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Excerpt from Wages and Hours of Labour in Canada, 1929, 1932 and 1933: Issued as a Supplement to the Labour Gazette, January, 1934
HE present bulletin is the seventeenth in the series on Wages and Hours Of Labour, the first having been issued as a supplement to the labour gazette for March, 1921, giving figures as to wages and hours of labour in certain trades in various cities in Canada from to 1929, with index numbers by groups based on wages in 19113 as 100. Subsequent reports, in most cases issued as supplements to the labour gazette for January each year, brought these figures down to date with extensions from time to time to include more industries and classes of labour. Certain Of these reports, however, contained special features. Report no. 5 (1923) dealt with Hours of Labour in Canada and Other Countries. Report No. 3 (january, 1929) included an appendix with statistics of wages and hours in coal mining in Canada from 1900 to 1921 with index numbers for the three principal districts. Report no. 7 (january, 1925) included an appendix with figures for agriculture from 1914 to 1923. Report no. 1$l (january, 1998) contained an. Appendix on wages Of employees of steam railways, con siderably increasing the information for the years since 1917 with a more extensive record from 19011 to 1997 and also a new series of index num'bers. Each report from No. 7 (january, to no. 14 (january, contained data not only for the previous year but back to 1920, except that figures for 1922, 1923 and 1924, the years of least change, were omitted from some of the tables owing to lack of space. Report no. 16, issued in Jan uary, 1932, contained data for the years 1926, 1930 and 19331, with figures for 1920 also in some cases. Report no. 16, issued in J anuary, 1933, afforded figures for 1930, 1931 and 1932 with figures for 1920 and 1926 also in some tables. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
