Ny 
show that only 55 or 1°89 per cent. of the total number of 2,908 reelers 
returned were men. The piece rate is the predominant basis of pay- 
ment. In Bombay there were only three reelers on purely time rates, 
1,906 were on piece rates and 135 were on combined time and 
piece rates. In Ahmedabad 2 male and b female reelers were on time 
rates and 52 men and 424 women were on piece rates. In Sholapur 
the solitary male recler returned received a fixed wage and only 14 out 
of 380 female reelers returned were on time rates. The following table 
sets out the numbers returned in each group and their average earnings— 
{aily, monthly and full time—at each of the three centres covered by the 
Enquiry with the exception of monthly earnings for Ahmedabad :— 
Earnings of Reelers 
vex (rroups 
and Basis 
+f Pavment 
Men —-Time -. 
Men~—Piece .. 
Women—1Time 
Women—Pisce 
Women—Time 
and Piece. 
Centre 
Ahmedabad. 
Sholapur ..! 
Ahmedabad. 
Bombay .. 
Ahmedabad. 
Sholapur .. 
Sombay .. 
Alimedabad 
Sholapur .. 
| 
Bombay ..| 
Averace Earnings 
Total 
number 
returned 
Number 
working 
full time 
Average 
monthly 
parnings 
of fuil 
time 
workers ¥ 
Daily | 
Monthly 
Rs. a. D». 
Rs 
. 
. 
| Rs. u. p. 
l22 3 6 
25 65 0 
2 
1 
013 Z| .. 
0 9 011214 1 
i015 O 
A9 
3 
5 
14 
0 711 
0 9 7 
vy © 1p 
9 
"13 8 0 
i6 2.9 
1,806 
424 
366 
3886 
19 5 5 
24 5 3 
11 711 
511 25 
66 
185 
0 
99 9 1 
* For reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 times the daily 
sarnings. For Sholapur the month = 267 days. 
124, The disparity of average daily earnings in the predominant 
group, i.e, women reelers on piece rates as between Bombay and 
Ahmedabad is noticeable. Enquiries were made and it was found that 
women reelers in the Bombay mills, in addition to working on the basis 
of a rotation of employment, worked systematically shorter hours than 
the usual in several mills during the period of the Census. The 
shorter hours worked were not recorded in the returns because for 
purposes of the muster, all women who were allowed to leave at 3 p.m, 
or 4 p.m. instead of at 5 p.m. as they normally do, were marked 
“ present ” for the days on which they were not entirely absent, 
(6) Slubbing, Intermediate and Roving Frame Tenters 
125. Owing to the complications in the basis of payment it is only 
possible to present in summary form the earnings in this Department for