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There was a decrease in the wages of second-class men at 

 Penrith (Cumberland) and Kendal (Westmorland), but an in- 

 crease at Lancaster, the rates in 1892 being 101. to 11 ^.5 and 9^. 

 to 14*1. in 1893. The wages of best women were maintained or 

 increased. At Kendal (Westmorland) they were 121. to 13/. 10s. 

 in 1892 and 1893. At Penrith (Cumberland) they were IIZ. to 

 121 in 1892, and 11/. to 13/. 10s. in 1893. At Lancaster they 

 were 8/. to 11/. in 1892, and 10/. to 12/. in 1893. There was a 

 slight tendency to decrease in the wages of second-class women 

 at Penrith and Keadal, but at Lancaster they were 5/. to 8/. in 



1892, and 61. to 81 in 1893. 



At the autumn hirings, the wages of best men were maintained 

 as compared with the corresponding period of 1892 at Kendal 

 and Lancaster, but at Penrith they declined from 15/. to 16/. in 

 1892 to 12/. to 14/. in 1893. The wages of second-class men 

 declined at Penrith from 13/. to 14/. in 1892 to 9/. to 12/. in 



1893, and at Kendal from 10/. to 12/. in 1892 to 9/. to 11/. 10s. 

 in 1893, while at Lancaster they were 8/. to 10/. in 1892 and 71. 

 to 10/. in 1893, Wages of first-class women remained about the 

 same, while those of second-class women generally slightly 

 declined. 



At the Durham yearly hirings which took place in the spring 

 of 1893, the wages showed a slightly upward tendency. 



In Yorkshire, at the yearly hirings in November, wages 

 generally showed a slight downward tendency. In Derbyshire, 

 Cheshire, Stafiordshire, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicester- 

 shire, and Rutland, the rates of wages remained about the same, 

 and there was a downward tendency in parts of Warwickshire 

 and Huntingdonshire. In the home counties and the western 

 counties there was but little change. In the latter district 

 wages declined in certain parts of Wiltshire in the autumn. 



But the fall in wages in 1893 was most general in the 

 eastern counties. Thus, in Suffolk wages were usually 12s. in 

 1892, though in some districts in the west of the county they 

 were lis. in the winter of 1891-2, and were raised to 12s. at 

 Easter, 1892. In a number of cases wages dropped from 12s. to 

 lis. in the autumn of 1892. Generally speaking, the rate of 

 weekly wages in 1893 in the county was lis., but in the autumn 

 of that year they dropped to 10s. in certain districts in West 

 Suffolk. Again, in West Norfolk, South Cambridgeshire, and 

 parts of Essex, wages were frequently Is. a week less in 1893 

 than in 1892, though the reduction did not commence in a 

 number of cases until after harvest. In Lincolnshire there was 

 generally no change in wages in 1893 as compared with 1892, 

 ■until the autumn of 1893. Up to that period wages were 2s. 6d 

 and 2s. Sd. a day, the higher rates being more generally paid in 

 the northern part of the county. But in November 1893 wages 

 generally dropped to 2s. Sd., and 2s. were not infrequently paid 

 in certain southern districts. 



