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OURER & HIS HIRE
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MEN WHO WORK 90 HOURS A WEEK.
An important investigation into wages and conditions of employment in the agricultural industry has been made for the Board of Agriculture, and a voluminous report on the result was issued recently as a Blue Book. The immediate object of the inquiry WAS to furnish information for the use of the Agricultural Wages Board, an official survey of the conditions having been made since the report of the Royal Commission on Labour in 1891.
The inquiries were conducted "by a number of expert investiga-- tors, who found that if the present wages were compared with the rates of the last official inquiry in 1907 a rise of two shillings only had taken place in the
average wage of the ordinary agricultural
during the years 1907-1914." The average weekly wage for England in 1907 was 14s. 9d.; in 1917 it was 246. for shilling less than the
labourer
seven
minimum of 256, established by the Corn Production Act in August, 1917. The average for shepherds, however, was slightly more than a shilling higher than the minimum wage. In some districts those men work 90 hours a week. In' January, 1918, the labourers' time wages ranged on the whole at about 278. 10d.
THE LABOURER'S AWAKENING. Convincing evidence of the labourer's awakening to his own value and his willingness to organise was given to the investigators. Before the war the men's wages were too low-to allow of any subscription to the necessary funds. The trade union in former days was a strange and alien thing. Never- theless since the war a rapid development in trade unionism has taken place. Nearly all the investigators speak of the labourers' ready response to the call to organise.
The investigators found that there is not much evidence of unfriendly relations between em- ployers and agricultural wage earners, or as yet of
much
antagonism among the farmers, or much discontent among the workers owing to the shortage of labour.
A large section of the report is devoted to cottage, accommoda- tion, and rents. Mr. Little's re- port giving the results of inquiries carried out by the Commission. on Labour from 1891 to 1895 is recalled, and it is declared that though nearly a quarter of a century has since elapsed it cannot be said that the result of the present investigations shows any improvement.
The general.conclusion to be drawn from the investigators" | reports is that throughout the
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Houbigant THE FRENCH STORE.
greater part of the country there haulage and wood, cartage, and
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a want of cottages for the agricultural labourer, not because in certain districts a sufficient number of cottages, to meet the demand of the inhabitants do not exist, but because in almost all districts there are a consider- able number of old or insanitary cottages which ought not to be occupied at all.
WORK AND WAGES.
sometime free coal and wood.
THE "TIED" COTTAGE. Often a free cottage goes with a particular engagement and is only retained by a labourer while
ic
limits
many
GENERAL NEWS.
0:
FEAT OF BIG FRENCH BIPLANE.
Paris, April 2.-Yesterday's
he is in the farmer's employ. This notable feat of a big French. tied cottage" system, says the biplane in reaching an altitude report, arouses some discontent of more than 20,000 feet was ac- counties, since to complished under the handicap be both tenant and employee of a load comprising the pilot,
man's freedom A
of Lieut. Boussotrot; four passen- bargaining, while the ejectment Bers, and ballast representing from his home together with the eight othere. The record of termination of his work not only 20,000 feet, officially determined, throws a double burden of mis. is a new one for a flight under fortune upon the man's shoulders, such conditions. Lieut. Bousso- but renders him liable to lose the trot said after the flight that he fruits of labour and time he has could have reached an altitude of 25,000 feet, but that the steer- spent upon his garden.
take the risk of its jamming. jing gear of the airplane began to
Of the average rate of wages for shepherds in January, 1918, the highest was 40s, in North praberland, and the lowest 22s. Sd in Hereford. There are ten counties in which the average rate reaches 30s, or over, and five with an average of 25s. or lower. These
are Hereford, Berks, Somerset, Cornwall, and Devon. On engagement, says the report, For cattlemen, the highest rate the workers should have the was 40s. in Northumberland, choice between a cash wage to and the lowest 22s. 6d. in Devon, cover everything and a cash wage and for horsemen the North- with allowances. It should be umberland figure of 39s. 6d. is open to either party to insist on again the highest, and the lowest & cash wage to cover all 229, 9d., in Devonshire.
The rates of the ordinary labourers are on the whole lower than those of the other classes. The highest rate given for January 1918, is 35s. in Durbar, and the lowest 21s. 11d., in Here- ford.
DEATH OF LATE FRENCH CONSUL AT TIENTSIN. News has been received that
M. Bourgeois, lately French Con- Dealing with conditions of board the 88. Andre Lebon" sul General at Tientsin, died on employment, the investigators while on the way to France. "In- found that as a general rule the defatigable, energetic and a great labourer works shorter hours than patriot, M. Bourgeois was loved the men in charge of animals and respected by all who came but he receives lower wages in contact with him. At the and less frequently allowances. outbreak of the
tired acceptéd
Several investigators discuss though he was, he
WAT, the advantages and disadvantages gladly the new post to which of the "living in" system. Gen-France called him. He went'. erally the men dislike the position to Iakutsk in Siberia,
and
There is little evidence of recognised payments for over- time at ordinary terms, but extra work at such seasons as hay time of servitude in which they are there amidst innumerable dan or corn harvest is not infrequently placed, the fact that their time is gera, he worked hard and did his paid for as overtime. The amount never their own, and that they utmost for his compatriots. M. of additional work is recorded and may be called upon at any mo- Bourgeois was born in 1864. Upon paid at an hourly rate ranging ment,
graduation from the School of up to 18. per hour in Yorks. The work of the women is Commercial Studies he was sent Hereford, and Kent..
highly praised by the farmers. to Berlin in 1887, to the Chancel The system of "payment in One objection to this class of lery,
From 1893 to 1896 he was kind" is recognised in most labour, however, is felt in some in China, then in Rumania and counties. The allowances givenses by the labourera. One in- Germany until the year 1900 vary from county to county. The vestigator says: "Some of the when he was promoted to the most common are a cottage, either labourers on the Wold who were Consulate. In 1906 he came back rent free or at a low customary not used to their wives going out to Chins which he left only for a rent, usually with ganden attach comfort and cleanliness was im M. Bourgeois was made officer of said that the same standard of short spell in Mexico. Recently posable in their homes under the the Legion of Honour Journal new conditions.”
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