| +--------------+--------------+--------------+ | | July | Nov. | Dec. | | | 8th. | 11th. | 9th. | | +--------------+----+---------+----+---------+ | | -- | Machine | -- | Machine | -- | Machine | | | | Rulers. | | Rulers. | | Rulers. | +------------------+----+---------+----+---------+----+---------+ | Above 24_s._ | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | | 22_s._ to 24_s._ | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | | 20_s._ to 22_s._ | 10 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | | 18_s._ to 20_s._ | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 0 | | 16_s._ to 18_s._ | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | | 14_s._ to 16_s._ | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 | | 12_s._ to 14_s._ | 9 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | | 10_s._ to 12_s._ | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | | 8_s._ to 10_s._ | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 3 | | 6_s._ to 8_s._ | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 4_s._ to 6_s._ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 2_s._ to 4_s._ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +------------------+----+---------+----+---------+----+---------+ | (Apprentices excluded.) | +------------------+------+-------+-------+------+------+-------+ | Median (without | 14s. | -- | 16s. | -- | 18s. | | | rulers). | | | 6d. | | 2d. | | +------------------+------+-------+-------+------+------+-------+ _Machine Ruling._--Four to nine hands, generally seven to nine. Time wages. Median moves slowly and steadily from 6_s._ to 7_s._ during 1896-99. _Stamping._--Four, increasing to twelve hands, sometimes sixteen. The low wages are time (presumably learners); the rest piece. Time hands are excluded in the medians here, and in binding and despatch. Median is sometimes fluctuating, but not far from 12_s._ or 13_s._ for long. _s._ _d._ _s._ _d._ 1896 1st half-year 14 3 2nd half-year 11 0 1897 " " 13 0 " " 13 0 1898 " " 12 4 " " 11 11 1899 " " 12 6 " " 11 11 1900 " " 14 2 (two months) _Binding room_, including despatch, till middle of 1897, when numbers fell from forty to twenty. The despatch room, beginning with twenty, increased to thirty hands. Binding--median varies from 11_s._ to 17_s._