Table 2. Median Hourly Earnings in Women's Neckwear and Scarf Industry, Weeks Ending Feb. 16, 1933 and 1935, by Occupation Wages of Civil Employees in Field Service of Navy Department and Marine Corps, 1936 THE HE following data on hourly wage rates of clothing workers and of workers in the laborer, helper, and mechanical branches of the field service of the Navy Department and the Marine Corps are from the revised wage schedule for civilian employees of that service issued by the Navy Department as of March 1, 1936.1 The schedule of wages for the calendar year 1929 was continued through the calendar years 1930 to 1935 and into the calendar year 1936. However, to comply with the provisions of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act of March 28, 1934, the daily and hourly rates of compensation from that date were increased 20 percent in order that there might be no decrease in earnings because of the reduction of the working week from 48 to 40 hours. The hourly rates given in the following tables, therefore, represent a 20 percent increase over those prevailing in 1929. The figures for all occupations are the maximum. The minimum rate is 12 cents under the maximum and there is an intermediate rate 6 cents under the maximum. 1U. S. Navy Department. Schedule of wages for civil employees in the field service of the Navy Department and the Marine Corps, revised to Mar. 1, 1936. Washington, 1936. Table 1.-Rates of Wages per Hour in the Clothing Workers' Service, 1936 Table 2.-Rates of Wages per Hour in the Laborer, Helper, and Mechanical .684 .648 .612 .612 .756 .756 .720 1 Rate for laborer, common, at naval powder factory, Indianhead, Md., and naval proving ground, Dahlgren, Va., $0.60 per hour. 2 Intermediate rates, $0.90, $0.84, $0.78, and $0.72 per hour. Minimum rate, $0.66 per hour. .660 .612 .612 756 .756 732 Table 2.-Rates of Wages per Hour in the Laborer, Helper, and Mechanical Service, 1936—Continued Rate for laborer, classified, at naval powder factory, Indianhead, Md., and naval proving ground, Dahlgren, Va., $0.60 per hour, 780 780 .780 780 864 864 768 768] .720 .720 900 .900 .840. .840 840 720 Table 2.-Rates of Wages per Hour in the Laborer, Helper, and Mechanical Service, 1936-Continued Rate of $1.188 per hour for gardener allowed at naval ammunition depot, Hawthorne, Nev. Hourly Wages of Industrial Workers in Denmark, Fourth Quarter of 1934 and 1935 OURLY wages of industrial workers in Denmark increased by HOURI 1 øre in the fourth quarter of 1935 as compared with the fourth quarter of 1934. Average hourly wages for these workers are shown in the following table by locality, degree of skill, and sex.1 Hourly Wages of Industrial Workers in Denmark in the Fourth Quarter of 1934 and 1935 [Krone (100 øre) at par=26.8 cents; average exchange rate in December 1934 and 1935, was 22.0 cents] Wages in France, October 1935 HE general decrease in wage rates which occurred in France in the preceding 5 years is revealed by the annual wage study made by the French Ministry of Labor as of October 1935. Data giving the percentage decreases in the different occupations among male workers in cities other than Paris in October 1935 as compared with the maximum wages in force in October 1930 or October 1931 show decreases ranging from 3.3 percent for bookbinders to 13 percent for brickmakers. In the majority of the occupations the reductions ranged from 6 to 10 percent, but the reductions for quarrymen amounted to 12 percent, cabinetmakers 11.8 percent, navvies 11.7 percent, masons 11.5 percent, weavers 11.3 percent, and stonecutters 10.9 percent. The two industries most seriously affected by the lowering of wages, therefore, are seen to be the textile and building industries. 1 Denmark. Statistiske Departement. Statistiske Efterretninger, No. 19, May 2, 1936. 1 France. Ministère du Travail. Bulletin de la Statistique Générale de la France, January-March 1936, pp. 262-277. 75264-36- -11 |