Connecticut western news., 1873-03-21
Labor i'm Massachusetts.

The fourth annual report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor isavoluminous is documentof seven hundred pages. The employment of children of tender years, from ten to twelve, or younger, is condemned by the report as barbarous." Thereduc- tion of the hours of labor in Lowell and Lawrence is spoken of, and the report says: "We are strong in the belief that a still greater reduction could proftably be made"
 The whole number of laborers under the class of agriculture, is, males, 3D. S55; females, 31 under the class of professional and personal service, in cluding clerks, laborers, sailors, &c., males, 52,874; females, 1,646; under manufactories, mechanics, and mining industries, males, 215, ,259; females, TO- 861.
 From the table presented in appears that the total wages paid ill the indus trial and mechanical employment was $117, 795, ,661 the number of persons engaged, 277,654 average wages of males per pay, $2.42 females, $1.07; youth and children, 68 cents. A table is also given of the wages of unskilled laborers. The subject of the cost of living is considered, and it appears that the average yearly expense of family of about five persons is $697.71.
 An interesting feature of the report relates to the savings the number of deposits during the past year was 50O,- 515, the deposits amounting to an aver age of $84. 84 to each depositor. Of 35,- 603 depositors in thirtysix banks, 25, 900 are wage laborers., This would give an average of seventyper cent against sixty per cent. for last year. A table gives the number of deposits during the last year in sums of $5 and under between $5 and $25, up to $1 ,000, with the amount of each division. Reports were received from ninety-six banks, showing that 173, 495 deposits were made of $50 and under, amounting to $3, ,472, ,549. 89 that 72, ,2O3 deposits were made between $50 and $500, amounting to $S8, ,000, ,975.82 of this sum, 12,273, ,525.71 were de posted in amounts less than $500. "These figures, the report says, "are not estimates, but the actual amounts as reported by the bank officers. In our report of last year we gave the average under $50 as $19.28. It will be seen that the average this year is $20. IA. The average deposit under $500 was given in the last report as $5884. By these returns it is $5O.35. The average de- posit exceeding $500 is $6O7. .26, or $10O,- 726 higher than the estimated average of last year. It will be..noted that our es- unnamed averages of last year were more favorable to the higher classes of de- posits than the actual figures will war rent" The statement of last year is then repeated that 3-7 of the amount of deposits belong to parties who are able to deposit more than $500 at one time, and that the deposits of 1914 of the whole number of depositors amount to little more than the deposits of the remaining 1-14. The next table shows that B, 655 depositors, holding amounts of $50 and under, average 1887; that 30, 168 owned amounts between $50 and $500; that 1928 depositors owned sums under $500 amounting to $4, ,920,- 241.50, while 12,055 depositors owned amounts over $500, and amounting to $7, ,347, 784. IS. Part first of the report ends with statements in regard to the hours of labor. A return from one of the largest manufacturing corporations of Lowell shows reduction in time of 1906 per cent, gain of twenty per cent, and an increase in wages of men of 49 cents per day, and of women 39 cents.