The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-20
CHILD LAB0RERS
GROWING FEWER
GOOD SHOWING FOR STATE SEEN
IN INSPECTORS REPORT.
Factory Figures for 1904 Are Com
pleted-They Show 1905 Wage
Earners-Lumber Industry Employs
:: Largest Number-Increase in Wage
Farmers for Year, 81 per Cent.

John O 'Donnell, state labor Inspector,
has completed the part Of his 1904 re-
port relating to factory inspection. It
shows there are atspresent in Mime
sofa 115,0S5 oWage-earners, divided as
aGus 1881 o female a adus ana ySs bo1s
Excluding office force, there are SO, 37Oi
adult male workers, l6,054 female
adults, 507 boys and 224s girls under 10
years OF age. ,.-.~=. : - ---..-==-.-.,.-
The report says: :, AZ. -,,.t
There are 81 percent more wage earn
ers recorded in 1904 than in 1908 The
sproportionate increase is greatest in, the
number of adult females, being SIS PEI
cent and 3.4 per cent for adult males 4
/ Remarkable child labor conditions are,
Shown in 1904. The total number of
Juvenile wage earners was no as against
972 in the previous period. Changes in
the nature of employment from the pre-
vious year was IN the form Of an in
crease in the number Of wage earners
and a decline in child labor; The in
crease in the number of all classes of
wage earners was 81 per cent; in adult
males, "a per cent; in adult female wage
earners, 65 per cent; while in child labor
there was a reduction of 269 per cent. -
u The industry furnishing EMPLOYMENT to
5fhe greatest number of wage earners was
the lumber industry In saw, single
and lath mills were. employed -, ISL per-
sons, in planning mills. sash, door and
blind factories 4,349. For both branches
OF this industry a reduction Of 13 per
cent in the number of wage earners from
1903.
/ Railroad Employees.
Railroad work in shops; locomotives,
coach and car; repairing, roundhouse
work furnished employment to 1857 peo-
pie, ran increase of 2. + per cent. Printing
and publishing trades gave employment
to 1913 per cent more wage earners than
IN 1903, the respective numbers being
$3.50 and 6,19S people.
/ Laundry work in the state showed
net gain of 1913 per cent in the number
J of employees, the number this year be-
Ing 2,6l3, as against 1887 a:syear ago:
!, clothing manufacturing showed a decline
| IN the number Of wage earners of as
per cent, their numbers having been 2,717
I'm 1903 and 1851 in 1904. There was also
la reduction in the number of wage earn
}1ers in the boot and shoe industry: in 1903
2,5oS persons were reported, against 2,l16
IN 1904; being reduction of 1913 per
cent.
In cigar manufacturing the number Of
! wage earners has been increased by
twelve persons, altho eleven new estab-
llshments. have been added to the list.
In regard to orders issued blythe in
spectors, twenty referred to sanitation
and yentila ton Of factories and work
shops, 1fs orders had for their object
: the safeguar ding power ma hinery, }s35
orders had to- bssdssued on account sof
i exposed collar setascrews and couplihg
beltsaeo n fa filings Bakeries came in for
fortshoTs sordera Etlaey referred ito. white
wasaapgs SeleaniA 'sB app other SANITARY
Defective Vite,as4 shocking necessitated
4 twenty US TT! fo1r new FIRE es-
7 ca Rests nave bselik ordered by members OF
" ths depaaTtInisn Nlsyat tors and hoists re-
4 quifead to guard against obstruction, ot
! fire escapes and Blocking of access there