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

incomes under 2,OOO krOnOr a year,
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 Cos each. A
percentage table has been made up,
showing what proportion of income is
spent in different directions. 1t is
made up from seventy-fve Stockholm
families for 1907 and 1908. 1t is as
follows:
Percentages.
Incomes. Food. Lodging.
kr. 1882 to 1900. 1856 21.O3
kr. 1900 to 1000. 1926 1896
Kr. 1000 to 5000. .42.97 1904
Other
Incomes. Clothing. Exp's.
kr. 1882 to 1,5C0. ...... S.33 249S
kr. 1000 to 1000. 9.l3 27.66
IL. 2.GOn to 1000. 1866 2733
A table showing the wages in some
OF tie leading trades and the prices
OF some of the staple food stutfs
makes it plain why the common Swed-
ish laborer should be inclined to emf
CRATE no matter how dearly he loves
his country. In reading the follow
ing statement the reader should bear
in mind that krone is q cents, and
is divided into 100 ore. Day labor on
farms in southern Sweden is paid
about 70 ore an hour. Flour mill EN-
Dloyees il Stockholm get IS kroner a
month, minimum wage for skilled men
and in southern Sweden, 80 kronor.
Bakers in Stockholm, minimum wage
FER week, $40. Sugar rehneries,
Stockholm, 40 ore an hour; in the
country, IS ore. Brewery workers,
Stockholm, s. to 100 kroner a
month; outside, so kroner. Textile
workers, OF southern Sweden, 80 ore
an hour for men and Up TO 20 ore
for women. Tailors, Stockholm, %
to Is llrCncr a week: outside, l6 to IS
krono:. In nearly all trades fifty-five
hours makes weeks work, with ten
hours a day and five on Saturday.
SEoemalsers, hand work, receive 20
Eronor a. week in the country districts.
Machine workers in shoe factories
get 10 ore an hour in Stockholm, and
50 ore in the country. Carpenters
wages are about so ore an hour in
Stockholm, and s. 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 CD ore all hour in Stockholm,
ard SIS ore in other places. Unskilled
labor on buildings will receive so to
IS 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
3 krOnor a day for shift that is
eight hours in some plants, but 10 to
II hours in most Of them. Minimum
wages for skilled labor in the iron
rolling mills and in machine shops are
% 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 quart, skinned milk little
less than 2 cents. Butter of first quail
fty costs 26 cents pound, and Sec
ond quality "a cents. Most working
men use margarin at 20 cents lb,
or 10 cents for second quality. Eggs
are about "a cents a dozen. Beef of
the ordinary quality for roasting is
1871 cents pound, and boiling beef
IL cents a pound. Fresh pork costs
15k cents pound. Fresh herring is
to be had at 81 cents.
Stockholm, Dec. 1.-THE Nobel
prizes awarded annually from the in
come of the Nobel foundation estab-
ished 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 $38,672.
Last year the amount was $3S,565.
The recipients here of the prizes, as
already cabled, are: For physics, di-
vided between Gugielmo Marconi, the
inventor 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 authoress.
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-
mously. Now in Stockholm the great
mass of workingmen with families
live in one room and kitchen. For
this they pay at the least 300 kronor,
or $81 a year. Most of them have to
pay 800 kr0nor, and in parts OF Stock
holm nothing can be had TO. less than
100 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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