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CHAPTER XII, . 
We add below the figures given by the Labour Office for the average 
daily earnings of certain classes of operatives employed in the cotton 
mills of the Bombay Presidency. 
Class of labour. 
Weavers— 
2 Looms .. 
3 Looms .. 
4 Looms .. 
Ring Spinning— 
Siders .e 
Tarwallas (Fol 
lowers). 
Doffers ” 
Winders— 
Time 4% 
Piece ve | 
Reelers— 
Time 4 
Pieca - 
Bombay. 
Men 
Women. 
Rs. A. P. 1 Rs. A. P. 
113 4 
2°'8 6 | 
2 14 © 
10 3 
015 5 
012 1' 
015 2 
014 3 
011 5 
01410 | 
11 4 
013 1 
012 10 
0 711 
a 10 11 
Ahmedabad. 
Sholapur. 
Men 
Women. 
Men. 
Women. 
Rs. A. P. 
Rs. A. P. 
Rs. A. P. 
Rs. aA: P. 
113 5 
2 6 6 
2 68 4 
199 
38 o 
015 2 
010 7 
016 1 011 5 
0 9 2 
010 5, 0 8 1 
011 © 
0 8 8 
0 710 
013 3: 011 2 | 0 710 
016 2 012 7 
ET 
0183 21 0 9 71 0 9 0 
na 0 014 5 
0 810 
0 6 9 
In other centres no thorough statistical enquiries have been 
made. In the Madras Presidency wages for weavers in cotton mills are 
reported by the Chief Inspector of Factories to be in the neighbourhood 
of a rupee and for male spinners about ten annas a day. But there are 
wide variations within the Presidency itself, wages in outlying centres, 
such as Coimbatore and Madura, being substantially lower than those in 
Madras city. In the United Provinces, where Cawnpore is the most 
important centre, the Chief Inspector of Factories gives the rates of 
wages for male weavers as Rs. 33 and for male spinners as Rs. 25 per 
month. In the Punjab, Delhi and Bengal, rates tend to rule substantially 
higher than in the United Provinces. 
Earnings in Jute Mills. i 
No thorough statistical enquiry has been made in the jute mills 
of Bengal, but we have been furnished with statements of average wages 
by the Indian Jute Mills Association. The figures relate to 1929 when 
the mills were working on a basis of 60 hours per week for single-shift 
mills and 120 hours per fortnight for multiple-shift mills, the machinery 
in the latter running 4 days (54 hours) one week and 5 days (66 hours) 
the next week. The maximum hours permissible to workers in the 
multiple-shift mills were thus limited to 44 and 55 respectively, as com- 
pared with 60 hours in the single-shift mills. The statement gives the