[Trade Journal]
Publication: Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, 1887
Washington, DC, United States
p. 1,5,6,35,200,204-207, col. 1
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
COMMISSIONER OF LABOR,
1887.
STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.
WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1888
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LABOR,
Washington, D. C., December 24, 1887.
SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the third annual report of the Bureau of Labor, which relates entirely to strikes and lockouts for the period of six years beginning January 1, 1881, and ending December 31, 1886.
The fieldwork on which this report is based was begun early in the summer of 1886, and closed late during the past summer. The report is divided into five chapters, as follows : Chapter I, analysis of the tables; Chapter II, the general tables of strikes and lockouts; Chapter III, the summary tables of strikes and lockouts; Chapter IV, strikes and lockouts occurring in the United States prior to 1881, or the beginning of the present investigation; and Chapter V, decisions of courts and legislation concerning strikes, combinations, conspiracies, boycotts, etc. Besides completing the field work for this report and the compilation of the information, the Bureau has carried on almost to completion the investigation begun early last year, concerning the moral, physical, and economical condition of the working women of great cities, and has continued, to some extent, its investigation into the cost of the distribution of great staple products; it has also undertaken the collection, under the provisions of the appropriation act for the present fiscal year, of the statistics of, and relating to, marriage and divorce in the United States. In this latter work I have employed experts authorized especially for the work, and also the regular special agents of the Bureau so far as their services were available without detriment to the other investigations being conducted by the Bureau. It is my hope to be able to make a full special report, before the close of the present session of Congress, on the statistics of marriage and divorce for the period of twenty years ending with December 31, 1886. The Bureau should, however, be given a further sum of money for this special work, in order that its regular agents may not be employed to the disadvantage of other investigations.
The Bureau is sadly in need of more room for its clerical force, and in the estimates for the fiscal year of 1889 I have called attention to this need.
Our work for the past year has been carried on under improved conditions. Both the field and the office force have shown the effects of experience. Not only has a larger amount of labor per capita been performed, resulting from that knowledge of the directest methods which comes from practice, but labor of a better quality has followed. The duties of a statistical office are such as make training and experience absolutely essential to the best results, and it is, therefore, a source of pleasure to observe the steady improvement and constant approach toward that ideal in which everyone must rejoice who has good achievement in statistical work at heart.
I have been favored with the continued faithful and intelligent services of Mr. Oren W. Weaver, the chief clerk of the Bureau.
Thanking you for your own continued efforts to secure the success of the Bureau, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
CARROLL D. WRIGHT,
Commissioner.
Hon. L. Q. C. LAMAR,
Secretary of the Interior.
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CHAPTER II
GENERAL TABLES OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.
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TABLE I. STRIKES BY STATES, YEARS AND INDUSTRIES.
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KENTUCKY.
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