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of December-an average of 457 mils per man-day worked. Arab employees earned -127 mils per day while Jews earned 811 mils per day.

EMPLOYMENT BY THE MILITAHY AUTHORI1'1ES.

The average number of persons employed by the Military Authorities in the year 1946, amounted to 37 ,300. This figure is only 10 per cent. lower than the number employed by the Military Authorities during the peak period of the war years.

WAGES AND EARNINGS.

(p. 735)

The actual (median) daily wage rates in selected industrial occupations, including cost of living allowances wherever paid, in 1945, were as shown below :-

(T. I)

MEDIAN DAILY WAGE RATF.S JN SEI.ECTED OCCUPATIONS.

Occupation

Daily wages I Index
numbers
(1939~100)
mils
600 428.4
700 350.0
530 236.6
650 282.6
260 254.9
480 338.0
600 274.0
1,090 370.7
-- ----
311.1
-- ----
1,290 252.9
1,020 212.5
1,460 394.6
1,288 284.3
1,400 209.9
1,188 267.6
1,160 360.2
1,050 244.2
1,010 . 246.3
1,188 343 4
1,298 351.8
1,211 285.6
l,133 283.3
----
283.6
----
820 450.5
640 320.0
850 397.2
710 373.7
aio 371.6
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378.5 A. ARAB T.LABOUR MALES:

Tile maker

Carpenter

Machine printer

Hand compositor Cardboard box maker Tobacco-all operations Baker

Fitter

Unweighted geometric average

B. JEWISH LABOUR, MALES, Baker-al1 operations Tobacco-all operations Carpenter

Machine printer

Linotype operator

Hand compositor

Weaver

Knitter

Shoemaker

Fitter

Iron moulder Turner Welder

Unweighted geometric average

C JEWISH LABOUR, FEMALES, Cardboard maker

Packer-leaf sorter (tobacco} Winder

Shirt maker

Sewer

Unweighted geometric average

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