employed in manufacturing industry in New Jersey has increased only 2.0 per cent. from 1850, when it was 23.2 per cent., to 1913, a period of 63 years. This slight increase is almost certainly due to the introduction of female stenographers as part of the equip ment of modern business offices.

Apart from some hundreds of instances of brief cessation of work on account of petty misunderstandings, which were settled without the loss of more than an hour or two of working time, there were only 55 industrial disturbances during the year 1913, that, in numbers involved and length of time lost, may be regarded as strikes. In these 5,062 persons took part, who, between them sustained an aggregate wage loss of $206,693. The strike of longest duration and in every respect the most important demonstration of its kind that occurred during the year, was one in which the Machinists' Union of Trenton was engaged for a period of three months, or from June 1st to September 1st. An outline narrative of the cause of each of these strikes, with their duration, wage loss, and final results, will be found on pages 208-240

GEORGE C. LOW,

Director.

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.

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Statistics of Manufactures of New Jersey for the Twelve

Months Ending December 31, 1914.

Introduction and Analysis of Tables.

The Statistics of Manufactures of New Jersey has, since the passage of the act of 1899, occupied the principal place, as well as the largest space in the annual reports of this Bureau, and it was largely because of this circumstance that the title of the Bureau was changed by the legislature of 1914 from that by which it was known from its organization in 1878 (Bureau of Statistics), to that by which it will be known hereafter—“Bureau of Industrial Statistics." The data presented in the compilation applies to the twelve months ending December 31, 1913. Interspersed with the textual review of the compilation are many analytical tables in which the data relating to the principal industries of the State are presented in comparison with those of 1912 for the purpose of showing such increases or decreases in the totals as may have occurred during the year.

The presentation is based on full and perfectly authenticated statements from all manufacturing establishments in the State in which records are kept in sufficient detail to afford the information required for use in these statistical tables. The law which established the annual Statistics of Manufactures as part of the Bureau's work did not contemplate a compilation similar to that of the United States Census Bureau, which includes in its sum total of manufacturing establishments every form of productive industry, provided only that the value of its annual products is not less than $500, which is less than the per capita yearly earnings of persons employed in the real factory and workshop industries, the statistics of which are presented in these reports. There are many thousands of these small concerns, having an average of less than two persons engaged in each, that go to swell the number of so-called establishments reported in the census compilation, which are omitted from these statistics because most of them pass out of existence before the record of