HC Deb 30 May 1935 vol 302 cc1302-3
69. Mr. BATEY

asked the Secretary for Mines the average weekly wage paid, the daily output per man, and the number of workmen employed in and about the coal mines of the county of Durham for each year from 1920 to 1934?

Mr. E. BROWN

As the reply involves a statistical table, I will, with the hon.

Following is the table:

Coal Mining Industry in Durham.
Year. Average Weekly Cash Earnings of all wage-earners employed. Output per manshift worked. Average Number of Persons Employed.
Wage-earners. Clerks and Salaried Persons.
£ s. d. Cwts.
1920 … … 4 2 3* 14.40 175,170
Jan. to Mar. 14.55
1921 … … 3 9 10* Apl. to Sept. not available. 158,577
Oct. toDec.17.63
1922 … … 2 3 2 17.80 161,652
1923 … … 2 9 10 17.32 174.192
1924 … … 2 9 8 17.16 170,612 4,144
1925 … … 2 7 8 18.15 140,855 2,145
Jan to Apl. 18.70 March
1926 … … 2 10 4* 145,019 2,203
December
114,727 2,201
1927 … … 2 4 6 21.68 128,578 2,147
1928 … … 2 0 0 21.74 128,017 2,138
1929 … … 2 0 11 21.65 136,792 2,035
1930 … … 1 19 7 21.54 131,252 2,030
1931 … … 1 18 4 21.88 113,223 1,941
1932 … … 1 17 11 22.09 104,234 1,730
1933 … … 1 18 4 22.09 101,231 1,680
1934 … … 2 0 4 22.12 106,198 1,675
* Periods affected by disputes have been excluded in calculating the average weekly cash earnings. The dispute in 1920 lasted about 3 weeks, but as quarterly returns only are available the whole of the quarter affected has been excluded.

NOTE.—It should be noted that the particulars of cash earnings shown above do not include the value of allowances in kind which, in Durham, amounted on the average to 5s. 6d. per week in 1934.