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PART I.

INFORMATION CONCERNING WAGE-EARNERS.

Based on Blank No. 3 for Employes.

TABLE No. 1.-COLLATED STATISTICS FROM INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYES, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF HOURS EMPLOYED DAILY, TIME LOST, EARNINGS OF SELF AND FAMILY, AND TOTAL EXPENDITURES OF THE SAME DURING THE YEAR, AND THE NUMBER AND AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES OF OTHERS EMPLOYED IN THE SUBDIVISIONS OF LABOR.

TABLE NO. 2.-COLLATED STATISTICS FROM VARIOUS INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF HANDS EMPLOYED-MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN— EARNINGS OF THE SAME, NUMBER OF HOURS OF DAILY WORK, MOVEMENT OF WAGES AND TIME NOT IN OPERATION.

TABLE No. 3.-COLLATED STATISTICS, SHOWING THE PRICES RECEIVED BY PIECEWORKERS, AND THE QUANTITY PRODUCED DAILY OR WEEKLY; ALSO, THE AGES AT WHICH EMPLOYES BEGIN TO WORK, DECLINE OR BECOME INCAPACITATED, AND THE GREATEST AGE TO WHICH THEY. LIVE, AS WELL AS THE DISEASES PECULIAR TO THE VARIOUS TRADES.

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BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES,
TRENTON, July 1st, 1885.

[BLANK No. 3-FOR INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYES.]

Without knowledge based on the evidence of statistics, no intelligent action can be taken towards ameliorating the condition of working people; and this Bureau would suggest to every individual worker that it is to his or her own interest, both immediate and remote, to furnish the fullest possible replies to the questions asked in this blank. The itemized cost of living, although apparently insignificant, is of the utmost importance, because by means of household budgets we can most readily determine the purchasing power of wages. Of especial weight in all comparative wage-statistics is also the efficiency of labor-the quantity of work performed in a given period of time; wages, whether nominally high or low, are by themselves no measure of the cost of labor, or of the fact that the workman is well or poorly paid for services rendered. In order to obtain reliable and complete information, the organized bodies of wageearners in this State are earnestly requested to lend the aid of their opportunities and experience in forwarding this work in which they are so directly interested.

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9. If paid by the piece, state the price you received for the piece...........

10. What constitutes a piece, or what may be termed a unit of production, in your subdivision?..................................

11. Quantity produced in a day, or other period of time............

12 Your wages: Per day......

Per week............... Per month.

13. Your total earnings, i e., your actual income from July 1st, 1884, to July 1st, 1885.. 14. Number of days unemployed during the year, exclusive of legal holidays: Total. How many of these from sickness?............... Inability to obtain work?............... causes?

15. Earnings of all others in your family during the year: Wife............... Children.
16. Total number in your family...
Of these how many are young persons?..

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18. What was the total cost of living for yourself and family during the year?............... How much of this was spent for rent?... Food?............... Clothing?............. Light and

fuel?............... Sundries, including amusement?...

19 If possible, give the itemized expenditures for meat........................ Groceries............... Dairy products............... Vegetables...............

Breadstuffs...............................

20. What were the average weekly wages of others employed in your subdivision of trade? Men............... Women............... Children..........

21. Have you accumulated any savings during the past year?............ In former years?... 22. Have you run in debt during the past year?..

23. How many families live in the same house in which you reside?.

24 What is the average number of rooms occupied by each family?. 25. What are the diseases peculiar to your occupation?......... 26. At what age do persons begin to work at your trade?. At what age do those engaged therein begin to decline?............... At what age do they become incapacitated for active work?....... What is the greatest age to which they live?................

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27 Has the immigation of foreign laborers, under the contract system or otherwise, had any effect on your trade? If so, in what respect?...............

28 Remarks on any subject of interest to wage-earners, especially in relation to the financial, physical, intellectual and moral condition of your fellow-workmen and their families; and suggestions as to what measures could be taken to improve such condition.........

Office number.

TABLE No. 1.-INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYES.*

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BOTTLE AND VIAL BLOWERS (Green Glass).

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+ An apprentice; work for 50 per cent. less journeyman's wages.

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