Cowie's Printer's Pocket-Book and Manual/Abstract of the Newsmen's Scale
ABSTRACT OF THE NEWSMEN'S SCALE,
Extracted from the "Report," read July 20th, 1820.
| Per week. | Per galley. | Per hour. | |
| Morning Paper | £2 8s. 0d | 3s. 10d | 11½d. |
| Evening Papers | £2 3s. 6d | 3s. 7d | 10½d. |
Assistants on other Journals are paid the same as Evening Papers; the Sunday Papers, having their gallies of various lengths, are paid at the rate of 8½d. per thousand, or 10d. per hour.
Long Primer and Minion galleys, cast as nigh 5,000 letters as possible (at present varying from that number to 5,200, partly arising from a variation in the founders' standards) are, per thousand, on
| Morning. | Evening. | |
| Long Primer and Minion | 9d | 8½d. |
| Nonpareil | 10d | 9½d. |
| Pearl | 11d | 10½d. |
Or a reduction, in proportion to value, on the galley quantity.
The galley on Morning Papers consists of 120 lines Long Primer, and 40 after lines—Minion 88, and 30 after lines, on Papers 22 ems Long Primer wide; other widths in proportion; and a finish of five hours. Another mode is, one gailey, and a finish of six hours. Twelve hours on and twelve off (including refreshment time), was the original agreement.
The time of beginning to be the same uniformly as agreed upon by the Printer and Companionship—i.e. either a two, three, or four o'clock Paper—and at whatever hour the Journal goes to press one morning, regulates the hour of commencing work for the next day's publication, provided it should be over the hour originally agreed upon—if under, the time is in the Compositors' favour. The hour of commencing work on Sunday is regulated by the time of finishing on Saturday morning.
Ten hours' composition is the specified time for Evening Papers.—All composition to cease when the day's publication goes to press; any work required afterwards to be paid for extra, or deducted from the first work of the next publication.—This does not apply to Second Editions; they being connected solely with the antecedent Paper, must be paid for extra.
Newspapers in a foreign language take, of course, the same advance as is allowed on Book-work.
A system termed Finishing having been formerly introduced, it is necessary to state, that no mode of working can be considered fair (except as before stated) otherwise than by the galley or hour.
No Apprentices to be employed on Daily Papers.
