The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-14
LABOR STATISTICS :.
 IN CONNECTICUT
Annual Report of Labor Bureau
 Has Been Issued
Interesting Facts Cleaned From the Report-Year of 1910 Not Prolific of Industrial Dis turbance in Connecticut

turbance in Connecticut
 The twenty-fourth report of the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics is made pub lie today
 This is the second report of the bu- reau to make its appearance as bi- ennial publication. It should be ex- ty-fourth consecutive report of the de- partment, the first of the series hav- ing been issued in 1885.
 New Factory Construction.
 Part of the report contains a de- scription of the buildings erected for manufacturing purposes concerning which Commissioner Scoville says: During the year ended July 1, 1910, reports received by the bureau indi- cate that there were constructed with in the State, for manufacturing pur- poses, three hundred and forty-eight separate buildings. These structures were erected by one hundred and six ty-hve firms, corporations or individ- uals This, in comparison with two hundred and nineteen factory build ings erected during the year 1909, by one hundred and sixty-two firms, cor DOT at1OnS or lnd1Vl0uaIS
 Making comparisons of expenditures the report says:
 There are twenty-three towns in the State in which the sum expended in the construction of buildings for manufa curing purposes amounted to s50,0 GOO or more. Of these Waterbury leads, there having been $940 100 ex- pended there for the purpose indicat- ed during the two years last past. Bridgeport is second in the scale. the expenditure there being $sSS, ,6S5, Hart in New Haven s495, 500 was expended; i; in New Britain, s4s7.45O; Norwich. s2S2 500; Bristol, $24370O; Danbury, s22o, 800; Enfield, $214,o00; Montville, s2O6, 800; S amford, s1SS, 200; Wfndham, s135,2o0; Norwalk, s10S,2o0; Branford, $ss 900; Meriden, ss6,100; Winchester, ss4 800; Vernon. s7o,7oo; Plainfleld, s68.- s65, GOO; Wilton, $64,OOO; New London, $56. 800, and Killingly, $50,0O0
 'The total amount expended in the State during the two years included was se, e,346,540 Of this sum $2,o64, 100 was expended during the year of 1909, the remainder. $4,282, 40 having been disbursed during the 1910 period. The sum expended during the last named year is, therefore, 107 per cent. in ex- cess or the dIllOuIt ulSCo AO1 CAAO same purpose during the year 1909; exceeds the amount expended in 1908 130 per cent: is per cent. less than was expended in 1907, IA per cent. more than in 1908, 152 per cent. more than in 1895, 40 per cent. greater than in 1904, 81 per cent. more than in 1903. 76 per cent more than in 1902; 102 per cent. more than in 1901, and 120 per cent. more than in 1900"
 
 Of the efficiency manifested in the of these offices the Com missioner says:
 Special efforts have been made to supply the demand for farm help dur ing the buster season of the year, but. although successful to certain eX- tent, it has been found the class of the duties required of them This is noticea ble in regard to help required for labor in the dairy ing industry.
 "The superintendents of the var ious offices have experienced the help for situations in the smaller towns. The principal reason given being the objection to leaving the more populous communities"
 Child Labor.
 Commissioner Scoville treats the subject of child labor thoroughly:
 Part I. Relating to Prohibited is unlawful and in what esta blish ments or occupations such employment is forbidden, together with the penalty for violation.
 Part IT. Hours of Labor, gives the maximum hours allowed per days and per week, the prohibition of night work and the establishment or occupations ,l,t t,I, S1,n 1oy h with penalty for violation. This ta- ble does not cover regulation as to hours of labor for women.
 "Part III. relating to Working Pa pers, gives the names of the various permits. certificates and proofs re- ouired. Part 1. Prohibited Employ ment. shows in what instances these papers are required.
 Part ". gives the Compulsory Ed ucation age and period. the exemp- tions, the educa tional requirements for and the penalty for vio- lation. In many of the States the ed- ucational requirements for employ ment as given in the School Laws con- flict with the provisions of the Child Labor law. This will appear espe- cially in comparing Part I and w"
 Tenement Houses.
 Concerning the operation of the Tenement House Act" the report says:
 During the year ended December 31, 1910, six hundred and fifty-eight permits were issued by the persons to do so in the six cities to which the law applies, for the con- struction of buildings designed for the occupancy of three families or more"
 Directory of Labor Organizations.
 'In 1899 the number of active la bor organizations in the State as re- ported to the bureau, was 214; in 1900 27o; in 1901, $40; in 1902, 510; in 1903, 5e1: in 1904, 524: in 1905, sos; in 19O6 511; in 1907, 476; in 1908, 4s5; in 1909 47S.
 "In the year 1910 there were found 490 local unions in existence; includ- xh o;~ nd c<, r{