The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-20
MORE employees AND HIGHER
WAGES IN MICH. FACTORIES
Annual Report Of Labor Commits
Sioner Also Shows There Are
More Firms.
DECREASE OF CHILD LABOR

Six cents higher than the wages OF
last year are the average daily wages
paid to factory employees throughout
the state. Where the wages last year
stood at 1892. they are now S1.9S. the
highest average in years. The statis-
tics compiled by the factory inspectors
for the past year have been tabulated
and placed on file at the labor COM
missioner's office.
The report is a remarkable one,
chiefly so i'm the fact that in every in
| stance. wages are much higher this
year than they were last. The num-
Der of factories have increased consid-
erably. the number OF male employees
has increased. and child labor has very
materially decreased.
The establishments that were inspect
ed throughout the state number 9,O52,
where last year there were S,502. The
whole number OF employees is 29l,S01
of whom 2s3.72O are on the pay roll.
Last year there was total of 242,064,
an increase of nearly $4,000. The av-
eragcsdaily wages paid this year were
$19S, the aggregate daily wages $685.
S6292. In 1908 the average daily wages
were $1.92; in 1907. $1.93.
The number of superintendent in
the factories inspected was 9,196. of
which number 1876 received wages.
The average daily wages paid this year
was $5.O7, as compared to $4.91 last
year. The foremen this year number
9,213, of whom S,965 are on the pay
roll where last year there were $3.50.
The average daily wages for this year
was 1881; of last year, 1921.
Men in the offices of factories have.
increased considerably. Last year
there were S,744; this year there are
9,S62. of whom 1897 receive wages.
The average daily wages this year
amounted to $40 where last year it
was S3.O3. There is also an increase
i'm the number of women in offices.
Last year there were 5,626. and this
year there are 6,54S receiving wages
out of the total number of 6,627 en-
ployed. The average daily wages have
increased three cents, the average this
year DeInS SI0t.
Men in factories number 2O9,967,-
209,905 of whom receive wages. Last
year there were 170,S37 men employed,
and in 1907 there were 2OS,S99. The
average daily wages paid the men this
year were S2.06, an increase of nine
cents over the S1.97 per day of last
year. Where there were 36,332 women
in the factories last year, there are
42,7S9 this year, of whom 42,476 re-
ceive wages. The average daily wages
are $l.14 this year. and last year were
only $1.09.
The number of boys under Is years
Of age i'm the factories are 2,746, of
which number 2,73S receive wages.
Last year there were 2,3S4 boys i'm the
factories, at an average daily wage of
"a cents. This year the wages are SO
cents per day. Last year there were
Gel girls under 16 years of age In the
factories, and their average daily wages
were SO cents. This year there are
only 1916 girls receiving wages in the
factories and their salaries have in
creased two cents, being now II cents.
During the year, the factories were
i'm operation 11.3 months. An average
of 26 days each month was worked,
the average number of hours worked
per day being 9.S.