( H4A ) 



Scale of wages. 



For the C class carriers employed, the task was to carry this 

 dug earth to bandh site (12 to 20 carriers employed). The children 

 had to pulverise this quautity of earth on other miscellaneous tasks 

 were 



(iv) Fencing. One gang of 10 to 12 B men per work. Task 

 15 to 22 running feet of hedge per man, including collection of 

 thorny shrubs, etc. ; the hedge was 5' thick, with stout thorny 

 branches fixed into holes on either side and ceotre tilled in with 

 loose thorns. 



(v) Water-supply. The gang varied with the distance of 

 water and numbers on the work and tbe season up to the end of 

 April. A man for every 200 labour for every furlong the water had 

 to be brought. la May, increased to 1 man for every 150 labour, 

 for every 150 yards. 



(vi) Well-making. The gang consisted of 1 mate (an expe- 

 rienced well-digger) 3 or 4 diggers task 80 c.ft. per man. 



3. Earth-removers increasing to 4, as well deepened. 



These are the principal tasks. The adjustment of digging 

 tasks was left to the Manager on the spot, under the control of 

 the Range Officer. 



Experience, as work opened, always showed a plethora of old 

 and feeble men and women and youug children, who should do 

 nothing but clod-breakiug. As employment has to be provided 

 for all who come to works (under the Code ouly lepers and 

 lunatics may be refused), a comparatively large number of bandhs 

 had to be laid out, as bandhing work absorbs more clod-breakers 

 than any other. 



9. An idea of the scale of wages paid will be of interest to 

 Forest Officers unaccustomed to labour conditions where villagers 

 turn out en masse to work in order to live. 



The wage scale is controlled by the price of the common food 

 grain. In Btawah in 1919 the following wages were generally 

 paid for a full day's work: 



