Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-15
EDUCATED men
RECEIVE LESS
!. THAN LAB0RERS
Wage Standards In Ger
many Are Tcpsey-Tur-
vey; News Rank Thin.

Perlin.-Manyal labor. is valued
above the products Of the brain IN
the industrial top-heavlness or Ger
many today, IL prevailing wage stand
ards can be taken as a criterion.
Ordinary laborers receive an aver
age Of about 100 marks an noun.
(The present rate Of ewes
WAGES for an eight-hour day range
from 400 to 1900 marks. making
monthly pay check Of approximately
9 1900 70 3l,2C0. An agreement mas
been effected whereby shoemakers
and cabinetmakers receive from 67.l5
to 1855 marks an hour. me trunk-
makers have been striking FOR an
hourly wage of 100 marks.
Salaries IF Editors.
In September the salaries of Ger
man newspaper editors were nXed Dy
agreement to n from l6,ooo
. marks to 21.5oo. lTfanslated INTO
amounts to s3.1o.) A scale was
adopted providing that newspaper
men. receive $1,000 marks a month II
they are in their first year at the
business, 16,3OO[if in the second year,
and so on up to 1850 for a man
OF eight years experience. . string.
news pays at the rate ofl.6O to 2.7S
marks a line. according to ITS nature:
Reporters get 10 marks for small
notices, 1856 for reports Of meetings,
and 125 for. Investigations. Articles
by {critics are paid for at the rate Of
PTS marks each. A nan who works
on Sunday gets 500 marks for the
day. N
~ Journalistic Ranks Thin.
Even such wages are acceptable
among the journalists of the capital,
for high costs are rapidly thinning
the ranks of newspaper men and
many employees are being thrown out
of work. The situation has reached
such a pass that q movement is under
way among conservative publishers to
establish a fund to aid unemployed
newspaper men, the leaders being &C
tuated by political as we'll as humani-
+, tartan motives, since they fear much
good talent among the writer's will
drift to the radical press.
The managers of three large the
aters in Berlin have announced their
houses may have to close because OF
the wage demands of the stage help.
Actors and actresses until recently re-
ceived a minimum wage of 1850
marks a month. Now that this has
been raised to $4,000 marks, the
stage hands are demanding a mini.
mum wage of $4,000 marks monthly
..L AAAoAANSf 3AAIAolA6
The distress in the medical profes.
sion has been repeatedly emphasized
land many doctors throughout Ger.
many have commenced bartering
their services for produce. Cases
have been reported in Berlin in which
physicians found the income from
their practices SO low that they have
taken on evening work " musicians
in moving picture theaters.
When the board which examines
candidates for college teachers posi-
lions recently was called to assembl,
\ ut Lichterfeld,> Berlin suburb. tn,
members protested that the carfar,
amounted to more than their pay
Nut continue to receive only $50
--EAen this is more than three time
1.-THE = .2O marks an hou which a Stu
dent teacher draws in Berlin today
Regular teachers are said to, receiv
q much higher salarys the pubN
schools providing perhaps the out
standing instance of salaries for in
tellectua1 workers which compar
favorably with those Of manual la
borers. An unmarried teachers
yearly wages, with expense allow,
ances, amounts to 313.064 marks
while one who is married gets addi
tionally $500 marks for his wife an,
23,310 for each child.
A case recently was reported Of
professor drawing approximately ~,
pays 1900 marks more than thi
every day for a hotel ROOM, witt
bath, facing on Unter den Linden
-Four moderate diners easily spen,
this on drinks and food at one sit
ting in a first class Berlin cafe.