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

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Identifikator:: 1827868163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221455

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

Place of publication:: Bombay

Publisher:: Government Central Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: III, 172 S.; zahlr. Tab

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. Rates of wages

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16) CHAPTER V Rates of Wages 70. Although full information was procured in- the 1926 Enquiry in connection with rates of wages paid to individual operatives in cotton mills in Bombay, Ahmedabad and Sholapur, it has been found impossible lo present ary comparable figures owing to the very wide variations which oxist both in methods of payment and the manner in which rates are fixed not only as between centre and centre bat also as between unit and unit in a particular centre. Variations were also found to exist for the same sccupation in a unit. The variations were most intensified in the case of Ahmedabad on account of the different methods adopted for the treatment of the Dearness Allowance and the wage cut of 15-625 per cent, effected in 1923. One: example will illustrate the difficulties ancountered. 71. Inthe case of Grinders one mill paid a daily rate of thirteen annas and nine pies plus Re. 2 per month for Dearness Allowance, less 156§ per sent. for the wage cut plus Rs. 2 per month for good attendance bonus. [n another case there was a daily rate of fifteen annas and nine pies with no addition for dearness allowance, less 15% per cent., and no bonus. In the same mill there was also a consolidated rate of Rs. 45 per month as far as the basic rate and the dearness allowaace were concerned but 15§ per cent. was deducted for the wage cut. Some mills gave absolute consoli- dated rates without any additions or deductions, the variation being as follows : Rs. 27, Rs. 29-4, Rs. 30, Rs. 32-2, Rs. 33, Rs. 33-12, Rs. 34, Rs. 40, Rs. 43 and Re. 45. Another mill gave Rs. 1-2-6 per day without dearness allowance and good attendance bonus but deducted the per- centage for the cut. Still another variation to be found was a daily rate of As. 13 or As. 14 without the dearness allowance and the cut but with Rs. 2 per month for the bonus. 72. The same sort of variation is to be found in the case of almost all occupations both for time rates and for piece rates. In the case of piece rates the variation is still more striking on account of the different rates for diflerent qualities of production. The bases on which wage rates ate determined are time, piece. and in a few instances, paruly time partly piece. 73. With regard to time rates of wages, there are several variations in the periods for which the rates are fixed. The predominant basis in’ Ahmedabad is a daily rate. In Bombay and Sholapur there is an almost equal distribution between daily rates and “monthly ” rates. The word * monthly’ in this case indicates either the total number of working days in the wage period, 26 days, 27 days, 30 days, 31 days or an actual calendar month irrespective of the number of days it contains. ‘ Monthly * rates with the variations indicated also exist to a sonsiderable extent in Ahmedabad. The Dearness Allowance in Alimed-

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