ORDER XI, PERSONS WORKING IN THE TEXTILE FABRICS AND IN DRESS. THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE. SUB-ORDER 1. THE value of imports and exports connected with this manufacture was as follows: Mr. Baines(1) estimated the value of the woollen Value of manufacture in 1858 as follows: the manufacture. (1) Journal of the Statistical Society, vol. xxii. p. 1. Number of In 1862 the number of woollen and worsted fac woollen and worsted fac- tories was as follows: Locality. Number of persons employed. The factories are principally situated in the counties of York and Lancaster, in England; Stirling, Roxborough, Clackmannan, and Selkirk, in Scotland; and in Cork, Dublin, and Kilkenny, in Ireland. Nature of labour. Hours of labour. In the woollen manufacture there are three departments of labour, and about in the following proportions per cent. : The woollen manufacture is under the Factory Act, and has the fixed hours of labour 60 hours per week, though wool sorters, drawers, dyers, and overlookers often do not work more than 56 hours per week. The workers require no tools of their own. 10/ to 14/; cloth dressers Tools. The wages in Leeds are given at, spinners, 25/, Wages. males; females, 8/ to 9/; carders, males, 25/; females, 8/ to 9/; weavers, males, females, 8/ to 12/; reelers, 8/ to 12/; finishers, men, 26/; boys, 8/ to 10/. field, wool sorters earn, men, 22/ to 32/; scourers, 16/ to 21/; dyers, 15/ to 22/; teazers and willyers, 12/ to 21/; scribblers, 15/ to 21/; women, 8/6 to 9/; and girls, 6/ to 9/; slubbers, men, 22/ to 28/; condenser minders, men, 17/; women, 9/ to 10/; spinners, men, 18/ to 30/; piecers, girls, 6/ to 10/; warpers, men, 15/ to 26/; women, 14/; girls, 7/6 to 8/; boys, 5/6 to 8/; weavers, men, 18/ to 23/6; women, 10/ to 20/; girls, 16/; millers, men, 16/ to 26/; lads, 10/; dressers, tenterers, press setters, 18/ to 24/; drawers, 30/ to 35/; boys, 10/. At Batley, Dewsbury, Leicester, nearly the same wages are current. In Bradford and Halifax, machine wool combers, men, 14/; wool sorters, 20/ to 28/; washers, 16/6; dyers, 18/; engine tenters, 40/; feeders, 20/; stokers, 21/; weavers, men, 18/; women, 12/; reelers, women, 13/; drawers, women, 9/6; overlookers and foremen earn 25/ to 35/. In Glasgow the wages are 12/ to 17/ a week. For a general average, we may take 25/ for men; 10/lads and boys; 9/ women; 8/ girls. House rents. The rentals of houses in Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield, are as follows: Health, Education. Savings banks. Drunken ness. The rate of mortality in 1864 was as follows:Bradford, 3.08; Huddersfield, 2.68; Leeds, 3.19; Melksham, 2.30; Stroud, 2-30; Kidderminster, 2.30.(1) The number who signed the marriage register with marks was as follows:-Leeds, males, 21; females, 39: Bradford, males, 24; females, 53: Huddersfield, males, 19; females, 49: Melksham, males, 23; females, 26: Stroud, males, 21; females, 24: Kidderminster, males, 32; females, 40 per cent. Leeds, per head, £3 3/; Bradford, £1 4/; Huddersfield, £1 13/; Kidderminster, £1 7/; Melksham, 10/ per head. Huddersfield, per cent., 2:37; Leeds, 0·82; Kidderminster, 0.38; Bradford, 0.13 per cent. Value of imports and exports. THE SILK MANUFACTURE. SUB-ORDER 2. THE value of imports and exports connected with this manufacture is as follows: (1) See Dr. Henry Julian Hunter's Report on circumstances endangering the Public Health of Leeds, in the Eighth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, 1866. In 1862 the number of silk factories was as fol- Number of The silk manufacture is principally situated in Locality. Chester, York, Lancaster, Essex and Warwick, in England; Lanark and Renfrew, in Scotland; and Wicklow and Antrim in Ireland. labour. The silk manufacture is carried on partly in Nature of factories, partly in private houses, each weaver having one or more looms; Spitalfields and Macclesfield being the seats of silks and silk velvets, and Coventry of ribbons. |