New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-03
TIE STRIKES OF A YEAR
TnEIR CAUSES AND EFFECTs-cosT TO THE
STEIKFRS.

sTEIKFBs.
ALBANY, April o-Labor Commissioner Charles f
Peck submitted his fifth annual report of the Bureau
of Statistics OF Labor the legislature this evening
1t Is, OF course, largely devoted to the subject OF
strikes their causes and effects The strikes for 1887
include IA trades and cangs, against 1877 in 1886
the number OF shops on strike amounted to 1,e04
against eol In 1856 The returns for tho year show
6e4 strikes successful, 100 compromised or partly
successful 3 doubtful COS unsuccessful and 20 pend
ing. The returns for 206l shops reported strike.
during the year 1886, show 751 successful 420 COM
promised or partly successful, 212 doubtful 524 I'M.
successful and LAT pending. The number Of workers
engaged In strikes was ,73 The loss Of wages in
cident to strikes was S20l3229 45. The amount ex-
pended by labor organizations in relief and conduct OF
strikes was $217, ,069 7s Estimated gain in wages for
one year to 11,z72 persons, s944,e32 55. Loss to
employers, S1,102576 20.
The heaviest strikes in the building interest during
the last year those Of the carpenters and ramers.
They show totals OF 2,4l4 and 1856 together 1000
men, with loss in wages Of S40o 81, so626o rs and
$4,000 to the organizations Of which the strikers
were members
The causes OF strikes as returned by answers arc
Abolition Of piecework, q changes Of payday 81 dis
charge of union men, II; discharge of employees, 5;
discharge of foremen, ,; employment Of nonuniOn
men, 113 equalization OF wages, increase OF hours,
o; increase Of wages, 469; increase of wages and
abolition of payment in saloons 40 Increase Of wages
and reduction Of hours, 55 increase Of wages and
union rules. Al increase Of wages, etc., Is; mis-
cellsneous, SO; nOn-payment OF wages 10 number Of
apprentices 100 objectionable employees Q obnoxious
fines, g. obnoxious foremen, Z; obnoxious rules, Is
opposed to contract system, q opposed TO Saturday
night work. Q 4; opposed TO use OF wheebarrows,
reduction of hours, 1885, reduction OF wages. 20:
sal to handle boycotted coal, 90 refusal to handle
boycoted coal and freight, "a refusal to handle boy
coted freight, 25; refusal to handle boycotted pat
terms, 1s; refusal to handle non-unon material 3 {;
refusal to recognize knights Of Labor, IL refusal
recognize union rules, 40 refusal to recognize union
rules relative to honls of labor, % rival labor
assist other trades, 14s; OF machinery, 4.
The modes of settlement wero Arbitration, g.
and by the Mayor Of Rochester concation, 81 !;
Cancellation with employees, l21 Cancellation with
were Arbitration, 10 establishments engaged
Of Arbitration and by State Railroad Commissioners; !;
oation with labor examinations o 80: no formal
settIements, 90; @ abandoncd, 48o; blank, $50
The wages lost OF sacrificed by employees, In their
Of their position in any way, must be accepted as at
least conclusive Of their earnestness The sacrifice is
six WSgeearner IN Sas esiabshments Voluntarily
deprived themselves of So ,o1a 229 40 average OF
close Of tho strike besides which 900 make no report,
OF whom 1t is perfectly permissible TO believe that
the amount, for reasons unexplained. Is not given.
In the year 1886 reports were received from ninety
to 81, SIS, ,554 forty sevon trades made no report
the subject In almost every strIhe some persons,
good. This IS especially observable in ths case Of
Unsuccessful strikes This table gives thc detail Of
workers Who have lost ON aCcGS Ul
Eve trades cangs report that S,l76 persons lost
positions % s m 90 adss hos oT PS on @ S
639l persons refused work after strikes, and 81 trades