Arizona republican., 1892-09-02

ation coolly and laughs at the maledic- tions showered upon his friend and him. self.
 Senator Hill in speaking to a corres- pendent said "I don't know anything about the matter, never saw the report" His followers in Albany also laugh. "Why do these fel- lows want to worry about & little thing like labor report?" they say. Suppose it does upset their campaign arguments. Didn't MT. Cleveland tell the truthP Besides the anti-snappers claim they can get along without New York"
 Mir. Peck said: 'I rather expected my report would cause some comment, but it is all nonsense to call it a politi- cal document. started this inquiry in December, 1891, so you see there IS no thought of the present campaign in laying out the work. The tariff ques- tion was taken up because it has come to be one of the greatest moment to the working man, in whose interest my bureau was established. Now l am Q Democrat, a Hill Democrat if you will, and began this inquiry with the belief that the result would vindicate the Democratic tariff position. The first re- turns came from the silk industry and were very pleasing to my way of thinking, but am free to admit that the report as a whole is not in harmony with Democratic platform SO far as the tariff is concerned.
 "However, my duty as state official is to report things as l find them. not as a wreckless partisan would like to have them construed. There is no political bias about any of iny report, nor do l believe there is any in the reports of any labor bureau in the country. All l can say is that the statements of my re- port are based on actual confidential letters received from 5000 representa- tives of the wholesale manufacturers oi New York state. The result shows me that the leading Democratic speakers on the tariff are in error as to the effects of the Mckinley bill. The figures in my report speak for themselves and there is no getting away from them"
 In dealing with the subject of the tariff investigation MT. Peck explains that the cost of living, including the necessaries that go to make it up, have been given no attention, and only that phase of the subject has been investi- gated which relates to the increase or decrease of production and the rates of wages paid. The period covered by the investigation includes the year imme- diately prior to the enactment of the Mckinley bill and the year immediate
 y following its becoming law.
 The statistics relate only to wholesale manufacturing establishments. To have undertaken to cover the retail and cus- tom manufacturing establishments of the state, the report says, would have been physical and 6nancial impossi- bility in the present state of the bureau. Some 5000 blanks were addressed and mailed to as many separate establish ments throughout the state, and of this number 6,000, or 75 per cent, were re- turned fully and correctly answered by the leading firms.
 From sixty-seven industries covered it appears that there was net in crease in wages of $6.S77, 1925 in the year 1891 as compared with the amount paid in 1890, and the net increase of produc- ton of $3l ,3l5, l3O in the year 1891 over that of 1890. The simple analysis of the table further demonstrates that of sixty-seven industries v per cent of them show an increase either of wages or product, or both, and that there were no less than 89,717 instances of individual increase of wages during the same year.
 The total trades represented amount to 112l, and give employment to 2S5, 900 workingmen and women. A compara- tive table is also given, showing the in- creases and decreases of the average yearly earnings of the employees in the year 1891 over 1890. Of sixty-eight in- dustries included, 75 per cent of them show an increased average yearly earn ing in the year 1891 while the total aver age increase of the yearly earnings of 2S5, 900 employees was s23.11. The aver age increase of yearly earnings of em- ployes in fifty-one trades showing an in- crease was $43.96 in 1891 as compared with 1890.
 In addition to the investigation of this special subject, the bureau has contin- ued it's annual investigation of all labor disturbances occurring in the state during the past year. The total number of strikes reported for the year 1891 was 4,5l9, as against 6,258 occur ring in the year 1890, decrease of TAO. Of the total number 2,375, or 53 per cent of them, were in the building trades, a fact which seems to follow in natural sequence the results obtained in the special investigation of the "effect of tariff on labor and wages"
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 GOVERNOR RUSSELL of Massachusetts