Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-05
BUREAU OF LABOR REPORT.
Head of Labor Bureau Would Add to the Waterbury Bureau.


 the Waterbury Bureau.
 The annual report of the bureau of labor has just been sent out, of which the following is synopsis:
 Continued prosperity in Connecticut, with the highest daily wages upon rec ord Is the story told by the eighteenth annual report of the Connecticut Bu- reau of Labor Statistics which appears to-day. 1t is volume of six hundred pages. From the letter of transmit tai it appears that Commissioners Har- " E. Back has been assisted during the year by the following force: Chief clerk, William D. Parker, Meriden; !; permanent special agent, George A Parsons, Hartford: stenographer, Miss Grace White Stanley, Coventry; spe- cial agents, William Harrison Taylor, Putnam; Professor A. F. Somes of Kill lingly; Thomas Hewlngs of Chaplin, and George E. Marsh of Cromwell
 The new features of this report are a chapter upon per capita cost of man aging each town in the state and of conducting each department of each town. The expenditures of all towns are tabulated side by side so that the extrayagances stand out clearly. The commissioner expresses a hope that 1 this collection of town statistics may give the people a more economic man. agement of municipal governments There are also represented complete histories of Connecticut manufactures and of organized labor in this state. ( ;xrs4~- industrial circles which have been so pronounced in recent years continue. This is shown by the part of this re- port dealing with new mill construc- tion. which shows that in the main factories have been built to greater extent than ever before. The statis- tics of manufactures also indicate this thrift in manufactures There has been a large volume of business trans acted; on the average factories have been run almost every day possible, and good wages have been maintained. There has, too, been a general activity in the field of labor. The history of organized labor shows that more un- ions have been formed during the past year than ever before, and the section upon strikes and lockouts shows that the laborers are engaging to a great extent in those struggles which they believe will better their. condition. Following Is review of each part of the report is practically the same words as are used by Commissioner Back in describing each chapter in his introduction:
 Part 1-Statistics of Towns. Here are given the expenses of main raining the municipal governments in bhe state of Connecticut The amount expended by towns, cities and bor- oughs ds presented, but 1t always is exhibited under the name of. the town whose territory contains the city or borough, if any, as well as the town. Not only are there set forth the entire expenditures of town, but the cost of supporting each and every depart ment Is reckoned and the per capita cost of each towns total expenses and the per capita cost of each department of each town are figured. The results reached, therefore, are numerous for each of the 16S towns Of the state and cannot be enumerated here. The whole amount expended by the vari- ous towns, cities and boroughs during the year covered by this investigation was S10.311. .543.31. The census re- port of the year 1900 gives the popula- ! tion of Connecticut at 9O8,42O There l fore, the average per capita expendi- ture in the state for town, city and bor- ough management was $11.32 or course, the per capita cost in many towns went far above this figure Gas high S19.OS in New Haven) and far below in other towns (as low as $3.S3 l in Thompson.
 The area of every town in the state | is given by acres This statistical in l formation as to area has been proven laccurate. Never before has there been given anything approaching correct statement of the acreage or area of each Connecticut town. If this com putation of per capita expenditures of each town and of each department of every town shall give the people of the state any additional knowledge of their municipal affairs. or shall aid any 1 in searching out we'll conducted mu- nicipality in which to settle, or shall stimulate one municipality to conduct Its affairs more economically as some other has done. or shall call the atten- tion of any section to its extravagance in any particular or shall furnish any town with the name of another which is better managed and so to be pat termed after. or shall result in an ex change of views between towns tha1 shall tend to produce better and more economic management for the people then the efforts of this bureau will bt Justified.
 Part II. New Construction. l During the year from July I, 1901, tC July l, 1902 126 concerns built 15S ad ditions and factories. This wide spread new construction indicates tha not only are new industries springins up within the state, but that many o I the old establishments are improyins their plants. This building was car ried on in forty-three of Connectfcut'
 16S towns. Following are the town
 in which four or more mill structure
 were erected: Winchester 4, Norwich l 4. Norwalk 4, Meriden :, Waterbury .