Ny

show that only 55 or 1°89 per cent. of the total number of 2,908 reelers
returned were men. The piece rate is the predominant basis of payment.
 In Bombay there were only three reelers on purely time rates,
1,906 were on piece rates and 135 were on combined time and
piece rates. In Ahmedabad 2 male and b female reelers were on time
rates and 52 men and 424 women were on piece rates. In Sholapur
the solitary male recler returned received a fixed wage and only 14 out
of 380 female reelers returned were on time rates. The following table
sets out the numbers returned in each group and their average earnings—
{aily, monthly and full time—at each of the three centres covered by the
Enquiry with the exception of monthly earnings for Ahmedabad :—

Earnings of Reelers

vex (rroups
and Basis
+f Pavment

Men —-Time -.

Men~—Piece ..

Women—1Time

Women—Pisce

Women—Time
and Piece.

Centre

Ahmedabad.
Sholapur ..!
Ahmedabad.

Bombay ..
Ahmedabad.
Sholapur ..

Sombay ..
Alimedabad
Sholapur ..
|
Bombay ..|

Averace Earnings

Total
number
returned

Number
working
full time

Average
monthly
parnings
of fuil
time
workers ¥

Daily |

Monthly

Rs. a. D».

Rs
.
.

| Rs. u. p.
l22 3 6
25 65 0

2
1

013 Z| ..
0 9 011214 1
i015 O

A9

3
5
14

0 711
0 9 7
vy © 1p

9

"13 8 0
i6 2.9

1,806
424
366

3886

19 5 5
24 5 3
11 711

511 25

66

185

0

99 9 1

* For reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 times the daily
sarnings. For Sholapur the month = 267 days.
124, The disparity of average daily earnings in the predominant
group, i.e, women reelers on piece rates as between Bombay and
Ahmedabad is noticeable. Enquiries were made and it was found that
women reelers in the Bombay mills, in addition to working on the basis
of a rotation of employment, worked systematically shorter hours than
the usual in several mills during the period of the Census. The
shorter hours worked were not recorded in the returns because for
purposes of the muster, all women who were allowed to leave at 3 p.m,
or 4 p.m. instead of at 5 p.m. as they normally do, were marked
“ present ” for the days on which they were not entirely absent,

(6) Slubbing, Intermediate and Roving Frame Tenters
125. Owing to the complications in the basis of payment it is only
possible to present in summary form the earnings in this Department for