The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-11-03
WHAT STRIKES COST
History of Strikes for the Past
Seven Years.
LOSS TO STRIKERS ss5. 900. 900
Not Half of the Strikes We're Sue
cessful LOckOuts Are Expensive
Luxuries Interesting Figures.

An Eastern paper says that the relations
Of capital to labor so far as these npply
to strikes and lockouts, during the last
seven and one-half years, are exhaustive
ly treated In the annual report Of Col
onel Carroll D. Wright, the commissioner
of labor, which is made public today The
report shows that during the foregoing
period Illinois had the largest number of
establishments affected, both by strikes
and lockouts, there having been 10 06O
of THE fortner and 1,193 OF the latter. New
York came second in the list, with 9,540
establishments involved in strikes and
723 in lockouts, and Pennsylvania third,
with S919 strikes and 400 1ockouts,
The industries most affected by strikes
during the seven and one-half years in
cluded in the report were the building
trades with 2O,7S5 establishments involved,
coal and coke with 5,95S, clothing with
3,041, tobacco with 25O6, food preparations
with 2,3S9. stone quarrles and cutting with
1893, metals and metallic goods with 1884,
transportation with 1897, printing and
publishing with 60S, boots and shoes with
6O7, furniture with 49, wooden goods with
400, and brick with 400 establishments I;
while those most affected by lcckouts
were the building trades with 100. stone
quarryfng and cutting with 4S9, clothing
with 431, brewing with $50, boots and shoes
with $780, metals and metallic goods with
l2S, and transportation wa ~ establish
menIts involved.
I, 1Sge total number Of employees involved
V1Is Hha'own out of employment during the
od covered by the report was 2. SO, ,cO3
II stitli Interesting feature Of the report Is
the tabular statements showing the states
in which the majority of the strikes and
M Mo Tf-a mar nkal
in number, and were respectively, ILL
nois, Massachusetts, New FORK, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. The strikes in this quintet
of commonwealths were about 70 per cent
of the whole number of establishments in
the United States affected by strikes
While the locSoIts were about &c per cent
of all those Throughout the country. The
report shows that these five states CON
tafne1 g. per cent OF all the manufactur-
ing establishments and employed Sc per
cent of the capital invested in the me-
chanical industries of the country, taking
the census of 1890 as the basis of COM
pelltation.
& n ,NSW York city the wage loss of
ysala enea.,y $6,5O0.000, exclusive
OF Ts2I000 contributed to them by other
labor organizations. while the less TO en-
p0oyes was little over $500, 100. The
a loss to the employees of $500, 800, as
agains $1,000 for the employers The
total number Of strikes in the Aleghany
and Pfbtsburg was 21, but the loss OF
wages was $,379, ,765, while the loss to en-
ployers was S2,600,00O In Chicago, Where
the strikes aggregated 52S, the loss to
employees reached nearly 50, 100000, while
that of the employers was nearly $14500,-
600. In Patterson, N. j., whore the num-
Der strikes was only g. the loss to en-
pJoyes was more than 81, 900 00t, as against
half that sum for the employers The to-
tai wage loss to the employees in twenty
six leading ma lltactur ng cities was in
round nlumf ers S5.OOO.eOO, while ;he loss to
empowers " as something less than $2l,-
000,0 ,0OO
The number of lockouts as compared
With the strikes for the same period wa 5
smar in the aggregate, but the losses in
CURED were enormously increased. The
total was PA lockoutc. with a loss Of
wages to ernpl1yes of Sl3..OO. no, while the
loss of employers was nearly half that
sum.
For the period covered by .he reI,oIt
cut of the l6.S63 establishments affected
by the strikes, siccess in their demands
was gainel by the employees in al,f9T: par
tial success Was 81 l. IN 4,7:s establish
ments, ami failure followed in 2, ,6S7 estab-
chdhments. Out of the 1883 establishments
having fockou.s, 1888 succeeded in gaining
tIeir demands; SH partially succeeded and
1,55S faked. The [oading cause Of strikes
was for an increase Of wages, ard these
represent 20 per cent of the whole num-
ber Thirteen per cent were for re.
ductfon of hours; per cent were against
reduction of wages; per cent were SYM
& 10.
wages and reduction of hours; per csnt
were abainst employment of ncr-union
men, and per cent for a recognition of
thle union. The remainder of the str kes
are attributed to number Of .ythtr causes
OF no especial interest