The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29
EMPLOYEES EARNINGS.

State Labor Report Gives Average
 Figures-Clerks Wages the Least
 Condition of Manufacturers with
 Nearly Ninety-Nine Thousand Hands
 Municipal Employes and Their Sal
 aries-Laws Concerning Labor.
 Labor Commissioner Horne has just issued his recurring annual report. This gives reports in detail from two hundred individual employees engaged in variety of industries, and gives in tabulated form the result of an inquiry made as to the occupations of em- ployes, their nationality, number in family, weekly earnings, earnings of children whether rent-payer or occu- pying their own homes, cost of living, including all expenses such as rent, in- terest, taxes, repairs, etc. The summa- " shows that of the two hundred indi- viduals reporting, forty-seven were house owners. one hundred and twenty five were rent-payers and twenty-eight paid no rent, interest or taxes; that the average monthly rental was $9.60; that the average annual cost of living per member of family was $154
 The average rate of wages of the whole number reporting was $f265 per week per family and the total annual cost of living was 737 per cent. of pos 1 sble annual earnings. The report fur 1 ther divides the returns from the same l individuals into a wage classification, | giving tables which show under sera- | rate heads those employees reporting earnings as being under ten dollars per | week, ten dollars and under fifteen dol l lo, fftpan dollars and under | twenty dollars per week and those re- ported earnings as being twenty dollars l and owed per week.
 l A further division by nationalities is made in the report and shows that of the whole number which reported to 1 the bureau, one hundred and seven | employees were of American birth, the earnings reported by them (earnings of children included) averaged $13.S2 per | week per family and the annual cost of | living (exclusive of amount paid for in l terest, taxes, water rents, repairs or l house rent) 67S per cent. The expense | for interest, taxes, rent, etc, 14.6 per I cent, and the possible saving 17,6 per cent of total annual earnings
 Ninety-three of the number reporting were of foreign birth, the average weekly earnings of which are shown to l have been $10T per family. It is also shown by the report that the cost of living of this number Exclusive of amount paid for interest, rent, etc0 was 69.6 per cent; the amount paid for interest, taxes, rent, etc., 145 per cent, and the possible savings 15.9 per cent. of total annual earnings.
 This portion of the report includes an extract from the report of the United States commissioner of labor and gives in detail the result of an investigation made in Connecticut concerning the sex, age and weekly earnings of em- ployes.
 CONDITION OF MANUFACTURES.
 A considerable portion of the report is devoted to the subject of the condi- ton of manufactures and gives detailed tables showing the number of persons
 employed in the 768 establishments covered by the inquiry, the selected
 date being July 1, in the two years
 (1S96-97), with which comparisons are
 made. A recapitulation of the reports
 from these establishments show that on
 July 1, 1896, there were 8S,934 on the
 different payrolls and at the same date
 in 1897, $S,907 were reported as being
 employed by the same establishments
 decrease in number of Is per cent.
 The average hours of labor of all es
 establishments was reported to have been fifty-six per week; the amount
 paid in wages during the two years
 covered by the investigation was s40,.
 4O4 ,002 for the year 1896 and s36, 271, ,72G
 for the same period in 1897. decrease
 in wages paid by the two same estab.
 lishments during the two years of 10.: } per cent. The tables are divided by es-
 tablishments in each industry repre-.
 sented in the tabulation, being followed
 by an abstract and text analysis by in. : dustries, the deductions there given be.
 ing drawn from the preceding tables.
 The table which follows shows the "a
 tio of increase or decrease in number
 employed and amount paid in wages by
 manufacturing establishments located in the several cities and borougbs oi