Wages paid per week in the cities of Western Andalusia-Continued.

1 Besides their pay these men are boarded and lodged by their employers, and clothing of a simple kind is also furnished them free.

2 These artisans are all employed in the wine vaults of Jerez, Port St. Mary's and Cadiz; independent coopering establishments do not exist.

3 Persons using cabs generally fee the drivers; these perquisites generally add about 50 per cent. to the regular pay.

4 One peseta per day may be docked from this pay for irregularity in starting, undue delay, or other neglect of duty.

5 Sunrise to sunset. During the summer two hours are allowed for meals; during winter one hour. 6 Sunrise to sunset. The master stevedore contracts at so much per ton or per package, and pays his laborers by the day; night and holiday work is paid at double rate.

The piece-work system is very usual in this trade.

NOTE.-The data embodied in this table were obtained in the cities of Cadiz, Seville, Port St. Mary's, Jerez de la Frontera, and Huelva. Where only one rate of pay obtains, such rate is put in the column of "average wages." Where only minimum and maximum wages are given, the average wages could not be ascertained, even approximately.

II. FACTORIES, MILLS, ETC.

ABLISHME

WAGES PAID PER WEEK OR DAY IN INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN WESTERN ANDALUSIA.

Government tobacco manufactory in Cadiz Spain (employs 1,746 women and 90 men).

NOTE.-The operators are all women except the cutters and the cutters' assistants; the piece-work system is applied throughout. The earnings in the picking-room vary but very little, hence only one rate of pay is given. The "envelope-makers" make the paper bags or wrappers within which cigarettes are packed.

Manufactory of playing-cards of Mr. Segundo de Olea, Cadiz (about 200 operatives employed).

Manufactory of vermicelli and similar preparations of Mr. Charles F. Rudolph, Cadiz (employ 20 operatives).

Gas-works of the city of Cadiz. (Men employed during the winter, 150; in summer. 90.)

NOTE.-The "average wages "here given are not the result of actual computation; the figures are fair approximations only.

Porcelain factory of Messrs. Pickman & Co., at Seville, Spain (employing 400 men, 250 women, and 150 minors of both sexes).

NOTE.-The following particulars were given by the proprietors of the above factory: From 1870 to 1884 wages have risen 20 per cent., and the day's work (la tarea del dia) has risen 10 per cent.; during these fourteen years work has been interrupted as follows: One month by a strike, 6 months by inundation, three months by riots, and one month in consequence of a fire. Amongst the operatives 20 per cent. are able to read only, 40 per cent. are able to read and write, and 40 per cent. are illiterate.

Operatives working on the piece-work system earn about the same wages as those mentioned here, but average less time per day.

Petroleum refinery of Messrs. Deutsch & Co., near Seville (employing about 50 men and 15 women and minors).

NOTE. The day's work is only of nine hours, but the operatives all live in the city and need two hours to go to and from the factory, thus making the time fully eleven hours per day.

Candle manufactory of Mr. José Carreño, at Seville (employing 28 men).

Metal bedstead and lamp factory of Messrs. Urquiza Hermanos, at Seville (employing 210 men and 37 women).

* This pay is stated to be earned occasionally; no other rate furnished.

Corkwood and cork industry of Seville (employing 920 men, of which 300 are unpaid ap

Weekly wages in foundry, machine-shop, and iron-ship yard of Messrs. Sons of Thomas Haynes, at Cadiz, Spain (employing from 120 to 140 men).

Weekly cape in foundry, nacime up, and iron-skip yard, &c.-Continued.

• Whilst diving these men get an extra allowance of about $0.50 per hour: all wrecking hands, while actually engaged in salvage operation, are boarded at the expense of employer.

Wages paid per week in foundry and machine-shop of the Transatlantic Company (Harana line of mail steamers) at Cadiz, Spain, (employing about 100 men).