The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-03-22
Racine md Milwaukee the Only
Cities in the State Employing
More Men Than Kenosha
SECOND IN CHILD LAB0RERS
Great Advance in Factories Now Being
Made Gives Assurance That Keno
sha Will Pass Racine Before the
Close Of the Prescnt Year

The state bureau of labor at Madi-
son has sent out statistics showing
the number of men and girls employed
in the different cities of Wisconsin.
Kenosha ranks third Racine ranks as
second, Milwaukee of course being
the first.
In the entire state there is employed
a larger number by far than the year
pc gious. Milwaukee employs 81, 147
M i, women and children in the
factories and other Industries of the
city. Of these As, 433 are male, 8,763
female and 1891 children between Ii
and 10 years of age.
Racine comes second to Milwaukee
in the number of factory employees,
having total of 8,052. There are
6. 601 men, and 1882 female employees.
1t ranks third to Milwaukee in the
number of children employed, 219.
Kenosha comes second IN the child
labor list, employing 322 boys and
girls under 10. 1t ranks third in the
number of females employed with
ga. Among all otker cities of the
state the employment of female labor
does not reach large figures.
In the factories visited by the in
spectors there were 158, 848 1aborers,
of which 500 per cent were children
under 10 years and 13.47 per cent were
females over 10 years.
Milwaukee was found to have the
larger number of buildings to each
esta blishment on the average than
any other city in the state. Through
the country districts it is common to
put the various branches of industry
under single roof. The number of
wooden buildings in Milwaukee was
found to vary from sos one story high
to seven stories high. Outside of
Milwaukee it varies from one six stor-
les high to 2, 269 one story high.
In making the enumeration of the
laboring men in the different cities
the inspectors found that the in
crease of laborers at Kenosha had
been greater than in any other city in
the state outside of Milwaukee. The
exact number of factory workers in
| Kenosha is not given out but it is
known that the number is IN the
lneighborhood of seven thousand.
| At the rate that the Kenosha
factories have been increasing their
forces of 1aborers during the past two
years Kenosha will be the second city
in the state when the next enumera-
tion is made. Other cities in the
state are losing prestige in the num-
Der of men employed but Kenosha is
steadily increasing in this regard.
Within few weeks masons and
carpenters will begin the work of
building large additions to several of
the Kenosha factories and this will,
of course, demand large increase of
men.
The Simmons Manufacturing COM
pang is planning for the erection of d
new building. The Thos. B. Jeffrey
Co., has plans which will result in the
plant being largely increased ard the
workmen of the Balm company are
now employed IN making large addi-
tions. The mania for building has
not deserted the n. r. Aliens Sons
company and at 1eastone new tannery
building may be expected during the
year. Other smaller plants are plan
ming to start new Improvements and it
is difficult to tell just how great will
be the additions to the already large
plant of the Chicago Brass Works.
It is thought by the end of the present
year Kenosha will pass Racine in the
number of men employed in her manu-
featuring plants