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Building Trade.
Locomotive Drivers
$1.30 to $1.80 per day.
Carpenters
0.80 to
1,30
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Bricklayers
0.80 to
1.30
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Painters
0.80 to
1.30
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Plasterers (including Shanghai plasterers)..
1.00 to 1.50
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Scaffolders
1.00 to
1.50
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Labourers (male)
.60 to
.80
(female)
.40 to
.50
Working hours-9 per day. Time and a half paid for overtime.
Free temporary sleeping quarters provided on the building site and communal messing at cheap rates for men only.
Cement Works (European control).
Foremen
Skilled men
Unskilled men-labourers
$30-$132.50 a month.
$1-$1.60 a day.
50-80 cents a day.
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-packers on piece work.......
$.90-$1.00 a day.
Three shifts
each of 8 working hours and two days off on change of shift, every third week.
Hospital expenses and Insurance benefit for permanent employees.
Contractors' Coolies.
A day's work reckoned from 7 a.m.-12 noon; 1-5.30 p.m. Males Daily pay
40-60 cents.
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-With board and lodging
25-30
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Females-Daily pay
Casual labourers
35-50
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$.40 a day average.
Sand carrying coolies. From junk to building site by lorry or basket-$.25 for 100 cubic feet. A good man can earn up to $1.00 a day.
Electro-plating.
Male workers-monthly rates Females, piece work
$8-$40—board and lodging.
$.15-.35; time and third from 6-8
p.m.
Engineering.
Males, daily rates
80
cents flat rate-board and lodging.
Apprentices
Specialists
Feather Works. (sorting, picking, &c.)
Permanent workers, male only
Carrying coolies, odd jobs
Packing coolies
Females, piece work, sorting
Females, piece work, "fine picking"
$1.50 a month-board and lodging. Over $1.00 a day-board and
lodging.
$15--board
bonus.
4 cents a bale.
and lodging and
about 7 cents a bale, approx.
$1 a day.
average 40 cents a day; overtime
6-8 p.m., $.30 more.
$.60 a day.