Full text: Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

Distribution of Siders, Tarwallas and Doffers 
Numbers returned as 
entre 
Sombay 
thmedabad 
Sholapur 
Al three centres 
Age and Sex 
Groups 
Men 
Women 
{ 
Men 
Women 
Shildren 
Men 
Nomen 
“hildren 
; 
Men 
Women 
“Shildren 
Total 
Siders 
5,268 
836 
1,604 
R80 
482 
11 
7,354 
1.827 
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Tarwallag 
Doffers 
861 
431 
1,493 
1.963 
593 
197 
501 
120 
9 
163 
17 
168 
931 
440 
2,249 
2,477 
860 
1.421! 5.305 
Total 
7,622 
2 020 
2,197 
1,177 
501 
765 
37 
168 
10,584 
4,244 
669 
15.497 
117. The 5,268 male siders in Bombay include 24 siders on piece 
rates of wages, All the remaining siders as well as all the other 
operatives covered by the figures in the above table were on time rates. 
The 1,604 male siders in Ahmedabad include 20 siders working on 
double sides, All the remaining siders, both male and female; in all 
centres, operated single sides. Women were employed to a very 
small extent in Sholapur. In Bombay more women than men were 
smployed as doffers, the percentage of women to the total number of 
dofers heing 5680. 
118. The following three tables show, in a comparative form, the 
average daily earnings, the average monthly earnings and the average 
monthly earnings of full time workers for the operatives in each. of 
the three selected occupations :— 
A. Earnings of Siders 
Sex Groups, 
Method of 
Nork and 
Basis of 
Pavment 
Men— 
Single Side] 
Time " 
Nomen— ! 
Single Side 
Time oe 
Oantre 
Bombay .. | 
Abmedabad . 
Sholapur .. 
Bombay .. 
Ahmedabad | 
_Sholapur .. 
Number 
returned 
5,244 
1,684 
489 
636 
680 
11 
Average Earnings 
Daily 
Monthly 
Rs. a. p 
1 0 3 
015 2 
a 11 5 
Rs. a. p. 
24 2 0 
1. "a 
0 1 
0 15 
O11 oO 
Number 
working 
‘ull time 
1,260 
“909 
173 
Average 
monthly 
earnings 
of full 
time 
WOT kers™® 
Rs. a. p. 
27 911 
26 9 6 
10 10 © 
26 8 2 
26 7 3 
19 8 1 
*Wor reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 “times Bw daily 
sarnings., For Sholapur the month = 26:7 days. 
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