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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 Pressmen.
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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60
60
60
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60
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66
60
60
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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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