Doubling: | | | | | Doublers, |Women, | 1 68 | 1 80 | 2 16 | 3 00 Overlookers, | | 5 76 | 6 00 | 6 72 | 7 68 -----------------------+--------------------+------+------+------+------ “Other branches show the same ratio of advance.” The following statement was furnished to Dr. Young by the proprietors of the cotton-mills of Messrs. Shaw, Jardin & Co., of Manchester, operating 250,000 spindles, and producing yarns from No. 60 to 220, sewing cottons, lace yarn, crape yarn, and two-fold warp yarns: _Average wages (per week of 59 hours) of persons employed in 1872._ OCCUPATION. WAGES. Carding: Overseer, $10 89 Second hand, 7 26 Drawing-frame tenders, 2 66 Speeder-tenders, 3 14 Grinders, 5 32 Strippers, 5 32 Spinning: Overseer, 14 52 Mule-spinners, $13 31 to 15 73 Mule-backside piecers, 2 42 to 3 87 Repair-shop, engine-room, etc.: Foreman or overseer, 14 52 Wood and iron workers, 7 74 Engineer, 9 68 Laborers, 5 32 These tables will be found on pp. 330-31. Now let us compare the wages there given with those paid to the same class of operatives in the United States. On pages 750-51, Dr. Young gives a table showing the average weekly wages paid in American cotton-mills in various States in 1869 and 1874. We select Rhode Island, for the reason that the rate of wages there appears to be a good average, being lower than is paid in Massachusetts and higher than in New York. _Wages in cotton-mills (weekly average)._