OCCUPATIONS, WAGES AND LABOUR ORGANIZATION
The following table shows the number of factories and workshops registered under the Factories and Workshops Ordinance for the past five years. Recorded establishments, i.e. premises not liable to registration but kept under observation and inspected for industrial health and safety reasons, are not included.
Applications under
Premises Registered
Total
consideration
1950
1,244
328
1,572
1951
1,344
402
1,746
1952
1,504
347
1,851
1953
1,657
468
2,125
1954
1,812
569
2,381
Wages and Conditions of Employment
Wages
The welcome increase in the number of factories in operation not only affected the general level of employment but also served in some measure to check the tendency apparent in 1953 for wages to fall. In European type concerns such as the two major dock- yards and the public utility companies wages remained unchanged and no further consolidation of allowances into basic wages was made. Wages for daily paid workers remained approximately at the 1953 level as follows:
Skilled workmen
Semi-skilled workmen
Unskilled workmen
$6.00-$8.50
$5.00-$6.50
$3.00-$5.00
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