METHODS BY WHICH CHANGES IN RATES OF WAGES

[For years prior to 1921 the statistics were tabulated so as to show the numbers of methods. For later years (see pages 126 and 127) the tabulation has been arranged by the various methods.]

Workpeople whose wages were changed more than once in a year and not always by the same method, have

of Work (2) Sliding Scales, (3) Arbitration, (4) Conciliation.

WERE ARRANGED IN THE YEARS 1910-1920.

separate individuals* for whom changes in rates of wages were arranged under various designed to show the aggregate amount of the increases and decreases in weekly wages

been entered in the Table once only for that year, the following order of preference being observed, viz., (1) Stoppage † See Note (a) on page 121.

METHODS BY WHICH CHANGES IN RATES OF WAGES [In this Table the gross aggregate amount of increase or decrease in weekly rates of effected. For statistics as to the methods by which changes were arranged in

Aggregate Weekly Amount of Increase in Rates of Wages arranged.

WERE ARRANGED IN THE YEARS 1921-1925.

wages has been analysed so as to show the methods by which the changes were 1910-1920, see pages 124 and 125.]

NUMBERS OF WORKPEOPLE REPORTED (a) AS AFFECTED BY CHANGES OF CHANGE IN WEEKLY HOURS IN

(a) The statistics exclude changes in the hours of agricultural labourers, seamen, domestic servants, shop assistants

(b) Net increase.