i one thing which WAS 50 Self-cvi-
cent 4 necessity that the manager lid
not think to call my attention "a it.
Parallel with the upper edge Of the
Ipiattcn on each iob-press there was
horizontal steel bar or round rod about
half an inch in diameter. This rol
quietly retained its position at the
edge of the rlatten during the latter's
"apcnins" Cor doNnwar,D movement
When returning To the imIreSsiun
IhoWever. the rod suddenly Sprang up
ward. If the feeders hand was still
ii. the press, it was forcbly thrown out
lat The moment Of danger. When ! re-
marked on the matter the manager
STATED that they We're not allowed to
run job press without it.
a serious attempt is being made to
bring back into civilization Il large