New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-01
STATE LABOR BULLETIN
Decrease in Immigration-State Of
Employment improves.

Albany. Sent. ga decrease in immigration and
an increase in emigration is reported In the Quar-
teriy Bulletin Of the State Department OF LABOR
covering the months OF April. May and June, which
was made puslic tonight by Commissioner John
Williams. A gradual improvement in the state OF
empIoymenr and an unusually small NUMBER OF as
turbances Industrial relations by strike or lock
out al. indicated in the bulletin. whlch says;
five thousand members, the proportion OF d!e neI
bers, which the end of January was 30 PEI
cent ecned in April to SAG per cent in May to
322 per cent and in June 10 ~ per tea,i ir7
pTovement in the state Of employment during the
S The canses Of the idleness reported
shows that sickness, accident or oiu age iii
a. usual constant factor during the period. Will
idlentss on account Of strikes or lockouts was
throughout only an insisnlncant eiS iss omnng
these two classes Of causes ldieness SloS
organized wage workers is almost entirely que e 70
trial depression, weather OF seeSGnt r tbe-e
business. Improving trade conditions were NE
March and June. The second quarter OF me !eaI'
however is normally one OF decreasing a IL Is
in April May and June when those Industries, s1Gn
az clInad nv winter weather conditions resume
their spring apd summer acty1ty; IN
I'm the percentage OF idleness on account Of trace
coalt 4? 80 +Sis Ear as compared with
a. in 1907 5.S in 1906. 20 in 1905 and 81 In !So4
with reduction OF IS IN the mean percentage
1t is impossible TO measure the n0+etneI ce OF
- =
tain that the bulk of that movement is includea IN
roughly constant proportion. in the flow OF aliens
through the states great metropolitan port. ~
the second quarter of this year, as IN the Ilfst'
there was an excess OF emigration over lnlIIhsTS-
ton at the Port of New York. How tremendous
change has occurred in the stream OF immigration
may be seen b. the fact that in the second quar-
ter OF 1897 alien arrivals at the Port or New 1oLh
numbered over third OF G million, while depart
The net outward movement in the second quarter
of this year was comparatively small ainourltihs
10 oniv 49, this considerably less Itii
the excess of departures in the first quarter Wictl
was d 81 About all that can be said at present
therefore is that the immigration problem mas. TOT
the time being, ceased TO grow the proolelttt
which has been created by the great inflow Whlch
has continued for years still presses Tor cohsdeIa-
ton as before. -, a., 18th.
of most frequent disturbance OF industrial leIa-
tons bv strike or lockout. Those months TINS
wear. however relatively little OF sucIl dlS-
furbance The Bureau of Mediation ana Arbltra-
ttCn noted only IS disputes begun In the quarter IN
which oS4 employees were drectly colce
as against 112 disputes, directly involving 5to0e
Torkpeople, last year, an average Tor the qua
Tor of so disputes and 5000 direct participants LOT
the FIVE years 1908 to 1901. ., - -,
Prosecutions to enforce the factory law were az
precedented in number, exceeding the record ng-
res OF the first quarter New actions TO the num-
her of $50 were begun, which. together with ITO
which were pending at the close OF March. makes
a total Of 2S6 before the courts IN the quarter;
Convictions were secured in 1862 cases. IN 81 OF
which fines were imposed sentence belng sus-
pended in s.. Fffty-Iwo other cases We're com
nIeted being withdrawn while Is resulted III
dismissal OF complaint or acquttal