The Jersey City news., 1906-02-24
State Arbitration Commiss-
ion Does Absolutely Moth
ing for the $4,000 It
Draws
CHIEF GARRlsoN's REPORT
ALTHOUGH THERE WERE
sEyENTY-FoUR STRIKES LAST
YEAR THE BOARDS INTERVIEW
TIoN WAS NEVER SOUGHT.

Another evidence Of the utter useless
ness of the State Board of Arbitration,
which draws $4,000 every year from the
state treasury in salaries. is given in the
annual report of the bureau of ssatis-
tics just issued by Winton G. Garrison.
In summarizing the New Jersey labor
conditions for the year Chief Garrison
shows there were "A strikes. Then the
report says: Throughout the entire his
tory of these strikes there is no record
if either side having sought way out of
their disa greements through the aid of
arbitration
Tire annual report of the State board
of arbitration, already submitted to Gov
ernor Stokes, also states that nothing
was done by the board towards settling
these labor difficulties The chief labor
of the board is supposed to be to aid in
settling the differences between capital
and labor. The board IS composed of
five members, and though it acknowl-
edges having done nothing for several
years the members continue to draw ST.
2O0 each per year from the State as
salary.
Chief Garrison's summary of the labor
conditions is as follows:
During the year covered by the re-
port there We're IS strikes, the greater
number of them being among the work
ingmen engeged in the building trades,
such bricklayers, plumbers. Icarpen-
ters, painters, fathers plasterers and
electricians. Other trades and occu-
pations in which strikes occurred with
the number of such occurrences are as
follows: Bakers, two; box makers (fe-
males), one; boiler makers, one; blast
furnace workmen, one; brewery work
men, one; coopers, one; compositors, one;
dry dock worknen, one; foundry help
ers, one; hatters, one; machinists two;
metal polishers, two; pottery operatives,
two; silk mill workers. seven; silk dyers,
one; stone cutters, two; window shade
makers, one.
The total number of persons involved
in these strikes is not reported, there
being only SO instances In which this in
formation is given these show an aggre-
gate of :, 3,593 persons, about ten per cent.
of the number being females, who were
either active participants in a strike, or
else were involuntarily idle because of
one having taken place in the establish
ment of business in which they were en-
ployed.
OF the IA strikes reported, the dura-
ton of each one ranges from a couple of
days in the case Of NEST of them to
from three to eleven months in several
losses are repored for % groups Of
strikers tbe amo,nt for these being in
tha aggregate S145.713.
The eanses tbat prompted the strikes
are ranort "a = oreatpr o.. ;esS ,epctb il
pacb IL tha "a ;nstsnces wbera tle..o d.
t,,rhanaas oecr,res,. c,a ssst;ad 90 a -
s,o,,n aacb sanarata,r Tho ,easons for
which tho st,;le. wAro ,,rs,e,.to Ion WITH
tba nnmber of strikes. IN each casa ara
sbou,, = bavo baan 81 fo,,ows. For -
4, a,.o. :, !, xvaaas %. aaa;ns raa,,o
t;on 4 w.aos 10. aoo;,st nomhor. u
n;ons 4. aaa;nst 4na an,r,o,,,,,,+
of nor-nn;on man -. for ! shorter work
,aov Il. booorsa ,oon, fxa-s. wa,.o ron
unlon mon r. Il counal tbe aiscbaroa of
~ ahpox;ors foreman /. for i,creose -
~ oos ana sbo,.+a,. xvo,.p-,,ox ). an.;ns4
,ba emnlovnept &C workmen from ont.
aida localities /. because Of drss srso
meut over apprentices wages i; because.