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

£ 
2) Ahmedabad 
Total number Returned .. 
Number covered by Bonus 
Schemes. 
dercentage of - Bay 
covered to number 
returned. 
Jumber who secured thel 
Bonus. 
Yercentage of those vil 
secured Bonus to number 
returned. 
ercentage of those whol 
secured Bonus to number 
covered. 
Vien 
12,719 
9.108 
71-6 
8,568 
674 
24-1 | 
Women 
3,016 
9 396 
77-1 
2.165 
71:8 
08-1 
Adult 
operatives 
15,735 
I'l.432 
727 
10,733 
68:2 
03-9 
Children 
657 
527 
R02 
523 
79-6 
099-2 
All 
operatives 
16,392 
11,959 
73-0 
11,256 
68-7 
04-1 
AEE Ar 
'3Y Sholapur 
Total number Returned | 
Number covered by Bonus 
Schemes. 
Percentage of | 
covered to number 
returned. 
Number who secured the 
Bonus. 
Percentage of those who 
secured Bonus to number 
returned. 
Jorcentage of those who 
secured Bonus to number 
covered. 
\Tenn 
3,761 
1.619 
430 
R03 
214 
£96 | 
Women 
Adult 
yperatives 
810 
677 
4,571 
2 906 
83:6 
50°92 
658 
1,461 
21-7 
R12 
97-2" 63-6 | 
Children 
192 
192 
100-0 
192 
100 CG 
1060-0 
All 
operatives 
4,763 
2.488 
52-92 
1,663 
34-7 
66-4 
146. Tt will be seen from the above tables that whereas 73 per cent. 
Jf the total number of operatives returned were covered by bonus 
schemes in the Ahmedabad mills, 52-2 per cent. were covered in 
Sholapur and only 37 per cent. in Bombay. Out of the numbers 
sovered 94°1 per cent. earned the bonus in Ahmedabad as against 79-9 
oer cent. in Bombay and 664 per cent. in Sholapur. Among different 
sex and age groups cent per cent. of the children returned and covered 
nn Sholapur and 99-2 per cent. of the children covered in Ahmedabad 
were paid bonus. Women in Sholapur come next with 97-2 per cent. 
nd men and women in Ahmedabad follow very closely with 94-1 per 
sent. and 93-1 per cent. respectively. It is significant that whereas 
37-2 per cent. of women covered in Sholapur earned the bonus, only 
19-6 per cent. of the men covered were able to get it. The percentage 
Jf women who earned the bonus in Bombay was greater than the 
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