Show I GERMAN LIVING COSTS i JUMP PER CENT I I I I I II I I I I gy fly Associated ed Press WASHINGTON April 27 27 Increases Increases I In iii wages paid In Germany have utterly with the increased failed to keep keet pace cost coat of ot living says the tle April bulletin of I the department of labor 1 I The average increase in wages has been 50 per cent while the living cost coat cent The greatest has gone up per percent increase in wages has been received by Prussian metal workers who are now now- getting 69 per pr cent more than th they th y formerly received Increases a as low as been reported and 16 per per ent cent have some women are re s still being paid less than per week The purchasing power p of money has dropped to one-fourth one its value before the war according to the bulletin I I German working men it says are be- be hg underfed One egg per ier week is their allowance Oleomargarine is limited to an ounce and a half halt for tor a family of four Sugar is more plentiful the family I allowance being one and one-half one t pounds Coffee is practically tamable Potatoes are the heaviest I I Item in the ordinary diet |