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121. As it is not possible to set out in summary form all the figures
regarding average daily and monthly earnings and the numbers working
full time and their average monthly earnings for each of the sixteen
different groups of workers dealt with in the above table for each centre
the tollowing table only gives figures for average daily earnings for each
group included in the table. For full particulars regarding average
monthly earnings, numbers working full time and their average
monthly earnings in Bombay and Bholapur, reference may be made to
Tables Nos. X and XII, and for potential earnings for 27 days’ work to
Table No. X1 for Ahmedabad :—
Average Daily Earnings of Winders
Average daily earnings in
Sex Groups
Class of
Winders
Bombay on
Time
Rates
Piece
Rates
Ahmedabad on
Time | Piece
Rates Rates
Sholapur on
Time |
Rates |
Piece
Rates
Rs. a. p./Rs. a. p.|Rs. a. p.|Rs. a. p./Rs. a. p..Rs. a. p.
Men
Grey Winders ..; 0 12 0/0 10 1/012 1] 0 14 10 I.
Colour Winders . 1 oimo 9 11 23 .. +
Pirn Winders ../ 015 61 2 0015 8 .. 0 710 ..
(Cheese Winders . O10 9 oo
All Winders ..i 0 14 on 1 1 4 013 3] 015 200 710
Women .
Grey Winders ..
Colour Winders
Pirn Winders ..
Cheese Winders.
011 2/011 9 .. i011 9
010 110141110 8 6014 6
013 6013 8013 4 ..
016 0/012 40 91111 0 ©
A1l Winders | O13 1l 012 1 O11 . O19 7
0 6 2
a 6 §
Od BR a
122. Male winders in all cases earned higher wages than women
except in the case of Grey Winders on piece rates in Bombay
but as there was only one male grey winder returned in this group the
figure is not a comparable one. Female workers in the predominant
groups—2,387 Grey winders on piece rates in Bombay and 434 Grey
winders on piece rates in Ahmedahad—earned the same average daily
wage.
(5) Reelers
123. Reeling is an occupation in which female operatives are
predominantly employed in all centres of the cotton mill industry
in the Bombay Presidency. In Bombay, all the 2,044 reelers
returned were women. In Ahmedabad, 429 out of the 483 reelers
returned or 88-82 per cent. were women, whilst in Sholapur only one out
of 381 reelers was a man. The combined ficures for all centres
