INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYÉS. Nationality of Employés - Place of birth, Sweden. Total annual earnings of family. $ 30.00 $700.00 $730.00 108.00 400.00 508.00 470.00 470.00 EXTRACT FROM THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OF LABOR. By joint resolution of the Fifty-third Congress, the United States Commissioner of Labor was authorized and directed “to investigate and make report upon the conditions attending the employment of women and children. * * * the rates of wages paid them in comparison with the rates paid men, and the effect, if any, their employment has had upon the wages. and employment of men." "The difficulties surrounding the collection of information where such comparisons as those indicated are to be made are very great, and of course it was impossible to cover the whole country-that is, to collect information from all industrial establishments; yet the attempt was made, with fair success, to secure data from a sufficiently large number of representative establishments and persons and from nearly all the States in which mechanical industries are prominent. The agents of the department secured information from 1,067 establishments of various kinds, located in 30 different States. A total of 42,990 males and 51,539 females, or an aggregate of 94,529 persons in all, were found employed in these establishments during the former period; and 68,380 males and 79,937 females, or an aggregate of 148,367 persons, during the present period. By 'present period' in this report is meant some week in the period during which the canvass was made, and by 'former period' is meant some week antedating by at least ten years the week selected." That portion of the United States report having reference to this State is herewith presented and made a part of the report of the Connecticut Bureau of Labor Statistics. The following tables show a comparison of the persons employed in the establishments in Connecticut, of which the report treats, at the two periods, subdivided as to sex, as to whether 18 years of age or over, or under 18 years of age, increase and per cent. of increase of persons employed at the two periods, and the conjugal condition of female employees. OCCUPATIONS AND EARNINGS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, AND OF MEN, BY INDUSTRIES. "The different establishments in Connecticut from whose payrolls and officials information was secured in this investigation, are given in this table, classified according to industries. For each establishment is given the occupation in detail, with extended information as to the sex, age and weekly earnings. of the employees. First, for what has been designated as the 'former period,' and second, for what has been designated as the 'present period.' Unless otherwise stated, the facts given comprise in each case information as to all the employees of the establishment, and so far as wages are concerned the information was taken directly from payrolls, while the data relating to the age and efficiency of employees were secured from the proprietor himself, or from a foreman, bookkeeper or some other responsible employee designated by the proprietor. The data for each occupation in each establishment comprise information as to the number of employees, male and female, classified as to age, as '18 years or over,' or 'under 18 years.' Whether working by time or piece, and their highest, lowest and average earnings for the selected week at different periods, which periods it should be borne in mind, have been termed, for brevity's sake, the 'former period' and the 'present period,' each covering one week's payroll, the former period being at least ten years prior to the present period. The facts for each of these periods are placed in juxtaposition in the tables and afford a ready comparison as to the condition at the two periods. "Considerable difficulty was experienced by the agents of the department in securing accurate information as to the earnings for a full week, owing to the fact that many employees were not working full time, although no note of it was to be found on the payrolls. This was especially true of pieceworkers, of whose time no record was kept. Every effort was made, however, to secure earnings for a full week, and it is believed that this has been done quite generally in the case of timeworkers. In the case of pieceworkers the same effort was |