TABLE No. 9.

Increase or Decrease in Wages or Working Hours from October 1, 1911, to September 30, 1912.

The purpose of this table is to show in the briefest possible form the general trend of working time and wages in the industries of the State during the twelve months covered by the Industrial Chronology. The number of industrial occupations for which changes in either or both these respects are reported, is 58; six of these refer to changes in the working hours or wages of persons not engaged in factory industries. Of the total number reported, nine are cases of factories having been reopened after a more or less extended period of total idleness; 17 are cases in which the working force had to be practically doubled by the employment of a night shift-three of them for six full nights, one for three and thirteen for five half nights per week. Six establishments changed from half time to full time; one increased the working time four days per week to six days, another increased from five to six days per week; and still another changed from 55 to 65 hours per week. Of the decreases in working time, two show reduction from six to five days per week; and one a reduction from 54 to 521⁄2 hours per week; the employers of two establisments had their working time reduced one day per week, in one case without corresponding deduction in wages; one plant discontinued night work, while another that had been working full time went on part time.

Wage increases in the several amounts shown in the table were granted voluntarily to the employes of fifteen manufacturing establishments, while the six other increases reported were principally the results of demands made by the building trade unions. Only one establishment reported a reduction in wages.

The details of wages and working hour changes are given in the table which follows.

TABLE No. 9.

Increase or Decrease in Wages or Working Hours, from October 1, 1911, to September 30, 1912.

TABLE No. 10.

New Manufacturing Plants Erected and Old Ones Enlarged. This table shows the number of manufacturing establishments erected during the twelve months covered by the chronology, and also the number of old plants that were enlarged to a greater or less extent to meet the requirements of an increasing demand for their products. The names of firms concerned, character of the industry carried on, cost of the new construction or the improvement, location of the works, and date on which the improvements were inaugurated, are given for each entry.

As shown by the table, the total amount invested during the year in factory and workshop erection, enlargement and equipment, amounted to $3,216,465, not including eleven new establishments and extensions made to six old ones, the cost of which could not be ascertained. The industries in which the newly erected establishments are to engage and the number included in each of them are as follows: leather goods, 3; automobile parts, 3; aluminum ware, buttons and buckles, pumps, hosiery, structural iron, pianos, and wagons and auto bodies, 2 each.

The following industries are represented in new construction by one establishment each; agricultural implements, bricks, beer bottling, car building and repairing, caps, chains, cork products, cigars, embossing, embroidery, food products, hair, felt, ink, linoleum, metal goods, motion pictures, night shirts, and pajamas, rubber goods, shoes, tobacco products, toilet articles, tooth paste, trousers, typewriters, and one large building to be leased in floors for manufacturing purposes.

The number of new plants erected in the various cities and towns of the State during the year covered by this record and the cost of the same, together with the number and cost of old factory enlargements is shown on the following table:

As shown by the above figures, 33 new buildings intended for the uses of manufacturing industry were completed during the year, and 89 old established plants were more or less enlarged. The total outlay for new buildings was $1,080,575; and for the extensions made to old ones, $2,135,890, making a grand total of $3,216,465, of new capital invested in this most permanent of forms during the twelve months covered by the chronology. Of the 33 new buildings, Newark has 13, or upwards of 37 per cent of the total number, and 43, or upwards of 48 per cent of the total number of manufacturing establishments that reported having made enlargements. The total outlay for new buildings