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During the year 29 employees were killed and 414 injured, resulting from the movement of trains; and 4 killed and 448 injured from other causes than the movement of trains.

MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES.-This is a directory by counties of the manufacturing enterprises of the State, showing the town where located and the product turned out.

OHIO.

Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of Ohio, for the year 1902. M. D. Ratchford, Commissioner. 808 pp.

The report presents the following subjects: Laws governing the labor bureau, and recent Ohio laws and court decisions relating to labor, 66 pages; manufactures, 363 pages; working women, 324 pages; free public employment offices, 19 pages; list of bureaus of labor in the United States, 2 pages.

MANUFACTURES.-Statistics for 1901 are given showing, by industries, number of establishments reported, value of goods manufactured and sold, value of materials used, value of manufactured goods and materials on hand January 1, 1902, with capital invested; amount paid in wages during 1901, and number employed and salaries of office help; number of males and females employed each month, and monthly averages of males and females for 1901; also, by occupations, the number employed, and the average days worked, average daily wages, average yearly earnings, and average hours of daily labor for 1901. These statistics are shown for each of the five principal cities, for the towns and villages, and by totals for the State. Comparisons between 1900 and 1901 are also made.

The summary following presents, for 1901, the principal data for ten of the leading industries and for all industries:

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All industries..... 5, 329 458, 461, 670 280, 817, 032 598, 332, 713 134, 662, 008

Of the 10 industries considered in the above table the steel, iron, and tin industry shows the highest average annual earnings, the amount

$5,467, 232
11,584, 158
8, 186, 712
3,209, 052
13, 196, 574
20,717, 881

$11,675, 845
19, 350, 045
16,653, 862
8, 228, 595
22,855, 724
24, 325, 941

$2,723, 913
4, 201, 289

5,280 13, 023

$515.89

322.60

3,861, 544
2,086, 675
4,838, 191
1,070, 261

7,371

523.88

6,800

306.86

11, 180

432.75

2,459

435.24

31,605, 450
3,658, 454
4,351, 424
22,963,096

75,839, 292
8,654, 975

21,996, 060

42,871

513.08

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being $636.13, while the cigar industry shows the lowest, namely, $306.86. The average for 5,329 establishments in the State was $474.12. During 1901 there were 46,286 persons who received an average advance in wages of 8.4 per cent, or an aggregate of $1,843,402, while 1,251 persons suffered an average reduction of 6.2 per cent, or an aggregate of $26,774.

WORKING WOMEN.-The information presented under this head is a continuation of an investigation reported upon in the previous annual report. The prior inquiry related to the cities of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, while the present canvass covers sixteen of the larger cities of the State. Returns are published showing, for 7,825 working women in 1901, occupations, nativity, age, weeks of employment, weeks of idleness by causes, weekly wages and income, living expenses, number of dependents, and average weekly savings. Of the 7,825 women interviewed, 7,558 were of American nativity, the next largest number being 171 of German nativity. The average age was 22 years, 1,982 being under 18 years of age, 4,241 between 18 and 25, and 1,602 over 25 years old. The average number of weeks of employment at present occupation was 40.5, and at other occupations 5.4. Weekly hours of labor averaged 57.6, and wages $4.94. Expenses per week averaged $2.55 for board and lodging, $0.03 for rent, light, and heat, $1.41 for clothing, and $1.23 for other necessaries. Their average weekly savings were $0.12. (") The total number of dependents was 930. Brief text reports are also given relative to the conditions in the industries employing women.

FREE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICES.-Brief text reports from the superintendents of the five offices, tables showing the work done by each office from the date of its organization, and reports of the operations of each office for each month of the year 1902, with totals for the year, are found under this head.

The following table shows the operations of the five free public employment offices of the State for the year 1902:

OPERATIONS OF FREE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICES, 1902.

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a For living expenses the averages were based upon the number of persons only who reported under that head, while the averages for wages were based upon the whole number of persons canvassed, hence the discrepancy between expenses and wages.

During 1902 there were 3,522 more males who applied for situations than in 1901, and 123 more females; the applications in 1902 for male help wanted exceeded those in 1901 by 6,247, and those for female help wanted by 2,092; the positions secured in 1902 for males exceeded those secured in 1901 by 4,159, and those secured for females by 432. Since the organization in 1890 of the five free public employment offices there has been a total of 343,865 applications for situations wanted, 274,511 applications for help wanted, and 187,279 positions secured. Of applications for situations 54.5 per cent were filled, and of applications for help wanted 68.2 per cent were filled.

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REPORTS OF STATE BOARDS OF ARBITRATION.

COLORADO.

Sixth Annual Report of the State Board of Arbitration. November 15, 1902. John F. Harley, Secretary. 55 pp.

The work of the board during the year covered by the report was seriously hampered by the opinion of the attorney-general of the State, handed down October 28, 1901, to the effect that the board had "no power to enforce obedience to its subpoenas, or to punish a refusal to testify; and furthermore, had no power to enforce its decisions.”

The act of 1897, creating the State board of arbitration is reproduced, together with certain amendments suggested by the board to the legislature, which are designed to remedy the above defects in the law. During the year only four cases were brought before the board.

ILLINOIS.

Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Arbitration. July 1, 1902. J. McCan Davis, Secretary. 275 pp.

During the year covered by this report 30 disputes in various forms occupied the attention of the board, 28 of which were strikes, 1 a lockout, and 1 a jurisdictional dispute between labor unions. The adjustments brought about through the good offices of the board are reported to have affected from 15,000 to 20,000 working people, and to have saved to employers, employees, and the general public, a sum amounting in the aggregate to several millions of dollars. The most effective and satisfactory work of the board was done as a board of conciliation rather than as one of arbitration.

In an appendix are extracts from the report of the United States Industrial Commission relating to collective bargaining, conciliation, and arbitration, a digest of State and national laws, establishing State boards of arbitration and providing for local boards of arbitration, with a summary of the working of such boards, and a circular of information prepared by the board relative to its powers and duties.

INDIANA.

Second and Third Biennial Reports of the Labor Commission, for the years 1899-1900 and 1901–2. L. P. McCormack and B. Frank Schmid, Commissioners. 150 150 pp.; 127 pp.

The above reports consist of a résumé of the experience and work of the commission, a detailed statement of each of the investigations and settlements made, and a reproduction of the law creating the labor commission.

During the biennial period 1899-1900 the commission made 46 investigations and settlements, and during the biennial period 1901-2 it made 38 investigations and settlements. The work of the commission has been generally satisfactory to both employers and employees.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Seventeenth Annual Report of the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, for the year ending December 31, 1902. B. F. Supple, Secretary. 331 pp.

In this report a review of the year's work of the board is followed by a detailed account of its proceedings in each of 193 controversies that came to its notice. In general the work of the board may be classified under three heads, which relate (1) to the formation of trade agreements or collective bargaining; (2) to arbitration cases, where points in dispute are left to the decision of the board; and (3) to conciliation cases, in which, by mediation between the parties to a controversy threatened or existing, the board endeavors to bring them together on some common ground. As the public becomes more familiar with its work there is a constantly increasing demand for the services of the board.

NEW YORK.

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration. 1901. John McMackin, Commissioner. 424 pp.

This report contains an account of the labor disputes within the State for the nine months ending September 30, 1901, together with full particulars of the more important disputes within the period, the text of agreements and awards terminating disputes, and a reprint of the arbitration laws of various States and foreign countries. There are also, reproduced from the Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Commissioner of Labor, statistics of strikes and lockouts in New York State for the twenty-year period 1881 to 1900, and the report of the New South Wales commission of inquiry into the working of the New Zealand compulsory conciliation and arbitration law.

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