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87. The figures for Ahmedabad are presented in the following table
for each of the 16 mills covered by the Enquiry at that centre in the same
way as those in the preceding table for Bombay :—

Average Daily Earnings in two Haptas in May 1926 for

Mill
number

8

Average ..|

Weavers—P
(Two Loom) | Siders—T
(Men) (Men)

Warpers—P Grey Winders—
(Men) P (Women)

Rs. a. Dn.

Rs. a. p.

Rs. a. p.

Rs. a. p.

lL 14 11
L127
L114 5
1 8 5
114 9
2 0 2

015 4
015 1
015 6
015 1

L114 0
2 4 6
L111 9
1 9 2
2 8 5

013 4
012 1
012 0
012 5
15 9
011 1

“ae
014 9
0 14 11
014 6
1 0 3
014 8
014 11
015 4
015 3
0 14 11

2 1 0
113 6
2 379
L111 3
Ll 9 8
2 4 2
L10 6
lin #4

2'15 5
2 7 5
113 2

013 8
012 9
111
012 11
011 35
012 11
010 7
0 Oo 1

112 1
110 1
213 4
212 5
112 »5

1135 | ow 1 | 9

011 9

88. With the exception of spinners whose average daily earnings
mn the individual mills varied only within a limit of two annas between
wnnas-14-6 and Rs. 1-0-3, the variations in the other occupations were
within wider limits in Ahmedabad as compared with Bombay. The
limit of variation in the case of weavers was eleven annas and nine pies,
the actual range being Rs. 1-8-5 to Rs. 2-4-2. For warpers it was
Rs. 1-6-3 with a range from Rs. 1-9-2 to Rs. 2-15-5.
89. In Sholapur the average daily earnings of Siders and Weavers
in one mill were Re. 0-11-1 and Rs. 1-9-2 as against Re. 0-12-7 and
Rs. 1-10-1 in the other mill. Warpers and Grey Winders were only
employed ia one mill, so no comparative figures are available for the
other. Ope important factor in these variations in earnings is the
different rates paid by different mills for the same class of work, a
difference which the Indian Textile Tariff Board which sat in 1926
suggested should be rectified by standardisation. (See Appendix B.)