The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-07

ord is the story told by the eighteenth annual report of the Connecticut Bu- leau of Labor Statistics.
 The new features of this report are chapter upon per capita cost of mana 1 ging each town in the state and of con- Gucting each department of each town. The expenditures of all towrs are tab ulated side by side so that the eXtrav- agances stand out clearly.
 i The part of this report dealing with ; new mill construction shows that in the main factories have been built to a i greater extent than ever before. The l statistics of manufactures also indicate ! this thrift ill manufactures. There has been a large volume of business tran sacted, and the average factories have been run almost every day possible, and good wages have been maintained. there has, too, been a general activity l ill the field of labor. The history of or ganized labor shows that more unions have been formed during the past year than ever before. and the section upon strikes and l0ckOuts shows that the la borers are engaging to a great extent in struggles which they believe will better l their condition.
 l Following is review of each part of the report in practically the same words as are used by Commissioner Back in describing each chapter in his introduc- tion:
 1 The whole amount expended by the various towns. cities and boroughs dur 1 ing the year was $10,311 ,343.31. The 1 Census report of 1900 gives the popula- 1 tion of Connecticut at 90S,420 There fore, the average per capita expenditure in the state for town, city and borough management was S1132 Of course, the per capita cost in many towns went far above this figure Gas high-$19.OS in | New Haven) and far below in other towns Gas low as sS,S3 in Thompson). towns Gas low as $3.S3 in Thompson). July 1, 1902, one hundred and twenty six concerns built one hundred and fif- l ty-eight additions and factories. Fol- lowing are the towns in which four or more mill structures were erected: l Winchester, four; Norwich four; Nor walk, four; Meriden, five; Waterbury, five: Enfield, six; Bristol, seven; Hart 1 ford, seven; New Britain, eight; New Haven, twenty-six, and Bridgeport, l thirty-one.
 The amount of capital invested in erecting these one hundred and fifty 1 eight structures was g, ,427, ,572.36. | Only sixty-three of the one hundred and twenty-six establishments reported 1 the increase in the number employed by these new factories, but for them it gives a total of 4,163 additional em- ployes. Taking the average daily wages for these people to be one dollar and one-half per day, the additional amount paid in wages onnually will be 1878, 1850. If there is the same average of increase in the one hundred and Itwenty-six expanding concerns as there was In the sixty-three reporting, then the additional number employed be- cause of the new construction was S,136, 1 who annually, at the above rate, will receive in wages 8, 742, 200. The new factories are mostly for the metal and metal working industries.
 There reported to this bureau, in 1902, 755 concerns which employed S9,976 per- sons in 1901 and 97,037 IA persons in 1902, an increase of 7.S per cent. These firms operated an average of 294.S days in 1901 and 297.3 days in 1902 an in crease of 8 per cent. They paid in wages, in 1901, $39, 793 135.S4 and $44S70,- 4S745 in 1902, an increase of Ills per cent. The average annual earnings of each person in these 155 concerns in 1901 was $442.17 and in 1902 $458.52, an increase of 3.7 per cent. The average daily earnings of each individual in 1901 were $50 and In 1892 were $1.54, an in- crease of 2.7 per cent. The gross value Iof products manufactured in 1901 was $155,777, ,917.61 and in 1902 was $175, ,13S, I345. .49. an increase of 12.4. The per cent. of labor cost to the gross value of pro- duct in 1901 was 25.5 per cent, and in i1s02 was 25.3, practically the same, al- though it shows the slight decrease of two-tenths of one per cent. in 1902.
 The statistics reveal an average daily wage rate of $1.54 for this year. This is the highest average upon record for Connecticut.
 Here is presented record of the ex- istence of organized labor. The labor organizations are established for the purpose of promoting the material, so- cial intellectual and moral prosperity of laboring men and women. Such or ganizations, having a membership only of laboring men and women, may be considered and designated as the ia- } boring mems and women's own means 4 of promoting their material, social. in- tellectual and moral prosperity" In order to accomplish this betterment the various unions have :hair tins, bene- fits, objects or purposes and these are numerous.
 This history treats the Connecticut career of organized labor under four Iperiods. They are, First Period, from the earliest organization in 1811 to the close of the civil war in 1865; Second Period, from the close of the civil war to the entrance of the Knights of Labor
 1S65-1S7S); Third Period the time dur ing which the Knights of Labor organ iized, fiourished and declined C1S7S-1S99) land Fourth Period, from 1899 to the present day,-the era of trades unions under the American Federation of La bor.
 Labor unions are stronger in Connect icut than ever before. The number Of organizations that have reported to this bureau during the past four years are as follows: Tn 1899. 214; in 1900. 270; ill 1901, $40, and in 1902, 510. In 1901, labor