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Starvation Wages in Germany

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 43.

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Starvation Wages in Germany

GERMANY has made considerable progress of late in competing with England in manufactures and commerce; but recent facts indicate that this success has been at the expense of the poor. The president of the United German Trades Associations says that the pay received by operators does not rise above “starvation point.” Those who sew in cotton fabrics get only eighteen cents a day, while in Berlin, where the best class of artisans are found, engineers get only from seventy-five cents to one dollar per day. Men weavers earn from three dollars to three and one-fourth dollars a week of sixty hours. How do they live? No wonder that anarchy is increasing.