The evening times., 1895-10-21
6IIN IND loss OF lIBOR
Commissioner Wright's Report on
Strikes and Lockouts.
INDUSTRIES MOST AFFECTED
ed-EmplOyes Lost About Twice as
Much as EmpIOyers-IllinOisR Ranks
First III the Record OF Disorders,
With New York n Good Second.

The relations of capital to labor, SO far
rs these apply to strikes and lockouts,
during the past seven and Onehalf years,
are cxhaustively treated in the annual
report OF Hon. Carroll d. Wright, com
missioner of labor, which was made public
yesterday.
The report shows that during the fore
going period Illinois had the largest num-
Der OF establishments affected, both by
strikes and lockouts, there having been
1O,063 of the former and ], 1913 of the
latter. New York came second on the list
with 9,54O establishments involved in
strikes and 723 lockouts, and Pennsylvania
third with 8, S,219 strikes and 400 lockouts.
INDUSTRIES MOST AFFECTED.
The industries most affected by strikes
during the seven and one-half years in
ciuded In the report werethe building trades
with 90, 1S5 establishments involved, coal
and coke with 5,95s, clothing with 3.04I.
tobacco with 2.5O6, food preparations with
2,3SS, stone quarrying and cutting with
1898, metals and metallic goods with
1881, transportation with i.32I, printing
and publishing with SOS, boots and shoes
with 6O7, furniture with 459 wooden goods
with 400, ana brick W ith 406 esta biishments:
while those most affected by lockouts were
the building trades With 1900, stone
quarrying and cutting with 4S9, clothing
with 43l, brewing with $50, boots and
shoes with 13O, metals and metallic goods
with 12S, and transportation with 112
establishments involved.
The total number OF employees involved
or thrown out OF employment during the
period covered 10y the report, Wa 1881 ,2O3.
The total number OF strikers or persons
origina ting the strikes was 1.s34.212.
There were 239.i new employees after
the strikes of the foregoing period OF which
1 1877 were brought from other places.
Lockouts were ordered in 1883 estab-
having PA. .657 employees before
the lockouts, Of which 205. S61 were thrown
out OF employment in consequence thereof.
These establishments secured 81, ,465 new
employees after the lockouts, 16,3OO OF
which were brought from other places.
WHERE THE STRIKES OCCURRED.
An interesting feature OF the report
is the tabular statements showing the
States In which the ma jorty of the strikes
and lockouts were located. These were
five I'm number and We're, respectively,
Illinois, Ma ssa ch,setts, New York, Ohio,
and Pennsylvania. The strikes in this
quintet OF commoDwealths were about 30
per cent of the whole number OF cstab-
lishncnts IN the United States affected by
strikes, while the lockouts were about .6
per cent of all those thr oughout the
The report shows that these five States
contained 81 per cent of all the manufac-
turing establishments and employed &c
per cent OF the capital invested in the
mechanical industries of The country. TAX
ing the census of 1880 as tue basis OF
compu tatiOn.
The report shows that out Of total of
,4sS strikes for the entire country,
more than SO per cent occurred in twenty
six cities. The number-of establishments
involved in strikes in the United States
were 46 1853. of which number 81 per
cent occurred in the following cities: New
York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston. ALE
gheny aud Pittsburg, Philadelphia. st.
Louis. Cincinnati, Milwaukee. Lynn. FAN
River, San Fra rancisco. Baltimore. New
Haven. Newark. Cleveland, Rochester. In
Havcrhill, Minneapolis, Pater-
son. Buffalo, Jersey City, ST. Paul, and
Troy.
employees LOST THE MOST.
More than 40 per cent of the strikes in
hesc cities, which aggregated $500, &C.
.urred in New York, where the wage loss
If employees was nearly ST, 100000, ex-
,lusive OF $792,OO contributed Ia them |
ptntT btDDT NtiIH Iilt
oss to employers was a little more than |
81, 500 900. The number of strikes in |
Boston was 251. with a loss I" the en- |
lloycs OF $500. 900, rs against $3.50 900 |
or the employers. The Total number or /
strikes in Allegheny and Pittsburc was |
,51. but the loss OF wages ST.313,765. |
While the loss to employers was So ,600,-
100.
In Chicago. where the strikes aggregated
rl,r
81, 900, 900, while that of the employers
vas nearly S14,50O,OOO. In Paterson.
lew Jersey, where the number of strikes
vas only Al, the loss to employees was more
han 81 100000 as against half that sum
or The employers. The total wage loss to
he employees during the foregoing period
II these twenty-siN cities was, In round
numbers. S35.000.000, while the loss TO
mploycs was something less than $29,-
100000.
The number of iockouts as compared with
he strikes for the same period was small
n the aggregate. bnt the losses incurred
we're enormously increased. The total was
IA lockouts with n loss of wages TO the
nployes of ST. 100000. while that of the
Employers was nearly half that sum.
SUCCESSES AND FAILURES.
For the period covered by the report. out
4 the 46.S63 establishments affected by
trikes success in their demand was gained |
" the employees in 90, 1897. partial success
vas 20 incd III 4, "a 3 establishments and fail
re followed in 81 ,6S1 establishments. Out
4 the 3. .S53 establishments having lockouts
$50 succeeded in gaining their demands.
'91 partially succeeded, and 1,55S failed.
The leading cause of strikes was for an
Increase of wages, and these represent 20
,er cent of the whole number. Thirteen
,er cent We're for reduction of hours, 8 per
ent were against reduction of wages.
er cent were sympathetic; 6 per cent were
or increase of wages and dreductiOnof hours:
per cent for a recognition of the union.
The remainder of the strikes are at
ribuied to a number of other causes of no
special general interest.