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8 JUNE, 189 2.
(6) Your Committee also find that almost without exception
every man was aware that he could go before the Dusting
and Cleansing Committee, and place any grievance which he
might have before that Committee, which meets every Monday.
(7) That your Committee also beg to report that no case was
stated to have occurred of any man having been thrown out
of employment for a trifling offence.
(8) The men also stated that they were aware that they could at
any time appeal to the Surveyor.
(9) That your Committee beg to report that they do not see
their way to recommend the granting of a week's holiday as
asked.
(10) That on the other heading with regard to the increase of
wages, your Committee propose to consider the subject under
the various classes of workmen.
(11) Your Committee find from information supplied by many
of the Boards of London at the request of your Committee,
that the mode of payment and the time worked varies very
considerably throughout London to all classes.
(12) As to Sweepers.—The wages paid to sweepers in Mile
End is 3/8 per day, and the time worked about 59 hours per
week, and in other parishes ranges from 6d. per hour and 58½
hours per week in Bermondsey, to 18/- to 19/- per week with
about 59 hours per week in Hammersmith.
(13) That your Committee find that in many of the parishes,
able-bodied men are required, whilst in Mile End it is not
absolutely necessary that they should be so.
(14) After careful consideration of the whole subject your Committee
cannot see their way to recommend that the petition
of the sweepers to be paid 25/- per week should be granted,
but recommend—That the wages of the Gangers of the
sweepers be increased from 4/4 to 4/8 per day, and the
Sweepers from 3/8 to 3/10 per day.
(15) As to Drivers of Slop Carts.—The wages in Mile
End of this class is 4/4 per day, the hours being about 59
hours per week.
(16) The highest wages again appear to be paid in Bermondsey,
namely 5/- per day, whilst in Shoreditch it is 3/6 per day of
10 hours.
(17) That your Committee find that the standard rate of wages
of the Workmen's Union is 28/- per week for a carman with
two horses, and 24/- for a carman with one horse, but the
men stated that there was a separate Union of men connected
with parochial work whose standard rate was 30/-