(WA)
1938.
BUILDING TRADE:-
Locomotive Drivers,
AVERAGE RATES OF WAGES FOR LABOUR.
.$1.30 to $1.80 per day.
Carpenters,
Bricklayers,
Painters,
Plasterers including Shanghai Plasterers,
Scaffolders,
Labourers (male),.
(female),
0,80 to 0.80 to 0.50 to
1.30 1.30 " 1.30
>
19
1.00 to
1.50
19
1.00 to
1.50
**
0.60 to 0.80 " 0.40 to 0.50
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.
SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING :—
Electricians,
Coppersmiths,
Fitters.
Sawmillers,
Boilermakers,...
Sailmakers,
Blacksmiths,
Turners,
Patterninakers,
$1.00 to 1 40 per day.
1,00 to 1.60
哆喃
0.80 to
0.70 to
1.55 1.25
++
0,95 to
1.00 to
1.20 11 1.40 0.75 to
1.20 91 1.00 to
1.40 1.00 to 1.40
11
*
0.70 to 1.00
11
Labourers,
Overtime-time and a half. Night work-louble time.
TRANSPORT WORKERS :-
Tram Drivers,
Conductors,
11
**
Conductors,
**
$36 to $45 per month.
30 to 39
Bus Drivers, Chinese Bus Companies,
17
27 to 54
18 to 21
Working hours 9 per day. Free Uniform. Bonts at end of year-3 days' pay.
Bus Drivers, European Company,
19
Conductors,
.855.00 ...$22.50 to $35
per month.
23
Working 9 hours a day, Free Uniform. One month's salary bonus.
RAILWAY WORKERS (GOVERNMENT):
Station Masters,
/
Telephone Operators,
Booking Clerks,
Guards,
Signalmen...............
Engine Drivers,
Ticket Collectors,
Firemen,
Pointsmen,
FEMALE WORKERS IN FACTORIES :——
Cigarette making,
Kuinting factories, ·
Perfumery,
Confectionery,
Electric hand torch factories,
.$1,100 to $1,500 per annum.
750 to 1,400 15
600 to
1,000
600 to 1,000 +
1,000
+
540 to 1,000
97
420 to 600
+
330 10 192 to
480 240
35
..$0.30 to $0.70 per day.
0.25 to 0.50
0.20 to 0.40 ++
0.20 to 0.50 T
Electric hand torch battery factories,
Rope works,
Gunny bag makers,
Fenther works,
Joes stick workers,
Printing works,
Weaving and spiuning,
Kattan workers,
Hard ware workers,
Felt hat workers,
Cork bat workers,
Green pea sorting,
Handkerchief makers,
Paper dyeing........
Grass rope mukers,
Preserved fruit makers,..
Sugar retinerz,
Rubber shoe makers,
0.25 to 0.45
0.15 to 0.35
H
0.42
0.30 to 0.50 0.30 to 0.60
"
0.20 to 0.30 17 0.20 to 0,80 1.
0.25 to 0.60 **
0,30 to 1.00 "" 0,25 to 0.40 0.25 to 0.70 0.30 to 0.55 27 0.15 to 0,25 (1.20 to 0.40 0.20 to 0.40 0.30 to 0.35 0.15 to 0.60
""
15
11
"
11
"
0.35 0.35 10
*
1.05
21
Working hours from 7 n.m. to 5 p.m. One hour off at mid-day. Overtime from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at
day rates.
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