PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ANNUAL REPOKT OP THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31ST 1937 printed by authority op the legislative assembly. VICTORIA, B.C. : Printed by Charles F. Banfield, rrinter to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1938. To His Honour Eric W. Hamber. Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia. May it please Your Honour: The Annual Report of the Department of Labour of the Province for the year 1937 is herewith respectfully submitted. GEORGE S. PEARSON, Minister of Labour. Office of the Minister of Labour, July, 1938. The Honourable George S. Pearson, Minister of Labour. Sir,—I have the honour to submit herewith the Twentieth Annual Report on the work of the Department of Labour up to December 31st, 1937. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, ADAM BELL, Deputy Minister of Labour. . , Department of Labour, Victoria, B.C, July, 1938. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. Page. Report of the Deputy Minister 7 Statistics of Trades and Industries 7 Pay-roll 7 Comparison of Pay-rolls . 8 Change in Wage-rates 9 Apprentices 10 Average Weekly Wage by Industries 10 Increased Employment 12 Variation of Employment 14 Nationalities of Employees 15 Firms with Large Pay-rolls 15 Statistical Tables 16 Summary of all Tables 29 Board of Industrial Relations 30 Change in Personnel 30 Statistics Covering Women and Girls , 31 Special Licences 37 Women Employees receiving more than Legal Minimum 37 Length of Service Table 38 Single, Married, and Widowed Employees 39 Collections and Inspections 40 Court Cases 40 Wage Comparisons 47 New Orders and Regulations 1 48 " Hours of Work Act " 49 Comparison with Previous Years 49 Average Weekly Hours 50 Summary of Existing Orders 52 Complete List of Orders 67 Labour Legislation 70 Amendments to Labour Statutes 70 " Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act " 71 Labour Disputes and Conciliation 78 Summary of Labour Disputes 82 Inspection of Factories 84 Inspections, Accident-prevention 84 Prosecutions 85 Improved Factory Conditions 85 Employees' Welfare 85 Home-work 86 Elevators 87 Employment Service 88 Forestry and Placer-mining Training Camps 88 Employment Conditions 89 Handicap Section 89 Women's Section 90 Importation of Labour 90 Placement Tables 91 Unemployment Relief 92 Assistance to Settlers 92 Forestry Training 92 Placer-mining Training 92 Winter Work Projects 93 Statement of Relief 93 Page. Apprenticeship Branch 99 Designated Trades 100 Trades not yet designated 100 " Trade-schools Regulation Act " 101 REPORT OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF LABOUR FOR 1937. The Annual Report of the Department of Labour for 1937 constitutes the twentieth chronicle of the activities of the Department. The records of these twenty years present a fluctuating scene. Times of prosperity have been enjoyed, less prosperous times have had to be endured, but the annals of two decades of British Columbia's industrial life portray a picture of indubitable progress. Our comparative immunity from labour disturbances is a welcome aspect of our industrial life that cannot be too highly valued, for it bespeaks a spirit of moderation worthy of the greatest encouragement wherever found. It is again gratifying to report expanding pay-rolls and increased employment during the year 1937, as disclosed in the pages that follow. STATISTICS OF TRADES AND INDUSTRIES. The statistical survey of labour conditions for the year 1937 discloses a marked improvement over 1936. The total pay-roll increased some $20,000,000, the number gainfully employed in industrial undertakings being the highest since 1929, which, together with higher wages, has placed this Province in a very favourable position. Unfortunately, an upward trend in prosperity in British Columbia has resulted in an ever-increasing number in search of work coming here in the hope there would be employment for all. The inevitable result has been that there is a considerable number of unemployed in this Province from other sections of Canada, which has made it more and more difficult for many of our own residents to obtain work. A study of the statistical section of this report will convince any one that but for this influx of unemployed, our own British Columbia residents would have been in more desirable circumstances. EMPLOYERS RETURNS TOTAL 4,711. The total number of firms reporting in time for tabulation in the tables was 4,711, as compared with 4,357 in 1936, an increase of 354. PAY-ROLL. For the 4,711 firms reporting, a summary of the pay-rolls reveals a sum total of $126,683,377. Inasmuch as this figure covers only the industrial pay-rolls, it should not be considered as the total pay-roll of the Province, and must be further augmented by the following, yielding an accumulative total of $162,654,234, or an increase of $20,304,643 over 1936. Pay-roll of 4,711 firms making returns to Department of Labour _ $126,683,377.00 Returns received too late to be included in above summary 1,003,125.00 Employees in occupations included in Department's inquiry, not sending in returns (estimated pay-roll) , ■ _. 1,450,000.00 Transcontinental railways (ascertained pay-roll) - - 12,417,732.00 Dominion and Provincial Government workers — _ 5,500,000.00 Wholesale and retail firms .'. _ 3,000,000.00 Delivery, cartage and teaming, warehousing, butchers, moving-picture operators, coal and wood yards, and auto transportation — _ 3,600,000.00 Ocean services and express companies - 7,500,000.00 Miscellaneous — - - - - - - 1,500,000.00 Total —- — - - - $162,654,234.00 PREVIOUS PROVINCIAL PAY-ROLLS. The total Provincial pay-rolls since 1927 are as follows:— 1927 $177,522,758.00 1933.. 899,126,653.00 1928 - - —- 183,097,781.00 1934- _ _ 113,567,953.00 1929 - 192,092,249.00 1935 125,812,140.00 1930 - - - 167,133,813.00 1936 142,349,591.00 1931 - 131,941,008.00 1937 .._ 162,654,234.00 1932 102,957,074.00 S 8 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. The percentage of the total payable to wage-earners increased from 77.76 per cent, in 1936 to 78.67 per cent, in 1937, this together with an increase in the number employed and in the average weekly wage paid is further evidence that the worker was in a better position during 1937 than in any year since 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. Per Cent. 12.08 13.62 74.30 Per Cent. 11.05 12.71 76.24 Per Cent. 11.06 12.65 76.29 Per Cent. 10.54 11.70 77.76 Per Cent. 11.33 78.67 Totals- _ 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 COMPARISON OF PAY-ROLLS. Of the twenty-five tables, twenty-four show an increased pay-roll, one only revealing a decrease. The lumber industry continued to lead with an increase of $6,046,674, followed by metal-mining with $2,182,347 and contracting with $1,931,675; metal trades increased by $1,306,593; smelting with an addition of $1,250,695, followed by pulp and paper mills with $896,038; food products showed an additional $843,762; public utilities, $755,592; Coast shipping, $584,334; wood (N.E.S.), $551,367; explosives and chemicals with $476,227; miscellaneous trades, $441,727; garment-making, $341,150; coal-mining, $299,778; shipbuilding, $298,028; printing and publishing, $208,661; laundries, cleaning and dyeing, $191,461; house-furnishings, $169,349; leather and fur goods, $156,786; building materials, $111,274; breweries, $101,507; jewellery-manufacture, $22,027; oil-refining, $19,129; paint- manufacture, $5,511. One industry, cigar and tobacco manufacturing, showed a decrease of $391. The pay-rolls covering the past three years can be conveniently compared in the following table:— Industry. 1935. No. of Firms porting. Total Pay-roll. No. of Firms porting. Total Pay-roll. 1937. No. of Firms porting. Total Pay-roH. Breweries Builders' materials.. Cigar and tobacco manufacturing.. Coal-mining Coast shipping Contracting— Explosives and chemicals.. Food products Garment-making House-furnishing Manufacturing jewellery Laundries, cleaning and dyeing Manufacturing leather and fur goods . Lumber industries Metal trades Metal-mining Miscellaneous Oil-refining. Paint-manufacture. Printing and publishing- Pulp and paper mills. Ship-building Smelting.. Street-railways, etc Manufacturing wood (N.E.S. )- Totals.. _.. 37 76 6 24 110 705 13 562 61 49 9 87 46 656 683 353 262 24 10 130 17 43 4 96 90 $845 802; 23, 3,064, 7,736, 5,717, 985, 8,836, 613, 733, 177, 1,180, 454, 18,077, 6,134, 8,280, 3,450. 1,912, 251, 3,172, 4,294, 939, 4,300, 8,536, 1,548, ,643.30 ,305.60 ,532.50 399.10 267.50 448.50 511.00 143.70 258.10 428.80 148.50 647.20 269.10 ,711.20 803.50 457.60 312.20 277.80 019.60 740.20 668.00 555.10 083.20 318.90 917.70 4,153 I $92,068,867.90 74 5 27 116 787 16 551 59 56 10 91 50 747 698 311 269 31 14 135 14 43 3 108 106 951 6 3,416 9,058 7,097 1,250 9,908 664 905, 192 1,270, 467, 23,523, 7,012, 9,532, 3,653, 2,349, 323, 3,271, 4,695, 938, 4,702, 9,144, 2,208, ,176.00 ,875.00 309.00 428.00 ,328.00 ,358.00 844.00 ,726.00 ,718.00 941.00 595.00 734.00 706.00 759.00 441.00 766.00 599.00 394.00 419.00 760.00 356.00 111.00 712.00 584.00 437.00 4,357 S$107,492,076.00 35 73 4 27 121 887 18 555 68 57 12 101 54 877 742 310 304 41 13 128 17 40 5 115 107 $1,045, 1,063, 5, 3,716, 9,642, 9,029, 1,727, 10.752, 1,005, 1,075, 214, 1,462, 624, 29,570, 8,319, 11,715, 4,095, 2,368, 328, 3,480, 5,591, 1,236, 5,953, 9,900, 2,759, ,683.00 ,149.00 ,918.00 ,206.00 ,662.00 ,033.00 ,071.00 ,488.00 ,868.00 290.00 ,622.00 ,195.00 492.00 433.00 034.00 113.00 326.00 523.00 930.00 421.00 394.00 139.00 407.00 176.00 804.00 4,711 |$126.683,377.00 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 9 INDUSTRIAL DIVISIONS. Dealing with the segregation of the industrial activities of the Province into three divisions—Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and Rest of Mainland—during the year 1937 owing to further increased activity in lumbering and mining the percentage representing the Greater Vancouver area dropped from 33.97 per cent, to 32.96 per cent. Vancouver Island continued to gain, increasing from 18.43 per cent, to 19.50 per cent. The Mainland percentage remained practically unchanged—a slight decrease of only 0.06 per cent, being noted. The percentages quoted are based on the returns received, the figures contained in the following table being obtained through their application to the total pay-roll. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. Greater Vancouver— $41,831,447.67 37,965,508.24 19,329,697.37 $45,972,307.59 47,289,695.86 20,305,950.09 $49,142,221.94 56,728,693.99 19,941,224.22 $48,356,156.06 67,758,405.32 26,235,029.62 $53,610,835.53 ■ 77,325,822.84 Vancouver Island 31,717,575.63 Totals .._ $99,126,653.28 $113,567,953.54 $125,812,140.15 $142,349,591.00 $162,654,234.00 CHANGE IN WAGE-RATES. Continued improvement is noted in the decreasing number of adult male workers shown in the returns in receipt of less than $19 per week. While in 1936 a decrease of 2,201 was evident in this group over the preceding year, the 1937 figure shows a further drop of 3,346. Adult Male Workers employed at Low Rates of Wages. Weekly Rate. 1928. 1929. 1930. 1931. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. 1 3 10 26 70 44 214 143 283 679 574 1,092 1,252 1 97 27 49 110 494 588 1,267 1,550 1,409 3 47 57 88 182 184 816 954 1,024 1,950 1,948 3 35 81 79 147 526 550 1,174 953 1,973 2,675 3,322 1,989 2,757 107 ' 167 420 367 683 914 810 2,145 1,809 2,204 3.159 2.754 2.318 2.574 96 405 728 592 1,187 1,063 809 2,550 2,145 2,436 2,965 2,780 2,280 2,927 378 166 191 257 361 489 473 2,742 1,372 1,952 2,502 4,757 2,081 3,513 304 172 122 125 250 295 352 1,745 1,167 1,413 2,192 5,300 2,267 3,575 243 98 98 111 308 273 341 761 911 1,640 1,949 4,543 2,216 3,586 155 125 7 to 7.99 .. 245 8 to 8.99 .. 172 9 to 9.99. - - 10 to 1«99 164 257 11 to 11.99 - 223 12 to 12.99 - 951 13 to 13.99 482 14 to 14.99 1,199 15 to 15.99 1 826 16 to 16.99 2 989 17 to 17.99 2,153 18 to 18.99 2,791 Totals - - 4,391 5,592 7,253 16,264 20,431 22,972 21,234 19,279 17,078 13,732 The following shows the various industries as represented in the tables, with the total number of adult males employed for the week of employment of the greatest number, together with the percentages of those in receipt of less than $19 per week:— Industry. Cigar and tobacco manufacturing.. Garment-making _ _ Paint manufacture — Leather and fur goods.. Builders' materials Wood (N.E.S.) Food products — House-furnishing Number employed. Laundries, cleaning and dyeing- Metal trades Miscellaneous trades and industries . Explosives and chemicals Printing and publishing Street-railways, etc. . Contracting — Oil-refining — Coast shipping Breweries - 195 146 297 1,108 2,241 10,058 641 586 4,564 2,832 1,100 1,101 4,971 11,805 1,076 6,194 582 Per Cent. 75.00 40.51 34.25 33.67 31.86 30.43 28.64 28.39 27.47 27.19 25.25 19.09 15.62 14.76 14.04 12.73 11.59 10.65 S 10 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Industry. Coal-mining Smelting Lumber industries Pulp and paper manufacture. Jewellery-manufacture Ship-building Metal-mining Number employed. ... 2,782 ... 3,433 ... 27,906 ... 4,001 57 ... 1,295 Per Cent. 10.50 9.58 8.99 7.07 5.26 2.56 1.62 Comparative study of the above figures with similar percentages for the year 1936 generally show favourable decreases in the number employed at less than $19 per week—a new low of 1.62 per cent, being set in 1937—as compared with the 1936 low of 2.76 per cent. APPRENTICES. It may be noticed that 8 apprentices are reported in receipt of between $35 and $40 per week—a" reference to the tables showing them employed in the following industries: Contracting, 3; pulp and paper mills, 1; street-railways, etc., 4. Ten are in receipt of from $30 to $35 per week, distributed as follows: Contracting, 1; printing and publishing, 1; street- railways, etc., 8. Industries showing an increasing source of opportunity for apprentices during the year were: Breweries, increased 3; Coast shipping, 1; contracting, 51; food products, 16; jewellery manufacture, 1; laundries, 23; leather and fur goods, 3; metal trades, 107; metal-mining, 18; printing and publishing, 16; pulp and paper, 22; smelting, 12; wood (N.E.S.),1. Decreases are found in the following: Building materials, decrease, 4; coal-mining, 6; explosives and chemicals, 5; garment-making, 1; house-furnishing, 44; lumber industries, 4; miscellaneous trades, 7; ship-building, 1; street-railways, etc., 7. AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE BY INDUSTRIES. Based on the week of employment of the greatest number, the average weekly wage for adult male employees increased in twenty-two of the twenty-five tables. While considerable difficulty is experienced with some industries in the matter of broken time, the figures have been computed as in previous years—an endeavour being made to base calculations on a full working week. Distribution of wage groups from $6 to $50 are used for this purpose, the mid-point of the class limits generally being taken as the rate for each group. Average Full Week's Wages in each Industry (Adult Males only). Industry. 1930. 1931. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. $27.40 27.38 25.06 29.03 31.36 30.34 26.66 27.79 28.34 25.54 37.85 27.16 28.31 25.69 29.96 33.31 25.88 29.78 25.85 39.34 " 27.39 30.35 30.05 30.02 26.03 $27.58 25.81 20.40 28.40 29.63 27.41 26.78 23.43 22.51 23.18 31.29 25.29 25.81 21.09 27.74 30.02 23.43 31.24 26.11 39.78 25.94 29.58 30.44 29.11 23.67 $25.65 21.95 14.28 28.04 26.50 ■24.78 23.34 21.88 24.07 20.05 23.40 23.26 21.62 18.73 24.24 25.50 22.78 29.34 25.00 37.05 24.63 26.17 22.98 28.89 20.61 $25.70 20.54 14.67 26.80 27.62 23.37 20.66 21.12 25.29 18.91 30.55 21.78 20.73 18.00 22.70 25.62 22.13 23.78 22.53 32.82 21.21 25.25 23.83 24.51 18.05 $25.62 20.19 15.86 28.11 28.58 22.56 22.53 21.10 23.52 19.49 28.88 20.67 22.34 21.32 22.81 27.35 21.26 25.04 22.53 32.51 23.22 26.03 23.88 25.51 18.97 $25.79 22.07 16.59 28.49 26.23 22.72 25.34 22.00 21.29 20.05 31.54 21.92 20.06 22.41 23.67 28.65 22.29 25.55 21.53 32.31 23.53 25.83 25.82 27.09 18.69 $25.00 22.28 17.75 28.75 31.61 24.13 23.76 23.16 22.74 21.29 34.39 22.25 20.48 24.83 24.41 29.10 22.07 26.21 21.44 32.72 24.24 26.38 24.54 27.50 20.32 Builders' materials 22.31 27 46 Contracting- - Explosives and chemicals 25.61 24.58 23 85 Garment-making 22.97 Manufacturing leather and fur goods — 21.23 26 81 Miscellaneous trades and industries . . 23.85 Paint-manufacturing , Printing and publishing Pulp and paper manufacturing 23.08 33.69 26.75 27 88 25 08 Street-railways, gas, water, power, telephones, etc,.. Manufacturing of wood (N.E.S.) 27.20 21.97 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 11 The increases and decreases in the average weekly rates are as follows :- Breweries Builders' materials Coast shipping Contracting Explosives and chemicals Food products, manufacture of Garment-making _ House-furnishing Jewellery, manufacture of Laundries, cleaning and dyeing Manufacturing leather and fur goods Increase. $1.18 .03 .82 .69 .23 .96 .21 .64 .75 Lumber industries Metal trades Metal-mining ___ $1.98 1.24 Miscellaneous trades and industries 1.78 Oil-refining 1.71 Paint-manufacturing 1.64 Printing and publishing .97 Pulp and paper manufacturing _ 2.51 Ship-building 1.50 Smelting — _ „ - 54 Manufacturing of wood (N.E.S.) 1.65 Decrease. Cigar and tobacco manufacturing $2.25 Coal-mining - - 1.29 Street-railways, gas, water, power, telephones, etc. — .30 INDUSTRIAL WAGE. The average weekly wage for all adult male employees was $26.64, an increase of $0.28 over 1936, and the following table shows the average for each year since the formation of the Department:— 1918 $27.97 1928 $28.96 1919 _ 29.11 1929 29.20 1920 31.51 27.62 27.29 28.05 1930 28.64 1921 1922 — 1931....: 1932 26.17 , 23.62 1923 1933 . . 22.30 1924 28.39 1934— 1935 23.57 1925 27.82 24.09 1926— 1927... 27.99 .— - 28.29 1936... 1937. 26.36 26.64 The above weekly wage rates appear in the following chart, showing the trend of average weekly wages for adult male workers from 1918 to 1937. AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES PAID TO ADULT MALE EMPLOYEES 1918— 1937 AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES V EAR 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 * 32.00 31.00 3O.00 29.OO 28. OO 27. OO 26.OO 25. OO 24.00 23.00 22.OO A /\ / \ \ / / \ \ \ \ \ \ \ / \ | / \ / V S 12 DEPARTMENT OP LABOUR. 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 551 1934 1935 1936 1937 i_ i_ _t _t _i ± R I _ ± i i a i ■ 1 <D .TtH^OOCOt-COlO (fl ^O5000«3t-H«|00 d OrHidtotociiaci « P. 3 s i£ CJ3 hOOOOOOoS fefe s-woiooiooiao H t- h- r> r- er 00 CT- to rH "*f -4 (M to cc cr Cv ir tZ tt (M Oi C" & -<* CO t- IC c Oi lTD a- c- SIC -t <u. OT CM <= O CN T- X cr CO c- st r- «■ r- rH \£ ia cn tr r- tC ir rH -= es r- c K to \r rH rH c\ ©j H tH QJ CN CJ S-i CD « CN r- 01 ir c C c o us c C <= s ta o 1C c »r i- tr 6 ir rH CN e- « -s ir c« V P" ir 6/ ^ TS ee T3 -a f. $ fl sfc C r c c c fl ■+- ^ - H- +- Cj JO h3 se 4- <- if* O IC f~ ir o C c ir ~ ir o c ir c~ 1C <5 ir o 5 CJ CN e' o- -d ua £ V CN CN c- v "-4 -a IO CN CM c ec ■^ INCREASED EMPLOYMENT. Considerable satisfaction is to be found in the increased number of wage-earners during 1937 which, from May to the end of the year, reached the highest point since the peak-year of 1929. At the close of 1937 the number reported was only 1.493 below the number reported for December, 1929. From the above figures it is evident that considerable progress has been made by industry in reaching out for new markets during 1937, and by so doing creating additional employment, which brought the number employed at the close of the year to within reach of the 1929 figures, as will be seen by the following chart which depicts the employment curve for 1921 and from 1929 to 1937. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 13 S 14 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. >t o . K K Eh Bi SS rt a 3 P s o < m Eh K s . 3 Ph .a W o f o .. ss « 2 fi Eh £ 5 H Eh o o s «! 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E ° Sflfl cfl c a cfl S fa fa C fl fl fl j - -y - C w Cv fa "-? fa *-3 fa fa fa I-S l-j fe fa in to ci eo oi to sfc- o co oo ta a cm oi t- ^ o t- f a oo CJ io" tO i-H O Tf tO CM W O M N N O H tj O '» N Cl CO CO 00 t-h to CO r-T co* eo" V) CS1 QJ C 3 1-3 13 fl d 0) ,-, £* a H £ is fc 2 3 £ -3 » .5 -b .3 3 I I , s. s g +J > D +* 3 S "a .2 I 3 £ "a -5 » a c 0) TS ■-" scft'S- g 1 § 5 S3 oooXoaPvaBZrt-rt— v,--„±,+irt B 0> c fl -S F f. s vs 01 .2 -^ os fl S a tr: >r d ■£ be T3 ra 6fl ca u S3 o a .§ v a o S B S ft ft 01 0) C 'SC s SE £ ■& ,3 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 15 NATIONALITIES OF EMPLOYEES. Of the total 120,416 employees reported under nationalities, 92,387, or 76.72 per cent., were natives of English-speaking countries, an increase of 1.30 per cent.; 18,548, or 15.40 per cent., were originally from Continental Europe, an increase of 0.57 per cent.; natives of Asiatic countries employed showed a total of 8,217, or 6.83 per cent., decreasing 0.63 per cent. Employees from other countries also decreased from 2.29 to 1.05 per cent. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. Per Cent. 75.26 14.57 8.40 1.77 Per Cent. 76.30 14.62 7.80 1.28 Per Cent. 72.83 15.25 8.28 3.64 Per Cent. 76.69 14.51 7.08 1.72 Per Cent. 75.42 14.83 7.46 2.29 Per Cent. 76.72 15.40 6.83 From other countries, or nationality not 1.05 Totals 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 FIRMS WITH LARGE PAY-ROLLS. In line with the continued advancement of the recovery trend, the number of firms showing a total pay-roll of over $100,000 further increased from 174 in 1936 to 222 in 1937. As in previous years, pay-rolls of public authorities (Dominion, Provincial, or municipal) are not included, nor are wholesale and retail firms, transcontinental railways, or vessels engaged in deep-sea transportation. The lumber industry again headed the list with 73 firms, an increase of 10; followed by metal-mining with 24, an increase of 7; food products, 23, up 1; general contracting, 13, up 7; Coast shipping, 11, up 1; pulp and paper, 8, up 3; public utilities, 8, up 1; coal-mining, 7, up 3; garages, oil-refining, and printing and publishing, 6 each, up 1 in each case; wood (N.E.S.), 5, up 2; miscellaneous metal trades, 4; breweries, 3; house-furnishings, miscellaneous trades and industries, and ship-building, 3 each, up 1 in each case; builders' materials, electrical contracting, laundries, and smelting, 2 each, all up 1; explosives, fertilizers and chemicals, garment-manufacturing, jewellery-manufacturing, leather and fur goods, iron and brass foundries, machine-shops, paint-manufacture, 1 each. Of the 222 firms reported above, two had a pay-roll in excess of $4,000,000, four between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, and eight between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. S 16 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. CONTENTS OF TABLES. With regard to the tables immediately following-, the general headings of such tables are given hereunder and the trades inclu ded under each heading :— No. 1. Breweries.—Under this heading are tabulated mineral- water manufacturers and breweries. No. 2. Builders' Material, etc.—Includes manufacturers of brick, cut stone, Portland cement, lime, tiles, and firebrick ; also stone-quarries and dealers in sand, gravel, and crushed rock. No. 3. Cigar and Tobacco Manufacturing.—Comprises only these trades. No. 4. Coal-mining.—This group contains also the operation of coke-ovens and coal-shipping docks. No. 5. Coast Shipping.—Includes the operation of passenger and freight steamships, stevedoring, tug-boats (both general and towing logs), and river navigation, but does not include the operation of vessels in the offshore trade. No. 6. Contracting. -Here &re grouped building trades, painting and paper-hanging, plumbing a:*d heating, and sheet- metal works ; also contractors for industrial plants, structural-steel fabricating, railway-fencing, sewers, pipes and valves, dredging, pile-driving, wharves, bridges, roofing, and automatic sprinklers. Firms making return as building contractors, constructors of dry-kilns, refuse-burners, mills, brick-furnaces, electrical contractors, hardwood and sanitary floor-layers, and bricklayers. No. 7. Explosives, Chemicals, etc. — Includes the manufacture of these commodities, also the manufacture of fertilizers. No. 8. Food Products, Manufacture of.—This table includes bakeries, biscuit-manufacturers, cereal-milling, creameries and dairies, fish, fruit and vegetable canneries, packinghouses, curers of ham and bacon, blending of teas; also manufacturers of candy, macaroni, syrup, jams, pickles, sauces, coffee, catsup, and spices. No. 9. Garment-making.—Includes tailoring, the manufacture of buttons, pleating, embroidery, etc., jute and cotton goods, shirts, overalls, knitted goods, millinery and ladies' outfitting. No. 10. House Furnishings.—Comprises firms engaged in the manufacture of furniture, beds and bedding, springs and mattresses, upholstering, and carpet and linoleum laying. No. 11. Jewellery, Manufacture of.—Includes the repair as well as manufacturing of jewellery and watches and optical instruments (where same is carried on in a factory). No. 12. Laundries, Cleaning and Dyeing.—Includes these industries only. No. 13. Leather and Fur Goods, Manufacture of—Comprises manufacturers of boots, shoes, gloves, harness, trunks, and leather Indian novelties; also furriers and hide and wool dealers. No. 14. Lumber Industries.—In this group are included logging, logging-rail ways, planing-mills, sawmills, shingle-mills, and lumber-dealers. No. 15. Metal Trades.—-This group includes marine blacksmith- ing, oxy-acetylene welding, boiler-making, iron and brass foundries, garages, vulcanizing, machine and pattern shops, galvanizing and electroplating; also manufacturers of handsaws, nuts and bolts, pumps, marine engines, mill machinery, and repairs to same. No. 16. Metal-mining.— Includes all metalliferous mining. No. 17. Miscellaneous Trades and Industries. — Here are grouped returns from trades which are not numerous enough to warrant special categories. They include manufacturers of soap, sails, tents, awning, brooms, paper boxes, and tin containers ; also cold storage. No. 18. Oil-reftning.~Includes also the manufacture of fish-oil. No. 19. Paint-manufacturing.— Includes also white-lead corro- ders and varnish-manufacturers. No. 20. Printing and Publishing.—This table includes the printing and publishing of newspapers, job-printing, paper- ruling, bookbinding, engraving and embossing, blue-printing, lithographing, draughting and map-publishing, and the manufacture of rubber and metal stamps. No. 21. Pulp and Paper Manufacturing.—Comprises only firms engaged in that industry. No. 22. Ship-building.—Comprises both wooden- and steel-ship building and repairing, also construction and repair of small craft, and salvage. No. 23. Smelting.— Comprises firms engaged exclusively in that industry. No. 24. Street-railways, Gas, Water, Power, etc.—This group comprises generating and distribution of light and power, manufacture of gas, dissolved acetylene and oxygen ; also includes gasoline lighting and heating devices, &nd supply of water to municipalities. No. 25. Wood, Manufacture of (not elsewhere specified).—Here are grouped manufacturers of sash and doors, interior finish, water-proof ply-wood, veneer, store and office fittings, barrels, boxes, ships' knees, ready-cut buildings, wooden pipes and tanks, wooden pulleys, wooden toys, caskets, coffins, and undertakers' supplies. Table No. 1. BREWERIES, DISTILLERS, AND AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. Returns covering 35 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $249,881.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 180,281.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 615,521.00 Total Sl,045,683.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January 458 122 July . 519 75 February.... 437 98 August 521 71 474 96 September . 606 83 April 468 104 491 91 May S01 98 November .. 496 94 June 511 S5 December... 518 74 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners ortly). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 60.00 $6.00 to 86.99. to 7.99. to 8.99. to 9.99. to to to to to to to to to to 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. to 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. Males. 21 Yrs. & over. 3 2 6 21 2 5 22 75 31 16 50 8 27 25 13 124 61 43 11 4 Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. & over. 4 64 41 62 1 7 2 Under 18 Y'rs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland.. Great Britain and Ireland... United States of America... Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. Females. 387 148 11 1 1 1 15 24 1 24 5 3 24 175 12 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 17 Table No. 2. BUILDERS' MATERIAL—PRODUCERS OF. Returns covering 73 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $184,904.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 83,775.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 794,470.00 Total $1,063,149.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. January February .. March April May June Males. Females. 493 4 519 4 705 4 794 4 816 4 849 4 July August September . October November .. December... 857 764 881 881 832 766 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only), For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00.. to " to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to $6.99. 7.99. 8.99. 9.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 2*.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. 21 Yrs. Under & over. 21 Yrs. 27 4 8 1 5 10 11 8 16 126 66 60 122 90 78 49 28 94 53 44 20 21 17 64 23 40 7 5 Females. 18 Yrs. Under over. 18 Yrs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States.... Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. 572 294 19 1 2 6 31 18 22 52 3 7 112 2 12 Females. Table No. 3. CIGAR AND TOBACCO MANUFACTURING. Returns covering . Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $1,965.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 627.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 3,326.00 Total $5,918.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January.... February... April May June 6 6 6 6 7 6 2 2 2 2 2 2 July September . October .... November.. December .. 5 6 6 7 7 8 2 2 2 2 2 4 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00.. to $6. to 7. to 8. to 9. to to to to to 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. to 15. to 16.99. to 17.99. to 18.99. to 19.99. to 20.99. to 21.99. to 22.99. to 23.99. to 24.99. to 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99 44.99. 49.99. Males. 21 Yrs. Under & over. 21 Yrs. Females. 18 Yrs. &over. Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland.. Great Britain and Ireland... United States of America... Australasia Belgium France Italy. Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. Females. S 18 DEPARTMENT OP LABOUR. Table No. 4. COAL-MINING. Returns covering 27 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $107,794.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 136,444.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 3,471,968.00 Total $3,716,206.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January.. February. March.... April May June 2,598 2,550 2,619 2,665 2,709 2,641 July August... September October... November. December. 2,652 2,696 2,984 2,444 2,641 2,805 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00 to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to 1.99. 7.99. 8.99. 9.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 26.99. 27 99.. 28.99.. 29.99.. 34.99.. 39.99.. 44.99.. 49.99.. and over. . 21 Yrs. & over. 28 58 89 81 104 136 87 100 232 214 111 174 66 128 784 168 40 Under 21 Yrs. 27 16 4 37 12 10 20 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. Females. 1,143 31 1 13 3 215 43 348 36 73 1 120 Table No. 5. COAST SHIPPING. Returns covering 121 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $724,120.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 509,983.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 8,408,559.00 Total $9,642,662.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. January. February March... April ... May June 5,441 5,624 5,656 5,769 5,946 44 47 60 54 57 72 Mouth. Males. Females July August... September October... November. December 6,050 6,055 5,741 5,540 5,424 5,490 85 87 74 52 46 46 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Males. Females. Apprentices. Employment of Greatest Number. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. Under $6.00 2 2 1 13 3 7 7 3 57 16 24 6 5 13 13 30 5 13 4 3 $6.00 to $6.99.. 2 1 12 12 11 14 62 49 60 64 178 111 152 131 197 141 255 301 257 451 81 62 158 45 665 259 2,149 159 165 1 1 8.00 to 8.99.. 10 00 to 10.99.. 11.00 to 11.99.. 12.00 to 12.99.. 1 13.00 to 13.99.. 14.00 to 14.99.. 1 3 10 1 1 30 16 1 2 15.00 to 15.99.. 16.00 to 16.99.. 17.00 to 17.99.. 18.00 to 18.99.. 1 20.00 to 20.99.. 1 22.00 to 22.99.. 23.00 to 23.99.. 24.00 to 24.99 6 4 25.00 to 25.99.. 26.00 to 26.99 27 00 to 27 99. 28.00 to 28.99.. 1 1 29.00 to 29.99.. 30.00 to 34.99 35.00 to 39.99 40.00 to 44.99. 1 45.00 to 49.99. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland.. Great Britain and Ireland... United States of America... Australasia Belgium France Italy.. Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 2,876 2,672 84 19 1 21 46 103 77 383 72 25 223 25 13 Females. 79 30 2 REPORT OP DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 19 Table No. 6. CONTRACTING. Returns covering 887 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $1,070,063.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 992,839.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 6,966,131.00 Total $9,029,033.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. January. February March.., April.... May June 3,766 3,946 4,872 5,586 6,203 7,077 90 67 129 139 Month. Males. Females July August.... September October .. . November. December.. 7,614 8,008 7,538 6,969 6,135 5,694 177 158 128 107 84 83 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 16.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00 .... to $6.99. to 7.99. to 8.99. to 9.99. to 10.99. to 11.99. to 12.99. to 13.99. to 14.99. to 15.99. to 16.99. to 17.99. to 18.99. to 19.99. to 20.99. to 21.99. to 22.99. to 23.99. to 24.99. to 25.99. to 26.99. to 27.99.. to 28 99.. to 29.99.. to 34.99.. to 39.99.. to 44.99. to 49.99.. and over.. Males. 21 Yrs. & over. 18 30 9 11 17 20 16 60 59 105 116 407 535 254 1,680 623 664 1,156 460 991 380 307 392 339 138 1,332 689 590 266 141 Under 21 Yrs. 6 10 9 2 9 10 13 4 14 14 22 19 7 25 4 Females. 18 Yrs. & over. 4 1 2 61 1 17 22 7 6 3 5 4 3 3 3 6 1 Under 18 Yrs. Appren tices. 16 12 9 19 9 11 8 11 5 6 8 1 4 1 2 1 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria. Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 1,133 227 14 16 42 256 165 149 692 187 45 10 4 116 Females. 145 52 Table No. 7. EXPLOSIVES, CHEMICALS, ETC. Returns covering 18 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $113,301.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 233,7S4.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 1,379,986.00 Total $1,727,071.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January ... February... April 696 691 761 952 1,035 1,065 20 19 25 27 28 26 August September.. October.... November .. December .. 1,071 1,085 1,041 871 859 552 27 25 26 23 23 24 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00. to $6 to 7 to 8 to 9 to to 10.f 11.8 to 12.9 to to to to to to to to to to to to 13.99. 14.99. 15.99 16.99. 17.99 18.99. 19.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24 99. to 25.99. to 26.99. to 27.99. to 28.99. to 29.99. to 34.99. to 39.99. to 44.99. to 49.99. and over . Males. Females. Apprentices. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. 4 2 1 1 1 2 2 13 13 31 24 18 98 28 88 54 131 60 59 105 26 50 94 31 91 38 17 7 11 2 1 1 1 5 1 5 4 1 o 1 ii'" 2 9 2 4 3 7 1 1 1 1 4 6 6 3 3 1 2 2 1 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. 587 365 21 1 2 1 12 5 3 44 6 4 74 65 1 26 7 1 S 20 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Table No. 8. FOOD PRODUCTS—MANUFACTURE OF. Returns covering 555 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $1,535,158.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 1,534,003.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 7,683,327.00 Total . $10,752,488.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females January. February March... April May June 3,913 4,011 4,077 4,540 5,288 6,073 963 1,000 933 1,023 1,173 1,870 July August September . October November.. December .. 7,530 8,067 7,581 6,936 5,514 4,531 3,642 4,266 4,521 4,243 2,631 1,467 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only) For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 to $6.99.. to 7.99.. to 8.99.. to 9.99.. to 10.99.. to 11.99.. to 12.99.. to 13.99.. to 14.99.. to 15.99.. to 16.99.. to 17.99.. to 18.99.. to 19.99.. to 20.99.. to 21.99... to 22.99... to 23.99... to 24.99... to 25.99... to 26.99... to 27.99... to 28.99... to 29.99... to 34.99... to 39.99... to 44.99... to 49.99... and over ... Males. 21 Yrs. & over. 48 157 49 51 103 65 478 75 287 546 361 271 330 693 590 420 586 349 683 699 400 284 360 194 835 412 185 56 432 Under 21 Yrs. 26 17 17 39 13 23 27 43 23 40 40 37 20 21 14 14 17 20 14 Females. 18 Yrs. 345 138 141 173 110 522 507 502 366 706 502 382 353 404 163 133 141 102 75 79 58 59 44 34 25 52 Under 18 Yrs. 10 48 17 37 29 37 22 23 27 7 9 58 6 2 3 3 Appren tices. 2 3 10 7 13 5 10 2 4 7 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States ... Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 5,103 2,606 139 9 10 29 91 154 134 633 87 50 1,257 25 773 34 4,695 921 83 2 4 31 80 209 81 99 71 10 5 432 131 Table No. 9. GARMENT-MAKING. Returns covering 68 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $200,874.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 219,255.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 585,739.00 Total $1,005,868.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females Januar}'.. February. March.... April. ... May June 185 201 208 215 206 206 512 570 635 649 627 579 Month. Males. Females. July August.... September October ... November. December . 196 200 209 211 204 198 548 549 582 589 661 516 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners ortly). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00 .... to $9.99. to 7.99. to 8.99. to 9.99. to to to to to to to to 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. and over. 21 Yrs. & over. 28 5 9 10 7 13 12 6 2 2 12 1 7 6 3 23 15 Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. &over. 1 1 6 7 5 8 13 91 87 123 69 44 30 37 6 18 2 6 1 2 7 Under 18 Yrs. 4 2 21 4 1 Apprentices. 3 1 10 12 5 5 10 2 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. Females.. 107 65 2 15 7 10 380. 167 9 1 1 1 4 4 8 21 15 2 17 74 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 21 Table No. 10. HOUSE FURNISHINGS MANUFACTURING OF. Returns covering 57 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $201,526.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 113,182.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 760,582.00 Total $1,075,290.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. January. February March... April May June 705 711 723 727 728 739 108 112 116 117 120 121 Month. Males. Females. July August... September. October .. November. December.. 767 845 811 828 806 780 125 131 134 135 131 128 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only) For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 18.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 2S.O0 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 36.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00.. to $6. to 7. to 8. to 9. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. and over. 21 Yrs. & over. 7 4 14 16 75 23 22 47 82 39 49 32 24 17 1 37 5 2 Under 21 Yrs. 3 2 5 24 17 7 IS 26 14 13 19 47 18 Yrs. & over. 4 1 2 3 15 19 25 28 11 Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 575 223 11 1 1 20 5 31 30 4 113 26 Table No. 11. JEWELLERY—MANUFACTURING OF. Returns covering 12 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $26,351.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 89,323.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 98,948.00 Total $214,622.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January.... February... May June 65 66 66 65 64 65 6 6 5 5 4 4 July August September.. October November.. December... 65 64 65 66 67 69 5 4 5 5 6 8 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners orfly). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 S6.00. to $6. to 7 to 8 to 9 to 10 to 11 to 12 to 13 to 14 to 15.9 to 16.9 to 17.9 to 18.9 to 19.9 to 20.9 to 21.9 to 22.9 to 23.9 to 24 to 25.99. to 26.99. to 27.99. to 28.99. to 29.99. to 34.99. to 39.99. to 44.99. to 49.99 and over. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. Females. 18 Yrs. «fc over. Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. 48 26 10 1 S 22 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Table No. 12. LAUNDRIES, CLEANING AND DYEING. Returns covering 101 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $138,034.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 231,429.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 1,092,732.00 Total $1,462,195.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females January.. February. March. .. April.. May June 552 550 571 568 582 602 903 934 946 961 9S6 July August ... September October ... November. December . 601 597 597 588 575 568 1,003 1,025 981 955 948 954 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only) For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00 to $6.99. to 7.99. to 8.99. to 9.99. to 10.99. to 11.99. to 12.99. to 13.99. to 14.99. to 15.99. to 16.99. to 17.99. to 18.99. to 19.99. to 20.99. to 21.99. to 22.99. to 23.99. to 24.99. to 25.99. to 29.99. to 27.99. to 28.99. to 29.99. to 34.99. to 39.99. to 44.99. to 49.99. and over. Males. 21 Yrs. Under & over. 21 Yrs. 4 4 1 5 4 4 7 12 7 34 21 21 37 37 50 18 59 14 31 52 37 31 15 5 48 17 7 18 Yrs. & over. 8 6 3 14 26 21 38 82 401 137 93 40 27 16 Under 18 Yrs. 1 4 7 22 8 9 3 3 1 Apprentices. 1 2 2 17 15 14 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium ., France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. 296 242 18 11 8 26 2 624 325 28 1 3 12 22 12 9 23 21 4 1 Table No. 13. LEATHER AND FUR GOODS—MANUFACTURING OF. Returns covering 54 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers, $116,391.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 114,899.00 Wage-earners (.including piece-workers) 393,202.00 Total $624,492.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January. February March... April May June. ... 337 335 340 354 354 361 103 107 112 117 July.. August September. October November. December . 36S 367 362 371 362 119 128 133 138 133 129 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Males. Females. Apprentices. Employment of Greatest Number. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. Under $6.00 9 6 19 8 8 9 3 11 8 2 4 3 1 1 4 3 7.00 to 7.99.. 8.00 to 8.99 9.00 to 9.99.. 4 3 2 5 3 9 12 23 18 15 10 8 6 9 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 7 4 3 10.00 to 10.99.. 11.00 to 11.99.. 12.00 to 12.99.. 4 2 9 4 9 23 17 15 19 35 26 12 20 8 29 22 9 10 4 5 10 6 1 2 1 14.00 to 14.99.. 15.00 to 15.99.. 16.00 to 16.99 1 1 17.00 to 17 99 . 18.00 to 18.99 20.00 to 20.99.. 22.00 to 22.99.. 23.00 to 23.99 24.00 to 24.99 . 25.00 to 25 99.. 3 27.00 to 27.99.. 28.00 to 28.99.. 29.00 to 29.99.. 30.00 to 34 99.. 40.00 to 44.99.. 45.00 to 49.99 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland. Great Britain and Ireland... United States of America .. Australasia Belgium France. Italy.. Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. Females. 211 108 7 12 29 5 9 14 10 4 1 95 32 6 11 3 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 23 Table No. 14. LUMBER INDUSTRIES. Returns covering 877 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $1,687,458.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 933,728.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 26,949,247.00 Total $29,570,433.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. January. February- March .. . April.... May June Males. Females. 16,592 12,779 19,246 21,969 23,657 24,132 43 41 54 59 64 65 Month. Males. July 24,176 August.... 23,663 September. 23,935 October ... 23,129 November. 21,086 December.. 18,354 67 65 62 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.60 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 29.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 36.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 00 .... $6.99. 7.99. 8.99. 9.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. Males. 21 Y'rs. Under & over. 21 Yrs. 7 6 5 3 7 2 7 12 4 31 33 15 11 90 107 63 40 193 122 147 42 928 102 296 16 707 34 3,892 158 940 25 2,402 58 928 8 560 7 3,730 68 1,078 2 1,212 6 1,243 29 863 5 704 9 3,070 3 2,150 2 1,444 707 3 475 1 18 Yrs. & over. 3 2 2 9 2 3 3 3 13 11 Under 18 Yrs. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan AH other countries 13,464 3,174 676 17 47 134 318 590 1,139 4,425 1,047 228 1,707 644 1,483 353 Appren. tices. Table No. 15. METAL TRADES. Returns covering 742 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $1,640,245.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 1,985,054.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 4,693,735.00 Total $8,319,034.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. January ., February. March April May June Males. Females. 3,775 3,896 4,144 4,316 4,432 4,564 143 152 153 147 164 171 Month. July August.... September October... November . December.. Males. 4,660 4,916 4,602 4,530 4,372 4,285 178 168 162 156 159 157 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners oitly). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 .00 .... $6.99. 7.99. 8.99. 9.99 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17 99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99 27.99 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. 21 Yrs. & over. 2 5 5 11 11 19 22 69 36 69 377 163 229 236 294 269 137 218 123 252 256 140 116 178 108 780 245 114 36 68 Under 21 Yrs. 25 17 19 26 22 40 35 57 23 21 97 19 22 IS 13 2 18 Yrs. & over. 5 9 5 4 66 6 10 14 13 Under 18 Yrs. Nationality of Employees. Apprentices. 42 50 27 49 26 20 23 25 13 9 13 12 3 Country of Origin. Males. Females. 3,528 1,404 111 14 13 16 62 54 19 92 28 10 4 2 17 20 200 37 4 Italy Central European and Balkan Norway, Sweden, Denmark, F States inland, etc. 1 1 2 2 2 S 24 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Table No. 16. METAL-MINING. Returns covering 310 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $1,033,555.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 638,158.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 10,043,400.00 Total $11,715,113.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females January. February March. . April May June .... 5,253 5,227 5,583 6,060 6,569 6,811 34 34 37 41 52 55 July August.... September. October .. November.. December.. 7,016 7,245 7,261 7,193 6,820 6,391 66 57 54 53 Table No. 17. MISCELLANEOUS TRADES AND INDUSTRIES. Returns covering SOU Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $792,526.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 732,475.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 2,570,325.00 Total $4,095,326.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. Januarv.... 1,796 306 July 2,241 371 February... 1,772 321 August 2,484 373 2,063 340 September.. 2,551 403 2,212 333 October .. 2,082 382 May 2,114 337 November.. 2,254 376 June 2,145 356 December .. 2,175 365 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage -earners only). Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage -earners only). For Week of Males. Females. Apprentices. For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Males. Females. Apprentices. Employment of Greatest Number. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. &, over. Under 18 Yrs. 7 1 5 3 3 2 4 4 3 25 14 24 42 37 97 180 228 54 626 784 238 556 699 904 2,720 1,163 331 81 86 1 Under $6.00 $6.00 to $6.99. 7.00 to 7.99. 8.00 to 8.99.. 9.00 to 9.99.. 10.00 to 10.99 . 11.00 to 11.99. 12.00 to 12.99.. 13.00 to 13.99.. 14.00 to 14.99 . 15.00 to 15.99.. 16.00 to 16.99.. 17.00 to 17.99 . 18.00 to 18.99 . 19.00 to 19.99.. 20.00 to 20.99.. 21.00 to 21.99.. 22.00 to 22.99.. 23.00 to 23.99.. 24.00 to 24.99.. 25.00 to 25.99.. 26.00 to 26.99.. 27.00 to 27.99.. 28.00 to 28.99.. 29.00 to 29.99.. 30.00 to 34.99.. 35.00 to 39.99.. 40.00 to 44.99.. 45.00 to 49.99.. 50.00 and over .. 5 12 5 7 10 13 11 40 22 28 111 144 99 208 251 99 200 252 74 332 171 71 81 70 27 246 100 67 34 42 14 6 21 10 15 17 8 16 16 12 22 6 8 2 6 1 3 "l " 1 1 2 2 7 7 9 2 27 54 138 41 35 19 14 16 9 9 2 2 3 4 3 1 6 $6.00 to $6.99... 7.00 to 7.99... 1 1 8 2 1 4 2 12 2 9 30 1 1 8.00 to 8.99... 2 1 1 9.00 to 9.99... 10.00 to 10.99... 1 2 3 11.00 to 11.99. . 5 1 1 2 5 2 5 3 2 9 4 7 2 4 1 20 1 4 1 3 8 6 8 10 5 is 2 2 2 4 1 1 13.00 to 13.99... 1 14.00 to 14.99... 3 3 1 19 00 to 19 99. 3 1 1 23 00 to 23 99 . 1 27.00 to 27.99... 1 6 Nationality of Er nployees. Nationality of Er nployees. Country of Origin. Males. Females. Country of Origin. Males. Females. Canada and Newfou Great Britain and Ir United States of An 4,911 2,290 S45 21 15 36 234 239 482 1,402 132 63 94 62 18 3 Canada and Newfoundland 1,863 1,006 67 3 3 6 16 16 18 71 89 4 9 5 15 22 373 107 United States of A 7 2 Italv 1 1 Italv 2 Germany and Austr Germany and Aust 1 tc. etc. 1 2 Russia and Poland Other European cou Russia and Poland Other European co 10 24 110 8 All other countries All other countries REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 25 Table No. 18. OIL-REFINING. Returns covering UI Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $251,528.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 1,033,403.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 1,083,592.00 Total $2,368,523.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females January. February March... April May June 702 674 672 724 817 917 12 14 12 14 12 13 July 916 August 868 September.. 852 October 814 November .. 793 December... 752 19 13 16 17 12 11 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 00 .... $6.99. 7.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99.. 29.99., 34.99.. 39.99.. 44.99.. to to to to to to 49.99 and over 21 Yrs. &over. 18 38 17 30 33 73 19 26 47 23 68 47 110 20 49 40 200 155 37 17 Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. Under & over. 18 Yrs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Males. Females. 814 351 34 3 1 1 3 41 1 Italy Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.. 8 62 2 7 6 2 Other European country 4 5 1 Table No. 19. PAINT-MANUFACTURING. Returns covering IS Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $69,147.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 101,611.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 158,172.00 Total $328,930.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January.... February... March April May June 132 138 151 158 148 150 15 15 16 16 16 15 July September.. October. November .. December... 152 160 147 141 139 146 15 15 14 14 14 14 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Males. Females. Apprentices. Employment of Greatest Number. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. tfeover. Under 18 Yrs. Under $6.00 7.00 to 7.99 "l" 3 5 1 11.00 to 11.99 1 1 3 16 6 6 11 6 6 10 6 6 3 19 12 4 1 2 1 12.00 to 12.99 5 3 2 13.00 to 13.99.. 14.00 to 14 99.. 6 7 1 15.00 to 15.99.. 16.00 to 16 99 17.00 to 17.99 18.00 to 18.99.. 1 21.00 to 21.99.. 22.00 to 22.99. 23.00 to 23.99.. 24 00 to 24.99.. 25.00 to 25.99. 29.00 to 26.99 28 00 to 28.99 29.00 to 29.99.. 30.00 to 34.99 8 8 2 2 a 35.00 to 39.99.. 40.00 to 44.99.. 45.00 to 49.99.. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland . Great Britain and Ireland .. United States of America... Australasia Belgium France Italy. Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan , All other countries Males. 116 67 2 14 4 1 S 26 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Table No. 20. PRINTING AND PUBLISHING. Returns covering 128 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $501,555.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 1,119,941.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 1,858,925.00 Total $3,480,421.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January. February March. . April.... May June 1,082 1,111 1,135 1,166 1,163 1,164 152 162 162 162 178 187 July August... September October.. . November December. 1,165 1,160 1,160 1,203 1,195 1,204 1S3 188 185 211 186 180 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only), For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 .00 $6.99. 7.99. 8.99. 9.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. 21 Yrs. Under & over. 21 Yrs. 4 11 4 9 4 13 8 12 9 22 23 23 12 18 23 30 13 28 15 15 51 23 26 26 7 88 95 217 187 85 18 4 8 4 4 5 3 1 1 Frmalks. IS Yrs. & over. 5 4 11 9 16 22 29 15 18 4 IS 1 2 4 1 Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. 5 10 4 8 14 18 10 8 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland. Great Britain and Ireland... United States of America... Australasia Belgium France. Italy.. Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. Females. 908 449 36 2 2 13 223 55 Table No. 21. PULP AND PAPER—MANUFACTURING OF. Returns covering 17 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $461,298.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 504,150.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 4,625,946.00 Total $5,591,394.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. January.. February March ... April May June 3.312 3,339 3,411 3,422 3,611 3,534 72 80 83 81 July August September.. October November .. December... Males. Females. 3,393 79 3,515 83 3,505 81 3,396 81 3,332 75 3,268 69 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 26.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 36.00 40.00 46.00 50.00 $6.00 to $6.99 7.9 8.99. 9.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99 17.99 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99 23.99. 24.99 25.99. 26.99. 27.99 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. 21 Yrs. Under & over. 21 Yrs. 1 2 18 12 7 10 13 34 49 137 516 82 130 117 110 752 304 378 159 91 117 326 415 96 58 67 18 Yrs. tk over. 2 6 4 1 3 23 1 9 38 1 8 1 1 2 Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. 3 14 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia . Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. 1,894 895 44 10 5 31 40 11 84 25 3 561 144 62 15 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 27 Tablb No. 22. SHIP-BUILDING. Returns covering UO Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $162,484.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 85,456.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 988,199.00 Total. $1,236,139.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January February.... March April 711 672 862 993 899 351 2 2 2 2 3 3 July September.. November .. December... 812 746 994 803 836 711 2 2 2 2 June 2 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only) For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 00 .... $6.99 7.99. 8.99. 9.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. 25.99. 26.99. 27.99. 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. and over. 21 Yrs. Under & over 21 Yrs. 1 1 1 6 2 7 1 3 5 5 10 15 9 436 9 67 14 14 75 23 153 242 149 26 18 2 26 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. 10 4 4 1 4 1 6 5 4 2 2 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 716 510 70 i 3 2 8 1 35 4 1 Table No. 23. SMELTING. Returns covering 5 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $241,908.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 757,094.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 4,954,405.00 Total $5,953,407.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. January.... February... March.. April June 3,038 3,137 3,248 3,325 3,436 3,499 18 18 19 22 22 22 July August September.. October November .. December... 3,462 3,515 3,533 3,481 3,551 3,546 22 22 22 22 23 22 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Males. Females. Apprentices. Employment of Greatest Number. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Yrs. 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. Under $6.00 $6.00 to $6.99.. 7.00 to 7 99.. 31 3 14 4 7 12 18 16 16 22 22 81 34 49 106 195 258 334 287 208 331 180 234 303 125 381 111 40 10 1 8 10 4 2 2 1 8.00 to 8.99 9 00 to 9.99.. 10.00 to 10.99.. IS 2 12 12.00 to 12.99 . 7 13.00 to 13.99.. 6 2 14.00 to 14.99.. 6 1 9 4 18.00 to 18.99 . 6 20.00 to 20 99 19 26 11 14 2 6 1 3 22.00 to '22 99 23.00 to 23.99.. 24.00 to 24 99.. 25 00 to 25 99.. 27.00 to 27.99.. 29.00 to 29.99.. 30.00 to 34.99.. 35.00 to 39.99.. 40.00 to 44.99.. 45.00 to 49.99.. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries Males. Females. 3,615 1,062 108 4 403 56 79 162 40 10 3 40 1 S 28 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Table No. 24. STREET RAILWAYS, GAS, WATER, LIGHT, POWER, TELEPHONES, ETC. Returns covering 115 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $750,291.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 1,849,741.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 7,300,144.00 Total $9,900,176.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females. February.... April May June 3,677 3,649 3,717' 3,989 4,098 4,219 1,542 1,537 1,569 1,557 1,901 1,994 July August September.. . October .... Novemljer .. December... 4,194 4,150 4,104 4,050 3,942 3,992 1,986 1,699 1,717 1,615 1,588 1,669 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). For Week of Employment of Greatest Number. Under $6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17 00 18.00 19.00 20.00 21.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 $6.00 . to to to $6.99. 7.99. 9.99. 10.99. 11.99. 12.99. 13.99. 14.99. 15.99. 16.99. 17.99. 18.99. 19.99. 20.99. 21.99. 22.99. 23.99. 24.99. to 25.99. to 26.99. 27.99. 28.99. 29.99. 34.99. 39.99. 44.99. 49.99. and over. 21 Yrs. Under & over. 21 Yrs. 2 43 18 11 7 20 44 220 59 96 82 127 498 196 138 114 145 317 159 184 259 271 273 784 373 388 84 54 18 Yrs. & over. 46 163 53 6 493 140 16 41 47 518 117 38 12 Under 18 Yrs. Apprentices. Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland ' Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 2,584 2,282 185 16 4 16 82 76 51 165 43 14 Females. 1,566 465 54 1 Table No. 25. WOOD—MANUFACTURE OF (N.E.S.). Returns covering 107 Firms. Salary and Wage Payments, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers $403,500.00 Clerks, Stenographers, Salesmen, etc 169,391.00 Wage-earners (including piece-workers) 2,186,913.00 Total $2,759,804.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. Month. Males. Females. Month. Males. Females, January . February March. .. April.... May June 1,722 1,764 2,063 2,208 2,365 2,454 68 61 73 98 137 136 July August... . September October ... November. December 2,484 2,594 2,498 2,325 2,253 2,104 115 95 92 87 76 73 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria. Central European and Balkan States.... Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 2,051 477 36 3 4 11 19 50 42 139 41 11 37 2 67 31 For Week of Malrs. Females. Apprentices. Employmentof Greatest Number. 21 Yrs. & over. Under 21 Y'rs. 18 Yrs. & over. Under 18 Yrs. Under $6 00 2 1 2 35 50 74 79 98 134 79 63 21 20 3 53 1 12 1 1 2 2 1 1 8 31 28 32 70 285 137 87 283 150 212 90 58 329 42 84 54 54 48 64 52 15 18 6 1 8.00 to 8.99.. 9.00 to 9.99.. 10.00 to 10.99.. ll.OOto 11.99.. 12.00 to 12.99.. 13.00 to 13.99.. ll.OOto 14.99.. 15.00 to 15.99.. 16.00 to 16.99.. 8 5 19 8 48 21 7 5 4 3 2 3 2 3 1 1 1 1 5 4 1 1 1 18.00 to 18,99.. 19.00 to 19.99 . 20 00 to 20.99.. 1 1 22 00 to 22 99.. 1 25.00 to 25.99.. 27 00 to 27.99.. 1 30.00 to 34.99 40 00 to 44.99.. Males. F e rrales 105 24 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 29 SUMMARY OF ALL TABLES. Returns covering U,711 Firms. Total Salary and Wage Payments during Twelve Months ended December 31st, 1937. Officers, Superintendents, and Managers Clerks, Stenographers, and Salesmen, etc... Wage-earners (including piece-workers) $12,665,857.00 14,350,026.00 99.667,494.00 $126,683,377.00 Returns received too late to be included in above Summary . — Estimated pay-roll of employers in occupations covered by Department's inquiry, and from whom returns were not received Transcontinental Railways - - Dominion and Provincial Government workers — Wholesale and Retail Firms— Delivery, Cartage and Teaming, Warehousing, Butchers, Moving-picture Operators, Coal and Wood Yards, and Auto Transportation Ocean Services and Express Companies Miscellaneous $1,003,125.00 1,450,000.00 12,417,732.00 6,500,000.00 3,000,000.00 3,600,000.00 7,500,000.00 1,600,000.00 35,970,857.00 Total.. $162,654,234.00 Average Number of Wage-earners. During the Month of January... February . March.. .. April May June July August... September October... November December. Males. 024 611 341 138 440 568 966 981 864 342 495 573 Nationality of Employees. Country of Origin. Canada and Newfoundland Great Britain and Ireland United States of America Australasia , Belgium France Italy Germany and Austria Central European and Balkan States Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. Russia and Poland Other European country China Hindustan Japan All other countries 52,386 25,982 2,288 146 143 351 1,868 1,687 2,600 8,573 1,960 513 3,802 679 3,165 1,124 5,246 5.360 5,511 5,653 6,986 6,800 8,607 9,233 9,491 9,053 7,189 6,104 Males. Females. 9,090 2,319 204 5 8 47 121 239 102 190 135 21 23 648 140 Classified Weekly Wage-rates (Wage-earners only). Males. Females. For Week of Employment of Appren Greatest Number. 21 Yrs. Under 18 Yrs. Under tices. & over. 21 Yrs. & over. 18 Yrs. Under $6.00 . 155 103 374 104 Ill $6.00 to $6.99.. 125 78 153 85 100 7.00 to 7.99 . 245 131 165 29 78 8.00 to 8.99.. 172 182 213 89 130 9.00 to 9.99.. 164 157 173 62 89 10.00 to 10.99.. 257 283 60S 77 101 11.00 to 11.99.. 223 211 638 43 92 12.00 to 12.99.. 951 464 1,009 57 83 13.00 to 13.99.. 482 320 1,105 60 43 14.00 to 14.99.. 1,199 339 1,314 30 36 15.00 to 16.99.. 1,826 435 1,498 39 65 16.00 to 16.99.. 2,989 304 767 16 34 17.00 to 17.99.. 2,153 133 529 9 20 18.00 to 18.99.. 2,791 161 616 32 22 19.00 to 19.99.. 8,955 319 295 7 15 20.00 to 20.99.. 3,938 97 761 2 9 21.00 to 21.99.. 6,285 147 292 4 7 22.00 to 22.99.. 5,245 79 139 3 12 23.00 to 23.99.. 2,873 75 125 2 24.00 to 24.99.. 9,159 133 119 2 5 25.00 to 25.99.. 5,308 48 90 3 9 26.00 to 29.99.. 3,719 17 67 1 6 27.00 to 27.99.. 3,889 34 49 2 5 28.00 to 28.99.. 3,691 17 39 4 29.00 to 29.99.. 3,197 12 26 2 30.00 to 34.99 . 12,872 46 63 10 35.00 to 39.99.. 6,707 3 10 8 40.00 to 44.99.. 5,831 1,795 1,681 3 1 2 2 45.00 to 49.99.. Totals 97,877 4,332 11,241 756 1,097 S 30 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Members of the Board. 1. Adam Bell, Deputy Minister of Labour, Chairman Parliament Buildings, Victoria. 2. Christopher John McDowell— 1000 Douglas Street, Victoria. S. Fraudena Eaton 1902 Blenheim Street, Vancouver. 4. James Thomson 789 Pender Street West, Vancouver. 5. J. A. Ward Bell (replacing Dr. W. A. Carrothers, resigned) ..789 Pender Street West, Vancouver. Secretary. Mabel A. Cameron Parliament Buildings, Victoria. Head Office Parliament Buildings, Victoria. Branch Office 789 Pender Street West, Vancouver. To the Honourable the Minister of Labour, Province of British Columbia. SIR,—We present herewith the Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Industrial Relations for the year ended December 31st, 1937. CHANGE IN PERSONNEL. Toward the end of the year Dr. W. A. Carrothers, who had been a valued member of the Board since its inception, was compelled to resign, owing to pressure of other duties. At this time we, as a Board, would like to pay tribute to the services rendered by Dr. Carrothers, and while regretting the fact we no longer have the benefit of his help and advice, we are fortunate in having J. A. Ward Bell to succeed him. Mr. Bell's close association with other branches of the Department, particularly in the administration of the " Trade-schools Regulation Act," the " Apprenticeship Act," and his position on the Board of Examiners under the " Barbers Act," enable him to give the Board invaluable assistance, as there is a close correlation among these several branches of the Department of Labour. GENERAL REMARKS. Steady progress has been maintained during the year in improving conditions of employment for many classes of workers. This has been accomplished by amending existing Orders and vigorously enforcing the provisions of labour laws and regulations. The Inspection staff now numbers twenty-two, of whom eight are located in Victoria, eleven in Vancouver, one with headquarters at Prince George, for the northern section, one at Nelson (formerly at Trail) for the eastern area, and one at Kamloops for the central section of the Province. As occasion requires, these officials travel to other localities in their respective districts, keeping up a systematic inspection and looking after special cases as they arise. In the course of their work they give out information and distribute Orders and Regulations to employers and employees, and it is gratifying to note that as a general rule co-operation is given in enforcing the law, designed to benefit not only employees, but also the employers by giving them protection against unfair competition. The public also shares in the beneficial results, because employers who must conform with the Board's requirements are more careful in selecting their staffs than they were before this type of legislation was in force, and the public is thus served by more efficient employees. Before making new Orders or changing those already in force, the Board has tried at all times to gather as much information as possible relevant to the proposed Order. This is accomplished either by public hearings, by presentation of material through representative delegations of those who will be affected by the new rulings, or by investigation and inquiry conducted by officials of the Board. During 1937 the Board held sixty-three sessions, some of which convened in the evening to enable certain groups of employees to attend and present their views without absenting themselves from work. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 31 Delegations to the number of fifty-one appeared before the Board at different times and places, representing a variety of trades and occupations. When revisions are made, it is evident to those who have the welfare of the industries and occupations at heart that very good reasons for the changes have existed. The Board's aim and policy at all times has been to improve conditions of employment without placing undue hardships on any groups. It has been a source of gratification to those in charge of this type of legislation to have some employers, who at first opposed certain phases of some particular Order, later admit the wisdom of the Board's decisions. These individuals or firms have had to rearrange or alter some of their previous methods of management, but in doing so have arrived at a more efficient business system, and have been fair-minded enough to apprise the Board of their changed opinion. STATISTICS COVERING WOMEN AND GIRL EMPLOYEES. Continuing its long-established policy of collecting data once a year, the Department circularized employers of women throughout the Province towards the end of 1937. Statistical forms were received from 3,749 employers of women and girls, an increase of 184 over the 1936 figure. Returns covering 24,084 women workers were received in 1937, as against 21,924, thus revealing 2,160 more women and girl employees on the pay-rolls than appeared for the previous yearly period. Coupled with this increase in reporting firms and reported employees is the noticeable upward trend in wages, and, in some cases, a shortening of working hours. Restoration of cuts in salaries has been effected in many instances, and actual increases have been given to employees by other employers. These satisfactory conditions are graphically revealed in the accompanying tables, compiled from material submitted to the Board, and tabulated by industries, corresponding to various Orders made under the " Female Minimum Wage Act." The information was requested for the week of greatest employment during 1937, and as this peak occurs at different times in different occupations, while the figures are definitely peak-employment records, they are not necessarily for one stated week in the year. It must also be borne in mind by the reader that as the Act does not apply to fruit-pickers, domestic servants, or farm-labourers, the total number of employees reported is not intended to nor does it cover all women earning their own living within the Province. MERCANTILE INDUSTRY. 1936. 1934. 1933. Number of firms reporting Total number of employees Over 18 years — — Under 18 years Total weekly wages— Employees over 18 years Employees under 18 years — Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years __ Employees under 18 years.. - Percentage of employees under 18 years . Average hours worked per week SGO $4 507 5,010 4,540 470 373.35 638.65 $13.30 $9.66 9.38% 40.47 479 4,723 4,326 397 1,086.46 1,523.49 $12.96 $8.88 8.40% 40.58 421 4,382 3,960 422 $51,158.70 $3,353.22 $12.92 $7.95 9.63% 40.38 390 4,239 3,870 $48,968.56 $2,750.77 $12.65 $7.45 8.70% 40.92 379 3,930 3,604 326 $46,074.00 $2,622.50 $12.78 $7.12 8.30% 41.03 The above table shows an all around increase for 1937 over 1936. From 28 additional firms, 287 more employees were reported than in the previous year. The average weekly wage for women 18 years of age or over rose from $12.96 to $13.30, and for the younger employee the average weekly wage for the year under review stood at S9.66, as against $8.88. A slight decrease in average working hours is also noted. There were 73 more girls under 18 reported than in 1936. S 32 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Laundry Industry. 1937. 1936. 1935. 1934. 1933. 86 81 1,084 991 900 846 785 Over 18 years _ 1,014 911 857 810 70 80 43 37 61 Total weekly wages— Employees over 18 years — $13,083.49 $11,462.44 $10,517.50 $9,679.17 $8,964.00 Employees under 18 years — $575.71 $658.04 $406.74 $309.74 $470.00 Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years $12.90 $12.58 $12.27 $11.95 $11.42 Employees under 18 years $8.22 $8.23 $9.46 $8.37 $7.70 Percentage of employees under 18 years 6.46% 8.07% 4.78% 4.37% 7.21% Average hours worked per week. 41.90 41.94 41.12 39.91 37.92 More firms, more employees, a higher weekly average for women 18 years of age or over, and a slight reduction in the average weekly hours, may be noted in the laundry, cleaning, and dyeing industries. For the sake of laundry employees the Board would like to see a trend towards less broken employment. The employers claim the public is responsible largely for the rush of work on certain days of the week. The operators have tried to spread the work more evenly, but Monday still means the heavy collection-day, with Tuesday and Wednesday seeing the peak loads. On Friday and Saturday the rush dies off, except in laundries that have a good trade from hotels and restaurants. In most plants marking and listing crews were busy on Mondays and slack by Wednesday. An effort has been made to keep them steadily at work by transferring them to finishing departments towards the end of the week. In some parts of the United States efforts have been made to offer a lower price for work collected at the end of the week, but it was found the trucks would not be carrying capacity loads and the collection overhead would be unduly high. Employees in the dyeing and cleaning branches of the industry do not experience such fluctuating and broken time. There has been a slight but not very insistent request for the setting of a higher rate for part-time workers, to offset the effect of the low wages resulting from broken hours. This Order now permits wages to be paid on a strictly pro rata basis if fewer hours than 48 are worked during the week. Hotel and Catering Industry. 1937. Number of firms reporting— Total number of employees.- Over 18 years. _ Under 18 years- Total weekly wages—■ Employees over 18 years Employees under 18 years Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years Employees under 18 years Percentage of employees under 18 years.. Average hours worked per week 532 3,424 3,302 122 1,840.82 ,353.11 $14.19 $11.09 3.56% 42.43 500 2,961 2,878 83 $40,265.89 $956.54 $13.99 $11.52 2.80% 42.79 429 2,343 2,303 40 $30,189.28 $452.10 $13.11 $11.30 1.71% 41.31 433 2,256 2,209 47 $29,243.64 $499.15 $13.24 $10.62 2.08% 41.31 352 1,895 1,797 98 $24,763.00 $901.50 $13.78 $9.20 5.17% 42.30 For convenience, janitresses and women elevator-operators, although covered by special Orders, were included in the figures with hotel and catering employees. For the first time since 1932 the weekly average wage for adult women employees has passed the $14 figure, standing at $14.19, as against the 1936 figure of $13.99. In this industry it is often convenient and practical for employees to be furnished with board and lodging, or partial board. The Order prescribes definite rates in such circumstances and prohibits deductions for greater amounts than specified. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 33 While tabulating the figures in this occupation allowance was made where meals and accommodation were provided, so the $14.19 average does not mean an actual cash average in all cases, but would include living allowance when same was furnished and used by the employees. The Order covering this type of work has always given the Board considerable trouble. If disputes arise between employer and employee and the intervention of our officials is needed; the question of meals is usually the crux of the problem, and much diplomacy is needed to straighten out the contentious phases of the disagreement. Some people have advocated eliminating from the Order any reference to the charges that may be made for meals, making it obligatory on the employers to pay a straight cash wage and allowing the employees to make their own arrangements for food. Much as it would like to be free from the meal problem, the Board has taken the stand that if no maximum price for meals was fixed by law the unscrupulous employers might make meal charges so high that they would have a disastrous effect on the actual cash earnings of employees, and thus offset the Board's efforts to provide a reasonable living wage for women and girls in this type of employment. Office Occupation. 1937. 1936. 1935. 1934. 1933. Number of firms reporting... Total number of employees.. Over 18 years Under 18 years.. Total weekly wages— Employees over 18 years. Employees under 18 years Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years — Employees under 18 years... Percentage of employees under 18 years . Average hours worked per week 1,891 5,911 5,802 109 $106,395.64 $1,306.60 $18.34 $11.99 1.84% 40.79 1,848 5,344 5,280 64 $94,789.14 $645.41 $17.95 $10.08 1.20% 40,88 1,727 4,827 4,809 18 14,596.16 $195.20 $17.59 $10.84 0.37% 40.79 1,716 4,818 4,783 35 12,745.51 $347.80 $17.30 $9.94 0.73% 40.59 1,810 4,708 4,660 48 $80,947.00 $484.50 $1.7.37 $10.09 1.02% 38.95 This classification continues to employ the greatest number of women employees, and returns received for the year under review increased from 1,848 to 1,891, and showed 567 more employees. The weekly average for the experiencd workers has mounted gradually over the past four years, now standing at $18.34, being $3.34 per week in advance of the legal minimum. For the younger girls in offices this year's average reached $11.99 per week. A slight increase in the percentage of the younger workers is noted. It may be of interest to set out some of the numbers receiving the more worth while salaries. A $65 monthly rate is the legal minimum for experienced employees 18 years of age or over. There were 1,452 employed at $65.00 per month. y) 259 , 70.00 ,) 330 , 75.00 j, 234 , 80.00 >> 203 85.00 ?> 213 90.00 >> 68 95.00 jj 182 , 100.00 j) 25 , 105.00 it 55 110.00 i) 16 , , 120.00 „ 52 , 125.00 „ „ 33 130.00 ?) 20 135.00 >J 14 140.00 n 26 150.00 ti 89 , more than $150.00 per month. S 34 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. The above figures show those actually receiving the quoted monthly rates, and do not include, for instance, those getting between $65 and $70, or between $70 and $75, and so on down the list. _ „ Personal Service Occupation. 1937. 1936. 1935. ■ 1934. 1933. Number of firms reporting Total number of employees 157 481 472 9 $6,283.69 $45.09 $13.31 $5.01 1.87% 37.85 138 427 417 10 $5,486.48 $66.05 $13.16 $6.60 2.34% 38.07 108 376 374 2 $4,873.84 $18.00 $13.03 $9.00 0.53% 36.81 110 384 378 6 $4,932.31 $10,25 $13.05 $1.71 1.56% 37.95 90 305 298 Under 18 years Total weekly wages— 7 $4,319.00 Employees under 18 years ■ — Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years $48.00 $14.49 $6.86 2.30% Average hours worked per week 38.93 Included in the above figures are employees of beauty-parlours and theatre ushers. It is the irregular hours of the latter employees that bring the average weekly hours down to the low figure of 37.85 per week. Nineteen more firms sent in returns this year and accounted for 54 more employees. The weekly average for the experienced workers rose to $13.31 from $13.16 in 1936. Part-time workers in beauty-parlours and similar establishments have to be paid a higher hourly rate than full-time workers, and a daily guarantee is required by law. Fishing Industry. 1937. 1936. 1935. 1934. 1933. Number of firms reporting... Total number of employees- Experienced Inexperienced.. Total weekly wages— Experienced employees Inexperienced employees.— Average weekly wages— Experienced employees Inexperienced employees- Percentage of inexperienced employees- Average hours worked per week. 5 37 26 | 11 $330.84 $90.67 $12.72 $8.24 29.73% 37.02 6 32 24 $234.20 $26.73 $9.76 $3.34 25% 26.24 4 11 10 1 $101.35 $4.00 $10.13 $4.00 9.09% 25.33 2 11 11 $96.85 $8.80 26.50 6 15 10 6 $164.00 $50.60 $16.40 $10.10 33.33% 51.60 As the Order of the Board does not cover women workers in fish-canneries, this group comprises a rather negligible number. The work itself is not attractive enough to induce many women to go in for it. However, there were 5 more employees than in 1936. The weekly average wage increased to $12.72, with a corresponding rise in weekly hours. Being a purely seasonal occupation, comparisons with other industries are difficult. Telephone and Telegraph Occupation. 1937. 1936. 1935. 1934. 1933 Number of firms reporting— Total number of employees.. Experienced Inexperienced- Total weekly wages— Experienced employees Inexperienced employees- Average weekly wages— Experienced employees Inexperienced employees- Percentage of inexperienced employees- Average hours worked per week _ 142 1,934 1,720 214 $31,284.95 $2,497.70 $18.19 $11.67 11.06% 40.59 124 1,791 1,571 220 $28,717.26 $2,462.93 $18.28 $11.20 12.28% 40.46 120 1,689 1,630 59 $27,776.16 $673.00 $17.04 $11.41 3.49% 39.53 109 1,589 1,583 6 $26,909.12 $52.50 $17.00 $8.75 0.38% 39.75 104 1,601 1,536 65 $22,622.00 $606.50 $14.73 $9.33 4.06% 38.42 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 35 This is one of the two occupations showing a slight decrease in weekly average wages for the experienced operator, although this average is $3.19 above the legal rate. The inexperienced average rose from $11.20 to $11.67 per week. Included with regular telephone and telegraph company employees are those who operate switch-boards in offices and other establishments, such as hotels, hospitals, etc. It will be seen that there were 143 more employees reported in 1937 than in the previous year. A very slight increase in weekly hours is revealed, the figure being 40.59 against 40.46. Manufacturing Industry. 1937. 1936. 1935. 1934. 1933. 358 2,652 2,297 355 $32,469.11 $3,247.59 $14.14 $9.15 13.39% 41.65 314 2,500 2,167 333 $30,694.89 $3,015.36 $14.16 $9.06 13.32% 42.92 311 2,310 2,111 199 $29,869.50 $1,734.50 $14.15 $8.72 8.61% 43.28 284 2,249 1,955 294 $26,975.51 $2,504.27 $13.80 $8.52 13.07% 42.34 284 2,123 1,745 378 Total weekly wages— $25,627.50 $3,145.00 $14.68 Inexperienced employees - - Average weekly wages— $8.32 17.80'% 41.92 There were 44 more firms sending in returns, with 152 more employees than in 1936. A decrease in hours from 42.92 to 41.65 is noted. For the experienced employees a 2-cent drop in their weekly average wage was recorded, but it must be borne in mind that with this negligible drop in wages the employees worked IVi hours less than in the previous year. The wages for the unskilled workers showed an advance over the 1936 figures. This grouping takes in a great variety of factories, where many articles and commodities are made or prepared for use and sale. Unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled employees ply their trades, and in addition to the usual branches of manufacturing, fur-work, millinery, dressmaking, and allied trades are covered under this one heading. Three different schedules of wages for the learners are provided in the Order. Fruit and Vegetable Industry. 1937. 1936. 1935 1934. 1933. Number of firms reporting Total number of employees — Experienced —- - Inexperienced — - Total weekly wages—■ Experienced employees Inexperienced employees.—S Average weekly wages— Experienced employees Inexperienced employees Percentage of inexperienced employees Average hours worked per week 71 3,551 3,298 253 $54,279.51 $2,650.17 $16.46 $10.48 7.12% 47.78 75 3,155 2,803 352 $41,831.03 $3,082.70 $14.92 $8.76 11.16% 46.02 71 3,096 2,681 415 $41,167.84 $4,032.30 $15.36 $9.72 13.40% 46.68 76 2,986 2,680 30« $40,681.77 $2,824.65 $15.18 $9.23 10.25% 47.17 62 2,472 2,009 463 $31,116.00 $4,635.50 $15.49 $10.01 18.73% 48.33 The general increase in number of employees recorded in other occupations is reflected also in this seasonal industry, there being 396 more women and girls required to cope with the fruit and vegetable crops in 1937 than in the previous year. Fruit-pickers are not covered by the Orders. Average wages mounted for both experienced and inexperienced workers, the $16.46 weekly figure for the skilled employee being the highest since 1931. S 36 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. This increase was due largely to the new Order of the Board, which raised the hourly rate from 27 cents to 30 cents for experienced workers. It was in reality a restoration of a former 10 per cent, cut that had been in effect for some years. The inexperienced average also showed a marked rise for 1937, increasing to $10.48 from $8.76 the previous year. Average hours were higher than in 1936, but the percentage of inexperienced workers dropped from 11.16 per cent, to 7.12 per cent. Cherry-processing is expanding. This work comes in at the early part of the soft-fruit season, and is now a recognized branch of the industry in certain localities. At the beginning of the fruit season there has always been a tendency on the part of most employers to have a larger staff than seemed necessary, but with the uncertainty of delivery of fruit at the plants the operators wanted to be sure of sufficient help when a rush occurred. The practice of keeping on so many girls at the start of the season resulted in short hours and correspondingly low wages, but as the Order now stands a daily guarantee is required, and there are fewer complaints about broken time at the beginning of the seasonal work. . Summary of all Occupations. 1937. 1936. 1935. 1933. Number of firms reporting.. Total number of employees.. Over 18 years, or experienced- Under 18 years, or inexperienced... Total weekly wages—■ Employees over 18 years, or experienced Employees under 18 years, or inexperienced- Average weekly wages—■ Employees over 18 years, or experienced — Employees under 18 years, or inexperienced .... Percentage of employees under 18 years, or inexperienced- Average hours worked per week.. 3,749 24,084 22.471 1,613 $351,341.40 $16,405.29 $15.64 $10.17 6.70% 42.05 3,565 21,924 20,377 1,547 $309,567.79 $14,437.25 $15.19 7.06% 41.98 3,272 19,934 18,735 1,199 $280,250.33 $10,869.06 $14.96 $9.07 6.01% 41.79 $270, 3,192 19,379 18,279 1,100 232.44 1,299.13 $14.78 $8.45 5.68% 41.81 3,152 17,895 16,444 1,451 $244,596.50 $12,964.00 $14.87 $8.93 8.11% 41.33 The steady expansion of the Board's work is reflected in the above table. Actual figures concerning 24,084 women and girl employees prove the importance of their place in the industrial and commercial world. These workers were on the staffs of 3,749 firms or individual employers and their wages and salaries for one week totalled $367,746.69, or $43,741.65 more than last year's aggregate. The experienced employees averaged $15.64 per week and the unskilled $10.17, both being definite increases over 1936. The $15.64 figure is the highest average for the past six years. The lowest legal wage for women 18 or over in the various classifications covered by Orders of the Board is $12.75 in the mercantile industry, ranging up to $15.50 in the fishing group. It will be seen, therefore, that taking all classes of employment together the general average is still above the highest minimum set by law. While the Orders permit of a 48-hour week, the average week for 24,084 gainfully employed women and girls was only 42.05 hours. So neither the rates required by law nor the maximum hours prescribed in the Orders appear to work any hardship on employers in the Province. The allowance of inexperienced employees working under licence, or at lower rates set in the various Orders for the younger workers, is much more generous than the employers as a whole appear to require. Only 6.70 per cent, were listed as being under 18 or inexperienced, while the Act itself allows one in seven to be working under special licence, and these licencees together with employees under 18 years of age could total 35 per cent, of the employer's female staff. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 37 Special Licences. During 1937 special licences were granted under the " Female Minimum Wage Act " to 590 inexperienced employees, permitting them to work at the lower rates prescribed in the respective Orders for learners. Each application was investigated before the licence was issued, and when circumstances appeared to justify the employee being taken on for training, the original licence was sent to her and a duplicate to her employer, the Board having first satisfied itself that facilities for teaching the licencee were available and that the employer really intended to keep her on the staff after her training period expired. For the Christmas rush the Board refused to issue licences to inexperienced employees, as their positions lasted only a few weeks. They received the rate for experienced workers during their short time on the staff. The following figures show the number of licences issued in the various occupations:-—■ Mercantile 103 Telephone and telegraph 1 Laundry 64 Manufacturing 127 Hotel and catering 44 Office 241 Personal service 20 Total 590 Under Order No. 38 promulgated under the " Male Minimum Wage Act," 156 licences were granted in 1937 to young men, between the ages of 18 and 24, who had just begun to work in the industry or were recommencing. In many cases the wages their employers agreed to pay them were in excess of those set out in the Order. Their permits, however, did not lower these rates, as it is the affirmed policy of the Board to see that no reduction in the present rate of pay of any employee takes place when granting permits under its Orders. Industry or Occupation. Legal Minimum Wage for Full-time Experienced Employees. Receiving Actual Minimum Wage set for Experienced Workers. No. of Employees. Per Cent. Receiving More than Minimum Wage set for Experienced Workers. No. of Employees. Per Cent. Receiving Less than Minimum Wage set for Experienced Workers. No. of Employees. Per Cent. Total. Mercantile— Laundry...: Hotel and catering Office Personal service Fishing. Telephone and telegraph Manufacturing Fruit and vegetable Totals, 1937 Totals, 1936 $12.75* 13.50f 14.00* 15.001 14.25* 15.50t 15.00t 14.00f 14.40t 2,099 110 1.019 1,452 139 1 201 361 57 41.90 10.15 29.76 24.56 28.90 2.70 10.39 13.61 1.61 1,852 337 1,580 3,842 250 7 1,360 1,101 2,131 36.96 31.09 46.15 65.00 51.97 18.92 70.32 41.52 60.01 1,059 637 825 617 92 29 373 1,190 1,363 21.14 58.76 24.09 10.44 19.13 78.38 19.29 44.87 5,010 1,084 3,424 5,911 481 37 1,934 2,652 3,551 5,439 5,185 22.58 23.65 12,460 10,559 51.74 48.16 6,185 6,180 25.68 28.19 24,084 21,924 * 40 to 48 hours per week. t 48 hours per week. t 37% to 48 hours per week. The foregoing table is worthy of careful study. It most emphatically refutes the contention that minimum wages become the maximum. Actually 51.74 per cent, of the 24,084 women and girl employees included in our returns were receiving wages in excess of those prescribed by law, while only 22.58 per cent, were getting less than the rates for experienced employees. This group comprises those younger and less skilled girls for whom lower rates are fixed, and those who are working part time and are thus unable to earn a sum equal to the weekly rate set for full-time employees. The 1937 percentage of women receiving more than the legal rate is much higher than in 1936, while the figures for those whose wages stand at the actual legal minimum, or are lower for the above-mentioned reasons, are correspondingly less than in the previous year. The mercantile industry, with 41.9 per cent, receiving $12.75 per week, holds most closely to the rates fixed in the Orders. S 38 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Credit must be given to the telephone and telegraph occupation, which pays 70.32 per cent, of its operators more than the law requires. Office workers rank next, with 65 per cent, having pay-cheques above the legal standard. In the fruit and vegetable industry 60.01 per cent, are able to earn more than the rates fixed by the Orders, and most of these are girls working in the packing-houses, where skill and deftness enable them to run up good wages on their piece-work. Of course, their work is seasonal only and even with high earnings these must be spread over the balance of the year, as in the districts where the bulk of this work is done there are not enough other kinds of employment to absorb all those who are out of work when the packing-houses and canneries are closed down. The personal service occupation records 51.97 per cent, of its employees getting more than the actual minimum wage. The hotel and catering industry shows 46.15 per cent, of its employees receiving more than $14 per week, but as explained in a previous section of this report, value for board and accommodation is included with the cash wage. Manufacturing employees to the extent of 41.52 per cent, earned more than the $14 weekly minimum. Individual high wages in each occupation were recorded while the statistics were being compiled. In the mercantile group, one employee is receiving $65 per week. The laundry, cleaning and dyeing top wage is $75.60. The hotel and catering group reveals a top wage of $56.50 per week. The most remunerative position amongst office workers nets $75 per week to the fortunate employee. With a top salary of $60 per week in the personal service occupation, $50 in the manufacturing, and $18.70 in the fishing industry, and the very worth while $88.80 per week for an employee in the telephone and telegraph occupation, the list of peak wages is complete. It also shows that there are a few positions in British Columbia open to women where the salary rating is somewhat on a par with that of men. Unfortunately these openings are very few. We are a long way from the goal of " Equal Pay for Equal Work," here as elsewhere. Table showing Years of Service of Employees with Employers reporting for 1937. Name of Industry. CJ J5 "3 V P. DO HH o u d V —, r, QJ tB B . in rt a . IN O *t> rt a tu X CO O -r. rt a tu . o CO ta tH a tD . ta o ta & V CD O -rt ta rt a V >< C- o ■W CD g ed OO O M ed CU >* Cl o OO 09 J-> cd QJ © o Ci u 0) > o r-, 0 OS u cd <u >H o O 0 r, v-B B.B 3 g P. ti s O ft S " -z. tn sg B.t Zrt, 524 1,796 793 428 293 221 116 106 102 126 117 388 5,010 507 Laundry - 57 219 219 154 78 35 37 29 38 46 47 125 1,084 86 184 1,031 814 405 232 128 100 96 91 81 60 202 3,424 532 Office 144 821 969 631 433 330 216 233 238 345 280 1,272 5,911 481 1,891 157 Personal service - 47 93 115 67 43 26 15 21 9 12 10 23 Fishing- - 3 21 3 6 4 37 5 Telephone and telegraph 3 289 397 183 110 53 16 26 71 155 163 468 1,934 142 Manufacturing __ 255 670 468 274 176 130 92 89 96 88 75 239 2,652 353 Fruit and vegetable — __. 604 1,557 540 227 201 107 100 47 39 29 25 75 3,551 71 Totals - 1,821 6,497 4,315 2,369 1,569 1,036 695 647 684 882 777 2,792 24,084 3,749 The accompanying table indicates the length of time each woman employee had been on the staff of the employer who sent in the return, set out according to occupation. It will be noted that 6,497 of them were working less than 1 year when the pay-rolls were sent in. This figure, of course, includes extras in the shops working during the Christmas season, and it would also cover many seasonal workers in the fruit and vegetable industry. Perhaps some who return year after year to the same employer to help with the canning and packing of perishable products might be entered on his current form as serving less than 12 months. Many, however, have been recorded as working several seasons. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 39 This " Under 1 Year" period would take in beginners in each line of work. If any failed to measure up to the standards required by their employers they would be let out before a year had elapsed. So under all these circumstances one naturally expects to find the total comparatively high in this section. The " 1 to 2 Year " group also contains a fairly high percentage, but it is interesting to note that the third highest total occurs in the group where employees had served 10 years or more with the same individual or firm. The office occupation stands out well above the others, in that 1,272 out of 5,911 were continuously employed for 10 years or more. Telephone operators, too, as a class show a large number in the long-term group. A careful study of the figures seems to disprove the oft-repeated statement that girls as a rule enter business for a very short time. The totals in the longer-service columns are fairly high. Just by way of interest, the employee in each occupation with the greatest number of years to her credit was noted as the figures were being compiled. With a record for 34 years' unbroken service, a woman in the mercantile industry outdistanced her colleagues. The laundry, cleaning and dyeing industry had in its ranks one who had 32 years to her credit with one firm. In the hotel and catering group, the longest service reported by any employer was 29 years. When it comes to office work, a faithful employee with an unbroken record of 40 years with one firm leads all others. This makes a mere 28 years seem rather fleeting in the personal service occupation. The record in the telephone and telegraph occupation is held by a woman who has given 35 years to her present firm. The manufacturing industry has within its ranks one employee who has devoted 36 years to the same employer. It is somewhat surprising to realize that in the seasonal fruit and vegetable industry there should be an employee who has worked 21 consecutive years with the same firm. The fact that a 5-year service period is the longest in the fishing industry goes further to prove that this work is rather distasteful to the average woman. Since the depression women, in every line of work, as well as men, have shown less tendency to move from position to position, for reasons that are obvious to everyone. Table showing Number of Single, Married, and Widowed Employees and Their Earnings for Week reported. Industry or Occupation. Single. Earnings. Married. Earnings. Widowed. Total Earnings for Week reported. Mercantile _ Laundry Hotel and catering- Office Personal service . Fishing Telephone and telegraph . Manufacturing Fruit and vegetable.— Totals _ 1937 per cent... 1936 per cent... 4,111 725 2,277 5,140 374 18 1,716 1,951 1,855 18,167 75.43% 75.45% $52,190.71 8,771.57 32,177.70 93,092.24 4,775.26 172.00 29,908.84 25,485.89 27,811.87 I $274,386.08 723 315 902 619 92 18 186 618 1,6 $10,156.41 4,279.64 12,478.92 11,571.98 1,305.69 234,73 3,266.72 8,938.33 27,752.17 176 44 245 152 15 1 32 83 $2,664.88 607.99 3,537.31 3,038.02 247.83 14.78 607.09 1,292.48 1,365.64 5,081 1,984.59 $13,376.02 $65,012.00 13,659.20 48,193.93 107,702.24 6,328.78 421.51 33,782.65 35,716.70 56,929.68 $367,746.69 21.10% 20.81% 3.47% 3.74% The foregoing table sets out the numbers of single, married, and widowed employees, in each of the nine groups, together with their actual earnings. Very little change in the proportions of these three classes has been recorded since figures have been kept, and less resentment should be levelled at the married worker and her employer by critics who do not inquire carefully into the reasons for her being gainfully employed. S 40 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs recently conducted a survey and, based on its findings, issued a pamphlet entitled " Why Women Work." Replies to its questionnaire were received from 12,043 women from the forty-eight States of the Union, Hawaii, and Alaska. It was found that half of these women have individuals solely or partially dependent on their earnings, and one out of every six has the entire responsibility for a household of from two to eight persons. This would seem to attack with convincing figures the statement that " Women work for pin money." This belief is often used to justify a lower rate of pay for women than for men doing the same work. The " pin money " women disclosed in the survey accounted for only 3.4 per cent, of the total number. They are the ones who work, not because they must but because they choose. Another important finding of the survey was that the number of dependents per woman has increased since 1930, while the average earnings have fallen. It may be that the same is true of men, although no comparable study has been made. Thus it turns out that the vast majority of women with jobs work primarily because they have to, to support either themselves or others. The " pin money " residue is very small indeed, and constitutes no serious threat to the well-being of their employed sisters. What has developed from the survey in the United States would be true to a similar degree in Canada, and most likely also in British Columbia. Similar reasons also exist for the employment of married persons here. Little criticism is levelled against a widow in a job, but a married woman having urgent and justifiable necessity for holding a job is often subjected to undeserved comment from many quarters. Before being too vocal on this point, it behooves us to make searching inquiry into the background of the married worker. COLLECTIONS AND INSPECTIONS. For the year under review the Inspection staff made personal investigations of 13,212 establishments in all parts of the Province. This meant 2,967 more places were visited than in 1936. If the employing firm had a large pay-roll involving hundreds of employees it might mean the departmental official would have to spend some days making a complete check and obtaining all the necessary information for a comprehensive report. Even under such circumstances, this would be registered on the Board's records as one inspection only. The thoroughness of administration may be gauged by the fact that adjustments totalling $57,028.50 were effected for employees during the 12-month period. Under the " Male Minimum Wage Act " 517 firms were required to pay to 1,313 men or boys $40,794.68, and 386 employers paid to 609 women and girls the sum of $13,895.33 in the way of adjustments. Employers were ordered to pay arrears of wages in the sum of $2,338.49 following decisions in various Court cases. The above-mentioned figures refer only to amounts paid to wage-earners who had the help of the Board's officials in receiving the amounts to which they were entitled, being the difference between what they had been paid and the minimum wage to which they were entitled under various Orders of the Board. The Department naturally has no record of the cases started in the Civil Courts and carried through by the employees themselves, without the aid of our officials, but which cases were made possible by the powers given to individuals in the Male and Female Minimum Wage Acts. COURT CASES. It has been the policy of the Board to strive for enforcement of its Labour laws, Orders, and Regulations, with as few Court cases as possible. Every effort is made to induce employers and employees to avoid infractions, but as Orders are extended to cover new occupations, as more extensive provisions for improved conditions of labour are put into effect, as some cases of violations arise which cannot be adjusted by amicable arrangement between employer and employee, it becomes necessary, when every other effort has failed, to resort to the Courts. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 41 The following is a summary of Court cases segregated by Statutes under which prosecutions were initiated. The nature of the charge and the result of each case are briefly noted:— Convictions. Dismissed or Withdrawn. ' Female Minimum Wage Act "..... 'Male Minimum Wage Act" - ' Hours of Work Act " - - ' Semi-monthly Payment of Wages Act' ' Factories Act "— — Totals - 52 47 70 12 7 40 36 54 11 7 148 D 6 W6 D8 W3 D8 W8 W 1 " Female Minimum Wage Act." Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. Failure to keep true and correct records Fined $15. D. Kinnon, 149 Hastings Street West, Paying less than the Dismissed. Vancouver minimum wage Maple Leaf Bakery, Kamloops Failure to keep true and Fined $12. correct records Nu-Way Cafe, Kamloops _. Failure to keep true and Fined $15. correct records Paying less than the minimum wage Fined $25; costs, $2.50 ; and pay arre of wages, $30. The Arden, 2975 Granville Street, Van- Failure to post notices Suspended sentence; costs, $2.50. couver Cottage Coffee Shop, 1617 Commercial Failure to produce records Fined $10 and costs, $2.50. Drive, Vancouver Cottage Coffee Shop, 1617 Commercial Failure to pay minimum Suspended sentence; ordered to pay ar- Drive, Vancouver wage rears, 80c. M. Furuya Co., Ltd., Mission— Failure to wage pay minimum Withdrawn. New Moon Cafe, 1 Pender Street East, Failure to pay minimum Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears of Vancouver wage $65. New Moon Cafe, 1 Pender Street East, Failure to pay minimum Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears of Vancouver wage $52.67. New Moon Cafe, 1 Pender Street East, Excessive hours (two Withdrawn. Vancouver charges) New Paramount Cafe, 1068 Granville Paying less than the Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears of Street, Vancouver minimurr wage $29. P. W. Willis, Kimberley*. . Failure to keep true and correct records Fined $10 and costs, $5. P. W. Willis, Kimberley Failure to wage pay minimum Withdrawn. Failure to Failure to keep records.— pay minimum Fined $10 and costs, $4.25. Defendant left the city; whereabouts Cosy Corner Confectionery, S.W- Marine un- Drive, Vancouver wage known. Little White Cafe, 304 Main Street, Van- Failure to pay minimum Suspended sentence; ordered to pay ar- couver wage rears of $65.25. Woodworth & Woodworth, Ltd. 535 Failure to keep proper Fined $10. Georgia Street West, Vancouver records Afton Hotel, 249 Hastings Street East, Failure to keep records __.. Fined $10 and costs, $2.50. Vancouver Cosy Corner Confectionery, 1359 S.W. Failure to keep records „ Fined $10. Marine Drive, Vancouver Cosy Corner Confectionery, 1359 S.W. Failure to pay minimum Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears of Marine Drive, Vancouver wage $89.50. Norman Lee Glozer, 836 Thirteenth Failure to pay minimum Suspended sentence and ordered to pay Avenue West, Vancouver wage arrears of $104.40. Robson Dressmakers, 521 Robson Street, Failure to pay minimum Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears of Vancouver wage $10. P. Barsato, Nelson , Failure to wage pay minimum Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears $5.70. of P. Barsato, Nelson. ,.. Failure to wage pay minimum Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears $6.15. of * This case appealed and decision of magistrate reversed. S 42 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. COURT CASES—-Continued. " Female Minimum Wage Act "—Continued. Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. Jenks Bros., 822 Seymour Street Van- Failure to pay minimum Guilty ; suspended sentence ; costs, $2.50 ; couver wage and ordered to pay arrears of $40.54. Fairview Cleaners, 706 Broadway West, Failure to produce records Withdrawn. Vancouver Queens Hotel, Nelson _ Failure to pay minimum wage Dismissed. Home Assurance Co. of Canada, Van- Failure to pay minimum Fined ?25 and ordered to pay arrears of couver wage $10. Home Assurance Co. of Canada, Van- Failure to keep records.... Fined $5. couver John Shean, Creston __ Failure to pay minimum wage Fined $25; costs, $2.50; and ordered to pay arrears of $10.50. John Shean, Creston Failure to keep true and correct records Guilty; suspended sentence. Mother's Chilli Parlour, 250 Union Street, Failure to produce records Fined $10. Vancouver Bell-Irving Travel Bureau, 738 Hastings Failure to pay minimum Fined $25 and ordered to pay arrears of Street, Vancouver wage $90.84. Broadwav Cafe. Vernon __ ___ Failure to produce records Failure to keep records __ Failure to pay minimum Suspended sentence; costs, $1.75. Dismissed. Broadwav Cafe. Vernon Rivers Limited, 728 Robson Street Van- Dismissed. couver wage Bridge Service Station, 405 Cassiar Street Failure to produce records Suspended sentence; costs, $2.50. North, Vancouver E. Y. Hammer, 1037 Granville Street, Failure to post schedule Fined $25. Vancouver of hours E. Y. Hammer, 1037 Granville Street, Failure to pay minimum Dismissed. Vancouver wage Oka Dressmaker, 221 Gore Avenue Van- Failure to keep proper Fined $10; costs, $2.50; or five days in couver - records jail. Rowcliffe Tannine Co.. Ltd.. Kelowna _ __ . Failure to produce records Failure to produce records Fined $10. H. C. Berchten-Breiter, Elysium Hotel, Dismissed. Vancouver H. C. Berchtesn-Breiter, Elysium Hotel. Failure to keep records.... Costs, $2.50. Vancouver Canadian Cafe, Smithers —- Failure to keep records... Fined $10; costs, $2.50; in default, fourteen days. Canadian Cafe, Smithers Failure to pay minimum wage Fined $25; costs, $2.50; in default, one month in jail; ordered to pay arrears of $24. O.K. Cafe (Lee Yet Fat), Smithers Failure to pay minimum wage Fined $25; costs, $2.50; ordered to pay arrears of $47.50. O.K. Cafe (Lee Yet Fat), Smithers Failure to pay minimum wage Ordered to pay arrears of $80.25. O.K. Cafe (Lee Yet Fat), Smithers Failure to keep records.— Failure to pay minimum Guilty; costs, $2.50. Pacific Candy Co. (N. E. Oldoker , 652 Fined $25 or two months ; ordered to pay Broadway West, Vancouver* wage $46 arrears. * Failed to pay fine and was ordered to serve two months in gaol. " Male Minimum Wage Act." Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. D. Kinnon, 149 Hastings Street West, Vancouver Routledge Motors, Mission Union Dyers & Cleaners Ltd., 1098 Street, Vancouver Louis Zagin, Trail. Fuller Brush Co., Ltd., Dominion Bank Building, Vancouver Paying less than the minimum wage Failure to produce records Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to keep true and correct records Appeal from dismissal of original charge Dismissed. Fined $10 and costs, $2.50. Dismissed. Suspended sentence; costs, $2.50. Dismissed. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 43 COURT CASES—Continued. " Male Minimum Wage Act." Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. The Arden, 2975 Granville Street, Vancouver Fred Chernenkoff, Blewett P.O., Nelson.... Dollar Lumber & Fuel Co., North Vancouver Ian Ferguson (Roy Hatch), 666 Seventeenth Avenue West, Vancouver Roy Hatch, 666 Seventeenth Avenue West, Vancouver Alex. Cheveldave, Slocan Park Alex. Cheveldave, Slocan Park Carlyle Le Blanc, 151 Broadway East, Vancouver Fred Chernenkoff, Nelson Sam Verigin, Ymir.. Hollywood Barber Shop, 1114 Granville Street, Vancouver Lake Side Sawmills, Ltd., Harrison Hot Springs Sardis Lumber Co., Agassiz Kilgard Firebrick Co., Ltd., 1601 Fifth Avenue, New Westminster J. B. Hoy Produce, 2171 Forty-first Avenue West, Vancouver Kelowna Sanitary Dairy, Ltd., Kelowna J. C. Mclnroy, Mt. Lehman. Royal Blue & Commercial Taxi, 640 Helm- cken Street, Vancouver Pacific Drug Co., Ltd., 1003 Robson Street, Vancouver George Roadnight, St. George Apartments, 1045 Haro Street, Vancouver Sooke Dry Wood Co., 430 Burnside Road, Victoria Sooke Dry Wood Co., 430 Burnside Road, Victoria Harvey Turnbull, White Rock Fred R. Brason, Rio Vista Auto Camp, Burnaby Moonlight Cafe (Jean Jung), 251 Hastings Street East, Vancouver Norman Lum (Vancouver Trading Co.), 211 Georgia Street East, Vancouver Pacific Coast Distillers, Ltd., 1654 Franklin Street, Vancouver Nick Dershousoff, Castlegar. J. C. Mclnroy, Peardonville J. C. Mclnroy, Peardonville.. Quality Meat Market (Carl Peterson), Abbotsford J. T. Suderman, c/o Willowmoor Garage, Chilliwack Failure to keep proper records Failure to produce records Failure to pay minimum wage (four charges) Failure to pay minimum wage (three charges) Failure to return true and correct statement of hours worked Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage Paying less than the minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to keep proper records Failure to produce records Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage (five charges) Failure to produce records Failure to keep true and correct records Failure to pay minimum wage Discharging employee about to give evidence Failure to produce records Failure to give a rest period of twenty-four consecutive hours to janitor Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage (two charges) Failure to produce records Failure to produce records Failure to produce records Failure to produce records Failure to produce records Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to pay minimum wage Failure to keep records— Dismissed. Fined $10 and costs, $3.75. Fined $50; costs, $10; ordered to pay $747.08 arrears to four employees. Fined $50 and ordered to pay arrears of $29.07. Dismissed. Withdrawn; arrears of $59.40 paid. Fined $50; costs, $7; and paid arrears, $12.40. Fined $50 and ordered to pay arrears of $64.19. Fined $50 and ordered to pay arrears of $21.90; or, in default, three months in jail. Dismissed. Guilty; costs, $2.50. Withdrawn ; paid $18 arrears and costs. Guilty; ordered to pay arrears $165, and costs, $4.75. Suspended sentence; ordered to pay $125 arrears and $12 costs. Fined $10. Fined $10. Suspended sentence and ordered to pay arrears of $135.40, and costs, $11.30. Dismissed. Fined $10. Suspended sentence and $2.50 costs. Withdrawn. Fined $10 and $2.50 costs. Fined $10 and $2.50 costs. Withdrawn. Fined $10. Fined $10 and $2.50 costs. Fined $50 and ordered to pay arrears of $22 ; in default, two months. Convicted; suspended sentence; ordered to pay arrears of $21.50. Convicted; suspended sentence; ordered to pay arrears of $21.50. Fined $50 and costs, $2.50; ordered to pay arrears of $24.80. Fined $10 and costs, $6.35. S 44 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. COURT CASES—Continued. " Hours of Work Act." Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. Mainland Fuel Co., 405 Industrial Avenue, Vancouver John Quin, Port Renfrew.— Routledge Motors, Mission Union Dyers & Cleaners, Ltd., 1098 Davie Street, Vancouver Welch's, Limited, 814 Robson Street, Vancouver False Creek Lumber Co., Ltd., Sixth Avenue West, Vancouver False Creek Lumber Co., Ltd., Sixth Avenue West, Vancouver False Creek Lumber Co., Ltd., Sixth Avenue West, Vancouver M. Furuya Co., Ltd., Mission M. B. King Lumber Co., Ltd., North Vancouver Ritchie Bros. & Co., Ltd., 840 Granville Street, Vancouver U.K. Sawmills, Ltd., Vancouver General Construction Co., Ltd., Cranbrook General Construction Co., Ltd., Cranbrook New Paramount Cafe, 1068 Granville Street, Vancouver Kerrisdale Theatre, 2138 Forty-first Avenue West, Vancouver La France Beauty Shop, Yates Street, Victoria Lehannon Nursing Home, Victoria „ Little White Cafe, 304 Main Street, Vancouver Sterling Food Markets, Ltd., 736 Granville Street, Vancouver I. Kawai, 2410 Main Street, Vancouver Safeway Stores, Ltd., 840 Cambie Street, Vancouver Safeway Stores, Ltd., 840 Cambie Street, Vancouver Hollywood Barber Shop, 1114 Granville Street, Vancouver Roslyn Rooms, 631 Seymour Street, Vancouver Fairview Cleaners, 706 Broadway West, Vancouver Mrs. M. I. Stephenson, North Bend A. E. Burnett, 281 Eighteenth Avenue West, Vancouver Fraser Valley Milk Producers, 425 Eighth Avenue West, Vancouver J. B. Hoy Produce, 2171 Forty-first Avenue W est, Vancouver R. E. Small, 2057 Third Avenue West, Vancouver J. E. Binnie, 3967 Beatrice Street, Vancouver W. McCarthy, 1381 Twenty-ninth Avenue East, Vancouver Failure to keep true and correct records Failure to keep records.... Excessive hours — Failure to keep true and correct records Failure to keep proper records Excessive hours Excessive hours Excessive hours. _ Failure to post notice Excessive hours (three charges) Failure to post schedule of hours Excessive hours (three charges) Excessive hours Excessive hours Failure to post schedule of hours Failure to keep proper records Failure to keep proper records Failure to keep proper records Failure to keep proper records Failure to post proper notice Failure to post schedule of hours Excessive hours Excessive hours Failure to post notice of hours of work Failure to keep records... Failure to post notices- Failure to keep records ... Failure to keep records- Excessive hours Failure to post notice Being an employee, worked in excess of limit of hours Being an employee, worked in excess of limit of hours Being an employee, worked in excess of limit of hours Fined $10 and costs, $2.50. Fined $10 and costs, $2.50. Suspended sentence ; costs, $2.J Fined $10 and costs, $2.50. Fined $15. Fined $25. Suspended sentence. Suspended sentence. Fined $25 and costs, $3.50. Withdrawn. Fined $10 and costs, $2.50. Withdrawn. Fined $25 and costs, $3.50. Fined $25 and costs, $3.50. Dismissed. Fined $10 and costs. Guilty; suspended sentence. Fined $10. Withdrawn. Guilty; pay costs, $2.50. Fined $25. Dismissed. Dismissed. Fined $25. Suspended sentence. Suspended sentence. Fined $10 and costs, $6. Fined $10. Withdrawn. Fined $25. Suspended sentence. Suspended sentence. Suspended sentence. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 45 COURT CASES—Continued. " Houes of Work Act "—Continued. Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. G. A. Gillis, 31 Royal Mansions, Van Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. couver in excess of limit of hours H. W. Cranna, 970 Fourteenth Avenue Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. East, Vancouver in excess of limit of hours N. Stewart, 3304 Sixth Avenue West, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours R. Nelson, 250 Twenty-third Avenue East, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours F. McEwan, 1431 Thurlow Street, Van Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. couver in excess of limit of hours C. Wooding, 1541 Thirteenth Avenue East, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours J. McQuat, 1852 Fifth Avenue West, Van Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. couver in excess of limit of hours J. Sutherland, 2347 Tenth Avenue West, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours A. Courtney, 2735 Twenty-second Avenue Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. West, Vancouver in excess of limit of hours Geo. Hegler, 2476 Sixth Avenue West, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours W. C. Thompson, 2230 Granville Street, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours W. Wood, 4424 Dunbar Street, Vancouver Being an employee, worked in excess of limit of hours Suspended sentence. A. Chedd, 2268 Waverley Street, Van Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. couver in excess of limit of hours Wm. Moffat, 2265 Tenth Avenue West, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours Garnet Cocker, 3480 Cambridge Street, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours Roy Henry, 2045 Maple Street, Vancouver Being an employee, worked in excess of limit of hours Suspended sentence. H. Holmes, Vancouver. Being an employee, worked in excess of limit of hours Suspended sentence. W. Heath, 4799 Gladstone Street, Van Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. couver in excess of limit of hours J. Hamilton, 4487 John Street, Van Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. couver in excess of limit of hours L. L. Rossiter, 1023 St. Andrews Street, Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. Vancouver in excess of limit of hours W. D. Dunn, 1800 Haro Street, Van Being an employee, worked Suspended sentence. couver in excess of limit of hours Sooke Dry Wood Co., 430 Burnside Road, Failure to post notice. Fined $25. Victoria S 46 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. COURT CASES—Continued. " Hours of Work Act "—Continued. Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. Peter Purkow, West View, Powell River F. R. Rotter, Salmo Moonlight Cafe (Jean Jung), 251 Hastings Street East, Vancouver Pacific Meat Co., Ltd., Shaughnessy Street, Vancouver Stave Lake Cedar Co., Ltd., Ruskin Stave Lake Cedar Co., Ltd., Ruskin Durieu Lumber Co., Ltd., Durieu Failure to post notice of hours Failure to keep proper records (five charges) Failure to post notice - Failure to post notice.. Excessive hours Failure to post notice Failure to keep proper records Fined $25. Dismissed. Fined $25. Guilty; suspended sentence; costs, $2.50. Fined $10 and costs, $2. Fined $25 and costs, $2.75. Fined $10 and costs, $2.50- Semi-monthly Payment of Wages Act." Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. Cheam View Hardwood Co., Ltd., Cheam View Oscar Peterson, Kitchener Walter Edlund, Mission . Lake Side Sawmills, Ltd., Harrison Hot Springs Douglas M. Colquhoun, Roberts Creek A. G. Grayson, 1125 Vernon Drive, Vancouver Nels Olsen, Stave Falls Nels Olsen, Stave Falls.. Clarence Sinclair, Kamloops _ E. Thomas, Mile 34, P.G.E.*.. R. T. Burdett, Port Mellon... R. f. Burdett, Port Mellon... Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly Failure to monthly pay wages s pay wages s pay wages s pay wages s pay wages s pay wages s pay wages s pay wages semi- pay wages s pay wages s pay wages s> pay wages s< Fined $100 and costs, $4.50. Guilty; suspended sentence. Fined $100 and costs, $1.75; or sixty days in gaol. Suspended sentence and costs. Fined $100. Fined $100 or fifteen days in gaol. Fined $100 and costs, or sixty days in gaol. Suspended sentence. Suspended sentence; ordered to pay arrears of $75. Fined $100 and costs. Suspended sentence. Withdrawn. * This case was appealed. Conviction sustained. " Factories Act." Name of Employer. Charge. Sentence and Remarks. Twin Sisters Dressmaking Shop, 504 Cor Employing home - workers Fined $10 and costs. dova Street, Vancouver without a permit Toshino Mimura, 566 Cordova Street East, Working at home without Suspended sentence. Vancouver a home-worker's permit Nouko Sawada, Room 113, World Hotel, Working at home without Suspended sentence. 396 Powell Street, Vancouver a home-worker's permit M. Shinkoda, 216 Powell Street, Van Employing a home-worker Fined $15 and costs. couver without a permit M. Shinkoda, 216 Powell Street, Van Employing a home-worker Fined $15 and costs. couver without a permit Tsuru Yokoyama, 235 Powell Street, Van Working without a home- Suspended sentence. couver worker's permit Keefer Laundry, 238 Keefer Street, Van Excessive hours (" Fac Fined $50 and costs. couver tories Act") REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 47 WAGE COMPARISONS, 1918, 1935, 1936, 1937. From the accompanying tables a convenient comparison may be made as to wage trends for women and girls during the past three years, lined against the averages of 1918, the year that marked the introduction of minimum-wage legislation in British Columbia. If the wage advances continue as they have done in the past three years, the beneficial results of this legislation will be even more marked than they are at present. While the Board does not take credit for all the increases, it is absolutely certain that had there been no minimum wage basis upheld by law the prevailing standards would be much lower than they now appear. A minimum set in an occupation forms the foundation wage, and employees in the more skilled branches are able to build up from that base. Employers recognize, in most cases, that the wages fixed in the Orders, are minimum wages only, and a grading-up from that level is prevalent in the better establishments and firms. Mercantile Industry. 1918. 1935. 1936. 1937. Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years— Employees under 18 years...- _ Percentage of employees under 18 years _ $12.71 $12.92 $7.70 $7.95 15.49% 1 9.63% $12.96 $8.88 8.40% $13.30 $9.66 9.38% Laundry Industry. Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years Employees under 18 years Percentage of employees under 18 years $12.58 $8.23 8.07% $12.90 $8.22 6.46% Hotel and Catering Industry. Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years .. Employees under 18 years. Percentage of employees under 18 years $14.19 $11.09 3.56% Office Occupation. Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years Employees under 18 years Percentage of employees under 18 years.. $16.53 $10.88 7.45% $17.59 $10.84 0.37% $17.95 $10.08 1.20% $18.34 $11.99 1.84% Personal Service Occupation. Average weekly wages— Employees over 18 years.. Employees under 18 years Percentage of employees under 18 years . $13.83 $6.96 15.38% $13.03 $9.00 0.53% $13.16 $6.60 2.34% $13.31 $5.01 1.87% S 48 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Telephone and Telegraph Occupation. Average weekly wages— Experienced employees Inexperienced employees- Percentage of inexperienced employees.. $18.19 $11.67 11.06% Manufacturing Industry. Average weekly wages— $12.54 $9.57 28.64% $14.15 $8.72 8.61% $14.16 $9.06 13.32% $14.14 Inexperienced employees $9.15 13.39% NEW ORDERS AND REGULATIONS. For a period from the 15th of June, 1937, to the 15th of September, 1937, a special Order was made relating to resort hotels in unorganized territory. This Order amended Order No. 30, which was in effect throughout the Province for hotels and restaurants. The amending Order gave some leeway to resort hotels, in so far as their hours were concerned. Although this report nominally covers the year 1937, certain time must elapse before it can be printed and during this interval Orders Nos. 52, 52a, and 52b, covering the hotel and catering industry, have been put into effect. A summarized version of these and other Orders of the Board will be found in the Appendix to the report. Order No. 42 raised the wages in the barbering industry from $15 to $18 per week, and increased the hourly rate for part-time workers from 40 cents to 45 cents per hour. Order No. 43 for janitors, and Order No. 44 for janitresses, replaced the former Orders which had been promulgated in 1935. The new Orders set out definite wages for these employees in apartment-houses, according to the number of residential suites in the buildings. An increase from 35 cents to 37% cents per hour went into effect for janitors and janitresses in apartment-buildings of four suites and under, and in other types of buildings. A very definite improvement in working conditions for these employees was effected by requiring those working in apartments with twenty or more suites to have a rest period of twenty-four consecutive hours free from duty in each calendar week. For those whose work was done in buildings containing from twelve to nineteen suites, a rest period of eight hours per week was made obligatory. These provisions have given days off to janitors and janitresses who had never had any time off over a period of years. A restoration of a cut in wages for women and an increase for men, with improved conditions of employment in the fruit and vegetable industry as a whole, were brought into force by Orders Nos. 46 and 47, which replaced Orders Nos. 21 and 22, which had been in effect since 1935. The hourly rate for women employees was restored to 30 cents after the 27-cent rate had been in effect since 1933, and for the men an increase from 35 cents to 38 cents per hour was made. Certain temporary emergent Orders were passed to deal with unforeseen conditions in the fruit and vegetable industry during the year. In the wood-working industry, Order No. 49 raised the rates for adult males from 35 cents to 40 cents per hour; for males from 18 to 21 years, from 25 cents to 30 cents per hour; and for boys under 18, from 20 cents to 25 cents per hour. It also limited the employment of those receiving less than 40 cents per hour to 33% per cent, of the whole number of male employees in any plant or establishment. Order No. 50 raised sawmill wages from 35 cents per hour to 40 cents per hour, and took the place of former Order No. 36. Wages for boys under 21 were increased from 25 cents per hour to 30 cents. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 49 An allowance of 10 per cent, of male employees receiving less than 40 cents was made, but this class had to be paid at least 30 cents per hour instead of at least 25 cents per hour, as permitted under the former Order. Taxicab-drivers' daily wages were increased from $2.50 to $2.75 per day. The Order applies only to the City of Vancouver and to the City of Victoria and its surrounding municipalities. A completely new Order relating to the household furniture manufacturing industry was made, setting rates for adult males at 40 cents an hour, and providing a sliding scale for younger persons ranging from 20 cents to 35 cents per hour. A limitation of 40 per cent, of male employees in any plant receiving less than 40 cents an hour was embodied in the Order. The seasonal Regulations and Orders for Christmas trade were dealt with along somewhat similar lines as in former years. " HOURS OF WORK ACT." Enforcement of the " Hours of Work Act" can best be judged by the number of overtime permits granted during the year. The fact that the Act makes it obligatory for employers to apply for permits when overtime work is necessary has been of great value to the employees. During 1937, 1,671 such permits were granted and, while the number exceeds those issued in 1936, the increase is due to more rigid inspections by officials of the Board. The reasons for overtime are varied, the majority of requests being for taking periodic inventories. Since the " Hours of Work Act" became effective we have shown the average hours by industries, and the accompanying table sets out comparative figures for the years 1933 to 1937, inclusive. It will be noted that with thirty industries covered, fifteen reveal fractional increases in the average weekly hours worked, fourteen register decreases, and one remains as in 1936. In the cases where 1937 average hours were higher than previously, they are still below the limit allowed under the Act and Regulations of the Board. Year. Firms reporting. Employees reported. 48 Hours or less per Week. Between 48 and 54 Hours per Week. In excess of 54 Hours. 4,704 4,088 3,529 3,530 3,956 4,153 4,357 4,711 87.821 Per Cent. 77.60 Per Cent. 13.36 6.79 7.70 10.93 5.76 5.26 6.42 4.57 Per Cent. 9.04 1931 84,791 83.77 68,468 80.36 71,185 77.95 75,435 85.18 81,329 88.78 90,871 87.12 102.235 I 89.31 9.44 1932 11.92 1933 11.12 1934 . .. ._ 9.06 1935 ... 5.96 1936 ~.~ 1937 - 6.46 6.12 The average weekly working-hours for all employees for same years being :- 1937 1936 1935 19S34 1933 1932 1931 1930 47.25 47.63 47.17 47.32 47.35 47.69 47.37 48.62 The 4,711 industrial firms submitting forms to the Department of Labour gave information regarding hours covering 102,235 male and female employees. A segregation shows 89.31 per cent, working less than 48 hours per week, 4.57 per cent, working from 48 to 54 hours per week, and 6.12 per cent, working in excess of 54 hours per week. S 50 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. A comparison with previous years may be seen in the following table:— Average Weekly Hours of Work, by Industries. Industry. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. 45.81 42.19 42.71 47.93 51.82 43.42 42.00 47.83 43.68 43.33 42.00 44.40 41.33 48.41 50.36 45.28 48.26 49.15 45.50 45.85 52.11 44.96 46.29 43.68 44.09 48.30 43.53 46.47 44.87 45.33 46.41 44.97 44.13 48.00 50.04 43.68 47.76 50.60 44.89 43.91 43.47 44.05 46.17 48.33 49.69 45.93 48.00 48.37 46.69 45.39 51.51 45.82 44.82 44.01 44.37 47.93 44.06 41.39 44.67 44.19 45.15 44.55 44.38 47.99 49.72 43.81 48.36 48.85 42.60 45.50 43.54 44.49 46.18 48.46 52.46 47.30 49.16 48.35 47.46 45.02 50.05 48.93 42.76 43.81 44.10 47.99 43.97 44.27 44.87 46.09 44.98 44.44 43.45 48.03 48.58 44.57 43.83 50.54 44.79 44.92 44.43 44.74 45.61 48.66 50.70 45.07 48.45 48.50 47.28 45.36 49.89 46.17 47.29 43.87 44.54 47.85 43.75 47.90 45.29 46.05 44.60 Builders' materials, etc Cigar and tobacco manufacturing 45.15 42.73 47.91 46.93 44.11 Explosives, chemicals, etc.— - 46.70 49.05 44.39 45.61 44.30 45.20 45.33 Lumber industries— 48.49 50.91 45.77 48 45 48 23 45.46 50.25 46.20 Oil-refining Paint-manufacturing Printing and publishing —- Pulp and paper manufacturing— 46.70 44.16 44.37 47.95 43.85 47.92 Street-railways, gas, water, power, etc. Wood-manufacture (not elsewhere specified) 45.36 46.72 STAFF CONFERENCE. With closer co-operation from employers, employees, and the general public, and with requests from more groups of workers not already covered by any Orders or regulations to bring them within the scope of the " Minimum Wage Acts " and " Hours of Work Act," the Board is convinced that its efforts and activities are becoming more appreciated as the years go by. The Inspection staff in educating the worker, the employer, and the " man on the street" to the value of this type of legislation is doing an excellent work in addition to its administrative duties. At the beginning of the year a staff conference was held, at which all members and officials of the Board, together with heads of other branches of the Department of Labour, were present. While the meetings were arranged primarily for the benefit of Inspectors of the Board, the general exchange of ideas and problems brought home graphically to every one in attendance the importance of the work of the Department as a whole and the inter-relation of its various branches. The Minister of Labour addressed the conference, outlining his ideas as to policy and efficiency, his succinct talk being one of the highlights of the meetings. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 51 CONCLUSION AND APPRECIATION. Before concluding this report, we are glad to record our appreciation to all those, who in any way have helped us in our endeavours to carry out the spirit of the Province's labour legislation in as fair a manner as is humanly possible. Our problems are many and varied, but with co-operation from employers, employees, and public-minded persons, we are encouraged in our duty to carry on the work with which we have been entrusted. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servants, Adam Bell, Chairman. Christopher John McDowell. Fraudena Eaton. James Thomson. J. A. Ward Bell. S 52 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. APPENDIX. SUMMARY OF ORDERS MADE PURSUANT TO " MALE MINIMUM WAGE ACT, 1934," AND " FEMALE MINIMUM WAGE ACT, 1934." BAKING INDUSTRY (MALE). Order No. 17, Effective November 23rd, 1934. Includes all operations in or incidental to the manufacture and delivery of bread, biscuits, or cakes. Occupation. Hourly Rate. Weekly Hours. Bakers— 21 years of age and over 18 years and under 19 years. 19 years and under 20 years.. 20 years and under 21 years - Delivery salesmen 40c. 25c. 30c. 35c. 40c. 48 48 48 48 54 BARBERING (MALE). Order No. 42, Effective June 14th, 1937. (Superseding Order No. 8, Effective August 3rd, 19SU.) Barbering shall have the meaning set out in section 2 of the " Barbers Act," chapter 5, Statutes, 1924, and amendments. Occupation, Rate. Hours per Week. $18.00 week 45c. per hour Daily minimum, $1.80 40 to 48 hours. (Maximum hours, 48 per week.) BOX-MANUFACTURING (MALE). Order No. 55, Effective April 4th, 1938. (Superseding Order No. 37 of April 1st, 1936, and Order No. 7 of August 3rd, 193U-) Includes all operations in or incidental to the making of wooden boxes, box-shooks, barrels, barrel staves and heads, kegs, casks, tierces, pails, or other wooden containers. Hourly Rate Hours per Week. Adult males, 90% of total Adult males, 10% of total, not less than.- Males, 18 to 21 years of age Males, under 18 years of age 40c. 30c. 30c. 25c. 48 48 48 48 Note.— (a.) Above rates apply only to those not included in any other Order of the Board, (o.) Wages to be paid semi-monthly. BUS-DRIVERS (MALE). Order No. 31, Effective October 28th, 1935. Includes every employee in charge of or driving a motor-vehicle with seating accommodation for more than seven passengers used for the conveyance of the public, for which a charge is made. Area. Hourly Rate. Hours. Victoria, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich • _ 45c. 40 to 50. 50c. Less than 40. 67^c. In excess of 9 hours in any one day or 50 hours in any one week. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 53 CARPENTRY TRADE (MALE). Order No. 40, Effective February 1st, 1937. Includes all work usually done by carpenters in connection with the construction and erection of any new building or structure or part thereof, and of the remodelling, alteration, and repairing of any existing building or structure or any part thereof. Area. Hourly Rate. Land Districts of Victoria, Lake, North Saanich, South Saanich, Esquimalt, Highland, Metcho- sin, Goldstream, Sooke, Otter, Malahat, and Renfrew - _ - — 70c. CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (MALE).* Order No. 12, Effective October 19th, 1934. Order No. 12a, Effective February 28th, 1938. Includes construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration, or demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gaswork, waterways, or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for, or laying, the foundations of any such work or structure. Area. Hourly Pate, 21 Years and Hourly Rate, 18 to 21 Years. Hours per Week. Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Prince Rupert, Esquimalt, Saanich, Burnaby, Oak Bay Rest of Province- - 45c. 40c. 35c. 30c. 48 48 * Consolidated for convenience only. Note.—Above rates do not apply to indentured apprentices under " Apprenticeship Act." ELEVATOR OPERATORS AND STARTERS (MALE.) Order No. 54, Effective March 3rd, 1938. (Superseding Order No. 32, Effective November 28, 1935.) Includes every male elevator operator and starter. 37V2 to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 37% Hours per Week. $14.00 per week. 37 %c. per hour. Daily minimum, $1.50. Note.— (a.) Full week's board (21 meals), $4.00 per week, (b.) Individual meals, twenty cents (20c.) each. (c.) Board charges may be deducted only when meals are partaken of by the employee. (d.) Full week's lodging of seven (7) days, $2.00 per week, (e.) Wages shall be paid at least as often as semi-monthly. (/.) Uniforms or special wearing-apparel, required by the employer, must be supplied and laundered without cost to the employee. (g.) The Board may order seat or chair to be furnished the employee. (h.) Employees must be given twenty-four (24) consecutive hours' rest in each calendar week. (£.) Wage Order and schedule of daily shifts must be posted. ELEVATOR OPERATORS AND STARTERS (FEMALE.) Order No. 53, Effective March 3rd, 1938. (Superseding Order No. 30, October 3rd, 1935, and Order No. 5 of May 2U, 193U.) Includes every female operator and starter. 37% to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 37% Hours per Week. $14.00 per week. 37%c. per hour. Daily minimum, $1.50. Notes.—As for males. S 54 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. ENGINEERS, STATIONARY STEAM (MALE). Order No. 18, Effective March 1st, 1935. Includes every employee engaged in producing steam in a steam plant under the authority of a certificate of competency, or who is in charge of, or responsible for, any steam boiler or engine while under steam-pressure or in motion. " Special engineer" means holder of a special or temporary certificate. (See "Boiler Inspection Act," section 28 (l).) Occupation. Hourly Rate. Hours per Week. Engineer Engineer, special.. 50c. 40c. 48 48 Note.— (a.) Where engineers do not come within the provisions of the " Hours of Work Act " 48 hours per week may be exceeded but hourly rate must be paid. (6.) For engineers in apartment buildings see Janitors' Order. (c.) Engineers employed in a plant which does not require a certificate of competency shall be paid 40 cents per hour (Order 18b). FIRST-AID ATTENDANTS (MALE). Order No. 39, Effective August 1st, 1936. First-aid attendant means every male employee employed in whole or in part as a first-aid attendant under the authority of a certificate of competency in first aid, satisfactory to the Workmen's Compensation Board of British Columbia, and designated by his employer as the first-aid attendant in charge. Hourly Rate. Daily Rate. First-aid attendant—.— - Assistant first-aid attendant Overtime rate when engaged in first-aid work- $4.00 4.00 Note.— (a.) "Hours of Work Act" regulates the daily hours in the industry, but should overtime be necessary, attendant must be paid overtime rate. (6.) If a higher minimum wage has been fixed for any industry or occupation within an industry, the first-aid attendant employed in such industry or occupation must be paid such higher rate. (c.) Actual expenses and transportation costs, in addition to the minimum wage, must be paid any first-aid attendant while attending a patient being conveyed to the medical practitioner or hospital. FISHING INDUSTRY (FEMALE). Effective since February 28th, 1920. This includes the work of females engaged in the washing, preparing, preserving, drying, curing, smoking, packing, or otherwise adapting for sale or use, or for shipment, any kind of fish, except in the case of canned fish. Weekly Minimum Wage. Experienced Workers. Inexperienced Workers. $15.50 per week. 32%4C. per hour. $12.75 per week for 1st 4 months. 13.75 per week for 2nd 4 months. 14.75 per week for 3rd 4 months. Licences required for inexperienced employees 18 years of age or over. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 55 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE INDUSTRY (MALE). Order No. 47, Effective July 15th, 1937. (Superseding Order No. 22, Effective April 18th, 1935.) Includes all operations in or incidental to the canning, preserving, drying, packing, or otherwise adapting for sale or use of any kind of fruit or vegetable or seed. Hours per Day. Hourly Rate. First ten hours 11th and 12th hours In excess of 12 hours First ten hours 11th and 12th hours In excess of 12 hours 38c. Under 21 years-.. (Not to exceed 15 per cent, of male employees in plant.) 57c. 76c. 28c. 42c. 56c. Note.— (1.) In cases where employees' regular rates of pay are in excess of the rate for work up to 10 hours per day, no deduction shall be made from such regular rate to be applied to wages due for working overtime in excess of 10 hours in any one day, and in no case shall the rates of pay for overtime in excess of 10 hours be less than the rates prescribed for such time in excess of 10 hours and in excess of 12 hours respectively. (2.) Piece-workers to receive not less than minimum rates. (3.) After five (5) hours continuous employment, employees must have one (1) hour free from duty, unless shorter period approved by the Board of Industrial Relations. FRUIT AND VEGETABLE INDUSTRY (FEMALE). Order No. 46, Effective July 12th, 1937. (Superseding Order No. 21, Effective April 16th, 1935.) Includes the work of females engaged in canning, preserving, drying, packing, or otherwise adapting for sale or use any kind of fruit or vegetable or seed. Hours per Day. Hourly Rate. First ten hours 11th and 12th hours In excess of 12 hours First ten hours 11th and 12th hours In excess of 12 hours 30c. (Payable to 90 per cent, of employees.) Inexperienced rate . - (Payable to 10 per cent, of employees.) 45c. 60c. 25c. 37y2c. 50c. Note.— (1.) In cases where employees' regular rates of pay are in excess of the rate for work up to 10 hours per day, no deduction shall be made from such regular rate to be applied to wages due for working overtime in excess of 10 hours in any one day, and in no case shall the rates of pay for overtime in excess of 10 hours be less than the rates prescribed for such time in excess of 10 hours and in excess of 12 hours respectively. (2.) Piece-workers to receive not less than minimum rates. (3.) After five (5) hours continuous employment, employees must have one (1) hour free from duty, unless shorter period approved by the Board of Industrial Relations. S 56 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. HOTEL AND CATERING INDUSTRY (FEMALE). Order No. 52, Effective February 14th, 1938. (Superseding Order No. 30 of December 3, 1935, and Order No. 5 of May 25, 1931.) Includes the work of females in:— (a.) Hotels, lodging-houses, clubs, or any other place where lodging is furnished, for which a charge is made. (6.) Hotels, lodging-houses, restaurants, cafes, eating-houses, dance-halls, cabarets, banquet halls, cafeterias, tea-rooms, lunch-rooms, lunch-counters, ice-cream parlours, soda fountains, hospitals, nursing-homes, clubs, dining-rooms, or kitchens in connection with industrial or commercial establishments or office buildings or schools, or any other place where food is cooked, prepared, and served, for which a charge is made; whether or not such establishments mentioned above are operated independently or in connection with any other business. This Order does not apply to females employed as graduate or undergraduate nurses in hospitals, nursing-homes, or other similar establishments. Experienced Employees. (Any age.) 40 to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 40 Hours per Week. $14.00 per week. 37%e. per hour. Daily guarantee, $1.50. Inexperienced Employees. (Any age.) 40 to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 40 Hours per Week. $9.00 per week, 1st 2 months. 10.50 per week, 2nd 2 months. 12.00 per week, 3rd 2 months. 14.00 per week thereafter. Licences required for all inexperienced employees working at above rates. 25c. per hour, 1st 2 months. 30c per hour 2nd 2 months. 35c. per hour 3rd 2 months. 37%e. per hour thereafter. Daily guarantee of four (4) hours pay per day. Note.— (a.) Full week's board (21 meals), $4.00 per week. (6.) Individual meals, twenty cents (20c.) each. (c.) Board charges may be deducted only when meals are partaken of by the employee. (d.) Full week's lodging of seven (7) days, $2.00 per week. (e.) Emergency overtime up to ten (10) hours per day, but not to exceed fifty-two (52) hours in any one (1) week. (/.) Time and one-half shall be paid for all hours in excess of eight (8) in the day, or forty-eight (48) in the week. (g.) Split shifts shall be confined within fourteen (14) hours from commencement of such split shift. (See Order 52b). (h.) Wages shall be paid at least as often as semi-monthly. (i.) Uniform or special wearing apparel required by the employer must be supplied and laundered free of cost to the employee. (j.) Accidental breakages shall not be charged to employees. (k.) Employees must be given twenty-four (24) consecutive hours' rest in each calendar week. (I.) See Order 52A for " Resort Hotels." I; HOTEL AND CATERING INDUSTRY (FEMALE). Order No. 52b, Effective May 19th, 1938. Allows a split-shift to be spread over 14 hours immediately following commencement of work, thereby cancelling section 8 of Order No. 52. Every employee whose split-shift extends over 12 hours shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times her regular rate of pay for such portion of the split-shift as is not confined within 12 hours immediately following commencement of her work. HOTEL AND CATERING INDUSTRY (FEMALE). Order No. 52a (Resort Hotels), Effective June 15th to September 15th, 1938. Covers the work of females in any establishment in unorganized territory wherein meals or lodging are furnished to the general public, for which a charge is made. Allowing:— Hours not to exceed ten (10) in any one day, nor more than fifty-four (54) in any one week. Hours in excess of forty-eight (48) in any one week shall be paid not less than time and one-half (1%) of the legal rate fixed in Order No. 52. Provides for a rest period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours in each calendar week. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 57 HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (MALE). Order No. 51, Effective November 22nd, 1937. Includes the manufacture of kitchen furniture, dining-room furniture, bedroom furniture, living- room furniture, hall furniture, and other articles of household furniture, customarily manufactured in a furniture factory. Males. Rate per Hour. Hours per Week. 21 years of age or over.- Under 17 years of age—. 17 years and under 18 years of age.. 18 years and under 19 years of age_. 19 years and under 20 years of age- 20 years and under 21 years of age.. 40c. 20c. 25c. 27%c 30c. 35c. 48 48 48 48 43 Note.— (a.) 60 per cent, of all male employees must be paid not less than 40c. per hour. <b.) This Order does not apply to apprentices duly indentured under the " Apprenticeship Act.*' JANITORS (MALE). Order No. 43, Effective June 1st, 1937. (Superseding Order No. 23, in Effect from April 18th, 1935, and Order No. 23A, in Effect from October 3rd, 1935.) 1. Includes every person employed as janitor, janitor-cleaner, or janitor-fireman. 2. Janitor, when employed by the hour, thirty-seven and one-half cents (37%c.) per hour. 3. (a.) Resident janitor in apartment buildings of four (4) residential suites and under, thirty- seven and one-half cents (37%c.) per hour. (6.) Resident janitor in apartment buildings, containing:— 5 residential suites, $22.00 per month 6 residential suites, $25.00 per month 7 residential suites, $28.00 per month 8 residential suites, $31.00 per month 9 residential suites, $34.00 per month 10 residential suites, $37.00 per month 11 residential suites, $40.00 per month 12 residential suites, $43.00 per month 13 residential suites, $46.00 per month 14 residential suites, $49.00 per month 15 residential suites, $52.00 per month 16 residential suites, $55.00 per month 17 residential suites, $58.00 per month 18 residential suites, $61.00 per month 19 residential suites, $64.00 per month 20 residential suites, $67.00 per month 21 residential suites, $70.00 per month 22 residential suites, $73.00 per month 23 residential suites, $75.00 per month 24 residential suites, $77.00 per month 25 residential suites, $79.00 per month 26 residential suites, $81.00 per month 27 residential suites, $83.00 per month 29 residential suites, $87.00 per month; 30 residential suites, $89.00 per month; 31 residential suites, $91.00 per month; 32 residential suites, $93.00 per month; 33 residential suites, $95.00 per month; 34 residential suites, $97.00 per month; 35 residential suites, $99.00 per month; 36 residential suites, $101.00 per month; 37 residential suites, $103.00 per month; 38 residential suites, $105.00 per month; 39 residential suites, $107.00 per month; 40 residential suites, $109.00 per month; 41 residential suites, $111.00 per month; 42 residential suites, $113.00 per month; 43 residential suites, $115.00 per month; 44 residential suites, $117.00 per month; 45 residential suites, $119.00 per month; 46 residential suites, $121.00 per month; 47 residential suites, $123.00 per month; 48 residential suites, $125.00 per month; 49 residential suites, $125.00 per month; 50 residential suites, $125.00 per month; over 50 residential suites, $125.00 per month. 28 residential suites, $85.00 per month; (c.) In any apartment building where two or more janitors are employed, at least one shall be designated as resident janitor, and be recorded as resident janitor on the pay-roll, and shall be paid according to the rates fixed in clause (6). Where more than one janitor is designated and recorded on the pay-roll as resident janitors, each janitor so designated and recorded must be paid the rates fixed in clause (6). Other janitors in the same apartment building shall be paid thirty-seven and one-half cents (37V2C.) per hour for each hour worked. 4. Where suite is supplied, not more than $20 per month may be deducted for two (2) rooms and bath-room, and $5 for each additional room, but in no case shall the rental value deducted exceed $25 per month. A deduction of not more than $4 per month may be made for electricity and (or) gas. 5. (a.) In any apartment building containing twenty (20) residential suites and over, every janitor shall be given twenty-four (24) consecutive hours free from duty in each calendar week. (6.) In any apartment building containing not more than nineteen (19) and not less than twelve (12) residential suites, every janitor shall be given eight (8) consecutive hours free from duty in each calendar week. 6. During the rest periods, substitute janitor (including any member of the janitor's family) shall be paid by the owner or agent of the apartment building according to the provisions of this Order. 7. Where there is no central heating plant, or facilities for supplying central heat to the tenants, the resident janitor may be paid on an hourly basis according to section 2 of this Order. S 58 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. JANITRESSES (FEMALE). Order No. 44, Effective June 1st, 1937. (Superseding Order No. 29, in Effect from October 3rd, 1935.) 1. Includes every person employed as janitress, janitress-cleaner, or janitress-fireman. 2. Janitress, when employed by the hour, thirty-seven and one-half cents (37%c.) per hour. 3. (ct.) Resident janitress in apartment buildings of four (4) residential suites and under, thirty- seven and one-half cents (37%c.) per hour. (6.) Resident janitress in apartment buildings, containing:— 5 residential suites, $22.00 per month 6 residential suites, $25.00 per month 7 residential suites, $28.00 per month 8 residential suites, $31.00 per month 9 residential suites, $34.00 per month 10 residential suites, $37.00 per month 11 residential suites, $40.00 per month 12 residential suites, $43.00 per month 13 residential suites, $46.00 per month 14 residential suites, $49.00 per month 15 residential suites, $52.00 per month 16 residential suites, $55.00 per month 17 residential suites, $58.00 per month 18 residential suites, $61.00 per month 19 residential suites, $64.00 per month 20 residential suites, $67.00 per month 21 residential suites, $70.00 per month 22 residential suites, $73.00 per month 23 residential suites, $75.00 per month 24 residential suites, $77.00 per month 25 residential suites, $79.00 per month 26 residential suites, $81.00 per month 27 residential suites, $83.00 per month 29 residential suites, 30 residential suites, 31 residential suites, 32 residential suites, 33 residential suites, 7.00 per month; 3.00 per month; 1.00 per month; 3.00 per month; S.00 per month; 34 residential suites, $97.00 per month; 35 residential suites, $99.00 per month; 36 residential suites, $101.00 per month 37 residential suites, $103.00 per month 38 residential suites, $105.00 per month 39 residential suites, $107.00 per month 40 residential suites, $109.00 per month 41 residential suites, $111.00 per month 42 residential suites, $113.00 per month 43 residential suites, $115.00 per month 44 residential suites, $117.00 per month 45 residential suites, $119.00 per month 46 residential suites, $121.00 per month 47 residential suites, $123.00 per month 48 residential suites, $125.00 per month 49 residential suites, $125.00 per month 50 residential suites, $125.00 per month 50 residential suites, $125.00 per month. 28 residential suites, $85.00 per month; (c.) In any apartment building where two or more janitresses are employed, at least one shall be designated as resident janitress, and be recorded as resident janitress on the pay-roll, and shall be paid according to the rates fixed in clause (6). Where more than one janitress is designated and recorded on the pay-roll as resident janitresses, each janitress so designated and recorded must be paid the rates fixed in clause (6). Other janitresses in the same apartment building shall be paid thirty-seven and one-half cents (37%c.) per hour for each hour worked. 4. Where suite is supplied, not more than $20 per month may be deducted for two (2) rooms and bath-room, and $5 for each additional room, but in no case shall the rental value deducted exceed $25 per month. A deduction of not more than $4 per month may be made for electricity and (or) gas. 5. (a.) In any apartment building containing twenty (20) residential suites and over, every janitress shall be given twenty-four (24) consecutive hours free from duty in each calendar week. (6.) In any apartment building containing not more than nineteen (19) and not less than twelve (12) residential suites, every janitress shall be given eight (8) consecutive hours free from duty in each calendar week. 6. During rest periods, substitute janitress (including any member of the janitress's family) shall be paid by the owner or agent of the apartment building according to the provisions of this Order. 7. Where there is no central heating plant, or facilities for supplying central heat to the tenants, the resident janitress may be paid on an hourly basis according to section 2 of this Order. LAUNDRIES, CLEANING AND DYEING (FEMALE). Order in Effect since March 31st, 1919. Experienced Employee—Weekly rate, $13.50. Hours per week. Inexperienced employee . Under 18 years of age. Weekly rate. $8.00 for 1st 4 months. $8.50 for 2nd 4 months. $9.00 for 3rd 4 months. $10.00 for 4th 4 months. $11.00 for 5th 4 months. $12.00 for 6th 4 months. 18 years of age and over. Weekly rate. $9.00 for 1st 4 months. $10.50 for 2nd 4 months. $12.00 for 3rd 4 months. Licences required in this class. Hours per week, 48 Note.— (a.) Above rates are based on a 48-hour "week. (6.) Hours of work governed by " Factories Act." REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 59 LOGGING (MALE). Order No. 1, Effective April 27th, 1934. Includes all operations in or incidental to the carrying-on of logging; pole, tie, mining-prop, and pile cutting; and all operations in or incidental to driving, rafting, and booming of logs, poles, ties, mining-props, and piles. Rate. Hours per Week. Male employees- Trackmen Cook- and bunk-house employees - 40c. per hour STV2C. per hour $2.75 per day 48 48 Unlimited. Note.—Certain exemptions regarding working-hours. (See "Hours of Work" Reflations.) MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (FEMALE). Order No. 25, Effective July 1st, 1935. (Superseding Order in Effect since November 20th, 1923.) Includes the work of females engaged in the making, preparing; altering, repairing, ornamenting, printing, finishing, packing, assembling the parts of, or adapting for use or sale any article or commodity, exclusive of fish, fruit, or vegetable drying, canning, preserving, or packing. Weekly Rate. Hours per Week. Experienced employees- $14.00 Inexperienced Employees—Schedule 1. Includes the manufacture, preparation, or adapting for use or sale of: Tea, coffee, spices, essences, sauces, jelly-powders, baking- powders, molasses, sugar, syrups, honey, peanut hutter, cream and milk products, butter, candy, confectionery, bread, biscuits, cakes, macaroni, vermicelli, meats, eggs, soft drinks, yeast, chip and shoestring potatoes, cereals, cooked foods, salads, ice-cream cones, other food products, cans, fruit and vegetable containers, paper boxes and wooden boxes, buttons, soap, paint, varnish, drug and toilet preparations, photographs, ink, seeds, brooms, brushes, whisks, pails, wash-boards, clothes-pins, matches, explosives, munitions, gas- mantles, window-shades, veneer products, batteries, plant fertilizers, maps, saw-teeth and holders, mats, tiles, ropes, and shingles Whether on a time-work or piece-work basis. Not less than— $8.00 a week for the first two months of employment. 10.00 a week for the second two months of employment. 12.00 a week for the third two months of employment. 14.00 a week thereafter. Hours per week, 48. Inexperienced Employees—Schedule 2. Includes the manufacture of: Cotton bags, paper bags, envelopes, overalls, shirts, ladies' and children's wear, uniforms, gloves, hats, caps, men's neckwear, water-proof clothing, boots and shoes, tents, awnings, regalia, carpets, furniture, bedding, pillow-covers, loose covers, mattress-covers, draperies, casket furnishings, factory-made millinery, knitted goods, blankets, machine-made cigars, pulp and paper-mill products, artificial flowers, lamp-shades, flags and other decorations, worsted-mill products, baskets, wreaths, and other floral pieces, pianos, optical goods, aeroplanes, toys and novelties, rayon products, stockings and lingerie (including repair of same), and dipped chocolates Whether on a time-work or piece-work Not less than— $8.00 a week for the first four months of employment. 10.00 a week for the second four months of employment. 12.00 a week for the third four months of employment. 14.00 a week thereafter. Hours per week, 48. S 60 DEPARTMENT OP LABOUR. Inexperienced Employees—Schedule 3. Includes bookbinding, embossing, engraving, printing, dress-making, Whether on a time-work or piece-work men's and women's tailoring, taxidermy, and the manufacture of basis. ready-to-wear suits, jewellery, furs, leather goods, hand-made Not less than— cigars, and hand-made millinery $7.00 a week for the first six months of employment. 10.00 a week for the second six months of employment. 13.00 a week for the third six months of employment. 14.00 a week thereafter. Hours per week, 48. Note.—Licences required for inexperienced employees 18 years of age or over. MERCANTILE (MALE). Order No. 38, Effective July 20th, 1936. (Superseding Order No. 10, dated August 10th, 19SU-) Includes all establishments operated for the purpose of wholesale and (or) retail trade. Experienced Employees. Eate. Hours. (2.) 21 years of age and over.. (3.) 21 years of age and over.. Minimum rate per day $15.00 per week 40c. per hour $1.60 per day. 37 % to 48 hours per week. If less than 37% hours. Males under Twenty-one (21) Years op Age. Minimum Rates for Beginners under Eighteen (18) Years of Age. 37% to 48 Hours per Week. Age. Less than 37% Hours per Week. Hourly Rate. Daily Minimum. (4.) (1.) $6.00 per week.. 7.50 per week.. 9.00 per week.. 11.00 per week.. 13.00 per week . 15.00 per week.. Under 17 years 17 and under 18 18 and under 19 19 and under 20 20 and under 21 Thereafter 16c. 20c. 24c. 29c. 35c. 40c. 65c. 80c. 96c. $1.15 1.40 1.60 Beginners and those recommencing, Eighteen (18) Years and under Twenty-one (21), to whom Permits have been issued by the Board, under Section 6 of the " Male Minimum Wage Act." 37% to 48 Hours per Week. Age. Less than 37% Hours per Week. Hourly Rate. Daily Minimum. (4.) (2.) $8.00 per week, 1st 12 months 10.00 per week, 2nd 12 months 13.00 per week, 3rd 12 months _ Thereafter rates as shown in (2) or (3). 18 to 21 18 to 21 18 to 21 21c. 27c. 35c. 85c. $1.10 1.40 REPORT OP DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 61 Casual Employment. Hourly Rate. Daily Minimum. Male persons 18 and under 21 years of age, whose work does not exceed five (5) days in any one calendar month, may be employed without permit at 30c. $1.20 Males Twenty-one (21) Years and under Twenty-pour (24). Beginners and those recommencing, to whom Permits have been granted, under Section 6 of the " Male Minimum Wage Act." 37% to 48 Hours per Week. Age. Less than 37% Hours per Week. Hourly Rate. Daily Minimum. 21 and under 24 21 and under 24 21 and under 24 24c. 29c. 35c. 95c. $1.15 1.40 Thereafter the rates as shown in (2) or (3). Note.—Bicycle-riders and foot messengers, employed in wholesale and (or) retail establishments, shall be paid at the rates shown in the above Order, and are deleted from the Transportation Order No, 26. MERCANTILE (FEMALE). Order No. 24, Effective July 1st, 1935. (Superseding Order dated September 28th, 1927.) Includes all establishments operated for the purpose of wholesale and (or) retail trade. Rate. Hours per Week. Experienced employees 18 years of age or over. „ _ $12.75 a week. 35c. per hour $1.40 per day. 40 to 48 per week. Inexperienced Employees under 18 Years of Age. 40 to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 40 Hours per Week. $7.50 a week for 1st 3 months. 20c. per hour during 1st 3 months. 8.00 a week for 2nd 3 months. 21c. per hour during 2nd 3 months. 8.50 a week for 3rd 3 months. 23c. per hour during 3rd 3 months. 9.00 a week for 4th 3 months. 25c. per hour during 4th 3 months. 9.50 a week for 5th 3 months. 26c. per hour during 5th 3 months. 10.00 a week for 6th 3 months. 27c. per hour during 6th 3 months. 10.50 a week for 7th 3 months. 29c. per hour during 7th 3 months. 11.00 a week until age of 18 years is reached. 30c. per hour until age of 18 years is reached. Minimum, $1.00 per day. Inexperienced Employees 18 Years of Age or Over. 40 to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 40 Hours per Week. $9.00 a week 1st 3 months. 10.00 a week 2nd 3 months. 11.00 a week 3rd 3 months. 12.00 a week 4th 3 months. 12.75 a week thereafter. 25c. per hour 1st 3 months. 27c. per hour 2nd 3 months. 30c. per hour 3rd 3 months. 35c. per hour 4th 3 months. Minimum, $1.25 per day. Note.— (a.) Licences must be obtained for inexperienced employees 18 years of age or over at above rates. (b.) Maximum working-hours, 48 per week. S 62 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. OFFICE OCCUPATION (FEMALE). Order No. 34, Effective January 30th, 1936. (Superseding Order No. 4 of May 25th, 19St.) Includes the work of females employed as stenographers, book-keepers, typists, billing clerks, filing clerks, cashiers, cash-girls (not included in other orders), checkers, invoicers, comptometer operators, auditors, attendants in physicians' offices, dentists' offices, and other offices, and all kinds of clerical help. Experienced Employees 18 Years of Age or over. 37% to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 37% Hours per Week. $15.00 per week. 40c. per hour. Minimum, $1.60 per day. Inexperienced Employees 18 Years op Age and over. (Licence required in this Class.) 37% to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 37% Hours per Week. $11.00 a week for 1st three months. 12,00 a week for 2nd three months. 13.00 a week for 3rd three months. 14.00 a week for 4th three months. 15.00 a week thereafter. 30c. per hour for 1st three months. 32 %c. per hour for 2nd three months. 35c. per hour for 3rd three months. 37%c. per hour for 4th three months, 40c. per hour thereafter. Minimum in any one day must equal four hours* pay. Inexperienced Employees under 18 Years of Ace. 37% to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 37% Hours per Week. $11.00 a week for 1st six months. 12.00 a week for 2nd six months. 13.00 a week for 3rd six months. 14.00 a week for 4th six months or until employee reaches age of 18 years. 15.00 a week thereafter. 30c. per hour for 1st six months. 32%c. per hour for 2nd six months. 35c. per hour for 3rd six months. 37%c. per hour for 4th six months or until employee reaches age of 18 years. 40c. per hour thereafter. Minimum in any one day must equal four hours* pay. Note.—Office employees are not allowed to exceed eight hours per day without a permit. PERSONAL SERVICE OCCUPATION (FEMALE). Order No. 27, Effective September 5th, 1935. (Superseding, in part, Personal Service Order Effective since September 15th, 1919.) This includes the work of females employed in manicuring; hairdressing; barbering; massaging; giving of electrical, facial, scalp, or other treatments; removal of superfluous hair; chiropody; or other work of like nature. Rate. Hours per Week. Experienced employees 18 years of age or over _ _ Experienced employees 18 years of age or over - - _ - $74.25 37%c. per hour $1.50 per day 40 to 48 Less than 40 hours Inexperienced Employees under 18 Years of Age. 40 to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 40 Hours per Week. $10.00 a week for 1st 6 months. 27c. per hour during 1st 6 months. 11.00 a week for 2nd 6 months. 29c. per hour during 2nd 6 months. 12.00 a week for 3rd 6 months. 32c. per hour during 3rd 6 months. 13.00 a week for 4th 6 months, 35c. per hour during 4th 6 months. or until employee reaches or until employee reaches age age of 18 years. of 18 years. 14.25 a week thereafter. 37%c. per hour thereafter. Minimum, $1.25 per day. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 63 Inexperienced Employees 18 Years of Age or Over. 40 to 48 Hours per Week. Less than 40 Hours per Week. $10.00 a week for 1st 3 months. 11.00 a week for 2nd 3 months. 12.00 a week for 3rd 3 months. 13.00 a week for 4th 3 months. 14.25 a week thereafter. 27c. per hour during 1st 3 months. 29c. per hour during 2nd 3 months. 32c. per hour during 3rd 3 months. 35c. per hour during 4th 3 months. 37%c. per hour thereafter. Minimum, $1.25 per day. Licences required for inexperienced employees 18 years of age or over. Note.—Employees waiting on call to be paid according to rates to which they are entitled as set out above. PERSONAL SERVICE OCCUPATION (FEMALE). Effective since September 15th, 1919. This includes the work of females employed as ushers in theatres, attendants at shooting-galleries, and other public places of amusement, garages, and gasoline service-stations, or as drivers of motor-cars and other vehicles. (Other classes of work originally in this Order now covered by Order No. 27.) Wage Rate. Weekly Hours. $14.25 per week. 2911/iec per hour. 48 hours. Note.— (a.) Ushers in theatres, music-halls, concert-rooms, and the like, engaged after 6 p.m., on legal holidays, and for special matinees, are entitled to a wage of not less than 30 cents an hour, with a minimum payment of 75 cents. (6.) Ushers working more than 18 hours a week, but not in excess of 36 hours, are entitled to not less than $10.80 a week. (Ushers in this category may be employed only between 1.30 p.m. and 11 p.m.) (c.) Ushers working in excess of 36 hours a week up to 48 hours are entitled to not less than $14.25. (d.) No distinction is made for ushers under 18 and over 18 years of age. No apprenticeship considered necessary for ushers. SAWMILLS (MALE). Order No. 50, Effective August 16th, 1937. (Superseding Order No. 2 of April 27th, 193k, Order No. 1U of October 19th, 193U, and Order No. 36, Effective April 1st, 1936.) Includes all operations in or incidental to the carrying-on of sawmills and planing-mills. Hourly Rate. Weekly Hours. Adult males— - _ - - Not more than 10 per cent, of all employees at not less than— Males under 21 years of age— - - _ 40c. 30c. 30c. 48 48 48 Note.— (a.) Certain exemptions under "Hours of Work Act." (See regulations.) (o.) For engineers see Engineer Order, (c.) For truck-drivers see Transportation Order. (d.) 90 per cent, of all employees not less than 40 cents per hour. SHINGLE-BOLTS (MALE). Order No. 1b, Effective January 4th, 1935. Includes employees engaged in felling, bucking, and splitting shingle-bolts. * Rate, $1.30 per cord. Hours, 48 per week. S 64 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. SHINGLE-MILLS (MALE.) Order No. 16, Effective November 23rd, 1934. Includes all operations in or incidental to the manufacture of wooden shingles. Hourly Rate. Weekly Hours. 40c. 48 Note.— (a.) For engineers see Engineer Order. (6.) For truck-drivers see Transportation Order. SHIP-BUILDING INDUSTRY (MALE). Order No. 20, Effective June 14th, 1935. Includes all operations in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, demolition, painting, and cleaning of hulls, putting on or taking off the ways, or dry-docking, of any ship, boat, barge, or scow. Occupation. Hourly Rate. Weekly Hours. Ship-carpenter, shipwright, joiner, boat-builder or wood-caulker - All other employees - _ — — - - Employees under 21, not more than 10 per cent, of total male employees in plant may be employed at not less than __ ___ .„ 671/2 c. 50c. 25e. 48 48 TAXICAB DRIVERS (MALE). Order No. 33, Effective January 30th, 1936, and Order No. 33a, September 13th, 1937. (Superseding Order No. 6, Effective June 29th, 19S4.) Includes an employee in charge of or driving a motor-vehicle with seating accommodation for seven passengers or less than seven passengers, used for the conveyance of the public and which is driven or operated for hire. Area. Drivers. Daily Kate. Working-hours. V -ncouver, Victoria, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich.. All ages. $2.75 Unlimited. Note.—If uniform or special article of wearing apparel is demanded by employer, it must be without cost to the employee. TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH OCCUPATION (FEMALE). Effective April 5th, 1920. This includes the work of all persons employed in connection with the various instruments, switchboards, and other mechanical appliances used in connection with telephony and telegraphy, and shall also include the work of all persons employed in the business or industry of the operation of telephone or telegraph systems who are not governed by any other Order of the Board. Experienced Workers. Inexperienced Workers. Weekly Hours. $15.00 per week. 31*4c. per hour. $11.00 per week for 1st 3 months. 12.00 per week for 2nd 3 months. 13.00 per week for 3rd 3 months. Licences required for inexperienced employees 18 years of age or over. 48 48 48 In case of emergency, 56 hours. Note.— (a.) Time and one-half is payable for hours in excess of 48. (b.) Every employee must have one full day off duty in every week. (c.) Where telephone and telegraph employees are customarily on duty between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., 10 hours on duty shall be construed as the equivalent of 8 hours of work in computing the number of hours of employment a week. (d.) In cases where employees reside on the employers' premises, the employer shall not be prevented from making an arrangement with such employee to answer emergency calls between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 65 TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY (MALE). Order No. 26, Effective July 4th, 1935. Includes all operations in or incidental to the carrying or transporting for reward, by any means whatever, other than by rail, water, or air, any goods, wares, merchandise, article, articles, or material the property of persons other than the carrier, and the carrying or delivering of goods, wares, merchandise, article, articles, or material by or on behalf of any manufacturer, jobber, private or public owner, or by or on behalf of any wholesale, retail, private, or public vendor thereof, or dealer therein, and the carrying or delivering to or collecting from any other carrier of goods by rail, water, air, or road transport for the purpose of being further transported to some destination other than the place at which such aforementioned carriage or delivery terminates. Weekly Hours. Weekly Hours. Weekly Hours. (1.) Operators of motor-vehicles of 2,000 lb. net weight or over, as specified on the motor- vehicle licence, exclusive of those specified in section 7 hereof Less than 40 45c. Less than 40 40c. Less than 40 30c. Less than 40 20c. Less than 40 40c. Less than 40 45c. 40 and not more than BO 40c. 40 and not more than 50 35c. 40 and not more than 48 25c. 40 and not more than 48 17c. 40 and not more than 50 35c. 40 and snot more than 50 40c. In excess of 50 and not more than 54 60c. In excess of 50 and not more than 54 52%c. In excess of 50 and not more than 54 52V2c. In excess of E0 and not more than 54 60c. (2.) Operators of motor-vehicles of less than 2,000 lb. net weight, as specified on the motor-vehicle licence, exclusive . of those specified in sections 3 and 7 hereof (3.) Operators of motor-cycles _ (4.) Bicycle-riders and foot-messengers employed exclusively on delivery or messenger work (6.) Drivers of horse-drawn vehicles other than those covered by section 7 hereof (7.) Drivers of vehicles employed in the retail delivery of bread or in the retail delivery of milk Hourly rate, 40c. Note.— (a.) Where vehicle is provided by employee all reasonable costs while vehicle is in use on employer's behalf shall be in addition to above rates. (6.) Where uniforms are required these are to be furnished without cost to employee. (c.) Employees waiting on call to be paid at above rates. (d.) Milk-delivery men may work fifteen (15) hours in excess of 48 per week, provided not more than ten (10) hours is worked in any one day, nor more than three hundred and seventy-eight (378) hours over a period of seven (7) weeks. (c.) Bicycle-riders and foot-messengers in mercantile industry, see Order No. 38. WATCHMEN—LOGGING CAMPS (MALE). Order No. Ia, Effective November 29th, 1934. Wages. Hours. No minimum wage fixed. Not fixed. 5 S 66 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. WOOD-WORKING. Order No. 49, Effective August 16th, 1937. Superseding Order No. 35 of April 1st, 1936, and Order No. 11 of August 24th, 1934. Includes all operations in establishments operated for the purpose of manufacturing sash and doors, cabinets, show-cases, office and store fixtures, wood furniture, wood furnishings, veneer products, and general mill-work products. Class. Hourly Rate. Weekly Hours. 40c. 30c. 25c. 48 48 48 Note.—After November 14th, 1937, total male employees receiving less than 40 cents must not exceed 33} cent, of all male employees. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. G7 BOARD OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS MINIMUM WAGE ORDERS. The following is a complete list of all Orders made by the Board of Industrial Relations, compiled as at June 1st, 1938:— Serial No. Industry. Date of Order. Date Gazetted. Date effective. Minimum Wage Act. Date cancelled. 17 8 42 7 37 55 31 40 12 12a 45 45a 48 19 32 53 54 18 18a 18b 18c 3a 21 21A 21b 21c 22 22A 22B 22c 46 46a Baking - Barbering Barbering Box-manufacture .„. Box-manufacture - Box-manufacture Bus-drivers (Victoria and Dii trict) - Carpentry Construction Construction Construction _ .. Construction (Cancelling 45) Construction _ Elevator Operators Elevator Operators Elevator Operators Elevator Operators .. Engineers, Stationary Steam Engineers, Stationary Steam . Engineers, Stationary Steam . Engineers, Stationary Steam _ First-aid Attendants Fishing - Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable (Emergency) _ Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable ... Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable (Emergency) .„. __ Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable 46b I Fruit and Vegetable . 46c Fruit and Vegetable (Temporary Emergency) I 47 [ Fruit and Vegetable 47A Fruit and Vegetable Fruit and Vegetable_ 47c [ Fruit and Vegetable (Temporary Emergency) 51 I Household-Furniture. 52 [ Hotel and Catering .... 52a I Hotel and Catering (Resort | Hotels) Nov. 1/34 ... July 12/34 .... April 5'37 . . July 12/34 March 23/36 March 10/38 Oct. 15/35 .... Dec. 1/36 Sept. 28/34 ... Feb. 28/38 June 14/37 July 2/37 ....... July 29/37 Feb. 8/35 ..... Nov. 26/35 ... Feb. 28/38 ... Feb. 28/38 .... Feb. 8/35 ....... April 17/35-. June 26/36 .... May 14/37 June 26/36 ... May 2/34 June 12/34 ... April 16/35 ... Dec. 2/35 July 21/36... Aug. 26/36 ... April 16/35 ... Dec. 2/35 July 21/36 ... Aug. 26/36 ... July 2/37 Sept. 1/37 ..... Sept. 15/37.... March 4/3S July 2/37 . Sept. 1/37.. Nov. 8/34 ..... July 19/34 ... April 8/37 ... July 19/34 ... March 26/36 March 17/38 Oct. 17/35 ... Dec. 3/36 Oct. 4/34 ..... March 3/38.... June 17/37 ... July 8/37 ..... July 29/37 Feb. 14/35 ..... Nov. 28/35 .... March 3/38... March 3/38.... Feb. 14/35 April 18/35 ... July 2/36 May 20/37 July 2/36 Jan. 15/20 .... May 3/34 .... June 14/34 .. April 18/35 ... Dec. 5/35 ... July 23/36 . Sept. 3/36 April 18/35 52b Hotel and Catering- Sept. 15/37 March 4/38 . Nov. 17/37 ... Feb. 8/38 ..... April 6/38.... May 18/38 .... Nov. 23/34 . Aug. 3/34 June 14/37 . Aug. 3/34 - April 1/36 April 4/38 ... Oct. 28/35 - Feb. 1/37 ... Oct. 19/34 ... March 3/38 July 5/37 ----- July 8/37 -- July 29/37 ... March 1/35 . Nov. 28/35 . March 3/38. March 3/38. March 1/35 .. April 18/35 . July 2/36 -. June 1/37 - Aug. 1/36 - Feb.28/20 - May 18/34 .. June 29/34 . April 18/35 Dec. 5/35 _ July 23/36 . Sept. 3/36 . April 18/35 Dec. 5/35 . July 23/36 Sept. 3/36 . July 8/37 .. Sept. 2/37... Sept. 16/37 March 10/38 July 8/37 Sept. 2/37...-. Sept. 16/37.. March 10/38 Nov. 18/37... Feb. 10/38 ... April 7/38 - May 19/38 ... Dec. 5/35 July 23/36 ... Sept. 3/36 — July 12/37 Sept. 2/37 to Sept. 15/37 Sept. 16/37 to Sept. 30/37. March 10/38 to May 7/38 .... July 12/37 . Sept. 2/37 to Sept. 15/37 Sept. 16/37 to Sept. 30/37 March 10/38 to May 7/38 Nov. 22/37 .... Feb. 14/38 .— June 15/38 to Sept. 15/38 . May 19/38 Male.... Male.... Male.... Male ... Male ... Male .... Male ... Male —. Male - Male .... Male — Male ... Male Male ... Male . Female Male .. Male Male Male .. Male ... Male ... Female Female Female Female Female Female Female Male - Male ... Male —- Male Female Female- Female Female- Male Male Male Male Male ... Female Female Female June 14/37 April 1/36 April 4/38 July 8/37 Nov. 26/35 March 3/38 April 18/35 April 18/35 July 12/37 March 31/36 July 12/37 July 12/37 July 12/37 March 31/36 July 12/37 July 12/37 Sept. 15/37 Sept. 30/37 May 7/38 Sept. 15/37 Sept. 30/37 May 7/38 S 68 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Board of Industrial Relations Minimum Wage Orders—Continued. Serial No. Industry. Date of Order. Date Gazetted. Date effective. Minimum Wage Act. Date cancelled. 23 Janitor.. 23A | Janitor. 43 5a 29 44 IA lc 13 l 13A I I 15 | 28 ] 56 | 25 ! 10 [ 10 j 10 I 10a 24 24 24 24 Janitor Janitresses (Public Housekeeping) Janitresses (Public Housekeeping ) Janitresses Janitresses Laundry, Cleaning and Dyeing Logging (West of Cascade Mountains) Logging (Watchman) Logging (Skeena and Khyex Rivers) - Logging and Sawmills Logging (East of Cascade Mountains) Logging (Skeena and Khyex Rivers) — Cancelling No. 9 Logging and Sawmills (Cost of Board, Cranbrook Area) — Logging — Manufacturing . Mercantile Mercantile (Supplementary, 1934) _ Mercantile (Supplementary, 1935) Mercantile (Christmas Cards, 1935) . - | Mercantile — — Mercantile (Supplementary, 1935) | Mercantile (Supplementary, J 1936) j Mercantile (Supplementary, I 1937) I 24a 24b [ Mercantile (Christmas Cards, 1935) Mercantile (Christmas Cards, 1936) 38 Mercantile— 38 I Mercantile ( Supplementary, 1936) 38 Mercantile (Supplementary, I 1937) — 38a I Mercantile (Christmas Cards, I 1936) — 38b I Mercantile- — 4 34 | Office Occupation - Office Occupation - | Personal Service- 27 | Personal Service — 27a j Personal Service (Temporary) — April 17/35. Sept. 25/35... May 14/37... Nov. 9/34 . April 17/35.. Sept. 26/35- May 14/37— April 7/34 ... Nov. 9/34 Jan. 24/36.. July 12/34.. Sept. 28/34- Jan. 24/36.... Sept. 28/34 . Sept. 25/35— March 23/38- March 29/35 _ July 24/34— Nov. 9/34.... Nov. 26/35 . Oct. 16/86 _ May 29/35... Nov. 26/35 . Dec. 1/36..... Nov. 17/37... Oct. 15/35.- Aug. 26/36.. June 26/36. Dec. 1/36 Nov. 17/37... Aug. 31/36.. Aug. 26/36.. May 2/34 .... Jan.24/36„ Aug. 29/35 . Dec. 17/35 .. I April 18/35- Oct. 3/35 —. May 20/37 — Nov. 15/34 - April 18/35- Oct. 3/35 — May 20/37— Feb. 27/19. April 12/34 . Nov. 15/3 4... Jan. 30/36 ... July 19/34 ... Oct. 4/34 . Jan. 30/36. Oct. 4/34 ... Sept. 26/35 .. March 24/38.. June 6/35 _ July 26/34- Nov. 15/34.. Nov. 28/35 . Oct. 17/36- June 6/35—. Nov. 28/35 . Dec. 3/36 Nov. 25/37- Oct. 17/35 - Sept. 3/36... July 2/36... Dec. 3/36 ... Nov. 25/37.. Sept. 3/36 - Sept. 3/36— May 10/34.. Jan.30/36. Aug. 14/19 - Sept. 5/35- Dec. 19/35 April 18/35.. Oct. 3/35 June 1/37..... Nov. 30/34 .. April 18/35 . Oct. 3/35 .... June 1/37 March 31/19 . April 27/34... Nov. 30/34... Jan.30/36. Aug. 3/34 Oct. 19/34. Jan.30/36. Oct. 19/34 .. Sept. 26/35 .. March 24/38.. July 1/35 .... Aug. 10/34. Dec. 1/34 Nov. 28/35- Oct. 17/35 .. July 1/35 Nov. 28/35 . Dec. 3/36.... Dec. 1/37 to Dec. 31/37- Oct. 17/35— Sept. 3/36 to Dec. 31/36... July 20/36 - Dec. 3/36 Dec. 1/37 to Dec. 31/37— Sept. 3/36 to Dec. 31/36— Sept. 3/36 May 25/34 _ Jan. 30/36- Sept. 15/19 . Sept. 5/35— Dec. 19/35 . Male. Male Male- Female . Female. Female. Female - Female.- Male - Male- Male . Male . Male . Male. Male . Male. Male- Female . Male Male- Male . Male Female.. Female- Female— Female- Female . Female.. Male Male. Male.. Male.. Male. Female- Female- Female.. Female . Female May 31/37 May 31/37 April 18/35. Oct. 3/35 May 31/37 March 24/38 Oct. 19/34 March 24/38 March 24/38 Oct. 4/34 July 20/36 Dec. 31/34 Dec. 31/35 Dec. 31/35 Dec. 31/35 Jam 3/37 Dec. 31/37 Dec. 31/35 Dee. 31/36 Jan. 3/37 Dec. 31/37 Dec. 31/36 Jan. 30/36 Dec. 31/35 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 60 Board of Industrial Relations Minimum Wace Orders—Continued. Serial No. Industry. Date of Order. Date Gazetted. Date effective. Minimum Wage Act. Date cancelled. 5 May 2/34 Sept. 26/35. April 2/37 April 7/34 Sept. 28/34 _ Sept. 25/35 March 23/36 .. Aug. 3/37 Dec. 14/34 Nov. 1/34 May 28/35 June 13/34... Jan. 24/36 Sept. 1/37 May 10/34 Oct. 3/35 April 8/37 April 12/34 Oct. 4/34 Sept. 26/35 March 26/36... Aug. 5/37 Dec. 20/34 Nov. 8/34 May 30/35 June 14/34 Jan.30/36 Sept. 2/37 March 4/20 May 3/34 June 20/35 July 2/36 Aug. 9/34 March 26/36 - Aug. 5/37 May 25/34 ... . Oct. 3/35 June 15/37 to Sept. 15/37... April 27/34.... Oct. 19/34 Sept. 26/35 April 1/36 Aug. 16/37 - Jan.4/35 Nov. 23/34 .... June 14/35 ... June 29/34 Jan.30/36 Sept. 13/37 April 5/20 May 18/34 July 4/35 Female Female Female Male..... - Male Oct. 3/35 30 Feb. 14/38 30A 2 Sept. 15/37 April 1/36 14 28 Sawmills (East of Cascade Mountains) Sawmill and Logging (Cost of Board, Cranbrook Area) April 1/36 36 Male —.. Male Aug. 16/37 50 IB 16 20 6 Sawmills Shingle-bolts ,.,. Shingle-mills Male — Male Male - Male — Male Female... Male 33 33a Taxicab-drivers (Vancouver, Victoria, and District) Taxicab-drivers (Vancouver, Sept. 13/37 2a May 2/34 . June 19/35 June 26/36 Aug. 1/34 March 23/36... Aug. 3/37 Sept. 30/34 26 Transportation 26a 11 35 49 July 20/36 . . Aug. 24/34...... April 1/36 Aug. 16/37 Male. Wood-working — April 1/36 Aug. 16/37 S 70 DEPARTMENT OP LABOUR. LABOUR LEGISLATION. " COAL-MINES REGULATION ACT." This Act was amended prohibiting the employment of any boy under the age of sixteen years or any woman or girl of any age in or about the surface-workings of a colliery, except while engaged in clerical work, or performing domestic duties in any hotel, boarding-house, or residence in connection with any colliery. This Act also prohibits the employment of any woman or girl of any age, or boy under the age of eighteen years, underground in any mine after December 31st, 1937, with the exception of boys under the age of eighteen years, who have been or are employed underground before December 31st, 1937. It compels the mine-owner, agent, or manager to give notice of proposed abandonment to the Inspector while the workings are still accessible, and also to ensure the surveying of all workings before actual abandonment; also provides no workings shall approach an abandoned working nearer than 500 feet, without approval of the Inspector. "FACTORIES ACT." Amended to define as a factory, every laundry, cleaning, dyeing, pressing, or dressmaking establishment run for profit, by a person who holds a trades licence issued by a municipality, whether operated by manual, muscular, or meshanical power, or partly by manual, muscular, or mechanical power, and whether or not any person is employed therein. This Act now prohibits any person to be employed in or work in any laundry, cleaning, dyeing, pressing, or dressmaking establishment on any day except between the hours of seven o'clock in the forenoon and seven o'clock in the afternoon, also requires an unobstructed view of the interior of tne work-room of any such laundry, cleaning, dyeing, pressing, or dressmaking establishment from the exterior of the establishment between the hours of seven o'clock in the afternoon and seven o'clock in the forenoon of the following day. The amendment also gives the Inspectors the power to close any elevator (passenger or freight), when considered unsafe. Previously, only passenger-elevators could be ordered closed. " HOURS OF WORK ACT." Amended to read that " Every employee who is found performing any work or service in connection with the work of any employer shall be deemed to be employed by that employer to do the said work or to perform the said services." Confines the working-hours of employees working on a split-shift in any industrial undertaking to within twelve hours immediately following commencement of work. "HAIRDRESSERS ACT." Amended to provide that regulations may be made subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, (<x.) Prescribing the minimum prices which may be asked, charged, or received from the public for various acts of hairdressing. (6.) Prescribing what may and what may not be stated in or on any signs, notices, or advertisements and may require the discontinuance of any specified advertisement or means of advertising. " APPRENTICESHIP ACT." Amended to provide that any municipality may as an employer enter into any contract of apprenticeship pursuant to the provisions of the Act. " MECHANICS' LIEN ACT." This Act was amended to deal with the registration of liens, and provides, in addition to filing in the County Court and in the appropriate Land Registry Office, where the lien is claimed in respect of mining property held under the " Mineral Act " or the " Placer-mining Act " other than a Crown-granted mineral claim, for a duplicate or copy certified by the Registrar of the County Court to be filed in the office of the Mining Recorder in which the mining property is situate. Printed forms of affidavits may be procured from the County Court Registrar. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 71 "INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION ACT." CHAPTER 31. An Act respecting the Right of Employees to organize and providing for Conciliation and Arbitration of Industrial Disputes. [Assented to 10th December, 1937.1 His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:— 1. This Act may be cited as the "Industrial Conciliation and Arbitra-Short title, tion Act." 2. (1.) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:— interpretation " Application " means an application for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner under the provisions of this Act: " Board " means a Board of Arbitration appointed under the provisions of this Act: " Conciliation Commissioner " means a Conciliation Commissioner appointed under the provisions of this Act: " Dispute " means any dispute or difference between an employer and a majority of all his employees or a majority of his employees in any separate plant or department of his operation as to matters or things affecting or relating to work done or to be done by him or them, or as to the privileges, rights, and duties of employers or employees, and, without limiting the general nature of the above definition, includes all matters relating to:— (a.) The wages, allowance, or other remuneration of employees or the price paid or to be paid in respect of employment: (6.) The hours of employment, sex, age, qualifications, or status of employees and the mode, terms, and conditions of employment: (c.) The employment of children or any person or persons or class of persons, or the dismissal or refusal to employ any particular person or persons or class of persons: (d.) Claims on the part of an employer or an employee as to whether and, if so, under what circumstances preference of employment should or should not be given to one class over another class of persons being or not being members of labour or other organizations, British subjects, or aliens: (e.) Materials supplied and alleged to be bad, unfit, or unsuitable or damage alleged to have been done to work: (/.) Any established custom or usage, either generally or in the particular district affected: {g.) The interpretation of an agreement cr a clause thereof: " Employer " means any person employing one or more persons or any number of employers acting together, or who in the opinion of the Minister have interests in common: " Employee " means any person employed by an employer to do any work for hire or reward in an employment to which this Act applies, but does not include employees in domestic service or in agriculture: " Lockout " includes the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work or the refusal of an employer to continue to employ a number of his employees in consequence of a dispute done with a view to compelling his employees or to aid S 72 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. another employer in compelling his employees to accept terms of employment: " Minister " means the Minister of Labour: " Strike " or " to go on strike " includes the cessation of work by a body of employees acting in combination or the concerted refusal or the refusal under a common understanding of a number of employees to work for an employer in consequence of a dispute done as a means of compelling their employer or to aid other employees in compelling their employer to accept terms of employment: " Organization," when used in relation to employees, means any organization or association of employees formed for the purpose of regulating relations between employers and employees, and includes a trade-union; and when used in relation to employers means any organization or association of employers formed for the purpose of regulating relations between employers and employees. (2.) No employee or employer shall cease to be such within the meaning and for the purposes of this Act:— (a.) In the case of a lockout or strike; or (fi.) In the case of a dismissal where an application is made within fifteen day's after the dismissal. Application of Act. Right to organize recognized. 3. This Act shall apply only to matters within the legislative jurisdiction of the Province. 4. The right of employers and employees to organize for any lawful purpose is hereby recognized. Collective bargaining 5. It shall be lawful for employees to bargain collectively with their legalized. employers and to conduct such bargaining through representatives of em ployees duly elected by a majority vote of the employees affected, and any employer or employees refusing so to bargain shall be liable to a fine not exceeding' five hundred dollars for each offence. Certain restrictions and conditions unlawful. Preventing employee from joining association. 6. It shall be unlawful for any employer hereafter to insert any clause in any written contract of employment, or to impose any condition in any verbal contract of employment, or to continue such clause or condition heretofore in effect where such clause or condition seeks to restrain any employee from exercising his rights under this Act, and any such clause or condition shall be of no effect. 7. (1.) Any person who by intimidation, threat of loss of position or employment, or by actual loss of position or employment, or by any other threat, seeks to compel any person to join or refrain from joining any organization or to refrain from becoming an officer of any association shall be guilty of an offence, and liable to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars. (2.) Nothing contained in subsection (1) shall prevent an organization of employees from maintaining an existing agreement or entering into a new agreement with an employer or organization of employers, whereby all the employees of the employer or organization of employers are required to be members of a specified organization of employees. Rights preserved. 8. Nothing in this Act shall detract from or interfere with the right of an employer to suspend, transfer, lay off, or discharge employees for proper and sufficient cause. Returns by associations. 9. (1.) Every organization, whether of employers or employees, shall file with the Minister:— REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 73 (a.) A copy, duly certified by its proper officers to be true and correct, of its constitution, rules, and by-laws containing a full and complete statement of its objects and purposes, and all amendments when made shall be likewise certified and filed with the Minister: (6.) An annual list of the names and addresses of its president, secretary, and other officers as at the thirty-first day of December in each year. (2.) The list mentioned in clause (6) shall be filed before the thirty- first day of January in each year. (3.) The information required to be filed under this section shall be used only for the purposes of this Act and shall not be open to inspection hy the public. 10. Whenever any dispute exists and the parties thereto are unable to Application for adjust it, either of the parties to the dispute may make application to the commissioner. Minister for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner. 11. On application made pursuant to section 10, the Minister may, if he Appointment of is satisfied that the dispute is a proper one for reference to a Conciliation Conciliation r r r Commissioner. Commissioner, appoint a Conciliation Commissioner, and may at the same time or subsequently refer to him any other dispute of a similar kind between any other employer and his employees. The decision of the Minister on the application shall be made within three days after the receipt of the application. 12. Whenever any dispute exists or is apprehended, the Minister may Appointment of on his own initiative, if he thinks it expedient so to do, appoint a Concilia- commissioner tion Commissioner, and may at the same time or subsequently refer to him without application. any other dispute of a similar kind between any other employers and his employees. 13. Upon the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner, the Minister Notice of appoint- shall forthwith give notice of the appointment to the representatives of allmen ° a par ,es' parties to the dispute, and shall from time to time give notice of the appointment to the representatives of all parties who may become interested by reason of any dispute of a similar kind being referred to the same Conciliation Commissioner. 14. (1.) A Conciliation Commissioner shall, in such manner as he inquiry by thinks fit, expeditiously and carefully inquire into the dispute and all mat- commissioner, ters affecting the merits and right settlement thereof. (2.) In the course of the inquiry the Conciliation Commissioner may Mediation by make all such suggestions and do all such things as he deems right and commissioner, proper for inducing the parties to come to a fair and amicable settlement of the dispute. The Conciliation Commissioner shall hear such representations as may be made on behalf of the parties to the dispute, and shall diligently seek to mediate between the employer and employees. 15. It shall be the duty of the Conciliation Commissioner to promote Duty to encourage conditions favourable to a settlement by endeavouring to allay distrust, to settlement6 remove causes of friction, to promote good feeling, to restore confidence, and to encourage the parties to come together and themselves effect a settlement. 16. The Conciliation Commissioner shall, within the time limited by Commissioner to ,-, rt- • i/. , • i report within the terms of his appointment, not to exceed fourteen days, transmit to the time limited. Minister a report setting forth the result of the reference: Provided that with the unanimous consent of all parties the time for transmission of the report may be extended beyond fourteen days. The Minister shall forthwith transmit a copy of the report to the representatives of all parties to the dispute, and may publish the report in such manner as he sees fit. S 74 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Failing conciliation, dispute referred to arbitration. Notice to be served on parties. Power to determine representatives. Power of Minister to appoint arbitrators. Designation of Board of Arbitration. Members of Board to make oath. Minister may provide secretary, etc. Vacancies. Board to proceed to hear. 17. In case the report of the Conciliation Commissioner is to the effect that he has failed to bring about any settlement or adjustment of the dispute, the Minister shall, where the Conciliation Commissioner was appointed pursuant to the provisions of section 11, forthwith refer the dispute to arbitration, and shall notify the representatives of all parties to the dispute that he has so referred it. The arbitration shall be before a Board of three arbitrators. 18. The Minister shall forthwith serve notice on the representative of the employer, requiring the employer within the time limited by the notice, which time shall not exceed seven days, to appoint a person to act as arbitrator on behalf of the employer, and shall forthwith serve notice on the representative of the employees requiring the employees within the time limited by the notice, which time shall not exceed seven days, to appoint a person to act as arbitrator on behalf of the employees, and such two arbitrators shall appoint a person to act as third arbitrator, and the third arbitrator shall be Chairman of the Board. 19. Where any of the parties to a dispute is an organization having a president and secretary, notification shall be made to and service shall be made upon the president and secretary, and in every other case the Minister shall have power to determine the persons to be notified and served as representatives for the purpose of this Act, and his determination shall be final. 20. (1.) If the employer fails to appoint an arbitrator within the time limited by the notice, the Minister shall appoint a person to act as arbitrator on behalf of the employer. (2.) If the employees fail to appoint an arbitrator within the time limited by the notice, the Minister shall appoint a person to act as arbitrator on behalf of the employees. (3.) If the two arbitrators fail to appoint a third arbitrator within five days after the day on which the last of the two arbitrators is appointed, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall appoint a third arbitrator, who shall be Chairman of the Board. 21. (1.) As soon as the names of the three arbitrators are determined the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall designate them a Board of Arbitration for the purposes of this Act, and shall deliver to them a statement of the dispute to be inquired into by them. (2.) No person shall be appointed an arbitrator unless he is a British subject. 22. Before entering upon the exercise of the functions of their office, the members of a Board shall respectively make oath or affirmation before a Justice of the Peace or other person authorized to administer an oath or affirmation, that they will faithfully and impartially perform the duties of their office, and also that, except in the discharge of their duties, they will not disclose to any person any of the evidence or other matter brought before the Board. The oath or affirmation shall be forthwith filed with the Minister. 23. The Minister may provide the Board with a secretary, stenographer, and such other clerical assistance as to the Minister appears necessary for the efficient carrying-out of the provisions of this Act. 24. Every vacancy in the membership of a Board shall be supplied in the same manner as in the case of the original appointment of the arbitrator whose ceasing to act caused the vacancy. 25. As soon as possible after the Board is designated it shall, after serving sufficient notice on all parties, proceed to hear and determine the dispute. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 75 26. The Board shall have power to determine its own procedure, but Board to determine shall give full opportunity to all parties to present evidence and to be heard.own Procetmre- 27. It shall be lawful for the members of the Board, by a summons Power to summon under their hands or under the hand of any one of them, to require the attendance of any person as a witness before them at a place and time to be mentioned in the summons, which time shall be a reasonable time from the date of the summons, and in like manner by summons to require any person to bring and produce before them all documents, writings, books, deeds, and papers in his possession, custody, or power touching or in anywise relating to or concerning the dispute; and every person named in and served with any such summons shall attend before the Board and answer upon oath, unless the Board otherwise directs, all questions relating to the dispute and produce all documents, writings, books, deeds, and papers as aforesaid, according to the tenor of the summons. 28. If any person on whom any summons has been served by the de- Power to compel livery thereof to him or by the leaving thereof at his usual place of abode witnesses and to fails to appear before the Board at the time and place specified in the sum- Punlsh for contempt, mons, or, having appeared before the Board, refuses to be sworn or to make answer to such questions as are put to him by the Board, or to produce and show to the Board all documents, writings, books, deeds, and papers in his possession, custody, or power touching or in anywise relating to or concerning the dispute, or if any person is guilty of any contempt of the Board, the Board shall have the same powers to be exercised in the same way as any Judge of the Supreme Court in the like behalf; and all goalers, sheriffs, constables, bailiffs, and all other police officers shall give their aid and assistance to the Board in the execution of its office. 29. For the purpose of its inquiry the Board shall have the power of Power to administering oaths. Any member of the Board may administer an oath.a mmls er oa s- 30. The Board may accept, admit, and call for such evidence as in Power to accept equity and good conscience it thinks fit, whether strictly legal evidence or not. atrict?y1s^Sether evidence or not. 31. The Board, or any member thereof, and, on being authorized in powers of entry writing by the Board, any other person, may, without any other warrant byBoard60*1011 than this Act, at any time enter any building, mine, mine-workings, ship, vessel, factory, workshop, place, or premises of any kind wherein or in respect of which any industry is carried on, or any work is being or has been done or commenced, or any matter or thing is taking place or has taken place, which has been made the subject of a reference to the Board, and inspect and view any work, material, machinery, appliance, or article therein, and interrogate any persons in or upon any such building, mine, mine-workings, ship, vessel, factory, workshop, place, or premises as aforesaid, in respect of or in relation to any matter or thing hereinbefore mentioned; and any person who hinders or obstructs the Board, or any such person authorized as aforesaid, in the exercise of any power conferred by this section, or refuses to answer any interrogation made as aforesaid, shall be guilty of an offence, and be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 32. Any party to a reference may be represented before the Board by How parties may three or fewer than three persons designated by the parties respectively for be represented that purpose. ' ' 33. Every party appearing by a representative shall be bound by the Parties to be acts of such representative. re^ntatta^ 34. If, without good cause shown, any party to proceedings before the Presence of parties. Board fails to attend or to be represented, the Board may proceed as if the party had duly attended or had been represented. S 76 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Time and place of sittings of Board. Majority of Board. Quorum. All members of Board to be present. Award. Award not to conflict with certain Acts. Award of Board to be transmitted to the Minister. Copy of award to be sent to parties. Parties may accept or reject award. Acceptance or rejection to be by vote. Lockout or strike prohibited pending conciliation or arbitration. 35. The sittings of the Board shall be held at such time and place as are from time to time fixed by the Chairman after consultation with the other members of the Board, and the parties shall be notified by the Chairman as to the time and place at which sittings are to be held: Provided that, so far as practicable, the Board shall sit in the locality within which the dispute arose. 36. The decision of a majority of the members present at a sitting of the Board shall be the decision of the Board, and the findings and recommendations of the majority of its members shall be those of the Board. 37. The presence of the Chairman and at least one other member of the Board shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for a sitting of the Board. 38. In case of the absence of any one member from a meeting of the Board, the other two members shall not proceed, unless it is shown that the third member has been notified of the meeting in ample time to admit of his attendance. 39. (1.) After making full inquiry and without undue delay, and in any event not more than fourteen days after the Board is designated pursuant to section 21, the Board shall make its award, and in its award the Board shall so far as practicable deal with each item of the dispute, and shall state in plain terms and avoiding as far as possible all technicalities what in the Board's opinion ought or ought not to be done by the respective parties concerned: Provided that with the unanimous consent of all parties the time within which the Board shall make its award may be extended for such time as may be agreed upon by the parties. (2.) The award shall in all cases be retroactive to the date of the application for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner, and whenever it appears to the Board expedient so to do its recommendations shall state the period during which the proposed settlement should continue in force. 40. The Board in its award shall not make any direction or recommendation which conflicts with the provisions of the " Apprenticeship Act," " Factories Act," " Hours of Work Act," " Female Minimum Wage Act," or " Male Minimum Wage Act." 41. (1.) The Board's award shall be signed by such of the members as concur therein, and shall be transmitted by the Chairman to the Minister as soon as practicable after the submission of the dispute to the Board. (2.) Where any question arises as to the meaning or application of or as to anything relating to or connected with the award, the Minister may, if he deems it expedient, request from the Chairman of the Board an expression of the Board's opinion upon such question, and the Chairman shall upon receipt of such request reconvene the Board, and the Board shall as soon as practicable report to the Minister its opinion upon such question. 42. Upon receipt of the Board's award, the Minister shall forthwith cause a copy thereof to be sent to the respective parties to the dispute, and the Minister may publish the award in such manner as he thinks fit. 43. The parties may, subject to section 44, accept or reject the award. 44. The question of acceptance or rejection of the award shall be submitted to a separate vote by the employees and employers (if more than one employer is involved) respectively. The vote shall be by secret ballot, and both in the case of the employees and of the employers the Minister may supervise the taking of the vote. 45. (1.) During the period of time intervening between an application for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner under section 11 and fourteen days after the date fixed for the taking of a vote under section 44, REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 77 no employer who is a party to the dispute shall declare or cause a lockout, nor shall any employees who are parties to the dispute go on strike. (2.) Subsection (1) shall not apply in any case where an application under section 11 is refused. (3.) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the suspension or discontinuance of any industry or of the working of any persons therein for any cause not constituting a lockout or strike. 46. (1.) Where any dispute arises, no employer shall make effective a Changes in wages, proposed change in wages or hours without the consent of the employees, nor shall the employer declare or cause a lockout, nor shall employees go on strike prior to an application for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner. (2.) The application for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner shall be made by the employer or employees proposing the change in wages or in hours. None of the parties shall alter the conditions of employment with respect to wages or hours, or on account of the dispute do or be concerned in doing, directly or indirectly, anything in the nature of a lockout or strike or a suspension or discontinuance of employment or work, but the relationship of employer and employee shall continue uninterrupted by the dispute or anything arising out of the dispute until the application for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner has been made. (3.) Where an application for the appointment of a Conciliation Commissioner has been made pursuant to this section, all the provisions of this Act shall be applicable to the same extent as if the application had been made under section 10. 47. Where there is between an employer and an organization of em- Exemption in case i -I* ■ • , ,, Tttr- . , .. -t i,01 agreement ployees an agreement, approved in writing by the Minister, for the arbi- between employers. tration of disputes, the employer and organization shall, so long as the employees, agreement remains in force, be exempt from the provisions of sections 10 to 46 of this Act. 48. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Act for which Penalty. a penalty has not been provided shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars. 49. No Court shall have power or jurisdiction to enforce any awardNo Court to -, . .. . . , enforce award. made under this Act. 50. No proceeding under this Act shall be deemed invalid by reason of Technicalities not any defect of form or any technical irregularity. procedings.6 51. Any moneys required for the administration of this Act or for Moneys required carrying out any of the provisions of this Act shall, in the absence of any °ra mmlstratlon- vote of the Legislative Assembly available therefor, be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. 52. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations not Regulations, inconsistent with the spirit of this Act as to any matter or thing which appears to him necessary or advisable to the effectual carrying-out of the provisions of this Act. 53. The "Industrial Disputes Investigation (British Columbia) Act "Repeal, is repealed. S 78 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. LABOUR DISPUTES AND CONCILIATION. The year 1937 was one of peace in labour circles; sixteen disputes were reported affecting 1,188 employees, resulting in 30,022 working-days being lost. The above figures are particularly gratifying when friction between employers and employees is so prevalent in other parts of the country. Of the 30,022 working days lost, 22,745 were lost by miners in the Cariboo District, leaving only 7,277 working days for the other fifteen disputes. Future reports in connection with labour disputes will appear under the heading of " Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act," the text of which will be found on page 71. The following table shows the record for the past seven years:— Year. No. of Strikes. Employees affected. Time lost in Working-days. 1937 16 16 23 17 14 11 11 1,188 5,741 7,321 4,427 2,397 4,136 2,322 30,022 75,311 140,706 73,977 25,760 37,740 79 310 1936 .... 1935.. _ . 1934 1933 1932... 1931 RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES, VANCOUVER. On February 12th, a group of waitresses in one cafe in Vancouver ceased work, demanding Union wages and additional help taken on to perform the work. After three days, an agreement was drawn up with the Union, the prevailing wages to be raised and a check to be made on the books of the firm to ascertain whether the increased overhead was justified. Subsequent to this agreement, following a trial period, the Union was advised that Union wages could not be paid, the establishment operating at a loss. An investigation by Union officials showed a possibility of these records being falsified in order to show an apparent loss. Should the rates be found to be too high in view of the incoming revenue, a special provision was to be made for this house, whereby employees might work for a rate lower than that contained in the agreement, but not lower than the minimum wage. Work was resumed on February 16th, the employees returning at increased wages and under Union conditions. MILLING COMPANY EMPLOYEES, NEW WESTMINSTER. On April 5th, some twenty-seven employees of one milling firm at New Westminster went out on strike following dismissal of three employees for Union activities. The workers affected were engaged as truck drivers, mill-workers, warehousemen, etc. Following negotiations between the employers and workers concerned, the men dismissed were reinstated, the firm agreeing to recognize the Union, no change being effected with regard to hours or wages. Work was resumed on April 6th. Favourable to workers. RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES, VANCOUVER. On April 22nd, three members of a staff of twenty-seven restaurant employees went out on strike in protest to the refusal of the management to sign an agreement with a local Union, and the dismissal of one employee for Union activities. The strikers demanded recognition of the Union and a subsequent increase in wages to the Union scale. The remainder of the staff not affected continued work, and on May 5th, following negotiations between the parties concerned, a conciliation was effected, the three strikers being reinstated and the staff given the right to belong to a Trade Union of their own choice, no discrimination being made for same. At the termination of the dispute no change in wage rates was effected, the workers returning at their previous scale of wages. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 79 GOLD-MINERS, CARIBOO DISTRICT, WELLS. Strikes occurred at two mines in the Cariboo district on May 25th, 1937, involving approximately 385 miners, members of Local No. 253, Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers' International Union, an affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Organization. The conciliation services of the Federal Department of Labour were at once offered to both the employers and the strikers, and the attention of the latter was directed to a provision of the "Industrial Disputes Investigation Act," (since repealed), which made it unlawful for mine employees to go on strike on account of any dispute prior to or during a reference of such dispute to a Board of Conciliation and Investigation, established under the Act. After considerable delay, the conciliation offer was accepted by the strikers, a representative conferring with the strikers' committees in Wells on May 31st. Efforts to bring about a resumption of work pending the establishment of a Board of Conciliation and Investigation were not successful. This strike was largely precipitated by a dispute arising over demands of the miners that seniority rather than merit be the basis for promotion, although later demands were submitted for recognition of the Union, no discrimination to be shown to strikers, reinstatement of all employees, a forty-eight-hour week where possible, and an upward adjustment in wages. Proposals for reference of the dispute to a Board under the " Industrial Disputes In-. vestigation Act " not being accepted, the strike continued until July 15th, 1937, when one of the mines was reopened with a partial staff, which amounted to 175 by July 31st, as compared with a normal staff of 260 workers. An employees' co-operative association had been organized. On July 30th, the Union voted to call off the strike, the workers in this case voluntarily returning to work at the scale of wages previously in effect; the dispute terminating in favour of the employers. LOGGERS, COWICHAN LAKE, V.I. Following the discharge of one employee of a logging company at Cowichan Lake, V.I., on June 11th, some 180 employees walked out, claiming discrimination. A strike-ballot being taken, a majority were shown in favour of resuming work, but as several key-men had already left the district, a return with a complete crew was impossible at that time. Following a duration of one day, work was resumed with the partial crew carrying on under previous conditions. No change. HOTEL EMPLOYEES, VANCOUVER. On July 1st, some twenty-six employees of one hotel at Vancouver ceased work, demanding recognition of the Union and Union rates of pay. The workers affected included bus-boys, waiters, and waitresses. Following a six-day period, during which negotiations were carried on between both parties, an agreement was drawn up, the strikers returning to work on July 7th. Slight increases were effected in the case of waiters covering special functions, but in general the rates remained the same, with recognition of the same Union as previous to strike. LOGGERS, PARKHURST. Thirty employees in one logging camp at Parkhurst went out on strike on July 2nd, following dismissal of three workers. While no previous demands had been made with the company, an increase of 25 cents per day was asked for all employees in the lower ratings at the time of striking. Negotiations proceeded, resulting in an agreement being reached granting the increase asked, the workers returning to work on July 6th, with the exception of the three employees dismissed, who were not reinstated. Favourable to workers. LATHERS, VANCOUVER. On July 5th, a strike occurred at Vancouver, involving some ninety workers engaged in lathing operations. The firms affected included all lathing contractors and the association of Master Plasterers of Vancouver and District. S 80 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. The cause of the dispute centred chiefly on the desire of the men to change from a piece-work basis to a more stable system of " day-work." The prevailing rates in effect at the time of the dispute were $4 per thousand lath, with a forty-hour week. Requesting a change to a day basis, the workers proposed two classes of labour, $6 per day and $7.50 per day. Following negotiations covering a period of five days, an agreement was signed with the Union, employers agreeing to respect all resolutions of the Union designed to change from the " piece-work " system of employment to day-work, with two classes of labour, at 75 cents per hour and 93% cents per hour, effective August 1st, 1937. RESTAURANT WORKERS, VANCOUVER. A group of waitresses of one cafe at Vancouver went out on strike on July 17th, demanding recognition of the Union, with Union wages and conditions. At the time of the dispute, the workers were already under agreement with a Canadian Union, but this Union was not recognized and was not in affiliation with the Trade Union movement. The demands of the strikers included an increase of $2.50 per week, and repudiation of the prevailing Union agreement, in favour of an American Union policy. Following negotiations, the dispute terminated on August 31st, the strikers being reinstated at Union wages, and under Union conditions. Favourable to workers. LIME WORKERS, BLUBBER BAY. On July 23rd, 1937, a dispute arose at a lime and lumber plant at Blubber Bay, Texada Island, some 133 employees ceasing work in favour of an increase in general wage rates and Union recognition. The basic rates prevailing at the time of the strike were approximately 37 cents and 38 cents per hour, the workers demanding a blanket increase of IVz cents per hour. While the employees offered to negotiate with a workers' committee, they refused to deal with the Union. Following lengthy negotiations, an agreement was signed between the company and the employees, granting a blanket increase of 3% cents per hour, with special concession regarding overtime, ship-loading, etc. While the company refused to recognize any outside Union, the agreement specified no discrimination would be shown to workers by reason of the existing strike and agreed to recognize the right to collective bargaining, through a shop committee of its own employees. Work was resumed on September 8th under the new agreement. SASH AND DOOR WORKERS, VANCOUVER. On August 9th a strike occurred in two sash and door plants at Vancouver, involving some 133 workers, the men demanding an increase in wages. The prevailing rates of wages were from 20 cents to 63 cents per hour, the workers asking that this be increased to from 30 cents to 75 cents per hour. The employers refused to negotiate with the Union representatives, and a move toward conciliation proved unsuccessful. The minimum wage rates in the industry were about to be increased, and the workers in skilled occupations demanded increases also. Following negotiations, a settlement was finally reached, the employer in one case agreeing to increase wages 7 per cent, immediately, with a 5-per-cent. increase after two months, and in the other, applying a 3-cents-per-hour immediate general increase, with an additional 2 cents per hour, effective September 16th. The agreements also specified overtime rates, and the recognition of shop committees in the matter of collective bargaining. Work was resumed August 16th, the dispute terminating in favour of the workers. FRUIT-PICKERS, VERNON. On September 6th the employees of one fruit-growing firm at Vernon went out on strike demanding an increase in wages. The workers were engaged in fruit-picking, and the prevailing rate of wages at time of strike being 8 cents per box, the pickers demanding that this be increased to 10 cents per box. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 81 While some thirty-eight workers were involved, seventeen of these were allowed to return to work, having previously walked out to avoid trouble with the strikers. The company refusing to increase the wage rates, the strikers were replaced by other workers and work was resumed September 7th. In favour of the employer. MOVING-PICTURE PROJECTIONISTS, VANCOUVER AND OTHER LOCALITIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. A dispute involving projectionists in certain theatres in Vancouver and other localities in British Columbia occurred on October 5th and 6th, affecting employees in some thirty-seven motion-picture houses. While the operators asked an increase in wages of 10 per cent., the dispute was largely precipitated by reason of an impending change in the Provincial regulations, demanding that the employers agree to employ two projectionists during the period of the new agreement, which in most cases was a two-year period. Following conciliation measures on the part of officials, of the Department of Labour, a new agreement was drawn up granting the above demand, and successive 5-per-cent. increases, one to be applied immediately, with an additional one to follow after a period of one year. The scale previously in effect was $1.17 to $1.45 per hour. Following a period of some forty-eight hours, work was generally resumed on October 7th. ENGINEERS, VANCOUVER. On October 25th engineers in four theatres in Vancouver went out on strike, demanding a definite form of agreement and wage increases. The scale prevailing at the time of the dispute was chief engineer, $40 per week, and assistant engineer, $32.50 per week. The hours prevailing were in some cases a straight eight-hour day and some with eight hours spread over a fifteen-hour period. The company threatened a lay-off during the summer months. The men demanded the scale be increased to Union scale: 10 per cent, for first year with full scale thereafter, being $38.40 for assistant engineer, and $42 for engineer in charge, with eight consecutive hours six days per week. Following a period of five days during which negotiations continued, an agreement was drawn up granting increases and a closed-shop with stipulations covering hours and extra engineers in some cases during heating season. The increases amounted to $1.50 per week granted to assistant engineers, with engineers in charge and seasonal employed engineers unchanged. A forty-eight-hour week was stipulated with an eight consecutive-hour day; maximum weekly limit fifty-six hours, with time and one-half for overtime. Work was resumed November 1st, the strike having been successful. CARPENTERS, VANCOUVER. On October 27th some fourteen employees of one building firm in Vancouver ceased work for one-half day, protesting that the project on which they were employed was not a 100- per-cent. Union job. The workers affected included carpenters, electricians, and reinforcing steelworkers—members of the Amalgamated Building Workers of Canada—and as other Unions were also involved the dispute was largely due to the inability of the Unions to work together. Returning to work the following day, the men again ceased operations on November 2nd, in this case being out for one and one-half days. Following negotiations, the workers returned to work at their previous rates of wages, some strikers being replaced by other workers, but the employer agreeing in all cases to hire only Union workmen, irrespective of affiliation. WAITRESSES, NEW WESTMINSTER. On November 5th a group of waitresses at one cafe in New Westminster went out on strike requesting an increase of 5 cents per hour and Union recognition. The rate prevailing at the time of the dispute was 20 cents per hour, this to be increased to 25 cents per hour, with Union recognition. The employer refused to negotiate and refused to- rehire one discharged employee, this being considered discrimination by the remainder of the staff and followed by the walk-out. S 82 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. After an interval of seven days, a settlement was effected on November 12th, the discharged employee being reinstated and the workers returning to work under previous conditions, with no change in wage-rates and no Union agreement signed. Favourable to the employer. MINOR DISPUTES (NOT LISTED AS REGULAR STRIKES). Bakery Employees, Vancouver. On March 8th some sixteen employees of one bakery in Vancouver ceased work, demanding Union recognition and an increase in wage-rates. On presentation of an agreement by the Union officials, the employer refused to sign. Following negotiations, during which three workers were dismissed, the agreement was accepted, the employees returning to work under Union scale and conditions on March 8th, the same day. Bakery Employees, Vancouver. On July 16th, following the expiration of an existing agreement between a group of bakers and helpers of one bakery in Vancouver, a dispute arose over a new agreement and proposed increase in wage-rates. Following the refusal of the employers to accept the terms of a new agreement, some eight workers went on strike, and picketing was put into effect to prevent the hiring of nonunion workers. As a result of negotiations, it was decided to lay the matter before a Board of Arbitration, and an agreement was signed pending decision of the Board, said decision to be binding on both parties. On July 16th at 5 p.m. the workers returned to work at the increased rates. Loggers, Harrison Lake. On September 21st a group of loggers at one camp at Harrison Lake went out on strike in sympathy with one employee who was discharged for incompetency. Following meetings between a committee of the men and the employers, no settlement was arrived at satisfactory to the strikers, who went to work in other camps, a new crew being taken on by the camp in which the dispute occurred, work being resumed on September 24th, 1937. SUMMARY OF LABOUR DISPUTES, 1937. Industry or Occupation. Particulars. No. of Employees affected. Time lost in Man Working- days. Waitresses, Vancouver- Flour and cereal-milling workers. New Westminster Restaurant employees, Vancouver,. Gold miners, Cariboo District (Wells) Loggers, Cowichan Lakc~ Commenced February 12th, for increased wages with improved conditions. Terminated February 15th, in favour of workers. Commenced April 6th, against discharge of workers due to Union activity. Following negotiations, workers reinstated and Union recognized. No change re wages or hours. Terminated April 6th. Favourable to workers. Commenced April 22nd, in protest of the dismissal of one employee for Union activity and refusal of employer to sign a Union agreement. Terminated on May 5th by negotiations. Workers reinstated at previous wage-rates and allowed free association. In favour of employees. Commenced May 25th for Union recognition and wage increases. Voluntary return of workers under original conditions at old wage-scale. Partially terminated July 30th. All work resumed August 16th. In favour of employer. Commenced June 11th, against dismissal of one worker, allegedly for Union activity. Terminated June 12th, with return of workers. No change in conditions. Unsuccessful. Carried forward 370 180 21 34 36 22,745 180 23,016 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 83 Summary of Labour Disputes, 1937—Continued. No. of Time lost Industry or Occupation. Particulars. Employees affected. Working- days. 586 23,016 Hotel employees, Vancouver Commenced July 1st, for recognition of Union and Union rates of pay. Negotiations. Recognition of the same Union as prior to strike, with some increases in wage-scales. Terminated July 7th. Compromise. 26 130 Loggers, Parkhurst Commenced July 2nd, against discharge of certain workers and for increased wages. Negotiations. Increase in wages granted, but strikers not reinstated. Terminated July 5th. Partially favourable to workers. 30 45 Lathers/Vancouver- Commenced July 5th, for hourly wage instead of piece-work. Terminated July 10th, following negotiations in which a closed-shop agreement was signed with change in wage-system from piecework to day-rate. In favour of workers. 90 190 Waitresses (restaurant), Van Commenced July 17th, for recognition of the Union 6 264 couver with Union wages and conditions. Return of workers. Negotiations followed by signed agreement with rates increased to Union scale, and strikers reinstated September 1st. Favourable to workers. Lime workers. Blubber Bay Commenced July 23rd, in favour of an increase in general wage-rates and Union recognition. Negotiations. New agreement signed granting increased- wages and right to collective bargaining, but Union not recognized. Terminated September 8th. Compromise. 133 5,254 Sash and door workers,Vancouver___- Commenced August 9th, for increased wages. Ne 133 798 gotiations. Increases granted, recognition of shop committees re collective bargaining. Terminated August 16th. In favour of the workers. Fruit-pickers, Vernon Commenced September 6th, for an increase in piecework rates. Increase refused and work resumed with replacement of strikers. No change in rates. Favourable to employer. Work resumed September 7th. Commenced October 5th, for increased wages and 38 38 Motion-picture projectionists, Van 120 180 couver and other - British Co renewal of agreement for two workers on each lumbia localities shift. Conciliation effected by Provincial officials. Terminated October 7th. In favour of workers. 5 30 cuts and recognition of Union jurisdiction. Ne gotiations successful. Closed-shop agreement signed, with wage increases granted in some cases. Union jurisdiction and regulation of hours, overtime, etc. Terminated November 1st, 1937. Partially suc cessful. Building-trade workers, Vancouver Commenced October 27th, in protest against violation of Union policy and inability of Unions to work together. Negotiations and replacement of some strikers. Wages unchanged. Terminated November 2nd. In favour of employer. 14 28 Waitresses, New Westminster. 7 49 charged employee. Negotiations effected in favour of worker, the discharged employee being rein stated. No change in wage rates. Terminated November 12th, In favour of employees. Totals 1,188 | 30,022 I S 84 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. INSPECTION OF FACTORIES. Vancouver, B.C., June 28th, 1938. Adam Bell, Esq., Deputy Minister of Labour, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. Sir,—I herewith submit the annual report of the Factories Inspection Branch for the year 1937. The year under review witnessed continued industrial activity in all parts of the Province. Considerable expansion to plants took place since our previous visit of inspection, and many modern structures were built to house new industries. The working conditions prevailing in the new factories and in additions to older plants showed a decided improvement. INSPECTIONS. During the year 1937, 1,860 inspections and reinspections of factories were made. ACCIDENT-PREVENTION. Previous to the advent of factory inspection, the worker took working conditions as he found them, sanitary or unsanitary, safe or unsafe, and if he were unfortunate enough to be injured in the course of his employment, regardless of the employer's responsibility, the accident was generally attributed to carelessness on the part of the employee. Pioneer efforts in connection with the enforcement of those sections of the " Factories Act" relating to employees' safety in industrial occupations, would at times reveal a most callous type of employer who did not seem to be at all concerned. A well-remembered instance occurred while making an inspection of a shingle-mill. Upon drawing the attention of the manager to the very dangerous conditions existing, he admitted that his employees were being subjected to hazardous working-conditions, but exclaimed " Why should I be concerned; I am covered by liability-insurance? " The growth of the safety-movement and the establishment of Workmen's Compensation Boards, together with a financial incentive to prevent accidents, have virtually eliminated this type of employer. The early work of this Deparatment was concentrated largely on the provision of adequate mechanical safeguards. As the proportion of accidents due to poor working-methods and carelessness or thoughtlessness increased in proportion to those due to lack of mechanical safeguards, our inspection work has grown to include more education in safe practices at work. For many years industrial accidents of serious consequence have been investigated; in these investigations an effort has been made to discover underlying or contributory causes to determine, if possible, the best means of avoiding a repetition of the accident. Close investigation of the frequency of accidents to young persons, employed mainly in sash and door and furniture factories, was made during the year. While practically all accidents reported were not what might be termed of a very serious nature and the time loss was of short duration, we are of the opinion that the speedup and mass-production system is a contributing factor. Interviews with a number of the injured persons would also indicate that the education of the younger workers in the risks attached to their work is not receiving the attention it deserves. Tuition consisting only of a warning to be careful, without any further explanation of the risks involved, is by no means sufficient. More accidents are created in wood-working industries by lack of proper instruction than by the lack of mechanical safeguards. When a workman is properly instructed in the method of operation, it must of necessity, include safety, for there is only one proper method of operation, and that is operation with " safety." The responsibility for conveying this instruction rests with the foreman of the plant, and he must act in duel capacity of foreman- teacher. The outstanding qualities in this respect are patience, painstaking effort, fairness, and good-will. The safety of employees while operating machinery is obviously a matter which rules and regulations or legislation alone can never wholly achieve. I do believe, however, that we could receive very helpful suggestions from employees' trade organizations, if they would have included in their regular order of business, a heading entitled " Injuries to members to be reported." A report would then be received and discussions of same take place, and practi- REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 85 cal suggestions offered for their prevention. The suggestions could be submitted to the manager, superintendent, safety engineer, or safety committee for approval, and if found practical, adopted, if not, convincing reasons should be given as to why it would be impractical to have such suggestions put into effect. PROSECUTIONS. Two proprietors of dressmaking factories were, upon conviction, fined for an infraction of section 81, Part II., of the " Factories Act." Three persons were convicted and given suspended sentence, for failure to comply with the regulations respecting home-worker's permits. The proprietor of an Oriental laundry was fined $50 for an infraction of subsection (2) of section 4 of the "Factories Act." HOLIDAY PERMITS. During the year 140 permits authorizing the operation of factories on statutory holidays were issued; these permits were issued in cases of extreme emergency only, and to industries, the nature of which require continuous operation. OVERTIME PERMITS. Eighty-four overtime permits were issued, extending the working-hours for female factory-employees up to fifty-four per week. IMPROVED FACTORY CONDITIONS. Special attention was given during the year to improving working-conditions in factories where, during the processing of fruit, solutions are used, which while not particularly harmful, prove discomforting to the employees. For the purpose of removing fumes which are generated in the processing of this fruit, fans have been installed in the work-rooms and the fruit thoroughly washed for the purpose of removing the solution before being handled by the employees. The mixing and application of the solution is now segregated from the factories proper, and the persons in charge of same are supplied with an efficient respirator. Periodically, we receive complaints from workmen employed in industries in which considerable wood-dust is generated. • The density of this dust depends largely upon the moisture content in the wood being sawn and also on the location and design of the refuse-conveyer. While this dust can be partially removed by means of suction fans with the necessary piping (and the large majority of plants has provided this equipment) there are, however, still a number of factories being operated by a class of employer that is not interested enough in his employees' welfare to install this equipment, unless forced to do so. AMENDMENTS. For the purpose of bringing all cleaning, dyeing, pressing, and dressmaking establishments operated for profit (regardless of the type of ownership under which they are operated) within the provisions of the " Factories Act," section 3 was repealed and clauses 2 and 3 of section 4 were amended at the 1937 Session of the Legislature. This legislation, condensed, prohibits with certain specified exemptions, any work being performed on the premises on any day except between the hours of 7 o'clock in the forenoon and 7 o'clock in the afternoon. Previous to this legislation being enacted, numerous Oriental and other nationalities, usually husband and wife and other members of the family whose living quarters are at the rear of their establishments, were working unlimited hours in direct competition with our own nationals. EMPLOYEES' WELFARE. It is not possible to describe adequately in a report of this nature the various schemes or provisions provided by employers for the comfort and welfare of their workers. While some of our large industrial establishments have hot meals prepared and served in dining-rooms in or adjacent to the plant, for which a nominal charge is made, others provide dining-rooms with facilities for making tea and coffee for the benefit of those who for various reasons bring their lunch. There are, however, a great many factories in which male employees predominate where no provision is made in this respect. As it is optional on the part of the employer in so far as male employees are concerned whether or not dining-rooms are provided, we can S 86 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. only request that consideration be given to the suggestion that some room other than the factory proper be placed at the disposal of the employees for luncheon purposes, and so far the results obtained by this procedure have not been all that we would desire. It is, however, with a great deal of satisfaction that we are able to report that we have in this Province a type of employer who is interested in the welfare of the employees to such an extent that good conditions are voluntarily being made even better. At the close of the year, while making an inspection of a plant, we noted extensive structural alterations being made to a building adjacent to the factory. Upon entering the building accompanied by an official of the company,.he justly pointed out with pride the measures being taken by his company for the welfare of the employees. Individual lockers of the latest type were being installed, and the most modern sanitary conveniences, showers, and washing facilities were also being installed, all located in an enclosure with the entire floor and a section of the walls in tile. HOME-WORK. Persons who question the necessity of and criticize the trend of social legislation would, I feel sure, change their point of view to some extent if they had been privileged to observe conditions under which industrial home-work was being performed in this Province previous to legislation being enacted, having for its purpose some measure of control over this system. Prior to this legislation becoming operative, garments were being manufactured in homes where little or no regard was paid to sanitation. Work was being performed by individuals whose appearance in some instances would justify the opinion that they were the victims of a communicable disease. The manufacturing of wearing-apparel under such conditions constituted a menace to the public making purchases of same and, if it had been permitted to continue and expand, the continuity of employment of female factory-employees because of the extremely low remuneration home-workers were receiving for performing skilled work would have been seriously jeopardized. We will cite one of many such cases investigated. Mrs. " X," an expert at her work, whose premises were located in an old tenement house, was engaged making children's exquisitely smocked dresses, for which she would receive from 20 cents to 40 cents each. As far as could be ascertained, her maximum earnings at the piece-work rate set would average 80 cents for an eight-hour day, working at top speed. Further proof of the justification for our refusal to grant employer's and home-worker's permits to Japanese applicants was forthcoming during the year, as the following will show: A Japanese employer shortly after receiving an adverse reply to his application for an employer's permit authorizing him to give out work to be performed in the home, requested us to inspect vacant premises in order to determine their suitability for factory operations. After approving of two locations, we waited a reasonable length of time for some sign of occupancy, and, as this was not forthcoming, we decided that the request to view premises was intended as a ruse to defeat the regulations. After considerable investigation, this was verified by the fact that we were able to obtain sufficient evidence to warrant Police Court proceedings being taken. Immediately following the conviction of the employer and home- workers involved, one of the locations referred to was occupied by this employer, power-driven machinery installed, and a staff of twenty female operators employed. Assuming that strict enforcement of Part II. of the " Factories Act" has in a large measure been a contributing factor towards industrial home-work being no longer a problem in this Province, it has not been accomplished without being subjected to a certain amount of criticism from our own nationals who would have us believe that for philanthropic reasons only did they wish to be permitted to give out work to be performed in the home. Our records show that to-day denial of a request for an employer's permit to such an individual has resulted in the establishment of a factory giving employment to fourteen female employees. While industrial home-work is no longer an industrial and social evil in this Province, we view with much concern the increasing domination by Japanese manufacturers of machine- made ladies' wearing-apparel. Although we have been successful in having this work performed under close supervision in factories, the proprietors of these plants still have a decided advantage over other competitors because, in addition to factory space, living-quarters are provided for their families. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 87 ELEVATORS. As the safety of an elevator, wherever located, is seldom questioned by the persons using it, it is of paramount importance that the confidence placed in this form of transportation be retained. I do not think the passengers, generally, realize the precautionary measures that are at the moment being taken to further safeguard the lives and limbs of all persons who use passenger and freight elevators in this Province. In compliance with the Regulations governing installation, operation, and maintenance of freight and passenger elevators, issued under Order in Council February 4th, 1935, a large staff of skilled mechanics has been, and is still busily engaged, installing interlocking equipment on the hoistway doors and car-gates of passenger-elevators and hoistway gates and doors of freight-elevators not previously provided with same. Failure on the part of a large number of owners of buildings in which elevators are located to award contracts for this equipment until just previous to the expiry date, together with a shortage of mechanics to install same, give strong indications that complete compliance with the Regulations will not he attained for some considerable time. Applying these safety devices, more particularly to some of the older freight-elevator installations, without sacrificing safety and at a reasonable expenditure, has been somewhat of a problem and required frequent visits of inspection for a satisfactory solution to all concerned. We are pleased to report that during the year under review no fatal accident occurred to any person while being transported on passenger or freight elevators. Major injuries were received by two persons who fell from the main floor to the elevator-pit in office buildings, a distance of approximately 10 feet. In both instances the injured persons, by using the blade of a knife or similar article, unlocked the hoistway door, and assuming the car was at the main floor landing, fell the distance as stated. The only injuries to be reported occurring to a passenger after boarding the car were received by a person while under the influence of liquor about to be transported to his room in a hotel. The operator reported that after this passenger had boarded the car he was about to close the door and then start the car; while in the act of doing so, the passenger, because of his condition, stumbled against the operator whose hand was on the car-control switch, causing the car to ascend. The passenger fell from the ear platform through the open hoistway door on to a tile floor, causing him to receive a broken hip. In all instances, the injuries as related were received on elevator equipment, the hoistway doors of which had not yet been provided with interlocking devices. ELEVATOR OPERATORS' LICENCES. In 1937, 821 operators' licences were renewed, and 277 temporary and 254 permanent licences issued. NEW ELEVATOR INSTALLATIONS. The following number of plans and specifications relating to installation of modern elevator equipment were approved: Fifteen freight-elevators, seven passenger-elevators, one power dumb-waiter. ELEVATOR INSPECTIONS. During the year 1937, 1,134 passenger and freight elevators were inspected. CONCLUSION. We wish to take this opportunity of thanking all officials and employees connected with industry for their co-operation with us during the year. Respectfully submitted. H. DOUGLAS, Factories Inspector. S 88 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. General Superintendent - Jas. H. McVety. B.C. Workmen's Compensation and Labour Offices, corner Homer and Dunsmuir Streets, Vancouver. Branch Offices. Vancouver, cor. Homer and Dunsmuir Streets... .— ) Vancouver (Women's Branch), cor. Homer and Dunsmuir Streets j Jas- Mitchell, Superintendent. Victoria, Langley and Broughton Streets _ _ ) Victoria (Women's Branch), Langley and Broughton Streets j W. G. Stone, Superintendent. New Westminster _ _ Robt. MacDonald, Superintendent. Nanaimo .J. T. Carrigan, Superintendent. Kamloops J. H. How, Superintendent. Penticton A. Coy, Superintendent. Nelson — J. M. Dronsfield, Superintendent. Prince George E. Victor Whiting, Superintendent. Prince Rupert —- _ J. M. Campbell, Superintendent. Handicap Section. \ G. S. Bell, Clerk. Vancouver, cor. Homer and Dunsmuir Streets \ R. L. Mavius, Clerk. [ H. Parry, Clerk. Victoria, Langley and Broughton Streets W. A. Turner, Clerk. The following report is submitted by the General Superintendent of the Employment Service:— This is the Nineteenth Annual Report of the British Columbia Branch of the Employment Service of Canada, a branch of the Department of Labour, and covers the work for the calendar year 1937. The period under review saw a continuation of serious unemployment which was intensified by the influx of large numbers of men and women from other Provinces, with the result that the Service was confronted with difficulties usually met with when the number seeking employment is much greater than the number of jobs available. Reference has been made to the establishment of camps by the Forestry Branch of the Department of Lands and the Public Works Department for the purpose of providing employment for single men during the winter months. In order to prevent the immediate expenditure of the wages earned and a consequent application for relief, a system was devised whereby the men received part of their wages in cash during their period of employment and on their discharge and the balance in orders payable by the Post-office Department at weekly intervals. Although strongly opposed in some quarters, the system undoubtedly contributed to the fact that there was less agitation and disturbances in the larger centres than during any period since 1930. The camp system was continued and the camps reopened during the closing months of the year, their popularity being clearly shown by the large number of applications for admission. FORESTRY AND PLACER-MINING TRAINING CAMPS. Opportunities for young men to secure training in forestry and placer-mining were again made available, and proved highly popular and beneficial to those accepted, as many of the young men secured work in the basic industries as a result of their training. Arrangements for the shipment of men to and from all relief and training camps were in charge of the Employment Service, which was able to secure material reductions in transportation costs. WORK SCHEME IN VANCOUVER. During the year and for the first time during the depression, the City of Vancouver, with the assistance of the Provincial Government, required relief recipients to work for their relief, thus following the practice followed in the balance of the Province. This resulted in the failure of a large number of men to report for work, with a corresponding reduction in the relief rolls of the city. The selection and distribution of the 4,000 men covered by this programme was the responsibility of the Service. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 89 EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS. Employment in the primary and secondary industries continued at a higher level throughout the year, although hostilities in China had some effect on the export market for logs and paper products, and coal-mining continued to be affected by the use of oil and sawmill byproducts. Despite the general improvement in conditions and the increase in the volume of employment, it was found necessary to grant relief to a larger number of families and to reopen relief camps for single men during the winter months. The Coast area of the Province, owing to climatic conditions, is normally a Mecca for unemployed persons, particularly during the winter months. Drought conditions in Alberta and Saskatchewan have greatly accentuated the situation and large numbers have come from those Provinces, many of them destitute, and unable to secure relief here they endanger the whole wage structure in their search for employment. The normal expectancy that employers would give preference to British Columbia citizens is not being fulfilled, at least in so far as relief recipients are concerned, due largely to the impression created by the disturbances caused by transients that all persons in receipt of relief are unreliable and reluctant to accept and remain in employment. Efforts by the Minister of Labour and officials to change this point of view have been partially successful, although it has been pointed out that a continuance of the policy must inevitably result in increased taxation to pay the costs of relief. While the tables showing work by offices and months gives an indication of the Service's operations so far as applicants, reapplicants, employers' orders, placements, and transfers are concerned, it is impossible to portray by figures the many activities and assignments it is called upon to assume and the many demands made upon the staff by the public. The returns show a slight decrease in the number of applicants and reapplicants, which during the year amounted to 198,775 as against 202,264 for the year 1936. There was a very considerable increase in employers' orders and placements over the preceding year, which is accounted for to some extent by the relief-work undertaken by the City of Vancouver, the figures being, employers' orders, 52,523, as against 32,162 for 1936, while placements were 52,365, as against 32,012 in the preceding year. HANDICAP SECTION. In a further effort to assist ex-service men to secure steady and gainful employment, the Dominion Government through the Veterans' Assistance Commission inaugurated a scheme whereby selected unemployed ex-service men, who served in a theatre of war, were given an opportunity to take a course of training to fit them to enter into industrial employment and thereby become self-supporting. Although the proposals were freely advertised and employers secured against financial loss so far as wages were concerned, the results had little or no influence on the situation as it affects unemployed ex-service men. The problem concerning partially disabled veterans continues to increase with the passing of the years, and although many have disappeared from the ranks, their places are taken by men who, through advancing age and war-service disabilities, find their difficulties steadily increasing. These factors, together with the application of and speeding-up of machinery, make it almost impossible for these men to successfully compete in the labour market, with the result they are practically limited to short casual employment. As has been previously pointed out, the number of men injured and permanently handicapped in the primary industries continues to increase. These industries—logging, mining, fishing, and agriculture—require strong physically-fit men, and except for mechanics employed in maintenance-work, no training which cannot be secured on the work is required. The employment is hazardous and many of the injuries result in major disabilities which prevent their re-employment in the industries in which they were previously employed. Compensation payments only partially meet the problem, as the payments cease or are materially reduced when the workmen are able to resume employment, even though the type of work they are able to perform is not available. The secondary industries are the only outlet for handicapped men and in an overstocked labour market of physically-fit workers the prospects of absorbing thousands of handicapped persons is remote. 7 S 90 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. WOMEN'S SECTION. Special sections for women are maintained in Vancouver and Victoria, where the volume of employment warrants this policy, but in the other towns the women are dealt with in the general offices. A wide variety of employment is handled, but personal-service occupations form the bulk of the business. As in the men's sections, there was a large influx of women from Alberta and Saskatchewan, resulting in an increase in competition for local women for the available employment. In an effort to improve the working-conditions of women employed in domestic service and to assist women seeking employment for the first time, a position was created in the Vancouver Office which may be properly described as a Women's and Girls' Counsellor. Not only does she interview young women who are making their first advance towards self-sustaining employment, but encourages them to return and describe the working-conditions they find in the employment to which they are sent. The quarters in which these interviews take place are furnished more in keeping with home than office style, and the arrangements have been the subject of favourable comment from officials of other Provinces and the United States. The extremely delicate task of interviewing women employers regarding working-conditions in homes has been undertaken with considerable success, and the educational value of such interviews has spread rapidly with very beneficial effects. Special attention is also given in the Vancouver office to problem cases, of which there is a large number. Women meet responsibilities more courageously than men, but once their morale is weakened by sickness or long periods of unemployment and State assistance, the road to recovery is long and difficult and considerable stimulation is necessary to persuade them to again become self-sustaining by employment. IMPORTATION OF LABOUR. Despite the surplus of labour in practically all fields of employment, the Service is called upon to pass on the merits of many applications received by the Department of Immigration for the admission of labour from the United States and other foreign countries. These cover a wide range of occupations and are from periods of a few days to permanent admissions. The guiding principle is to discourage all applications, except for those to be used for a limited time to train Canadians in special operations or processes or where new industries require key-men with knowledge not easily acquired in Canada. The arrangement between the departments has worked out to their mutual advantage and to the benefit of Canadian workmen. CONCLUSION. The Service continues to be recognized as necessary to the industrial activities of the Province. The surplus of labour has, however, provided an ample supply of workers to employers without the necessity of securing the assistance of any outside agency. Considerable time and effort is devoted to occupational guidance work. Many parents and young men and women consult members of the staff regarding the best line of endeavour to follow and expert advice in this field requires a wide knowledge of industries and occupations. The offices also function as information bureaus and assist in tracing lost relatives. Many organizations refer all enquiries regarding employment to the Service for reply and, generally speaking, the officers of the Branch fulfil a vast range of duties but slightly connected with employment work, but all of assistance to community life of the Province. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 91 BUSINESS TRANSACTED BY BRITISH COLUMBIA OFFICES, 1937. Office. Applications. Employers' Orders. Placements. Transfers in B.C. Transfers out of B.C. Kamloops.. Nanaimo— Nelson New Westminster.. Penticton— Prince George Prince Rupert Vancouver (Men) Vancouver (Women). Victoria (Men) Victoria (Women) Totals 3,558 4,126 2,990 4,147 3,629 615 3,963 131,433 22,760 15,772 5.782 198,775 872 3,368 2,563 1,633 767 462 752 27,359 5,179 7,827 1,741 52,523 837 3,329 2,562 1,630 741 430 751 27,335 5,185 7,824 1,741 52,365 14 6 5 4 1 148 32 18 231 BUSINESS TRANSACTED MONTHLY, BRITISH COLUMBIA OFFICES, 1937. Month. Applications and Reapplications. Employers' Orders. Placements. Transfers in B.C. Transfers out of B.C. 20,537 17,387 15.009 19,360 14,330 12,839 17,132 12,156 12,590 18,274 17,930 21,231 4,199 4,276 3,501 3,853 4,398 3,071 5,258 3,829 3,702 4,109 4,535 7,792 4,168 4,276 3,490 3,827 4,389 3,057 5,245 3,825 3,673 4,102 4,533 7,780 9 5 20 41 18 30 41 18 24 14 9 2 February.. 1 April.. _ May June _ July September October November . December Totals 198,775 52,523 52,365 231 1 REPORT OF ADMINISTRATOR OF UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF, 1937. There was a great improvement in the relief situation during the calendar year 1937. The decrease in the average monthly numbers receiving relief in the Province was nearly 24 per cent, as compared with the previous year's average. The lowest number receiving assistance since the peak of 128,858 in March, 1933, was in the month of September, 1937, when 43,110 individuals were assisted. This is about one-third less than the low for the previous year of 64,996 in October, 1936. The Province continued to pay 80 per cent, of the cost of relief afforded to municipal residents and the whole cost of assistance granted to Provincial and transient cases residing within municipal limits. The Federal Government assisted by means of monthly grants-in- aid amounting to $200,812.50 for the months of January, February, and March; $150,000 for the months of April, May, and June; $120,000 for the months of July, August, and September; and $115,000 for the months of October, November, and December. Registration.—Since 1st August, 1934, when a reregistration took place, a total of 85,234 applications for assistance have been received. This is made up of the following categories: Standard, 66,013; farmer, 6,099; transient, 13,122; each application representing either a head of family or single person. Grub-stakes.—We continued the policy of affording grub-stakes to enable men to follow placer-mining or lode prospecting. Garden Seeds.—A total of 6,000 collections was distributed to relief recipients in unorganized territory. Assistance to Settlers Plan.—The agreement with the Federal Department of Labour referred to in the previous year's report expired on 31st March, 1937, but, as no provision was made by that Department for a continuation of this type of assistance, a new agreement along similar lines was negotiated with the Federal Department of Agriculture. A total of 259 families were assisted through the provision of stumping-powder, farm implements, farm animals, harness, etc. By the end of the year about forty families had become re-established and did not require any further relief assistance. It is anticipated that by the end of the crop year in 1938 at least 75 per cent, of the farmers assisted in 1937 will have become reestablished, assuming that weather and market conditions are comparable with those of the current year. Forestry Training Plan.—In previous years forestry training camps were operated entirely by the Province, but during the current year an agreement was entered into with the Federal Government on a joint-cost basis. The age-limit and general conditions remained the same as in previous years, the work being carried out by the Forestry Branch. The total number of men enrolled was 585. Of those who were notified that their applications had been, approved, 161 did not report for placement. The total number of applications was 1,009. Of the men enrolled 23 secured employment through Government endeavours, 58 secured employment through their own efforts, 69 left camp to return to school or because of illness, 25 quit, and 9 were discharged as unsatisfactory, the balance being laid off on termination of the projects. The young men were afforded training principally on trail crews, a small proportion in Forestry Experimental Stations, and 110 as Forest Ranger Assistants. If the training plan is continued next year it will be necessary to refuse applications from youths who intend to resume their studies, as we have found that those leaving in the latter part of August to return to school seriously disrupt the work of the trail crews and, as we have- many more applications than we have vacancies, those who intend to complete the full term of training will be given preference. In addition to this, the original policy was to train. young men who were ready to seek employment in the basic industries of the Province, not to afford work during the summer holidays to youths who would not normally be seeking employment for two or three years. Placer-mining Training Plan.—This form of training was continued during the current year under the Dominion-Provincial agreement, camps being operated at Nanaimo River and Emory Creek. The procedure was similar to that in previous years. The total number of men enrolled was 262. One hundred and eighty-two were unabsorbed or failed to report. REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 93 The total number of applications dealt with was 484. Those who completed the course were given the opportunity to undertake placer-mining or prospecting in small parties and 61 enrollees took advantage of the grub-stakes made available for this purpose. Consideration is now being given to the question of extending the scheme to include lode prospecting courses if similar training is afforded next year. Winter Work Projects.—Under the agreement entered into with the Federal Department of Labour to provide work for single homeless men during the winter months of 1936-37, a total of approximately 5,400 were given employment on Forestry and Public Works Projects, a total of twenty-one Forestry and twelve Public Works Camps being operated for this purpose. The rate of pay was 30 cents per hour for an eight-hour day with 75 cents per day board and shelter deduction. The men were required to purchase their own clothing. Part of their earnings were withheld for payment at the rate of $4 per week on termination of their period of employment. The agreement terminated on May 31st, 1937. Of the total number of men placed approximately 1,200 were transients from other Provinces. Much useful work was performed on these projects. A similar agreement was entered into with the Federal Government on November 16th, 1937, to take care of a similar number of men. With the exception of one Public Works Camp, accommodating 300 men, all the work will be confined to Forestry Development. The details of all expenditures made in connection with unemployment relief appear in the Annual Report of the Department of Public Works and the Annual Public Accounts Statement of the Department of Finance. E. W. Griffith, Administrator. Statement of Relief administered in the Province of British Columbia, 1937. (As from Returns received from the Field.) Numbers. Classification. Heads of Families. Dependents. Single Individuals. Total. January. Organized Territory— 10,687 1,146 821 28,560 3,025 2,196 39,247 4,171 3,017 10,501 890 10,501 Single women Unorganized Territory— 3.853 207 890 12,040 839 15,893 1,046 2,500 160 213 196 2,139 2,500 160 Farm Improvement and Employment Plan Camps— 213 196 2,139 16,714 46,660 16,599 79,973 S 94 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Statement of Relief administered in the Province of British Columbia, 1937—Continued. Numbers. Classification. Heads of Families. Dependents. Single Individuals. Total. February. Organized Territory— 11,187 1,207 865 30,106 3,164 2,678 41,293 4,371 3,543 9,750 898 9,750 4,105 217 898 Unorganized Territory— 13,288 892 17,393 1,109 2,604 159 230 187 2,683 2,604 159 230 Camps— 187 Forest Development Projects.. | Public Works Projects j 2,683 Totals -_- 17,581 50,128 16,511 84,220 March. Organized Territory— 11,089 1,188 851 29,817 3,15-0 2,265 40,906 4,338 3,116 7,185 970 7,185 4,229 222 970 Unorganized Territory— 13,575 893 17,804 1,115 2,650 161 213 194 4,120 2,650 161 213 Camps— 194 Forest Development Projects „ ] Public "Works Projects f 4,120 Totals 17,579 49,700 15,493 82,772 April. Organized Territory— 10,356 1,093 769 27,632 2,941 2,044 37,988 4,034 2,813 5,470 881 5,470 881 Unorganized Territory— 3,963 221 12,633 873 16,596 2,446 169 147 222 3,089 1,094 2,446 169 Farm Improvement and Employment Plan .... Camps— 147 222 Forest Development Projects. } 3,089 16,402 46,123 12,424 74,949 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 95 Statement of Relief administered in the Province of British Columbia, 1937—Continued. Numbers. Classification. Heads of Families. Dependents. Single Individuals. Total. May. Organized Territory— 9,443 964 685 24,922 2,575 1,851 34,365 3,539 5,054 849 105 2,536 5,054 849 105 Unorganized Territory— 3,418 197 10,873 779 14,291 976 2,152 164 91 217 3,191 2,152 164 Emergency cases (heads and singles) — — Camps— 91 217 3,191 Public Works Projects — f 14,707 41,000 11,823 67,530 June. Organized Territory— 8,641 851 611 22,556 2,268 1,637 31,197 3,119 2,248 4,696 806 78 4,696 806 78 Unorganized Territory— 2,716 151 8,509 628 11,225 779 1,680 156 113 200 128 76 2,409 1,680 156 113 Camps— 128 76 2,409 Totals 12,970 35,598 10,342 58,910 S 96 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Statement of Relief administered in the Province of British Columbia, 1937—Continued. Numbers. Classification. Heads of Families. Dependents. Single Individuals. Total. July. Organized Territory— 7,852 818 489 20,288 2,125 1,340 28,140 2,943 1,829 4,639 764 52 4,639 764 6,865 523 52 Unorganized Territory— 2,248 131 9,113 654 1,348 140 71 1,348 62 140 71 Assistance to settlers (subsistence) Camps— 17 79 183 474 153 331 183 474 Placer-mining Training.. Forest Development Projects | 153 331 Totals - 11,555 31,203 8,155 50,913 August. Organizsed Territory— 7,349 764 458 18,775 1,951 1,223 26,124 4,608 749 21 2,715 1,681 4,608 749 6,315 524 21 Unorganized Territory— 2,088 130 8,403 654 1,209 144 38 154 500 246 1.209 60 144 38 200 260 Camps— 154 500 Placer-mining Training _ 246 Totals -.- - 10,849 28,988 7,669 47,506 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 97 Statement of Relief administered in the Province of British Columbia, 1937—Continued. Numbers. Classification. Heads of Families. Dependents. Single Individuals. TotaL September. ^ Organized Territory— 6,792 609 341 17,176 1,521 895 23,968 2,130 1,236 4,176 736 35 4,176 736 35 Unorganized Territory— 1,931 110 5,866 423 7,797 . 533 1,198 138 32 132 500 106 1,198 138 32 Assistance to settlers (subsistence) Camps— 92 301 393 132 500 106 Totals 9,875 26,182 7,053 43,110 October. Organized Territory— 6,959 686 374 17,587 1,757 988 24,546 2,443 1,362 4,972 750 93 4,972 750 93 Unorganized Territory— 1,954 103 5,934 389 7,888 492 1,243 144 56 1,243 144 56 97 322 419 Camps— 146 420 8 420 8 Totals 10,173 26,977 7,832 44,982 S 98 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. Statement of Relief administered in the Province of British Columbia, 1937—Continued. Classification. Numbers. Heads of Families. Dependents. Single Individuals. Total. November. Organized Territory— Resident families Provincial families Transient families Single men _ — Single women.. Emergency cases (heads and singles). Unorganized Territory— Resident families Transient families . Single men Single women Emergency cases (heads and singles). Farm Improvement and Employment Plan.. Assistance to settlers (subsistence)— Camps— Hospital..— Forest Development Projects- Public Works Projects Totals. December. Organized Territory— Resident families.— - Provincial families Transient families Single men Single women Emergency cases (heads and singles) Unorganized Territory— Resident families Transient families Single men Single women . Emergency cases (heads and singles) Farm Improvement and Employment Plan- Assistance to settlers (subsistence) Camps— Hospital Forest Development Projects Public Works Projects _ Totals 7,838 787 416 19,987 2,086 1,142 2,254 127 7,056 479 122 387 6,342 781 136 1,387 147 65 85 153 1,629 11,544 31,137 10,725 8,723 743 641 2.792 151 140 22,849 2,054 1,661 S.920 612 428 6,437 819 245 1,623 154 64 177 148 2,350 13,190 36,524 27,825 2,873 1,558 6,342 781 136 9,310 606 .1,387 147 65 85 509 153 1,629 31,572 2,797 2,302 6,437 819 245 11,712 763 1,623 154 64 177 568 148 2.350 61,731 REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 99 REPORT OF APPRENTICESHIP BRANCH. Provincial Apprenticeship Committee. J. A. Ward Bell, Chairman. J. F. Keen. Adam Bell. James Thomson. Officials of the Branch. Director of Apprenticeship _ Hamilton Crisford. Assistant Director of Apprenticeship Thomas V. Berto. The fiscal year 1937-38 shows a considerable advance in the establishments of apprenticeship in this Province. The year commenced with the Branch supervising 261 apprentices, 196 in Group A, trades designated under the provisions of the " Apprenticeship Act," and sixty-five in Group B, trades not yet designated. During the year the following five additional trades were designated, namely:— Lithography. Machinists. Patternmaking. Boilermaking. Aviation mechanics. At March 31st, 1938, the number of firms or employers training apprentices had increased to 375 and apprenticeship contracts in force had increased to 602, of these 491 were in Group A and 111 in Group B. The distribution of these apprentices is made up as per the attached charts. During the period twenty-nine apprentices satisfactorily completed the period of apprenticeship set out in their contracts, and of these sixteen were in designated trades and received their certificates. There were twenty-four contracts cancelled for one cause or another, in every case by mutual consent. Considerable progress has been made in the matter of periodic inspections and these have revealed that, generally speaking, the apprentices consist of boys, young men, and women of a high standard who are making satisfactory advancement and frequently receiving wages in excess of that set by our regulations. Hamilton Crisford, Director of Apprenticeship. ' S 100 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR. o < £ m w o a E Ph <J H a Eh hh o 15 o HH CQ HH P* o PJ PL, a 6h Pi a a . a a P E-i . 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CM rH CO -SDiuaqaaj^ auiqo •vyi ssauisng H | i- ca -saouBi[ddy IB0iiq.3a[a "^ ! ! rH rH i IQ ■SjaAB{3{0IJa | | : co CO "Aj^uadJBQ o co cm ta CM CM CM o t- •s.iap[noiu-ssB.ig ca : | j ca •Sui^BLU-ja[ioa •* rH It- N •sq^iuisi[DBia ; : ;n ca -Suiuxuiijj, 3[iqouio^.nv rt ! ! I - "sj.aq.iBg 00 CO N CO CO •Sui.iiBda.i-a.iij, asjtqoiuo^nv CM 1 | rH CO ■aDUBua^uiBp^r a[iqouioq.nv Ca rH j | CO •SupuiBj auqotuo^'ny CM CM ! | ># •SUIZB[J) puB ssb[9 ;jy H | i i - *JtJ0M.-[B^3J\]; a[iqoui03.say NHS! ca : CO ca ■soiUBqosj\[ aiiqouio^ny O Cl CO C- «* rH Cl to +3 "E H-i m E g > p c e . > fc a +j a q fc C e t c t . fc a -u 0 j- V C 1 +- a. s a a s 3 a 4) 0 o H- c fr- "sC CQ 5 a > P a G 6 cd > tH a 0 3 S c eS T c t > s- g ■* B 3 cs 1 0 g a Sz « a 3 a OJ cr. 3 o 1 c fr- REPORT OF DEPUTY MINISTER, 1937. S 101 " TRADE-SCHOOLS REGULATION ACT." J. A. Ward Bell, Chief Administrative Officer. Mrs. Rex Eaton. Hamilton Crisford, Secretary. The " Trade-schools Regulation Act," which came into force on January 1st, 1937, was actively enforced during the fiscal year 1937-38 with very satisfactory results. The regulations governing the registration and operation of the various types of schools remained unchanged, excepting in the case of the special regulations governing the one barber- school operating in the Province, which was given a concession in the hours during which the public might act as models. This concession was granted owing to altered conditions in the school itself, which justified some readjustment. During the year a total of sixty-nine schools were registered and, of these, sixty-seven remain in active operation, one registration having been cancelled by the Minister of Labour for non-compliance with the regulations, and one correspondence school having voluntarily withdrawn their registration owing to lack of business. Of the sixty-seven operating schools, fifty-two are practical schools situated throughout the Province, and fifteen are correspondence or home-study schools. Of the correspondence schools, four are Canadian schools and eleven are American schools. An additional sixteen schools applied for registration under the Act, half this number being refused registration after a thorough investigation, the other half withdrawing their applications owing to their inability to comply with our regulations. Owing to the volume of complaints that had been received regarding the past operations of some correspondence and home-study schools, special regulations governing their activities in this Province were brought into force on September 14th, 1937. Briefly, these regulations require a school:— (1.) To post a $1,000 Government bond with the Minister of Labour as security for the due completion of contracts entered into with students. (2.) To return to a student all moneys collected in the case of enrolments obtained through false and misleading statements. (3.) To recognize the right of any student to discontinue any course of study without further liability, on giving notice in writing and making a payment for that portion of such course he has already received, plus 10 per cent, of the balance due under his contract. (4.) To refrain from all advertising that might tend to mislead. (5.) To give full particulars and location when asserting that a specific demand for services exists and to refrain from assurances of a position upon completion of a course. The enforcement of the Act and these regulations has in a few short months brought about a satisfactory change in the attitude of these schools towards their students. Enrolment methods have distinctly improved and the right of a student to discontinue any course of study under reasonable conditions has practically eliminated the objectionable tactics adopted by the collection departments of some schools in an effort to enforce one-sided and unreasonable contracts. Comparatively few complaints have been received from students enrolling in registered schools since the regulations became effective, and a considerable number of adjustments have been made in regard to contracts that were entered into before the regulations became effective. The Act has received the whole-hearted support of the general public and, as a result, similar legislation has already been enacted in the Provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and is under consideration in other Provinces. Hamilton Crisford, Secretary. VICTORIA, B.C. : Printed by Chaei.es F. Banfield, Printer to tue King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1938. 1,525-738-4959
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