Under an act of the Legislature of 1915, the Bureau of Industrial Statistics, which had done admirable work for the State during its more than thirty-seven years of unbroken autonomous existence, was, for administrative purposes, attached to the Department of Labor, the purpose being to bring about such economy in the operation of both offices as might be effected by, wherever practicable, co-ordinating their work. LEWIS T. BRYANT, Commissioner of Labor. PART I Statistics of Manufactures of New Jersey Capital Invested, Number of Operatives Employed Cost Values of Material Used Selling Value of Goods Made Average Working Hours Classified Weekly Wages Average Yearly Earnings of Labor (1) Statistics of Manufactures of New Jersey for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1915 An act of the Legislature of 1899 specifically directed the compilation and publication each year thereafter by this Bureau of the Statistics and Manufactures of New Jersey. At that time the population of the State was 1,883,669; in 1915, the population, as shown by the State Census, is 2,844,342, an increase of 960,673, or a fraction more than 51 per cent. The total value of all manufactured products in 1899 was $611,748,993, while in 1914, the total value is $1,090,922,707, an increase of $489,272,714, or a small fraction less than 80 per cent. Considering these great increases and the further fact that the scope of the work has been largely extended in the matter of details, it is not surprising that the Statistics of Manufactures has for years back been the principal permanent feature of the Bureau's work and necessarily has come to occupy much larger space than is given to any other subject presented in its annual reports. These statistics are compiled with the greatest possible care as to accuracy and completeness, from data reported by the proprietors or managers of every manufacturing establishment in the State in which five or more persons are employed, and in which records and accounts are kept of a character required for this purpose. The data here presented applies to the calendar year 1914. Accompanying the review of the compilation are a number of comparison tables in which the totals of the principal industries of the State are compared with those of 1913, for the purpose of showing the increases or decreases in the various phases of these industries during the year 1914. The compilation is based on perfectly authenticated reports from all manufacturing establishments in the State keeping records from which the information required for the statistical tables could be drawn. The law of 1899, which established the annual Statistics of Manufactures, contemplated a compilation far less minute and comprehensive than that which is made every five years by the Federal Census Bureau, which includes in its |