AVERAGE Dairy Earnings : 104. The following table gives the average daily earnings, by centres, for all adult male operatives, all adult female operatives, all children ind all adult operatives employed in the selected mills in the cotton mill ndustry at each of the three centres studied. In the yrevicus Reports ao figures were given for adult operatives but averages were given for all operatives by reckoning two half-timere (children) as one full-timer (an adult). Similar figures were not worked out for the 1926 Brquiry oecause the average daily earnings of adult male operatives were mcre than four times those of children both in Ahmedabad and in Sholapur and of women more than double in Ahmedabad and about two-thirds vs much in Sholapur. Average Daily Earnings of All Overaiives Average daily earnings for Jentre Bombay v3 Ahmedabad oe sholapur Vien 2s Pa . 0 1 8 0 | 1 6 8 | O05 Women Children Rs.’a. p 01111 | “ung 012 6 05 8 0 68 8 0 4 0 All adults Rs. a. p 1 5 3 1 4 3 O14 § AverAGE MoNtHLY EARNINGS OF ALL WORKERS 165. The average monthly earnings® of all workers in the selected alls at Bombay and Sholapur in the month of July 1926 in each age and sex group were as follows. As explained in paragraphs 30 and 35 the month in the case of the Bombay figures represents 27 davs and n Sholapur 26°7 davs. Average Monthly Earnings of All Workers Centres sex and Age Group Bombav Sholapur Ven ve ii . “ Women .. . 4] Children oe ee . All Adults ~ Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. 37 10 2 | 23 15 6 17 12 4 | 9 15 7 oon » i 5 10 4 22 14 1 91 7 10 el SE A ED ET * The data worked out for Ahmedabad for average earnings in the two selected haptas ire not presented owing to the variations in the maximum number of working days in bhe two haptas as between mill and mill (vide paragraph 26). cerrado Pu