The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-06
CORPORATIONS PAY HIGHEST,
SOME INDIANA STATISTICS OF
INTEREST TO LABOR.
Not Only DO Incorporated industries. In.
GLIDING S0-Callcd Trusts. Pay Better
Wages Than Individual Employers. but
Their Workers Have Fewer Idle Days

cluding SO-Called Trusts. Pay Better
Wages Than Individual Employers, but
Their Workers Have Fewer Idle Days
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind; Sept. 5.-The biennial
report Of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics,
just issued, shows q remarkable increase
in products manufactured in the State In
the last year, and incidentally reveals that
the Incorporated industries, many OF which
have been gathered into trusts, pay higher
wages for skilled and unskilled labor than
do the industries which are owned and
operated by individuals and firms not
incorporated, and though paying higher
| wages the incorporated establishments
not only gave their employees a greater
number Of days work in the year than
did the unincorporated, but show greater
percentage of business.
| The total number OF manufacturing
establishments covered by the report Ia
l,s75. and OF those 900 belong to the In
corporated class. They reported capitali-
zation of SIS, 726, sos and a manufactured
output for the year Of Sl78, 724,007. They
paid in wages $34,e7l 1888, and paid out
for material SOL lis, 1853. The total num-
Der OF employees in the 900 establishment
is 1920, and the average daily wage was
as follows: Skilled workmen, q. 43; unskilled'
Sl.33; boys, II cents; women and girls,
s3 cents. The establishments were oper-
ated, ON an average, 278 days each, and the
number OF employees was increased ARA
over the previous year.
With the exception Of glass. tinplate and
strawboard products. the unincorporated
establishments manufacture the same
products as the $50 incorporated indust RES.
and, with the exceptions noted. come IN
competition with them. or these COM
peting industries, l,2l5 are accounted for
in the report, and they show a capitalization
of 81, 897, OS8 and total output In manu-
featured products OF A0,56S,ll4 for the
year. while the material used was valued
at So. PAL $50, and the number Of employees
was 2s,l52. These establishments paid out
Ss,572, POI in wages, with averages for the
several classes as follows: Skilled labor
s.. 10; unskilled, 81. rs: boys, 60 cents; women
and girls rs cents. These particular in
dustries were operated 284 days in the
year.
The tables which are part OF the report
show some interesting facts in respect tC
the individual Industries which enter into
the aggregates. and not the least OF these
Is the market in which the products are
: sold With few exceptions, the markets
are at home, and in cases where foreign
. markets are entered the product thus
sold is very small in comparison with the
total. Indiana, for instance, is the great
est glass-making State in the Union, hav-
ing now total Of forty-nin industrl RES
with an invested capital Of many millions
OF dollars and employing lO.9s4 persons
In the manufacture Of the product. The
total value Of this output last year was
I'll .l47.s ss, and only sls7.soo worth was
; sold in foreign markets.
The value Of the carriages, wagons
buggies and other vehicles was $40, 1855, 1882
but the product was all sold in home mar.
r kets, with the exception Of 3255 0lO Bee,
! | and pork products constitute the only ex.
ception to this rule. for In them the per
a centage Of foreign sales mounts up con
siderably higher. The total value Of these
, was s50,325, 900, and Of this 81 $50, goo weni
into foreign markets.
The State statstician had in tended to makt
an exhaustive report on organized labol
: in Indiana, ana some surprise has beer
expressed that volume which is devoted
largely to labor statistics should contain
+. no reference to organized labor. One veal
OF heads Of labor unions and blanks were
: prepared, with the intention of going ex
! haustivsly into the subject OF IN ion ism
showing the number OF members, the wage,
In the various trades ana other information
, in which the public would naturally fee
: interested.
: Tho names Of the officers of the severa
u unions were secured aud blanks were en-
!, closed, asking them to distribute the blank.
among the members. Together with thu
. request was letter stating the purpose
. for which the statistic, were to be gathered
. and reference to the interest which or
! gained lnbor might be supposed to hav.
! in seeing the work thoroughly done.
No returns were received by the at ats
tician and he set an inquiry on foot to lear1
the reason He was very much surprised
i to learn that none OF the union men woult
the impress OF the union label Whef
( told Of the omission the statistician ex
postuated in vain. He saio the blank X.
were got ont by the State printer, who EN-
. ploys none but union printers, ard this wa:
. cert aiuly known to the members OF organ
lied labor.
The men with whom he had consulted
u ann who had not referred TO the I'm Tor
label. were called in consultation and prom
!. Used to Use their best efforts TO secure re
ports, but they returned In few oay,
and said that they could do not hing, al
: the omission Of the union label from
n the printed blanks had awakened a preJu
dice among the union men which they coulo
not overcome. The statist cian refused
to issue any moro blanks. SO the repor
contains no reference to organized labor
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