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16 years Children 16 years Women 1915.-Aggregate by Months.-(Continued 5-Number of Wage 7.-Classified Weekly Earnings 9 hours April August average number Bayonne Broad silk capital invested cents per hour Chemical Children Receiving 16 Children under 16 Children under Receiving Children under Total Classification of Weekly County December demand Earnings of Wage eight-hour day Electrical February Foundry hours per day hundred Including Piece-Workers increase of wages January Jersey City July June laborers Leather machinery machinists manufacturers March Matawan Metal Newark November Number of establishments Number of Hours Number of Persons October Office Number paid in wages Passaic Paterson Persons Employed Persons Receiving Specified Perth Amboy ployed by Industries Pound Receiving Specified Amounts Receiving Specified Total reduced to 9 reported September Silk dyeing Steam Railroads Steel and iron strike lasted strikers struck TABLE Total Amount Paid Total Number Classification Trenton union wage loss Wages increased West New York Women 16
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Page 244 - Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway employees of America in employing men for public service.
Page 241 - ... spinning industry, for instance, they are held by all classes of people, with one remarkable exception. The workmen, who had been depended upon when the low price of the shares was fixed, refuse to subscribe, the reason being that they can not be shareholders in a mill and at the same time make claims for a reduction of working hours and an increase of wages. A workman holding stock would, during a strike, lose both his wages and the interest on his investment. An English spinning association...
Page 124 - TABLE No. 8. — Number of Days in Operation, Number of Hours Worked per Day, Number of Hours Worked per Week and Overtime.
Page 259 - Carteret, struck for a reduction of working hours and an increase of wages. The strike, which was partly successful, lasted six working days, and the wage loss was $4,000.
Page 136 - ... of days not on duty also shows a reduction which equals 7.1 per cent, of the total for 1915. In all other respects, the table shows large increases for 1916 in comparison with 1915, particularly in the number of persons employed and the amount paid in wages. The employees considered are only those whose duties are performed in whole or for the most part within the geographic limits of the State. In 1915 the total number thus employed was 44,898, while in 1916 the number reported is 49,350, an...
Page 229 - Sixty employees of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co., at Hampton, struck for a reduction of working hours and an increase, of wages. The wage increase, from $1.75 per day to $2, was granted, and after withdrawing the demand for shorter working hours the men returned to work. The strike lasted two and one-half working days, and the wage loss was $275. January n.
Page 23 - ... percentages : The above table shows that in 1915 four of the twenty-five industries experienced decreases in average earnings as compared with 1914; twenty show increases, and one, "brick and terra cotta,'' shows that average earnings were practically the same for both years.
Page 1 - PART I. Statistics of Manufactures in New Jersey. Capital Invested, Number of Operatives Employed. Cost Value of Material Used. Selling Value of Goods Made. Average Working Hours. Classified Weekly Wages. Average Yearly Earnings of Labor. Statistics of Manufactures of New Jersey for the Twelve Months Ending December 31, 1911.
Page 23 - Pottery Rubber products (hard and soft) Shipbuilding ... . Silk (broad and ribbon goods) Steel and iron (structural...
Page 4 - ... increases or decreases as may have occurred in either or all of them. These comparisons are interesting and valuable for the light shed by them on the general trend of industry during the year. Table No. i shows the character of the ownership of individual establishments included in each industry group, that is to say, the number, owned by corporations, by partnerships and by individuals. The number of stockholders classified as males, females, trustees holding stock for the estates of minors,...