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of full time apprentice-one-loom weavers in Bombay. There were no
special features regarding the widths of the looms allotted to, or
the character of production turned out by, these one-loom weavers.
The looms were of the same widths as those normally allotted to
two-loom weavers and the qualities of cloth turned out were also
similar. Enquiries made from the offices of the Agents of the
respective mills in Bombay elicited the reply that many weavers in
Sholapur are so inefficient that it is impossible to give them more than
ane loom.
114. The following table gives group averages in the same way as
those presented for Head Jobbers and other Jobbers :—
Earnings of All Weavers
Jentre
Bombay ..
Ahmedabad
Sholavuar ..
Basis of
2a vment
r Time
| Piece
Piece
Piace
Average Rarnings
Total
number
returned
Daily | Monthly
Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p.
3] 215 9 7% 8 8
11,765 1 11311148 4 2
4,582
1.509
20 12 1
Number
working
full time
Average
monthly
sarnings
of full
time
workers®
Rs. a. p.
1
R.524
1 85 0 0
L850 0 0
15012 3
24 38 5 ©
ITC a TR emis Tm —- Wr | ct
*For reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 times the daily
earnings. For Sholapur the month = 26-7 days.
115. With reference to the effect of deductions from wages for spoilt
cloth handed over to the workers please see Appendix (.
(3) Ring Spinners
116. It was stated in paragraph 79 that the work on Ring Spinning
Frames is usually distributed between three different groups of
workers : (1) Doflers who replace empty bobbins after the full ones are
removed or doffed, (2) Tarwallas or Followers who attach the threads on
the bobbins and set the machines in order for running, and (3) Siders
or Piecers who attend the frames once they are started and piece
broken threads together. No Tarwallas are employed in Ahmedabad.
Ring Spinning is the one process in a cotton mill which offers
employment to workers of both sexes in all age groups. Excluding
Jobbers, Banders, Oilers and “ Others ”, the number of operatives in all
age and sex groups returned as Siders, Tarwallas and Doffers amounted
bo 15,497 or 21°65 per cent. of the total number of workers covered by
the Enquiry. . Of these, 10,584 or 68-30 Per cent. were men, 4,244 or
27-39 per cent. were women and 669 or 4-31 per cent. were children.
The distribution of these workers by age and sex groups in the three
occupations covered is shown in the following table *—