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Labor Bureau Gathers Additional Statistics.

In fifty-two cities and towns of the Second factory inspection district, not including Minneapolis, the labor department has inspected 848 business establishments, employing a total of 7,082 persons.  Among these employees were 6,521 men, 453 women, 107 boys of less than sixteen years of age, and 1 girl.  Of the total of 107 boys, thirty-seven are employed during vacation only.

The number of persons working nights was found to be 459, and those working Sundays 501.

Among the cities St. Cloud heads the list with 1,060 persons employed.  The greatest number is 649, employed in Sandstone.  New Ulm has 448, Chaska, 345; Milaca, 337; Willow River, 294; Anoka, 282; Fergus Falls, 263; Willmar, 254; Moorhead, 214; Princeton, 201.  There are twelve towns with a number of wage earners ranging between 100 and 200, and twenty-eight towns with less than 100 wage earners.

The largest number of persons were employed in stone quarries (753), next in railroad shops and roundhouses (632); in sawmills, 631; in flour and grist mills, 595; in brickmaking, 572; in the repairing of railroad tracks and switch blocking, 470; in printing establishments, 400; in cigar factories, 286; is planing mills and sash and door factories, 227; in marble and granite works, 193; in creameries, 165; in bakeries, 132; in breweries, 127; in foundries and machine shops, 142; in grain elevators, 118, and in laundry work, 114 persons.  All other small industries in the district furnish employment for less than 100 persons.

Thirty-three per cent of all night work was done in sawmills, 20 per cent in railroad roundhouses, and 21 per cent in flour mills; 14 per cent in electric light, heat and water plants and the rest was found in bake shops, breweries, brickyards and in watching factories during the night.

The greatest number of Sunday workers represented 17 per cent of the week-day workers.  In track and switch work they represented 13 per cent; in brickyards, 10 per cent; in electric light and water works, 12 per cent; in flour mills, 5 per cent.  The relation of all child labor to adult labor was 1 child to 66 adults, but disregarding the 37 boys who had been employed during vacation, only the relative standing would be 1 child to 99 adults.

Source

The Saint Paul Globe
Saturday, October 31, 1903, Page 10