The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-15
FEATURES OF THE REPORT
Of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics
 for '94.

Of the State Bureau or LaDof Statistlcs
 for '94.
 The subject to which most space is
 devoted in the report for 1894 of the
 Connecticut Bureau of Labor Statistics
 is that of savings and loan associations.
 Such associations are comparatively
 rare in Connecticut. due, it is thought,
 to lack of encouragement and to the disastrous result of an ill-conducted ex- pertinent in that line forty or more years ago. The history of this earlier movement in the state is well presented l as showing what may be safely at tempted now. The present associations
 the report says, are conducted on busi- ness principles and are doing good
 work. There are sixteen local associa- | tions in the state with combined au- l thorized capital of about ten million dollars, and having, at the end of the l last fiscal year, about eight hundred thousand dollars in assets, eighty-nine l per cent. of which represents mort
 gages on real estate. Of the 1,S00 loans made by the associations, 704 were to pay for homes, and only two of the se- curities taken have been defaulted. The total number of shareholders at | the end of the last fiscal year was 2,988, holding 20, 493 shares of stock, repre- | senting In value, at maturity, pro- | spective saving within a few years of oyer four million dollars Legislative | encouragement and state supervision are asked for these associations, both l for the welfare of the associations and | for the protection of the public, such l supervision to include so-called nation-
 al associations operating in Connecti- cut.
 TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. The necessity for trade and industri- al educatio Is set forth at length in the report and facts are laid before the
 General Assembly and the people of the state, which may result in legislation on this subject. The state, through the public school system, provides techni- cal education for those about to enter
 business or the professions, it furnishes training for teachers and farmers, but pays no attention to the needs of the mechanics and artist artisans who are
  al prosperity in Connecticut The ap- premiership system is obsolete and there Is a demand that should be heed- ed for substitute. As 1t is now, under the present methodist 1t can be called method, trade training is incomplete, fragmentary and exceedingly unsatis- factory. Consequently the American workman is being put aside when brought into competition with the more skillful mechanics from abroad who have been educated in trade schools. In order to furnish information regard ing the merits of technical industrial education, the bureau publishes facts in relation to the organization and methods of such schools now in this country, mainly founded and endowed by the generosity of individuals, and outlines the plans pursued and results achieved in European countries where the government aids or provides such training. Representative schools in different nations are taken as illustra- tions of what has been done there and what can be done here under system modelled upon their lines but conformed in detail to our needs.
 THE lNIBsIhlAI EIuhcSiONs
 The inquiry of the bureau into the ef- fects of the industrial depression cov- cred a period of fifteen months from June 1, 1893. It was limited to the larger manufacturing establishments, and the 37S returns used represent a very large proportion of the industries of the state. For all establishments the per cent. of hours worked of full time was 68.S6; the per cent. average number employed of the average number in 1892 was S4S3; and the per cent average | monthly payment for wages of the | monthly average in 1892 was 74.94. Of | the larger industries, woolen goods | manufacture felt most keenly the ef- | fects of the depression, the monthly | wage payments being reduced to 61,34 | per cent of the average in 1892. There 1 was almost as great a reduction in the | cutlery industry and in the quarrying | and finishing of stone. In wire and | wire goods and in sllver-plated ware | the reduction was over thirty per cent. l The deepest reductions were in the mu- sical instrument industry, to 56.25 per | cent, and in the firearms industry to | 574 46 per cent. In the other industries | the monthly average wage payments were about seventy-five per cent. of the average in 1892. little more than one-half of the establishments repre- sented reduced the rate of wages, the most frequent percentage of reduction being ten. The estimated product was about three-quarters of the normal in shoes, brass, cast-iron, corsets, hard ware, hosiery, rubber goods, silk and woodworking; more than three-quar ters in clocks, cottons, paper boxes, hats, paper and twine, and printing; a little more than one-half in musical in- struments; about sixty per cent. in wool, cutlery and firearms; and about two-thirds in stone-cutting, in wire goods, in machinery, in carriages and In silver ware.
 REDUCED WORKING TIME AND PRoDUc-
 Considerable information was ob- tained in the state on the effect of re- iuced working time on production. Of some one hundred establishments in which the working time had been re-