Pit scribe
The pit scribe used to be a foreman in a mining company. Unlike the other clerks (e.g. the counter- writer or the review writer ) he was not employed as a mining official at the mining office, but was in the service of the trades and was also paid by them.
Duties and powers
The pit clerk was responsible for managing the working hours of the miners and for mining management. He had to make sure that the workers did their jobs carefully and did their full shift. He had to list the workers by name in a book, which he had to pass on to the mountain court at the end of the month . Shift time and wages were also recorded in the book. In order to do justice to these tasks, he had to drive into the pit every day, just like the hat man . He also had to inform the workers no later than eight days after handing in the books which trades they could draw their wages from; he himself earned 56 kreuzers per week.
literature
- Christoph Bartels , Andreas Bingener, Rainer Slotta : The Schwazer Bergbuch. Volume II, 1st edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum, 2006, ISBN 3-937203-22-2