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tables presented show for each establishment the product manufactured, capital stock, horsepower, days in operation, hours of labor, number of employees and number of persons dependent on factory, highest and lowest wages, etc.

COTTON, WOOLEN, AND KNITTING MILLS.-The number of mills covered by this presentation is 318, with an aggregate invested capital of $41,278,160. The number of spindles in operation was 2,558,114, of looms 52,747, of knitting machines 5,237, together requiring 115,671 horsepower.

The number of employees reported by 96 per cent of 268 mills (265 cotton and woolen and 3 silk) was 22,878 adult males, 18,558 adult females, and 7,188 children, a total of 48,624. The number of persons dependent upon 82 per cent of these mills was 112,427. Of the adult employees 87 per cent, and of the children 79 per cent, were able to read and write. The average hours constituting a day's work were 10. The average of the highest daily wages (based on the highest wages paid to any employee by each establishment) was $2.42, lowest $0.77, for men; for women the average highest wages were $1.18, lowest $0.64, and for children the average wages were about $0.54. An increase of wages was reported by 81 per cent of the establishments, 8 per cent reported no change, and 11 per cent made no report. The number of employees reported by the 50 knitting mills was 1,196 adult males, 2,275 adult females, and 826 children, a total of 4,297. The number of persons dependent upon 74 per cent of these mills was 5,986. Of the adult employees 96 per cent, and of the children 95 per cent, were able to read and write. The average hours constituting a day's work was 103. For men the average of the highest daily wages was $1.90, the lowest $0.70; for women the average of the highest daily wages was $1.29, the lowest $0.50, while for children the average daily wages were $0.53. An increase of wages was reported by 65 per cent of the establishments, 16 per cent reported no change, and 19 per cent made no report.

Relative to the employment of children under 12 years of age in the factories, 84 per cent of the cotton and woolen mill employers were opposed to it, while 3 per cent favored it and 13 per cent expressed no opinion; 84 per cent of the knitting mill employers were opposed to it, while 5 per cent favored it and 11 per cent expressed no opinion.

FURNITURE FACTORIES.-There were 105 furniture factories which reported capital stock, power, class of goods manufactured, wages, hours of labor, days in operation, number of employees, persons dependent on factory, etc. The 105 factories had an aggregate capital of $2,998,201, used 10,040 horsepower, and employed 6,194 wageearners. The average of the highest daily wages paid adults was $2.27; the lowest, $0.85; the average daily wages paid children was

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51. Of the adult employees 87 per cent and of the children 83 per were able to read and write. An increase of wages was reported per cent of the factories, 9 per cent reported no change, and 5 ent made no report. Relative to the employment of children

14 years of age, 68 per cent of the employers were opposed to 1 while 18 per cent favored it and 14 per cent expressed no opinion. BALEAD EMPLOYEES.-In this chapter statistics are presented swing, by occupations, for each railroad reporting, the number of employees and average wages paid. The following table shows the number and average daily wages of persons employed on the steam raads of the State:

AURIER AND AVERAGE DAILY WAGES OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES, BY OCCU

PATIONS, 1906.

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Resulting from the movement of trains, there were during the year 156 accidents to passengers, 1 fatal and 155 nonfatal; 29 to pcal clerks, express messengers, and Pullman employees, 1 fatal

nonfatal; 711 to employees, 42 fatal and 669 nonfatal, and 25 to other persons, 82 fatal and 179 nonfatal, making a total of 126 and 1,031 nonfatal accidents. From causes other than the zement of trains there were 666 accidents to persons, 1 fatal and

Cronfatal.

A presentation is also made concerning the operation of each of street railways, giving mileage, capital stock, funded debt, g earnings, operating expenses, income from operation and from srees, number of passengers carried, and passengers carried

vek of track.

RECENT FOREIGN STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS.

AUSTRIA.

Die Arbeitseinstellungen und Aussperrungen in Österreich während des Jahres 1906. Herausgegeben vom k. k. Arbeitsstatistischen Amte im Handelsministerium. 713 pp.

This volume contains the thirteenth annual report of the Austrian Government on strikes and lockouts. The information, which is compiled by the Austrian bureau of labor statistics, is given in the form of an analysis and six tables showing: (1) Strikes according to geographical distribution; (2) strikes according to industries; (3) general summary of strikes; (4) comparative summary of strikes for the ten-year period 1897-1906; (5) details for each strike in 1906; (6) details for each lockout in 1906. An appendix gives a brief review of industrial and labor conditions in Austria, statistics of trade unions, and notes concerning the strikes and lockouts reported in the preceding pages of the report.

STRIKES IN 1906. The number of strikes, the number of establishments affected, and the number of strikers in 1906 showed a marked increase over the preceding year. There were 2,191,815 days lost by the persons directly affected in 1906 on account of strikes, or 90.4 per cent more than in the year 1905. During the year there were 1,083 strikes, which affected 6,049 establishments. Of a total of 276,424 employees in the establishments affected, 153,688 participated in the strikes and 13,098 others were thrown out of employment on account of them, the strikers representing 55.6 per cent of the total number of employees in the establishments affected. The average number of strikers in each strike was 142. After the strikes, 140,414 strikers were reemployed and 6,924 new employees took the places formerly occupied by strikers.

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The following table shows, by industries, the number of strikes, establishments affected, strikers and other employees thrown out of work, etc., during the year 1906:

STRIKES, ESTABLISHMENTS AFFECTED, STRIKERS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES THROWN OUT OF WORK, BY INDUSTRIES, 1906.

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The building trades had the largest number of strikes, 184, in 1906, while the largest number of strikers, 38,705, was in the mining and metallurgical group of industries. Next in importance with regard to the number of strikers involved was the textile industry, with 28,970 persons. Of all the strikers during the year, 44 per cent were engaged in these two groups of industries.

The following table shows the causes of the strikes for 1906, by industries:

STRIKES, BY INDUSTRIES AND CAUSES, 1906.

[Strikes due to two or more causes have been tabulated under each cause; hence the industry totals for this table, if computed, would not agree with those for the preceding table.]

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As in previous years, the most frequent causes of strikes were the demands for increased wages and for reduction of hours. The demand for increased wages alone or in conjunction with other demands figured in 694 strikes, and that for reduction of hours in 298 strikes.

The following table shows the number of strikes and of strikers in each group of industries in 1906, by results:

STRIKES AND STRIKERS, BY INDUSTRIES AND RESULTS, 1906.

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