Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-04

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Totals. :.................a 1908 1880 81
In 1887, the report says, there were, ac-
cording to the best information Obtanable.
S53 strikes, details OF which are not avail
able.
The report shows that during the six years
covered by the investigation New York had
the largest number of establishments af-
fected both by strikes and lock-outs, there
being for the former 0,247 and for the
latter 1928 The building trades
furnished 6,O6O of the total num-
Der Of establishments engaged in
strikes The total number of employees in
vowed in the whole number of strikes for
the entire period was 1,3lS,G24. Tho
number OF employees originating the strikes
was ], 900, 1872 The number of emp Dyes
mall establishments before the strikes &C.
Cured was 1862, Ol5, against 1886. 247
after the strikes occurred, II loss OF 20, 79S.
There were 1O3. O36 new emp Dyes eng, ed
after the strikes. and 81, 493 were brought
from other places than those in which the
strikes occurred
In 2, 1872 establishments lock-outs were
ordered during the period named
In these there were 173,995 en-
ployes before the lock-outs occurred and
1G9, 1876 after the lock-Outs. while the num-
ler actually locked out was 159, $40. There
were 1916 new employees secured at the
close Of lock-outs, and 1852 were brought
from other places than those in winch
the lock-outs occurred
or the whole number of employees in
volved in strikes during the six years, SS Sc
per cent. were m lies and H. IA per cent
were females or those involved in lock-
outs during the same period g. ~ per cent
were males and 1922 per cent were fe-
males
or the %, 1886 establishments in which
strikes occurred, in IS 342, or 80. IL per
c. Mt of the whole strikes were ordered by
labor organ.za ons, while OF the 2, 1872 es-
Establishments in which lock-outs occurred
1853. or O.34 per cent were ordered Ly
combinations of managers OF the whole
number of establishments subjected to
strike there were temporarily closed for
business l3, 343, or 60 IS pr cent. and on
account of lock- outs, g. 60 Per cent The
average duration OF stoppage on account of
YArikes was Is Ito Gays, for lock-outs %
Naya
r The results of the strikes, so FIR as gain
Ing the objects sought are concerned, are
shown to be as TO lows: Successes followed
in l ,O47 cases, or 46. SO per cent of thu
whole, and failure TO lowed in 500
cas- s, or 80. 80 per cent of the whole.
By lock-ou,s, 564 establishments or
20. 50 per cent. of the whole, succeeded in
lining til eir points; 100, or II per cent
partly succeeded, and ,3O5, or So so per
cent failed
AS to causes or objects of strikes, it is
shown that incre use of wages was the prin-
cipa. one-42 a. per cent The other lead
Ing causes are given as follows: For reduc-
ton of hours, 10 As per Mt; against re-
duction of wages, IT'S per cent; for in
crease of wages and reduction of hours,
z 81 per cent; against increase of hours,
s62 per cent. total for five leading causes,
II SO per cent all other causes, % II per
cent
Disclaiu,ing absolute accuracy. the report
gives the losses of employees and employers
resulting from strikes and lock-outs as fol-
lows: Losses to rikers during the six
years, $51, SIG, 1853; loss to employees
through lock-outs, SIS. 1871; or a
total wage loss to emp Dyes of $780,
GAS, SS2. This loss occurred for both
sur.kes and lock-outs in "a. SIS estab-
lishments, or an average loss OF So, 40 to
each establishments or of nearly $40 to each
striker involved The assis ance given to
strikers during the same period, so fur as
asc ertainable amounts to $3. 1925, O57; to
those suffering from lock-outs, 81, lO5, 53S,
or a total of $4,430, 500. The amounts.
however, the commissioner says, are un-
doubleday too low.
The employers losses through strikes
amounted to $50, 732 653; through lock-
out, $3 ,342, 26l, or total loss to the es-
Establishments involved Of 1884, l64, 9l4.
H.. A,l1 ~ ~, ~,
chief burden OF strikes was borue by thir-
teen Industries, viz: Boots and shoes, 1852
establishments; brick-making, 478; build
ing trades, 5000; clothing, 1,72S; cooper
age, 4S4; food preparations, 1,419; furnl
ture, 491; lumber. 395; metals and metallic
goods, 1886; mining, 1000; stone, 1853;
tobacco 1850; transportation, 1,47S
These represent 1888 per cent OF the
whole number subjected to strikes.
Besides completing the tie d work for this
re ort and thu compilation of the infor-
nation, the bureau has carried on almost to
completion the investigation begun last
year concerning the moral, physical and
economical conditions OF the working
women Of great cities, and has continued
it's investigation into the cost of the dis
tributlou of great staple products. 1t has
also undertaken, according to Congress
sional instruction, the collection of statis-
tics of marriage and divorce in the United
Sta es, a report of which may be submitted
before the close of the present session of
Congress-
The Coal Famine Along the Ohio.