Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XII. - The income of the industrial worker

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"th qi. CHAPTER XII. Wages in Seasonal Factories. Of the seasonal factories, we select cotton ginning and pressing as being the most important. The Madras Government give the follow- ing daily rates for 1928 :— Ginning— Men Womer Pressing— Men Wormer (lass of labour. Factories in the Coimba- tore district. All factories in the Presidency. Rs, a. ». Rs, A. Pp. 0 73 0 8 0 057 | 05 1 011 9 0 9 6 0 6 2 0 510 In the Punjab, rates are reported as eight annas a day for men and six annas a day for women. In the United Provinces, the Chief Inspector of Factories in evidence estimated the average wage of workers at five to six annas a day, but another estimate gives the wages of men at Rs. 15 a month and of women at Rs. 10 a month. In the Bombay Presidency rates apparently vary considerably. We have received particulars of the present rates for some districts and in these men’s rates commonly lie between 6 and 12 annas a day and women’s rates between 4 and 8 annas a day. The rates given above are for the rank and file. Those whose work is skilled or involves responsibility, such as fitters, engineers, engine-drivers, get much higher rates and are usually paid monthly. Earnings in Mines, Statistics of average earnings of workers in mines are obtained in a form prescribed by the regulations framed under the Indian Mines Act. The mineowners are required to give for the month of December the average daily earnings of their employees, separately for under- ground workers, those employed on open workings and on the surface. The average daily earnings are obtained by dividing the total amount paid in wages for work done in December by the aggregate daily attendance in that month. From the returns thus submitted, the Chief Inspector of Mines prepares a statement showing average earnings in the different fields which is incorporated in his annual report. We re- produce on the following page the average daily earnings for December 1929 for the more important mining areas shown in this statement.

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