The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-24
Some Statistics in Reference
to Them.
THE GOULD AND LAKE SHORE.
A Maniac Mothers Fearful Deed
Raising the Rates-Plaster-
ers' Strike.
ON strikes and Lockouts.

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expert and special agent of the census
bureau, upon the strikes and lockouts
occurring within the United States dur
ing the calendar year of 1850. have been
received by the Interior Department.
/ The records show, he says, that many
strikes and lockouts still grow out If
Il the most trivial causes. IL is also
true, especially in localities where large
/ bodies of workmen are gathered, that
there will always be found men who too
/ frequently, from sinister and mercenary
! motives, create dissension and endeayor
I TO inaugurate strikes. When strikes
are In progress, their duration is liable
/ TO be prolonged by the efforts OF such
/ persons. Yet the tendency, as stated.
is toward less frequent strikes and
lockouts. The number OF strikes IN
certain prominent trades as given in
/ the report, is as follows: Iron and
steel industries, 2S5; coal mining, i5S;
textile trades. 10; cigar makers, ~;
| building trades. SO: transportation, 80;
printing trades, IS; glass Industries. %;
piano making, II; boot and shoe max
| ing, IL. Much Of the greater proportion
l(7lL per cent? of the strikes and
lockouts reported upon were caused by
difficulties rs TO rates OF wages. \ total
of 6U3, or about So per cent OF those re-
lating to the rates of wages or 62 per
cent. OF all, were for an advance, and
/ II. or IA per cent. of those relating to
rates of wages of 9H per cent. Of all were
against reduction. Strikes growing out
OF the demands for an advance are
much more uniformly successful than
those against reduction. In the con-
ditions of trade that justify an advance,
/ il Is as much to the interest of the en-
ployer to give in, than to have his work
stop. OF BIB strikes, the results OF 4Sl,
or 50 per cent. are gwen. OF these
| 1863, OF IS per cent. were successful,
IS or Is per cent were compromised.
and 127 or AZ per cent were unsuccess-
full. Ii will be noted thai while a large
number OF strikes. SOB out OF Sl7, were
for an advance in wages, a larger pro-
portion of the strikes for this cause were
Unsuccessful than for any other import
ant classes. OF 307 strikes for an ad-
vance, of which the results
are given, 127 or ~ per cent,
were successful, 62 or 20 per ce-t.
were compromised, and lis, or 80 per
cent were unsuccessful. On the other
! hand, of As strikes or lockouts
when the demand was against a reduc-
ton insisted on by the employer, three
only of those OF which the result IS given
were successful, eight were compromised
and 81 were unsuccessful. OF the other
classes, questions relating 70 the pay
ment of wages were uniformly success
[, full. OF 20 strikes in connection with
the payment of wages, of which the re-
suits are given, IL or % per cent wer,
successful, 6 were compromised and 3
are reported as unsuccessful. On the
other hand. every strike in Con-
nectiout with hours Of labor, OF
which the result is given, was
unsuccessful In questions relating
to administration and methods OF work.
the strikes were, as rule, unsuccessful.
OF s13 stoppsges by the cause reported
upon. 6l0, or 50 per cent. were strikes.
IS or u per cent. we're lockouts. OF 6l0
classified as strikes, the result OF 800 are
given. OF these, 143 or 80 per cent. were
successful, l56 or ~ per cent, were ur-
successful; and 20 or IS per cent. were
compromised. OF IS lockouts that are
CLASSIFIED, the results of 81 are given.
OF these 10 or 10 per cent were success
] full; 81 or about IS per cent, were I'M
successful. while 8 or about 25 per cent
were compromised. From 414 OF the
762 strikes. full reports were received
showing the number of men idle in
making an average of about 80 men to
each strike. The report concludes,
las to the wages lost, it appears that
81. 10 employees lost So I'll. 097. This
would be at the rate of $57 each. As
the entire number of employees esti-
mated was 25,125, the total loss OF
wages would be SIS. 003, S06. which
would have been received had the works
run constantly. OF course, there
would be q number Of offsets 70 this.
In case the strikers were successful, ad-
l.. - a -. - =
portion Of this loss. In other cases,
where uuionism existed in trades in
which there were strikes. the men re-
ceived strike pay or strike benefits.
out strike benefits were, in most
cases. simply refunding money
that had been previously paid. Then,
in many cases, parties on a strike
secured employment in other indus
tries and hence their actual loss would
be what wages they would have earned
ut their old labor, minus what they did
earn in presumable loss Of profitable
employment"
on THE GOULD SYSTEM.
NEW BRUNSWICK. April 22.-John w.
Hayes, member of the general execu-
tive board of Knights OF Labor, re-
turned to this city last evening. be
says that no progress has been made
toward settlement OF the difficulties
between the strikers Of the Gould system
and the railroad officials. The case 5
now. however. in shape from which 1t IS
expected that when the Congressional
committee reaches st. Louis and meets
with the citizens committee, these two
bodies may be able TO hit upon some
plan whereby q settlement may be ell
fccted- He says the reports sent out by
the railroads that they are. handling
all the freight they want TO every day
are untrue. The roads are all blocked
up, and when freight is run out II goes
under the protection OF deputy sberins
and the militia. The railroads claim,
and Mr.. Hayes admits, that they have
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