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Excerpt from Wages and Hours of Labour in Canada: 1929, 1937 and 1938
The first report in this series was issued as a sup plement to the labour gazette for March, 1921, and contained figures as to wages and hours Of labour for certain trades in various cities in Canada from 1901 to 1920, with index numbers by groups based on wages in 1913 as 100. It also contained samples of wage rates for common labour in factories, miscellaneous factory trades in a small number of industries, and wages in lumbering from 1911 to 1920, with index numbers. Sub sequent 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 additional industries and classes of labour.
The present report includes data as to wages and hours on steamships on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river, a transportation industry first covered in Report no. 21, with data for 1929, 1936 and 1937.
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, 1922) 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. 11 (january, 1928) contained an appendix on wages Of employees Of steam railways, considerably increasing the information for the years since 1917 with a more extensive record from 1901 to 1927 and also a new series Of index numbers. Each report from no. 7 (january, to no. 14 (january, contained data not only for the previous year but back in 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. 15, issued in January, 1932, contained data for the years 1926, 1930 and 1931, with figures for 1920 also in some cases.
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