The table by years follows:

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX BEFORE STRIKE IN ESTABLISHMENTS IN WHICH STRIKES OCCURRED, AND NUMBER AND PER CENT OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX STRIKING, BY YEARS, 1887 TO 1905.

a Not including 1 establishment not reported.

b Not including 1 establishment in which number employed before strike was not reported. Not including 5 establishments not reported.

d Not including 5 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported. e Not including 33 establishments not reported.

f Not including 33 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported. Not including 40 establishments not reported.

A Not including 40 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported.

Considering all strikes in the United States during the nineteenyear period from 1887 to 1905, the above table shows that of the 11,782,692 male employees in the establishments involved immediately preceding strikes, 44.91 per cent struck, while of the 1,452,247 female employees before the strike but 28.15 per cent struck. In 1905, the last year covered by the investigation, 35.60 per cent of the male employees and 12.24 per cent of the female employees in establishments involved struck. In every one of the nineteen years included in the table the percentage of male employees striking was greater than that of female employees striking, except in 1904, when 43.03 per cent of the males and 43.44 per cent of the females struck.

The table presenting these data by industries follows:

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX BEFORE STRIKE IN ESTABLISHMENTS IN WHICH STRIKES OCCURRED, AND NUMBER AND PER CENT OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX STRIKING, BY INDUSTRIES, 1887 TO 1905.

Not including 38 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported.
Not including 1 establishment not reported.

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX BEFORE STRIKE IN ESTABLISHMENTS IN WHICH STRIKES OCCURRED, AND NUMBER AND PER CENT OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX STRIKING, BY INDUSTRIES, 1887 TO 1905-Concluded.

Not including 40 establishments not reported.
Not including 40 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported.

In the industries in which large numbers of employees of both sexes are found the table shows that in a majority of industries a larger per cent of the males than of the females in the establishments involved went on strike. In the manufacture of men's clothing 81.64 per cent of the male employees and 43.06 per cent of the female employees struck. In the manufacture of women's clothing 86.94 per cent of the male employees and 62.11 per cent of the female employees struck. In cotton goods 29.72 per cent of the male employees and 27.59 per cent of the female employees struck. In the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes 73 per cent of the male employees and 45.42 per cent of the female employees struck. In hosiery and knit goods 13.21 per cent of the male employees and 15.29 per cent of the female employees struck. The presentation of these data by States and geographical divisions follows:

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX BEFORE STRIKE IN ESTABLISHMENTS IN
WHICH STRIKES OCCURRED, AND NUMBER AND PER CENT OF EMPLOYEES OF
EACH SEX STRIKING, BY STATES AND GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, 1887 TO 1905.
[Sce Table V, pages 480 to 485, for notes relating to general strikes extending into two or more States.]

a Not including 1 establishment not reported.

Not including 1 establishment in which number employed before strike was not reported.
Not including 12 establishments not reported.

d Not including 12 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported. Not including 26 establishments not reported.

Not including 26 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported. 9 Not including 40 establishments not reported.

Not including 40 establishments in which number employed before strike was not reported.
Not including 13 establishments not reported.

In the States where the largest number of labor disturbances occurred the percentage of male employees striking was greater than that of the female employees. In New York 52.47 per cent of the males employed in establishments involved and 40.01 per cent of the females struck; in Pennsylvania, 53.33 per cent of the males and 25.96 per cent of the females; in Illinois, 31.26 per cent of the males and 21.77 per cent of the females.

The portion of the table by geographical divisions shows that in the Western division 47.61 per cent of the males employed in establishments involved struck and 49.59 per cent of the females. In each of the other geographical divisions the percentage of males who struck was much larger than that of the females.

SEX OF EMPLOYEES LOCKED OUT.

The three tables following present data for lockouts similar to that presented for strikes in the series of three tables preceding. These three tables, like the three immediately preceding, cover the years from 1887 to 1905 only. The first of the tables is a compilation by years, the second by industries, and the third by States and geographical divisions. The table for years follows:

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX BEFORE LOCKOUT IN ESTABLISHMENTS IN WHICH LOCKOUTS OCCURRED, AND NUMBER AND PER CENT OF EMPLOYEES OF EACH SEX LOCKED OUT, BY YEARS, 1887 TO 1905.

Considering the lockouts in the United States during the nineteenyear period from 1887 to 1905, 67.98 per cent of the male employees and 55.10 per cent of the female employees in establishments involved