Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
JERSEY INDUSTRIAL
CAPITAL |NCREAS
Report Shows Jump of $7o,-
100000 for 1o13-Output
Over a Billion.
AVERAGE WAGE Is $557.1o,
OR LESS THAN $11 A WEEK
Oil Leads in Manufactures,
With an Investment of
$74,Ooo,Oo0.
Lspecial to the Eyening stnr.l


TRENTON, April 6.-George C.
Low, chief of the State Bureau of
Statistics, has submitted to Governor
Fielder a report on the industries of
New Jersey for the year ending Oc-
tober 81, 1913. He declares that the
United States census was inaccurate
and misleading in some particulars
as to the character and extent Of
manufacturing. His summary OF the
Ia Dor and industries is as follows:
establishments ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,0ob
Selling value of goods. 81 Col, O00, 900
Employees average. 323, 800
w ofklng capital. ......... $9lg ,000, O00
Corporation stockholders. 49, 27, 1888
Average yearly wage. S5b710
The totals as to. capital do not in
clude six large concerns which re-
fused to report. OF the 2,5o6 estab-
lishments 1902 were corporations. OF
the corporation stockholders 1852 are
males The invested capital increased
$40 500, 900 in the year, There are SO
different general industries. OF the
capital, $217 900 900 is in land and
buildings, $19S000,000 is In machinery
tools and implements, and the rest is
in bills receivable. stock on hand,
finished or rough and cash in bank.
Oil Industry the Largest.
The greatest capital i'm any one in
dustry, $4,000, 900, is in oils, including
Standard Oil plants. Other large in
1ustres are: Machinery, $50 ,00N, 600:
chemicals, $40, 600 900; woollens slO,-
100000; brewery products, $40, 600 000
silk $S7, 100000; tobacco, $50, 900 600, and
rubber. S31 100000
Then come shipbuilding, brick and
terra Gotta. electrical appliances, steel,
Gather, wire, boilers and metal goods.
The greatest Increase was in tobacco,
and after that in electrical appliances,
machinery, metal goods and oils.
In selling value OF products, oils
We're first with 500, $4,000; and then
silk. s52,A0O.000; chemicals, $44, S00,O 600;
machinery. $43 900, 000; wire, $41 600 900;
woollens, $40.000000 and rubber $685.
100000
OF the industrial employees, sc, $50
were males over six teen years. In the
machinery Industry, 21.S44 persons
were employed; in silk. y, 1870: in wool
lens, l4727; in tobacco, II, sos Those
are the largest.
In twenty-five chief industries. the
highest average yearly wage was:
Brewing. s9"3S3: cornices and sky
lights, sS3l76 yariishes, 1885 fur
naces, $1S1.79; quarlying stone. S757.5S.
ink ond inuciage. S74s.22; pottery,
S12a.45, silver goods, S7l6.26. The low
next lowest WAS S44o AZ, i'm woollens
The increases in wages ranged from
Ia per cent in tobacco 20 1874 per cent
II leather
Average OF women's Pay.
over Is per cent. Of the men over 70
per cent. of the women, and all of the
children, averaged less than 50 q week
Fifty per cent. Of the men and 22.4 per
cent Of the women aOt from 50 10 SIS
p week. Only male ernployes--44 per
cent OF the total number-earned SO
or more week. More than q 900 ON
ployes worked over ten hours a day
Saturdays excepted. 49,
The industries CT the State as a
'V.ole We're operated . II per cent. OF
their capacity, AS against Is per cent.
the year before.
Statistics as 10 railroads are seDa-
rateiy given--mies of road Gin New
$3G l32.0o0: average daily wage s2.6l.
number Of employees injured at work,
2,"D7: died from injuries. 7S
! he general cost OF food in 1912 in
New Jersey Mr. Low reports. was
practically the same as i'm t9l2. except
IS to potatoes. which were much
cheaper in 1919 Flour was some
what cheaper IN 1919.
SIX strllse Cost Millions.
New Jersey ranks sixth Us q cul-
ming State The figures o. chief Low
are: Establg hments 30: capital
s77i 900; employees. 5,900; wages. si5t,
0o1; value of products. S2,52s,03o
The only big strike in the State in
1919 was in the silk Industry which
began on January p AT the Doherty
mill at LakevieW. near Paterson, AMI
ended in the latter part of July. The
/. w. w. carried on the contest from
first to last. There We're involved 81
mills ard Il, 6S3 employees. The loss IN
wages was 81 100000 aud IS, 225, 600 was
the estimated loss to employers
Thirty nils, with 1000 workers, were
not affected.
Including railroad employees, 3.03S
employees We're seriously injured and
81 others were killed Ia the year end
Ing September 80 1918. Excudins
railroads, the largest cause OF fataIi-
ties was falls from seaffolds, etc
Then came collapse Of material. and
third, machinery accidents.