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hours so fixed have been used in calculating the weekly rates of wages and 
hours of labour in those trades for the present report. In all other cases it has 
been necessary to have recourse to the leading employers of labour, most of 
whom (including the imperial shipyard, the royal ordnance workshops, and the 
municipal authorities) readily furnished returns based on the records of their 
pay sheets for the month of October, 1905. Except for the most inferior kinds 
of unskilled labour payment by piece-work was found to be the rule in all the 
larger establishments. In order, therefore, to obtain figures comparable so far 
as possible with a weekly rate of wages, the employers were asked to return for 
each of the principal occupation groups the amount most frequently earned in a 
full week without overtime by men in that group, and the number of hours 
(inclusive of intervals for meals) constituting the regular working week. 
Subject to these qualifications the following Table is given. 
Wages and Hours of Lab oar in the Principal Occupations, October, 1905. 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours 
of Labour. 
Building Trades* :— 
Masons and Bricklayers 
Stonemasons 
Carpenters 
Plumbers and Fitters ... 
j Hodmen... 
( Other 
Labourers 
Engineering and Shipbuilding :— 
Fitters ... ... 
Turners 
Smiths ... ... ... ... 
Patternmakers 
Angle-iron Smiths and Platers 
Rivetters 
Labourers 
Royal Ordnance Works :— 
Fitters 
Turners 
Smiths ... ... ... ... 
Patternmakers 
Labourers 
Printing :— 
Hand Compositors, Machine Minders and 
Pressmen 
Machine Compositors j 
Timber Trade and Woodworking :— 
Men in timber yards (semi-skilled) 
Labourers in same 
Parquetry making :— 
Machinists ... 
Labourers 
Glass bottle making :— 
Blowers and Gatherers 
Labourers 
Oil and Corn Mills and Starchmaking :— 
Millers ... . . ... ... ... ... 
Coopers ... ... ... ... ... ... 
Factory operatives 
Yardmen 
Sugar Refining :— 
Men at centrifugals 
Other pieceworkers 
Labourers (timework) 
28a. 10(7. 
30s. 
27s. Id. 
22s. 10(7. 
19s. 6(7. to 21s. 3d. 
17s. 8(7. to 19s. 6(7. 
21s. to 22s. 4(7. 
22s. 4(7. 
22s. 4(7. to 22s. 10(7. 
23s. 6(7. to 25s. 
22s. 10(7. 
19s. 2(7. 
18s. to 19s. 
i 
33s. 
19s. 
24s. 9(7. 
30s. 11(7. 
32s. 2(7. 
30s. 
21s. 
25 s. 
20s. 
22s. to 23s. f 
15s. 
20s. 
20s. 
18s. 
15s. 7(7. 
18s. to 24s. 
18s. „ 24s. 
14s. 5(7. 
60 
60 
60 
59 
59 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
55 
55 
54 
48 
54 
54 
54 
68 
68 
48 
54 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
* The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in 
summer. 
f Besides free housing and coke.