The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-31
City News
FACTORY
INSPECTION WORK
STATE BUREAU FOUND 1926
WAGE-EARNERs IN CITY.
Department Stores Had More Employees
than Any Manuf acturing Industry
Flour Mills Lead Factories Night
Workers Number 2,1e6, and 1,76O Are
Found to Work Sundays.

Results of the factory inspections in
Minneapolis for 1905 have been an
nounced by Labor Commissioner Will
ilams. The bureau Inspected 998 factor
labor is employed, with 1926 wage
earners. Inspections in Columbia
Heights, Hopkins, st. Anthony Park, ST..
Louis Park and Wayzata are included.
Among the wage-earners were "a, 784
adult males, 8,6l9 adult females and 833
children under l6 years Of age, or GIG
boys and PIT girls. s.
In manufacturing and mechanical
trades the largest number Of persons
We're employed in the -four and grist
milling industry; they represented 6.5
per cent of the total or 2,473 persons.
Of,this number SO per cent were adult
males.
Numbers employed in other industries
were as follows:
Printing trades, $3.50; planning mills
and sash and door factories, 1856; saw
mills, l,721; furniture and cabinet fac.
tories, $50; wooden box factories, 1911;
cooper shops, 466; woodenware factor
ies,33l; railroad shops and roundhouses,
l,694; clothing and garment fac
tories, l,2l5; structural iron and
m nradg1 ahd e7S fgrieultasa
OIL; foundries, boiler works and
machine shops, 1907; laundries, 1,O45;
hosiery and skirt goods factories, 1898;
railroad yards, 739; manufacture Of
cereal products and stock food, 705;
street railway shops, 1888; boot and
shoe making, sos; confectioneries, SIT;
grain elevators, $40; track repairing
and switch blocking, SIS; bag factories,
Oil; cracker factories, ASS; cigar fac
tories, 1856. u
The report shows fourteen depart
ment stores with 2,542 employees. which
earners,. and include 1874 per cent adult
males, J54.7 per, cent adult females and
60 per cent children. OF other retail
mercantile establishments 1000 en-
ployees have been reported; their re-
spective percentage of adult males,
adult females and children were 6l.2,
1873 and l0.5. .s..~..
Wholesale mercantile establishments
have been credited with 1887 en-
telephone, messenger and express COM
panies 1,O45 persons were reported.
Children represented 2.18 per cent Of
the total number Of wage earners.
OF adult female wage earners the
largest number in manufacturing and
mechanical trades, 1926, was reported
fol, clothing and garment factories, For
OlHeI &!4uuslileS Cuo ielat1Ve uulnDoA
was y as follows: Lagndg yyol york, 100;
aGsaon an 49, 6S p Ra9R
ing trades, .368; eonfs sctianery, 31Qf bag
manufacturers, 265: millinery n 175;
crackers andsscookies, l4sgbeots and
Shoes 1872; paper boxes, l38; cigars,
1872; tailoring shops, llS; WOODEN mills,
Departm stores reported 1852 wo-
men; telegraph, telephone and messen-
ger companies, 468 women; retail mer.
camille establishments, 453 women; and
wholesale mercantile establishments,
1876 women. "-. II 4
From the school authorities Of Min
neapolis have been granted during the
year 1905, school excuses to the number
of .978, all Of which, however, have not
carried with them the permission to
| work. There were reported GIG boys
and PIT girls under the age Of 16 years
at gainful occupations during the whole
or part Of the year 1905. e.- =, =
The largest number of boys, 81, was
employed in planning mills, sash and
door factories and similar woodworking
| establishments. For other trades theil
number. was as follows: =,
| Printing trades, 81; sawmills, q
woodenware, 81; wood boxes, 10; furni
foundries and machine shops, Is; food
products, 10; laundries, 8; boot and shoe
Factories, u; cracker factories, Z; agri
cultural machinery, 6. -
Boys found in retail mercantile es.
| tablishnn ents numbered 1875, and in
telegraph, telephone and messenger com
panies 100. Department stores had A.
boys and wholesale mercantile estab
lishments 35.
The report enumerates 217 girls un
der 16 years Of age. The largest mum
Der, 127, was found in department
stores and Al in retail mercantile estab
lishments.
| According to their daily and weekly
working hours. 47.2 per cent of al