Wages and Hours of Labour in Canada

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Excerpt from Wages and Hours of Labour in Canada: 1926, 1930 and 1931Information is secured from union agree ments and from reports of representative em ployers and of trade unions obtained each year. These reports are supplemented by figures secured by officers of the Department and by correspondents of the labour. Gazette resident in each city.The hours of labour shown throughout the report are the standard or regular hours per week or per day and do not indicate the hours actually worked on short time or over time. During 1931 a number of establish ments in many of the industries reported operations on a short time basis.The statistics as to building trades Show the prevailing rates of wages and hours of labour for nine classes of labour for the years 1920, 1926, 1930 and 1931 for the build ing season beginning in the spring of each year. During 1931 changes during the sea son 'have occurred more extensively than is usual and rates in effect at the end of the year have been included. Sheet metal work ers employed in building and construction are included with the building trades. Sheet metal workers in factories are included in the table on factory trades.Wages in manufacturing and various other industries are shown 'by samples numbered one, two, etc., each sample showing the predominant rate in a certain establishment. For common labour in factories, these are given by localities. The figures are secured from reports from employers and from such union agreements as are available.On steam railways, wages of employees on the regular staffs are fixed according to agree-ments between the several railways and' the organizations of railway employees, the principal railways having the same rates for nearly all the principal classes. The figures published are taken from these agreements.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.