Report on the Statistics of Wages in Manufacturing Industries; With Supplementary Reports on the Average Retail Prices of Necessaries of Life, and on Trades Societies, and Strikes and Lockouts (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...own sponges. This, however, is a small item. The wages given in the table are those paid after dedncting the wages of helpers and under-hands. Payments were weekly as late as 1874, when the interval was changed to two weeks. It is remarked in the statement appended to the above tabi lation that before 1860, payments were chiefly in store-orders, but immediately after the first issue of greenbacks the system of cash payments was adopted, the scarcity of workmen and the unusual volume of currency making it easier to pay in cash. This method also proved more satisfactory to the employes. The usual hours of labor are from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m., with 20 minutes for lunch between t) and 10 a. m. and 1 hour for dinner. Oveuinen, dippers, and their helpers work only till 5 p. in. On Saturday all hands stop work at 5 p. m., and on pay-day at 4 p. m, no deduction being made for the shorter hours; all having a certain amount of work to do in a day, and in most, cases they are able to make over-time within the 10 hours. Goodwin Brothers, East Liverpool, Ohio--Continued. The opinion is expressed, however, that a decrease in hours would result with some workmen in crowding the amount of work now considered a day's work into the decreased time, causing inferior workmanship and imperfect wares, while others would work the full hours of the day and make over-time. There is, it is stated, at this, as at other potteries, a certain amount of work to be done for a day's wages, and in most cases the hands accomplish the work by 2 or 3 o'clock, and make a quarter of a day extra before 6 p. m. This is the case with the o venmen and the ware brushers and cleaners, who invariably make extra or over-time within the usual 10 hours. It is also thought that a shortening of the hours of lab...