Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-21

humber OF vessels IN Name engaged III the
fisheries to be 4fS; tonnage l5,S51.64;
decrease of about 20 per cent. since 1855.
Fifteen factories have been engaged in
lobster canning during the season. putting
up from eight TO ten million pounds. Each
factory employs from 40 to 80 hands about
one half men and boys and the other half
women and girls. The price paid for Holsters
has been 81 % per one hundred pounds.
The views of working men and women, as
expressed in communications To the bureau,
making an interesting chapter of the report.
\ carder wants all children under Is years
prohibited from working in factories.
John Garner of Lewiston, in lengthy
communication, advocates the halftime sys-
TEN of education for factory children, argu-
ing that those who work onehalf day and at
tend school the other half make full as good
progress as those who attend continuously.
\ barber wants law to compel all barber
shops to be closed on Sunday.
Two lime burners want kilns closed on
Sunday.
\ carpenter would have mechanics lien
the first mortgage on real estate to secure
workingmen's wages.
A card grinder condemns our trustee law
NJ the worst ever placed on the statute books.
\ door. sash and blind maker suggests a
change in the Law taxing real estate and
mortgages.
An engineer thinks all persons running and
managing engines should pass thorough ex-
animation before board created by State
law.
A machinist would have law prohibiting
any person from contracting for more than
ten hours work in a day.
spinner wants ten hour law for men as
well az women.
paving cutter wants weekly payments
of wages.
\ shoemaker tells how he saves fifty per
cent. on his meat bill in winter by buying
for cash by the hundred weight.
4 stone cutter wants weekly payments, a ten
hour law for men as well as women and
State uniformity of school books.
laborer claims that rum and tobacco are
the greatest curse of the workngman. con-
Stunning fully twenty five per cent. of his
wages.
A sardine sealer condemns all sumptuary
legislation.
4 longshoreman states that hard drinking
keeps n majority of his fellow workmen very
poor, and that ignorance is their greatest
draw back A cooper asserts that by working
fourteen hours day on piece work only
about 81 5 day can he earned, and very
few Young men are learning the trade.
4 carpenter shows the disadvantage their
trade is under by the fact that work can be
obtained only about half the time.
4 hostler of uncertain age complains of
inability to Obtain work. He takes boarders
when he can get them. Here is his bill of
fare: We seldom have beef and pastry
never We live on vegetables and cheap
soup bones"
4 knitter and weaver shows up how many
women toll all day to knit three horse nets at
six cents each.
pulp maker comes up smiling with the
remark Il am satisfied with my trade and
wages"
\ painter u, Bar Harbor gives a doleful
picture of the laboring men at that summer
resort. lie complains particularly of the ex-
tortions in rents. Old barns are fixed over
into tenements at prices beyond all reason.
He pays ten dollars for four rooms and not
yard room enough TO stretch n clothes line.
A shoe leveler was kept out of work for a
half year on big strike. and has lost faith
in the X of L. as an order for the poor man
A cotton weaver aided by the income of q
garden. paid $500 on mortgage last year.
Another cotton weaver, female, complains
of the scarcity of boarding houses in close
nfpNlnltN 10 Tue Utli, anu hfiis
the eating of cold dinners which is sure to
cause dyspepsia.
The following comes from a woman, a
cotton mill hand Il am seventy years of
age. make out ten hours day and make
htty cents day. have children but they
have all they can do to take care of them
selves"
Returns are complied from - manufactur-
ing establishments. covering % industries.
Though few compared with the whole num-
her in the State. and defective in many par
ticulars. yet they are among the most i'm
portant. Those reporting employ 1895
hands Sixty-dve establishments report
capital invested" Sl6, S67 800. and 1919
male employees over Is years of age; Il re-
port ila male employees under Is years; 81
report 6.529 female employees over Is years,
and IL report l.6 female employees under Is
wears Twenty-Five industries report the
average weekly wages paid men. Slo27 Is
industries the average annual earnings of
men. S41..sl. and the average annual earn
iugs of women 1886 90. Forty-four estab-
lishments report gross product" Sll,273.
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Fourteen pages are devoted to tables on
strikes and lockou,s in Maine from 1881 to
1856. both ineXclusive, from which the fol-
lowing percentages are drawn;
Strikes ordered By orgsnixs-
,ions, about 30 per cent
Strikes not ordered by organ
izafious, 20
Percentage of strikes that sue
ceeded. ." 50
Percentage of strikes that part
iy succeeded.
Percentage of strikes that failed, -
Percentage loss of employees, 60
Percentage loss of employers. a. 10
OF the IS strikes occurring during the six
years % were ordered by labor organizations
and 81 were not so ordered: fifty establish
ments were closed on an average Of 80 2-l0
days; forty-three succeeded. six succeeded
in part. and "a failed. The number of en-