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Page xiii
... injuries , 360 , or 37.1 per cent resulted in death either immediate , or shortly after the accident occurred . In four instances the accident victims lost both legs ; in two , both feet ; in two , one leg and one arm . Twenty suffered ...
... injuries , 360 , or 37.1 per cent resulted in death either immediate , or shortly after the accident occurred . In four instances the accident victims lost both legs ; in two , both feet ; in two , one leg and one arm . Twenty suffered ...
Page 131
... Injured While on Duty During the Year , Number Whose Injuries Resulted in Death . The series of tables which follow , one each for the seven trunk lines of steam railroads in New Jersey , and one summary em- bracing the totals for 1910 ...
... Injured While on Duty During the Year , Number Whose Injuries Resulted in Death . The series of tables which follow , one each for the seven trunk lines of steam railroads in New Jersey , and one summary em- bracing the totals for 1910 ...
Page 132
... accidents suffered by their employees for both years , but the totals for these show a very large increase in 1910 over ... injured , of which number sixty - five were either killed outright or died within a short time after the accident ...
... accidents suffered by their employees for both years , but the totals for these show a very large increase in 1910 over ... injured , of which number sixty - five were either killed outright or died within a short time after the accident ...
Page 133
... injured during year . Number of employees whose injuries resulted in death . Conductors . Brakemen . Engineers . Firemen . Switchmen . 238 Flagmen . 218 Engine wipers , etc. 169 Yardmen . 826 Trackmen . 2,051 470 1,130 323,326 286 10 ...
... injured during year . Number of employees whose injuries resulted in death . Conductors . Brakemen . Engineers . Firemen . Switchmen . 238 Flagmen . 218 Engine wipers , etc. 169 Yardmen . 826 Trackmen . 2,051 470 1,130 323,326 286 10 ...
Page 168
... death rates than are warranted by actual facts , as compared with persons whose employment requires less physical ... injury suffered will depend on sex , age , habits of living , the social status of the worker , and other peculiarities ...
... death rates than are warranted by actual facts , as compared with persons whose employment requires less physical ... injury suffered will depend on sex , age , habits of living , the social status of the worker , and other peculiarities ...
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16 years Children 16 years Women 1909.-Aggregates by Months.-(Continued 5.-Number of Wage 7.-Classified Weekly Earnings April May June August September October Average number Boxes wood Brakeman Camden caught in machinery cent Children under 16 Children under Total Classification of Weekly crushed died of injuries Earnings of Wage-Earners Erie Railroad Co February March April Fell from scaffold Including Piece-Workers increase in wages INDUSTRIAL CHRONOLOGY injured internally January February March Jersey City July August September June July August killed instantly Laborer Leather leg broken manufacturers Metal Newark November 15 number of days Number of Establishments Number of Hours Number of Persons Number Receiving Specified October 15 October November December Pennsylvania Railroad persons employed Persons Receiving Specified Perth Amboy ployed by Industries Receiving Specified Amounts September 30 September October November Steel and iron strike TABLE terra cotta Total Number Classification Total Number Employed Total Number Receiving Trenton Wage Earners wage loss Women 16 worker
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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.