The largest number of unions is represented by the building trade workmen, there being 345 organizations under this craft. Transportation employees are also largely organized, there being 155 unions, followed by metal workers with 133, boot and shoe workers with 95, printing trades with 55, textile workers with 48, and laborers with 46. These seven branches of trade comprise 877 unions, this number constituting 61 per cent of the whole number of unions recorded. STATISTICAL ABSTRACTS. The greatest loss, financially, due to strikes and lockouts in the Commonwealth took place in the boot and shoe industry, the wage loss to employees being $6,056,376; assistance rendered them, $503,673; while the loss of employers aggregated $2,277,063. The next greatest wage loss suffered in any industry occurred in the textiles, the amount of wages lost by employees aggregating $6,053,380; the assistance rendered textile operatives, $186,425; loss of employers, $1,976,929. Under textiles have been included carpeting, cotton and woolen goods, cotton goods, rope and bagging, silk goods, and woolen and worsted goods operatives. The wage loss to cotton mill operatives alone amounted to $4,398,453; the employers' loss due to strikes and lockouts in the cotton goods industry, $1,055,327. Seventy-three of the strikes and lockouts were ordered by labor organizations. The average number of days that establishments were closed in the textile industry was 32.65; the number of days that elapsed before strikers or those locked out were re-employed or places filled by others averaged 22.97. — 16th Annual Report, Commissioner of Labor, Washington, D. C. Cost of the Anthracite Coal Strike. Fair estimates were obtained by the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission of the cost of the strike of coal miners employed in operating mines in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. The strike lasted from May 12 to October 23, 1902, and involved about 147,000 mine workers. The strike meant a loss in the receipts of the coal-mining companies, for their product at the mines, of $46,100,000. The wage loss of employees aggregated about $25,000,000, while the sum of $1,800,000 was expended in rellef funds. The decrease in freights paid to railroad companies on the larger sizes of coal was about $19,000,000, and the loss in freight receipts to the transportation companies on the smaller sizes totalized to $28,000,000, approximately. number 43,120 were employed beyond the maximum of 11 hours. The number of extra hours worked totalized 2,541,034. The largest proportion of factories were engaged in the textile industry, there being 240 of such employing 56,465 workpeople, of whom 19,403 worked 1,120,618 hours overtime. In metal-working, the industry showing the next greatest amount of overtime for the year, 4,899 persons, out of 17,824 employed, worked 275,455 hours overtime; and in stone, clay, glass, etc., 250,606 hours overtime work was performed by 2,574 employees out of a total of 3,881. BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR. The following issues of the annual reports of this Department remain in print and will be forwarded when requested, upon receipt of the price set against each Part and bound volume. Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor. 1893. Bound in cloth, postage 15 cents. This report contains a special report on Unemployment, and Labor Chronology for the year 1893; this latter will be mailed separately for 5 cents. 1894. Bound in cloth, postage 15 cents. Contains, I. Compensation in Certain Occupations of Graduates of Colleges for Women (postage 5 c.); II. Distribution of Wealth (postage 10 c.); III. Labor Chronology for 1904 (postage 5 c.). 1895. Bound in cloth, postage 25 cents. 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They contain a large variety of interesting and pertinent matter on the Social and Industrial Condition of the Workingman, together with leading articles on the Condition of Employment, Earnings, etc. The following numbers are the only ones now remaining in print and will be forwarded upon receipt of five cents each to cover the cost of postage. No. 10, April, 1899. Labor Legislation of 1898-Trade Unionism in Massachusetts prior to 1880-Contracts with Workingmen upon Public Work-Foreign Labor Disturbances in 1897-Quarterly Review of Employment and Earnings: Ending April, 1899-Editorial. No. 11, July, 1899. Certain Tenement Conditions in Boston-Quarterly Review of Employment and Earnings: Ending July, 1899. No. 14, May, 1900. Free Public Employment Offices-Employment and Unem. ployment in the Boot and Shoe and Paper Industries- Legislation affecting Hours of Labor-Quarterly Review of Employment and Earnings: Ending April 30, 1900-Statistical Abstracts. No. 15, August, 1900. 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Labor and Education, by William J. Tucker, D.D., LL.D., President of Dartmouth CollegeNight Work by Women and Minors in Textile Mills - Excerpts Relating to Labor, Industrial, Sociological, and General Matters of Public Interest -Industrial Agreements -Current Comment on Labor Questions: Immigration--Recent Legal Labor Decisions-Trade Union Directory for 1904Statistical Abstracts. |