New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-31
MAINE INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS
STRIKES AND LoCKoUrs-rHE FIsHERIEs-sHIP-
BUILDING.


BUILDING.
PORTLAND, Ne, JAN 2l.-The first annual report OF
the State Commissioner of Labor aud Industrial
Statistics. made public contains 24O pages. Ito
Commissioner the Hon. g. W. Matthews says that the
years experience at profit sharing by the Drn ana
the @ poyes Of the firm OF Asa Cush'nan & Co, OF
Auburn encouraging hut Its permanent success de.
ponds as much upon the working upon the managing
members OF the partnership. Returns from railroads
show the number OF miles OF road reported l.l12i0;
average number OF men employed from June 30 $50
July /, 1887, 3G05; total number employed at date OK
report $500 The average monthly salary
OF clerks Is $40 90, train dispatchers S73 OF.
freight agents S47 3d. ticket agents $50 so. engi-
neers 500 As. nremen S41 IS. passenger conductors
$50 So freight conductors $50 II. brakemen $50 90.
machinists S53 10. watchmen S37 10. section hands
S33 TO- and telegraph operators S31 9S Total number
OF passengers and employees killed %; total number
injured, As.
From showing the cost of food il proved that in
1887 81 woul buy much provisions as Fl 20 w.uld
buy I'm 1892 or 81 80 in 1877. the difference being
chiefly in the price OF and fonr The cost OF fosd
for month for American family, consisting OF
husband and wife. eighteen years old, and one
daughter years DID, at lewiston Me- was SO ~ FOR
July 1887. Sl8 SO for July, 1892 $50 "a Tor July
1877. The cost Of food raw material in the Maine
state Prison averaged for the last lG3
cents daily per man, or S42 AZ per year.
The co lition Of the Maine fishermen !. painted very
darky for 1887 show toe number OF rsbing
vessels to AS. their tornage 1857 Al which is
decrease OF % per cent since 1888. Fifteen locs'er
factories have been running the last season. packing
from eight to tea million pounds Forty to sHty LANDS
are employed cash factory, about one hall o. then
being men and boys the other half being women and
girls. - ,o
or the 70 strikes occurring during the six years ~
were ordered labor organizations and 81 were not SO
Atty establishments were closed an average OF
80 days. 43 strikes succeeded sueceeced III Part
and "a failed The nuIlber OF employ es involved was
6s26, an their amounted 20 Sl62.2ls while they
received the amount % &3.547 Tie enl9yers lost
Slo9,303. Two ockous occurred involving l,o2o hanH;
amounted to $37o6. and they were assisted
to the amount of So 295.
In 1886 there we're in Maine lis loca! assemblies ef
knights OF Labor, with membeIshi OF l2,9O3 In 1897
there were III assemblies membership not given.
Tnereare Typographical unions IN Matte one In Port
land with mcubersbp OF SO, and one IN Bangor with
membership OF "a or locomotive 1remen there are Two
lodges the at Portland with $50 memtets, and The
other at yancobOro lately organized. The locomotive
engineers have divisions at Portland and Vaaoeooro the
the former place with membership or l39. The
carpenters and joners union represented only In
Portland where there is union with 80 members The
ten branches OF granite cutters union punber In
members 300 The grange with zoe subordinate
oranges has membership OF 10000.
Tue number and tonnage OF vessels built In Maine Tor
the ending September 80 1887 also the nnnDer OF
vessels engaged in the fisheries IL shown In the follow