Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-05

pIOyeu DeCduSo or the new CouStl uSliolL was S,136, who annually, at the above rate, will receive in wages $3, ,742,2OO. The new factories are mostly for the metal and metal working industries, indicating that those fields in which Connecticut ingenuity and skill have been so famous still are being extended and expanded
 Part III. Statistics of Manufactures.
 This portion of the report also lndi- cates that there have been unusuai ln- dustrial activity and thrift in Connects cult during the past year. The year reported upon is part of an epoch or unusual activity, with large volume of business done, large number or laborers employed and with an average wage rate for the masses surprisingly ! near $1.50 per day dnring each year of the epoch. This epoch began about | 1899. From 1896 to 1899 was a transl- tion period which gradually led condi- tions up to and developed them into the present state. When this epoch will end in Connecticut Is a matter of conjecture. 1t has seemed each year that the output was so great that over production would result and bring about stangnation, but the present report gives no sign of a decline. There reported to this bureau, in 1902, 755 concerns which employed S9,~ 976 persons in 1901 and 97,037A per- sons in 1902, an increase of T.S. per cent l These firms operated an average Of l 294S daysNin 1901 and 2973 days in l 1902, an increase of 8 per cent. They paid in wages. in 1901, S30, ,793, ,135.8 .84
 and $44,37O, ,4S7 45 in 1902. an increase of 11.5 per cent. The average annual earnings of each person in these 755 concerns in 1901 was $442.17 and in I 1902 was S45S. 52 /an increase of 3.7 1 per cent. The average daily earnings 1 of each individual in 1901 were S1.5O and in 1902 were $1.54, an increase of 27 per cent. The gross value of pro duct manufactured in 1901 was $155,- T77.917.61 and in 1902 was SITE, 1884, 34549. an increase of 12.4. The per cent of labor cost to the gross value of product in 1901 was 25.5 per cent, and l in 1902 was 25.3, practically the same, although it shows the slight decrease of 2-10 of per cent in 1902.
 1 The statistics in this portion Of the report reveal an average daily wage rate, as given above. of $1.54 for this year. This is the highest average upon record for Connecticut
 l. 8$sHa- dfL AN.a luuuSLL 4AAoIOAS.
 Tn the last annual report of this bu- reau, the seventeenth, i'll closing a com pArison of articles made in this state l in 1901 with those manufactured i'll 1 1S45, the statement was made that the 1 change from the original industrial Connecticut to that of to-day would form an interesting and profitable study. Such a labor would show the development of this states manufae- l lures and give such a thorough ac- quaintance with the events and doings that have led up to the present labor conditions that 1t would be profitable
 work for some future report of this l bureau"
 It was in fulfllment of the above ex- pression of last year that the industrial history has been presented in this re- port That statement, perhaps, better | than any other express the aims, ob-
 mated in the preparation of this his I tory.
 Tn treating this subject, the field that
 opened was so large that 1t at first be-
 came apparent that only a general in
 dustrial record could be given in one
 report There would not be time to
 prepare nor space to print a history I which followed out in detail the de-
 velopment of each branch of industry
 and each manufacturing firm in this
 state. It would be valuable field of research for this bureau in series of
 future reports. following this general I history, to present a carefully pre- pared history as the development of each branch dustry in the state in I a concise for. for reference.
 This historris arranged and treated unders ssThe Colonial Period" embrac- l ing the time from the first settlements I till the Revolutionary war. and 'The Period from the Commencement of the l Revolutionary War till 1900" The his- l tories of the six largest cities of the state are then grouped in the order of the number of their industries. as I given in the census report of 1900. 1 Next are histories of the towns ar
 ranged alphabetically under the name of the county in which they are To- cated Lastly are industrial statistics l countrywide and the years of the char tering or formation of all manufactur, ing corporations in Connecticut.
 Part " History of Organized Labor | in Connecticut.
 Here is presented 8 record of the ex- istence of organized labor. The labor
 organizations are established for the purpose of promoting the material, l social, intellectual and moral prosper I ity'' of laboring men and women, Such organizations, having a membership
 only of laboring men and women, may
 be considered and designated as the I Iaboring mems and women's own
 ameans of promoting their material
 social. intellectual and moral prosperi
 ty" In order to accomplish this bet. 1 terment the various unions have their
 aims, benefits, objects or purposes, and
 these are numerous. They have been
 collected and are presented in this re
 port.
 This history treats the Connecticut
 career of organized labor under foul
 periods. They are: First period from
 the earliest organization in 1S11 to the
 close of the civil war in 1865: second
 period, from the close of the civil wal
 to the entrance of the Knights of Labor