1. Yard foreman, or superintendent. This duty is often performed by the master, especially in small contracts.
2. Gangers or dust-collectors. These are called “fillers” and “carriers,” from the practice of one of the men who go out with the cart filling the basket, and the other carrying it on his shoulder to the vehicle.
3. Loaders of carts in the dust-yard for shipment.
4. Carriers of cinders to the cinder-heap, or bricks to the brick-heap.
5. Foreman or forewoman of the heap.
II. Labourers paid by the hill-man or hill-woman.
1. Sifters, who are generally women, and mostly the wives or concubines of the dustmen, but sometimes the wives of badly-paid labourers.
2. Fillers-in, or shovellers of dust into the sieves of the sifters (one man being allowed to every two or three women).
3. Carriers off of bones, rags, metal, and other perquisites to the various heaps; these are mostly children of the dustmen.
A medium-sized dust-yard will employ about twelve collectors, three fillers-in, six sifters, and one foreman or forewoman; while a large yard will afford work to about 150 people.