The average yearly wages are given for only one of the factories; the second ran only dur ing five months.

The average time made by all the employes was eight and one-half months. Average time of blowers thirty-two weeks.

No. 10. See remarks under No. 1. The low average wages are owing to the fact that firm was experimenting with a new kind of furnace. The average run of these four factories was nine months.

Nos. 3, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16.-Several of these factories only ran part time of the season. average loss time for the year was one hundred days, and consequent low annual earnings.

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No. 20. The factory was in operation for ten months, and the months of July and August are not included in the time lost by the blowers, gatherers, flatteners, flatteners' helpers, cutters, master shearers and shearers; the balance of employes was employed twelve months.

The piece-workers are the blowers, gatherers, flatteners, cutters, and, in some factories, the master shearers. The gatherers get sixty-seven per cent. of the blowers' prices. A flattener works for four blowers and gets one-quarter of blowers' prices, making his wages the same. Master shearers get same wages as blowers. Double-thick blowers get one and three-quarters prices, and their gatherers, fifty-five per cent., but not out of the blowers' wages. Cutters get twenty-five plus two and one-half per cent. and three-quarters extra for double-thick. Fortyeight boxes are a full day's work; the average being forty-six of one hundred feet.