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

AvErAGE MoNTHLY EARNINGS oF Furi TiMe WORKERS 
106. It is necessary to emphasise that the meaning of the term * full 
time worker ” is not the same as that of a * full-timer.” * Full time 
worker ”’ means an operative who has worked throughout the month 
without any absence, whereas a  full-timer ”* means an adult worker 
who puts in full time during the working day as distinguished from a 
* half-timer ” or a child whose hours are limited by law to less than those 
of an adult. Full time worker ”* or * full time *’ will, throughout this 
Report, relate to an operative who has attended a mill throughout the 
wage period without any absence. The following table shows, by 
centres, for each sex and age group, the average monthly earnings 
of all operatives who worked full time. The figures for Ahmedabad 
have been arrived at by multiplying the average daily earnings 
by 27 in all cases, while those for Sholapur relate to a month 
of 26-7 days. 
Average Monthly Earnings of Full Time Workers 
Centres 
Sex and Age Groups 
Vien . 
Women 
Children 
Al Adulte 
Bombav 
Rs. a. p. 
e 
6 
Ahmedabad 
Rs. a. p. 
38 4 0 
21 1 6 
9 4 6 
34 14 0 
Sholapur 
Rs. a. p 
26 10 2 
11 6 7 
613 10 
924 6 1 
RACES SUCRE Li 
EARNINGS IN THE MAIN Evrrovyments 
(1) Head Jobbers and Other Jobbere 
107. Almost every Process Department in a cotton mill has one or 
more Head Jobbers and Assistant Jobbers under them. In the case of 
the smaller mills where a department has only one or two jobbers, a 
Head Jobber is not employed. The earnings of Head Jobbers and 
Jobbers vary widely as between departments and, speaking generally, 
are lowest in the Mixing and Waste Room where Jobbers are sometimes 
called “ Mukadams * and are highest in the Weaving Department. For 
she earnings of Head and Assistant Jobbers in each department reference 
may be made to Tables Nos. X, XT and XII (pages 90 to 110). The two 
following tables give, for Head Jobbers and Other Jobbers respectively, 
the averages for daily, monthly and full time earnings in the selected 
mills at each centre, separately for Time and Piece workers.
	        
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