Distribution of Siders, Tarwallas and Doffers

Numbers returned as

entre

Sombay

thmedabad

Sholapur

Al three centres

Age and Sex
Groups

Men
Women

{

Men
Women
Shildren

Men
Nomen
“hildren

;

Men
Women
“Shildren

Total

Siders

5,268
836

1,604
R80

482
11

7,354
1.827

art |

Tarwallag

Doffers

861
431

1,493
1.963

593
197
501

120
9

163
17
168

931
440

2,249
2,477
860

1.421! 5.305

Total

7,622
2 020

2,197
1,177
501

765
37
168

10,584
4,244
669

15.497

117. The 5,268 male siders in Bombay include 24 siders on piece
rates of wages, All the remaining siders as well as all the other
operatives covered by the figures in the above table were on time rates.
The 1,604 male siders in Ahmedabad include 20 siders working on
double sides, All the remaining siders, both male and female; in all
centres, operated single sides. Women were employed to a very
small extent in Sholapur. In Bombay more women than men were
smployed as doffers, the percentage of women to the total number of
dofers heing 5680.
118. The following three tables show, in a comparative form, the
average daily earnings, the average monthly earnings and the average
monthly earnings of full time workers for the operatives in each. of
the three selected occupations :—
A. Earnings of Siders

Sex Groups,
Method of
Nork and
Basis of
Pavment

Men—
Single Side]
Time "

Nomen— !
Single Side
Time oe

Oantre

Bombay .. |
Abmedabad .
Sholapur ..

Bombay ..
Ahmedabad |
_Sholapur ..

Number
returned

5,244
1,684
489

636
680
11

Average Earnings

Daily

Monthly

Rs. a. p
1 0 3
015 2
a 11 5

Rs. a. p.
24 2 0
1. "a

0 1
0 15
O11 oO

Number
working
‘ull time

1,260

“909

173

Average
monthly
earnings
of full
time
WOT kers™®

Rs. a. p.
27 911
26 9 6
10 10 ©

26 8 2
26 7 3
19 8 1

*Wor reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 “times Bw daily
sarnings., For Sholapur the month = 26:7 days.
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