The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-02

The Five Free Public Employment
 OMces-Tcnement Houses, Etc.
 Hartford, Feb. 2S.-The twenty-sec- ond annual report of the bureau of la bor statistics was submitted to the governor to-day.
 Part I. of the report contains de- scription of the buildings erected for manufacturing purposes concerning which Commissioner Seoville says: During the year ended July 1, 1906, there were constructed within the state for manufacturing purposes three hun dred and twenty-nine buildings" Con- tinuing the report says that the amount expended for the purpose named was $3,742,S13. IA complete de- scriptiou of each building, material of which it is constructed, by what firm, individual or corporation built, dimen- sions and the cost is also shown in the report.
 A new feature appears in this years report. Commissioner Scoyille has col lected, compiled and presented in Part II. of his report very valuable and in- teresting material concerning indus trial opportunities in Connecticut not yet utilized" Every town in the state is given space in this chapter, and While in some instances the statistical details are somewhat brief yet in most cases the descriptive matter contains much of interest and will prove of value.
 The data appearing in Part III. of the report refers to the subject of man. ufactures within the state, concerning which Commissioner Scoville says
 Summarizing the figures as shown in the table, the result is reached that the average weekly hours of labor ob- taining in the establishments eonsid- cred during the year, represented by 1S4,710 employees was 57,2 hours, that the number of persons employed in these establishments was S.5 per cent greater in 1905 than in 1904; that the sum disbursed in wages was 124 per cent. more in 1906 than in 1904, and that the gross value of product increased 197 per cent in 1906 over the corres- bonding period in 1904
 'Analyzing these figures still further it develops that the average annual tarnings of the 124167 employees repre- sented in the etbIe as having been en- gagged as operatives in 1904, was $464 45 per person. Making the same deduc- ttons from the data for 1906, it is dis covered that the annual earnings per person employed was $4S1.57." The usual statement of the business transacted at the five free public en- ployment offices appear in Part ". The report says:
 'sAs has been chronicled in previous reports of the bureau upon this subject more females than males were supplied with situations secured during the year ended November 30 1906 was 9,256; of these 4O4 per cent. were males and 59.6 per cent. were females. While this is true as to the above, 74.6 per cent. of the male and S2.2 per cent. of the fe- male applicants for employment were supplied with situations, and during the same period help was furnished to S4 per cent. of all those which ap- plied.'
 During the year ended November 30, 1906, the Hartford office furnished help to S4.O2 per cent. of all applying, Bridgeport office furnished help to SLY per cent, New Haven S3.95 per cent, Waterbury 87.93 per cent, and Norwich 85.4S per cent"
 A complete directory of labor organi- zations found by the bureau to be in active existence within the state ap- pears in Part V. The names and post ! office addresses of the secretaries is given as well as is the location, by towns, of the unions. The report says:
 Tn the year 1906 there were found 5O1 local unions in existence. Including the ten state organizations, there were total number of 511 associations clas- sified as trade or labor unions These were found located in fifty-two differ ent towns in the state, as compared with the same number in 1905; forty seven in 1904; forty-nine in 1903; forty eight in 1902, and forty-three in 1901. As before stated, ten of the 511 unions are classified as state organizations " | In Part VI. Commissioner Scovlle re- ports upon the operation of the "Ten- | ement House Act" He says: "The reports filed in this office devel- op the information that in the six cities in which the law known as the "Tene- ment House Act" is operative permits were granted for the erection of 439 buildings of the class Included within the provisions of the law The period i of time considered in the foregoing be- ! ing from January 1, 1906, to December 31 of the same year"
 The number of permits granted in each city included in the above are: Bridgeport 152; Waterbury 105; Hart ford, 99; New Haven, 40; New Britain, 80, and Meriden, 4.
 | Part VII. is devoted to the subject of labor difficulties. The report says:
 During the twelvemonth period end- ed October 91, 1906, the material cover | ing which is included in the tabulated statement following this description there were sixty-two difficulties, eXcul- sive of those considered above in which sufficient of the initiative was l shown as to be considered a strike or a lockout as the bureau defines the terms. Two of these misunderstood ings are classified as 1ock-outs' and sixty of the difficulties are defined as strikes There were 6,604 employees in- volved in these differences and 160,944 days time were lost by reason of fail ure to effect an immediate settlement. l Easing the wage rate upon the figures given in Bulletin No. AZ of the United l States census. bureau, issued June 16, l 1906, at $1.61 per day, the loss in wages