Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-25
SALARIES
NEARING |NFIMTY
As MARK RECEDEs
Manual Labor Drawing More
Than Position Calling
for Skill.
Berlin-(Correspondent of The AS

OF 1ne AS
ISOLATED Press).-Manual labor is
valued above the products of the brain
in the industrial t~op-heaviness of Ger
ards can be taken as a criterion.
Ordinary laborers receive an aver
age of about 100 marks an hour. (The
present rate of exchange gives Al
marks for one American cent? Wages
for an eight-hour day range from 400
to l.2O0 marks, making a monthly pay
check of approximately $500 to $1,000.
An agreement has been effected where
by shoemakers and cabinet makers re-
ceive from 61.15 to 1856 marks an
hour. The trunk makers have been
striking for an hourly wage of 100
marks.
In September the salaries Of Ger
mar newspaper editors were fixed by
agreement t. range from $4,000
marks to 21,5OO. cTranslated into
American money. $4,000 marks
amounts to S3.19). A scale was
adopted providing that newspaper
men receive $4,000 marks a month if
they are in their first year at the BUSH
ness, 1890 if in the second year. and
so on up to 21,50O for a man Of eight
.ars' experience: String news pays
at the rate of 100 to 2.75 marks a
line, according to its nature. Report
ers get 20 marks for small notices, 13J
for reports of meetings, and 125 for
investigations. Articles by critics are
paid for at the rate of 275 marks each.
A man who works on Sunday gets
500 marks for the day.
Even such wages are acceptable
among the journalists of the capital,
for high costs are rapidly thinning the
ranks of newspaper men and many en-
ployes are being thrown out of work.
The situation has reached such a pass
that a movement is under way among
conservative publishers to establish a
fund to aid unemployed newspaper men,
the leaders being actuated by political
as we'll as humanitarian motives, since
they fear much good talent among the
writer's will drift to the radical press.
The managers of three large theaters
in Berlin have announced their houses
may have to close because of the wage
demands of the stage help. Actors and
actresses until recently received a mini
mum of 1900 marks a month. Now
that this has been raised to $4,000
marks. the stage hands are demanding
a minimum wage Of $4,000 marks
monthly.
L ut GIsLi tSS LII IL JiS0Ithi pl1lVs
sion has been repeatedly emphasized
and many doctors throughout Germany
have commenced bartering their serv-
ices for produce. Cases have been re-
ported in Berlin il which physicians
found the income from their prac-
tees so low that they have taken on
evening work AS musicians in moving
picture theaters.
When the board which examines
candidates for college teachers posi-
lions recently was called to assemble
at Lichterfeld, a Berlin suburb, the
members protested that the c~arfare
amounted to more than their pay. They
ask for 30 marks an hour, but con
tinue to receive only $50. Even this
is more than three times the 100
marks an hour which a student-teacher
draws in Berlin today. Regular teach
ers are said to receive a much higher
salary. the public schools providing
perhaps the outstanding instance of sal
aries for intellectual workers which
compare favorably with those of man
ual laborers. An unmarried teachers
yearly wages. with expense allowances,
amounts to 313,O64 marks. while one
who is married gets additionally $500
marks for his wife and 23.310 for each
child.
A case recently was reported Of a
professor drawing approximately $4,000
marks a month. An American pays
900 marks more than this every day
for a hotel room. with bath. facing on
Inter den Linden. Four moderate din
ers easily spend this on drinks and food
at one sitting in a first-class Berlin
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