The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-08-02
historical lecturer; Professor Harry A.
Blglow and Professor Charles b. Whit

historical lecturer; Professor Harry A.
Blglow and Professor Charles b. Whit
tier of the law school and others. The
families will be housed in separate
apartments, but the children will have
a wide common playground in the rear.
Professor Starr says that nudity for
children Is right both from physlo'
logical and moral grounds
American Railroads Nest Oe-GIy. Z
Herr Cutlery, prominent Official
of the Prussian railway 2dmnlstra-
ton, has prepared a comparative table
of statistics of persons killed and In
jured by railways In various coun-
tries. This shows that tQk railroads
of the United States, making allow
ance for the fact that they have great
er mileage than all the railways of
Europe, are pre-emlnent in the num-
Der of fatalities and casualties. The
ratio of employees injured out of every
| thousand els 43.5 in this country, 25.3
In Switzerland, 11.S in England, IL In
Belgium and "a in Germany. The
number killed is 26.1 In the United
btates, 1913 In England, 80 in Switzer-
land, rs in Russia and Al in Belgium.
The fewest travellers were injured in
France.
Strikes Fewer In 1905.
The twenty-frst annual report of the
bureau of labor of the department or
commerce and labor shows that Ameri-
can industries suffered from fewer
strikes during 1905 than in any year
since 1892, the criterion being the num-
Der of employees thrown out of work
and the duration of strikes. There
were 221 $50 employees thrown out OF
work during that year In connection
| with 2,O77 strikes, lasting the average
| of twenty-three days each. The re-
port finds that out of the total number
of strikes in twenty years, from
| 1881 to 1905, 60 per cent were ordered
| by labor unions and that the greatest
| number of strikes in any one industry
| was in the building trades. Strikers
succeeded in winning their demands in
| 4S per cent of the establishments con-
cerned and partly in 10 per cent more.
Lockouts resulted in favor of the EN-
|
Establishments. During the quarter cen
fury period Al per cent Of all strikes
were undertaken for increased wages
alone or in combination with other
causes, % per cent for union recogni
ton and 10 per cent to enforce de-
mand for reduction of hours. Since
1901 G per cent of all strikes and Il
per cent of all lockouts were settled by
Joint agreement and 2 per cent OF boil
by arbitration.
Report on City Ownership.
The investigation Of public ownership
of public utilities in Europe and this
country by the National Civic fedora
tons commission has resulted in two
reports, one by Professor John r. Com
mons of Wisconsin university favora
BILE to the proposition and the other by
J. w. Sullivan Of the Clothing Trade!
Bulletin disappearing. Professor Com
mons says they found the prlvatel!
owned utilities in England dividing
surplus for civic betterments becaus'
Of the prevailing tendency toward pub
lie ownership and its example in citie
where it had been adopted. Many hav'
shrewdly arranged copartnership plan
and have recognized the labor unions
He is convinced that the recognition
the unions is the safeguard against pc
litlcal corruption in public ownership
and that private ownership offers n
escape from politics.
Editor Sullivan says that in all bu
the most poorly paid forms of labo
public ownership has not raised wage
or improved conditions Of work. III
contends that in England no street ca
business has ever been a private entel
prise In the sense that the word
used In this country, thus making con
parison with American conditions III
> fair. Taking Syracuse, Allegheny an
Wheeling as the best samples Of Amel
lean municipalization offered the
found conclusive evidence Of politics
rottenness in each case. He regards
as "a project to restrict men in the
> activities by methods foreign to til
American genius"