Family wages.

The following tables show the earnings of workmen's families, whose several members were employed in one and the same factory, either on factory or house work. The wages are exactly what was paid, and have been taken from the wages-books of factories in Barmen:

The total income in 1873 in a branch which had but little demand was

From which interest and amortisation of capital must be paid.

REMARKS.-The great wear on the machines, the frequent change in the article, together with the erecting looms on their own premises. Wages vary largely with the state of business.

4 28-6 42 3 92-7 14 3 92-7 14 3 92-7 14 3 92-7 14 Piece-work.

3 92-5 00 3 21-4 28 3 21-4 28 3 21-4 28 3 21-4 28 Weekly wages. (Hours of work from 6 a. m. to 7

2 85-4 28 2 50-4 28 2 50-4 28 2 50-4 28 2 50-4 28 Piece-work.

3 21-3 92 3 92-4 04 3 92-4 04 3 92-4 04 3 92-4 04

Weekly wages.

p. m., with 1 to 2 hours' pause.

(Piece-work. The journeymen participate, with 40 p.c., and the reeler, earning on the average. $2.14 to $2.50 weekly, are also to be paid. One can tend 2 and 3 looms.

Weekly wages; 12 hours' actual work.

2 50-2 85 2-50-2 85 2 50-2 85 2 50-2 85 2 50-2 85 Weekly wages; 10 hours' actual work.

From which interest and the amortisation of capital must be paid.

amount of capital necessary, are gradually ruining the small masters, so that the larger firms are now

$4 64 $4 28-4 64 $4 28-4 64 $4 28-4 64 $4 28-4 64 Piece-work; 12 hours' actual work; wages for reeling woof, paid therefrom, amount to about $0.71 weekly.

2.85-3 57 3 21-3 92 3 21-3 92 3 21-3 92 3 21-3 92

2 32 1 90-2 50 1 90-2 50 1 90-2 50 1 90-2 50

Weekly wages; 12 hours' actual work.