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PART III

INDUSTRIAL CHRONOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY.

Accidents to Workmen While on Duty

Permanent or Temporary Suspension of Work in Manufacturing Establishments

Changes in Working Hours and Wages

New Manufacturing Plants Established and Old Ones Enlarged

Industrial Property Destroyed by Fire or Flood

Trade and Labor Unions Organized

Strikes and Lockouts

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Industrial Chronology of New Jersey for the Twelve

Months Ending September 30, 1915.

The Industrial Chronology aims to present a brief, but sufficiently comprehensive survey of the field of industry, and furnish information relating to matters and measures having a bearing on the industrial interests of our State, for the twelve months covered by each successive issue of the Bureau's report. The chronology is, therefore, a continuous record of occurrences of the character that makes industrial history, while at the same time bringing into view many of the most important factors by which our industrial interests are affected.

The chronology, as arranged in this year's presentation, contains: First, a record of accidents to workmen while on duty; second, changes in working time and wage rates; third, new manufacturing plants established and old ones enlarged; fourth, damage to factories and workshops by fire and flood, and fifth, the organization of new trade and labor unions. A brief textual review accompanies the tabular presentation of each of these subjects.

ACCIDENTS TO WORKMEN WHILE ON DUTY.

The status of wage earners in New Jersey under the old common law doctrines, which had governed the relations of employer and employe from "a time beyond which the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," was one of the first subjects taken up for investigation by this Bureau after its organization, nearly thirty-eight years ago. The propaganda for awakening the public conscience to the utterly unfair and one-sided character of the law as it then stood was taken up in the only way open at that time, when few of even the workmen whose moral rights were set aside by it, and a still smaller number of those outside of their ranks, knew anything about the law, or in fact ever thought about it, unless something occurred to force an unwilling acquaintance with it in the courts, by embodying in its annual reports an outline of such decisions as were rendered by the highest

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