The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-31
labor STATISTICS.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE
BUREAU.
New Factory NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
HOuSss--Lnbor oreanizatiOns--Free
Employment Bsreaus-strikes and
TnnIx0U%m EEtc

NS-i OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Employment RNrsaus--Strikes and
LOckouts, Etc
The report of the State Labor Bureau
for 1905 is just issued n his introduce
ton Commissioner scovhe explains IN
detail, the absence from tie volume, OF
statistical Information con, Aiag the
copdition of manufactures EAeh had
been prominent feature in Or. yi,ua
reports. Bearing upon This suhect the
commissioner n his report says
1nasmuch as the act oe c:.,eress re-
quireG the Bureau Of the Celsus 10
gather and compile certain matc.a
concerning Sta istes Of Manufacttrts
n Connecticut in 1905, AMI the period IN
h. year determined upcn being then
same as that nsulGy coupled by this
department in the same WORK slr 'ho
identical purpose, it was thought hat
embarrassment upon manufacturers,
and others from whom Information
would be sought would result. 1t was
decided, therefore, to eliminate from
this report any reference to the condi-
tion of manufacturers for 1905"
New Factory Construction.
Concerning the subject of new build
ings for manufacturing purposes the
report says that during the year 1905
there was expended in the state for the
purpose named the sum of 81, 701 ,730, as
against $1,7S2,66S In 1904, $2367 ,213.9S in
1908, $2,427, 572.36 in 1902, $2,12t, 740,38 in
1901, and 81 949, 104 in 1900. Referring to
the subject in his Introduction Commits
sioner scoville says: The extraordi-
nary activity in all lines Of manufac-
turing promises to continue in nearly
all of the Industrial centers and in the
larger cities, for extensive operations in
buildings for manufacturing purposes
have been filled with the several mu-
nicipal bpilding departments. This in
Dictated improvement in conditions is
shared by all the more important indus
tries Of the state and may be said to
be due 10 two factors-the unusual ac-
tivity of trade and the relative e'bsence
of wide-reaching lobor disputes"
Tenement Houses.
Referring to the operation of the law
known as the Tenement House Act"
the report says that the law has had
the attention of the bureau. All build
ings erected in the six cities coming
within the meaning Of the act, which
were Of the description contemplated by
the law, and for which permits had
been granted by the lawful municipal
authorities, are described In the COM
pleted forms on file in the office of the
commissioner as required by law.
Directory Of Labor Organizations.
The usual directory of Labor Unions
| appears in the report, concerning which
The commissioner says: AN extra edi-
ton of this portion OF the annual publ
cation has been issued IN pamphlet
form In order to meet the extraordinary
demand"
Free Public Employment Bureaus.
Concerning these offices the report
says: There seems to be no aibate-
rnert In the business transacted by the
free employment bureau conducted by
the state" Continuing, the report
gives complete abstract of the bust
ness done the past year and alo brief
review of what has been accomplished
during the flfty-three months that the
bureaus have been in operation, In
| this connection, the report says: 1.-THE
whole number of situations secured
during the year ended November 30,
1905, was 1884, and during the fifty
three months that the offices have been
in operation 1860 persons have been
furnished with employment"
Strikes and Lockouts.
AS to industrial disputes Commission
er Scoville says in his report:
THE number of new disputes record
ed by the bureau during the twelve
month period Of 1905 were somewhat in
excess of these discovered during the
corresponding period of 1904, thirty-six
disturbances being the number record
ed In the earlier and forty-tive contro-
versies reported in the later period. In
the number Of persons involved there
was an increase in 1905 over 1904, there
being 2,94S employees engaged during
the year last past against 1859 in the
| DEtC6hluB ytdi. Ill Tile uetyS IUSL ny
reason of these difficulties, however,
conditions are reversed, for in 1904, 61,-
21S working days were lost, while in
1905 but 51,6S2 days time was con-
sumed. In the matter of wages lost,
also, the amount was less in 1905 than
in 1904, the total UNI this year being
1872, eO8.02 against $97 1862 last year"
Early Organizations of Printers.
| Considerable space in the report is
devoted to a documentary history of
the early organizations of printers, -
which includes a Photographic repro
duction of the only copy known to be in
existence of a list of prices adopted by
the Philadelphia Typographical Socie-
ty'' in 1902.
Hours of Labor, in THE Building Trades.
Commissioner Scoville devotes a
chapter in his report to this subject and
presents the iiltereting information
Relative to change in daily hours of
labor and prevailing wage rates during
the past thirteen years, an analysis OF
THE figures will how that the average
decreae in hours Of labor during the pc
riod mentioned was 1875 per cent, and
the average increase in rate of wages in
| all building trades included in the COM