Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-10
LABOR STATISTICS.
Commissioner John j. Tobin's Investiga-
lions Here.

tions Here.
John J.. Tobin, Commissioner Of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics for California.
has been spending few days in this city
and has partially examined several manu-
featuring establishments. AS rule, he
says, he finds labor well recompensed, and
the employers have made fair arrange
ments for the comfort and preservation OF
the health of their employees.
Particularly is this the case. be says, with
the firm of Weinstock. Lubln & Co., which
employs upwards of one hundred men and
women, boys and girls. He saws the wages
paid are good, and everything that can be
invented for the comfort OF the help is
brought into requisition. He says that
drop seats with braces are arranged behind
all the counters where women and girls are
employed, so that they can rest when not
engaged In waiting on customers. He
never saw such respect between employer
and employees as is here presented.
The Capital Box Factory employs thirty
men and boys, and during the fruit season
this is liner, ased to fifty. They work ten
hours, and have a hslf-bour for dinner.
The highest wages paid is 81 IS per day.
Men average 81 IS, and boys from ST. to
pA -. inc ages Vi the ialttT are from II
10 16 years. This establishment is con-
nected with Towle Bros. numbering mills.
in Placer county. They manufacture fruit
and all kinds of packing boxes. This firm
employs only three Cinnamon, and they
are given 81 per day.
The Pioneer Box Factory is engaged in
the manufacture of all kinds OF fruit boxes,
berry baskets, etc. II is large establish
ment, employing ninety hands, as follows
Forty men, thirty boys and twenty girls
They work from a. NJ. to $50 ~, and
have a half-hour at noon for lunch.
The foreman receives 81 per day ma
chine hands, SO; others, 50 25 and 81.
The ages of the boys range from Is to IS
years, and their pay from rs cents TO
81 so per day. The girls have piece work
and average 81 90 per day, some of the
most experienced averaging 81 per day.
There is branch of this mill at Moore's
station. They employ white labor ex-
clusively.
He also visited the Capitol Caunery, but
found only number of Cinnamon en-
gagged in the manufacture of cans This
establishment was not fixed up
with accommodations requisite for white
help, especially female. He understood
the cooking was done by Chinese, as was
most of the labor of that institution. He
contrasted this establishment with the can
merry of San Jose. The latter he said was a
model institution of cleanliness and COM
tort. The place was fitted up with closets
and cloak rooms for the female help, and
the floors of every department were so
clean that person could eat their dinner
from them with relish and comfort. At
San Jose all took their lunch on the green
grass lawns, and the company furnished
their help with hot tea and coffee The
fruit was all cooked by white labor, and
boys and girls did the pairing, cutting
and pitting of fruit. He said dur
ing the fruit season hundreds of school
children found healthy and remuneratiye
employment during their vacation, and a
large number of the young ladies of the
State Normal School there earned money TO
assist them in completing their course. He
said he hoped that the Sacramento cannery
would pattern the coming season after the
San Jose institution, and become, what il
should be, a help to the city and assist in
settling the vexed proposition What shall
we do with our boys and girls?"