Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-12-29

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the expense for each person averages
474 kronor. For incomes from 1000
to 5000 kronor, it averages SOB kron-
or each, and for those over 5000
kronor, the average is COG each. A
percentage table has been made up,
showing what proportion of income is
spent In different directions. It is
made up from seventy-five Stockholm
families for 1902 and 1908. 1t is as
follows:
Percentages.
Incomes. Food. Lodging
~. 1882 to 1900. 1856 2103
kr 1900 to 1000. 1926 1895
kr. 1000 to 5000. ..42.97 1904
Other
Incomes. Clothing. Exp's.
hr. 1882 to 1900. $50 249s
hr l,o09 to 1000. 9.13 27.G6
IL. 2,G0n to 5000. 1856 27.33
A table showing the wages in some
OF tie leading trades and the prices
OF some of the staple food stu!fs
makes it plain why the common Swed-
lsh laborer should be inclined to emf
CRATE no matter hoW dearly he loves
MS country. In reading the follow
ing statement the reader should bear
III mind that q krone is q cents, and
is divided into 100 ore. Day labor on
farms in southern Sweden is paid
about 70 ore al hour Flour mill EN-
D1oyeeS il Stockholm get IS kroner a
month, minimum wage for skilled men
and i'll southern Sweden, so Eronor.
Bakers in Stockholm, minimum wage
Yer week, $40. Sugar retineries,
Stockholm, 40 Gre an hour; in the
country, So ore. Brewery workers,
stc< kholIn, s. to 100 kroner
month: outside, 50 kroner. Textile
workers, OF southern Sweden, 80 ore
an hour Tor men and Up TO 20 ore
Tor women. TailoTs, Stockholm, %
to Is kroner q week: outside, l6 to IS
kronoT. In nearly all trades fifty-hye
hours makes weeks work, with ten
hours Gay and five On Saturday.
SEoem2kers, hand work, receive 20
ilronor a week in the country districts.
Machine workers in shoe factories
set 10 ore an hour in Stockholm, and
80 ore in the country. Carpenters
wages are about so ore an hour in
Stockholm, and 35 to 40 ore in out
SIDE places. StOnemasOns and brick
layers make 60 to 65 ore an hour in
Stockholm. but outside WAGES are
much lower, and vary greatly. Paint
ers get CT ore all hour in Stockholm.
ard 55 Ore in other places. Unsl1illed
labor on buildings will receive so to
90 ore an hour, and up to 40 ore else
where. Day labor in the woodwork
ing establishments of northern Swed-
ell is paid 25 to 80 ore an hour. In
the wood-pulp mills the men average
) !ronor day for shift that is
eight hours in some plants, but 10 to
IL hours in most of them. Minimum
wages for skilled labor in the iron
rolling mills and in machine shops are
70 to 80 ore an hour. Bookbinders'
pay runs about 20 kronor for a week
of SIS hours. On the other hand, the
prices OF many necessities are up to
the American scale. Milk costs about
4 cents a quart, skinned milk little
less than cents. Butter of first quail
lty costs 26 cents a pound, and Sec
ond quality "a cents. Most working
men use margarin at 20 cents a h.,
or 10 cents for second quality. Eggs
are about "a cents dozen. Beef of
the ordinary quality for roasting is
1872 cents pound, and boiling beef
IL cents pound. Fresh pork costs
15k cents a pound. Fresh herring is
to be had at 319 cents.
Stockholm, Dec. 1.-THE Nobel
prizes awarded annually from the in
come of the Nobel foundation estab-
Gshed by the will of the late Alfred
B. Nobel, the Swedish engineer and
inventor, were distributed to this
years recipients yesterday. The
peace prize was given, as usual at
Christiania, being divided between
Baron D'Estournelles de Constant of
France and NJ. Beernaert, of Belgium.
The remaining four prizes were given
by the hand of King Gustaf, in the
presence of great assemblage. In
addition to the money prizes, the re-
cipientS were given each a diploma
and gold medal. The prize in each
case amounts this year to S38,672.
Last year the amount was $3S,565.
The recipients here of the prizes, as
already cabled, are: For physics, d.
vided between Gugielmo Marconi, the
of wireless telegraphy, and
Prof Ferdinand Braun of Strassburg:
for chemistry, Prof Wilhelm OSWALD
of Leipsic; for physiology or medi-
cine, Prof. Theodore Koehler of Bern:
for literature, Selma Lagerlof, the
Swedish anthoress.
During the industrial growth of the
last few years there has been a real
estate boom in Stockholm and in other
cities, and rents have gone up enor-
Now in Stockholm the great
mass OF workingmen with families
live in one room and a kitchen. For
THIS they pay at the least 300 kronor.
or SS1 year. Most Of them have to
pay 325 kronor, and in parts of Stock
holm nothing can be had fo- less than
900 kronor. Many families pay more
than One-fourth of their income for
two rooms without heat, light or any
modern cOnveniences.
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