Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-06
Establishments
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Total .9o3 y .336
In 1887, the report says, there were &C
C riding to the best information obtains
ole 843 strikes, the details of which are
not available. TIE report shows that
during the six years covered by the inves-
figation the building trades furnished
6060 Of the total number Of establish
ments engaged IN strikes. The total
number of employees involved in the
Wlole number Of strikes for the entire
period is shown to have been 1,31S, 624.
The number Of employees originating the
strikes was 1,020,S32; number of
employees in all establishments
before the strikes occurred was
/ 662,045, while the whole number
employed in the establishments involved
after the strikes occurred were $3.50, 247.
loss of 25,798. There were 103,03S
new employees engaged after the strikes,
and 37,4S3 were brought from other
places than these in which the strikes Oc-
Cured. In 2l82 establishments lockouts
we're ordered during the period named.
In these there 173 9s5 employees before
the lockouts occurred, and 1G9, 1876 ef-f
ter the lockouts, while the nunS
Der actually locked out was 159 45s.
There were 1876 employees secured at
the close Of the lockouts and 56S2 were
brought from ether places than those in
which the lockouts occurred. OF the
whole number Of employees involved in
strikes during the six years covered by
the report, IS 90 per cent. were males
and II II per cent iemsles. OF these in
viewed in lockouts, 68.7S per cent. were
los g.
males. An examination Of tables ap-
pended to the report shows that
of the %, $50 establishments in which
strikes occurred 1892 or 81 u per
cent. Of the whole strikes were ordered
by labor organizations, while CT the 21S2
establishments in which lockOuts &C.
Cured, 1853 or S0.34 per cent. were Or
dered by combinations CO managers.
The average duration of stoppsge on
account of strikes YVES 23.1 days; for lock
outs, % days.
The results Of the strikes so far IS
gaining the objects sought are con-
cerned, are shown to be IS follows:
Success followed in 1047 cases, or 46 SO
per cent. of the whole; partial success in
1904 Or 10 As per cent. of the whole, and
failure followed in 1910 cases or 80 SO
establishments o. % sc per cent. of whole
succeeded in gaining their point; 1870 or
81 per cent. partly succeeded, snd 1905
or 50 so per cent. fsiled.
As to the causes or objects of the
strikes it is shown thst the increase of
wages was the principal one, ~ Il per
cent.
Diaclaiming absolute accuracy the re-
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employers resulting from strikes and
lockouts as follows: Losses to the
strikers during six years covered by the
Investigations, $5l SIG, l65; loss to EN-
ployes through lockouts for same period,
IS 1872, III, or q total wage loss to the
employees OF SIS, 948, 1882. This loss &C.
CURED for both strikes and lockouts in
24 SIS establishments, or an average loss
of $2445 to each establishment, or OF
nearly $40 to each striker involved.
The assistance given to strikers during
the same period so far as .scertained,
amounts to So, 1925 O57; to those suffering
from lOckOuts l,105, 53S, or a total of
81, 430,595. These amounts, however,
the Commissioner says, are undoubtedly
too low. The employers losses through
strikes for the SIX years amounted to
or total loss to the establishments in
volved OF S34, 1924.
Besides completing the field work for
this report and the compilation OF the
information the bureau has carried on
almost TO completion the investigation
begun last year concerning the moral,
physical and economical conditions of the
working women CT the great cities, and has
continued its investigation into the cost of
the distribution of great staple products.
II has also undertaken according to con-
gressional instruction the collection OF
salaries of marriage and divorces in the
United Ststee, report of which may DE
submitted before the close of the present
session of Congress.
DEPENDENT PENSIONS BILL.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-When the new
pension committee of the House is or
gsnizsd the probabilities are that bin
will be whipped into shape known as the !
dependent pensions bill, with al the fea- !
lures OF the last bill which were so OBJ
jectionsble to President Cleveland elimi- |
mated. TIE new bill will include soldiers
WHO are dependent solely upon public
charities. There will be provision for
8 competency for subsistence for the SOL
dlers who are now confned in poor
houses and other local charitable institu
tons and who are being cared for by
officers. While the government
has provided soldiers homes in differ
ent sections Of the country, there
sre numerous instances of soldiers
having families where it would be hard |
ship to be sent TO one of these institu-
tions and separated from their relatives.
The proposed law will provide this class
OF dependent soldiers with sufficient
means to live and remain st their homes
and near their friends.
TEXAS LEADS THE WORLD.
Special to the Gazette. -
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The Washing
ton Post says edltorisllV this morning:
sfThe great stste OF Texas is represented
in the present Congress by one native
born citizen out of fifteen members Of the
Senate and House. We have been &C.
customed to look to the wild, wild west
for such evidence Of growth and change II
population, but the great Democratic