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Coming to miscellaneous industries and trades, wool-sorters receive from 
20s. to 25s. weekly, wool-combers, 18s. to 19s. 2d., brewers, 29s., brewers’ 
bottlers and cellarmen, 24s., and brewers’ assistants and draymen, 25s. ; and 
bakers receive for 74 hours’ work 24s. and 22s. as first and second men 
respectively, these rates including 12s. charged as the equivalent of board and 
lodging, for the living-in system is general. In the printing trades the 
agreement rate for compositors, machine minders, and pressmen is 25s. 11(7., 
utb the actual rate paid is usually higher. 
The jute spinning and weaving industry is carried on almost entirely by 
female labour, but the best paid men receive 24s. to 80s., and ordinary 
labourers receive 15s. for a week of 60 hours. Ropemakers earn from 24s. 
to 24s. Id. for 66 hours. There is a considerable cigar industry in the town, 
but the, work done in the factories consists for the most part of sorting and 
packing, and the actual work of manufacture is done where labour is cheaper. 
Working by piece, sorters can earn from 19s. to 25s. per week of 60 hours 
and in exceptional cases even more. 
The municipality has retained in its hands all the usual public services, 
with the exception of the tramway system, which is worked by a Company, 
though a good deal of the municipality’s carting is done by contractors on 
yearly agreements. The rates of wages paid by the municipality depend on the 
years of service. 
The following were the predominant rates of wages in the principal trades 
and industries in October, 1905 :— 
Weekly Wages 
Weekly Honrs of 
Labour. 
Building Trades (agreement rates)* 
Bricklayers 
Carpenters 
Joiners ... 
Plumbers 
Glaziers ... 
Roofers ... 
Fitters ... 
Stucco-workers, in workshops 
„ on buildings 
Labourers 
Shipbuilding and Boiler-making 
Angle-iron Smiths 
Boilersmiths 
Ri vetters 
Caulkers 
Holders-up 
Boilersmith’s Labourers 
Other Labourers 
Engineering Trades :— 
Moulders 
Fitters ... 
Turners ... 
Smiths ... 
Patternmakers 
Labourers 
Textile Trades ;— 
Woolsorters 
Woolcombers ... 
Jute Weavers (Better men) 
Other Jute Workers ... 
Ropemakers 
Printing Trades:— 
Compositors, Machine-minders, and Press 
men. 
Machine Compositors—News 
„ „ Jobbing 
Bookbinders 
38s. 9d. 
33s. 9d. 
27s. 6(7. 
29s. 8d. 
24s. 4d. 
33s. 9d. 
23s. 3d. 
33s. Id. 
35s. Id. 
25s. 8(7. 
24s. to 26s. 6(7. 
25s. to 27s. 
23s. „ 27s. 
16s. to 22s. 10(7. 
18s. „ 19s. 10(7. 
18s. to 23s. 
18s. „ 22s. 
24s. to 25s. 
25s. „ 27s. 
26s. „ 30s. 
25s. „ 33s. 
22s. 10(7. to 24 s. 
18s. to 21s. 
20s. to 25s. 
18s. to 19s 2(7. 
24s. to 30s. 
15s. 
24s. to 24s. 7(7. 
25 s. 11(7. 
32s. 4(7. 
33s. 8(7. 
22s. to 25s. 
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"The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in summer. 
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