, 1873-02-26
I'r Y.

he distribution of rum be forbidden for the
future, and more especially on Saturdays, and as
moreover if the new Regulations be rigidly en-
forced-and the Majority Of this Commission
hopes they villbe-the labourers cannot demand
any bread ration, the increase Of money pay is
proposed as an equivalent for that; but then it
must in return for that be forbidden to give ex-
tra-rations. These are, as already stated,
chiefly given in bread, only exceptionally in
prepared ~victuals such the iabourers working
on Saturdays on a strange estate had to carry
with them, and it will be much easier for them
to DO the same with bread.
Already now Saturday work is being given
out to a very great extent in the form Of task
work in future that system will be followed
to a still greater extent, so that the fixed wages
for Saturday work will scarcely prove to
be any serious impeachment, not even in the
eyes of those who wish to see the rate of wages
left free while, as already stated, if they were
left entirely free, that might or rather would
assuredly lead to great abuses.
Sarauw maintained his opinion, that engage
ments at all events for work on Saturdays
should be left open for mutual agreement.
The clause providing that work on Saturday
may be ordered BY ,he Magistrate as a punish
llNity u0N - a lNu8Vh u Nl3LlN no DSCH OppACQy
from that reason, and as that mode Of punish
ment would be very odious, the'clause on that
head has been omitted.
ad II.
The most Of what the Commission has to
state in reference to this 5 has already been
advanced in the general remarks above ad 5 !
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We will merely in this place add, that after
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allowing extla-paympnt for extra-WOrk, had
endeayoured to remove the chief inconvenience
hitherto attending the fixed day-wages for all
work, that can be laid out and compensated &C
cOrding to the quantity, We experienced some
difficulty in reference to lab0ur that must be
laid out, or at all events is preferably laid
out and compensated according to the time
spent. Work performed by the aid of the
stock on the Estate is generally not remunera-
ted according to the quantity of work done:
in that case the stock would be the sufferers
and the difficulty We experienced was chiefly in
respect to plough-men, who have hitherto as
a rule received as much as 20 cents pr. day,
as they allowed 5 cents extra pr. day, be
cause, as it is said, they have to be on foot
long before the ordinary working-hours in order
to get ready their stock for use. If therefore
no provision were made in the now Regulations
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those ploughmen would be the sufferers, at all
events they would be gaining nothing, and
they must be considered to form some of the
most reliable classes of labOurers on the Es-
tates. In so far as they really do commence
to work earlier than customary, a clause pro-
viding for extra payment for extra-hours would
serve the purpose but provision should also
be made for the eventuality of that not being
the case. The Commission therefore preferred
to place Ploughmen-that is to say those that
are specially engaged as Ploughmen-among
the l~abourers occupying an exceptional posi-
ton, and with whom the employers are at IL
berry to contract otherwise than ordinary, in
other words on the same footing with Engine
Workmen, BOilermen and Tradesmen. It is a
matter Of course that in those cases where such
exceptionally situated labourers occasionally
be employed in other sorts of work, for instance
for Cart-Driving, they must be paid according
to their Contracts (see the Regulations of 1849
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Cart-Driving may much easier than Plough
ing be given out as task-work, at all events
occasionally such work will seldom be worth
more than the day wages, and besides that, it
is an occupation peculiarly sought by the la
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