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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.
