BARMEN. 
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The following Table shows the predominant wages and usual hours of 
labour per week in Barmen at October, 1905 :— 
Wages arid Hours of Labour in the Principal Occupations, October, 1905. 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
Building Trades* :— 
Bricklayers and Masons 
Carpenters 
Plumbers 
Stucco Workers 
Painters... ... 
Labourers 
Engineering Trades :— 
Moulders ... 
Fitters ... ... ... ... ... ... 
Turners 
Patternmakers 
Labourers 
Boiler Making :— 
Angle-iron Smiths 
Caulkers 
Ri V otters ... ... ... ... ... 
Holders-up 
Textile Trades :— 
Ribbon Weaving 
Trimmings Manufacture 
Elastic Webs, Laces, Cords and Braids— 
Weavers 
Other ... ... ... ... ... ... 
Carpet Weaving 
Dyeing, Finishing, Glazing, Mercerising, etc. 
Breweries :— 
Skilled Workmen 
Labourers 
Printing Trades :— 
Hand Compositors, Machine Minders, and 
Pressmen. 
Machine Compositors, Jobbing 
Do. Newspaper Work ... 
Miscellaneous Trades :— 
Pianoforte Making : 
Makers ... 
Machine Tenters 
Labourers 
Manufacture of Buttons and Buckles 
Paper Envelope Making 
Muncipal Employees :— 
Road Making : 
Unskilled Men ... 
Skilled Men (Surveyors’ Assistants) 
Gasworks : 
Stokers ... 
Labourers 
Waterworks : 
Labourers 
Electric Lighting and Power Supply : 
Mechanics, Stokers, Installers and Fitters 
30s. 
30s. 8c/. 
24s. 
35s. lid. 
20s. to 24s. 
27 s. 
22s. 10i7. 
27s. Gd. to 29s. 
35s. to 36s. 
30s. 
27s. 
20s. to 22s. 
40s. 
32s. to 35s. 
35 s. 
24s. to 25s. 
24s. to 28s. 
22s. „ 27s. 
28s. „ 30s. 
21s. „ 22s. 
28s. 
19s. Gd. to 22s. Gd. 
24s. to 27s. 
22s. 
24s. 9d. 
32s. 2d. 
30s. 11c/. 
24s. to 30s. 
20s. 
18s. 
21s. to 24s. 
21s. 6c/. 
15s. to 21s. 
24s. 
27s. 
21s. 
27s. 
24s. 
60 
59 
57 
57 
54 
60 
60 
58% to 60 
58% „60 
58% „60 
58% ,,60 
58%,, 60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
58% to 60 
58%,,60 
58%.,60 
58% ,, 60 
58% 
58% to 60 
Mechanics, 
Stokers and 
Draymen, 72, 
Others, 60, 
54 
54 
48 
54 
54 
60 
56 to 59 
61 
60 
60 
51 
60 
60 
65 
* The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in 
summer. 
m connection with the figures in the above Table the following remarks 
relating to certain occupations should be noted. 
Building Trades.—The wages and hours of painters as fixed by agreement 
are 27s. for a week of 60 hours, but from 20s. to 24s. for a week of 54 hours is 
the rate frequently paid.