The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-22
HAS BEEN BUSY YEAR
STATE BUREAU OF LABOR ISSUES
REPORT ON INSPECTIONS
OF 1901
DECREASE IN CHILD LABOR
Nearly 1000 Establishments, EN-
pIoying $500 Persons, Have Been
Inspected Over 5000 OF
Them Labor on Sundays.

The State Labor Bureau yesterday Is
sued a report reviewing the inspection
report of the department for the year.
The report in full follows:
Three thousand six hundred and forty
seven establishments have been Inspected
during the year, and returns from the
same show total of IS, 1893 persons en-
ployed.
Three thousand one hundred seventy
two establishments, with II, 1872 people are
classified as manufacturing, and 473 as
nom anufaeturing establishments; IA, 29l
persons, or 1854 men, 1892 women, 1877
boys and So girls under sixteen years of
age are given as employees of the Ia tier,
and 81 $50 men, 1904 women, sos boys and
102 girls less than sixteen years old,
but over fourteen years, for manufacture
ing establishments
The percent Of children employed in
factories and workshops throughout the
state is 0.S3, and for manufacturing
establishments, to which belong depart
ment and retail stores, telegraph and
messenger companies, it is 1t per cent
of the total number of persons given in
both manufacturing and non-manufactur-
ing establishments, child labor repre-
sents 1.01 per cent.
The following figures show the relative
per cent for the three last years:
1885, 29 establishment, H,741 persons
employed, O.Sl- per cent, children under
sixteen years.
1908 1856 establishment S3,237 persons
employed, 0.92 per cent
1901-3,647 establishment, 1888 persons
employed. 1.01 per cent.
Taking the number of persons and the
per cent of child labor given for 1900 as
basis for calculation, child labor in 1901,
if it had remained stationary, should be
~ foII ~.
same plan for 1900 it should be O.94 per
cent.
In comparing child labor in the estab-
ushments given for 1900 with the number
given in 1901, child labor should repre-
sent 1.G2 per cent of all persons employed.
Il should also be mentioned that large
portion of this child labor occurred only
during the vacation of the public schools
throughout the state.
Above figures verify the statements
made by students of economic problems
that child labor stands In an inverse re-
lation to the general conditions of the
country, and that the greater develop
ment Of its industries and demand
for labor has a tendency to increase the
employment of children.
A classification of child labor according
to industries shows the following fig
ures:
Per Cent.
Child Labor.
Cigar manufacturing ................ 5
Looperage 1900. ................... 2.65
Knitting works ................... 12.2O
trimming trade OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Sc
I1nWafe manufacture ................ II 90
department stores .................... 800
fleIdi StoreS ...-.... .................. S.V0
Sunday Work.
Sunday work, in addition to regular
weeks work, as far as the present in
spection reached, included 5,374 persons,
or 6.29 per cent Of the weekly wage
The following list gives the per cent
of Sunday workers in the respective in
dustries and trades:
Per Cent
Electric light, heat and power plants Z. ~
EIour Hills. .......... ............... Z %
Gas WORKS .......... ................. 81. OF
Linseed Oil mills ........ 1906
Railroad shops, roundhouses, exclusive
of train and locomotive crews, 1929 per
cent. In the operation of the street
railways of ST. Paul, Minneapolis, Du-
lutn, st. Cloud and Winona, GA 90 per cent.
and in on-manufacturing establishments,
S.75 per cent.
Five hundred and eighty-one orders
have been issued during the year, and
their compliance secured; they are re-
lated to safeguarding of machinery, pro-
visions for means of egress from fac
tories and workshops in case of fire the
Improvement of sanitary conditions In
bakeries and factories and the blocking
of frogs and guard rails Of railroad
switches.