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Page xi
On behalf of our army of wage earners the Bureau has striven incessantly to
awaken the public conscience to the unjust ... the cruel injustice of saddling both
the physical suffering and financial loss on the victims , was always pointed out .
On behalf of our army of wage earners the Bureau has striven incessantly to
awaken the public conscience to the unjust ... the cruel injustice of saddling both
the physical suffering and financial loss on the victims , was always pointed out .
Page xiii
The total number of wage earners injured during the year , was 1 , 875 ; of these
970 were serious , and 905 , of a comparatively minor character . Of the 970
serious injuries ... Twenty suffered the loss of one leg , and nine the loss of one
arm .
The total number of wage earners injured during the year , was 1 , 875 ; of these
970 were serious , and 905 , of a comparatively minor character . Of the 970
serious injuries ... Twenty suffered the loss of one leg , and nine the loss of one
arm .
Page 257
The matter was finally adjusted satisfactorily , and all resumed work on the 19th ,
having lost three working days , with wages amounting to $ 300 . OCTOBER 23
— Thirty Polish ... The ' wage loss was $ 35 . The Hatters Strike . In last year ' s ...
The matter was finally adjusted satisfactorily , and all resumed work on the 19th ,
having lost three working days , with wages amounting to $ 300 . OCTOBER 23
— Thirty Polish ... The ' wage loss was $ 35 . The Hatters Strike . In last year ' s ...
Page 259
We do not hesitate to say that we pay the largest wages paid to female help in the
State , and any girl in our employ can ... The strike lasted three weeks , and the
wage loss computed on the minimum earnings of $ 10 per week , as set forth in ...
We do not hesitate to say that we pay the largest wages paid to female help in the
State , and any girl in our employ can ... The strike lasted three weeks , and the
wage loss computed on the minimum earnings of $ 10 per week , as set forth in ...
Page 260
for an advance in wages of ii per cent . , that being the reduction made in their
wages one year before ; when the cut took place , it appears that a promise was
made to the workmen that ... The wage loss , as reported by the firm , was $ 1 ,
000 .
for an advance in wages of ii per cent . , that being the reduction made in their
wages one year before ; when the cut took place , it appears that a promise was
made to the workmen that ... The wage loss , as reported by the firm , was $ 1 ,
000 .
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Accidents American August average body Brakeman broken building Camden capital Carpenter cent Children Receiving 16 Children under 16 Classification of Weekly Company compared crushed December decreases demand died of injuries electric employed Ending engine entire ESTABLISHMENTS factory February Fell firm fractured Hand hundred included increase increase in wages industries injured internally invested iron January Jersey City John July June killed instantly Laborer Leather less manufacturers March Metal mill Months Name Newark November Number Men Women Number of Persons occupations October October November December operation paid Pennsylvania Railroad Persons Receiving Specified plants Pound practically ranges Receiving Specified Total reported Results returned Rubber September severed shown Silk Specified Total Amounts steam strike Struck successful trade train Trenton twenty-five union wage earners wage loss week Weekly Earnings wire Women 16 Women Children Receiving worker workmen
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Page ix - ... with headquarters in the state house. " The duties of such bureau shall be to collect, assort, systematize and present in annual reports to the legislature, on or before the first day of March in each year, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the Commonwealth...
Page 193 - 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 (p.
Page 175 - The care and improvement of the animate machinery is at least as important to the manufacturer as the care and improvement of the immediate or inanimate machinery.
Page 170 - the ratio of cases of pulmonary consumption to those of all other diseases is highest where the amount of exertion is least, and lowest where it is greatest ; and the intermediate degree of exertion presents an intermediate ratio. The age at which pulmonary consumption makes its attack is earlier in employments requiring little exertion than in those requiring more, and in those requiring moderate exertion than in those demanding great effort.
Page 122 - TABLE No. 8. — Number of Days in Operation, Number of Hours Worked per Day, Number of Hours Worked per Week and Overtime, 1915.
Page 273 - The break shows itself sensationally in the bitter fight between the American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World.
Page 174 - ... well-selected bill of fare is served at practically cost prices. The employes bring their own lunches and are served with the free hot dishes, or they may order their entire meal — and get a good one — for an average of eight or ten cents. Whenever night work is necessary during the busy season, special dinners are served in the rooms for all employes at the expense of the company.
Page 177 - ... exercise no paternal or patronizing control, but to create a club-plant fully equipped in every particular, and turn it over to the employes, on whom should devolve the entire responsibility of organization and administration — of success or failure. "The basic idea of this social experiment, however, was the conviction of the head of the concern that the weightiest question confronting the twentieth century is the relation between capital and labor; that there must be a drawing together, or...
Page 177 - ... established ; otherwise there must come between employer and employe a conflict more potential of disaster and destruction than any war this world has yet witnessed, and that, therefore, it is the duty of every employer to contribute by all reasonable means to a peaceful and satisfactory solution of the existing differences. It was hoped that the social and other plans of the Weston organization designed for the pleasure and welfare of its employes would not only shed a little sunshine day by...
Page 190 - ... manufacturing and every other form of productive industry, with a view to their permanent establishment on a prosperous basis, both to employers and employes.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Annual Report |
| Author | New Jersey. Bureau of Industrial Statistics |
| Contributor | New Jersey. Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries |
| Published | 1910 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 sept. 2007 |
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