of five cents per hour in wages was refused. On May 9th seven of them returned to work on the old terms and the others had in the meantime secured employment elsewhere. Wage loss estimated at $400.

MAY 2-Sixteen union painters employed in two shops at Morristown, went out on strike to force from their employers a recognition of the union, and an agreement providing that in future none but union men would be employed. A demand was also made for the discharge of all non-union men in the shops, and the establishment of a Saturday half-holiday, all of which was agreed to by the employers concerned on the second day of the strike. Wage loss, $52.

MAY 2-Five hundred employees of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, at Maurer, struck work to enforce a demand made by them for an increase of twenty-five cents per day in wages. After two and one-half day's idleness, all returned to their places under a compromise which gave them an increase of ten cents per day. Wage loss, $2,500.

MAY 3-Eight girls employed in the works of the Levett Manufacturing Company, at Matawan, quit work because of a reduction in piece prices which the firm insisted on making. The girls returned two days later, when the order to reduce wages was withdrawn. Wage loss, $24.

MAY 4-Fifty laborers employed in the works of the J. L. Mott Company, at Trenton, quit work because an advance in wages was refused to them by the company. Their places were taken by new men, and all lost their employment.

MAY 17-Ten men employed in a quarry of the Califon Lime Stone Company, at Califon, struck for a nine-hour work day with the same wages they were receiving for ten hours. The strike, which was not successful, lasted one day, and the wage loss was $14.

MAY 18-Eighty-eight employees of the Imperial Cutlery Works, at Avondale, went out on strike for the purpose of forcing their employers to unionize the plant. The strike, which lasted six days, was a failure. Wage loss, $754.

MAY 24-A strike of forty-five men and eighty-two women occurred in the plant of the United States Rubber Company, at New Brunswick, because an increase in piece prices for making shoes, which they requested, had been refused by the firm. The strike, which lasted five days, was a failure, and the wage loss, as reported, was $933.

MAY 31-Twelve laborers, employed in road repairs at Nutley, struck for an increase of wages, and their places were filled by new men.

JUNE 7-The union hodcarriers of Chatham, Madison and Morristown, about thirty in number, went out on strike for an increase of seven cents per hour in wages. They had been receiving twenty-five cents and wanted thirty-two cents per hour. A few of the contractors agreed to the increase when the demand was made, because of urgency in the matter of buildings under construction; others yielded later on, but a compromise was not

effected with a majority of the strikers until about July 15th, when the strike had been in operation for six weeks. Wage loss approximately $3,000.

JUNE 7-Sixty clay mining laborers employed in the clay banks of J. R. Such, at South Amboy, went on strike for an increase in wages; all returned to work at the old rate after being idle five working days. The wage loss was $525. A leader of the strikers who had from the beginning shown a disposition toward violence, was arrested on complaint of several of the laborers whose lives he had threatened because of their having returned to work, and refusing to furnish a bond for peaceable behavior, was imprisoned in the county jail.

JUNE 16-Twenty-four laborers employed by the New Brunswick Trolley Company, quit work on the Albany street line, where they were employed, because, as claimed by them, the weekly pay which they had just received was less than the amount expected. All the laborers did not quit work, and some of those who did go returned in the course of the afternoon. Next day all the strikers except a few who had been replaced by new men, were back at work. The wage loss was about $30.

JUNE 16-A strike of about two hundred machinists employed in the Walter Scott Press Works; the Potter Press Works, and the Hall Printing Press Works-all three plants situated in Plainfield-took place on this date to enforce a demand made by the men, who were members of the Machinist's International Union, for a uniform minimum wage of thirty-three and onethird cents per hour, and a working scale of fifty-four hours per week. A compromise was effected after the strike had continued six days, and work was resumed on terms satisfactory to both sides. The wage loss was approximately $4,000.

JUNE 18-Thirty-five firemen employed in the Corn Products Refining Company's plant at Edgewater, went on strike to enforce a demand they had made for a reduction of working time or an increase of wages. The men were being paid $2.50 for twelve hours per day, and their demand was for either an eight-hour day at the same wages, or $3 for a twelve-hour day. The strike lasted three days and was settled by a compromise. Wage loss estimated at $250.

JUNE 21.-Forty laborers employed by the Seton Leather Co. of Belleville, went out on strike because of some disagreement over a foreman. Of these, thirty returned to work after one week's idleness, and the places of the others were filled by new men. The wage loss was estimated at $300.

JUNE 27.-One hundred and fifty-seven employes of the Standard Motor Construction Co. at Jersey City, went out on strike for an increase in wages and the establishment of a minimum wage scale. The men returned to work on July 7th, having lost nine working days. The only concessions made by the company were certain changes in working hours, overtime pay, and individual increase of wages. Wage loss, $4,000.

JULY 3.-The union plumbers of Trenton laid a demand before their employers for an increase of wages from 50 to 60 cents per hour. The hours of labor are forty-four per week, and under the old scale wages were $22.50

per week, which would be increased to $26.40 under the rate which they sought to establish. An agreement was reached on July 7th, under which the strikers returned to work accepting 50 cents per hour until contracts then existing should be finished, after which they were to receive 55 cents per hour. The union steamfitters also took part in the strike which lasted three days. The number of men involved was about 50, and the wage loss $600.

JULY 5.-Fifty-six girls and 4 men employed in the winding department of the Paul Gunther mill at Dover, quit work because an assistant foreman had been appointed whom they suspected was to displace the man formerly in full charge of the department, who however, resigned of his own accord. After having been idle six days, all returned to work. Wage loss, $350.

JULY 7-Thirty foreign laborers employed on street paving at Trenton, struck to secure an increase from $1.50 to $1.75 per day in their wages. The demand was granted by the contractors and the men returned to work, but struck again within an hour for a reduction of working time from 9 to 8 hours per day, whereupon the entire gang was discharged.

JULY 19.-One hundred women and girls employed in the R. H. Steel laundry at Jersey City, quit work because their foreman had been discharged and a new man appointed to his place. An offer of an increase of 50 cents per week in wages as an inducement to return to work was rejected by the women unless the foreman was also reinstated, which the management would not agree to. New help was employed so far as it could be obtained, and seeing their places being gradually filled, the strikers began returning to their places in numbers that increased from day to day until on July 26 all for whom vacancies could be found had resumed work, leaving seventeen of the original number without employment. Seven drivers employed by the laundry firm were discharged for alleged intimidation of the girls who took the strikers' places, but these were reinstated next day on promising to abstain from all interference of like character in the future. The strike lasted seven days, but not all the original participants were idle during that time. The net results were a loss of wages amounting to approximately $300, and loss of employment by seventeen girls.

JULY 20.-Twenty-five stokers employed at the Marion plant and 33 at the Coles Street, Newark, power house of the Public Service Corporation, quit work because they had been refused an increase of wages. Their pay had been $2.45 per day of eight hours, and they asked for $2.70. Three days later a committee representing the strikers waited on the president of the corporation for the purpose of obtaining his consent to the return of the firemen at the old rate of wages, and the discharge of several new men who had been employed to take their places. This was agreed to, and all resumed work. Wage loss, $425.

JULY 22.—Sixty-five employes of the East Jersey Pipe Co. at Paterson, went on strike for an increase of wages, and returned to work on July 27 under a compromise agreement which was satisfactory to both sides. Wage loss as reported, $700.

JULY 22.-Twenty-four operatives employed in the garment factory of Joseph Dauria, Trenton, quit work in sympathy with the organized garment workers of the East Side district of New York, who had been on strike for the past three months. The sympathetic strike lasted six days, and the wage loss was $150.

JULY 25.-Two hundred and eighty-three men employed in the Jersey City plant of the American Sugar Refining Co. quit work in sympathy with the employes of the Havemeyer & Elder refining company of Brooklyn, N. Y., who were on strike for an increase in wages. The men returned to work on August 15th, after three weeks idleness. No demand for wages' increase or any other change in working conditions. The strike was the direct result of coercion by the Brooklyn men who, after closing their own place of employment, swarmed around the Jersey City refinery in clamorous crowds. The wage loss as reported by the firm, was $11,531.

JULY 26.-Ten men and twenty-five girls employed by the Milbury Atlantic Co., manufacturers of bathing suits, at Rahway, went on strike because their forewoman had been displaced by the wife of the proprietor, by whom her duties were assumed. On July 29 all the strikers returned to work except the forewoman and one operative, under a guarantee of an increase in wages ranging from 50 cents to $1.50 per week, and a Saturday half holiday during the months of June, July and August. Wage loss, $160.

JULY 29.-One hundred and twenty Italian laborers employed on the Bloomfield Avenue, Newark, sewer, went on strike and brought all work on the improvement to a standstill, because the pay day had been changed from Saturday to Wednesday. About half the number of men who went out were disinclined to do so, and preferred remaining at work, but were coerced by threats of physical violence into following the others. Some acts of violence were perpetrated by the strikers and two of them threatened the life of the Superintendent in charge. A number of them returned on the second day after the cessation of work, and new men were employed in place of the others. The wage loss was estimated at $180.

AUGUST 4.-The members of Iron Moulders Local Union No. 267 of Trenton, notified their employers that after August 15th, they would expect an increase of 25 cents per day in wages which would make their pay $17.50 per week. The union has 300 members, but practically all the foundries in which they are employed, were operated on the "open shop" plan. No notice was taken of the demand by employers, and the moulders concerned referred the matter to their international union for a decision as to whether or not a strike should be resorted to if the attitude of employers remained unfavorable. The matter was still unsettled at the time of this writing.

AUGUST 6.-The annual wage conference between the Glass, Vial and Bottle Manufacturers Association, and representatives of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association which has a membership of 11,000, terminated at Atlantic City in an agreement to continue the price list of last year. This was agreed to by the representative of the union because of the progress made at the glass houses in the introduction of machines for making bottles.

As a concession to the union, the manufacturers association agreed to put on three shifts hereafter instead of two, so that men displaced by the machines may secure employment. The manufacturers also agreed to a modification of the rule relating to apprentices, under which only one will be allowed for every twenty blowers, instead of one as formerly, for every fifteen.

AUGUST II.-Eleven linemen of the Public Service Corporation at Jersey City, quit work because the superintendent refused to discharge a foreman who it was claimed, was unduly domineering and harsh in his official intercourse with them. The strikers were paid off, and other men employed to take their places. The linemen's union refused to sanction the strike, because the grievance complained of had no relation to wages or hours of labor, but was instead a purely personal one.

AUGUST 15.-The coach drivers of New Brunswick have decided that hereafter they will not drive for funerals on Sundays.

AUGUST 18.-Fifteen laborers employed on street improvement at Gloucester City, demanded an increase in wages of 40 cents per day, and quit work when the same was refused by the contractor. The men had been receiving $1.60 per day, and wanted $2.00. Other laborers were employed next day to take their places.

AUGUST 25.—Eighty-nine employes of the Alfred E. Norton Co., fabricators of structural iron work, at Boonton, went out on strike because a new foreman had been appointed in place of one, a favorite with the workmen, who had been discharged. The strikers returned after three day's idleness, having given up the effort to secure the reemployment of the discharged foreman. Wage loss as reported, $535.00.

AUGUST 28.-Seventy-five moulders employed by the Trenton Malleable Iron Co., at Trenton, made a demand for an increase of wages which was refused, the company having a short time before advanced their wages voluntarily. The establishment was practically closed down for five weeks, and about 50 other employes having no relation to the strikers, were forced into idleness. A compromise was effected under which the plant was reopened on September 26th, when the strikers returned to work, having an increase in wages, but less than the amount originally demanded. The wage loss to strikers and laborers who were rendered idle through their action, was approximately $6.000.

AUGUST 30.-Twenty-five employes of the Lambertville Pottery Co., at Lambertville, quit work under orders of the local branch of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, because the company had discharged a number of sanitary pressers who had recently joined the union, and were endeavoring to form a new shop organization of the trade. The pottery was closed up; the strike, which was to compel the company to take back the discharged men, had not been settled at this writing.

SEPTEMBER 2.-Forty laborers employed by the firm of Warren Brothers Co., on the construction of a large building in the Greenville section of Jersey City, went out on strike for an increase of wages. Several small