New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
NY. CLOTHING SHOPS
EMPLOY 100000
More than Half of All Factory
Workers in State Labor
in Metropolis.

Albany, Dec. I'm the initial edition Of
the Industrial Directory just issued by
the State Department OF Labor. il is said
that. based on an estimated population of
| 9.0o.00, one out of every eight Of the
states population is employed in a fac
tory and that one man out of every six Is
factory worker. Clothing and millinery
establishments employ nearly one-half
and textile mills nearly 30 per cent OF the
women workers.
Nearly three-fourths OF the factory
operatives work in cities Of over 5000 and
96 per cent in communities OF over 100.
! In New York City there are over 1900
factories. with 6s2,79s employees, or over IS
per cent of the total factory employees Of
the state. Buffalo comes second, with a
! factory force of 69,O9s; Rochester third,
with SSH and Schenectady fourth, with
q, 20
There are 1.236.15O persons employed in
| the 1851 factories of the state and of the
total shop force OF 1876 l2i there are 347eOl
women and 1853 children between the
ages Of fourteen and sixteen years.
Although the factory operatives en-
ployed in New York City comprise more
than one-half OF the total number in the
state. inasmuch as the metropolis com
prises more than one-half Of the states
population, the ratio of factory employees
TO inhabitants is practically the same
in New York City as in the state as a
whole. In Manhattan the ratio is slight
" higher as the factories of that bor-
ough draw workers from the other bor-
oughs of the city.
BY far the most important industry In
the city is the manufacturing Of cloth
ing and millinery. which gives employ
ment TO more than a quarter Of million
operatives. The most important of the
clothing trades are the manufacture OF
womens clothing. which employs 10000
workers; the manufacture Of mems cloth
ing which employs nearly 10000; the man
ufacture Of women's white goods, which
employs 1900, and millinery. which en-
| ploys 1900.
Second in importance TO the manufact-
ure Of clothing and millinery is metal
working, which employs more than 10000
| wOrkmen I'm various lines. Third in i'm
| portance Is printing and the manufact-
ure Of paper goods. with 1900 employees.
I The largest single industry under this
division is printing and publishing, which
/ employs nearly G0"o operatives. The
| fourth largest group is the manufacture
Of food liquors and tobacco. The largest
! single industries under this head are the
manufacture Of cigars, with 1900 opera
| tives, and the manufacture Of bread and
/ other bakery products, with 1900 opera
! tives.
! The proportion Of factory operatives In
| New York City who work under an eight
/ hour schedule is one-half larger than in
the state as a whole and the proportion
| OF operatives working less than sixty
hours a week is likewise larger than In
other parts Of the state. In the printing
! industry nearly 90 per cent of the en-
ployes are on an eight-hour schedule and
nearly 40 per cent on a nine-hour schedule
I or it's equivalent
| In the clothing industry. In the textile
! industry and in the metal working indus
try more than three-fourths Of the oper-
atives are working on a weekly schedule
of less than sixty hours.