Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
LABOR REPORT.
The Commissioners Annual Report Gives
Some Interesting Figures.


Some Interesting Figures.
WASHINGTON. Oct 22.-In his tenth
annual report. devoted to strikes and
lockouts, which has just been COM
pleted, Carroll d. Wright, commission
er of labor, computes that the loss to
employees in esta blishments in which
lockout and strikes occurred during
the thirteen and a half years ended
June 80, 1854, amounted to $3.50, 40 3, 3S2,
and to employers to So, s25, S37. The
loss to employees on account of strikes
was S163, S07, 500, and on account of
loclzouts, sec, 685, SIC; to employers on
account of strikes, $50, 500. $50, and on
account of lockouts, $12, 235, 451.
The number of esta blishments in
volved in strikes in this period was Co.,
167, and the number of persons thrown
out of employment by reason of strikes
8, 714, 4O6, making an average loss to
the employees of each esta blishment of
50, SOS and to each person of $44. The
number of establishments involved in
lockouts was 6,O61., and the number of
persons locked out 500, 600. @These per-
sons lost an average of SIS each. The
assistance given to strikers and the
subjects of lockouts during the period
amounted, as far as ascertainable, to
S13, 43S, 7O4, or little over per cent.
of the total loss to employees.
One of the most important tables
given is that relating to the causes of
strikes. This statement shows that
more than fourth of them were caused
by refusal to accede to demand for
increase of wages; over Is per cent for
refusal to concede a reduction OF
hours, >and more than s per cent. by the
determination of employers to reduce
wages. Three thousand, six hundred and
twenty, or almost s per cent of the
strikes, were caused by sympathetic
action with other strikes, and 1855
were occasioned by the employment OF
non-union men. The industries most
affected by strikes in the past seven
and half years were the building
trades, with 90, 7S5 esta blishments in.
volved. After these, in the order OF
Importance, came coal and coke, cloth
ing, tobacco, food preparations, stone
quarrying, etc.
Out of total of 10, 4SS strikes in the
entire country for this period, 5000, or
to exceed So per cent, occurred III
twenty-six of the principal cities,
while of the eSta blishments involved
in lockouts over 81 per cent. occurred
in these cities. Fifty-nine per cent. OF
the ablishments engaged in strikes
werc closed on an average of twenty
| two days, and Ga per cent. of those en-.
gagged in lockouts for an average OF
thirty-fve days, the loss of time il
other cases being only temporary. In
each case there were a few esta blish'
ments closed permanently.
Success was gained by the employee:
in over 43 per cent. of the strikes; par
tial success in over 10 per cent, while
the remaining AZ per cent were fail
ures. Over 4S per cent Of the lockouts
succeeded completely, and over 10 pei
cent. partially. The others were fail
ures. In the successful strikes 500, 992
persons were thrown out of employ
ment, 318. sol in those partially success
full and 1,4OO, 988 in those which failed.
OF the total number of persons thrown
out of employment by the strikes in
the entire period of thirteen and q
half years, 8.78 per cent. were
females and by lockouts %. So.
Of the 10, 488 strikes which occurred
in the seven and half years especial
ly covered by the present report, 7,29;
were ordered by labor organizations,
while of the 442 1ockouts of this period
only eighty-one were ordered BY
organizations of employers Sixty
nine per cent of all the strikes and u
per cent. of all the lockouts of the
seven and half year period treated Of
occurred in the five states of Illinois
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Massachusetts,, Illinois taking the lead
of all the states of the union.