The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-15
GOT RID OF STRIKES
RECORD OF SOME FACTORIES IN
 OR NEAR NEWARK.

CIub-Houses, Benefit Associations and
 Other Institutions Have Brought
 About co-operation Between Em-
 piOyers and Employed-social Bet
 terment Schemes.
 There are number of large factories in and aound Newark. where strikes never, or very rarely occur. A few years ago only two or three of the larger factories managed to conduct their business in this fashion, but with in three years the number has in creased rapidly, and the statistics re- gently gathered by Winton 8. Garrison of Newark chief, of the Bureau of Statistics of New Jersey, show that there are fully a dozen in Newark alone that provide converiences andap- { Epliances of one sort or another for their employees and make the factory life so pleasant that disturbances among the employees are never heard < of now.
 The employers are now working on more different lines than ever before { in the past to bring their employees to take a live personal interest in the plant itself and to look to it for diversions and for little comforts and helps that were once deemed foreign and apart from the province of a shop or mill The aim of many of these en1- ployers seems to be to gather around them a corps of intelligent men and lwomen, who through having responsi- bilities and advantages in and around the factory shall come to realize that ltf1eir best interests are to be served by working for the good of the factory It. self Many thousands of dollars have ,been spent by the Newark employers to bring about such conditions within the hast half dozen years.
 Two or three months ago Mir. Garri- son sent out 2,00O copies of circular to femp1oyers throughout New Jersey ask Ming them to inform the bureau whether kthere were in their factories any or all zof the following institutions for the &benef1t of the employees: Profit shar- 9ng, hospitals, beds in hospitals club sroonas, liberaries, reading rooms, edu- cational classes, lectures, recreation Nhalls, gynnasiums, baths, lunchrooms, rest rooms, shop committees, sick bene-
 nts burial funds, Sc.
 More than 800 answers were received, the majority giving useful and valu- able information. From seventy-ffve
 Hrns came answers that were so inter-
 esting as to call for further cores pondence, and as a result the statisti- z cians were able to accumulate mass of information showing that factories
 here and there throughout the State swere doing much to help their ern- Nployees to help themselves. Tn commenting upon the material othus gathered, the chief of the bureau Says:
 { "The immense growth ofmanufactur- ling interests in New Jersey, which in
 he decade between 1890 and 1900 showed an increase of 72 per cent almost double that of any other State In the Union-proves conclusively that -stn New Jersey such differences as may
 Exist between capital and labor have @1ot seriously affected the prosperity l, of the State.
 "At least some measure of credit for X his satisfactory condition of things is 'fslue to the constructive work of aprac- i, heal kind whlc his being done by fiber
 al and broadminded employers and in .elligent workingmen, many of whom {. Ire cooperating cordially and harmon 9cusly in carrying ou tplans for making < The conditions surrounding industrial Fife easier, safer and pleasanter." se It was found that in Newark some of he most satisfactory work for the Vpenefit of factory employees was being fione Indeed, It soon became appar- ,uent that the manufacturers of Newark ewere almost the pioneers in the order
 p things which seems now to be gain
 ng firm foothold throughout the en-
 ire state. .s E-@
 Much of the benefit that is being ob-
 ained by the employees is through