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Wages and hours of labour, by selected trades in selected cities of Canada, 1927

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Wages and hours of labour, by selected trades in selected cities of Canada, 1927
  Halifax Montréal Toronto
  Wages per hour Hours per week Wages per hour Hours per week Wages per hour Hours per week
  $ number $ number $ number
Building trades            
Bricklayers 0.90 44 1.13 50 1.25 44
Carpenters 0.60 44 0.65 to 0.75 44 to 60 0.90 44
Electrical workers 0.60 44 0.65 to 0.75 44 to 46.5 0.90 44
Painters 0.60 44 0.60 to 0.75 44 to 49.5 0.65 to 0.80 44
Plasterers 0.90 44 1.00 to 1.13 44 to 49.5 1.25 44
Plumbers 0.65 44 0.65 to 0.80 44 to 49.5 1.00 44
Sheet metal workers 0.60 44 0.70 44 to 50 0.90 44
Stonecutters 0.80 44 0.75 44 1.13 44
Labourers 0.35 44 to 54 0.30 to 0.40 50 to 60 0.35 to 0.65 44 to 60
Metal trades            
Blacksmiths 0.55 to 0.65 44 to 50 0.55 to 0.70 44 to 58 0.55 to 0.65 44 to 50
Boilermakers 0.55 to 0.60 44 to 50 0.50 to 0.75 47 to 58 0.60 to 0.75 44 to 48
Machinists 0.55 to 0.65 44 to 50 0.50 to 0.75 44 to 60 0.50 to 0.70 44 to 54
Iron moulders 0.70 48 0.60 to 0.75 40 to 55 0.55 to 0.70 44 to 54
Electric railways            
Conductors and motormen 0.50 63 0.51 70 0.60 48
Linemen 0.60 54 0.51 60 0.72 to 0.78 44
Shedmen 0.42 54 0.34 to 0.52 63 to 70 0.54 to 0.56 48
Electricians 0.53 to 0.60 54 0.51 to 0.63 50 0.55 to 0.60 44
Trackmen and labourers 0.30 to 0.43 50 0.35 60 0.45 to 0.55 48
  Wages per week Hours per week Wages per week Hours per week Wages per week Hours per week
  $ number $ number $ number
Printing trade            
Compositors, machine and hand, news 32.00 48 38.00 to 42.00 48 43.50 46.5
Compositors, machine and hand, job 30.00 44 36.00 44 to 48 35.20 to 36.00 44 to 48
Pressmen, news 28.00 48 36.00 48 42.50 48
Pressmen, job 30.00 48 36.00 48 36.00 48
Bookbinders 35.00 48 36.00 48 36.00 48
Bindery girls 10.00 48 15.00 48 16.80 48
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1927/1928.