The Jersey City news., 1906-02-24
Of the state during the II months ending
September 30. 1905.


A summary of these occurrences
show that Gil workmen were more or
less seriously disabled through accidental
injuries received while at work, and 14G
workmen were killed outright or else
so badly injured that death followed soon
after.
Seyenty-6ve establishments. represent
ing various lines Of manufacture, report
having had an increase Of working hours
at some time during the II months i.
order to keep up with the demands of
business.
Fifty-six manufacturing plants, most
ly small or medium sized, were closed
during the year; Of this number 81 have
hopes of resuming business at some time
in the near future but the remaining con-
Germs have closed indefnitey
One hundred and eight manufacturing
establishments were more or less ex-
tensively damaged by the elements Of
fire or food during the 12 months, the
resultant losses amounting to $3.50, 800,
of which about two-thirds was on build
ings, machinery and tools, and the re-
mainder in finished goods or material
in course of manufacture.
One hundred and forty three manufac-
turin gfirms found it necessary to en-
large to a greater or less extent, their
respective plants in order to handle an
increased volume of business. The ag-
gregate cost of these Improvements
amounted to 81, $780, 800, and the addi-
tional room thus provided affords accom-
mediation for, as reported, 1872 workers,
besides those already employed.
During the - months covered by the
record there We're 65 new manufacturing
enterprises started in the State, for the
housing of which 81 new factory build
ings of dimensions varying from struc-
lures large enough for dozen workers
to those of capacity equal to receiving
a thousand We're erected. Complete re-
turns as to the cost of these factory
buildings could not be obtained, nor We're
the owners prepared to say just how
many operatives would be employed in
them.
Four hy bred and sixty-seyeni corpora
year for manufacturing and other indus
trial purposes; in this number is in
cluded only such concerns sintend to
follow the business for which they
were formed somewhere within the limits
of New Jersey.
During the year "A manufacturing
plants were moved into New Jersey from
various places outside; most of these
came from the nearby States of Penn
sylyania and New York and Hudson
County was selected as the place of set
tlement of the largest number. The
years record shows only four establish
ments of them of great size
that for various reasons have left the
State for locations elsewhere.
The number of new trade mad labor
unicns formed during the year was 10;
the occupations represented are mostly
those included in the building trades.
AS matter of course the greater num-
Der of those organizations came into ex-
istence in the lrage cities of Newark,
eJrsey City Trenton and Paterson.
During the year SO manufacturing con
Germs became involved to such an extent
in business difficulties that receivers n
each case were appointed by the Court
of Chancery for the purpose of either
bringing their affairs into order or wind
ing them up entirely. Other subjects
of litigation connected with industrial
interests were suits by workmen against
their employers for compensation on ac-
count of injuries received while at work !;
actions for the recovery Of wages claimed
to be owing, and actions on the part of
individual workmen against trades unions
for one or another cause growing out of
relations that existed at one time be-
tween them.
This part of the report gives the re-
suit of a study made of the experience
Of 396 establishments in which the hours
of labor had been reduced below 10 per
day; only comparatively small num-
Der of these had gone down TO eight
hours. The inquiry was partially di-
rected toward ascertaining how the pro-
duction in both quantity and cost had
been affected by the shortening Of the
work-day, and whether. in cases where
the quantity of product had fallen off,
greater number Of people had been EN-
ployed or an increase made in the nuns
Der of days in the year on which work
was carried on.