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

AVERAGE Dairy Earnings :

104. The following table gives the average daily earnings, by centres,
for all adult male operatives, all adult female operatives, all children
ind all adult operatives employed in the selected mills in the cotton mill
ndustry at each of the three centres studied. In the yrevicus Reports
ao figures were given for adult operatives but averages were given for
all operatives by reckoning two half-timere (children) as one full-timer
(an adult). Similar figures were not worked out for the 1926 Brquiry
oecause the average daily earnings of adult male operatives were mcre
than four times those of children both in Ahmedabad and in Sholapur
and of women more than double in Ahmedabad and about two-thirds
vs much in Sholapur.

Average Daily Earnings of All Overaiives

Average daily earnings for

Jentre

Bombay v3
Ahmedabad oe
sholapur

Vien

2s
Pa
. 0

1 8 0 |
1 6 8 |
O05

Women

Children

Rs.’a. p
01111 | “ung
012 6 05 8
0 68 8 0 4 0

All adults

Rs. a. p
1 5 3
1 4 3
O14 §

AverAGE MoNtHLY EARNINGS OF ALL WORKERS

165. The average monthly earnings® of all workers in the selected
alls at Bombay and Sholapur in the month of July 1926 in each age
and sex group were as follows. As explained in paragraphs 30 and
35 the month in the case of the Bombay figures represents 27 davs and
n Sholapur 26°7 davs.

Average Monthly Earnings of All Workers

Centres

sex and Age Group

Bombav

Sholapur

Ven ve ii . “
Women .. . 4]
Children oe ee .
All Adults ~

Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p.
37 10 2 | 23 15 6
17 12 4 | 9 15 7
oon » i 5 10 4
22 14 1 91 7 10

el SE A ED ET
* The data worked out for Ahmedabad for average earnings in the two selected haptas
ire not presented owing to the variations in the maximum number of working days in
bhe two haptas as between mill and mill (vide paragraph 26).

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