The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-02
VOLUME JUST FROM PRESS.
Building Trades Return Excellent
Reports Of Years Work.
CHAPTER ON TRADES UNIONS.
Progress Of These Organizations Eneourag.
ing-Rapld and Advancing Strides Being
Statistics Relating to Many
Important yirsiula industries.
Labor Law s-couylet
Labor-Frontlsplece.

Labor-Frontispiece.
The fourth annual report of the .Bu-
reau of Labor and Industrial tatistics fos
the State OF Virginia is out.
This volume is issued by Commissioners
James B. Doherty, the head Of this de-
partment. The first copies have 1usc
come from the binder. 1t is by far the
most complete and informing report ever
sent out from this important office. Be-
tween it's covers are 2a2 pages of sunima-
ries and tables that spread out the condi-
ton of labor in Virginia in so clear and
concise form that dull and dry statis-
tics are made deeply interesting. and the
information the volume contains is gotten
at with the least expenditure of time pos
Sible on the part of the reader.
Commissioner Doherty has spent days
and months of hard. patient labor upon
this report, and has brought forth a rep
resentation that is a credit to himself
and a convincing argument in favor OF
! his Office and his own fitness for the POI
stion. The mechanical work of the book
is excellent. 8
The following subjects are treated:
Accidents to railroad employees agricul-
| tural implements. building trades can
ming factories. carriages. wagons and
buSsles, criminal charges, decisions un-
der statute law, decisions under common
law. felony and mfsdemeanor convictions.
important labor laws of other States.
labor laws of Virginia. prison labor pub
lie school statistics. penitentiary- statis-
tics. railway employees and their wages.
saddles and harness. stove works. tan
| nerleS. trades unions. trunks, bags and
| satches.
| INFORMING SUMMARIES.
In his introduction to the chapter on
building trades. Commissioner Doherty
! gives the following interesting summa-
| ries:
| The total amount OF business done
| during the year by the general contrac-
| tors in the cities who reported. and
| there We're ninety-nine in all. aggregated
| $2.gt151tc9. The general contractors re-
| porting employ carpenters. bricklayers,
plumbers. gas filters. timers. plasterers
| and fathers. divided as follows: Carpen-
| ters. t9s white and is colored: brickEayers
| Dis white and POI colored helpers; %
plumbers and gas filters none coioreD:
| 81 timers: 50 plasterers. 50 white and 10
| colored; 60 fathers. of which number 26
! are colored.
The average daily wages paid by the
| ninety-nine general contractors was as
follows: White carpenters. 1928: colored,
SIS; bricklayers. $3.50; colored helpers
| (Which include a small number of coiored
| hricklayers), 500: plumbers and gas fit
| tiers, $40; timers. s.. IS: plasterers. white.
| S2.I9; colored, Slei: lathers. white, s21s.
! colored, sl.16. The greatest amount OF
bushes done by any one general coutrac-
| tor aggregated $4,000. Several did busi-
ness amounting to over $4,000 each.
| Only few did less than 5000 worth OF
business during the year, and these were
/ mo- ri nj r-to
| pIoyed no help.
The total number of stonecutters EN-.
| p1oyed by these general contractors was
| 81: average daily wages. s3.4s: stone ma.
| sons. II: average daily wages. s2.27: paint
| ers, SO; average daily wages. so.24: paper
, hangers. S: average daily wages. $50:
| laborers. 1G6: average daily wages. s1.13
! Out of the niuety-nine general contrac-
| tors. thirty-eight increased wages OF
| employees from five per cent. TO twenty
| five per cent. Number killed while at
| work. 8: number injured, 90
| THE SUBCONTRACToRs
| The following are statistics relating to
| the Subcontractors:
| BrickIayers Reports were received
from is subcontractors. employing brick
! layers. helpers and laborers. These en-.
| pIoyed 81 bricklayers faIl whitep ID help
crs GALL coored). white 1aborsrs and So
/ coloreti. The following table will show
| the hours of labor and the wa ses paid by
| tho subcontractors. The total value OF
the work done during the year was $780,
49,.
Brick NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. wers
received from 10 brick manufacturers
| who reported the total value OF their pro-
duct to be 0;.5:35. 80. The total number Of
| brick-makers employed by the manufac-
| turars was 195, OF which ntImoer So wers
. nd at hcr -
/ helpers employed. IS white and i'll COLI
/ ored Total number of 1abcrers. 176. all
| of whom were coIored. The average daily
| wages of white briek-nakers was a.57:
colorsd, s1.16; helpers twhite). ID cents:
1 colored, s1.G2;; 11horers 9S cents. Two OF
! the II brick manufacturers increased
| wages 10 per cent. No decrease was res
/ ported Two concerns worked on the
piece payment system
I Painters ard Papshangers-The total
/ amount of BUSINESS done by 40 painters
ard paperhangins firms VINO reported
was soo7. 4S6.as. Number of painters en-
ployed, 10; average daily wages. s-s'.
There were colored painters who aver
! aged S1.53 per day.
/ Number OF paperhangers. II: average
/ daily wages, so21. No co1ored paper
/ hangers reported. Total NUMBER OF APP
i prentices in both of these branches OF
business, 80: average daily wages, N-oa:
q of the 40 increased wages from per
cent. to 80 per cent. Two were injured
/ while at work.
Pfasterers-fhere We're reports received
for1 S contracting plasterers. who eu,-
4 pIoyed 10 plasterers, fathers and II
helpers. fetal ant,unt of business done
during the year, 50, 14s-aa:: average daily
i wages OF plasterers. s2.f4: fathers. 81 90:
helpers, sIl2 Two firms increased
wages 10 per cont, and . plasterers were
1 in i,Irefl9 while at work
Plumbers. Gassftters and Tinners-Rs-
8 rorts from, Gu sub-eontssetors for plumb
4 ing. gasfittsng and timing showed thS
4 total amount of work done SSsa ILL.,.