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

5) 
It will be noticed that there is practically no variation in the average 
daily earnings and the average monthly earnings of full time workers 
as between male siders in Ahmedabad and female siders both in 
Bombay and in Ahmedabad, and that male siders in Bombay earned 
about an anna more per day. 
B. Earnings of Tarwallas 
Sex Groups 
Men 
t 
Women .. { 
Centre 
Bombay 
Sholapur 
Bombay : 
Sholapur 
Total 
number 
returned 
861 
120 
431 
Q 
Average Earnings 
Daily | Monthly 
Bs. a. p 
23 8 0 
3 8 0 
014 3122 5 1 
0 8 ° 10 711 
Number 
working 
(all time 
Average 
monthly 
earnings 
of full 
time 
workers® 
293 
48 
Rs. a. p. 
26 8 8 
115 12 1 
147 124 1 1 
1:15 5 1 
*For reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 times the ily 
sarnings, For Sholapur the month = 267 days. ’ 
No figures are given in the above table for Ahmedabad because, as 
already stated, no Tarwallas are employed in that centre. 
C. Earnings of Doffers 
Age and Sex 
Groups 
Men 
Women 
Children 
Centre 
Bombay .. 
Ahmedabad 
Sholapur .. 
Bombay .. 
Ahmedabad 
Sholapur .. 
Ahmedabad | 
Sholapur .. 
Total 
number 
returned 
1,493 
593 
163 
1,963 
497 
17 
501 
1AR 
Average Barnings 
Daily 
Monthly 
Rs. a. p. 
18 5 8 
"10 10 
01 5118 5 3 
0 10 2 .. 
0 710110 § ~ 
05 6] 
Y 4 0 
« 0NoQ 
Number 
working 
full time 
Average 
monthly 
earnings 
of full 
time 
workers 
568 
Rs. a. p. 
20 5 8 
1713 9 
13 10 11 
TS 
956 0 
79 3 
«+ TT 1 
A I 
a)! 813 « 
*For reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 times the daily 
earnings. For Sholapurthe month ms 26-7 days. 
119. Curiously enough, the average monthly earnings of all workers 
for both male and female doffers in Bombay were almost identical 
although the average daily earnings and the average full time monthly 
earnings of women were respectively eight pies and a little more 
than a rupee less than those of men. This is due to the fact 
that female doffers put in better attendance than men, the average 
number of days worked by them being 256 out of 27 working days as 
against 243 days worked by male doffers. Both in Ahmedabad and in
	        
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