Contracts regarding wages for the pipe industry

Original title: Loonovereenkomsten voor de pijpenmakerij

By Don Duco

Abstract: This article describes the way the wages were payed in the pipe makers workshops over the time. It starts with the earlier period of which very few contracts were found back. About the nineteenth century situation much more is known. In that time the assortment of pipes became larger and the wages of the workmen varied more and more. By 1910 wages were partly controlled by the government and the manufacturers were stimulated to pay the same wages for similar work. In the years before and slortly after the First World War the wages for the pipemakers were uniformed and also the circumstances in the workshops became more equal. The article also deals with the height of the wages for the different types of work.

© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 2000.

Illustrations

1. Tokens for pipesmakers called gros or betaalpenning used to calculate the number of grosses produced. On the number of tokens the wages were payed. Gouda, firm P.J. van der Want Azn., 1880-1910.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.718, Pk 5.719, Pk 5.720a, Pk 8.139, Pk 8.140

2. The contract of the firm P. van der Want Gzn. in Gouda listing the wages payed for the different types of pipes produced in the factory, made up by Ivon van der Want. Gouda, 1914.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.338

3. Information sheet sent by the Gouda pipe makers to inform their relations about the incorrect behaviour of Ivon van der Want when regulating and fixing prices for the wages payed in his factory. Gouda, 1914.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.357

Notes

1. D.H. Duco, Merken van Goudse pijpenmakers 1660-1940, Lochem, 1982, p 32.

2. Don Duco, ‘Stukloon voor de pijpmaker’, Tabaktueel, November 1976, pp 31-33.

3. Don Duco, Pleidooi voor betere lonen, Amsterdam, 1999.

4. Duco, (Merken), 1982, p. 42.

5. Streekarchiefdienst Hollands Midden (SAHM), Pijpmakersgilde Archief (PA) 52, Archief van de vereeniging de pijpenneering binnen Gouda, Ingekomen stukken 1911-1916, 12-11-1913.

6. PA 52, 19-03-1914.

7. Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, Notulen van de commissie van bestuur van de pijpenhandel en de pijpenfabrieken te Gouda (Minutes), 1892-1925, (copy after the original owned by Dirk van der Want, Gouda), Minutes, 24-03-1914.

8. Minutes, 31-03-1914.

9. PA 52, 08-04-1914. The places mentioned are Höhr, Hilgert, Baumbach, Kortrijk, Bree, Weert, Chokier, Andenne and Poperinge.

10. Minutes, 07-05-1914.

11. Minutes, 07-05-1914.

12. G1914-06-01. Source: Nieuw Buinen, Goedewaagen Archives.

13. Minutes, 10-06-1914.

14. G1914, p 3. Goedewaagen Archives, Brievencopieboek no 12, 04-03-1914 - 21-07-1914, p 314, 09-06-1914.

15. Minutes, 20-07-1914.

16. Minutes, 26-01-1915. January 1915. In 1917 re-elected but he then refuses the function.

17. Don Duco, Vervaardiging en onderhoud van de persvorm, Leiden, 1989.

18. G1918. Source: Nieuw Buinen, Goedewaagen Archives, Lonenboek (Book of wages) 1918.

19. G1918. Source: Nieuw Buinen, Goedewaagen Archives, Lonenboek (Book of wages) 1918.

20. Minutes, 12-03-1919.

21. Minutes, 16-04-1919.

22. Minutes, 01-09-1919.

23. Minutes, 16-04-1919.

24. G1918. Source: Nieuw Buinen, Goedewaagen Archives, Lonenboek (Book of wages) 1919.

25. Minutes, 16-04-1919.