Statistics of Employment on Steam Railroads of New Jersey for the Twelve Months Ending June 30, 1912.

Number of Miles of Road in New Jersey, Number of Employes, Total
Amount Paid in Wages, Average Daily and Yearly Earnings of
Employes, Number of Employes Injured While on Duty,
and Number of Injuries Resulting in Death.

The results brought out by the customary annual investigation of railroad employment in New Jersey are presented in this year's report in the series of tables which follow, one for each of the thirteen companies operating lines within the geographic limits. of New Jersey and one general summary table containing the totals as reported for each line, the figures for 1912 being placed in comparison with those of 1911. The entire presentation shows most strikingly the high rank which New Jersey holds as a great center of railroad interest.

The figures relating to the number of wage earners employed on these lines, include only those whose duties are performed wholly or for the most part within the geographical boundaries of New Jersey. The data presented relate to numbers employed, classification of labor, wages, working hours, accident to employes, etc.

Of the thirteen railroad lines appearing on the table, fiveviz: Lehigh & Hudson River; Lehigh & New England; Tuckerton; Raritan River and Rahway Valley, are reported only for the twelve months ending June 30, 1912. No comparisons. with previous years can therefore be made with these lines. The figures relating to the remaining eight companies are available for both years, and are so presented on the table as to show clearly such gains or losses as may have occurred in 1912, compared with 1911.

In the following table the principal features of the presentation are brought together for both years, and such increases or

decreases as have taken place are shown in absolute numbers and also by percentages.

Aggregate amount paid in wages.... $32, 651, 966.44 $34,129,033.28+ $1,477,066.84 +

4.5

Average wages per day....

$2.39

Aggregate number of employes in

The large increases here shown in the number of miles of road in the State, and in the aggregate number of employes injured while on duty, are due entirely to the circumstance already referred to of there being five comparatively small lines added to the compilation of 1912 for the first time. The list of lines of steam roads in New Jersey as it appears in this presentation includes every mile of such form of transportation that was in operation on June 30, 1912. The five new lines report 175.54 miles of track in New Jersey; 814 persons employed; 202,964 as the aggregate number of days employed during the year, and $472,982.16 as the aggregate amount paid in wages during the

year.

Deducting these figures from the totals of 1912 for the purpose of comparison with those of the previous year, there is shown to have taken place an increase of trackage amounting to 4.37 miles; an increase of 468 in the number of persons employed; an increase of 330,063 in the aggregate number of days on duty; and in the total aggregate amount paid in wages, an increase of $1,004,084.68. It will thus be seen that the year was in every respect a prosperous one for railroad employment. The average number of days on duty per employe, was 301 in 1911,

and in 1912 it is 304; the average working time per day is three-tenths of an hour greater in 1912 than in 1911, and the average time not on duty during the year was three days less. The number of employes injured while on duty was 1,984 in 1911, and the number in 1912 was 2,446. Of the total number of injured, the record of deaths resulting from injuries, shows 79 for both of the years of comparison.

Lehigh and New England Railroad..

1911

1912

43.31

41

12,297

300

11.6

65

27,068 26

2 20

660 20

CLASSIFICATION of Persons Employed on the Steam Railroads in New Jersey, for the Fiscal Year Ending

June 30, 1912.-(Continued.)

*2,877 employes are required to pass into States of New York and Pennsylvania in connection with their duties.