The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-02-25
OHIO STATE NEWS.
LABOR FIGURES.

Z. IndugtrtQa
OF Manufacturing Boots and shoes and
Stoves and Iron Castings.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb 20-The forth.
coming annual report of State Labor
Commissioner Mcbride will contain a
great many interesting statistics. The
table on boots and fine shoes shows:
The cost of materials, So, G91, ,212, added
to S1.70S, $40, the amount paid in
wages and salaries, make S., 800, 752,
the entire cost of productions; this, de-
Quoted from IS, 995, 323, or the whole
value of product, leaves a net profit of
$595, 571, or 1884 per cent of the whole
capital invested.
The capital invested equals $685. 40
per employe. By deducting the cost of
materials from the value of product,
the balance is the com bined earnings
OF capital and labor, of which labor re-
ceives 74.14 per cent, and capital 25 IS
per cent. Labor here includes wage
earners and salaried officials.) OF the
IS, 800, 752 entering into the cost of pro-
duction, 3L6 per cent was paid in
wages and salaries, and the balance,
6S.4 per cent, was paid for materials
The total number of employees draw
ing 81, T0S, $40 in wages and salaries, is
4,351; OF this number 159 are managers,
book-keepers, salesmen and clerks,
drawing in the aggregate S29S, 4O1. "a,
an average salary of 81, S45 80 each.
Deducting 159 from 4, 1851, and s29S, 4O1. "a
from 81, 7Os, $40, we have 4,192 wage
earners, receiving 81, 415, 1873. 10, an aver
age OF $337.6O each per annum.
Dividing the number of days worked
during the year by the number of en-
ployes, gives working year of 800
days, which at 1887. 60 per year gives an
average daily wages of 81 13.
The average number of hours work.
ed per day is 9.7; this gives an average
hourly wages of 11.6 cents.
The table on stoves and iron castings
shows: The cost of materials, $4,57O,-
022, added to S3,471, ssS, the amounts
paid in wages and salaries, make S.
041. 905, the entire cost of production;
this deducted from S9,0s3, 404, or the
whole value of product leaves q net
profit of Sl,041, 400 or 21.61 per cent. of
the whole capital invested The capi-
ital invested equals $748. "a per employe.
BY deducting the cost of materials
from the value of production, the bal
ance Is the com bined earnings of capital
and labor, of which labor receives 76.9
per cent, and capital 2S.1 per cent.
Labor here includes wage earners and
salaried officials.) OF the SS,041, 9O5 en-
tering into the cost of production, 4a17
per cent was paid in wages and sal
aries, and the balance, So SO per cent,
was paid for materials.
The total number of employees, draw
ing $S, 472. SS3 in wages and salaries, is
6.769; of this number 333 are managers,
book-keepers, statesmen and clerks,
drawing in the aggregate S419, 02S, an
average salary of $1,25s "a each. De-
Quoting 1888 from 6, ,769 and $419, O2S from
sS, Al, ,ss3, we have 6,436 wage earners,
receiving S3,o52, s55, or an average sal
ary of $474.34 each per annum
Dividing the number of days worked
during the year by the number of en-
ployes, gives working year of 2ss
days, which, at $474. "a per year gives
an average daily wages of S1.65. The
average number of hours worked per
day is 9s. This gives an average hourly
wages Of 1853 cents.
Rosa PATRICK, Of Ironton, who is
but IA years old, was forced by her
father to marry John Blevens, So years
old
EARL, the ten-year-old son of James
Starrette, while playing at school at
Norwich, fell and crushed his skull.
Several physicians operated on him, but
he died in few hours
AT an election held by Company G,
Fifth regiment, of Norwalk, Chas. H.
Stewart was chosen captain, and Fred
w. Christian second lieutenant
MAMIE WELSH, of Jackson, attempted
to leap into the grave of her lover Con-
ductor Williams, who was killed by the
cars.
TOLEDO is flooded with counterfeit
quarters.
DEFIANCE ladies have organized cof-
fee club.
JOSEPH SERR was killed in a runaway
at Tiffin.
A BIG oak tree throws a shadow on
Hancock, Seneca and Wood counties.
MRS. ALBERT BENTzEL, of Lima, died
under her brothers faith cure treat
ment A physician had her almost
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