Cornell Unlvetslty Library HD5327.A48 1913 nepor,ons.rKe.andJoc.ouU.nC^ HP Mi I'm ,SEERSEBtt 1 1 iBIftSf mttivmitg ^ ~ THE GIFT OF .a.12.111..^ M yrji.ii.... 3777 THE LIBRARY OF THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924000611586 4 «1- ! ' >.,A REPORT ON STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA FROM 1901 TO 1912 PUBLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR /'. , OTTAWA PRINTED liy C.H. PARMBLEE, PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY 1913 1\.-L^n^^c| ^flO_ mitf : TABLE OF CONTENTS. Pa'ge. Introduction • , 5 -Chapter I. — Statistical abstract of industrial disputes, 1901-12 18 " II.— Charts 27 " HI.— Review of disputes, 1901-12 43 " IV.— Summary tables, 1901- 12 t 53 1901-05 , : . ■ . ■ 55 1906-10 .\ 99 1911 145 1912 r 157 " v.— Annual tables in detail, 1901-12 169 1901 , , 171 1902 '. , 176 1903 ; 181 1904 ^ 187 1905 - 192 1906 196 1907 202 1908 209 1909 213 1910 217 1911 222 1912 227 " VI. — Industrial disputes in other countries 235 1901-05 237 1906-10 259 " VII. — Specimen forms of inquiry 275 Property of MARTIN P. CATHERWOOD LIBRARY 45418-ii 3 NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS Cornell Universit-v REPORT ON STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA FROM 1901 TO 1912. The Honourable T. W. Ckothers, K.C, Minister of Labour, Ottawa. Sir, — I have the honour to submit a report on strikes and lockouts in Canada, covering the period 1901-12. The report presents a statement, compiled from the records of the department, giving certain particulars concerning all strikes and lockouts which, so far as the department has been able to learn, occurred in Canada from the beginning of 1^01 to the end of 1912. The record is set forth year by year and, in addition, the statistics for the decade 1901-10 have been tabulated for quinqueimial periods, so that comparison may be more conveniently made with reports for equal periods in later Canadian records and with equal periods in the case of other countries where records may be kept. The information contained in the present report may be briefly summed up thus : — (1) The strikes for the twelve years 1901-12 have numbered 1,319, an average of 110 annually. (2) The employees concerned in these strikes have numbered 319,880. (3) The time lost in strikes during the twelve years, 1901-12, falls somewhat under nine million days, the annual average being about three-quarters of a million days. Estimating the value in round terms of one day's labour at $2.50, the annual loss to the country may be placed at about 11,500,000, a total estimated loss for the twelve-year period of between t'wenty-two and twenty-three million dollars. SUMMARY TABLES. Surveying for a moment the information collected, it will be useful at this point to submit summary tables. The numbers of strikes and disputants and the amount of Time .Losses, measured in working days, year by year, for the period under review, were as follows: — 5 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Year. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lisTiments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 1901 104 121 146 99 89 141 149 68 69 84 99 ISO 273 420 927 575 437 1,015 825 175 397' 1,335 475 989 28,086 12,264 50,041 16,482 16,223 26,050 36,224 25,293 17,332 21,280 30,094 40,511 632,311 1902 120,940 1903 .,. 1904 1,226,500 265,004 1905 217,244 1906 ■ . 359,797 1907 1908 1909 621,962 708,285 871,845 1910 718,635 1911 : 2,046,650 1912 1,099,208 Total 1,319 7,843 319,880 8,888,381 CLASSIFICATION BY INDUSTRIES. The following table shows the same information classified by the industries concerned: — Class oi Industry. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments, concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. Fishing Lumbering Mining Building Metal Woodworking Printing and allied Textile Clothing Food and tobacco Leai/her • General transport Unskilled labour Miscellaneous Total 11 32 100 347 217 49 31 41 139 67 21 123 86 65 21 52 . 201 5,296 717 123 147 43 382 193 49 320 99 200 14,127 6,386 76,572 67,292 24,771 4,418 1,724 19,941 23,067 3,598 887 49,938 21,395 5,764 203,488 75,347 3,839,447 1,485,642 493,072 75,842 17,411 298,823 620,205 34,717 17,330 1,153,665 493,589 79,803 1,319 7,843 319,880 8,888,381 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 7 NO RECORDS PRIOR TO I9OI. The Canadian records do not extend back beyond the year 1901. The Department of Labour, it will be remembered, was established in the year 1900, and as soon as practicable the collection of statistics of this nature was commenced. The lines followed generally have been those pursued by the British Labour Department, which, since 1887, has published annual reports dealing with the matters of the nature here discussed, the British reports closely resembling the present publication in character. The authority under which the Department of Labour of Canada proceeds in these matters is found in the Conciliation and Labour Act, section 12 of which provides that 'with a view to the dissemination of accurate statistical and other information relating to the conditions of labour, the Minister shall institute and conduct inquiries into important industrial questions upon which adequate information may not at present be available,' &c. The portion of the Conciliation and Labour Act con- taining this section was enacted in 1900 under the title of the Conciliation Act. In 1906, on the revision of the statutes, the Conciliation Act was con- solidated with the Railway Disputes Act of 1903, the consolidated statute becoming then known as the Conciliation and Labour Act. It is not the aim of the present report to deal with the problems to which industrial disputes give rise. These ^e matters which have been treated of in separate publications issued periodically by the department, and have been dealt with p3,rticularly in the annual statements of proceedings under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907; in these pages they are men- tioned, if at all, only in passing. Statistics of the nature here assembled have a special interest in a rapidly growing community like Canada. It is both instructive to study the record of Canada from year to year, noting to what extent the fluctuation of industrial disputes may or niay not agree with other vital phases of industrial life, and it is important to be in possession of information which permits comparison in these matters as between Canada and other countries. IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS. It need hardly be observed that the industrial problem in its various aspects is the theme of universal interest and discussion to-day. The methods partic- ularly of dealing with industrial disputes, the avoidance of the strike or lockout so far as possible, and the best means of settling strikes or lockouts (though in Canada the lockout is a theory rather than a fact) which are not avoided, are matters which in recent years have received the closest consideration in all countries pursuing modern industrial methods. Every nation seeks information and guidance from the general experience of other countries. On several recent occasions the vast issues involved have forced industrial disputes on the attention of the greatest of the world's governments. The Prime Ministers of Great Britain and France and the President of the United States have each come into closest, contact with disputes which have seemed to threaten their respective countries with perils graver than war, famine, or plague, and 8 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR which have in each case caused positive suffering and disaster to an alarming dpgree. It is hence inevitable that inquiry should be made on the widest scale as to the relative merit and value of legislation bearing on the subject in different countries. This is a point which it would be difficult under any circumstances to determine, but w:hich cannot be intelligently discussed until the fullest inform- ation obtainable on many vital facts has been gathered and carefully arranged. Here, therefore, lies the essential value of statistics found in the present report; first, for the purposes of comparison between year and year, and period and period in treating of the industrial history of Canada, particularly during those past recent years of rapid development; and secondly, in permitting comparison, useful, though admittedly not exact, between relative conditions in Canada and other countries. TIME LOSSES THE CHIEF GAUGE OF VALUES. Looking closely into the statistics gathered, it becomes possible to form an approximate estimate of the damages sustained by the community by reason of strikes during a stated period; and the best gauge of these damages is perhaps to be found, not, as will appear later, m the numbers of strikes or numbers of disputants, but in what may be briefly termed the Time Losses, that is, the work-days lost by the disputants from productive or earning purposes. Other factors than Time Losses, it is true, will enter into the situation occasionally, particularly in the case of public utilities, such as are not easily shown in statis- tical form. The stoppage of work in public utilities involves the public interests most intimately, and it was the recognition of the superior importance of disputes in this connection that caused the enactment of the Industrial Disputes Inves- tigation Act, 1907. The Time Losses record remains, however, on the whole, the most effective gauge of the relative importance of the strike in the industrial life of a community. The figures of Time Losses, when recorded in the mass, are of great magni- tude; during the twelve years, 1901-12, they stand for instance, at aljoaost nine million days; or, turning the days into years at 300 working days to the year, reach a total of twenty-nine thousand years. Yet, as we shall see presently, it is easily possible to exaggerate the meaning of this gigantic array of figures, and their examination and analysis may be taken up with the lighter heart when it is remembered that the period during which they have been gathered, 1901-12, has been the most stirring and active and prosperous in the history of the Domin- ion. In a word, the worst deduction to be drawn from the figures is that the • great prosperity of these twelve years would have been yet greater could Canada have escaped its share of the industrial tumults falUng to the nations of the modem world. The struggle between employer and workman exists, however, in Canada as elsewhere, though Canada fortunately has had but slight expe- rience, relatively speaking, of the struggle in its most acute forms. In Canada there has not yet been a serious attempt at a general strike, and the occasions on which industrial unrest had led to civil disturbances have been comparatively few. strikes' and lockouts, 1901-12 & Clearly it is only by the methodical collection from day to day and from year to year of the details of each individual dispute — so far, always, as these are obtainable — that it becomes possible to take the present retrospect of twelve years, and that it will become possible, as the years pass, this work continuing, to make a survey, as to these matters, of the industrial history of Canada. The present report establishes, too, in some measure a basis of comparison with other countries, and this may assist in determining the relative utility of thp existing methods in different countries of dealing with industrial disputes. Not too much, let it be said at the outset, must be expected of statistics. Exact information may be gathered on some points and not on others. Pains- taking methods, however, in the collection of data, and increasing experience in dealing with the subject, have produced a record which is believed to be an approximate reflection of precise conditions. ESSENTIAL POINTS OF INQUIRY. The three essential points at which the inquiry aims are (1) the number of strikes, (2) the number of strikers, (3) the extent of Time Losses, counted in days; besides, the inquiry runs naturally into an analysis of the causes and results of the disputes. Looking for a moment at the relative degrees of eflfectiveness reached in the statistics presented as to these groups, it is obvious that the greater degree of exactness may be expected where the point of inquiry is most concentrated, as to the number of strikes, for instance. The number of strikes in a given year in Canada has so far been easily within the two hundred mark, and a reasonable vigilance has practically ensured the enumeration of each case; when it is stated, therefore, that the number of strikes in Canada during twelve years has been 1,319, the margin of uncertainty is practically nil; the circumstances admit of precision. It is less simple in the case of the other heads of this inquiry; the exact numbers of the disputants and the consequent Time Losses are less easily ascertainable, and the return for each dispute, as to these points, must stand alone. In some of the largest disputes the numbers of hands out and the Time Losses may each be closely placed; in other cases, sometimes even in small disputes, an estimate can be made only after a careful weighing of conflicting statements, and can be no more than approximate. Even a casual examination of the returns will show why it is that, as mentioned above, the number of strikes is by no means a criterion as to the general loss or inconvenience to the community at large from industrial disputes. One particular strike in any year may so greatly overshadow all strikes in another year that a comparison without careful analysis would be misleading. Taking alone the strikes recorded for each year from 1901 to 1912, we find the figure fluctuating from the high level of 146 in 1903 to the low level of 68 in 1908; but the figures as to Time Losses in these two years respectively do not stand widely apart. It is to the year 1911, when 97 strikes (neither high level nor low level) were recorded, that we must turn for the high-water mark of Time Losses, which in that year exceeded two million days; the 1911 figures for Time Losses are, in fact, more than twice those of any other year for which 10 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR a record exists, and it may be confidently stated, though statistics before 1901 are lacking, far exceed those of any previous year in Canadian history. An examination of the detailed record for the year (1911) in which the strike Time Losses reached this high figure offers a ready explanation of the abnormal figures; a single industry, that of coal mining, bears the burden of four-fifths of the Time Losses, and one strike in this industry is alone responsible for no less than seven-tenths of the total loss of two million days. In other words, while the total Time Losses from strikes in 1911 reached 2,021,440 days, the losses entailed by what has been usually classified and generally regarded as a single dispute (since the parties on each side acted together), that of coal miners in eastern British Columbia and southern Alberta, alone reached the high figure of 1,390,000 days, a huge proportion of the heavy total for the year. Other coal mining disputes in 1911 increased considerably the amount of Time Losses chargeable to that industry for the year. ANALYSIS OF TIME LOSSES. While, as has been suggested, the figures as to numbers of disputants involved. Time Losses, etc., may appear in the mass somewhat startling, yet, subjected to a careful analysis they become less imposing. Taking, for instance the calendar year 1912, which reflects the Dominion of Canada with its maximum of population, the number of disputant employees for the period covered hy this report is placed approximately at 40,511. Census bulletins based on the returns collected in June, 1911, from which it will become possible ultimately to learn the precise number of wage earners at that time, are not yet to hand, but calculating from the basis furnished by the census of 1901, and adding the due percentage of subsequent growth down to the end of the year 1912, the wage earning population for 1912 may be placed, in round figures, at 1,300,000.* Thus it will be seen that the number involved, 40,511, is little more than three per cent of the wage earners of the country. In the year 1911 again, when tha estimated number of employees reached the smaller figure of 30,094, the wage-earning population being a fraction under that estimated for 1912, the smallness of the proportions of those involved in disputes to possible wage earners becpmes more striking still, the 30,094 disputants being but two per cent of the then total number of wage earners; this relatively, small pro- portion, however, of strikes brought about for that year (1911), it will be remembered, the heaviest Time Losses on record. It has been already shown that Time Losses, so far as details can be gathered are more effective, speaking generally, than either the number of disputes or the number of disputants in showing the actual cost or injury to the public of the industrial disputes during a given period. The numbers respectively of strikes and of disputants have obviously no fixed or necessary relation to *The tables given out by the Census branch in Bulletin 11, issued in March, 1910, and based on the census of 1901, showed wage earners totalling 736, 549 males and 186, 042 females. On page U of the special report on Area and Population, Fifth Census of Canada, 1911, the increase in population during the decade 1901-1911 is placed at the rate of 34-13. The increase since June, 1911 has been presumably at an even more rapid rate than this, immigration having proceeded at an unprecedentedly high figure; adding therefore somewhat less than six per cent for these years, the percentage of 40 may be regarded as the approximate increase of the figures of 1912 over 1901. ^ STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 11 each other . The figures show wide ranges of variations as related to each other. Nor does either class of figures (those of disputes and disputants) bear, as has been shown, any precise or permanent relation to the duration or cost of a strike. The figures showing Time Losses are on a somewhat different footing. In the case of numbers of disputants involved we have seen that the 40,511 disputants of 1912 were but three per cent of the total of estimated wage earners for the year, and the number of disputants during 1912 was a smaller proportion still, namely, two per cent only of the estimated number of wage workers for the year. But the Time Losses for these two years were greater than during any other two years in Canadian history. The numbers of disputes or disputants do not therefore bedr intimately on the question 'of Time Losses, and may not reflect closely the injury or inconvenience which a community may suffer from industrial disputes. The small proportions numerically of disputants to wage earners in a given year have been shown. It is interesting to compare similarly the figures of Time Losses from strikes with those of possible working days of the wage- earning population. The year 1911 was, as noted, exceptionally high in Time Losses, showing, at 2,021,440 wasted days, twice the volume of Time Losses recorded for any other year. The wage earners for that year are estimated at slightly under 1,300,000, and the possible working days for 1911 may be therefore placed at 390,000,000; this estimate allows an average of 300 working days a year to each worker. Analysis shows that these Time Losses of two million days were no more -than the one hundred and ninety-fifth part (195) of the number of days worked or, putting it in another way, if spread everJy over the whole wage-earning population of Canada the Time Losses by strikes for 1911 would represent a loss per worker of a fraction under two days. For 1912 the figure representing Time Losses, as against number of days worked dwindles to less than one day per worker; the Time Losses were only fifty per cent of those of 1911, and the industrial population had grown. Analyses of this character tend, it is believed, to show that however largely the problem of industrial disputes may loom in the public mind, and however acute may be sometimes the inconvenience, injury or loss resulting from them in a particular locality, yet the net sum of the losses which may be direct- ly debited to industrial disputes does not justify dismay or despair; and is but an item in a year's industrial account. The mass of wage earners w^rks steadify on, and is affected only as part of society at large. The Time Losses for the twelve years covered by the report reach the sum of 8,888,381 days. It is a formidable figure and there is danger for the moment of overlooking the fact that it must be divided first by twelve, to secure the yearly average of 740,698 days. In the above analysis the comparison was made for the two highest years when the Time Losses were far above the average; the average percentage for the complete period, therefore, of Time Losses to possible work-days sinks accordingly. BKITISH STATISTICS YIELD SIMILAK RESULTS. Much the same situation seems to exist in Great Britain, where are found in the Report on Strikes and Lockouts for 1911 the following sentences bearing 12 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR on this point : ' The aggregate number of working days available for the whole industrial population, exclusive of- agricultural labourers, may be roughly estimated at rather more than 3,100,000,000. The- aggregate duration of all the disputes in progress during 1911 amounted to 10,319,591 working days or about one three-hundreth of this total. In other words, the amount of working time lost owing to disputes in 1911 at the works immediately affected would have been about one per head if spread over the whole industrial population.' In the case of Great Britain, also, the proportion of disputants to the workers was very slight, though somewhat larger than in the case of Canada; 'thus', says the same report (for 1911), 'although the number of work people involed in disputes was higher -than any previously recorded by the department, the proportion affected of the total number of persons engaged in industrial occupations was only nine per cent as compared with 4 .9 per cent in 1910 and 2.9 per cent, the mean for the ten years 1902-11.' Returning for the moment in the case of Great Britain to the proportions between actual Time Losses and possible working days, it may be remarked that while the complete official report for 1912 is not yet to hand, an advance report given out by the British Labour Department has placed the Time Losses for that year (which included the national coal strike) at the amazingly high figure, having in mind all previous British r£ cords, of 40,000,000 days. This total is about four times that reached in Great Britain in 1911, and the losses accord- ingly, spread over the British industrial population, would show an average loss for 1912 of four days per head; even this high figure, therefore, leaving a hardly perceptible effect on the sum total of possible working days for British industry in the year concerned. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES AND ORGANIZED LABOUR. It is well thus to realize that the strikes which an ordinary year may produce, though sometimes severe and widely disastrous, yet tend usually to reduce but slightly the huge volume of activity and production. The most serious conflict within the experience of Canada has not prevented the vast mass of wage earners from proceeding on the even tenor of its way, and this has been the experience, too, of other countries, not excepting those which have had experience of the 'national' strikes undertaken during recent y^rs in Europe. A cursory examination of the information collected in this report will show to how great an extent, however, industrial troubles fall on special classes of workers. Coal mining and the building trades stand oat in strong relief as those industries which are most afflicted with disputes. It is in connection with organized labour rather than unorganized labour that strikes chiefly occur. The reason is obvious. A strike means unity of action, which is impossible without organization. Wage earners are seldom inclined to enter on a struggle with their employer until a degree of organization is found in their ranks. The situation is fairly reflected in the very large proportion found of strikes concerning union recognition or some aspect of union recognition. It will, it is true, frequently happen that union and non-union employees are STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 13 both concerned in a particular strike. The unionists may even be sometimes. in a minority, but, being organized and including quite inevitably the more aggressive spirits, they will often largely control the action of the employees as a whole. Naturally labour organization reaches its most advanced and most successful form in the ranks of the most skilled and. responsible workers. The upper grades of railroad workers — engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, telegraphers, etc. — stand perhaps at the apex of organized labour, having achieved that most desirable of industrial systems, that of working under agreement, and having learned the further valuable art of renewing these agreements, modified or otherwise, without cessation of work. The facilities for arranging working agreements in the case of these great railroad brotherhoods are superior in a measure to those open to many other classes of workmen because of (1) the good relations that fortunately exist between the great railroad companies and the unions, and (2) the relatively small number of employers with whom it is neces- sary -to treat — the great railroads in any case set the pace in these matters. *One important fact, however, which stands,out in the present report is that during the twelve years under review there has been but a single strike, in which any one of the five railroad brotherhoods indicated has been concerned. In other words, of the thirteen hundred strikes recorded in Canada during twelve years only one is debited to railroad engineers, railroad firemen, railroad conductors, railroad trainmen or railroad telegraphers. While therefore it. is on organized labour that the strike burden chiefly falls, some branches of labour, and these the most highly organized, appear to have largely eliminated the strike as an actual experience. Those who have been behind the scenes in connection with these matters will be a,ware that even here the menacing figure of the strike is found none the less somewhere in the back- ground and there plays its part in the preliminary negotiations. There is perhaps ground for encouragement in the facts shown. Labour, like society at large, has its classes and divisions. Its scheme of organization is no doubt in the initial stages only. It is not clear that the methods practised by the highly unionized callings represented by the railroad brotherhoods are attainable by other callings, especially by industries carrying less of individual responsibility and making less demand for high intelligence and effort. Nor is it certain that employers are at present disposed to look favourably on methods which would entail a closer unionism than at present exists in most callings. So far, however, as labour organization results in bringing these methods into vogue and assists its followers in framing effective working agreements with employers, the strike will, if we may judge from the experience of the railroad brotherhoods, figure less and less as a factor in industriahsm. This is not the place in which to discuss the varying methods in dealing with employers, used by the different bodies representing organized labour, nor is it possible here to inquire at length into the importance and influence of organ- ized labour in industrial disputes. Before leaving the subject, however, it may be interesting to state in a word the proportions which organized labour bears to the aggregate of labour. The approximate figures may be given. The Report on Labour Organization in Canada for 1912, issued earlier in the year. 14 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR shows the total of union membership to be in round figures, 160,000; the census returns of 1901 and 1911, viewed together in the manner described on an earlier page, show the total of wage earners at the present time to be about 1,300,000, placing organized labour at about eleven per cent of all wage earners. Large classes of labour fall outside the range of unionism. Somewhat over a third of all wage earners in Canada is included in the callings described by the census branch as 'manufacturing'; the census bulletin, which was issued in August, 1912, placed the number of those contained in this class at 550,000. The term 'manufactures' is, however, there used in an usually broad sense, and within this division of wage earners would fall a -considerable amount of organized labour; but the wage fearners included in the manufacuring division alone greatly outnumber the trade union membership in, Canada. Of wage earners remaining thus practically unaffected by organization, equalling, as has been seen, eighty-nine per cent of all wage earners, it may be said that the lack of organization is found chiefly, and quite naturally, on the part of unskilled labour, though there are some important exceptions. Farm labour and the class of workers described generally in census and other returns as 'labourers,' that is, men without technical instruction of any kind, alone comprise about one-fourth of all male wage earners, and these are wholly without any system of organization. Female worl ers again are but slightly organized in Canada. The number of women workers in Canada is shown by the census figures to be about one-fifth of the total and may be placed for the year 1912 at about 290,000 out of the estimated total of wage earners of 1,300,000. The extent of organization among women workers is not easily ascertainable, but the information collected shows that the industries which have been organ- ized include comparatively few women workers; the exceptions are found chiefly in the manufacturing group. In the census of 1901, it may be remarked, about one-half of the then female workers fell within the domestic and personal classes and rather less than one-third were found in the 'manufacturing' callings; presumably when the census figures for 1911 become available it will be found that the proportions on this point have not materially changed. Thus, reviewing the situation respecting the subject of Time Losses, it is seen that the burden falls chiefly on certain classes of organized industry, while organized industry as a whole represents but eleven per cent of all wage earners. A close scrutiny of the information collected in the present report, particu- larly that found in the detailed return of strikes by areas, will show that strikes have frequently occurred at dates not widely separated in the same industry and in the same localities. Consequently, it must frequently happen that the same men figure again and again in particular strikes, and this view is, of course, fully borne out by the experience of the department and the information which necessarily comes to it. The annual reports of some of the international trades organizations contain statements showing the amounts paid out in strike benefits, but no authority has, it is believed, attempted to indicate the entire burden entailed by strikes on a particular industry, and the injuries resulting from strikes can probably be indicated only in general terms by the amount of 'time losses.' Thus, to repeat the illustration given earlier in these remarks, STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 15 placing the 'time losses' for the year 1912 at one million days (this in round numbers was the figure) and estimating the value of a day at the low figure of $2.50, the loss in wages may be placed at $2,500,000. For twelve years the Time Losses are placed at nine million days and the direct monetary losses in wages, similarly computed, would be $22,500,000, It has not been an easy task, as has been pointed out,|to form an approximate estimate of Time Losses directly incurred by the disputants and it is regarded as quite impracticable to undertake to state the losses falling on workers who may be only indirectly affected; and other indirect losses arising from industrial unrest can hardly be stated in money terms. COMPAEISON WITH OTHEE COUNTRIES. The general trend of industrial disputes does not differ greatly as between one country and another. The statistics for Canada have been gathered on lines closely following those pursued in preparing British official reports on the subject, and a comparison may be fairly made in the two cases, keeping always in mind the large difference in population. The British record of statistics in industrial disputes goes back to a date considerably prior to the Canadian. The basis of action in the case of Great Britain is a resolution passed by the British House of Commons in 1886, declaring that immediate steps should be taken to ensure 'the full and accurate compilation and publication of labour • statistics. ' The earliest year for which a full record seems to have been secured for Great Britain was 1893, which chanced to be the year of worst record from that date down to 1911; the high level of 1893, when the figure stood at 30,467,765 days, was, however, far surpassed in. 1912 owing to the national coal strike in England and Scotland. A survey of the statistics assembled in the British report shows that the coal mining industry has been the most important single factor in the accumulation of Time Losses, and coal mining strikes are found to have been always particularly severe in those years in which the Time Losses reached abnormal or startling figures. In 1893, for instance, the great Time Losses were occasioned by a strike of coal miners in the districts as then federated. The strike involved about three hundred thousand men, and con- tinued for three months and a half, other smaller coal mining strikes of the year bringing the British Time Losses for 1893 on account of the coal industry alone, to over 24,500,000 days. The second worst year in Great Britain before 1912 was 1898 when the Time Losses reached 15,289,478 days, the" single strike of coal miners of South Wales and Monmouth contributing the formidable proportion of 11,650,000 days. The details for the calendar .year 1912 had not been received at date of writing, but a summary statement issued by the British Department of Labour has placed the Time Losses for the year at the truly startling figure of 40,000,000 days, a level the height of which is not surprising when it is remembered that the number of coal miners involved in the strike of 1912 was placed in round figures at one million. , A prolonged strike of engineers, machinemen, etc., in London and other parts of the United Kingdom continued from July 5, 1897, to January 28, 1898, and entailed Time Losses of 6,849,000 days being the only dispute in any industry 16 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR other than coal mining which approaches the figures of that industry. In these respects the course of industrial disputes in Canada has resembled that of Great Britain, but the coal mining industry is perhaps even more vital to the general industrial life in the case of Great Britain than it would be in the case of Canada. In the statistical returns on these matters issued by other countries than Great Britain one finds little uniformity of method. In one case information on a material point may be collected, and in another case omitted, and the basis of collection in one country may differ from that on which another country proceeds. In the United States a valuable report was published cover- ing the whole subject of industrial disputes for the five years 1901 to 1906, but nothing appears to have been printed since dealing with this subject for the country at large, and it is 'gathered that the authorities have determined that it is not desirable that further work on the same lines should be undertaken; certain of the individual states collect material in their own account, but here -again there is no uniformity of method, and comparisons are difficult. Some tabulations concerning leading countries are printed in the present report, and when there is variation as to method the leading points of variation are shown so far as possible. INDTJSTBIAL DISPUTES INVESTIGATION ACT, 1907. Those who have followed the industrial history of the country will be aware that a statute of particular importance and interest was enacted in 1907, known, popularly, as the ' Leitiieux Act, ' so named after the Minister of Labour of that period, Honourable Rodolphe Lemieux, and more formally entitled 'The Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907.' The object of the statute is shown in the complete title, vix., 'An Act to aid in the Prevention and Settlement of Strikes and Lockouts in Mines and Industries connected with Public Utilities. ' It is not intended here to discuss the nature and operations of this statute. The Act has been, however, the subject of much public discussion and interest and it will be of service to many to have set down at this place a summary digest of the operations under the statute governing the six years from its enactment on March 22, 1907, to March 31, 1913, the close of the last fiscal year. Those desiring to follow more closely the proceedings under the Act named, are referred to the Annual Report of the Registrar, which is presented to Parliament by the Minister of Labour. The summary statement in question follows: — Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907. proceedings 1906-7 to 1912-13. Total number of applications received 144 Applications classified according to industries : Coal mining 40 Metalliferous mining H Railways 60 Street railways 13 Shipping 7 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 17 Commercial telegraphs 2 Telephones 2 Miscellaneous civic employees . . 4 Leather workers Cotton workers Machinists, blacksmiths and helpers. 2 under 2 section 1 63. 144 Number of applications made by employers 15 " " " employers and employees both 3 employees 126 (( (( a 144 Number of employees concerned in above 144 disputes, . 176,991 Number of cases in which strikes were not either averted or ended by a reference of the dispute under the Act .... 18 The statute, as the title indicates, refers especially to certain specific industries, but may be invoked by joint agreement in any industry, under stated terms; in the statement printed above the disputes indicated as falling 'under section 63' were cases where a joint agreement between both parties was secured before a Board was established. PREPAHATION OF THIS REPOKT. The material presented in this publication had, as has been explained, accumulated in the department diiring the period under review, appearing in part from month to month in the pages of the Labour Gazette, and in the aimual departmental report. Its tabulation, arrangement and analysis for the purposes of the present report has meant, however, much patient and careful labour. This work, which was mainly entrusted to Mr. D. J. -Halpin, an officer of the department, is believed to have been efficiently performed. The charts which accompany the tables and add to the effectiveness of the report, were prepared by Miss Edna Shearman, librarian of the department. While the present publication is the first spfecial report issued on these matters, it is believed it will be found useful to issue regular reports for the future on this important subject, as in the case of Great Britain and most leading industrial countries. The report being arranged in quinquennial divisions, it will be no doubt found convenient to continue the plan in later publications. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient servant, F. A. ACLAND, Deputy Minister of Labour. Department of Labour, Ottawa, July 15, 1913. 45418—2 18 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR CHAPTER I. STATISTICAL ABSTRACT. Summary Statement of information gathered as to all Strikes in Canada during the twelve years 1901-12. The following pages present a statistical abstract of the information collected regarding the industrial disputes in Canada from January 1, 1901, to December 31, 1912. The information is arranged from many points of view. The classifi- cation of industries here given is of a general character and does not descend to individual trades. The detailed statistics will be found in the tables dealing with the subject year by year, from which has been drawn an abstract, arranged in the following order : — • 1. Industrial Disputes in Canada, 1901-12 — General Summary. 2. Industrial Disputes, 1901-12, by Industries— (a) Number of disputes, (b) Number of establishments concerned, (c) Number of employees affected, (d) Time Losses. Causes — (a) Number of disputes. (c) Number of employees affected. 3. Industrial Disputes, 1901-12, by (b) Number of establishments concerned, (d) Time Losses. 4. Industrial Disputes, 1901-12, by Results — (a) Number of disputes, (b) Number of establishments concerned, (c) Number of employees affected, (d) Time Losses. 5. Industrial Disputes, 1901-12, by Provinces — (a) Number of disputes, (b) Number of establishments concerned, (c) Number of employees affected, (d) Time Losses. Industrial Disputes in Canada, 1901-12 — General Summary. Statement showing, by periods, numbers of Disputes and Disputants and approximate Time Losses in Working Days. Industrial Disputes, 1901-13. Statistical Abstract — Table No. 1. Period. 1901-05 1906-10 1911.... 1912.... No. Dis- putes. 559 511 99 150 1,319 No. Estab- lishments concerned. 2,632 3,747 475 989 7,843 No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 123,096 126, 179 30,094 40,511 319,880 2,461,999 3,280,524 2,046,650 1,099,208 8,888,381 ; STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 19 Industrial Disputes in Canada, 1901-12— Classified by Industries. Statement showing Numbers of Disputes and Disputants and Time Losses in Working Days, arranged in periods and classified by industries. Industrial Disputes, 1901-12. Statistical Abstract. — Table No. 2. NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. Industry. 1901-05 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. Fishing Lumbering Mining Building Metal Woodworking Printing and allied Textile Clothing Food and tobacco. Leather General transport. . Unskilled labour , , , Miscellaneous 13 37 143 95 33 18 .15 '51 41 9 43 33 22 559 4 15 50 123 75 14 10 21 56 21 11 54 40 17 7 29 18 2 4 13 3 1 12 4 1 4 6 52 29 3 1 19 2 14 9 10 511 150 11 32 100 347 217 49 31 41 139 67 21 123 86 55 1,319 45418— 2i 20 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS. Industiy. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. Fishing 13 13 43 1,728 188 82 84 14 200 94 14 83 31 45 5 22 106 2,735 369 39 31 24 106 73 34 112 42 49 22 248 SO 2 4 13 18 1' 105 6 6 3 17 30 585 110 32 ,1 63 8 20 20 100 21 Lumbering . 52 201 Huilding S,296 Metal 717 Woodworkinff 'l23 147 Textile 43 Clothing 382 193 Leather . 49 320 99 Miscellaneous . ^ ... 200 2,632 . 3, 747 475 989 7,843 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. Industry. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Fishing Lumbering. . .~. Mining Building. . . ^ Metal I, Woodworking Printing and allied Textile Clothing Food and tobacco Leather General transport Unskilled labour Miscellaneous 13,300 2,640 27,732 22,680 10,580 3,055 1,100 4,456 8,968 2,153 324 18,970 3,842 3,296 123,096 677 2,921 ' 33,997 27,319 8,337 1,303 316 14,436 6,076 1, 160 548 21,622 5,990 1,477 9,769 8,828 3,167 60 943 1,285 213 15 4,987 425 402 150 825 5,074 8,465 2,687 308 106 6,738 72 4,359 11,138 589 126, 179 30,094 40,511 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 APPROXIMATE TIME LOSSES IN WORKING DAYS. 21 Industry. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. Fishing Lumbering Mining Building Metal...; Woodworking Printing and allied. Textile Clothing Food and tobacco. . Leather General transport. . Unskilled labour. . . Miscellaneous 189, 600 9,490 647,172 610, 586 208,953 60,813 9,590 42,751 196,797 16,201 3,596 411,778 18,619 36,053 8,488 61,687 1,510,307 474, 028 218,961 14,472 ^,119 236, 783 105,531 15,761 13,434 573,396 19,402 24,255 2,461,999 3,280,524 ,592,800 286,804 32,633 . 557 18, 123 11,770 373 300 85,493 6,330 11,467 6,400 4,270 89, 168 114,324 32,525 3,702 1,166 306, 107 2,382 82,998 449,238 8,028 ,046,650 1, 099,208 203,488 • 75,347 3,839,447 1,485,642 493, 072 75,842 ' 17,411 298,823 620,205 34,717 17,330 1,153,665 493,589 79,803 8,888,381 Industrial Disputes in Canada, 1901-12— Classified by Causes. Statement showing cause or object of Disputes, with numbers of Disputes and Disputants, and Time Losses, the whole arranged by periods. Industrial Disputes, 1901-12. Statistical Abstract. — Table No. 3. NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. For increase in wages Against reduction in wages For shorter hours For increase in wages and decrease in hours For recognition of union Against employment of non-unionists For increase in wages and other chaliges Against discharge of employees Sympathetic disputes Against employment of particular persons. . . Unclassified 194 38 24 71 24 37 19 35 17 26 74 559 208 32 32 29 10 51 40 31 8 20 50 511 45 6 3 3 1 5 7 2 4 5 18 99 5 7 22 3 3 14 6 2 8 14 160 513 81 66 125 38 96 80 74 31 59 156 1,319 22 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS. For increase in wages Against reduction in wages For shorter liours For increase in wages and decrease in hours For recognition of union Against employment of non-unionists For increase in wages and other changes. . . . Against discharge of employees Sympathetic disputes Against employment of particular persons. . Unclassified 1901-05. 1,153 69 65 704 110 58 125 34 132 35 145 2,632 1906-10. 1,551 125 174 588 223 310 378 34 36 22 306 3,747 1911. 1912. 240 •7 17 27 1 5 28 2 57 5 86 558 29 17 156 31 4 82 6 2 69 35 475 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. For increase in wages Against reduction in wages For shorter hours For increase in wages and decrease in hours For recognition of union Against employment of non-unionists For increase in wages and other changes. . . , Against discharge of employees Sympathetic disputes Against employment of particular persons. . Unclassified 55, 059 6,497 2,368 9,701 15,876 1,874 2,983 8,464 4,416 1,054 14,804 123,096 39, 100 11,047 4,255 8,417 8,454 11,380 13,306 3,218 1,571 2,672 22, 759 7,235 1,715 138 295 1,000 404 7,675 108 5,738 561 5,225 17,704 1,530 636 8,449 260 187 4,189 3,780 104 991 2,681 126, 179 30,094 40,511 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 -APPROXIMATE TIME LOSSES IN WORKING DAYS. 23 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. For increase in wages Against reduction in wages For shorter hours For increase in wages and decrease in hours For recognition of union. . .• Against employment of non-unionists For increase in wages and other changes. . . . Against discharge of employees Sympathetic disputes Against employment of particular persons. . Unclassified 1,195,336 42,748 84,921 177,473 423,425 28,141 38,696 126, 140 37,688 2,307 305,124 562,793 250,526 93,527 154,277 876,698 140,979 387,109 38, 111 37,524 31,431 707,549 88,340 32,590 422 10,245 190,000 2,295 1,414,280 280 243,476 2,483 62,239 2,461,999 3,280,524 2,046,650 474,931 60,460 8,511 193,445 1,780 3,210 145,033 167,690 3,328 6,905 43,915 1,099,208 2,321,400 386,324 187,381 536,440 1,491,903 174,625 1,985,118 322,221 322, 016 43, 126 1,118,827 8,888,381 Industrial Disputes in Canada, 1901-12 — Classified by Results. Statement showing results of Disputes, with Numbers of Disputes and Dis- putants, and Time Losses, the whole arranged by periods. , Industrial Disputes, 1901-12. Statistical Abstract. — Table No. 5. NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. Total. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. 230 144 23 57 129 191 38 46 39 97 ' 23 18 161 79 15 29 559 511 99 150 In favour of employees In favour of employers Compromise Uncertain Total 454 404 177 284 1,319 NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. In favour of employees In favour of employers Compromise Uncertain Total 1,233 567 168 664 2,081 665 846 156 2,632 3,747 177 101 131 494 227 91 177 3,985 1,560 1,235 1,063 475 7,843 24 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. ,*' , 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. 56,730 28,283 12,337 25,746 42, 672 42,059 29,267 12, 181 4,625 5;^024 13,348 7,097 10,802 12,117 2,216 15,376 114,829 In favour of employers 86,483 57,168 XTncertaFin ^ 60,400 Total 123,096 126, 179 30,094 40,511 319,880 APPROXIMATE LOSS OF TIME IN WORKING DAYS. In favour of employees In favour of employers Compiomise Uncertain Total 1901-05. 837,885 1,027,201 133, 125 463,788 2,641,999 1906-10. 422,915 1,189,105 667,708 1,000,796 1911. 56,906 94,061 1,617,289 278,394 1912. 118,793 531,408 54,478 394, 529 3,280,524 12,046,650 ll, 099, 208 Total. 1,436,499 2,841,775 2,472,600 2,137,507 8,888,381 Industrial Disputes in Canada, 1901-12— Classified by Provinces. Statement showing numbers of Disputes and Disputants, with Time Losses, arranged by periods and classified by provinces. Industrial Disputes, 1901-12. Statistical Abstract. Table No. 4. NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Interpiovincial 36 2 20 131 276 28 1 8 53 4 559 34 26 106 223 29 7 33 46 7 511 3 19 41 12 12 2 99 7 24 67 7 16 14 10 1 150 56 280 607 72 24 67 121 1,319 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS. 25 Province. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Interprovincial 176 2 30 842 1,197 180 1 48 151 5 2,632 63 86 809 1,634 553 51 289 239 23 3,747 7 57 137 14 45 196 17 475 24 17 109 406 113 149 127 43 1 989 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. Province. 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. TotaL Nova Scotia 17,232 47 3,343 30,516 31,870 2,393 20 701 30,674 6,300 19, 159 4,003 32,311 30,935 9,028 699 4,341 8,578 17, 125 1,154 134 6,745 4,503 369 1,668 8,221 7,300 104 872 6,810 10,970 3,005 1,885 3,345 12,520 1,000 37,649 47 Prince Edward Island 8,352 76,382 78,278 14.795 2,604 10,055 59,993 31,725 Quebec Ontario .■ Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Interprovincial 123,096 126, 179 30,094 40,511 319,880 26 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR APPROXIMATE LOSS OF TIME IN WORKING DAYS. , 1901-05. 1906-10. 1911. 1912. Total. Nova Seoiia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Interprovincial 156,703 819 45,993 382,276 715,257 34,340 18, 182 788,230 320,200 1,058,768 53,910 459,080 513,206 108,695 12,268 201,162 151,385 722,050 193, 230 406 42,270 77,243 1,165 8,545 312,791 1,411,000 1,790 13,274 181,926 270,589 28,450 11,116 76,837 490,726 24,500 2,461,999 3,280,524 2,046,650 1,099,208 1,410,491 819 113,583 1,065,551 1,576,295 172,650 23,384 304,726 1,743,132 2,477,750 8,888,381 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 27 CHAPTER II. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1901 TO 1912. CHARTS. 1. Strikes and Lockouts by Years. 2. Numbers of Employees concerned. 3. Time Losses, by years, in all industries. 4. Time Losses, by classes of industries — (a) 1901-5. (b) 1906-10. (c) 1901-10. 5. Causes — (a) 1901-5. (b) 1906-10. (c) 1901-10. 6. Results — (a) 1901-5. (b) 1906-10. (c) 1901-10. 7. Causes and Results — (a) 1901-05. (b) 1906-10. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 29 lllllll iiiiimii iiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiii I iiiiiiiiii IIIIIIIIIIII Department of Laboue, Canada. Tbade Disputes, 1901-1912. Chakt No. 1. r/50 -140 -150 -120 -110 -100 -90 -60 -TO - 60 -50 -^0 -50 -ZO -10 ' goo OO oOOO ^ y- Xi. 2;Wo> 0)0) o)0>/0)0) 0)0) STBIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12. Chart showing Strikes and Lockouts in Canada year by year from 1901 to 1912 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 31 HI^HI^^^B ■■^■■B ^^H ^^^^1 ^HI^^HI ^^H ^^^H ^^^^^^1 ^^H ^^^^1 ■^^■■H ^IH H^HH ^^^■■i HH ^^^^1 ^HHi^H ^^H ^^^^V ^^^^■1 ^^H ^^^H ^^^■H ^^H ^^^H ■■■■1 |i^H ^^^H ^H^H 1 IIP rii 1 III 1 IB H II 0> 0) n * in o o o o o o o o> 0> o> o> o> 0) 0> Department op Laboub, Canada. Trade Disputes, 1901-1912. Chart No. 2. -50,000 ■ 4-7,300 ^5,000 - ^S,300 ■fCOOO Z7,500 55,000 5g,S00 50,000 ■ ^500 Z3fi00 2Z,50O - ZOfiOO ■ 17,500 15,000 12,600 WfiOO 7,500 -5,000 - Z,50O f.0 O ^ N *" #Z *" at o> Oi NVMBEBS OF EMPLOYEES. Chart showing Numbers of Employees involved in Strikes and Lockouts in Canada 1901-1912. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 33 Department of Labour, Canada. Trade Dibpotes, 1901-1912. Chaet No. 3. r ^00.000 2,000,000 ■ 1,900,000 ■ 1,600,000 ■ 1,700,000 ■ ifioopoo I,500p00 I,400fi00 ■ I,300fi00 iSOOfiOO 1,100,000 ■ i,ooopoo 900,000 600.000 700.000 \ 600,000 500.000 400,000 - 300.000 ^00.000 ■ /00;000 ooo oo oooo "'-i: <"0>o> o>.o> o>o>o>o> at ^ o> TIME LOSSES. Chart bhowino by Numbers or Woreinq Days the Time Losses caused by Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-1912. 45418—3 - , 1 1 1 1 1 1- 1 1 H III ^^^^H 1 1 1 1 ■i^iiii 1 Hllllll 1 raiiiiil 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iiiiiiii STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901^12 35 Department or Laboue, Canada. Trade Disputes, 1901-1912. Chart No. 4. I90I-I903 STRIKES & LOCKOUTS 559 TIME LOSSES IN DAYS S,^6/,999 EMPLOYEES INVOLVED /£5096 /906-/9/0 STRIKES &. LOCKOUTS 511 TIME LOSSES IN DAYS 3e60,5&4 EMPLOYEES INVOLVED /S6/7'9 1301-1910 STRIKES & LOCKOUTS l,070 TIME LOSSES IN DAYS 3,7'f£^&S EMPLOYEES INVOLVED Z49A7S TIME LOSSES BY OCCUPATIONS. Diagrams showing in Working Days Proportioks or Time Lost to Various Occupations BY Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-1912. 45418—3* STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 37 /90/-/90^ STRIKES &, LOCKOUTS 559 TIME LOSSES IN DAYS 'Z,4f>l.999 EMPLOYEES INVOLVED /«3,096 DbpartmbntIop Labour, Canada. Teade Disputes, 1901-1912. Chaet No. 5. /906-/9/0 STRIKES & LOCKOUTS TIME LOSSES IN DAYS EMPLOYEES INVOLVED 511 3.e60,5Z4^ /90/-/9/0 STRIKES & LOCKOUTS /.070 TIME LOSSES IN DAYS 5,7'9Z.5S.^ EMPLOYEES INVOLVED Z4%S.7S TIME LOSSES BY CAUSES. Diaghams showing in Working Days Proportions of Time Losses by Causes of Disputes IN Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-1912. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 39 1901-1905 STRIKES & LOCKOUTS 559 TIME LOSSES IN DAYS S,4(>l,999 EIMPLOYEES INVOLVED /£3.096 Depa^^tment of Laboub, Canada. Tbade Distotes, 1901-1912. Chart No. 6. 1906-1910 STRIKES d. LOCKOUTS S/l TIME LOSSES IN DAYS 3,2SQ5&4 EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IA6.IT9 1901- (910 STRIKES & LOCKOUTS TIME LOSSES IN DAYS EMPLOYEES INVOLVED i.oro RESULTS OF STRIKES. DiAQBAMS SHOWING RbBUITS AS ESTIMATED IN WoBKINO DATS OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS. 1901-1912. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 41 < s (M < OS O H O o , - * 3 o 0> Si o ° S£ Z o - O (A -< bl 4 (fl u ^ i LI I» I- -I -I < < h I- O O I- 1- (0 - in (A III >■ o < 0> »- le z o o in 1 u 'd II) o 0) (0 bl II) -1 ^ u DC S 10 H J J 4 < 1- (- o 1- 1- _o o o M --0 --0 o fl IQ ^ < in rtl H H M M H « rr H !iO fe b m O ^ P m b^ ' h3 W p n oc !^ H -«; PS ^ I 13 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 43 CHAPTER III. REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES— 1901-12. Leading Features of Strikes in Canada from January, 1901, to December, 1912. The present section of the report aims at recalling the notable features which have come to the knowledge of the department regarding the strikes which have occurred in the period covered by this report. The statement is divided into sections by years. It does not undertake to discuss in detail the 1319 strikes recorded during the twelve years under review. The details of such strikes, so far as it seems practicable to present them in the form of a report, will be found in the series of statistical tables. The present review touches only on those points which, on an examination of the material collected in the department, appears to be noteworthy for the purposes of the report. 1901. Disputes, 104; Employees, 28,086; Time Losses, 632,311 Days. The only dispute in 1901 calling for special note was a strike of the main- tenance-of-way or trackmen in the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which was begun on June 17, 1901, and closed on August 30. Approxi- mately the number of men concerned was 5,000, extending throughout the railway. There was much discrepancy as between statements made for the company and for the strikers, but from the best information procurable it seems there was no considerable break in the ranks of the strikers until the formal settlement. The strike arose from efforts on the part of the trackmen's organization to secure a new schedule of rates and rules and to obtain a measure of recognition. This last point caused perhaps the most serious hitch. Six weeks after the beginning of the strike the matter was taken up by the general chairman of the different railway brotherhoods or orders, namely, conductors, engineers, telegraphers, firemen and railway trainmen, the chairmen being finally accepted by the company as a committee of conciliation, which finally arranged a basis of settlement. The settlement does not appear to have brought the men 'any substantial concession as to rates of pay and conditions, and little, if .anything, in the way of union recognition; but the free discussion that occurred at the time created a sounder view on some points at issue, and gave some impetus to the principle of arbitration. This strike lasted from June 17 to August 30, and the Time Losses resulting are placed at 315,000 days. The strike second in importance during the year in the matter of Time Losses, and, perhaps, as to inconvenience to the public, was that of salmon fishermen in the Fraser River district of British Columbia. Here 8,000 men on strike for increased wages from July 1 to July 20 incurred Time Losses of 136,000 days. Other notable strikes of the year were those of bricklayers, stone masons, etc., at Sydney, N.S., with Time Losses of 23,800 days; spinners at Valleyfield, Que., wfcere 2,525 hands incurred Time Losses of 20,200 days; and carpenters at Winnipeg, with Time Losses of 17,600 days for 400 men. 44 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR 1902. Disputes, 121; Employees, 12,264; Time Losses, 120,940 days. The year is fortunate in being the lightest on the departmental record; the heaviest Time Loss reported is in the case of a carpet factory in Toronto, " where a two months' strike from July 16 to September 16, entailed a loss of 16,800 days. During the year slight disturbances only occurred in the coal mining industry. 1903. Disputes, 146; Employees, 50,041; Time Losses, 1,226,500 Days. The number of disputes showed a considerable increa,se over 1901 or 1902. The Time Losses reported were, however, in far larger proportion, being placed at 1,226,500 days. The situation as to industrial disputes for the year was considerably more serious than in 1902, the figures going for the first time beyond the million mark and including the first protracted disturbance of which official record has been kept, in the coal mining industry. A strike for various reasons of special importance was that of various classes of employees, (and particularly the clerical labour), at various points in the West along the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway, accompanied by sympa- thetic strikes at Vancouver and Revelstoke of other workers. These disputes led in part to. the appointment by the Dominion Government of a Royal Com- mission to investigate, industrial disputes in the province of British Columbia, consisting of the Honourable Gordon Hunter, Chief Justice of British Columbia, and Rev. E. S. Rowe, of Victoria. The commission made a somewhat extensive inquiry into the methods of the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, the organization concerned in the dispute named and in the associated sympathetic strikes. The strike of railway employees was declared on February 27, 1903, by. the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, an organization which had been founded in Oregon, U.S.A., in 1901, and which sought to embrace in its membership all classes of railway employees, and especially those on the clerical staffs. The cause of the strike was the refusal of the company to recognize the brotherhood and alleged discrimination by this company against members of the union, one of the union members having been discharged on what was claimed by the Unioli as an insufficient pretext. The strike, within ten days after its commencement, had given rise to sympathetic strikes involving over 750 other employees of this railway, including longshoremen, teamsters and messen- gers at Vancouver, and mechanics at Revelstoke, and the net result seems to have been a serious inconvenience to transportation. Several coal mining disputes of importance which occurred in British Columbia during 1903 received also some attention from ihe Royal Commission. On February 11th a strike started at Fernie, Morrissey and Michel among the employees of the Crowsnest Pass Coal Company, which resulted in Time Losses of 305,000 days; a second strike started at Ladysmith on March 11, caus- ing Time Losses of 70,700 days, and a third strike at Cumberland, be- ginning on May 4, resulted in a loss of 49,000 days. The question mainly involve/1 was that of union recognition, the union concerned at that time being the Western Federation of Miners. Not long after this date the Western Federation ceased to organize coal miners, confining its efforts to metalliferous Workers; the various local branches among coal miners were taken over by the United Mine Workers of America. The investigations of the Royal Commission developed facts reflecting on the methods of the organization controlling the railway strike. The remarks STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 190J-12 45 of the commission on the subject were severe, but not more so than the occasion appears to have required. The employees had in fact already ceased their connection with the brotherhood, which was no. longer operating in Canada. Fortunately, be it said to the credit of labour organizers, there is no ground to believe that practices of the nature of those condemned by the commission have been other than isolated incidents. The deliverance of the commission, whose report was dated July 8, 1903, was as follows:- — ■ 'That the workmen should be careful in the selection of their leaders ' is also shown by the fact that in at least two or three instances their pur- chasability was proved beyond doubt. The man who was the chief organizer for. Canada of the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees is shown to have betrayed the secrets of the ttnion to the employers for hire, at the very time that he was being paid by the union for bringing in new members, and while he was administering the oath which binds to secrecy. The evidence is also clear that paid hirelings of the railway company worked their way into the union, took, a leading part in its deliberations, initiated new members, and duly reported all that took place to their master. 'It is obvious from these facts that it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the legitimate desire of a body of workingmen to establish a proper union may be used as a means to forward illegal and unworthy ends by plausible leaders who are in the pay of foreign capitalists, and that a union may be persuaded into a strike by unprincipled men for no other purpose than to cripple or destroy a Canadian industry for the benefit of its rivals. It was further shown that the United Brotherhood pursued just as repre!hensible tactics as the company, inasmuch as private telegrams between officials of the company were disclosed to the union, arrangements made with an employee of a foreign telegraph company to reveal information, copies of confidential documents abstracted, waste paper baskets ransacked, and the house of the local superintendent watched, and all with the express approval and encouragement of the president of the brotherhood.' The report of this commission, it may be added, is interesting as having contained a reference to compulsory investigation. 'We believe,' remarked the commission, 'that a method providing an expeditious mode of compulsory inves- tigation by persons to be nominated by the parties and an umpire would satis- factorily dispose of a good many labour disputes.' This is the first reference 'contained in any of the departmental reports to the principle underlying the Act subsequently enacted under the title of ' The Industrial Disputes Investiga- tion Act, 1907,' providing for the compulsory investigation of all disputes in which a strike or lockout is threatened in mines or in industries connected with public utilities. 1904. Disputes, 99; Employees, 16,482; Time Losses, 265,004 Days. The number of industrial disputes for the year showed some decline. The reported Time Losses showed less than a quarter of the large figures of the previous year. There was far less serious industrial disturbance than in 1903. The coal mining industry was quiet, though in Nova Scotia a number of minor disputes occurred. Building trades were prolific of trouble, the builders' labourers of Toronto, of whom 2,-400 were on strike for a month, being respon- sible alone for a fourth of the large Time Losses of the year; building trades strikes generally throughout the country represented nearly half of the total of Time Losses for the year. 46 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Perhaps the most serious single dispute of the year was that of the steel workers at Sydney, N.S., where 1,500 employees were out from June 1 to July 23. Much correspondence t.ook place between the Minister of Labour and the parties concerned respectively "in the dispute, the employees being represented by their organization, the Provincial Workmen's Association; each side at first declined intervention. The Deputy Minister of Labour, later, at the special request of the Sydney Board of Trade, went to Sydney and assisted in promoting a settlement. While wages had been a matter of difference, much feehng existed regarding the relations between the company and the union. The settlement did not make concessions as to wages, but the company promised not to discriminate against the union members and to reinstate those who had been concerned in the strike. During the progress of the strike a requisition was made on the militia, and troops were ordered to Sydney. The effects of the strike were more than usually severe, leading to the closing down of the night shift at the adjacent coal mines of the company, and causing the shutting down of other industries in the vicinity. 1905. Disputes, 89; Employees, 16,223; Time Losses, 217,244 Days. The record of the year was again light. The number of strikes decreased, the Time Losses standing at about the same figure as 1904. The coal mining industry almost always the best test of the extent of industrial troubles, included one important dispute, the miners at Nanainao, B.C., having been out for three months and entailing Time Losses of 65,000 days. This dispute was the occasion of intervention by the Department of Labour, the Deputy Minister having visited the scene and assisted in procuring a settlement. There were numerous other small coal mining disputes in both eastern and western coal fields and the coal mining industry represented in all about half the total Time Losses of the year. The Nanaimo dispute was one of the. few occasions in the recent industrial history of Canada when the cessation of work was due rather to a lockout than to a strike. The cause of the dispute primarily was the coming into force of an Act which had been passed at a recent session of the British Columbia Legisla- ture, prohibiting the emptoyment of underground miners for .more than eight hours out of the twenty-four. The company claimed that the enforcement of this measure would add so much to the cost of working the mine that it would be operated at a loss. Before closing the mine the company gave their men the option of continuing work at a wage reduction corresponding, as it was held, to the reduction in working hours, or to let them use a shaft on an island, the miners to pay 10 cents per day to be taken across. Neither plan was acceptable and the mines closed. Later, the question of union recognition came into the dispute and made settlement more difficult. At the request of the employees, the Deputy Minister of Labour went to Nanaimo and a settlement was effected by which the company agreed to restore the old rate of wages, the miners paying a charge for transportation to their work. 1906. Disputes, 141; Employees, 26,050; Time Losses, 359,797 Days. The number of strikes for this year showed a very large increase over 1905. being 141 as against 89 in the earlier year. The coal mining industry saw numerous small strikes and one or two more serious disturbances. The most notable among these disputes, and in some ways the most important dispute STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 47 of the year, was that between coal operators and miners at Lethbridge, Alta. A strike began on March 9 and continued until December 9. The miners demanded higher wages and other changes, the most difficult point being undoubtedly that involving union recognition. The number of men out was approximately 500, though the employees during a year would reach a consider- ably higher figure at times; the long cessation of work caused Time Losses of 114,500 days. A threatened fuel famine in Saskatchewan prompted the premier of that province to ask the aid of the Dominion Government and the Minister of Labour, under the Conciliation Act, secured a settlement. The point which leaves this strike specially notable is the fact that it gave rise to the- enactment, a few months later, of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, mentioned on an earlier page. Besides the Lethbridge disputes there were, during the year, many minor disputes in the coal trade, the total Time Losses on the industry for the year being about 175,000 days. Other trades included no dispute of special magnitude, the total of Time Losses being made up by an increased number of small strikes. 1907. Disputes, 149;. Employees, 36,224; Time Losses, 621,962 Days. The number of disputes showed but slight increases over 1906; Time Losses increased more seriously. The coal mining industry and the building trades bulk heavily in the disputes of the year. The most important dispute in the coal mining industry was at Fernie, B.C., and vicinity, in connection with which, it may be reinarked, was established the first board of Conciliation acting under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, which became law (March 22, 1907) a few days only before the strike was declared. The efforts of the Board and the co-operation of the Deputy Minister of the ^Department, who was on the scene of the dispute, effected an adjustment, not, however, until considerable Time Losses had resulted, these being placed at 62,100 days. An important dispute of the year also was that of longshoremen at Montreal, beginning soon after the opening of the navigation season. A Board of Con- ciliation was established, and it is interesting to note that the settlement which shortly followed, paved the way for settlement by similar means, or at least without a strike, of recurring disputes in this industry at Montreal, and there has been no strike of longshoremen at Montreal since 1907. Prior to 1907 strikes had Occurred every year or two. A coal mining strike of some importance occurred also in Nova Scotia in the mines of the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company at Springhill. The employees numbered 1,250 and the Time Losses were 98,000. The dispute related to payment for local stone in pillars. The points involved had been, with other matters, before a Board of Conciliation and Investigation, the dispute being one of the most important to come up for adjustment in this way during the ti.at year of the life of the statute. The Board was able to present only a majority report and the threatened strike could not be averted. The men resumed work on October 31. Various disputes threatening strike or lockout, and occurring subsequent to the enactment on March 22nd of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, were referred under the terms of the new statute. The number so referred in which the strike was averted was 24; in one case the strike was not averted. 48 DEPARTMENT OF LABOU]{ 1908. Disputes, 68; Employees, 25,293; Time Losses, 708,285 Days. The disputes for the year showed a marked reduction, standing at 68, the smallest number reported since the departmental record started in 1901.. As has been frequently pointed out, there is no necessary connecdon between the numbe'' of strikes and the amount of Time Losses, though there may be occasional or accidental movement in common as between them. In the present case, despite the very marked reduction in the number of strikes, the Time Losses showed a slight increase over those of 1907, standing for the year 1908 at 708,285. Railway employees take this year first place in the matter of magnitude of Time Losses and figured in what was in every way the most important dispute of the year. The strike was that of mechanics employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, involving about 8,000 employees and resulting in the loss of 424,000 working days. The matter at issue was a new schedule of wages and conditions and had been before a Board of Conciliation and Investigation. The report ^f the Board was signed by a majority only, a minority report being presented by the Board member representing the employees. Both reports agreed on some points, but differed particularly on (1) the classification of boilermakers, (2) the adjustment of grievances, (3) the apprentice question, (4) hours of work in roundhouse, and (5) Hie question of one schedule for the system. Probably the last point was that which offered most difficulty, the company desiring separate agreements east and west, and the employees wishing to have one agreement over the entire system. The strike was declared on August 5, extending throughout the entire system 'of the railway, and continued until October 5, and on that date the Department of Labour was notified by telegram from the employees that the strike had been ended; the men agreed to accept the terms of the Board's award. Other serious conflicts during the year were several strikes in the province of Quebec of cotton mill hands employed by the Dominion Textile Company and the Montreal Cotton Company. On May 4 the wages of the operatives of both companies were reduced by 10 per cent., the company claiming that this step was necessary in order to meet the changed conditions in the cotton industry. Before the close of the month about 6,000 employees were idle.* There had been considerable unrest in the industry and on June 29, on a memorandum from the Minister of Labour representing that industrial disputes were arising frequently in the cotton industry and that the wages of employees had lately been reduced, the Deputy Minister of Labour was appointed' by the Governor in Council to be a Commissioner to inquire into these matters. Pending this inquiry many of the strikers returned to work during July, though no definite settlement of the strike was reported. The report of the Commis- sioner, presented under date of September 15, 1908, contained an instructive review of the disputes which had lately troubled the cotton industry and made some recommendations considered likely to be helpful inrthe avoidance of future difficulties. The number of disputes referred for adjustment under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act during the year was 28; in one case the threatened strike was not averted. 1909. Disputes, 69; Employees, 17,332; Time Losses, 871,845 Days. The number of disputes remained low, being at 69, a fraction higher than the figure for 1908. The Time Losses showed still, however, an upward trend, reaching 871,845 days. The year was specially troubled by disputes in the STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 49 coal mining industry, disastrous strikes occurring in the mines both of Nova Scotia and those grouped about the Crowsnest Pass in the Rocky Mountains, i The dispute in the Western mines caused a three months' strike in which were incurred Time Losses of 161,700 days, while strikes in Nova Scotia, chiefly at Glace Bay and Springhill, caused Time Losses of practically half a million days; the three coal strikes named, with a few minor disputes in the same industry, totalled Time Losses of over 700,000 days, the great proportion, it will be observed, of the losses for the year. At the Western mines the dispute arose over the renewal of a working agreement, in which were involved cerjiain fine points of union recognition relating to collection of union dues. In Nova Scotia the dispute involved a struggle between two unions, the Provincial Workmen's Association, an organization long previously established under provincial laws, and the United Mine Workers' Association, the international organization which had been for some years established in Western Canada, and which now sought to develop itself in the Eastern mines. Several of the strikes concerned were a subject of special departmental investigations or of inquiries by Boards established under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and were the occasion of wide public interest and discussion. In one case, that of Springhill, N.S., the strike- continued for twenty-two months, August, 1909, to May, 1911, involving, therefore, Time Losses in the records of three . different years. Boards were established, it may be remarked, in the case of these separate disputes in Nova Scotia, respectively at Glace Bay, Springhill and North Sydney. The point of acute fiiction in each case was that of union recognition. At North Sydney trouble was averted. At Glace Bay, where the larger mines were located, the unions were working under an agreement between the company and the Provincial Woi-kmen's Association. The agreement did not expire until December 31, 1909. The strike was called on July 6, 1909. The employees, many of whom remained members of this Provincial Workmen's Association, numbered about five thousand, and about one-third of this number obeyed this strike order. The strikers chiefly were the employees who had joined the United Mine Workers of America. The output of the mines was greatly reduced at flrsi", but by the end of the year had almost reached the normal level. It was not until April 1909, that the strike was formally declared off. At Springhill the tie-up was complete for many months and at no time during the strike was the output considerable. A third strike of coal miners occurred at Inverness, where, however, no Board had been established. The mine was small and the Time Losses were not heavy, but the strike is noteworthy because it involved a judi* ial decision under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, which has since been sometimes a a matter of discussion at the Trades and Labour Congress. An agent of the union distributed relief to the strikers and was fined by the Police Magistrate, the strike being illegal under the terms of the Act. On appeal, the conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. It may be added that in each of the three strikes, requisitions were made for the militia, and troops were stationed for a considerable time at each point. The question of union recognition, which lay at the root of each dispute, remained without any formal settlement. The disputes were, however, ex- ceptional in character, since unions were in several cases opposing unions. The employers had generally recognized one union, but felt it impossible to do business with two separate bodies. Turning to the dispute at the western coal mines, the records show that on April 1, about 2500 coal miners employed in the mines operated by the companies comprisiag the Western Coal Operators' Association at various points in eastern British Columbia and southern Alberta, ceased work on the expiry of the agree- ment under which they had previously been working. An application received 45418-4 50 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR from representatives of the employees for the establishment of a Board of Con- ciliation and Investigation under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, defined the cause of the dispute as 'a failure to agree upon the terms and conditions of working agreements which expired on March 31, 1909.' The pbints involved concerned, as stated above, the collection of union dues by the company and the manner of making such collection, which is known briefly as the 'check-off system.' The check-off is an arrangement whereby the company is authorized by the employees to make deductions from wages for union dues, etc., and to pay the same over to the union secretary. The companies in this district had consented to make the collections, but there had been period- ical and acute differences of view in securing a working arrangement on. this point. Friction, arose as to whether the authority should be given the compaay by the individual employee and should be cancellable, or whether it should be^ contained simply in a statement put in to the company by the secretary and cancellable only by the secretary, an arrangement which would, it will be seen, be union recognition of an advanced order. The application for a Board was not received until some weeks after the strike had been declared. •A Board was established in May, the strike continuing, however, during the sessions of the Board until June 30, when a new agreement was s'gneo, effective for two years, and based on the terms of the Board's report. The employees had been demanding a closed shop, but the settlement was made on the basis of a 'no discrimination' understanding, the companies conceding the 'check-ofi' to such of their employees as desired it. It should be added that the Crowsnest Pass Company, the largest individual employer in- this district, was fortunate in being able to make an agreement, and the company withdrew for the time being from membership in the Western Coal Operators' Association. Its employees were not, therefore, involved in this dispute. The number of disputes referred for adjustment under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act during the year was 21; in four cases the threatened strike was not averted. 1910, Disputes, 84; Employees, 21,280; Time Losses, 718,635 Days. The number of strikes showed a slight increase, remaining however at a low figure, being 84, as compared with 146 in 1903 and 149 in 1907. The Time Losses, on the other hand, showed a falling off from 1909, standing at 718,635 days. It is specially notable, too, that precisely one-half the Time Losses of the year were due to the coal mining strike at Springfield, N. S., carried over from 1909. No strike in other lines of industry caused Time Losses of great magnitude, but in the record for the year figure two strikes of railway workers which may be briefly noted. The railway carmen of the Canadian Northern Railway ceased work on July 1, and the strike was not called off until September 27, the Time Losses entailed being 35,000 days; the strike, which was for higher wages, appears to have resulted unsuccessfully. The dispute had been before a Board under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, and the Board had not succeeded in averting the strke. The strike was not the occasion of any serious public . inconvenience. The dispute of the year which for many reasons was specially noteworthy was that of conductors and trainmen in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, the importance arising not because of the heavy Time Losses involved, but from the deep public interest shown in the dispute and in its settlement. A certain amount of inconvenience to the public no doubt occurred, Eut public interest perhaps was due less to the inconvenience which was actually experienced STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 51 than to that which was feared and was undoubtedly threatened by a long con- tinuance of the strike. The strike lasted actually not more than fifteen days namely, fi-om July 18 to August 4. The men numbered approximately 2,500 and the Time Losses have been placed at 37,500 days. This dispute, too, had been before a Board of Concihation and Investigation, which found itself unable to avert the threatened strike. Government intervention assisted the parties in coming to terms, but the process of reinstating the men, which, speaking generally constituted one of the terms of settlement, was the occasion 'of a protracted dis- cussion between the Company arid the disputants. The question came in this way before the department and was mentioned several times in parliament during the sessions of 1910-1911 and 1911-12. The number of disputes referred for adjustment under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act during the year was 28; in four cases the threatened strike was not averted. 1911. Disputes, 99; Employees, 30,094; Time Losses, 2,046,650 days. The previous year closed the decade with which the life and records of the department began. The new decade opened with a year of unprecedented severity in industrial disputes in Canada, so far, at least, as indicated in the "nme Losses of the year. Few lines of injiustry other than that of coal mining, were, it is true, seriously affected. The number of strikes showed an increase, standingat 99, as compared with 84 for 1910, this increase being, however, in no way com- mensurate with the heavy increase recorded in Time Losses, the latter going beyond the.two million mark. In no previous year save 1903 have the Time Losses reached one million days, and the figures for 1911 were therefore as high again as , those "of the worst year of record. The year opened with a continued strike at Springhill, begun, it will be remembered, in "August, 1909. Fortunately, this prolonged strike came to a close in May of 1911. The Time Losses charged against the Springhill dispute for 1911 showed, however, 190,000 days, and in all, the Springhill dispute, extending over twenty-two months, had incurred Time Losses of 760,000 working days. Before the strike at Springhill had ended, the coal miners in the region of the Crowsnest Pass, covering eighteen coal mining properties in south-eastern British Columbia and southern Alberta, and numbering about 7,000 were again out, a strike having started on April 1. The Crowsnest Pass Coal Company, which had escaped the strike of 1909, was less fortunate on the present occasion, the companies remaining together and taking action in common. A working agreemient made in June, 1909, at the close of the strike in that year, lapsed on March 31, 1911. The efforts to negotiate a new agreement to permit con- tinuous work failed, after numerous conferences at Calgary, Alberta. Wages and conditions were involved in the agreement to be framed, and a Board established under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act (but not demanded before the strike was called), was unable to adjust the dispute. The chief hitch, as it was understood, and was in fact stated in the report presented by the Board, was not as to wages or working conditions, but as to the precise relations between the mining operators and the officials of the U.M.W.A., tlie organization to which the employees belonged. The crucial point, as in 1909, was the 'check-off' and its precise form, whether or not, in fact, it should be given in such a form as practically to include the concession of the 'closed shop'. The Time Losses reached the relatively high figure of 1,390,000 working days, which alone was greatly larger than the total Time Losses of any preceding year. Thus, it will be seen, the two coal strikes alone caused Time Losses of 1,580,000 days — more, in fact, than three-quarters of the large total of two millions. 45418-41 52 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR In other industries, generally speaking, there had been no disastrous dispute, but strikes in the building trades at Vancouver caused Time Losses of about 250,000 days. A strike of railway machinists in the employ of the Grand Trunk Pacific was a dispute which, from special causes, attracted considerable public interest. So far as could be ascertained, it occasioned no great public inconvenience, but con- tinued until the close of 1911 and, in fact, anticipating the record of 1912, we find it extending almost to the close of that year. The Time Losses during 1911, due to this dispute, were not specially heavy, being placed at 21,000 days. The number of disputes referred for adjustment under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act during the year was 21; in four cases the threatened strike was not averted. 1912. Disputes, 150; Employees, 40,511; Time Losses, 1,099,208 days. The number of strikes was again higher than in 1911, but happily there was a falling away from the magnitude of the Time Losses of that year, and though the figures remained high, they were barely half those of the year previous. The coal mining industry showed a natural reaction and included no serious strike until one starting towards the close of the year at Ladysmith, on Vancouver Island, which before the close of 1912 entailed Time Losses of 35,000 days. The metalliferous side of the mining industry included also a strike of some importance in the Poscupine district, where 1,200 gold miners went out from Noveihber 15 until the close of the year, with consequent Time Losses placed at 46,500; the dispute did not, however, so far as reported^ cause any inconvenience to the general public. The strike which overshadowed others as to Time Losses was one of railway construction labourers in British Columbia, who went out on April 1, the strike being called off on June 15. The men numbered about 6,000 and the Time Losses are estimated at 360,000. This difficulty did not perceptibly affect the general industrial life of the country or excite special interest on the part of the public. The railway construction workers at Prince Rupert also went out, causing Time Losses of 81,000 days. Other strikes adding largely to the Time Losses were in the clothing trades, the garment workers of Montreal and the cloak makers of Toronto incurring between "them losses of nearly a quarter of a million days — ^the Montreal garment workers J.43,500 days, and the Toronto cloak makers 120,000. A strike of employees of the C. P. R., including freight-handlers and clerks, was declared on November 4, on the ground that the company refused to consider a schedule; Time Losses to the end of the year were placed at 24,500 days. This dispute attracted considerable public interest, but does not appear to have caused any serious inconvenience to the public. The railway machinists' strike mentioned above (1911), which had been continued over from October, 1911, was prolonged almost throughout 1912, being formally settled only on December 13. This dispute must rank as one of the most severe coming before the department. The Minister of Labour was enabled to assist in bringing it to a close. The number of men concerned was not large, but the Time Losses, extended over so long a period, reached the considerable figure of 44,000. The number of disputes referred for adjustment under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act during the year was 16; in three cases the threatened strike was not averted. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 53 CHAPTER IV. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1901-12. SUMMARY TABLES. The tabular statements found on the pages of this chapter are arranged in order as follows: — 1901-5. Disputes, 1901-5, classified by I. Years II. Industries III. Causes IV. Magnitude A — Number of Employees affected B — Time Losses V. Provinces VI. Duration by Industries VII. Duration by Causes VIII. Causes and Results IX. Dliration and Results. 1906-10. Disputes, 1906-10, classified by X. Years XI. Industries XII. Causes XIII. Magnitude A — -Number of Employees affected B — Time Losses XIV. -Provinces XV. Duration by Industries XVI. Duration by Causes XVII. Causes and Results XVIII. Duration and Results. 1911. Disputes, 1911, classified by XIX. Industries XX. Causes XXI. Magnitude A^Number of Employees affected B — Time Losses XXII. Provinces XXIII. Duration by Industries XXIV. Duration by Causes XXV. Causes and Results. 1912. Disputes, 1912, classified by XXVI. Industries XXVII. Causes XXVIII. Magnitude A — Number of Employees affected B — Time Losses XXIX. Provinces XXX. Duration by Industries XXXI. Duration by Causes XXXII. Causes and Results. Detailed statements of disputes for each year from 1901 to 1912 are printed in the chapter following the present section. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1901-1912. SUMMARY TABLES I TO IX BftiLATING TO PEKIOD 1901-5. 55 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 67 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-5— CLASSIFIED BY YEARS. SUMMARY TABLE I. The following tables show year by year the information on record with reference to the disputes reported in each class of industry during the years 1901 to 1905, giving the numbers of disputes and disputants and the approxi- mate Time Losses. It will be observed that the year 1903, with 146 disputes, was the worst of the quinquennium, its Time. Losses of 1,226,500 working days being almost half the aggregate for the full period. The greater severity of industrial disputes in 1903 as compared with the other years was shown in most industries, but most markedly in the building trades and in coal mining industries in the West. The year 1901 ranks next in importance, the Time Losses in this year amounting to 632,311 days. Nearly half this total loss was incurred by a strike of 5,000 maintenance-of-way men on the Canadian Pacific Railway system. A strike of 8,000 salmon fishermen on the Fraser river, in British Columbia, also contributed largely to the total, the loss in this case being 136,000 days. In 1904 the time losses amounted to 265,004 days, the building trades suffering to the extent of 47 per cent of the aggregate losses. In 1902 there were 120,940 working days lost. In this year there were no disputes of special importance, the most severe being a strike of carpet factory employees at Toronto, which resulted in a loss of about 17,000 days. A note- worthy feature is the fact that in 1902 in the mining industry there were but three strikes, with total Time Losses amounting to only 9,720 working days. The year 1905 was the most satisfactory in the quinquennium as regards relations between employer and employee, there being only 89 disputes, or 40 per cent less than in the year 1903, and Time Losses of only 217,244. days. It may be noted here that in a small percentage of disputes, particularly in the earlier years of this record, information was not received as to certain particu- lars. Hence the occasional blanks encountered. These blanks occur chiefly in the case of small disputes. 58 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, Class of Industry. 1901 o I EQ f HI d! 'A 1^ OS 1 |5 |3« 1902. t .a n I .o§ OS Pi 19 a •a . -SB 1° Fishing Lumbering Mining and quanying Building trades Metal and shipbuilding trades. Woodworking Printing and allied trades Textile trades Clothing trades Food and tobacco preparation. . Leather trades General transport Miscellaneous trades Unskilled labour 2 4 S 14 20 6 2 5 10 10 1 11 3 11 104 4 7 108 52 21 2 5 32 19 1 9 3 10 8,000 925 3,685 2,533 1,239 1,141 24 2,836 615 746 36 5,466 105 735 136,000 3,200 56,650 62,793 11,710 17,346 108 23,232 2,213 986 72 315,804 ^ 716 1,481 1 3 3 31 28 7 3 1 8 10 3 10 6 7 .3 3 258 33 25 3 1 24 20 3 17 23 7 300 510 3,657 1,! 606 29 6 163 310 85 3,135 1,098 472 2,790 9,720 30,827 20,488 14,825 15 273 28, 086 632,311 121 420 12,264 3,060 188 10, 120 26,801 1,708 120,940 4 9 44 16 IS 3 5 11 6 4 15 4 9 10 653 41 30 23 4 63 28 8 46 10 8 146 927 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 59 1901-05— Classified by Years. 63. 1904. 1905. Tota;,. pproximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 d 1 ll d 8 d d pproximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 d 11 d 8 fl d"S >ptDximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 d ] d 8 ll d eS mroximate Time Losses in Working Days. 13 < "A !? % < ^5 ^ ^ ■^ 15 iz; ;z; -■! 4,100 49,200 2 1.S 1,170 4,400 fi 13 13,300 2,640 27,732 189,600 9,490 647,172 1,200 2,600 2 3 215 1,000 IS 13 11,931 440,455 t 9 3,161 24,866 13 14 8,445 115,481 37 43 8,783 357,663 30 461 6,041 124, 693 24 248 1,766 34, 710 143 1,728 22,680 610,686 2,688 74,617 17 26 3,181 82,796 14 36 1,509 19,442 95 188 10,580 208,953 l.OU 18,069 3 3 142 1,831 2 3 152 8,742 33 82 3,056 60,813 334 1,231 4 r? 277 6 44 1 446 8,236 804 18 84 1 100 9,590 42,751 1,346 17,671 3 3 134 1,044 1 134 • 15 14 4,456 6,754 ' 173,660 11 21 291 1,964 11 60 1,145 18,678 51 200 8,968 196,797 280 2,609 11 14 666 8,434 4 13 151 1,106 41 94 2,163 16,201 178 3,084 1 •?, 25 262 g -14 324 3,596 411,778 8,851 69,341 2 2 103 9,540 6 9 1,416 6,973 43 83 18,970 297 1,870 2 2 796 3,664 7 7 1,000 2,992 22 45 3,296 36,053 2,295 14,830 4 4 280 520 2 2 60 80 33 31 3,842 18,619 50,041 1,226,500 99 676 16,482 265,004 89 437 16,223 217,244 559 2,632 123,096 2,461,999 60 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-5— CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIES. SUMMARY TABLE II. Viewing the period from the standpoint of industries as here classified, it will be seen that mining suffered most heavily, the Time Losses here aggregating 647,000 working days, or about 26 per cent of all. The losses in the building trades were almost equally severe, being 610,586 days, or about 25 per cent. General transport is next in order, with a loss of 411,778 days, or over 16 per cent. ' The metal and clothing trades and the fishing industry, in the order named, suffered also to a considerable extent, the Time Losses being 8,7-9, and 7 per cent, respectively. The industries least affected were: leather trades, • 1 per cent; lumbering, -3 per cent; printing and allied trades, -4 per cent; food and tobacco preparation, -6 per cent ; unskilled labour, -8 per cent. In the woodworking trades the Time Losses were 2-4 per cent of the total; in the textile trades, 1 -7 per cent, and in miscellaneous trades, 1 -4 per cent. Strikes or lockouts were more frequent in the building trades than in any other class of industry, "with a total of 143, or 24 per cent, during the five-year period. Disputes in the metal and shipbuilding trades numbered 95, or 16 per cent. Next in order were the clothing trades, with 51 disputes, general transport with 43, food and tobacco industry with 41, mining with 37, and woodworking trades and unskilled labour each with 33. The industries which were least interrupted by -strikes were fishing, with 6 disputes, leather trades with 9, and printing and allied trades with 18. The total number of employees involved in industrial disputes during the quinquennium was 123,096. Of this number the greatest proportion, namely, 22 per cent, were miners; 18 per cent were workmen engaged in the building trades; 15 per cent were employed in transportation. The employees affected by industrial disputes in the leather trades were only 0-26 per cent, and in the printing and allied trades 0-89 per cent, the food and tobacco trades 1-74 per cent, and lumbering 2-1 per cent. The establishments involved in strikes and lockouts were by far the most numerous in the building industry, to which industry 1,728 establishments, or 65 per cent of the total of 2,632, belonged. The disputes in the clothing trades affected 200 establishments, or 7-6 per cent of the total number, and in the metal trades 188 establishments, or 7-1 per cent. Only 13 establishments in the fishing industry and 13 in lumbering were affected by strikes or lockouts during the whole period of five years, and in the textile and the leather trades only 14 establishments eacii. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 61 Table Showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-5 — Classified by Industries. Class of Industry. Years. No. Disputes. No'. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 2 1 1 2 8,000 30 4,100 1,170 136,000 « 49,200 13 4,400 Total ... 6 4 3 4 2 13 4 3 3 3 _13,300 925 300 1,200 215 189, 600 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 3,200 2,790 2,500 1,000 Total 13 5 3 9 7 13 13 - 7 3 10 9 14 2,640 3,685 510 11,931 3,161 8,445 9,490 56,650 1901 1902 • 1903 1904 1905 9,720 440,455 24,866 115,481 * Total 37 14 31 44 30 24 43 108 258 653 461 248 27,732 2,533 3,557 8,783 6,041 1,766 647, 172 62,793 30,827 357,563 124,693 • 34,710 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Total 143 20 28 16 17 14 1,728 52 33 41 26 36 22,680 1,239 1,963 2,688 3,181 1,509 610,586 11,710 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 20,488 74,517 82,796 19,442 Total 95 6 7 15 3 2 188 21 25 30 3 3 10,580 1,141 606 1,014 142 152 208,953 17,346 Woodworking trades 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 ■ ■''.■ 14,825 18,069 1,831 8,742 Total 33 2 3 3 4 6 . 82 2 3 23 12 44 3,055 24 29 324 277 446 60 813 Printing and allied trades 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 108 15 1,231 sirn Total 18 5 1 5 3 ,1 84 5 1 4 3 1 1,100 2,836 6 1,346 134 134 9,590 23,232 Textile trades 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 17,671 1,044 804 Total 15 14 4,456 42,751 62 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-5 by Industries — Continued. Class of Industry. Year.-i. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments, concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. Clothing trades 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 10 8 11 11 11 32 24 63 21 60 615 163 6,754 291 1,145 ' 2,203 392 173,560 1,964 18,678 Total 51 10 10 6 11 4 200 19 20 28 14 13 8,968 746 310 . 280 666 151 196,797 986 3,066 2,609 8,434 1,106 Food and tobacco preparation 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Total 41 1 3 4 1 94 1 3 8 2 2,153 36 85 178 25 16 201 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 72 188 3,084 252 • ~ Total 9 11 10 15 2 5 14 9 17 46 2 9 324 5,466 3,135 8,851 103 1,415 3,596 315,804 10,120 69,341 9,540 6,973 ,190f 1902 1903 1904 1905 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Total Miscellaneous trades. . . 43 3 6 4 2 7 83 3 23 10 2 7 18,970 105 1,098 297 796 1,000 411,778 726 26,801 t,870 3,664 2,992 Total 22 11 7 9 4 2 45 10 7 8 4 2 3,290 735 472 2,295 280 60 36,053 1,481 1,708 14,830 520 80 Unskilled labour. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Total 33 31 3,842 18,619 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 63 SUMMARY. Class of Industry. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. Pishing Lumbering Mining and quarrying Building trades Metal and ship-building trades Woodworking trades Printing and allied trades Textile trades. .• Clothing trades Food and tobacco preparation. Leather trades General transport Miscellaneous trades Unskilled labour 6 13 37 143 95 33 18 15 51 41 9 43 22 33 559 13 13 43 1,728 188 82 84 14 200 94 14 83 45 31 2,632 13,300 2,640 27,732 22,680 10,580 3,055 1,100 4,456 8,968 2,a53 324 18, 970 3,296 3,842 123,096 189,600 .9,490 647, 172 610,586 208, 953 60,813 9,590 4,275 19, 679 16,201 3,596 411,778 ' 36,05a 18, 619- 2,461, 99» 64 DEPARTMENT, OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, '1901-5— CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES. SUMMARY TABLE III. The disputes which have occurred in Canada during the years 1901 to 1905 have been classed as to causes under the following heads: (1) for increase in wages, (2) against reduction of wages, (3) for shorter hoars, (4) for increased wages and shorter hours, (5) for recognition of the union, (6) against employment of non-unionists, (7) for increased wages and other changes, (8) against discharge of employees, (9) sympathetic disputes, (10) against employment of particular persons, (11) unclassified. Where a strike or lockout was due to more than one cause, it has been classified according to what was considered to be its principal cause or object. The question of wages was, of course, the most frequent source of trouble between employer and employees, and caused by far the greatest loss of time to the greatest number of establishments and persons. Time Losses to the extent of 1,195,336 working days, or 48 -6 per cent of ihe total number, were due to conflicts in which the sole question at issue was increased wages, while 258,917 days, or another 10 per cent, may be ascribed to strikes in which the question of wages was included with other matters in dispute. Of the total number of strikes 34-7 per cent were for increased wages, 6-8 per cent against decrease in wages, 12-7 per cent for increalfed wages and shorter hours, and 3 -4 per cent for increased wages and other changes. Establishments to the number of 1,155, or 43 -88 per cent of the whole, were affected by strikes for increased wages, and 704 establishments, or 26-7 per cent of the total number, were concerned in strikes for increased wages and shorter hours. Reductions in wages affected 2 -6 per cent of all establishments, and 4-7 per cent were affected by strikes in which increased wages figured with other demands. Out of a total of 123,096 employees affected by industrial disputes, 55,059, or 44-7 per cent, were on strike for increased wages, and 9,701, or 7-88 per cent, for increased wages and shorter hours; 6,497 employees, or 5-27 per cent, struck against reduction of wages, and 2,983, or 2 -4 per cent, for increased wages and other changes. The cause ranking next in 'importance to that of wages was the question of union, recognition. Though only 24 strikes, or 4-3 per cent, were due to this cause, and only 110 establishment^ were affected by it during the five yejars, yet the Time Losses amounted to 177,473 working days, or 17 -2 per cent, involv- ing nearly 16,000 employees, or 12 • 8 per cent of the total number. The extensive and prolonged conflicts in the' coal mines of British Columbia in 1903 were mostly -due to demands -for union recognition and were responsible in large measure for the magnitude of the Time Losses in stril^es from this cause. Of the total of 24 strikes for union recognition which took place in the five-year period, 13 occurred in 1903, and these affected 92 per cent of all the employees involved in disputes over union recognition, and Occasioned 94 per cent of the Time Losses in such disputes. Demands for shorter hours were responsible, from 1901 to 1905, for 24 strikes and Time Losses of nearly 85,000 days. Adding Time Losses of 177,473 working days incurred in strikes jointly demanding shorter hours and higher wages, .it will be seen that the total Time Losses through strikes in which the question of hours was an issue were 262,394 days, or 10-6 per cent. There were 35 strikes in protest against discbarge of employees. In almost every instance but one establishmenc was affected. The total number of strikers under this head was 8,464, or 6-87 per cent, and the Time Losses were 126,140 working days, or 5 • 1 pet cent. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 65 In the sympathetic strikes, which numbered 17, there were 132 establish- ments and 4,416 employees involved, with Time Losses amounting to 37,688 days. Against the employment of non-unionists, or for what is more generally known as the 'closed shop,' there were 37 sorikes, affecting 58 establishments and 1,874 employees, and causing a loss of 28,141 days. The consent of an employer to engage none but union men is obviously a far more complete recogni- tion of the union than a willingness to negotiate with employees through a union committee, though this too is often termed a 'recognition of the union.' If the strikes for 'closed shop' and those for 'recognition of the union' are added, it will be seen that there were 61 strikes (18%) in which the question at issue related directly to union recognition. These disputes affected 168 establishments (6-38%) and 4,857 employees (3-94%), and caused Time Losses of 451,566 days, or 18-34 per cent of the total. Strikes against the employment of particular persons other than non- unionists were those least responsible for Time Losses, reaching only 2,307 working days, or -09 per cent. There were 26 of these strikes (4-65%), involving 35 establishments (1-32%) and 1,054 employees (0-85%). Disputes due to all other causes, or the cause of which was not reported, are included under the heading 'Unclassified.' Of these there were 74, or 13-2 per cent, involving 145 establishments (5 -5%) and 14,804 employees (12%), and occasioning Time Losses of 305,124 days (12-39%). 45418—5 66 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing by Years, Number of Strikes and Lockouts Principal Cause or Object. 1901. Q 6 2 ,0 o9 I is d 03 to -5 1902. d 5B GQ V ^1 o eS 19 Q, a .Q to ss to 0) Hg For increase in wages Against reduction of wages. For shorter hours For increase in wages and decrease in hours For recognition of Union Against employment of non-unionists For increase in wages and other changes Against discharge of employees. . Sympathetic Disputes Against employment of particular persons Unclassified 40 12 1 12 1 5 6 5 2 8 12 116 10 1 31 1 5 74 5 10 7 13 18,212 2,111 2,489 35 128 1,143 2,738 229 145 856 513,741 8,657 58,962 2,500 798 22,085 21,270 2,400 286 1,612 47 7 5 20 4 8 5 7 6 2 10 153 6 6 190 4 8 14 7 22 5,007 596 394 2,628 125 136 1,124 566 1,009 49 630 29, 848 4,510 8,015 39,790 1,852 468 2,928 8,546 5,638 383 18,962 47 493 37 22 235 17 10 4 59 Total. 104 273 28, 086 632,311 121 420 12,264 120,940 146 927 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 67 in Canada, 1901-1905, Inclusive — Classified by Causes. 03. 1904. 1905. Total. sM I 1 It 5 It 1 [ i.^ ■f.-o ^1 pproximate Ti Losses in Work Days. 1 i 6 s. ° o n ppionmate Ti Losses in Work Days. 1 .a Q a 3-d .6 8 ^1 pproximate Ti Losses in Work Days. .9 o 6 § 1. 'S.'g ppioximate Ti Losses in Work Days. 55 1 1 100 2,40p 2 19 96 5,436 10 23 472 18 84 1,100 9,590 1 1 1 44 6 800 5 1 6 3 1 5 1 4 3 1 2,836 6 1,346 134 134 23,232 • *'■■■■■■■ 1 1 800 16,000 17,671 1 1 18 1,044 804 1 \ 800 16,000 L..__ 1 _ 3 3 68 800 15 14 4,456 42,761 . 78 DEPARTMEJ^T OF LABOUR Table showing duration of Strikes in Canada, Year. 5 Days ok Less. 6 TO 10 Days. 11 TO 15 Days. 16 TO Class of Industry. 1 i 1 1^ S.5 t-- 1 i S g i ■p 1 1 < 1 1 a 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1 1 5 1RI 442 858 147 655 476 558 1 3 2 1 4 2 9 45 1 4 80 43 715 34 107 560 245 4,490 204 810 1^ 3 2 5 3 13 11 10 3 83 240 135 262 ■3 3 1 3 4 25 453 84 100 5,694 852 1,100 / 1 2 8 Total 18 56 1,162 2,694 11 61 979 6,309 7 32 637 7,646 3 18 1901 1902 1903 1904- 1905 2 2 36 76 1 1 1 1 15 12 120 84 1 I 1 1 30 330 3 1 3 9 194 45 1,792 180 2 2 206 i?454 2 1 Total ... . 6 14 275 2,048 4 4 233 1,658 1 1 30 330 3 i 1901 1902 10,15 1 2 1 2 36 79 72 188 2 2 90 540 \ ionl 1905 3 3 115 260 2 2 90 540 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 8 3 3 1 4 7 2 15 1 6 439 1,920 3,305 8 558 480 3,040 3,410 40 1,831 1 1 2 1 1 12 27 190 1,512 324 2,280 16,620 1 1 9 3 600 150 4,800 1,350 1 3 857 5,142 Total 19 31 6,230 8,801 3 15 1,607 11,292 4 14 1,729 19,224 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1 1 1 1 16 1 36 600 22 216 4,800 110 2 2 40 105 1 3 1 3 700 880 2,800 1,790 1 1 96 864 1 it 2 2 68 537 Total 6 6 1,620 4,695 5 20 726 5,663 1 1 96 864 1 « 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Unskilled 7 6 4 2 1 6 6 3 2 1 435 437 1,336 240 . 40 1,047 973 2,131 520 80 1 1 62 434 1 1 6 36 1 1 193 2,123 1 1 1 1 Total 20 18 2.7SS 4,751 2 2 68 470 1 1 193 2,123 2 J 1 1 ) ' 1 1 ' 1 SUMMARY 1 5 13 45 27 6 3 4 18 6 3 19 6 20 12 5 17 140 45 31 18 4 56 14 3 31 6 18 1,100 2,000 11,428 2,964 2,457 511 255 388 1,162 276 116 6,230 1,620 2,788 4,400 6,700 22,537 6,893 9,063 10,165 646 513 2,694 2,048 260 8,801 4,695 4,751 1 4,100 49,200 Lumbering 2 4 14 13 6 3 4 eo 20 8 430 2,866 1,659 2,053 872 3,070 21,156 13,296 15,788 6,197 ■Miiiiiie 3 12 7 6 2 2 7 1 3 128 16 8 23 2 32 1 236 1,577 1,176 477 177 228 637 30 2,876 17,079 36,170 10,306 1,108 2,262 7,646 330 ■ *•• 6 Building m Metal. 14 Woodworking 3 Textile 5 • 11 4 2 3 5 2 4 61 4 2 16 20 2 2,972 979 233 90 1,607 726 68 23,176 6,309 1,658 640 11,292 6,663 470 1H Food and Tobacco 1: Leather 'General Transport 4 1 1 14 1 1 1,729 96 193 19,224 864 2,123 2 MisdellaneoUs il Unskilled J Grand Total 176 400 33,193 83,156 71 203 14,546 108,615 46 229 10,655 148,188 29 165 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 79 1901-05 — Classified by Industries — Concluded. 20 Da vs. 21 TO 30 DATS. OvKK 30 Days. — UNCEM'AIN. Totai,. 13 1 < 1 S 1. 11 1^ 11 1 d 1 li 11 1 • i di 15 1 'A |.a n 1 11 1^ 1 11 li 795 1 1 3r 3r 40 i 10^ 32 1 2 .2 37 8 11 11 11 24 63 21 60 163 6,764 291 1,145 392 1 4 162' i,938 3 5,244 160,783 173,560 1,964 18,678 27 432 2,400 1 4 ii 150 1 1 419 9,637 1 19 107 4,173 230 3,627 2 5 521 11,575 4 19 5,351 164,956 6 9 88 51] 200 8,968 196,807 1 1 30 750 6 5 4 1 1 15 5 12 665 227 207 40 10 19 10 20 6 28 11 14 4 13 746 310 280 666 151 g 126 3 1 3 13 15 4 62 43 152 2,856 2,279 3,136 3,066 3,609 8,434 1 106 2 5 114 2,052 61 926 3 45 70 1,052 3 6 144 2,802 7 32 257 8,271 17 35 1,144 40 41 94 2,153 16,201 l' 1 3i 3 4' 8 ll 2 36 85 178 25 1 1 1 3 6 35 1 3 53 2,544 3,084 252 1 2 25 252 1 2 25 252 1 3 53 2,544 2 4 41 9 14 324 3,596 1 1 5,000 315,000 1 5 5 11 10 15 2 5 9 17 46 2 9 5,466 3,135 8,861 103 1,415 315,804 10 120 5 4 425 3,203 1 9 30 810 3 1 3 1 651 95 47,151 9,500 69,341 9,540 6,973 1 9 30 810 5 5 5,746 371,651 11 9 3,628 43 83 18,970 411,778 1 2 2 69 500 3 6 4 2 7 3 23 10 2 7 105 1,098 297 796 1,000 716 1 2 70 1,400 2 1 3 1 388 200 20,496 1,400 26,801 15 360 1 6 60 1.870 . _. :i 3,664 1 1 35 665 1 1 17 2,992 15 360 2 3 103 2,065 3 4 588 21,896 4 9 146 500 22 45 3,296 36,043 3 3 38 11 7 9 4 2 10 7 8 4 2 735 472 -2,295 280 60 1,481 1,708 1 1 1 1 35 60 735 1,140 650 9,100 1 1 1 1 1 1 SO 40 20 300 14,830 520 80 6S0 9,100 2 2 P.') 1 Kra 6 6 148 300 33 31 3,842 18,619 "1 1 1 8,000 136,000 3 5 3 32 26 6 10 3 6 17 2 11 4 6 1 4 2 393 50 5 23 3 9 35 4 9 9 6 100 170 1,844 3,226 1,214 423 472 68 88 1,144 41 3,628 146 148 60,000 28,000 16,330 800 46 566 300 6 13 37 143 95 33 18 15 51 41 9 43 22 33 13 13 43 1,728 188 82 84 14 200 94 14 83 45 31 13,300 2,640 27,732 22,680 10,580 3,055 1,100 4,466 8,968 2,153 324 18,970 3,296 3 842 •189,600 1 4 12 6 1 5 338 7 40 735 4,233 997 720 13,710 100,871 24,363 9,490 900 1,473 415 106 20,950 22,795 6,663 1,582 7 21 11 6 2 6 563 36 27 19 9,733 7,548 2,269 666 96 515,943 421,652 101,576 32,573 5,436 647,172 610,586 208,953 60, 813 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 5 6 2 9 3 2 100 800 521 144 25 30 105 95 2,466 16,000 11,575 2,802 252 810 2,065 1,875 9,590 42,751 230 70 3,627 1,052 4 7 1 5 19 32 3 5 S,S51 257 53 5,746 588 164,956 8,271 2,544 371,651 21,896 196,807 16,201 3,596 411,778 15 650 360 9,100 36,043 1R A1Q 1,859 202,129 36 380 7,825 177,443 67 714 32,307 1.646,498 134 553 12,712 95,970 559 2,632 123,09612,461,999 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 81 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-5.— CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES AND DURATION. SUMMARY TABLE VII. Out of a total of 194 disputes over the question of increased wages, there were 97 which lasted ten days or less, 35 lasting from 11 to 30 days, 13 over thirty days, and 49 of uncertain duration. Out of a total of 63 disputes which remained in effect longer than thirty days, 30 disputes related either wholly or in part to the question of wages. There were 71 strikes for increased wages and .shorter hours, of which 28 were of ten or fewer days' duration, 21 lasted from 11 to 30 days, ten lasted longer than thirty days, and 12 for an uncertain period. Of the 38 strikes against decrease of wages, 20 were ended within ten days, 4 lasted from 11 to 30 days, 2 for more than 30 days, and 12 were uncertain. In the 37 strikes against the employment of non-unionists there were 18 ended within ten days, 7 continued from 11 to 30 days, and 2 beyond 30 days. Ten strikes were uncertain in duration. Out of 35 strikes against discharge of employees, 12 lasted ten days or less. There were 13 disputes lasting from 11 to 30 days, 4 over thirty days and six for an uncertain period. Of the 24 disputes over the question of union recognition, there were 4 lasting not more than ten days, 6 from 11 to 30 days, 8 over thirty days, and 6 for an uncertain time. The eight strikes for union recognition which lasted over thirty days caused Time Losses of 404,838 working days. The following tables show the causes of the strikes or lockouts occurring in Canada year by year from 1901 to 1905, classified according to Duration: — A^A^9. — 1\ 82 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-05 Year. 5 Days ob Less. 6 TO 10 Days. 11 TO 15 Days. 16 TO Class of Industry. o' 1 1 ■ || 1 1 i 1 1? i i 1 1 1 1^ 1 1' 1 3 1 2 2 2 10 S ■S-d If 1^ For increase in wages 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 19 19 8 14 9 52 27 25 26 35 2,709 2,022 1,583 2,979 3,932 4,312 3,077 3,254 12,373 8,536 3 9 9 2 6 7 36 32 2 8 230 1,156 1,883 234 999 1,625 8,111 17,101 1,604 6,303 2 4 4 2 1 2 49 3 2 25 237 482 4,400 130 100 2,424 5,242 62,583 1,618 1,100 31 1 10 3 9 Totals 69 165 13,225 31,522 29 85 4,502 34,744 13 81 5,349 62,967 56 1901 1902 1903 1901 1905 5 1 1 3 1 5 1 "3 1 1,901 80 1,050 1,256 40 7,517 160 1,050 3,760 80 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 " i 3 62 230 15 50 171 340 2,070 90 400 1,014 1 1 190 30 2,280 330 1 1 1 1 1 Totals 11 10 4,327 12,567 8 7 518 3,914 2 2 220 2,610 3 2 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1 1 2 1 2 7 1 1 2 1 10 15 - 15 327 15 ■ 65 IS 327 30 200 3 5 575 33,275 ,,,. 2 3 292 .1,460 1 Totals 422 572 2 3 292 1,460 3 5 575 33,276 1 1 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1 For increase in wages and shorter hours 5 4 6 2 1 15 12 29 13 1 1,210 370 256 230 30 12,360 1,540 599 460 90 • ^ 3 6 4 67 145 865 1,870 10,210 3 3 2 25 32 4 535 1,076 27 4,025 7,010 192 2 1 1 1 2 2 Totals, 18 70 2,096 15,049 8 61 1,637 11,227 8 .71 1,010 12,080 5 4 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 For recognition of union - 1 2 1 2 16 3,450 32 3,950 1 1 60 ■540 .... 1 1 50 300 » 1 11 350 3,160 Totals 3 3 3,466 3,982 1 1 50 300 2 12 410 3,690 1 2 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Ag'ainst employment of non- unionists 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 98 36 40 6 100 650 252 240 54 900 1 1 9 108 3 1 3 4 11 3 1 10 6 48 175 41 424 216 525 48 1,088 1 1 1 2 348 32 4,524 384 1 1 2 1 Totals 20 688 1,877 7 7 280 2,096 3 4 389 5,016 2 3 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 For increase in wages and other changes 1 5 680 4,760 1 1l> 1 1 1,000 2,000 1 3 250 2,250 1 1 4 20 25 75 125 300 1 1 75 375 1 2 Totals 3 25 1,100 2,426 2 6 755 5,136 1 3 250 ; 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Against discharge of em- ployees 3 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 3 160 120 27 28 1,913 570 240 27 28 2,038 1 2,525 20,200 2 1 3 2 3 255 IS 179 "■3,155 "i 180,... 1,611 ,.., 1 1,772 12,404 Totals 10 9 2,248 2,903 2 2 4,207 32,604 6 6 449 4,946 1 — STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 83 -Classified by Causes and Duration. 20 Days. 21 TO 30 Days. Over 30 Days. Unceetain. Total. 1 1" i 1 jf 1 <1 1 1 i i^ jl If 1 1 1 jl ji_ i 1 I 1^ ll ^1 is I 8,212 300 1,050 817 163 139,180 4,800 15,100 15,132 2,621 1 3 4 2 2 1 3 171 83 5 30 415 1,490 2,680 787 750 7,970 31,750 66,900 15,091 1 1 6 3 2 1 1 204 2 121 5,000 8 4,850 1,647 607 315,000 64E 294,000 75,111 31,298 11 10 14 8 6 22 36 48 21 50 1,794 624 897 674 362 50,450 300 40 47 47 32 28 116 163 493 140 253 18,212 5,007 16,153 8,747 6,940 513,741 29,848 414,088 172,710 64,949 10,242 176,833 ' 12 263 5,302 122,461 13 329 12,112 716,057 49 177 4,341 50,750 194 1,155 57,059 1,196,336 5 4 3 3 158 96 800 12 7 5 6 8 10 6 37 6 10 2,111 606 1,370 2,0«7 353 8,667 4,510 25 325 357 350 1 35 250 20,000 21,795 4,617 21 1 2 1 2 740 92 25 1 4 25 1,825 3,269 71 1,032 2 39 275 21,825 12 9 1,086 800 38 69 6,497 42,748 1 6 8 4 6 1 6 22 5 31 1 1 2 4 70 102 1,400 1,938 1 1 200 6,600 2 2 2 11 109 287 "is; 880 394 1,291 307 376 8,015 51,420 1,490 4 21 311 23,796 23,996 2 6 172 3,338 5 22 511 30,396 4 13 396 15,880 24 65 2,368 84,921 3 4 6 1 11 83 41 2 1,134 550 337 100 44,732 20,266 27,505 2,800 1 1 6 4 1 1 96 173 12 20 24 10 5 31 190 235 198 50 2,489 2,628 3,106 1,208 270 58,962 208 12 3,120 180 2 1 2 1 36 6 47 35 390 13 154 630 7,320 234 3,005 65 1,036 838 ■■■7;666 21,000 39.790 49,614 24,686 86 1,326 4,421 306 4,626 6 90 592 11,189 14 137 2,121 95,302 12 271 1,939 28,000 71 704 9,701 177,473 1 1 4 2 1 1 7 68 35 40 8,483 476 2,600 1,280 389,483 11,575 1 4 13 3 3 1 4 17 79 9 35 125 14,641 825 260 2,500 1 3 1 2 9 2,216 1,852 39 585 2 3 403 7,630 401,948 14,725 1 1 100 2,400 2 8 ISO 2,400 39 585 3 4 503 10,030 8 77 9,033 404,838 6 11 2,375 24 110 15,876 423,425 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 8 21 52 113 25 40 5 8 9 10 6 5 8 10 28 7 128 136 716 370 524 798 468 15 360 952 1 1 1 4 25 100 5,750 1,800 11,399 56 2 2 110 10,250 13,488 1,988 71 1,312 2 S 125 7,550 2 2 110 10,250 10 17 211 40 37 68 1,874 28,141 38 570 3 1 1 58 11 425 14 27 16,755 928 783 1 3 1 1 2 6 6 5 3 2 3 74 14 9 5 23 1,143 1,124 291 100 32S 22,085 "* 110 14 2,928 3,033 500 50 8S0 1 1 200 9,000 10,150 88 1,420 6 70 666 27,466 6 9 124 19 125 2.983 38,696 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 53 20 6 40 500 6 7 6 9 8 5 7 5 10 7 2,738 366 709 411 4,040 21,270 48 720 1 1 35 735 1 3 1 2 2 1 88 661 125 3,696 64,501 8,750 8,546 64,708 1 3 2 3 25 355 262 6,505 10,669 20,947 48 720 5 6 415 7,492 5 5 874 76,947 5 6 119 600 35 34 8,464 126,140 84 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-05— Clam of Industry. Year. 5 Days ob Less. ii .10 2 6 TO 10 Days. 11 TO IS Days. It TO g Sympathetic disputes. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1906 114 358 Totals. . 358 Against employment of par- ticular j)ersonB 1901 1902 1904 1905 Totals. 166 197 66 450 344 142 900 796 1,552 Unclassified. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1,1 1,056 1,025 1,052 38 3,326 3,777 2,126 Totals. 30 61 4,711 10,319 670 150 5,220 1,350 22 6,570 120 503 80 560 1,129 98 23 8,482 882 138 1,330 10,062 6 1,500 2,400 60 16,500 120 1,717 19,080 258 28 2,274 SUMMARY 69 11 7 18 3 11 3 10 2 12 30 165 10 15 70 3 20 25 9 2 20 61 13,225 4,327 422 2,096 3,466 688 1,100 2,248 114 796 4,711 31,522 12,567 572 15,049 3,982 1,877 2,425 2,903 358 1,552 10,319 29 8 2 8 1 7 2 2 3 3 6 85 7 3 61 1 7 6 2 22 ? 4,502 518 292 1,637 50 280 755 4,297 820 64 1,330 34,744 3,914 1,460 11,227 300 2,096 5,135 32,604 6,570 503 10,062 13 2 3 8 2 3 1 6 4 81 2 5 71 12 4 3 6 20 5,349 220 575 1,010 410 389 250 449 1,717 62,967 2,610 33,275 12,080 3,690 5,016 2,250 4,946 19,080 10 3 1 5 1 i 2 1 1 m i 1 For increase in wages and shorter houis 4 i Agynst employment of non-unionists. For increase in wages and other 3 12 Against dischargo of, employees Sympathetic disputes ■ M Against employment of particular Uncuussified 4 25 286 2,274 3 9 Totals '.... 176 400 33,193 83,126 , n 203 14,545 108,615 46 229 10,655 148,188 29 m STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 Classified by Causes and Duration — Condvded. 85 21 TO 30 DATS. Over 30 Days. Uncertain. Total. 6 dS 1^- 2 oa 2 II o a 8,800 1,009 2,616 550 12 2,400 5,638 20,730 8,800 120 8,800 SO 6 14 1,135 4,416 37,688 252 145 49 224 146 517 344 394 900 130 35 1,081 2,307 6,675 75 619 144 1,350 13,637 318 5,460 59 888 18.798 173,479 57 68,203 275 187 261 8,951 1,751 2,616 1,612^ 18,962 187,421 13,025 84,104 6,801 702 15,131 6,525 260,537 145 14,804 305, m 10,242 71 176,833 1,032 12 263 5,302 122,461 13 2 5 14 6 5 1 1 11 329 39 22 137 77 2 70 5 10 1 23 12,112 275 611 2,121 9,033 110 666 874 80 716,067 21,825 30,396 96,302 404,838 10,250 27,466 76,947 2,880 49 12 4 12 6 10 5 5 6 9 16 177 9 13 271 11 17 9 6 14 11 16 4,341 1,086 396 1,939 2,375 211 124 119 1,135 180 806 50,760 800 15,880 28,000 « 500 194 38 24 71 24 37 19 36 17 26 74 1,166 69 65 704 110 68 125 34 132 25 145 55,059 6,497 2,368 9,701 15,876 1,874 2,983 8,464 4,416 1,054 14,804 1,196,336 42,748 2 6 3 2 6 90 4 5 172 592 603 125 3,338 11,189 10,030 7,550 84,921 177,473 423,425 28,141 38,696 306 39 71 88 4,626 585 1,312 1,420 720 8,800 48 550 « 6 415 7^492 126,140 37,688 2 4 2 4 14 702 262 16,131 2,307 305,124 444 6,801 6,526 260,637 11,869 202,129 36 380 7,826 177,443 67 714 32,307 1,646,498 134 553 12,712 95,970 669 2,632 123,096 2,461,999 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1901-5.— CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES AND RESULTS. SUMMARY TABLE VIII. The following table is a classification by causes of the strikes and lockouts which occurred in Canada in the quinquennium 1901-5, showing the results of the disputes due to each cause. < Out of a total of 559 disputes which occurred in the five years there were 230, or 4115 per cent, in which the employees won out or were at least partially successful; while 129 disputes, or 23-08 per cent, resulted in favour of the employers. There were 39 disputes, or 7 per cent, settled by compromise; and 161 disputes, or 28 -8 per cent, were uncertain in result. Of the 194 strikes for increased wages there were 94, or 47-94 per cent, which resulted in favour of the employees; 43 strikes, or 22-16 per cent, in favour of the employers; and 14, or 8 per cent, compromised. In the case of 43 disputes (22 per cent) the result was uncertain. Of the strikes against reduction of wages, which numbered 38, there were 12 which resulted in favour of the employees, 7 in favour of the employers, 3 com- promised, and 16 indefinite in result. In the 71 strikes for increased wages and shorter hours the employees were successful or partially successful in 47, while the employers won out in 11; three resulted in a compromise and in 10 the result was uncertain. Of the 19 strikes to enforce demands for higher wages and other changes, 9 were won by the employees and 2 by the employers, 4 were settled by com- promise and 4 resulted indefinitely. The total number of strikes in which the wage question figured was 322, and out of this number the employees were successful in 162 cases, or 50 -3 per cent, whereas the employers won in 63 disputes, or 19 • 56 per cent. A compromise was effected in 24 of these cases (7 -45 per cent), while in 72 instances, or 22 -36 per cent, the result was indefinite. In the 24 strikes due to demands for shorter hours, the employees were successful in only. 6, and the employers won in 11 ; in 3 a settlement was effected by compromise and' in 5 the result was indefinite. Out of 71 strikes for increased wages and shorter hours 47 resulted in favour of the employees and 11 in favour of the employers. The total number of dis- putes related to the question of working hours was 95; 53 of these, or 55-8 per cent, were won by the employees and 21 (22 • 1 per cent) by the employers. During the five years there were 24 strikes in which the question at issue was union recognition. In 7 of these disputes the men were victorious and in 6 unsuccessful; 3 strikes resulted in a compromise and 8 were uncertain in result. Of 37 strikes against the employment of non-unionists the employees won 11, STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 87 the employers 11, and 12 disputes resulted indefinitely. The strikes for union recognition and those against the employment of non-unionists totalled 61, of which the employees won 18, the employers 20, 3 were compromised and 20 were indefinite in result. In 35 strikes against the discharge of employees the men won 11 and the employers 13. In sympathetic strikes the employees won 4 and lost 3, while 2 were com- promised and 8 resulted indefinitely. Against the employment of particular persons there were 26 strikes, 7 of these being won by employees and 8 by the employers; one ended in a compromise and 10 were uncertain in result. Of the strikes not classified there were 22 which resulted in favour of the employees and 12 in favour of the employers, 6 were compromised and 34 resulted indefinitely. 88 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1901-5.' t Years. In favour of Employees. In favottb of Employees. Principal Cause or Object 1 Q d 'A s 1 1- Apprgxim^te Time Losses- in Working Days. 1 1 S a || 1* li Pl For increase in wages 1901 19012 1903 1904 1905 25 27 17 13 12 83 66 203 45 65 10,741 2,3SS 6,695 2,747 3,781 145,809 8,666 89,904 25,035 14,344 6 7 15 9 6 5 7 229 71 10 5,410 520 7,913 4,571 1,316 316,537 1,770 319,691 142,003 L6,601 Total 94 462 26,319 283,758 43 322 19,730 786,602 1901 1902 1903> 1904 1905 Against reduction of wages 4 2 1 4 1 4 2 1 4 1 53 420 30 87 25 137 4,350 330 797 15P 3 3 184 1,080 3 35 1,315 21,140 1 1 72 Total 12 12 615 5,764 7 39 1,571 22,220 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Forshorter hours 1 1 1 3 1 16 15 683 15 18,124 4 2 3 6 2 21 596 15 241 33,296 30 14,136 2 9 115 9,840 Total 6 26 813 27,979 10 30 852 47,462 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 For increased wage's and 7 13 15 8 4 17 182 218 70 49 1,629 1,763 2,315 793 240 30, 182 29,685 38,206 12,566 4,331 3 2 4 1 1 14 3 2 3 1 410 295 470 15 30 10,580 3,230 10,400 120 90 Total. 47 536 6,740 114,970 11 23 1,220 24,420 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 For recognition of union. . 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 11 35 40 938 350 2 500 1 6 1 8 16 11,367 32 315,788 1,280 74,760 3,150 Total 7 9 11,383 315,820 6 16 1,363 81,690 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Against employment of non-unionists 4 1 4 3 2 4 1 4 4 3 112 12 425 103 118 798 3 1 5, 2i 3 1 22 4 72 175 172 135 384 525 1,902 239 84 10,514 2,086 936 Total 11 30 654 3,050 14 16 770 14,418 1 1 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 89 -Classified by Causes and Results. Compromise. Indefinite. Total. D3 .1 Q 6 2; to 1 1 >> ll Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. D3 1 1 1 L P .2 • Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. to 1 i 1 dS .15 [0 1. Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 5 5 3 10 46 31 7 170 1,232 918 1,234 170 12,852 3,873 5,204 8 8 10 7 10 18 34 30 17 lV8 1,891 900 627 195 1,843 51,225 6,660 620 468 44,004 40 47 47 32 28 116 153 493 140 253 18,212 5,007 16,153 8,747 6,940 513,741 29,848 414,088 172,710 64,949 14 94 3,554 22,099 43 277 5,456 102,877 194 1,155 55,059 1,195,336 1 1 1 1 800 80 3,200 160 4 4 1 2 5 2 3 1 2 7 1,074 96 25 1,980 244 4,240 12 7 5 6 8 10 6 37 6 10 2,111 596 1,370 2,067 353 8, 657 4,510 325 3,720 3,059 21,795 4,517 1 1 12 60 3,269 ~^ 3 3 892 3,420 16 15 3,419 11,344 38 69 6,497 42,748 I 8 4 6 1 6 22 5 31 1 1 200 6,600 3 1 1 4 1 179 12 92 1,400 394 1,291 307 376 8,015 51,420 1 I 2 1 200 20 1,000 20 460 1,490 23,996 3 4 420 7,620 5 5 283 1,860 24 65 2,368 84,921 1 50 75 12 600 525 180 1 4 4 1 5 14 125 400 495 309 400 17,600 6,350 828 12,000 12 20 24 10 31 190 235 198 50 2,489 2,628 3,106 1,208 270 58,962 1 39,790 1 1 49,614 24,686 4,421 3 1 137 1,305 10 144 1,604 36,778 71 704 9,701 177,473 1 4 13 V 3 3 1 4 17 79 9 35 125 14,641 825 250 2,500 2 3 1 2 2 6 60 8 69 136 450 150 540 11,400 11,250 1,852 1 2,200 25 100 401,948 1 I 8 1 325 2,400 14,725 2,400 3 9 2,325 2,725 8 76 805 23,190 24 110 15,876 423,425 1 4 4 2 1 1 4 5 2 16 52 116 95 271 5 8 9 10 5 5 8 10 28 7 128 136 716 370 524 798 468 360 9,500 813 11,399 13,488 ' 1,988 12 12 550 10,673 37 58 1,874 28, 141 1 90 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Strikes in Canada, 1901-5. — Classified Yeabs. In favour or Employees. In FAVOUR OF EmPLOTEBS. Principal Cause or Object 1 .1 1 a o 11 No. Employees aSected. Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. P 6 iz; (C 1 a ^^ II i 1- Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. For increase in wages and 1901 1902 1903 ■ 1904 1905 2 1 2 1 3 60 1 3 4 23 408 1,000 277 25 325 15,000 2,000 3,033 125 10, 150 1 1 20 960 1 6 14 ■ Total 9 91 2,035 30,308 2 7 34 960 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Against discharge of Km- ployees 3 1 2 3 4 3 1 2 3 4 188 160 42 153 93 970 1,920 207 3 3 256 4,656 4 4 4 3 207 3,947 ■ 1,639 19,804 8,778 1,143 Total... 11 10 4,410 26,099 13 13 636 13,018 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Sympathetic disputes. ... 3 2 iig 418 2 1 4 64 2.'J0 550 1,350 8,800 1 12 120 Total 4 2 131 538 3 68 800 10,150 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Against employment of particular persons 1 1 4 1 1 3 52 9 181 104 63 312 3 1 2 2 3 i 2 35 40 16 43 160 320 32 28 1 1 450 900 Total 7 6 692 1,379 8 6 134 540 Unclassified 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 3 2 6 5 6 3 2 27 11 .6 42 45 1,386 304 1,261 50 15 9,332 3,198 15,625 3 2 1 3 3 3 1 15 3 5 291 322 43 388 129 572 16,800 2,279 5,684 386 Total 22 49 3,038 28,220 12 27 1,173 25.721 - , 1 1 1 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 91 by Causes and Results. — Continued. COMPHOMISE. Indefinite. Total ^1 1 a 6% 13 1. r T W 1^ Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 i 6 1" 1^ Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 Q d a % 1° m 1. Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 2 1 12 715 40 6,125 1 3 1 13 6 5 3 2 3 74 14 9 5 23 1,143 1,124 291 100 325 22,085 - 2,928 3,033 500 84 928 1 1 75 375 10 150 ' 4 13 830 6,500 4 M 84 928 19 125 2,983 38,696 2 3 4 2 2 3 3 3 2,550 ISO 607 51 20,300 1,9« 64,501 252 5 7 6 9 8 5 7 5 10 7 2,738 566 709 411 4,040 21 270 8 546 64 708 10. 669 20,947 11 11 3,418 87,023 35 34 8,464 126,140 1 9 200 2,400 1 3 3 1 1 20 21 29 890 866 2 6 6 2 1 10 22 36 64 229 1,009 2,616 550 12 2,400 5,220 2,880 5,638 20,730 8,800 120 1 11 ^ 1,500 16,500 2 20 1,700 18,900 8 42 1,785 8,100 17 132 4,416 37,688 4 3 58 22 8 2 6 7 3 7 1 4 20 3 145 49 197 146 517 286 383 344 1 1 14 , 252 4 2 17 2 89 67 114 394 900 1 1 14 252 10 22 214 136 26 36 1,054 2,307 6 5 10 6 7 7 5 15 if 523 245 5,851 1,059 450 990 149 172,804 4 143 2,793 12 10 19 14 19 13 9 59 20 44 856 630 8,951 1,751 2,616 1,612 18, s)62 187,421 13,025 84,104 1 2 1 2 18 1,671 1,998 3,006 3 20 776 65,300 6 23 2,465 70,304 34 46 8,128 180,879 74 145 14,804 305,124 — I - , 1 92 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Strikes in Canada, 1901-05. — Classified SUM Principal Cause or Object. For increase in wages '. . Against reduction of wages For shorter hours For increase in wages and shorter hours For recognition of union Against employment of non-union- ists , For increase in wages and other changes , Against discharge of employees... . Sympathetic disputes Against employment of particular persons Unclassified Total In favour op Empiotees. o 47 7 11 9 11 4 7 22 230 I. ■S S ^§ to O H2 462 12 26 536 9 30 91 10 2 6 49 1,233 o a 1? 26,319 615 813 6,740 11, S 554 2,035 4,410 131 692 3,038 o 283,758 5,764 27, 979 114,970 315,820 3,050 30,308 26,099 538 1,379 28,220 In favour of Kmflotebs. Q 6 56, 730 1 837,885 "I 129 I ■ 322 39 30 23 16 16 7 13 68 6 27 .cd o a 567 19,730 1,571 852 1,220 1,363 770 34 636 800 134 1,173 28,283 hi 786,602 22, 220 47/462 24,420 81,690 14,41g g«o 13,018 10, ISO 540 25,721 1,027,201 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-5.— CLASSIFIED BY RESULTS ACCORDING TO DURATION. SUMMARY TABLE IX. The following table shows the industrial disputes occurring in Canada during the years 1901 to 1905, classified by results according to duration. Of the 355 strikes which lasted less than 30 days the employees were suc- cessful in 190 and unsuccessful in 87; 29 disputes were settled by compromise and 112 were uncertain in result. There were 70 strikes which lasted over thirty days and of these the employees won 22 and lost 24. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 93 by Causes and Results. — MARt. Concluded. COMFKOMISE. iNDEFINinS. Total. 1 1 S CQ 1. h o a a ^ l-S Q 11 d 8 Is 6^ 1.; ill d 1 e 11 6 S 1. li % 2 J?; or 2 -31 per cent, in lumbering; 1,477, or 1-17 per cent, in miscellaneous trades; 1,303, or 1 -03 per cent, in woodwork- ing trades; 1,160, or 0-97 per cent, in food and tobacco preparation; 6,770, or 0-54 per cent, in the fishing industry; 5,480, or, -43 per cent, in leather trades; and, 3,160, or 0-25 per cent, the smallest number, in the printing and allied trades. Out of a total of 3,747 establishments involved in industrial disputes during the five years, 27,357, or 73 per cent, belonged to the building trades; 369, or 9-85 per cent, to the metal trades; 112, or 3 per cent, to general transport trades; and 106 each, or 2 -83 per cent, to the mining and the clothing trades. The number of establishments affected in other industries were as follows: — - Food and tobacco preparation. . 73 establishments, 1 ■ 95 per cent. Miscellaneous trades 49 " 1-3 Unskilled labour...... 42 " 1-12 Woodworking ."...*. 39 " 1-04 Leather, 34 " -91 Printing 31 " 0-83 Printing 31 " -83 Textile 24 " -64 Lumbering 22 " -3$ Fishing 5 " -13 The following table shows the number of disputes in existence in each in- dustry in each of the years 1906-10, the number of establishments and employees involved in such disputes, and the total loss in working days in all disputes in progress during each of the five years. 106 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table Showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10. — Classified by Industries. Class of Industry. Years. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments, concerned. No. Em- ployees, affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 1906 1907 • 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 j906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 ~ 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1 1 180 125 540 1,000 2 5 372 6,948 Total 4 5 2 4 2 2 5 10 S 3 2 2 677 1,290 453 428 300 460 R MR Lumbering 30,490 6,081 14,066 6,600 4,350 Mining and quarrying, . . 15 14 13 9 10 4 22 14 53 13 20 6 2,921 6,495 13,250 3,119 8,795 2,338 61,587 187,780 203,949 30,271 711,207 377,100 Building trades 50 29 44 12 13 25 106 716 494 94 288 lll43 33,997 8,464 5,278 1,561 2,580 9,446 1,510,307 69,472 185,063 20,957 47,100 151,436 Metal and shipbuilding trades. . . . 123 23 23 9 5 16 2,735 147 115 15 17 75 27,319 2,515 2,282 960 499 2,081 474,028 20,821 92,113 51,887 23,883 30,257 « Woodworking tradies 75 6 3 1 2 2 369 20 7 1 9 2 8,337 915 235 17 36 100 218,961 5,401 6,401 1,326 744 600 Printing and allied trades . 14 6 2 1 39 18 9 1 1,303 197 39 40. 14,472 3,358 201 360 1 3 40 200 Textile trades 10 5 6 2 31 6 6 8 2 2 316 2,234 3,397 7,542 948 315 4,119 15,124 31,357, 135,972 33,380 20,980 21 24 14,4f6 236,783 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 107 Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10, by Industries — Continued. Class of Industry. Years. t No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 -9 17 8 11 11 15 29 12 14 36 560 2,278 960 736 1,552 2,465 33,055 17,068 12,538 40,415 ITood and tobacco-preparation 56 8 2 1 2 8 100 20 1 1 5 46 6,076 257 47 83 75 698 105,531 1,784 1,128 1,328 3,895 7,626 Leather trades 21 3 5 73 3 20 1,160 . 79 316 15,761 2,108 3,431 2 1 7 4 81 72 5,231 2,664 General transport 11 16' 17 7 7 7 34 17 54 16 17 8 548 2,178 5,637 8,482 1,505 3,820 13,434 16,697 40,212 425,572 10,000 80,915 Miscellaneous trades. , 54 5 7 2 2 1 112 19 25 2 2 1 21,622 95 834 416 112 20 573,396 626 12,421 5.648 5,5*20 40 17 11 7 8 9 5 49 10 7 9 9 7 1,477 601 2,053 1,695 1,293 348 24,255 3,131 6,550 3,840 4,799 2,082 40 42 5,990 19,402 108 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10, by Industries — Concluded. SUMMAEY. Fishing Lumbering Mining and quarrying Building trades Metal and shipbuilding trades Woodworking trades Printing and alHed trades Textile trades ; Clothing trades Food and tobacco preparation. Leather trades Genieral transport Miscellaneous trades Unskilled labour i 15 50 123 75 14 10 21 56 21 11 54 17 40 511 5 22 106 2,735 369 39 31 24 106 73 34 112 49 42 3,747 677 2,921 33,997 27,319 8,337 1,303 ■ 316 14,436 6,076 1,160 548 21,622 1,477 5,990 126,179 8,488 61,587 1,510,307 474,028 218,961 14,472 4, 119 236,783 105, fel 15,761 13,434 573,396 24,255 19,402 3,280,524 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 109 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1906-10— CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES. SUMMARY TABLE XII. In disputes due wholly or in part to the question of wages the Time Losses reached 1,354,705 working days. Over fbrty per cent of the total losses were due to wages disputes, as follows : — 562,793 days lost, or 17- 15 per cent, in strikes tor increased wages. 387,109 " 11-80 " " for increased wages and other changes. 250,526 " 7-63 " " against reduction of wages. 154,277 " 4-70 " " for increase in wages and shorter hours. The greatest loss of time due to strikes from any single cause was occasioned by differences over the question of recognition of the union, the Time Losses attributable to this cause alone totalling 876,698 days, or 26 ■ 72 per cent. If to this figure is added the loss of 140,979 days sustained in strikes against the employment of non-unionists, or for what is known as the closed shop, it will be seen that strikes related to unionism were responsible for the loss of 1,017,677 working days, or 31-02 per cent, which is surpassed only by the aggregate Time Losses of all the disputes over the question of wages. The magnitude of the Time Losses in disputes over union recognition is due mostly to the disputes in the coal fields of Nova Scotia which began with the demands of the employees for recognition of the United Mine Workers of America. There were four of these disputes in the year 1909, with Time Losses of 501,954 days, including 283,700 days lost at Glace Bay and 209,100 at Springhill. The Springhill strike continued into 1910 and 1911. Under the heading 'unclassified' 707,549 days, or 21 • 57 per cent of the Time Losses, are shown. This large proportion of unclassified losses is made up chiefly of the losses sustained in a strike of railway machinists on the C.P.R. against changes in conditions of labour, the number of days lost in this case being esti- mated at 424,000, or nearly three-fifths of the aggregate losses under this head. Demands for shorter hours caused an aggregate loss of 93,527 working days, or 2-85 per cent. Adding to these figures the losses incurred in strikes where a •demand for shorter hours was combined with a demand for increased wages, the total losses in disputes involving the question of hours of labour, were 480,636 working days, or 14 • 65 per-rcent of the total. The Time Losses from other causes were — Against discharge of employees 38,111 days, or 1-16 per cent. Sympathetic disputes 37,524 " 1-14 per cent. Against employment of particular persons, other than non- unionists 31 , 431 " 0-96 per cent. Out of a total of 126,179 employees thrown out of work by reason of indus- trial disputes during the years 1906 to 1910, by far the greatest proportion, namely 30 ■ 99 per cent, were out for increased wage^ ; 10-54 per cent were on strike for increase in wages and other changes ; 8-75 per cent against reduction of wages; and 6r- 67 per cent for increased wages and shorter hours; making a total of 71,870»employees, or 56-95 per cent, who were involved in strikes related either wholly or in part to the question of wages. For the purpose of enforcing demands for shorter hours of work, 4,255 employees, or 3-37 per cent, were out on strike. The number of disputants engaged in strikes for higher wages and shorter hours was 8,417, or 6 • 67 per cent, making a total of 12,672 employees, or 10 04 per cent, concerned in disputes affecting the question of hours of labour. 110 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Notwithstanding the enormous Time Losses debited to disputes over the question of union recognition, the total number of strikers involved in such dis- putes in the period from 1906 to 1910 is only 8,454, or 6-7 per cent; and it should be remembered that in this case, as in many others throughout the present report, the actual number qi persons concerned is less than the total number of strikers, because the same workmen are counted as often as they have gone on strike during the period, and any employees remaining on strike after the close of the year, providing their places have not been filled, are necessarily again counted in the total number of strikers for the ensuing year. The largest number of men on strike for recognition of the union during the five-year period were out in 1909, when 4,634 were involved in such disputes. In 1910 there were 1,700 employees out, and these were all concerned in the Springhill strike, which had been begun the previous year. In 1908 there were no disputes over union recognition, and consequently no workmen affected. In 1907 there were but two strikes from this cause and only 56 employees out. From the comparatively small numbers of employees involved in these disputes for union recognition, it" will be seen that the magnitude of the Time Losses from this cause was due to the long duration of the disputes, particularly the coal strikes at Springhill and Glace Bay. Against the employment of non-unionists there were 11,380 strikers, or 9 03 per cent. In the year 1907, and again in 1910, the number exceeded four thousand ; in 1908 it was only 183, and in 1909 the total was 428. The total number of employees involved in unionism strikes, that is, dis- putes for recognition of the union or for 'closed shop,' was 19,834, or 15-73 per cent. Against the discharge of employees there were 3,218 workmen on strike during the five year period, the proportion being 2 • 55 per cent. Sympathetic disputes involved 1,571 employees, or 1-25 per cent. Against the employment of particular persons, other than non-unionists, there were 2,672 workpeople out, or 2 • 12 per cent, almost half of this aggregate (1,200) being concerned in a six-day strike of cotton mill hands at Hochelaga, Que., in 1908, which occasioned Time Losses of 6,000 days. The unclassified disputes involved 22,759 employees, or 18-03 per cent. Un^er this heading is included the strike of 8,000 railway machinists on the C.P.R. in the year 1908. There were 1,553 establishments, or 41-45 per cent, out of the total of 3,747 affected by disputes over the question of increased wages alone; 588 establish- ments, or 15-69 per cent, by strikes for increased wages and shorter hours; 378 establishments, or 10 - 09 per cent, by strikes for increased wages and other changes; and 125 establishments, or 3 -33 per cent, by strikes against reduction in wages. The total number of concerns involved in disputes affecting the ques- tion of wages was 2,644, or 70 per cent. Establishments numbering 310 (8-27 per cent) were concerned in strikes against the employment of non-unionists, and 223 (5 • 95 per ceiit) in strikes for recognition of the union; making a total of 533 establishments, or 14-22 per cent, concerned in unionism disputes. Disputes for shorter hours involved 174 establishments, or 4- 64 per cent. Sympathetic disputes 36 ■ " -96 " Strikes against discharge of employees 34 " -91 " Strikes against employment of particular persons. . 22 " •58 "• The unclassified disputes involved 306 establishments, or 8-16 per cent of the total. The most frequent cause of strikes was the wage question. In 208 disputes or 40 -7 per cent, the issue was increased wages. There were 32 strikes, or 6 -26 per cent, against reduction in wages. Demands for higher wages and shorter STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 111 hours caused 29 disputes, or 5 -67 per cent. Increased wages and other changes were demanded in 40 other disputes, or 7-83 per cent of the aggregate. /The total number of strikes, therefore, in which the wage question was involved was 309, or 80-46 per cent. Strikes against the employment of non-unionists, or for the closed shop, were 51 in number, or 9-98 per cent. Sixteen of these disputes occurred in the year 1906, and eighteen in 1907. During the years 1908 to 1910 there were only seventeen of these strikes in existence. Demands for shorter hours caused 32 disputes, or 6-26 per cent. Adding to these the 29 strikes for shorter hours and higher wages shows the total number of disputes concerning hours of labour to be 61, or 11 ■ 93 per cent. Though the Time Losses were more severe in strikes for recognition of the union than from any other cause, there were only ten such strikes, or 1-96 per cent, during the whole five-year period. Thirty-one disputes, or 6-07 per cent of the total number, were caused by the discharge of employees. There were ten such strikes in the year 1906, and ten in 1907. Against the employment of particular persons there were 20 strikes, or 3 -91 per cent. Half of these occurred in the years 1906 and 1907. Sympathetic strikes were least frequent, the total number for the period being only eight, or 1-96 per cent. Fifty disputes, or 9 • 78 per cent, are unclassified. The following tables classify according to causes the disputes in existence in each of the years 1906 to 1910, the number of establishments and employees involved in such disputes, and the approximate loss of time in working days in all disputes in progress during each of the five years. 112 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts in Canada, 1906. 1907. 19 Principal Cause or Object. For increase in wages Against reduction of wages. For shorter hours 60 For increase in wages and decrease in hours For recognition of union Against employment of non-union- ists For increase in wages and othei[ changes Against discharge of employees.. Sympathetic disputes Against employment of particular persons Unclassified 141 ID > O . •3.T3 O 03 .Z 1.^ S m . •rt « tn P "" S 62 100, 000 days and over 50,000 and under 100,000 days. 25,000 and under 50,000 days.. 15,000 and under 25,000 days. . 10,000 and under 15,000 days. . 5,000 and under 10,000 days . . , 2,600 and under 5,000 days 1,000 and under 2,500 days 500 and under 1,000 days 250 and under 500 days 100 and under 250 days Under 100 days Indefinite Totals 500 114, 500 2 1 3 5 10 19 16 18 17 25 24 141 201 1 202 32 65 119 134 58 122 39 41 4,900 1,500 2,550 4,387 2,750 3,729 1,420 1,445 762 656 1,451 67,600 16,500 35,350 32, 155 39,397 32,579 10,829 6,775 2,817 1,205 112 140 41 86 73 42 90 59 108 39 18 5,200 1,650 3,300 8,454 4,523 5,525 2,631 1,649 1, 837 313 I n't 154 240,850 65,000 41,800 81,950 84,501 58,450 25,224 11,510 7,769 4,049 859 1,015 26, 050 359,797 149 :c 825 36,224 621,962 65 22 If 15 27 10 1 Its 'Includes Springhill strike, entailing a loss of 209,100 days, not settled at end of 1909. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 iir British Columbia and southern Alberta, with Time Losses of 161,700 days; the strike at Glace Bay, N.S., in which 283,700 working days were lost; and the strike at Springhill, N.S., which during the year 1909 caused Time Losses aggre- gating 209,100 days. The last mentioned strike, however, continued throughout the following year (1910) and occasioned a further Time Loss of 360,000 days, making a total of 569,100 days lost during the years 1909 and 1910. In the y6ar 1907 there were no disputes, resulting in Time Losses of more than. 100,000 days, but three disputes causing losses of from 50,000 to 100,000 working days, occurred in this year. These were the strike of coal miners in Alberta and British Columbia,, who lost 62,100 days, the coal miners' strike at Springhill, N.S., which caused a loss of 98,750 days, and the strike of 500 plumbers . in Toronto, with Time Losses of 80,000 days. In 66 disputes, or 12-91 per cent, the Time Losses were less than 100 days. In 72 1409 In 70 13-7 In 61 11-96 In 69 13-5 In 43 8-41 In 41 8-02 In 17 3-33 In 7 1-37 In 12 2-35 n t 100 and under 250 days " i 250 500 " ' * 500 1,000 " ' ' 1,000 2,500 " " ' 2,500 5,000 " " ' 5,000 10,000 " " ' 10,000 15,000 " " ' 15, 000 25, 000 " 25, 000 50, 000 " The magnitude of the strikes occurring in Canada in each of the years 1906 to 1910,as indicated by the Time Losses, is shown in the following classification : — to magnitude as indicated by the total number of working days lost. 08. 1909. 1910. Total— 1906-10. 1 Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 Q 1 1 ll 1^ h iz; Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. s. (fi S d 1 1 .1 • ^ OS Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 a 6 1 s ■s . |1 6§ a O 03 Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 14,000 551,950 3 13 6,700 *654, 500 1 1 1,700 1360,000 7 3 18 112 22,900 5,200 1,680,950 -.240,850 1378,374 458 35, 724 2 2 1,208 58,500 .5 427 5,660 151,550 12 771 13,876 1 101 400 21,200 24,825 q 35^ 5,020 55,780 28,650 7 496 10,22C 13,130 L 135, 280 210,900 375 40, 125 2 55 1,370 2 2 381 17 351 3,091 37,433 9 28 2,373 59,282 9 90 2,587 66,316 41 288 16,961 279,687 2,385 12,675 6 86 1,547 23,629 8 268 1,788 26,791 43 464 13,995 160,942 2,393 18,475 12 46 1,983 19,721 9 49 1,065 14,634 69 326 11,801 110,633 1,157 5,576 10 17 1,058 6,114 11 23 1,825 8,036 61 248 7,109 42,065 S27 4,427 6 30 21^ 2,217 12 78 518 4,402 7C 301 4,991 25,590 331 1,321 10 11 311 1,5-34 13 34 600 2,308 72 216 2,841 12,029 276 579 8 8 169 323 6 5 6 4 113 23 168 66 43 93 63 1,527 1,628 3,224 25,293 708,285 69 397 17,332 871,845 84 1335 21,280 718, 635 511 3,747 126, 179 3,280,524 1 1 tSpringhill strike, not settled at end of 1910. 118 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1906-10.— CLASSIFIED BY PROVINCES. SUMMARY TABLE XIV. The greatest loss of time from industrial disputes was sustained by the province of Nova Scotia. The total number of working days lost in Nova Scotia is estimated as 1,058,768; and more than half of this aggregate is made up of the losses caused by the protracted struggle between the coal miners at Springhill and their employers. Expressed in percentage, Nova Scotia's share of the total losses from strikes during the years 1906 to 1910 was 32-27 per cent, as compared with her proportion of 6 • 36 per cent in the previous quinquennial period. The province of British Columbia, where Time Losses in 1901-5 were 23 per cent, was more forturiate in the second period, losing only 151,385 days, or 4-61 per cent. The losses in disputes affecting more than one province, and therefore classified as ' Interprovincial,' amounted to 722,050 days (22-01 per cent), this division being second to Nova Scotia. These inlcude 414,000 days lost in the strike of Canadian Pacific Railway machinists in the year 1908, and 161,700 days lost in a strike of coal miners in eastern British Columbia and southern Alberta the following year. In Ontario the Time Losses from industrial disputes amounted to 213,206 -working days, or a proportion of 15-64 per cent, as compared with 29 per cent in the previous five-year period. Next to Ontario in the matter of Time Losses comes the province of Quebec, with 13-99 per cent, or a total of 459,080 working days; then Alberta, with 6-01 per cent; British Columbia, 4-61 per cent; Manitoba, 3-31 per cent; New Brunswick, 1 -64 per cent; and Saskatchewan -37 per cent. In Prince Edward Islan'd there were no disputes. The number of employees affected by industrial disputes was. greatest in the province of Quebec, the number of disputants in that pravince being 32,311 ■or 25-61 per cent. Though the strikes in Ontario were twice as numerous as those of Quebec, the number of employees involved was slightly less, being 30,935, or 24-52 per cent. In Nova Scotia the number of employees involved in industrial disputes was 19,159, or 15-18 per cent. The number of employees affected by, — Interprovincial disputes were 13-57 per cent. Manitoba disputes 7-15 " British Columbia disputes.. . 6-8 " Alberta disputes 3-44 " New Brunswick disputes 3-17 " Saskatchewan disputes -55 " The number of establishments affected by industrial disputes was greatest in the province of Ontario; 1,634 establishments, or 43 -61 per cent of the total number, were affected. There were 809 establishments, or 21-59 per cent, involved in strikes in the province of Quebec. In the other provinces the pro- portions of the total number of establishments involved were as follows: — Manitoba 14-76 per cent. Alberta 7-71 " British Columbia 6-38 " New Brunswick 2-29 " Nova Scotia 1-68 " Saskatchewan 1-36 " Interprovincial 0-61 ." Prince Edward Island.... 0-0 " STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 119 Out of a total of 511 strikes or lockouts which took place in Canada in 1906- 10,223 (43-65 per cent) occurred in Ontario. In the province of Quebec there were 106 disputes, or 20-74 per cent;* in British Columbia, 46 strikes, or 9 per cent. In the other provinces the numbers of disputes, and the proportions of the total, were asJfoUows: — Nova Scotia ,.-... .34 disputes. Alberta 33 Manitoba 29 New Brunswick 26 Saskatchewan 7 Interprovincial 7 Prince Edward Island r The following table shows the number of disputes occurring each year, from 1906 to 1910, in the various provinces of Canada, and shows the numbers of establishments and employees affected and the approximate loss of time in work- ing days in each province. tes, tt u or 6-65 per 6-46 5-67 5-09 1-37 1-37 Bent. t t Table showing Strikes and Lockouts in Canada, Provinces. 1906-10.— Classified by Province. Year. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments oonoerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 11 10 3 6 4 9 19 9 9 17 4,815 6,134 377 5,930 1,903 31,560 140,725 2,806 522,062 361,615 Total 34 9 8 6 2 1 63 49 15 19 2 1 19,159 823 1,480 1,485 65 150 1,058,768 New Brunswick 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 6,948 13,462 29,936 2,515 1,050 Total 26 24 30 21 13 18 86 86 102 52. 39 530 4,003 5.218 7,579 9,982 ^,295 7,237 53,910 Quebec 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 58,498 76,326 166,869 51,883 105,504 Total 106 63 73 27 26 34 809 450 444 74 116 550 32,311 7,011 12,319 2,572 3,239 5,794 459,080 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 54,566-^ f 236,799 67,206 38,099 116,536 Total 223 9 6. 1 6 7 1,634 344 80 33 30,935 5,035 1,367 16 1,549 1,061 513,206 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 36,796 29,300 48 28.079 14,472 Total 29 553 9,028 108,695 120 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Strikes and Lockouts in Canada, 1906-10, by Provinces — Concluded. Province. Year. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1 1 1 4 5 2 1 43 40 . 200 162 297 360 800 486 10,622 Total ,^ 7 12 6 3 6 6 51 48 22 3 125 91 699 1,491 678 ■' 569 873 730 12,268 127,709 2,556 8,599 48,416 13,882 Alberta 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Total 33 13 13 5 8 7 289 29 115 14 14 67' 4,341 1,657 3,102 2,092 719 1,008 201,162 43,720 59,584 8,022 18,605 21,454 British Columbia 1905 1907 1908 . 1909 1910 Total 46 239 8,578 151,385 Interprovincial. . .* 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 2 1 1 3 8 1 11 3 3,525 8,000 2,500 3,100 62,850 424,000 161,700 73,500 Total 7 23 17,125 722,1.50 SUMMARY. Nova Scotia.. New Brunswick.. Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia. Interprovincial 34 26 106 223 29 7 33 46 7 511 63 86 809 1,634 553 51 289 239 23 3,747 19,159 4,003 32,311 30,935 9,028 699 4,341 8,578 17,125 126,179 1,058.768 53,910 459,080 513,206 108,695 12,268 201,162 151,385 722,050 3,280,521 The name of Prince Edward Island does not appear in the table because no strikes occurred in that province during the period under review. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 121 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1906-10— CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIES AND DURATION. SUMMARY TABLE XY. Out of a total of 511 industrial disputes which took place in the years 1906 to 1910, there were 230, or 45 per cent, which did not last longer than ten days,' 101, or 19 -76 per cent, whiph lasted from 11 to 30 days; 95, or 18-58 per cent, which remained in effect longer than thirty days; and 85 disputes, or 16-63 per cent, whose duration was indefinite or not reported. The largest proportion, 114 disputes, or 22-31 per cent, lasted from 2 to 5 days; and 89 disputes, or 17-41 per cent, from 6 to 10 days. Twenty-seven strikes (5 -28 per cent) ended in less than two days. Of the conflicts which lasted longer than ten but less than thirty days, there were 42, or 8-22 per cent, which continued from 11 to 15 days; 18, or 3 -52 per cent, from 16 to 20 days; and 41, or 8 -02 per cent, from 21 to 30 days. The strikes which continued beyond thirty days were responsible for the greatest Time Losses, namely, 2,398,781 working days, or' 73 -12 per cent of the total loss. In strikes of indefinite duration the loss of time was 266,165 days, or 8 -11 per cent. Disputes lasting from 21 to 30 days caused Time Losses of 196,611 days, or 5-99 per cent. In the disputes lasting from 6 to 10 days the aggregate Time Losses were 185,126 days,' or 5-64 per cent. Working days to the number of 85,664, or 2 -61 per cent of the total, were lost in the disputes. which lasted from 16 to 20 days; and 83,415 days, or 2-54 per cent, in disputes in effect from 11 to 15 days. Working days to the number of 62,099 (1 - 89 per cent) were lost in disputes lasting from 2 to 5 days, and 2,663 days ( -08 per cent) in strikes of less than two days' duration. The largest numbei of employees affected by industrial disputes were involved in the strikes which lasted over thirty days, 37,906 employees, or 29 -24 per cent of the total number, taking part in such strikes. Only 2,663 employees or 2 - 11 per cent, were involved in the strikes which lasted less than two days. 122 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR The following statistical analysis may be interesting: — Number of employees involved. 27,696, or 21 19,288, or 15 16,299, or 12 10,407, or 8 7,316^ or 5 5,604, or 4 95 per cent. 28 92 24 8 44 Duration of disputes. 6 to 10 days 2 to 5 days An indefinite period 21 to 30 days 11 to 15 days 16 to 20 days The establishments affected by industrial disputes during the years 1906 to 1910 were most numerous in disputes which lasted over thirty days, there being 1,209 establishments or 32-26 per cent, involved in such disputes. Analysis here show as follows : — Number of establishments affected. Duration of disputes. 664, or 17-72 per cent 6 to 10 days 563, or 15-02 2 to 5 days 385, or 10-27 21 to 30 days 384, or 10-25 An indefinite period 377, or 10-06 11 to 15 days 91, or 2-43 Less than two days 74, or 1-97 16 to 20 days Out of the 95 disputes which lasted longer than thirty days, 22 were in the building trades, 20 in the metal trades, and 14 each ih the mining and the clothing industries. Out of 41 disputes lasting from 21 to 30 days, 17 occurred in the building trades, 7 in metal trades, and 4 each in the mining and the general transport industries. In the building trades 44 strikes lasted 10 days, or less, 35 from 11 to 30 days, 22 over thirty days, and 22 an indefinite time. In the metal trades 32 disputes ended within ten days, 15 lasted 11 to 30 days, 20 remained in force over thirty days, and 8 were of indefinite duration. There were 56 strikes in the clothing trades, and out of this number 16 terminated within ten days, 10 lasted from 11 to 30 days, 14 over 30 days, and 16 an indefinite period. In transportation 36 out of 54 disputes were settled within ten days, 10 lasted from 11 to 30 days, 3 remained in effect over thirty days, and 5 remained unsettled an indefinite time. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 123 In the 50 mining strikes which occurred there were 24 which lasted less than ten days, 10 lasting from 11 to 30 days, 14 continuing beyond thirty days, and 2 indefinite. The following tables show the duration of the strikes occurring in each industry in each of the years 1906 to 1910, the number of establishments and employees affected by such disputes, and the Time Losses involved: — 124 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Tablk showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10- 1 Less than 2 Days. 2 TO 5 Days. 6 TO 10 Days. 11 TO 15 Days. Industry. 1 1 tf 1- Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 i M 1 1 a i 1 < a i S g E a Hi ^1 ti 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 ..... ..„ k- _ ; ] i ■ ::::\.'.':..: i ]..... Total 1 i ' 1 ....i.... 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Lumbering ....i 1; 1 I 1 2 3 20 228 353 40 456 1,241 220 1,100 1 ■■■■|" ■;■ '' 1 150 1,050 1: 1 30D 3,300 ■....| 6 6 601 1,737 2 2 370 2,150 1 1 300 3,300 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Mining 4 3 4 1 4 3 4 1 2,330 1,767 2,345 75 7,490 5,526 9,175 375 i 4 2 1 1,015 3,664 97 140 6,305 21,984 551 1,120 3 1 3, 1,715 3 53 19,220 689 V ■■■■| 1 1 24 24 Total 1 1 24 24 12 12 6,517 22,566 n 11 4,916 29,960 4 6, 1,768 19,909 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Building. 1 1 50 1 200 50 2. 50 8 7 2 3 2 74 61 2 25 180 417 483 335 452 715 1,277 1,574 1,340 1,676 2,860 5 4 6 «0 14 24 6,015 100 268 40,395 808 1,99« "i.'ioo "4 2 1 3 2 76 40 30 96 70 503 275 500 368 400 6,130 3,325 6,000 2 2 27 27 5,096 4,000 3 34 158 Total i 63 277 277 22 342 2,402 8,727 18 492 6,541 44,299 12 312 2,046 24,551 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Metal .. 2 2 55 ',55 4 4 3 77 7 3 369 294 279 1,248 702 1,080 6 5 51 18 1,611 166 10,946 1,197 1 2 2 1 .1 1 1 2 1 6 33 91 85 14 26 330 910 1 975 1 1 2 1 3 55 164 495 1,230 168 3 3 1,266 1,266 2 2 147 375 286 Total 5 5 1,321 1,321 13 -89 1.089 3,405 14 73 1,996 13,868 7 11 249 2,66» 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Woodworking.... 1 1 200 400 1 1 15 75 , 1 1 20 40 .. .i.. 2 2 100 600 1 Total 1 2 2 220 440 3 3 115 675 1906 1007 1908 1909 1910 Printing and allied 1 6 20 >20 2 1 3 8 39 30 108 120 1 70 490 1 3 40 200 1 6 20 20 4 14 109 428 1 70 490 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 2 3 4 2 1,944 3,157 1,200 10,314 27,972 6,000 1 1 50 450 1 1 35 18 105 90 1 1 12 120 , Totfll 2 1 53 195 _1 9' B.301 44,286 2 2 62 570 — STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 125 Classified by Industries and Duration. 16 TO 20 Days. 21 TO 30 Days. OvEB 30 Days. i Indefinite, TOTAl. 6 1 ll f. o" 6 z jl 1 • < 1 ill 6 6^ 5 Z |.s J jl 1 i i P 1" 0) u |.g 1 .... 1 .... 180 126 540 1,000 1 1 180 125 540 1,000 1 4 300 6,300 1 '■ 1 72 648 2 5 372 6,948 1 4 300 6,300 3 1 377 2,188 4 5 677 S 488 1 6 300 4,800 2 2 750 24,550 . 5 2 4 2 2 10 6 3 2 2 1,290 453 428 300 450 30,490 6,081 1 3 225 5,625 1 7.5 12,825 . 1 14,066 2, 2 300 6,600 6,600 4,350 1 6 300 4,800 1 3 225 5,625 3 2 825 37,375 2 2 300 6,600 IS 22 2,921 61,587 1 1 1 7 35 3,450 665 62,100 2 2 3 32 2 6 5 15 2 2 1,400 4,300 641 7,150 1,934 154,100 . 113,650 19,933 . 686,750 367,956 . 14 13 9 10 4 14 S3 13 20 6 6,495 13,250 3,119 8,795 2-, 338 187,780 1 4 16 203,949 30,271 1 1 1 36 300 6i2 . 5,100 1 1 1 1 3 712 380 9,412 9,120 1 1 418 8,450 711,207 377, 100 2 2 336 5,712 4 12 4,677 81,297 1 4 57 15,425 1,342,389 2 5 434 8,450 60 106 33,997 1,510,307 2 2 36 11 SIS 142 8,950 2,010 2 14 8 88 2 37 270 2,004 405 5,748 39,111 9,130 1 4 8 253 1 1 4 161 8 472 62 1,941 53 1,708 2,455 5,580 136,215 1 2,491 . 40,001 87,500 B 42 2 26 469 283 1,200 1,970 29 44 12 13 25 716 494 94 2SS 1,143 8,454 5,278 1,561 2,580 9,446 89,472 185,063 ^ 20, 957 1 4 3 204 25 3,770 300 25,000 47,100 2 1 520 7,300 6 182 1,428 23,676 151,436 6 43 1,180 18,260 1 7 321 4,107 77,657 2 2 891 6,219 271,787 2 2 276 4,547 28,470 123 2,735 27,319 474,028 2 4 1 2 1 7 1 1 2 15 65 32 18 160 84 1,524 128 1 468 3,520 1,600 2 2 86 2 2 2 14 4 45 123 1,688 120 270 371 6,718 89,000 . 13,640 19,700 . 5 10 259 23 23 9 5 15 147 115 15 17 75 2,515 2,282 960 499 2,081 20,821 1 1 11 176 92, 113 1 1 458 35,724 51,887 , 23,8S3 25,500 1 1 23 30,257 1 ! 11 176 7 29 359 7,240 2 149 2,572 154,558 i 12 740 35,724 75 369 8.337 218,961 2 2 20 126 1 8 1 6 1 1 1 8 80 200 17 16 4,800 6,800 1,326 I 8 1 1 600 9 si 6 3 1 2 2 20 7 1 9 2 915 235 17 36 100 5,401 1 1 26 520 . 6,401 1,326 704 744 600 1 1 26 520 2 2 20 126 t 22 313 '12,630 ■ i 9 609 SI 14 39 1,303 14,472 2 8 68 2,740 . 6 2 1 18 9 1 197 39 40 3,368 1 1 1 9 40 81 360 201 j 1 360 ! 1 3 40 200 j ! 8 68 / 2,740 2 2 49 441 10 31 316 4,119 1 1 1 200 20S 3,400 1 3,280 . 1 40 960 . 5 6 6 2 2 6 6 8 2 2 2,234 3,397 7,542 948 315 15,124 1 1. 31,357 a 4 2 6,312 948 129,762 33,380 135,972 - 2 33,380 - 2 315 20,950 . 20,950 2 2 405 6,680 1 1 40 960 2 2 315 20,950 5 6 7,260 163,142 21 24 14,436 236,783 126 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10 — i Less than 3 Days. 2 TO 5 Days. 6 TO 10 Days. 11 TO 15 Days. Industry. a i 1 i^ Approximate Time Losses in Workinc Days. 1- ft Approiimate Time Losses in Working Days. i 1 Id's 1- 5^ I S s s s s Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. * '^ 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 2 4 2 7 60 1,162 325 8,080 2 4 1 2 7 1 190 446 79 2,140 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 107 16 130 60 413 64 520 300 5 692 474 2 2 2 1 186 222 1,304 1,476 Total 6 « 313 1,297 10 12 1,630 11,185 7 10 715 8,306 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1 1 21 105 1 1 78 624 6 25 275 3 18 125 370 -3 17 335 1,864 Total * 19 146 475 4 18 413 2,488 6 25 275 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1 1 28 140 2 17 187 674 * ■ , Total . . , 2 17 187 674 1 1 28 140 190« 1907 1908 1909 1910 -General trans- port 5 ' 2 3 5 2 12 315 365 92 315 365 92 2 5 3 I 4 15 3 2 2 900 560 390 300 45 3,600 1,350 1,480 700 140 3 7 4 29 544 3,441 3,812 24,037 2 8 i;62i 10,210 1 1 700' 4,200 2 1 12 1 425 550 4,900 1 2 125 i25 7,150 Total 11 21 897 8971 14 26 2,195 7,270 11 34 4,685 32,049 5 21 1,996 22,260 1906 1907 1968 1909 1910 Miscellaneous 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 18 400 16 36 1,400 48 2 2 14 70 1 5 40 480 1 1 20 40 Total 4 4 454 1,524 2 ul 7n 1 5 40 480 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Unskilled 1 1 16 16 6 6 7 5 5 6 8 5 358 2,046 1,670 928 904 5,508 3,815 3,134 1 1 95 865 1 1 y ^ 1 2 1 1- ^ 25 65 18 25 65 18 2 2 i 300 3; 310 1.600 1,824 1 2 20 240 Total 5 5 124| 124 24 24 5,002 13,361 5 2 3 115 1,095 n^" 1 III .1 SUMMARY Fishing 5 12 22 13 2 \ 6 4 2 14 4 24 6 601 1,737 22,566 8,727 3,405 440 428 195 1,297 475 674 7,270 1,524 13,361 2 11 18 14 3 1 7 10 4 1 11 2 5 2 11 492 73 3 1 9 12 18 1 34 2 6 370 4,916 6,541 1,996 115 70 6,301 1,630 413 28 4,685 14 617 2,150 29,960 44,299 13,868 675 490 44,286 11,185 2,488 140 32,049 70 3,466 12 1 6 312 11 300 1,768 2,046 249 3,300 Mining , . 1 4 5 5^ 5 277 1,321 24 277 1,321 19,909 Building 24,651 Metal 89 2 14 2 6 19 17 26 4 24 1,089 220 109 53 313 146 187 2,195 454 6.002 2,669 Woodworking Printing and allied. . . t 6 20 20 .... Textile 2 10 6 62 715 25 570 Clothing 8,306 Food and tobacco 275 Leather General transport Miscellaneous 11 21 807 897 2 21 ■ 5 3 1,996 40 115 22,260 480 Unskilled 5 5 124 124 1,095 Grand total 27 91 2,663 2,663 114 563 19,288 -62,099 89 664 27,696 185,126 42 377 7,316 83,415 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 127 Classified by Industries and Duration — Concluded. 16 TO 20 Daitb. 21 TO 30 Days. Over 30 Days. Indefinite. Total. 1 i T^ h If < i 1 P 11 1^ <1> bO 1 i 1 1^ h 1 1 ! 6 4 2 2 3 1 11 1^ |.a < a i jl 1 11 4 2 3 3 310 288 166 153 113 '6,095 1,470 2,240 964 9 17 8 11 11 15 29 12 14 36 560 2,278 950 736 1,552 2,465 33,055 17,058 12,538 2 3 4 5 14 8 7 5 31 275 350 153 1,157 12,775 10,350 6,158 37,675 1 340 4,700 2 3 114 2,316 40,415 1 I 340 4,700 2 3 114 2,316 51 1,935 66,958 16 23 1,029 10,769 56 106 6,076 105,631 2 4 40 630 3 1 1 1 1 7 8 93 150 8 2 1 2 8 20 1 5 46 257 47 83 75 698 1,784 1,128 1,328 1 1 47 1,128 1 1 6 83 10 30 1,328 60 400. 1 '4 65 3,835 3,896 1 2 5 208 4,992 7,626 6 255 6,120 3 2 1 8 105 4,465 16 216 1,938 21 73 1 160^ 15,761 2 1 51 16 1,968 880 3 5 3 20 79 2,108 1 86 1,376 27 SOI 316 3,431 2 1 7 81 5,231 2,664 2 1 7 i 81; 5,231 4 72 72 2, 664 — 1 86 1,376 6 14 220 10,743 27 1 501 11 Hi .548 13,434 4 4 410 8,970 2 1 9 260 4,260 16 17 7 7 7 17 54 16 17 8 2,178 -6,637 8,482 1,505 3,820 16,697 40,212 1 1 8,000 424,000 425,572 2, 2 80 200 10,000 1 2,500 37,500 2 3 2 600 36,000 80,915 1 1 2,600 37,500 4 * 410 8,970 .3 8,600 460,000 6 2 339, 4,450 54 112 21,622 573,396 2 3 16 8 63' 520 168 1.285 5 7 2 2 1 19 25 2 2 1 93 626 1 10 20 400 340 5,600 1 1 216 8,916 834 12,421 1 416 6,648 1 1 93 5,270 1 1 19 250 112 5,520 20 40 ? 11 420 5,940 2 2 309 14, 186 6 25 240 2,055 17 49 1,477 24,255 3 3 132 1,356 11 7 8 9 5 10 7 9 9 7 601 2,053 1,695 1,293 348 3,131 5,550 "'\""i 3,840 1 4,799 1 1 1 2,082 — ....1,... 1 4 4 132 1,356 40 42 5,990 19,402 1 1 1 1 1906-1910. 300 336 1,180 11 26 405 340 86 ,500 4,800 5,712 18,260 176 520 4,700 1,376 37,500 420 5,940 74 5,604 85,664|41 385 10,407196,61195 1,209 300 226 4,577 4,107 6,300 S,629 81,297 77,657 7,240 126 40 114 256 960 2,316 6,120 1,970 57 149 22 15,425 6,219 2,572 313 68 315 1,935 105 220 8,600 37,375 1,342,389 271,787 154,558 12,630 2,740 20,950 66,958 4,465 10,743 460,000 14,186 906 2,398,78185 384 16,299 377 300 4,547 740 7,260 1,029 216 27 339 240 132 2,188 6,600 8,460 28,470 35,724 81 441 163,142 10,769 1,93§ 601 4,450 2,055 1,356 5 22 106 2,735 369 39 31 24 106 73 I 34 112 49 42 677 2,921 33,997 27,319 8,337 1,303 316 14,436 6,076 1,160 948 21,622 1,477 5,990 165.1 511 3,747 126,179 3,280,624 128 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1906-10.— CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES AND DURATION. SUMMARY TABLE XVI. The following tables show the duration of the various strikes as related to "their causes, and may give some idea of the relative difficulty of settling the various questions at issue. It will be noted that out of 95 disputes which remained unsettled longer "than thirty days there were 27 due to demands for increased wages; 12 were for increased wages and other changes; 1-1 were caused by the employment of non- unionists; 9 were against decrease in wages; and 8 for shorter hours. Only 3 ■sympathetic disputes lasted longer than thirty days. Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10 — 1 5 Days or Less. 6 TO 10 Days. 11 TO 15 Days. 16 TO Class of Industry. t i ll 1^ 11 i 1 1 "^1 -1 |.a ■§■ 1 i 1 1 i i^ 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 21 23 13 10 5 137 67 14 31 185 3,614 4,782 2,313 1,435 800 12,389 12,770 6,380 4,845 3,200 9 14 3 3 10 \ 56 2-693 14,946 49,703 1,190 1,651 6,264 6 1 7R| 713 8,095 12,340 615 7,808 3,826 3 3 45 16 3 42 6,209 170 307 1,046 4 49 2 2 4 97 3 9 1,186 57 594 346 . 12 1 1 1 Total \. . . . 72 434 12,944 39,584 39 161 10,425 7.3,764 19, 235 2,896 32,634 8 65 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1 9 1 2 12 S 2 2 400 799 30 40 800 3,160 150 40 1 3 ■■9 125 114 1,000 946 3 1 32 11 619 200 6,954 2,200 ■1 1 2 2 238 1,700 1 Total 9 21 1,269 4,150 6 11 477 3,646 4 9,154 2 ' 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 ■For shorter hours 3 3 1 2 9 10 1 2 73 755 140 70 150 1 1 2 6 7 25 453 275 5,889 2,820 280 140 1 1 1,000 7,000 Total 9 22 1,038 3,390| 1 1 1,000 7,000 3 13 478 6,164 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Tor increase in wages and shorter hours 3 1 2 i 16 11 176 71 38 316 284 70 1 3 8 16 80 67 800 563 - .... 75 750 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 15 55 60 495 420 1 2 65 130 2 70 400 4,000 Total 7 31 ' URn 800 6 40 262 2,278 3 70 475 4,750 2 11 1906 JFor recognition of union 1 1 64 64 1 200 1,800 10,800 1 1907 1908 1909 1910 1 1 5 40 ^0 1 , Total 1 1 64; 64 1 200 1,800 10,800 1 5 40 480 1 1 ' STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 129 Out of a total of 208 strikes for increased wages, 62 lasted from 2 to 5 days; 38 lasted from 6 to 10 days; 13 lasted less than 2 days; making an aggregate of 113 disputes^ or over half the total number, which were settled within ten days; 46 strikes remained in existence from- 11 to 30 days, 27 over thirty days, and 22 an indefinite period. Nine out of 32 strikes against decrease in wages lasted over thirty days; 8 out of 32 strikes for shorter hours; 6 out of 29 disputes over increased wages and shorter hours; and-12 out of 40 strikes for increased wages and other changes. Out of a total of ten strikes for recognition of the union, there were four which lasted over thirty days, and these were responsible for Time Losses of 853,504 days, over oiie-third of the aggregate Time Losses in strikes of more than thirty days' duration. The employment of non-unionists caused 51 strikes and of this number 11 remained unsettled longer than thirty days. The following is a classification of the strikes occurring in Canada in the years 1906 to 1910, showing their duration according to causes: — Classified by Causes and Duration. 20 DATS. 21 TO 30 Days. OvEB 30 Days. Unceetain. Total. s bp ll 1 .1 i S 1.1 i s a 1^ 11 |.a i 1 1^ 1 i .1 1 1 1 818 311 '13,750 4,996 7 5 19 48 604 847 13,436 17,828 6 8 1 3 10 10 123 1 113 141 910 2,692 441 545 1,602 27,340 144,960 6,733 29,630 87,604 8 6 1 5 3 10 13 1 8 3 406 352 135 181 63 2,046 14,625 1,350 5,334 500 60 62 20 29 37 352 357 33 257 552 9,758 16,379 3,116 4,188 5,669 92,001 267,222 15,268 66,096 132,206 300 600 5,100 7,000 3 5 4 172 826 1,402 11,738 23,812 1,929 30,846 20 243 3,679 66,803 28 388 6,090 295,267 22 35 1,137 23,856 208 1,551 39,;O0 562,793 _ 1 1 1 3 30 4 225 350 300 6,626 7,700 6,300 3 17 6 15 81 23 6 750 8,772 993 532 7,425 310 4,700 3 . 2 1 2 5 1 650 263 234 49,875 17,970 7,956 1 1 2 1 8,000 200 127,950 5,200 201,285 31,820 9,996 20 300 6 360 5,000 3 37 876 19,625 6 8 1,047 75,801 2 3 6,200 133,150 32 125 11,047 250,526 3 2 1 1 16 53 5 4 148 824 200 66 7,540 47,600 14,200 3,835 6 3 32 13 315 88 280 1,100 13 12 4 3 63 85 20 6 561 3,146 413 135 8 246 1 2 1 14 26 73 520 1,808 64,929 16,378 3,975 ^ 3 15 99 2,418 7 78 1,237 73, 175 9 46' 40!t 1 HSItl 32 174 4,255 93,627 ; ' 2 1 36 105 250 500 4,260 6 11 4 2 6 45 124 13 4 451 6,443 274 Ri 1 616 120 , 36 1,680 612 2 47 4,550 81,900 2 1 1 2 36 1 3 316 310 200 9 1,660 13,500 6,400 407 37,200 102,927 -7,082 902 , , 402 2,185 41,750 • 156 2,292 2 47 4,650 81,900 6 354 2,179 67,607 3 35 445 4,750 29 588 8,417 164,277 200 3,400 . 3 9 202 9 2,064 56 14,264 1 4 16 480 .' 3 1 10 1 4,216 1,700 493,504 360,000 1 1 418| 8,450 4 1 11 1 4,634 1,700 601,954 360,000 . 200 3,400 4 11 6,916 863,504 2 6 434 1 8.4.10 10 223 8,464 876,698 45418—9 130 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10— i 5 Days or Less. 6 TO 10 Days. 11 TO 15 Days. 16 TO Class of Industry. 1 1 1- i ts i Si 1^ Jl |.9 of a total of 32 strikes against decrease in wages the employees were successful in only 8, whereas the employers won in 16; a compromise was effected in;3 «ases and 5 disputes resulted indefinitely. Over half the strikes due to this cause occurred in the year 1908, the employees being successful in only 3 out of a total of 17 disputes, and the employers winning in ten. In the strikes against reduction of wages which were unsuccessful, T'me Losses of .170,600 working days were incurred by 7,674 employees. In the strikes which sijicceeded there were 1,639 employees affected, and Time Losses amounting, to :20„896 working days. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 133 Strikes to enforce demand for shorter hours were successful in 15 cases, affecting 2,137 employees, which caused Time Losses aggregating 68,279 days. The 10 strikes for shorter hours which were unsuccessful involved 653 employees, and caused Time Losses of 16,538 days. Of the disputes due to demands for increased wages and shorter hours the- employees won 8, the 2,172 employees involved having lost 35,815 days, while 6. disputes affecting 861 workmen and causing Time Losses of 19,282 days, resulted in favour of the employers. Thirteen strikes for higher wages and shorter hours were compromised and two were uncertain in result. There were ten strikes for union recognition and in only one case were the employees successful, the 1,800 employees involved in the dispute sustaining Time Losses of 10,800 days. Four strikes for union recognition failed, and 5 were indefinite in result. It is noteworthy that in no dispute regarding union recognition, during the whole five-year period, was a compromise effected. The employees were successful in 13 strikes against the employment of non-unionists or for the 'closed shop' and wef e defeated in 21 such disputes. In the 13 successful strikes of this class, there were 9,283 employees involved and Time Losses of 96,361 days. In the 21 strikes which failed there were only 1,510 working men concerned and 38,456 days lost. Differences arising through demands for ' increased wages and other changes* were settled in 14 cases by compromise; in 13 disputes of this class the employers won, in 9 the men were successful, and four were indefinite in result. There were 31 strikes declared in protest against the discharge of employees and 22 of these ended in favour of the employers, while only 5 were won by the men; one was compromised and 3 resulted indefinitely. Against the employment of particular persons 7 strikes involving 779 em- ployees were successful, with Time Losses amounting to 3,977 days, and in 9 strikes the employees to the number of 1,518 were defeated, the Time Losses, aggregating 10,739 days. 134 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10 Year In Favoue of Employees. In FAVotTH OF Employebs. Principal Cause or Object. i ll 1" ll d 03 Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. (6 f 6 S3 i II § o a Approximate Time Losses in Working Days, 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 19 21 5 6 11 143 78 17 28 358 4,441 3,788 866 529 2,834 24,110 31,436 7,453 3,062 34,982 15 16 13 14 13 30 23 14 ■ 14 142 1,576 6,088 1,932 1,824 25,651 122,725 6,525 15,110 69,684 Total . . • ■ 62 624 12,458 101,043 71 223 12,944 239,695 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Against reduction of wages 1 3 1 3 12 32 11 3 400 685 200 354 800 1 9,040 10 2,200 2 8,856 3 3 45 6 3 225 7,071 200 178 5,625 150,985 12,850 1,140 Total 8 58 1,639 20,8961 16 57 7,674 170,600 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 5 8 1 1 35 79 5 4 145 1,727 200 65 3,31S 46,929 14,200 3,835 4 3 1 2 12 5 7 2 146 419 18 70 4,930 11,000 468 140 Total 15 123 2,137 68,279 10 26 653 16,538 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 For increased wages and shorter 2 9 116 836 1 2 2 32 15 2 175 290 236 500 4,570 1 1 4 10 3 387 22 9 2,025 22 407 34,550 7,012 1 15 160 7,200 Total 8 1 409 2,172 35,816 6 64 861 19,282 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 200 1,80C 10,800 2 - 1 2 5 264 40 3,464 480 1 1 418 8,450 Total 1 20C 1,800 10,80( 4 8 722 12,394 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Against employment of non-union ists ■ e ] Z t ] ! 23{ 1,84£ 3,60( > S( i ) 3,78( 46,88! )| 2t,60( ) 1,55( S7( ) 25,75( 1 1 \ 12 13 2 > e 4 204 350 103 38S m 1,005 17,622 1,868 4,761 13,200 Total i; ! 24! i 9,28; ! 96,36 \ 2] 3' 1,51C 38,456 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 135 — Classified by Causes and Results. COMPBOMISE. Indefinite. TOTAI. 1 1 '1 -1^ 1^ 1- 0) bO d 11 1 S 1 1 fi 11 dS 09 1. h If p M GO . 18 19 2 170 250 2 210 47 3,330 5,924 318 1,763 438 36,816 85, 106 1,290 38,000 5,450 8 6 9 6 411 579 5,424 17,955 60 62 20 29 37 362 357 33 257 652 9,768 16,379 3,116 4,188 5,659 92,001 257,222 16 268 7 8 2 5 5 5 372 ,563 9,924 22,090 66,096 132,206 S4 679 11,773 M6,662 21 25 1,925 55,393 208 1,561 39,100 662,793 1 1 3 i 6 125 458 593 1,000 35,724 16, 770 3 17 6 6 16 81 23 6 750 8,772 993 532 7,425 3 3 558 5,536 201,286 31,820 9,996 3 3 558 5,536 5 7 1,176 53,494 32 125 11,047 250, 526 4 16 270 13 12 4 3 63 85 20 6 561 3,146 413 135 8,245 1 1 1 1,000 140 7,000 280 64,929 • 1 1 7 55 1,430 16,378 3,975 2 2 1,140 7,280[ 5 23 325 1,430 32 174 4,255 93,527 2 1 79 1 1 140 5,043 16 55 280 90,657 48 495 1 1 / 3 30 20 110 6 11 4 2 6 45 124 13 4 402 451 6,443 274 64 2,186 1,616 8 1 7,700 102,927 7,082 1 902 1 41,760 13 82 5,254 91,480 2 33 130 7,700 29 588 8,417 154,277 3 2 202 9 2,064 56 14,264 480 1 4 16 3 1 10 1 4,216 1,700 493,504 360,000 4 1 11 1 4,634 1,700 501,954 360,000 5 15 5,932 853,504 10 223 8,454 876,698 5 7 1 2 1 4 13 1 5 1 298 162 30 32 25 70 4,335 120 307 1,250 16 18 4 8 5 25 30 8 12 236 2,347 4,152 183 428 4,270 47,960 43,637 3; 538 5,644 1 1 40 80 40,200 1 1 40 80 16 24 547 6,082 51 310 11,380 140,979 136 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10- Year. In Favottb op Employees. ];n Favotjb op Employebs. Principal Cause or Object. 3 (3 6 1 - e II ii Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. 1 d 1 11 : o3 Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. For increase in wages and othef 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 3 2 1 1 2 79 42 1 51 2 261 3,140 6 1,200 57 2,034 12,560 36 12,125 1,035 4 6 11 129 738 1,098 5,373 97,891 1 2 1 2 908 146 32,700 22,100 Total 9 175 4,664 27,790 13 143 2,890 158,064 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Against discharge of employees. . . 2 2 5 2 57 53 496 170 7 6 6 1 2 7 6 6 1 2 586 197 1,309 150 625 5,049 4,416 6,920 1 1 -75 375 6,450 7,900 Total 5 8 185 1,041 22 22 2,867 30,735 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1 1 92 700 1 2 1 1 6 1 17 91 400 1,950 5,600 3 27 971 2(9,274 Total 1 1 92 700 7 35 1,479 36,824 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 Against employment of particular 2 1 2 1 39 20 1,428 180 2 2 1 2 2 2 66 49 1,200 415 3,881 6,000 1 3 1 3 179 541 1,253 1,116 4 5 203 443 Total 7 8 2 2 7 779 3,977 9 11 1,518 10,739 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 207 2 2 6,439 77 65 51,829 315 2,503 2 2 5 1 2 2 2 5 1 29 21 227 8,355 30 308 105 9,048 439,925 900 3 17 882 1,566 5,800 Total 15 228 7,463 56,213 12 39 8,941 455,778 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 137 Classified by Causes and Results — Continued. Compromise. Indefinite. Total. 1 i 4§ g Hi 1 1 1 1, II o . ■1?. 1 P o 1 1" 1 o . 13 H < 2 5 2 3 1 3 42 754 788 116,532 5.873 2 2 35 600 11 13 2 6 8 94 174 2 56 52 1,788 5,026 6 3,398 3,088 124,539 116,324 36 1 3 3 1,250 2,855 30,500 46,670 1 1 1 6 40 30 680 400 76,005 70, 205 14 51 5,647 199,575 4 9 105 1,680 40 378 13,306 387, 109 1 1 1 1 34 37 10 10 6 3 2 13 10 6 3 2 677 337 1,309 270 625 5,545 8,446 6,920 1 1 50 2,900 960 1 1 45 2,475 9,300 7,900 1 1 50 2,900 3 3 116 3,435 31 34 3,218 38,111 ■ 2 2 1 2 6 1 109 91 400 700 1,950 5,600 3 27 971 29, 274 8 36 1,571 37,524 1 1 85 425 1 1 1 1 40 30 6 4 1 1 8 6 4 2 1 9 230 99 1,200 179 964 2,268 1,110 5,171 6,000 1,253 1 1 220 15, 180 16,739 2 2 305 15,605 2 2 70 1,110 20 22 2,672 31,431 1 1 400 2,400 3 8 3 7 1,205 441 8,325 4,088 14 12 9 7 8 213 11 9 24 49 8,065 745 9,620 3,043 1,286 62,659 13,451 2 2 21 1,200 2,900 \3,760 172,440 446, 178 4 2 3 2 3 113 96 1,556 2,999 174,896 10,365 7 24 4,500 178,590 16 15 1,855 16,968 50 306 22,759 707,549 138 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10 — SUM Principal Cause or Object. In Favour of Employees. I o o3 i.S In Favotjb or Employers. n ■OQ d) 1^ 11 O 0) 1-a I3q For^ncrease in wages Against reduction of wages For shorter hours For increase in wages and shorter hours For recognition of union Against employment of non-unionists.. . . For increase in wages and other changes Against discharge of employees Sympathetic Against employment of particular persons Unclassified 62 8 15 8 1 13 9 5 1 7 15 144 624 58 123 409 200 248 175 8 1 7 228 2,081 12,458 1,639 2,137 2,172 1,800 9,i 4,664 185 92 779 7,463 42,672 101,043 20,896 68,279 35,815 10,800 96,361 27, 790 1,041 700 3,977 56,213 422,915 71 16 10 6 4 21 13 22 7 9 12 191 223 57 26 64 8 37 143 22 35 11 39 665 12,944 7,674 653 861 722 1,510 2,890 2,867 1,479 1,518 8,941 42,059 239,695 170,600 16,538 19,282 12,394 38,456 158,064 30,735 36,824 10,739 455,778 1,189,105 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 139 Classified by Causes and Results. — Concluded. MARY CoMPBOMISi:. iNDfiFINITE. Total. 1 1 "S-d I t .S 1 'fl ■1 voS 1 1 5 § a 11 1- 1! fl. Q ^ S C^ V 2 ^ ^ Q w| H S SIS' a H g o ^ ^ 6 dS d'y ShSo 6 d 8 d'y |3q d 62 d'S ■ |5o Iz; ?: I? < Iz; a z «!i ?; Is z < Si 679 11,773 166,662 21 25 1,925 55,393 208 1,551 39,100 562,793 3 3 558 5,536 5 7 1,176 53,494 32 125 11,047 250, 526 2 2 1,140 7,280 5 23 325 1,430 32 174 4,255 93,527 13 82 5,254 91,480 2 33 130 7,700 29 588 8,417 154,277 5 15 5,932 853,504 10 223 8,454 876,698 1 1 40 80 16 24 547 6,082 51 310 11,380 140,979 14 51 5,647 199, 575 4 9 105 1,680 40 378 13,306 387, 109 1 1 50 2,900 3 3 116 3,435 31 8 20 34 36 22 3,218 1,571 2,672 38,111 37, 524 2 2 305 15, 605 . 2 2 70 1,110 31,431 7 24 4,500 178,590 16 15 1,855 16,968 50 306 22,759 707,549 97 845 29,267 667,708 79 156 12, 181 1,000,796 511 3,747 126,179 3' 280, 524 140 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR strikes and lockouts 1906-10, classified by results According to duration. summary table xviii. r- Of the 331 disputes which lasted less than thirty days there were 111, or 33 -53 per cent, which resulted in favour of the employees and 116, or 35 -04 per cent, won by the employers ; a compromise was effected in the case of 79 disputes^ or 23-87 per cent, and 23 disputes, or 6 -95 per cent, were uncertain in result. The number of employees concerned in disputes which ended within thirty days in favour of the employees was 29,786, or 40 ■ 75 per cent. The number of Table showing Strikes and Lockouts, 1906-10 — In Favour op EiIiployees. In FAVopE OF Emplotee. ■s e.s •s a.s Duration. Year. 1 11 CD I 1?. 1 II 1.' 11 limate Ti es in Work s, ' mi Hj ssS- s W 2 H © iJo 6 nS o'g |3q 6 68 d'g - I? ^ ^ < a 'A K < 1906 1907 5 2 59 2 381 365 381 365 3 1 3 1 95 50 95 50 1908 1 10 22 22 3 3 95 95 • 1909 2 2 55 55 1 1 30 30 1910 2 2 1,250 1,250 4 5 183 183 Total 12 75 2,073 2,073 12 13 453 453 1906 2 to 5 days n 151 2,941 9,325 q 10 714 2,295 1907 13 62 1,446 4,597 8 10 3,651 10,898 1908 4 4 670 2,510 13 14 2,935 9,994 1909 3 24 497 1,901 '7 8 358 1,344 1910 5 198 867 3,365 3 3 80 340 Total 38 439 6,421 21,698 40 45 7,738 24,871 1906 6 to 10 days 1? 421 8,602 54,779 7 14 323 2,069 1907 11 35 6,240 40, 710 8 26 1,318 9,262 1908 3 IS 96 586 5 12 1,394 7,586 1909 2 2 186 1,304 2 2 30C 1,600 1910 7 33 503 3,570 6 8 726 4,314 Total 35 506 15,627 100,949 28 62 4,061 24,831 1906 11 to 15 days ■. . •i 10 1,706 473 19,005 6,069 •i 5 370 3,935 1907 3 8 3 7 72 822 1908 1909 5 2 34 2 676 239 7,569 1 11 200 2,200 2,868 1910 1 70 400 4,000 3 4 870 10,690 Total 10 99 2,779 31,274 18 52 2,227 25,884 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 141 employees involved in disputes which ended within thirty days in favour of the employers was 17,483, or 23''92 per cent. Of the 96 strikes which lasted longer than thirty days the employers won 39, affecting 14,619 employees (39-12 per cent) and causing Time Losses of 872,438 days (26i.59 per cent), while the employees were successful in 24 disputes affecting 8,952 employees (23-96 per cent) and causing Time Losses of 188,816 days (5-75 percent). The Time Losses sustained in disputes which lasted less than thirty days ■aggregated 616,578 days, 33-07 per cent of these losses being incurred in strikes resulting in favour of the employees, and 20 - 86 per cent in strikes won by the ■employers. Classified by Results according to Duration. Compromise. Indefinite. Total. t (0 3 i CO § 1 « S S S . < 1 s d 1 B .1° I» O C3 (U bo s.s . 2 718 9,568 - 1910 5 161 1,375 23,344 3 32 680 15,144 Total 15 221 2,280 42,937 11 51 1,830 34,426 1906 Over 30 days J. fi 16 1,084 49,318 4 12 533 24,358 1907 5 86 3,969 56,625 13 143 2,965 241,266 1908 4 12 744 23,974 7 6 8,512 .460,591 , 1909 5 61 1,327 18,373 4 7 383 21,403 1910 4 332 1,828 40,526 11 175 2,226 124,820 Total - 24 507 8,952 188,816 39 343 14,619 872,438 1906 •? 16 124 980 10 54 1,078 546 2,090 7,328 1907 2 12 68 1,000 10 15 1908 1 1 12 12 5 6 6,558 132,788 1909 9 10 1,660 44,548 « 1910 2 203 3,730 24,500 2 2 115 1,250 Total .' 7 232 3,934 26,492 36 87 9,957 188,004 SUMMARY, Less than 2 days. 2 to 5 days 6 to 10 days 11 to 15 days 16 to 20 days 21 to 30 days Over 30 days Indefinite Grand Total. 144 75 439 506 99 2 221 507 232 2,081 2,073 6,421 15, 627 2,779 606 2,280 8,952 3,934 42,672 2,073 21,698 100,949 31,274 8,676 42, 937 188,816 26,492 422,915 191 13 45 62 52 12 51 343 87 453 j 7,738 4,061 2,227 1,174 1,830 14,619 9,957 665' 42,059 453 24,871 24,831 25,884 18,198 34,426 872,438 188,004 1,189,105 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 143 Classified by Results according to Duration — Concluded. Compromise. iNDErlNITE. Total. 1 ■S Q 6 a 1" It 6 « I.I « S b2 . 03 s 1 1 Hi d § d'S 1.! 03 .1 Q 1 1 li 1" ll 1^ 2 36 20 1 518 140 340 8,950 2,020 4,700 4 6 3 1 3 43 24 3 1 2 1,018 464 776 300 3,020 17,150 7,182 10,912 5,100 44,800 2 1 1 1 300 6,100 1 1 2,500 37,500 6 58 3,498 53, 170 1 1 300 5,100 17 73 5,578 85,144 1 6 1 83 JO 5,295 1,750 97,540 1 2 1 1 1 2 7 4 180 97 55 300 4,140 2,028 1,430 6,300 11 13 3 5 9 25 102 44 9 205 827 5,784 423 1,286 2,100 17,985 108,612 9 598 2 1 3 12 268 45 5,680 900 21,548 39,388 10 99 5,678 105,870 5 14 632 13,898 41 386 10,420 197, 131 3 4 3 118 930 1,298 126,810 42,360 3 3 1 6 1 39 1 16 6 101 380 458 4,394 2,323 600 9,640 35,724 501,929 386, 125 16 25 12 20 24 32 386 19 215 558 2,648 8,612 9,714 9,604 6,904 201,086 349,891 620,289 763,505 578,245 5 3 131 45 3,400 527 221,800 26,774 15 297 6,155 417,744 19 63 7,656 934,018 97 1,210 37,382 2,413,016 2 1 4 180 13 540 14 13 1 4 5 29 14 1 7 10 672 437 30 397 91 156 23,280 120 11,724 614 28 26 7 13 9 99 45 8 17 215 2,054i 3,766 1,064!- 31,608 6,600 132,920 2,057 56,272 3,936 26,364 3 4 193 540 38 61 1,627 35,894 83 384 15,71L 250,930 1906-1910. 2 2 130 130 1 1 7 7 27 91 2,663 2,663 28 71 4,630 14, 518 8 8 499 1,012 114 663 19,288 62,099 23 92 6,792 50,875 4 4 1,341 9,471 90 664 27,821 ' 186,126 10 222 2,191 24,861 4 4 119 1,396 42 377 7,316 83,415 6 58 3,498 53,170 1 1 300 5,100 17 73 6,578 85,144 10 99 5,678 105,870 5 14 632 13,898 41 385 10,420 197,131 15 297 6,155 417,744 18 63 7,656 934, 018 96 1,210 37,382 2,413,016 3 4 193 540 38 61 1,627 35,894 84 384 15,711 260,930 97 845 29,267 667,708 79 156 12, 181 1,000,796 511 3,747 126,179 3,280,524 SUMMARY TABLES. TABLES XIX TO XXV. RELATING TO THE YEAR 1911. 45418—10 -145 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 147 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1911— CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIES. SUMMARY TABLE XIX. Class of Industry. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. Mining Building trades Metal trades Woodworking trades Textile trades Clothing trades Food and tobacco preparation Leather trades; General transport Unskilled labour Miscellaneous trades 22 248 SO 2 4 13 18 1 105 9,769 8,828 3,167 60 943 1,285 213 15 4,987 425 402 1,592,800 286,804 32,633 557 18,123 11,770 373 300 85', 493 6,330 11,467 475 30,094 2,046,650 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1911— CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES. SUMMARY TABLE XX. Cause or Object. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. For increase in wages Against reduction of wages Fot shorter hours For increase in wages and shorter hours. . For recognition of Union Against employment of non-unionists Increase ^p wages and other changes Against discharge of employees Sympathetic disputes. ; Against employment of particular persons Unclassified 240 7 17 27 1 5 28 2 57 5 99 475 7,235 i;715 138 295 1,000 404 7,675 108 5,738 561 5,225 30,094 88,340 32,590 422 10,245 190,000 2,295 1,414,280 280, 243,476 2,483 62,239 2,046,650 45418— lOi 148 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1911.— CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO MAGNITUDE. , SUMMARY TABLE XXI— A. A. — Number of Employees Involved. Limits of Groups, No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees aSected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 5,000 employees and upward 2, 500 and under 5, 000 employees. 1 , 000 and under 2, 500 employees. SOO and under 1, 000 employees. . . . 250 and under 500 employees 100 and under 250 employees SO and under 100 employees 25 and under 50 employees Under 25 employees Not reported Total 70 12,500 1,631,000 4 5 10 22 21 14 14 7 23 63 158 62 30 33 19 17 3,700 3,700 2,918 3,118 1,427 491 240 232,700 34,350 68,977 41,949 30,440 5,854 1,380 99 475 30,094 2,046,650 SUMMARY TABLE XXI — B. B — Number of Working Days Lost. Limits of Groupg. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 100, .000 days and upward SO, 000 and under 100, 000 days. 25, 000 and under 50, 000 days. . 15, 000 and under 25, 000 days. . 10, 000 and under 15, 000 days. . 5, 000 and under 10, 000 days. . . . 2, 500 and under 5, 000 days 1 ,4)00 and under 2, 500 days SOO and under 1 , 000 days 250 and under 500 days Under 250 days Not reported Total 71 13,500 *1, 821, 000 2 1 3 9 7 10 13 13 28 10 51 1 51 45 91 47 12 25 61 20 1,700 300 966 6,274 1,260 1,783 1,645 1,210 1,301 155 55,000 21,000 31,756 61,940 21,980 16,741 10,032 4,462 2,739 99 475 30,094 1,016,650 'Includes Springhill Strike, entailing a loss of 190,000 Days. This strike began Aug. 11, 1909 and terminated on May 29, 1911, entailing a total loss of 759, 100 Days. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 149 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1911.— CLASSIFIED BY PROVINCES. SUMMARY TABLE XXII. Province. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losseelin Working Days. Nova Scotia 2 2 1,154 193,230 Prince Edward Island New Brunswick 3 19 41 8 7 57 137 14 134 6,745 4,503 369 40& 42,270 77,24a 1,165. Ontario Manitoba Alberta 12 12 2 45 196 17 1,668 8,221 7,300 8,545 312,791 British Columbia 1,411,000 Total 99 475 30,094 2,046,650 150 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1911— SUMMARY Prixczpal Cause ob Object. 5 Days or Less. I I if ■i S II 6 TO 10 Days. o§ Jz; M 11 TO IS DATS. 11 o a B a; 16 TO Fisliins Lumbering Mining and quarrying Building trades Metal and abipbuilding trades. , Woodworking trades Printing and allied trades Textile trades Clothing trades Food and tobacco preparation. . Leather trades General titansport Miscellaneous Unskilled labour Total. 5S0 310 615 2,200 700 1,930 950 561 6,650 4,240 13,373 253 894 370 720 12,328 4, 120 467 213 360 874 373 109 640 2,719 300 175 8,185 947 330 873 5,340 600 31 7,200 50 300 27,000 34 85 5,469 15,899 15 80 3,987 30,729 10 114 2,275 51,634 2 1 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 151 CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIES AND DURATION. TABLE XXIII. I Datb. 21 TO 30 Days. Over 30 Days. Unctbtain, TOTAt,. "^1 S-9 i S-S m o-S .IS i-s I I •i . 11 a a OS 154 250 >,550 8,000 6,894 1,580,000 5,400 35 169 187 2,850 1,100 22 9,769 8,828 3,167 114 115 5,430 1,400 28,000 32 250 6,000 102 300 10,520 4 13 18 1 105 1, 213 15 4,987 402 425 1,592,800 286,804 32,633 657 18,123 11,770 373 300 85,493 11,467 304 1,804 37,780 15153,433 1,873,206 19 37,078 99 475 30,094 2,046,6 152 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1911— SUMMARY Clabs or Indubtrt. 5 DaTS OB LESS. 1^ 'S'S l| OS g-9 6 TO 10 DATS. J ■S-9 .a S'S 11 TO 15 Datb. M ill 16 TO s a ■s . ■O s> 1^ For increase in wages Against reduction of wages For shorter hours For increased wages and shorter hours For recognition of union Against employment of non-unionists. For increase in wages and other changes 20 30 138 24S 3,876 160 422 245 2,253 17,656 60 1,664 21,408 Against discharge of employees. Sympathetic Against employment of particular persons Unclassified. 87 170 100 38 323 3,311 5,544 174 350 200 76 1,133 9,829 16,465 2 249 35 8 1,713 210 80 80 720 2,400 150 1,300 3,995 1,350 9,800 30,809 50 112 300 2,244 27,000 51,528 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12' 153; CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES AND DURATION- TABLE XXIV. I Days. 21 TO 30 Days. OvEB 30 Days. Uncertain. Total Oct ill ii sS St o i5 s8 o a 1 is is 304 250 1,554 6,590 31,230 1,646 SO 10,000 I 1,000 190,000 7,3001,411,000 304 1,804 37,780 155 5,500 241,000 199 15,210 19,783 1,904,206 30 131 115 706 1,550 1,200 408 2; 000 400 5,558 240 7 17 27 1 5 28 2 57 475 7,235 1,715 138 299 1,000 404 7,675 108 9,738 561 9,229 30,094 88,340^ 32,590 422- 10,245- 190,000 2,295- 1,414,280' 280 243,476 2,483 62,239' 2,046,650 154 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIDES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1911— SUMMARY Principal Cause or Object. In Favour or Employees. I ■S.S •ggs, Sga" In Favoub of Emplotebs. CQ O ^2; OS Iz; .§ " ■ M £ °9 h Q a For increase in wages Against reduction of wages For shorter hours For increased wages and shoi-ter hours. . . . For recognition of union Against employment of non-unionists For increase of wages and other changes. . Against discharge of employees Sympathetic Against employment of particular persons.. Unclassified 151 15 2,594 1,430 26,931 28, 160 27 196 Total. 1 •4 177 53 344 4,625 1,047 80 53 635 56,906 1 3 1 56 101 3,241 250 73 68 135 100 238 20 5,024 40,795 4,430 292 408 2,240 200 2,476 80 43,140 94,061 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 155 CLASSIFIED BY CAUSES AND RESULTS. TABLE XXV. COMPBOMISE. INDEHNITE. Total. 1 1 1. H 1^ • 43 Approximate Time Losses in Working pays. 1 i 1 s li 1° (O Approximate Time Losses in Working Days. ^ 1 11 1" Approximate Time Losses' in Working Days. 11 60 1,348 20, 574 2 1 52 35 40 45 6 3 3 1 5 7 2 4 240 7 17 27 1 5 28 2 7,235 1,715 138 295 1,000 404 7,675 108 5,738 561 5,225 88,340 32, 590 1 1 26 1 1 19 65 245 1,000 130 245 190,000 422 2 1 1 50 10,000 10,245 190,000 1 4 1 1 140 300 840 21,000 2,295 3 7,240 1,391,040 1,404,280 280 5 54 1 5 5,500 88 932 241,000 243 476 2 2 21 400 3,050 2,350 12,950 5' 2,483 2 5,514 18 86 62,239 23 131 13,348 1,617,289 15 66 7,097 278,394 99 475 30,094 2,046,650 SUMMARY TABLES. TABLES XXVI TO XXXII RELATING TO THE TEAR 1912. 157 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 159 jTRIKES and lockouts in CANADA, 1912.— CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIES. SUMMARY TABLE XXVI. Class of Industry. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concrened. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. Fishing Lumbering Mining Building Metal Printing and allied Textile Clothing Food and tobacco preparation General transport Unskilled labour Miscellaneous Totals 1 4 6 52 29 3 1 19 2 14 9 10 17 30 585 110 32 1 63 8 20 20 100 150 825 5,074 8,465 2,687 308 106 6,738 72 4,359 11,138 589 5,400 4,270 89, 168 114,224 32,525 3,702 1,166 306,107 2,382 82,998 449,238 8,028 150 40,511 1,099,208 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1912. BY CAUSES. SUMMARY TABLE XXVII. -CLASSIFIED Cause or Object. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. For increase in wages Against reduction of wages For shorter hours For increase in wages and shorter hours. . . For recognition of union Against employment of non-unionists For increase in wages and other changes. . Against discharge of employees Sympathetic disputes Against employment of particular persons Unclassified Total 66 5 7 22 3 3 14 14 558 29 17 156 31 4 82 6 2 69 35 17,704 1,530 636 8,449 260 187 4,189 3,780 104 991 2,681 474,931 60,460 8,511 193,445 1,780 3,210 145,033 157, 690 3,328 6,905 43,915 150 40,511 1,099,208 160 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1912.— CLASSIFIED ACCORDNG TO MAGNITUDE. SUMMARY TABLE XXVIII.— A. A — Number op Employees Involved. Limits of Groups. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees afiected. Appioxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. ■5, 000 employees and upward 2, SCO and under 5, 000 employees. 1 , 000 and under 2, 500 employees. -500 and under 1, 000 employees :230 and under 500 employees 100 and under 250 employees ^0 and under 100 employees ■25 and under 50 employees Under 25 empoyees Not reported Total 1 3 6 5 IS 34 30 35 19 2 12 14 92 32 183 354 146 118 30 8 6,000 10,000 8,012 3,132 4,504 5,379 2,046 1,182 256 360,000 260,000 117,600 155,750 69,233 65,882 35,471 29,764 5,508 150 989 40,511 1,099,208 SUMMARY TABLE XXVIIL— B. B — NoMBER OF Working Days Lost. Limits of GlKoups. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Losses in Working Days. 100, 000 days and upward SO', 000 and under 100, 006 days. -25, 000 and under 50, GOO days. . , 15, 000 and under 25, 000 day£. . . 10, 000 and under 15, 000 days. . . 5, 000 and under 10, 000 days. . . . -2, 500 and under 5, 000 days 1 , 000 and under 2, 500 days 500 ana under 1, 000 days 250 and under 500 days 100 and under 250 days >Undet 100 days Indefinite Total 5 16 34" 24 22 16 16 6 150 25 1 48 64 124 200 179 137 108 56 32 15 11,382 3,000 4,550 4,212 1,000 5,175 5,169 2,624 1,707 793 544 355 40,511 623,500 81,000 154,750 63,000 34,180 55,678 58,099 17,461 7,946 2,714 1,099,208 •Iilcluding one strike begun the previous year. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 161 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1912.— CLASSIFIED BY PROVINCES. SUMMARY TABLE XXIX. Province. No. Disputes. No. Estab- lishments concerned. No. Em- ployees affected. Approxi- mate Time Working Days. Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island., New. Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Interprovincial Total 7 24 67 7 16 14 10 1 150 24 17 109 406 113 149 127 43 1 104 872 6,810 10,970 3,005 1,885 3,345 12, 520 1,000 40,511 1,790 13,274 181,926 270,589 28,450 U,116 76,837 490,726 24,500 1,099,208 45418—11 162 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANAIM, 1912— SUMMARY CiiABS or Industry. Fishing Lumbering Mining Building trades Metal trades Printing and allied. , Textile Clothii^ Food and tobacco. . Genial transport . . . Unskilled Miscellaneous 6 DATB OB LSSB. OS 13 |3 I 6 TO 10 Datb. a St) II i" ^1 O 03 1.a 11 TO 16 Datb. 2 1-9 U TO I a J) 11 11 500 1,199 1,: 1,611 2,500 4,118 33 193 92 1,372 1,471 412 28 19 148 1,784 3,015 106 1,166 207 12 2,030 1,000 94 277 12 5,820 3,000 122 1,227 36 2,750 4, 216 165 1,650 Total 42 167 7,989 26,146 26 186 3,397 21,606 29 511 5,972 •Inoludisg a dispute which began in the previous year. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 163 CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIES AND DURATION. TABLE XXX. I Datb. 21 TO 30 Datb. Otib 30 Datb. iNDxroim. TOTAl. 1- 'a'S II O C3 fa I IE 1-9 1^ oS 1^ 5^ s g g 1 ii-H .s* 5 B a S 1 (i d 8 S5 ^ III 175 150 2,450 2,700 113 2,164 1,080 910 242 68,048 15,500 150 200 3,700 1,149 422 280 6,400 200 82,300 36,240 8,641 3,450 62 1,040 4,595 146,836 300 9,000 62 44,000 441,000 1,600 1,606 60 1,529 440 172 155,648 2,370 30,423 960 X 4 6 =■1 29 3 1 19 2 14* 17 30 586 110 32 1 100 160 826 6,074 8,465 2,687 308 106 6,738 72 4,359 11,138 6,400 4,270 89,168 114,224 32,525 3,702 1,166 30^,107 2,382 82,998 449,238 8,028 466 7,140 165 3,204 18,287 706,883 50 316 9,707 329,267 ISO 40,611 45418—111 164 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN CANADA, 1912— : SUMMARY ^ 5 Days ob Less. 6 TO 10 DATS. 11 TO 15 Days. 16 TO Principal Cause or ObJBCT. 1 o. .a P 1 ll Hi 1° 1 o ts !z: - a 3 p. c3 P •I- H |"3 -I H I -I' I IS a 51 I I ■s I i §• I ° S I ilflli I Hill .a 8 2 I E II o o ■.■at : S « d .st; s ■so n too a o >,a •3 a |g ■o s a ^ bC-S a =• ^ I * -s ■I ^ -I i a I I I I' -I o 8 S PS o'-s .S g^ m is|s .9 BE|E SE s S oo mm O M •S.S' II •Sa I >^Ei "5 6§60° 8 ■ ■■"! II 11 if I •3 s a3'3i9-a s-a SI 172 DEPARTH^NT OF LABOUR ainiijo^ in mesonr emij; e!)«inisuddy §§g3§ ss oiaur s99Xo\aui^ *0f^ ss psiu93na> " " s I 'lop -VDinuax JO ^^d I •t g ^ 13 : jsa : ^ J oliJ I 9 1 i o bD .a 73 03 § u 0) IS ■i H o ?! n P -oonammoQ p ofVQ (POO ^ ton GO .& -a O B lillllli III! ^Vi'i |g|1g| g i i< JS-C S a SSzaSia m S S S •a- I ■8 J I i 111 "SB'S •g« g-s-o 1, ■a O ■Si :S :$«§ tll-^ia 3-^ Pill P-^ O 0• " ""5 ^^ a?! ilsiii MlzjISroPi •O'd II Si zz && - as go 'B 9 = 1 I .a |.s| lisilil ■9 § a ° • g ■mm §. fci'g>'o ° - a* &z , S o IS XS 5 O OEh H O I awMStKH ad (5 s III I- I I i-LiSll £•3 . IS 11 a » » 174 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR ■bS.xi(x 9S S S^S S^ us^ CO *p9iue9itoo •uoiij 't^nanz -aonaminoQ ]o o^'Bq; 9^ 5a 3!5 "^SS ig-«!^H M ea oa tasSsS I I s III- 1 1 1' 11= ■OS 5-S I I >t M O SO 9 Qg ■a ■^1, ■gl d) o s 9 a a a i8a 9 O O jsrt & Hogg) is la SE ■Spq I 176 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR Sai3];jo^ Di eaasonr amix d^vnnxoiday o .p s s s OMOO rHCOeO^* ^H CO 64 'panieonoD ■uoi^ -Borauex JO ai'SQ ■«Hoo .goooooo t^ eq -eoe^iH '^nain -aonsraraoo jo b^bq :§ I *5 H ■«oace •»-(^0O0O :aaaa : :la all,5-g ll M P a-taaaaaaaa alll^ O <35 tH a IS DQ 0) (3 O 0) H n I 'E'p.'E 9 0) "3 "So s S S SB ° Is >»D s-g as g si Ng-§ ms a a S IslllPl d us 0|<< III HPkO .a.-s a »i I &§3^i as a Jg ^a 000 z SS2 3 ja * SS2 -S « a HHH m g W o.g . nnu 45418—12 ■| § . IllllliPiill g;32s 823 s-», " "3-s 1^ 1-^ I -Si li •S'S Si ■a § a s I £ >§ » ^1 III 178 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR •BA.VCL Sapiiojj^ ni eesBO'T •OQlOOQ O EoajCoidm^ *o^ ^ ^ COIO-4)C4 P-< » >i >j >i »-■ H d c9 c3 d a Ska laS i-H^cOoo eo ovu a, c CO Sua f- & i: r== i t •< i 1 11 at It Jill t> STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 179 s ts 00 s 1 !- § e^ s - 1 1,800 800 2,280 ' « eioooo o» g =0 «« JJJO ogg « CO S" s s §!S|SS|S SS| i eo ,H*H<-I 11 s "" -rt« ««« - S 1-II-t fH eo t* 1 1* 1 < iM *H" 1 li 1 i Si S OOC »o s s s -^ss s ss^ s »-im s «=g* e*« cq i ,■ 1 s ^a ^eg ^^i B I iii^-tiii III I S a .•i ■^ o at S 5^ as ^ O rf 0) a "■a Si ■-■§ : a Oh, : & ; 'o^ :Sa" :e : sl |oo -gol ogS |ss. |s| s-gl ^il" ^i^ ii^ -tanBO .tavD^ "B-tJ fe;5fl Z,gz flQZ; lip's 1^1 £■1 "sa 1^ .a .a ">.s -=9 a 5. ssa SoSS ,MI« O -is 5 a 5 i •^aS 32 S - O s - STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 181 ■axva SmaiJOji m bbsbot- Senaasv SSI -.1000 SgSg ■peusonaa -wiraijex JO «j«a 5 Pi aa-agi ■3-sl« as n*2 3 O a-° III s|a S3 ■ 55 5fla6"5 I I J3 ills ■1 "S Id 1 5 I. 11 Klz; 1= S B ass 8 13 a o 1 o ao .s.l S s O bDbOo -S" •2g| =.a Gd Id C0 O h b3 g to bfl M*« O M ^ .S-S-S.S o o « o I o I- £ V O 03 •S o^ -"S OS S rt -=J ■so^-saMSS ■§•= Iw.s'Spll If |i:g|-&ali i-g SB =o ■^ ft 5 3 so a000| ^^ BBS pgsg iS o o o o 6i A ■fs= Tiaa-2 liili ia^.^3 -3.9.3.9 .9.3 a.S is ^^ •till S3 :S o o ; o mil ■3-3 S-3 !3 m 55 fM (HMOBO 182 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR • coo IOCO«H or— 30U3 O OO^ CO ssdiCoidni^ 'o^ -pooisonoa «*i-(iOiO OO ^H^ WrH 'y-( CO C ■?5 ^ bo ^ S b 1^ M3 Sasst t^ ^ < < C400 eoioe»aa c>i>-m«o -eouararaoQ jo ajBQ at. so. (. > S !> > S.S3-*^ S jS .JS -t^ iJS jS a ^ I i Is (D O :-3i ■« £ ■ Is-S o d o i-i Z 15 41 ■oS-o "2 » Jl I I .2t ■g t< 3 fi s s o i o ■i '^ S ; 1 ■ :| " : 0, 1: s :-S 5 : ployme oymeni iil 1 ..•; ii ■gg.|g I III 1 Sunm nuSn s s 1 3 ° STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 183 6400 COOOOI SS33SSS$ 9SS eo lOtD 00 s sss uauSiAOUSM 3U3IAO a •? a AS a, z aM'S^ o pa i-l f-4 d til til S b^UlSSh^ (^ »m' ill s :s a a •^ -^ s * ® ■9 S"3 o "S d « p p p g ^-a. -s ■a ■il •s a 5l5£ z 6 5 ,5 ^s O Os S as S §3 o o H H £-^ gmi3a&i3>PiHE-i> m JH a _- o a o E : Is t I 11 a i5(§ c5 o PI I 25 2 5„ 2 HOO>ZWO I I ^ a i ^1 ■so |2 •s s s o s o a s. a ■S 5 184 DEPARTJVIENT OF LABOUR Sap[jo^ HI BBssonr Bidix ei)ennxoJdUy eaeiCoidm^ *o^ •pauaonoo e)n3niq(i!iqn)B;3 'o^ 'i^nani -aanammo^ |o a^CQ -^p ^ ^^^ % V % o fa O &a H •T ," bS -f >. >. s >. a h n id cS m d ^ Ca a5 0) Q> 186 DEPAKTMENT OF LABOUR 3np[io^ ui Basson; ennj, e^ntrnxoiddy •poiaasB sqe4 vio log jTi-I" cJ i-T tH U3U3 a> soca »-i *H 1-t COi-t t-HO N«H fi!(nouiqsi]C[«)S3 'O^ •wxraijej, JO a^BQ ■^ tH94 I as la so rs '-' •*W NO •eonsDinioo ]o o%vq I II 5 s as SB55 gga^ g p as ii d ID C.&D eg ;? •a I •S-c ^u a s^ a till •s|-s| ills O O = a §• I I 1= .2t 1! 0) o n ai<^ Pi ■§S|£ StSt SZZiz; fii :§ .S ; wa I : ° .■S ■ S-S ^S 1 •as o i BS tllll a&s^ a-si| .3 3, a§a t» CO a S^ CI il-!i ill I. r 8 fa .2aS III" n a 3 I'? 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I iii i il •I J^J J II Pl^ Pi FX^ F^ PL^PLi a S s - ^ -S ^ m § n III il II Sas S S 3 5 5 02 tn 02 < ig a •=•3 •a'M-^3 ^ ■5)3 §1 S'S I a a 3 -a O Kl 9 ago ^ia •3« o Sii ^3 3g ■SIS) pq OH HKfi* 224 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR ■SvSUQ aiuTj, e^Biuixojddy MOOOO T-< 09 00 04 U30 too 'p9uieouoo s^uauiqeiiqB^sg; 'O^ r-t .,-110 eq -BUUUiaj, JO ©i-BQ •^uaui -oouamraoQ jo a^WQ §■ s 03 to g.^ 03 03 S o ■g a p I I S 5 r° S < bi K m O O o a a a ^i H n 4p o a Pi o o .9 a I § g .2 ^ I I ■g-a ;i J ii I SI © DC.. 0) S 2'43 8 S ■|.k||g|.| .3 oa.H- - r°r° PR 1=1 S* =■2 •a B ° •s £| Si f i-dlSg 'B .2 g ■£ a o * 13 1 isl ■5 - III 1 a.s 8 s S aa n '0., E> s m Si o 9 n.S -a a< go 1" I w •§ I 4 II S&: a il S-Q . -9 -9 I I I i 1 s ■si I I I £■3 II STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 225 i i 1 i i 8 U3 s gl o s§ CO 1 1 11° o oo i CM § s M M ■"* M ■ ^^ V c< ss s s s S g 1 CO S^ 00 i 1 s s? n 1 tti U3 1 OiOO § oo s i s §■ 1 r 04 '"' OC fH ^ ^COi-i '"' cqo ^ rH S o us ^ 1 s 1 ^ p 3 s 00 I> ' a 00 1 »o J a> :5 "g 1 CD s M o> 1 CO eg 4 1 1 i 1'^ 1 CQ 1 lol 1 II 1 §■ s 1 1 CO lO M s '"' g t* OS ^i^"^ g <- .9: : _«3 3 a gas ^8-§§ m o n a ^ I ^ bO asi fa a a ."o >l 10 h ^ "o H » » » I s i i O CD O O ^ S S .9 III 8 a s §§ 5J S3 £.E nil J II 1^ M Eh a a CD 45,418—15 226 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR u S OS 'G 3 c3 S3 ft c3 H a P 'peojeonoa B)U9mqB!iqB)e;3 -oj^ esejCoidm^ ■on eonsmmoQ jo avea .a -O ^ a o Soeae ^»-I.H.-t >-• to «-< «»-• •H !•> I eq M oor- CO •^^ O II S. 3 3^^ 8 II i as :'d 1 ;i =■ -la ■■S '.•X3 s; s Z ^O^P Pli i i |l I g g g ^M g p=< fa fafa fa o ^ fill I S 825"-' a S 555*; ,2 CO E-it .5 a & if o « fa i.* a" 1° a !l I •9 t V ■ I i ^g 3E l-s I -a CO •"■"■ ~* BW 0003 CQ STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 227 IN a> g 3 d o CQ 93 — ri 03 1=1 ■ o c3 o M Q Sin}[J0^ ni B9SBH M M o o o o 8*3 MM S g! am ^'1 13: > wed w lis ^ !DS> CO ^|C ll«ll ■:» 59 n p o o -An g o e sg'g' m fflH goo 228 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR o<»o C01>-0 oooo 0-* .-I M«l t^l> 'pdujdonoa -BUTuiiajL JO &iv(j g Qco> a. to ^ llj I a g-a M o :ia . > if -t 9>. 6 8^ a S^ ;g>5^ §■3 zs a . =-^ -^1 ii o I s ■SI &a. « .■So- ^ •II , S.2 3 ■,>,\ a„-| "§•§ lis a| g§i ffl ^ s s & III III ^ II ill!: ■a » S.2 S (Q d 9 -*:> l: S3 S S o o ^^ = 11 ^ ^ &< •II P.R. ga -3 1 •J.S si 5 S 1.2 .2jgi.2 •a ^ c ^ .S'S s S.J is g O 2.1s ?£•!§ S Zg o ^ §■« 3 2 JI.2S §3.1 S £ o 2 ■£ ti « o a o o si 3"3 a g .S.2 I ii bti ji u u 3 i.l.l •a--S --a T3 g " S-d §■43 "3 £§ sis' li.iii' ^ §'§' §iS s|-3-; ■55s Q--» 1 II 1 1 z 5S >> 1^ < o CO Mi-i ^ s '^ 1-1 ^ O "*MI^- (MCB OS '^ OJ W Sg s "5(M fSl coo eo %s < o o S* S O 4a -ga ^ I ; i, =3 o S o c p !> ft t> ^6 ^ d «'3 ■g O (S ° 5 m T) «'4 \^ z>S 6 ^ Sa d) op ■3-S O 2 a 5 S'^l r ■a I i a D iS.S 85 B 2 >." 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B O SO . 2 a -a us h ■O M ■§ O B a •1^ o m .2" I >■ ^1 1° 1 1 ■si gl.llf is Itlllfe •S-« g S.B (,02 S o" iggjga«g5g.Ss )|ii|x, |j|a 4J -ta B B 00 s s S2 o o bo J mU l a a a- a*£ so 9 0) B 9 o o aa la-t I Mil iiii nil ■is p, S'S " a°fe' ■Sji — 1? 1 p< "^ pt 0)^ £ ^id ^ EO 9 '43- a"43 ■I S g'l g. ll I illl CO Z I § IS (D^ 0) ■Sa-os'S gKa-S'S gg-S'sl I ill II '-II ■- ^ • a 2'-? « i ■e So § i| : « -S >5 ft'S I =§ S£ « a Q z zs - j> a ® Si3 " 3 a '^1 m Si ..; OS'S o o O Illl 1 si I z s ■J.Ss.Sg a lc ai 'S S .©OP ^s •i§ -^^g'S JbD'O S U S « U bO bO u S a t^ I ga-a sgsi S ■sis i ill .2 ll^il i 'I = I SI'S .sis •3 3 o e 4l o d 11 i 1 oSb .-a a .0 O ^5 a g" 1^1 I dSi a" O Z § I 3 ta o ts Illl OmHta a ii ^ s ill Iiii aaa^ 'I s I ^ Jl iJ 00 ffl w — -I STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 231 s s s s 3S 1 g i J. M & ^ Q M o^ -g >giz;Q a'a QJ^ ^ j ■g, 1 .g -^ D) C^ 04 C4 o a ■< a .g a a III I g iSiggi I - ■e s I I a c ^ g § o" Ss 5 « « lU iIj lis ^ -fri u 'B a s H 11 an H SPS a) I ass O 9 S <5 <5 I I ^ a :e(i< I J ^ ■si .1 s * ? ESS Eg as r H Q O O O OO O I ^2 2 ^ !§•§• t OOO M fe S g 2 JS •92? S 2 232 departSient of labour ■sXbq Sg uso fe.OC ^ g S 'p9IUa0QO0 ■noi!j. -BUtnuax JO eq^BQ I I 1^ ^ ^ M ^Q so s h a© f^ o ■s'C s c o ca V m cj a=ai sa.2 s o^ KW ■ax O n 2;5 •3g 9-3 •3^ T3 P. b' g o ■aEss g'S^S '•iC ::3 c es o ■§1 ss Eg (§j so- n .» 6 OS S V ^2 d si P 50 _<^ M 0 IG DAYS . 632,311 120,940 1,226,500 265,004 217,244 4,142,287 3,479,255 2,338,668 1,484,220 2,470,189 1,862,050 4,675,081 2,443,219 3,936,774 2,785,167 5,077,950 4,564,164 1,881,145 1,368,181 827,058 189,759 363,214 572,811 t 666,658 tl, 238,458 1902 . . 1903 1904 1905... 2,461,999 13,914,619 15,702,291 13,718,498 3,030,900 fFigures not available. {Agriculture excluded. In Austria persons affected by lockouts are not included. •240 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR II. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN THE NuMBEE of disputes beginning in- each of the years, 1901-1905, number of Days of all disputes in progress during each Year. Number or disputes beginning in each tear, THE results or WHICH WERE— Total number of disputes beginning in each year. Principal Cause or Object. In favour ol employees. In favour ol employer.'?. Com- promised or partially successful. Indefinite. ■Wages 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 8f 54 48 39 44 167 130 110 117 106 148 81 74 76 85 1 2 402 267 232 1 233 235 7 5 3 3 3 16 10 7 5 5 6 5 7 5 6 29 ' 20 17 • 13 14 JEmployment of PartioularClasses 26 14 10 6 9 ' 45 30 30 28 27 13 14 13 12 10 84 or Persons 58 1 54 46 1 47 Working arrangements, 'Rules and 21 17 14 7 5 38 23 26 22 17 20 23 16 1^ 15 79 Discipline (other than abov.e) . . 1 64 56 47 37 "Trade Unionism 20 18 14 7 9 14 10 10 7 10 3 1 1 1 2 1 38 29 ^' 25 15 21 Sympatheticdi^putes 2 2 1 2 6 1 1 1 1 1 '', 2 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 241 UNITED KINGDOM, 1901-1905. employees involved in such disputes, and the aggregate duration in Working year, — classified by Causes and Results. NoMBER ot Employees DIBECTLT INVOLVED IN DIS- PUTES, THE BEStlLTB OF WHICH WEKE— Total directly involved. Total indirectly involved. AOQREGATB DURATION* IN WORKING DATS OF ALL DISPUTES IN PROGRESS IN EACH YEAR, THE RESULTS OP WHICH WERE — Total aggregate duration in working days. ■Sri ll ■Sri- i eg §1 If ■Ill s.gg S 1 1 14,203 5,795 ■4,036 • •4,288 «,133 18,473 2f6,311 35,403 16,218 11,194 26,189 30,378 10,118 12,253 21,388 30 249 26 58,865 56,733 49,557 32,783 38,737 27,240 117,859 15,993 24,495 17,086 234,974 5,87^ 139,815 1,110 98,639 1S,B07 111,279 Sl,lSt 157,779 1,848 i.eoo 6,952 2,537 412 3,638 1,040,224 U1,40S 940,009 140,841 602,729 508,844 752,666 S9,S98 438,340 m,™ 876,544 194, 873 1,325,875 123 098 369,566 175,323 220,037 43,120 1,299,863 4^,847 1,470 2,467 188 136 2,153,212 352, ISO 2,408,166 285,017 1,070,934 897,874 1,084,118 119,849 1,895,984 187, i^O 328 '438 500 114 1,307 3,278 2,328 211 1,222 629 592 278 3,397 634 1,209 4,198 3,044 4,108 1,970 3,145 25,519 6,340 382 505 2,882 182,451 1,691 31,492 144 3,662 21,7B0 10,174 5,107 59,319 8,194 16,224 12,882 2,888 29, 623 506,329 3,191 97,763 8,338 22,423 21,750 23,468 2,888 38,368 3,076 5,523 961 .2,394 1,632 4,528 4,129 4,877 2,472 2,582 2,920 1,784 1,962 1,215 2,746 22 28 10,524 11,436 7,822 6,081 6,408 3,861 6,243 4,520 3,213 3,347 30,534 2,950 15,828 11,232 2,802 81 5,716 63,921 S,7B7 76,233 92 62,384 915 23,333 8,813 25,268 36,812 58,258 77,657 18,957 39,308 10,627 57,592 66 1,204 131,267 84,945 169,718 92 92,639 40,223 36,762 894 89,780 3,087 3,212 ,6,916 1,006 319 9,918 ■ 6,967 3,D07 3,315 3,159 10,180 9,610 3,686 3,280 2,201 60 23,185 19,849 13,609 7,601 5,546 9,303 8,382 2,154 2,042 2,455 8,982 SBO 27,385 55,576 7,418 1,008 Slg 313,797 217, OSO 85,640 124,037 38,931 107,894 38,248 54,980 • 368,874 105,727 31,779 4,557 68,060 100, 148 5,600 691,653 217,380 224,352 124,037 126,286 112,451 113,726 156, 136 8,278 9,804 :22,219 ;16,723 7,613 7,869 966 3,259 672 253 1,358 221 11 207 59 150 540 11,531 25,489 17,602 7,925 9,377 829 1,019 269 573 80 64,182 98,594 480 89,262 52,380 64,797 43,969 5,SSS 71,027 39,190 22,789 5,700 S8,S0r 37,59E 52C 1,656 308 621 472 2,164 540 110,347 5,333 169,929 480 129,073 22,789 68,552 38,303 104,560 620 50 370 14 1,470 1,890 14 250 470 40,261 42 1,000 151,108 191,839 42 1,000 20 43 20 243 60 4,085 60 , .,- 200 2,9j60 7,045 45418—16 242 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR IL INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN THE Number of disputes JDeginning in each of the years, 1901-1905, number of Days of all disputes in progress during each year. Year. Number of disputes beginning in bach yeak, THE results op WHICH WERE — Total number of disputes beginning in each year. Principal Cause or Object. In favour of employees. In favour of employers. Com- promised or partially successful. Indefinite. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1901 1902 1903 1901 1905 1 2 2 2 1 1 i 3 1 3 2 2 Grand Total 163 108 90 62 70 284 206 185 180 168 193 125 111 112 119 2 3 1 1 1 * 642 442 387 355 35S 493 1,023 660 8 2,184= / STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 243 UNITED KINGDOM, 19QI-1905— Concluded. employees involved in such disputes, and the aggregate duration in Working — classified by Causes and Results — Concluded. Number op Employees directly involved in dis- pnTES, THE RESULTS OP WHICH WERE— Total directly involved. Total indirectly involved. Aggregate duration' in working days op all disputes in progress in each yeah, the results op which were — Total aggregate duration. in working days. "Sri si "S » 11 Si 2||l i 'a T3 O m 6 1 43 1.168 179 786 33 80 1,244 259 817 1,107 1,419 1,000 11,976 12,161 1,688 246 160 13,641 1,000 12,321 31 68 738 2,426 . 4,197 4,197 4,100 4,ioa 30,591 37, 187 29, 167 15,413 16,702 38,701 37, 187 44,956 23,500 23,029 41,575 42, 141 19,370 .17,441 27,894 570 309 22 26 28 111,437 116,824 93,515 56,380 67,653 68,109 139,843 23,386 30,-828 25,850 342,409 11,754 288,574 1,S90 257,984 1B,S07 174,291 SI, SIS 232,938 S12 1,696,599 379, m 1,216,604 ■ me, 914 748,584 eeo, 192 830,181 84,314 569,479 m,29S 1,457,270 iBS, 131 1,569,046 129,292 437,147 219,188 312,078 62,008 1,492,352 48,611 2,010 8,067 168 66 136 1,204 3,498,288 e4S,999' 3,082,291 396,964 1,443,781 894,887 1,316,686 167,534 2,295,973 174,216 129,060 167,373 148,421 955 445,809 288,016 1,296,196 5,061,447 5,267,893 11,483 11,637,019 ) •The aggregate duration in any year of disputes which began in that year is printed in reman ; the aggregate duration of disputes which began in an earlier year is printed in italics. The aggregate dura- tion is computed on the basis of the total number involved directly or indirectly. 244 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR III.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1901-5. (Compiled from the Twenty-iirat Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labour.) Number of Industrial Disputes in the United States, and Number of Work- people affected, either directly or indirectly, by such disputes, 1901-5. Year. Number of disputes. Number of employees affected . ^y disputes. 1901 3,012 3,240 3,648 2,419 2,186 563,843 691,507 1902 1903 787 834 1904 ' 573,815 302,434 1905 (A)— GROUPED BY TRADES. Number of employees affected either directly or indirectly, by industrial disputes in the United States in the Years, WOl-5. Classified according to Groups of Trades. Group of Trades. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. . Building trades Miiiing (including gas and coke-makingj^and quarry- ing (including stone-cutting) Metal trades (including shipbuilding) Textile trades Clothing trades (including laundry work) Transport "Timber, wood working and furnishing trades 'Food and tobacco trades .Skin and leather trades Earthenware, glass and chemical trades Agriculture Printing and paper trades Other Total '. 71,875 132,410 146,593 18,638 47,770 44,361 25,293 25,920 2,404 13,623 187 7,505 27,264 563,843 105,891 237,777 78,066 58,364 59,949 47,146 22,403 21,757 3,534 15,461 355 12,293 28,511 201,414 111,125 88,969 67,133 68,786 48,698 38,266 27,496 11,860 21,830 1,575 14,891 85,782 99,543 135,601 49,386 33,008 85,890 26,226 • 27,268 60,163 1,682 18,306 1,500 17,361 17,881 61,797 87,281 27,451 15,688 28,822 20,333 19,182 10,816 1,287 7,632 8,306 13,839 691,507 787,834 573,815 302,434 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 245 (B)— GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OBJECTS, 1881-1905. Principal Causes or Objects of Trade Disputes in the United States in the Period 1881-1905, .with the Number of Diputes and of Employees affected, either Directly or Indirectly, by those Disputes. Principal Cause or Object. Disputes. Number. Per cent, Employees Affected- Number. Per cent. Wages. For increase. . : Against decrease , Total wages disputes Hours of Labour. For decrease Other Total hours disputes •Employment of particular classes or persons Trade unionism Working arrangements Other causes .' Grand total 15,216 4,548 39-74 11-87 1,360,260 19,764 2,264 253 51-61 5-91 0-66 6,003,919 658,595 106,732 2,517 2,807 7,795 1,959 3,461 6-57 7-34 20-35 5-11 9-02 765,327 430,295 1, 117, 175 367,694 845,024 38,303 100-00 », 529, 434 48-73 14-27 63 00. 6-91 1-12 8-03 4-53 11-72 3-S6 100-00 246 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR (C)— GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OBJECTS, 1901-1905. Peincipal Causes or Objects of Industrial Disputes in the United States in each of the Years 1901-1905, with the number of employees affected, either Directly or Indirectly, by those Disputes. Employees Affecied. Principal Cause or Object. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. Num- ber. Per cent. Num- ber. Per cent. Num- ber. Per cent. Num- ber. Per cent. Num- ber. Per cent. Wages. I'or increase 199,295 17,322 35-34 307 424,915 20,659 61-45 2-99 372,266 22,689 47-25 2-88 227,410 85,567 39-63 14-91 119,021 66,955 39-36 Against decrease 22-14 Total wages disputes. . . Hours of Labour. Kor decrease 216,617 108,280 1,135 38-41 19-21 0-20 445,574 41,121 294 64-44 5-95 0-04 394,955 84,780 20,947 50-13 10-76 2-66 312,977 11,573 25,471 54-54 2-02 4-44 185,976 17,160 462 61-50 5-68 Other 0-15 Total hours disputes. . . Employment of particular classes or persons Trade unionism. 109,415 38,947 123,489 20,558 54,817 19-41 6-91 21-90 3-65 9-72 41,415 47,245 72,203 15,240 69,830 5-99 6-83 10-44 2-20 10-10 105,727 28,375 131,356 15,413 112,008 13-42 3-60 16-67 1-96 14-22 37,044 16,264 132,547 13,069 61,914 6-46 2-83 23-10 2-28 10-79 17,622 15,983 45, 161 12,338 25,354 5-83 5-28 14-93 Working arrangements Other causes 4-08 8-38 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 247 (d)-tGROuped by results. Establishments in which Disputes occurred, grouped according to Results of Such Disputes, 1901-5. Nuinber of establish- ments involved a Strikes. Number of establish- ments inyolved 6 Lockouts. Year. Pbecbntage of Establishments IN WHICH RESULTS Or STRIKES WERE — Percentage or Establishments IN WHICH RESULTS OF LOCK- OUTS WEBB— In favour of employers In favour of work- people. Compro- mise. In favour of employers In favour of work- people. Compro- mise. 1901 10,908 14,248 20,244 10,202 7,788 34- 10 29-84 35-73 49-44 48-38 48-7Y 47-31 40-87 35-28 40-17 17-13 22-85 23-40 15-28 11-45 451 1,304 3,288 2,316 1,250 37-03 78-22 81-39 55-91 31-60 20-84 17-72 13-44 21-03 35-76 '42-13 1902 4-06 1903 5-17 1904 23-06 1905 32-64 63,390 39-498 42-48 18-022 8,609 56-83 21-758 21-412 aThe figures shown exclude establishments involved in strikes whose results were not known. These numbered 4 in 1903 and 504 in 1905. 6The figures shown exclude establishments involved in lock-outs whose results were not known. These numbered 5 in 1905. (E)— GROUPED BY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS. Number of Workpeople Directly and Indirectly affected by Trade Disputes in each group of States and Territories of the United States, 1901-1905. Year. North Atlantic Division. South Atlantic Division. North Central Division. South Central Division. Western Division. Total. 1901 310,355 454,940 445,475 253,684 138,896 39,454 43,328 19,322 21,855 19,235 149,954 140,120 231,274 251,096 125.967 22,587 24,866 29,407 29,806 10,364 41,493 28,253 62,356 17,374 7,972 563,843 1902... 691,507 1903. 787,834 1904 573,815 1905 302,434 1 Totals 1,603,350 21,046,695 143,194 898,411 10,443,480 26,333,004 117,030 14,080,047 157,448 4,091,349 2,919,433 Population in 1900 75,994,5750 The States and Territories included within each group are as follows: North Atlantic — Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. South Atlantic— Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. . t.t u North Central— Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas. . t j m - South Central— Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Arkansas. Western Division— Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California. oNot including Alaska (63,592) and Hawaii (154,001), .and 91,219 persons in the military and naval service stationed abroad. 248 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR IV.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE. GROUPED BY TRADES. Number of Trade Disputes in the German Empire, and Number of Work- people Directly and Indirectly affected, 1901-5. NUMBER OF DISPUTES (o). Group of Trades. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904; 1905. Building Mining and smelting (b) Metal working Engineering and implements manufacture Textile ■ Clothing and cleaning (c) Transport '. . Gardening Printing and allied trades Paper Woodworking (d) Chemical Gas, oil, soap, varnish, etc Stones and earths (c) — Food, tobacco, etc., preparation Hotels and restaurants. Leather ) Art work Commercial employment Other Total 3S6 21 99 43 61 70 14 4 8 12 116 4 2 109 72 1 44 4 18 3 1,091 482 14 77 49 104 64 17 3 7 4 138 1 72 38 548 12 155 83 65 81 28 7 22 16 204 14 1,106 1,444 796 20 153 81 31 76 57 23 21 417 25 3 119 78 1,990 954 44 198 179 124 191 92 9 40 27 393 9 9 133 91 2 79 4 76 3 2,657 NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. (a) Building : • • • Mining and smelting (6) Metal working Engineering and implements manufacture Textile.. Clothing and cleaning (c) Transport Gardening Printing and allied trades Paper. .'....' Woodworking. . . ; Chemical Gas, oil, soap, varnish, etc Stones and earths (e^ Food, tobacco, etc., preparation — Hotels and restaurants Leather Art work Commercial employment Other Total 22,319 2,680 3,363 5,443 6,568 6,726 373 126 184 185 2,671 227 253 10,622 3,711 27 1,798 29 792 94 68,191 37,026 2,826 4,405 2,614 10,767 -2,689 709 43 282 35 3,731 16 50 2,918 1,395 612 17 548 13 70, 696 52, 129 2,054 25,892 13,347 7,779 9,915 2,643 1,328 1,178 445 8,389 449 4,276 1,384 16 1,081 168 3,009 40 135,522 66,583 5,477 9,165 6,945 10,681 3,820 4,471 576 2,155 14,013 1,591 178 9,657 7,821 957 102 145,480 87,404 232,425 20,467 74,067 38,387 30,500 3,935 370 1,408 1,530 23,681 541 494 8,762 6,579 63 5,S53 41 6,295 59 542,564 (a) The disputes referred to in the table are those which terminated in the respective years. (6) Includes salt works, and puddling arid rolling mills. Ic) Includes laundries, hairdressers' shops, bathing establishments and garment renovating. (d) Includes work in bone, ivory and similar materials which admit of being carved. (e) Includes quarries, gravel, lime, cement, etc., works, pottery, brick, tile, etc., making, and glassworks. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 249 GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OBJECTS. Number of Trade Disputes in the German Empire in 1901-05, grouped according to Causes or Object. Cause or Object (o). 1901. 1902. 1903. • 1904. 1905. Wages— 578 172 232 196 34 30 239 270 579 136 246 186 30 15 203 253 983 99 414 298 50 36 326 434 1,376 94 695 476 124 48 423 722 1,904 Aeainnt decrease 93 other 948 Hours of labour — For decrease 601 Other 182 84 Employment of particular classes or persons 491 1,045 (a) A dispute which had, say, two causes or objects is counted twice, and so. on. GROUPED BY RESULTS. Percentage of Disputes terminated in the year, the Results of which were as shown. Result. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. In favour of workpeople In favour of employers. Compromised Total.. Per cent. 19-34 53-80 26-86 Per cent 21-43 56^69 21-88 Per. cent-. 22-09 46-12 31-79 Per cent. 24-72 39-05 36-23 Per cent. 21-45 36-47 42-08 100-00 100-00 100-00 100-00 100 -oa- 250 DEPARTMEiSTT OF LABOUR v.— industrial disputes in france. groupeet by trades. / NuMBEE of Trade Disputes in France, Number of Workpeople Directly affected and Aggregate Duration in Working Days of such Disputes, grouped by Trades, 1901-5. I.— NUMBER OF DISPUTES. Group :of Trades. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. Building trades Mining and Quarrying Metal trades Textile trades: Properly so-called Textile goods (a) Transport - Agriculture, forestry and fishing. . Other trades Total 31 68 100 13 67 7 151 523 71 18 88 167 12 38 5 113 512 61 32 85 175 11 57 14 136 571 119 34 120 181 13 186 149 226 1,028 121 37 130 130 28 87 30 272 835 II.— NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. ■Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades ' Testile trades: properly so-called Textile goods (a) . . , Transport A.griculture, forestry and fishing. . •Other trades Total 8,573 22, 137 7,781 12,361 1,753 36,636 1,402 20,771 111,414 5,339 119,181 9,852 34,693 1,243 12,195 343 29,858 212,704 5,566 3,837 9,673 76,376 918 11,753 3,512 12,322 123,957 14,672 8,056 13,959 76,293 1,103 69,293 52,333 39,558 271,267 32,352 9,891 32,181 25,446 2,033 15,386 3,649 57,314 178,252 III.— AGGREGATE DURATION OF DISPUTES IN WORKING DAYS. Building trades Mining and quarrying: ^ Metal trades Textile trades: — Properly so-called Textile goods (a) Transport Agriculture, forestry and fishing Other trades Total 143,217 825,688 130,400 103,553 47,512 319,629 14,275 277,776 1,862,050 41,012 ,280,646 190,951 502,771 32,818 110,077 2,179 514,627 4,675,081 53,6941 66,642 187,587 ,783,736 20,818 72,108 19,827 238i807 2,443,219 170,262 166,402 132,455 1,637,779 31,958 1,099,498 257,735 440,685 3,936,774 489,637 173,760 291,863 647,894 17,498 94,968 34,722 1,034,825 2,785,167 (a) So designated in the French source. This group comprises occupations not usually included ainder "Textile Trades" such as garment making, hat making, upholstery, etc. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OBJECTS. 251 'Causes or Objects of Trade Disputes in France, with the Number of Workpeople Directly affected by such Disputes, 1901-5. NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE(a) WHO TOOK PART IN DISPUTES. Cause or Object. Tor increase Against decrease Other Hours of Labour — For decrease Other ' Employment of particular classes or persons. Working arrangements Other causes 1901. 76,508 4,876 15,733 41,872 41,903 44,923 19,040 1902. 146,907 14,292 120,233 134,015 10,207 20,110 135,414 1903. 86,595 6,522 15,083 12,323 22,181 19,172 15,230 1904. 184,891 15,484 45,153 99,732 133,565 48,947 47,056 1905. 124,019 5,396 66, 103 52,918 105,391 69,563 40,668 (a) In the figures given in this table a workman who took part in a strike which had more than one cause or object is counted under each. GROUPED BY RESULTS. Percentage of Workpeople Directly affected by Trade Disputes in France, grouped according to the Results of such Disputes 1901-5. PERCENTAGE OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. Result. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 8-40 51-76 39-84 11-06 13-33 75-61 10-51 17-10 72-39 19-81 18-25 61-94 13-16 16-71 Compromised \ 70 13 Total 100-00 100-00 10000 100-00 100-00 252 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR VI.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN AUSTRIA. Number of Strikes (o) in Austria, Workpeople Directly affected, and Working Days lost, 1901-5. — Classified by trades. NUMBER OF STRIKES. Group of Trades. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. , 1905. 24 40 37 " 28 28 3 27 34 49 24 63 33 34 22 7 20 28 33 •38 40 47 44 38 3 48 20 46 81 36 71 37 35 7 41 42 64 192 43 110 Textile trades 54 Clothing trades 46 21 Woodworking, India-rubber and furnishing trades (6) 53 86 81 Total 270 . 264 324, 414 ■ 686 NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE TAKING PART IN STRIKES. Building trades Mining Metal, engineering, etc., trades Textile trades Clothing trades Tragsport and oommunioation Woodworking, India-rubber and furnishing trades (6) Chemical, glass, pottery, etc., trades Other trades ■ Total strikers affected Non-strikers affected Total workpeople affected 3,214 7,496 2,282 2,675 1,821 365 2,925 2,012 2,080 24,870 2,846 27,716 10,505 13,573 1,754 2,599 927 1,880 1,312 2,445 2,476 37,471 6,354 43,825 9,684 12,341 3,641 5,220 7,946 299 2,846 2,847 1,391 46,215 5,245 51,460 .15,967 19,614 5,611 3,483 2,582 4,700 1,756 5,700 4,814 64,227 9,301 73,528 NUMBER OF WORKING DAYS LOST BY STRIKERS. Building trades. Mining Metal, engineering, etc., trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport and communication Woodworking, India-rubber and furnishing trades (6) Chemical, glass, pottery, etc., trtides Other trades Total working days lost by strikers Total working days lost by non-strikers Total working days lost by all workpeople affected 5,538 24,572 19,194 12,583 11,651 1,320 34,244 34,712 13,930 157,744 32,015 189,759 109,949 44,360 16,482 19,076 7,650 9,571 36,287 21,309 19,362 284,046 79,168 363,214 43,963 69,958 33,466 86,128 109,284 82 62,317 ■81,632 13,737 500,567 72,244 572,811 116,950 184,378 46,198 50,066 24,722 10,812 69,407 77,158 26,938 606,629 1,151,310 60,029 87,148 666,658 1,238,458 (a) In these tables lock-outs are not included. • (6) Includes work in bone, ivory and similar substances which admit of being carved. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 253 GROUPED BY RESULTS. Working people Directly affected by Strikes (a) in Austria, Grouped according to the Results of such Strikes, 1901-5. PERCENTAGE OP WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY STRIKES. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. In favour of "WorkDeoule 20-13 32-04 47-83 13-77 33-55 52-68 10 00 21-98 68-02 18-57 40-07 41-36 14-05 14-38 71-57 Total 100-00 100 00 100-00 100-00 100-00 (a) In addition to the strikes referred to in this table, mention is made of the following loek-outa: in'1901, 3 look-outs directly involving 302 persons. In 1902, 8 lock-outs directly involving 1,050 persons. In 1903, 8 look-outs directly involving 1,334 persons. In 1904, 6 look-outs directly involving 23,742 persons. InJlSOS, 17 lock-outs directly involving 11,197 persons. 254 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR VII.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN ITALY. GROUPED BY TRADES. Number of Strikes in Italy, Number of Workpeople affected, and Number- of Working Days lost in such Strikes, 1901-5. NUMBER OF STRIKES. Group of Trades. Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport Agriculture Miscellaneous. Employees of public authorities. Total. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 210 193 113 100 66 52 58 63 65 71 40 69 227 160 117 130 48 44 22 36 99 55 34 23 629 221 47 208 320 229 163 172 7 6 2 37 1,671 1,031 596 838 NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED. Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport Agriculture Miscellaneous Employees of public authorities . Nbt specified Total strikers affected . 43,552 16, 126 11,313 43,553 7,713 27,529 222,985 41,021 5,733 38,336 14, S 13,586 41,127 5,781 19, 190 146,592 61,968 2,627 419,525 Total indirectly affected, industrial strikes (o) 14,674 not stated not stated not stated not staled 344,106 26,087 17,894 12,035 14,347 10,220 7,250 22,507 20,339 1,155 131,834 30,793 23,606 , 5,000 20,050 2,688 8,192 95,056 • 21,013 6,990 213,388 (a) The number of non-strikers affected in agricultural strikes cannot be stated. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 255- NUMBER OF WORKING DAYS LOST. Group of Trades. 190L 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. Building trades. Mining and quarrying ; Metal trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport Agriculture Miscellaneous Employees of public authorities ; . , , . Total working days lost by strikers Total working days lost by non-strikers (in- dustrial strikes) 629,948 116,464 130,526 467,873 37,888 273,045 2,931,766 462, 170 28,270 601,835 174,544 248,828 702,339 77,601 264,412 2,024,833 458,028 11.744 310, 647 363,234 97,416 144,981 243,326 57,fl79 341,847 .300,550 22,065 229,504 247,376 98,237 247,480 69,021 80,901 not stated 364,816 30,846 I 5,077,950 208,302 4,564,164 1,881,145 1,368,181 not stated not stated not stated 119,253: 131,288- 27,494 139,161 69,260> 135, 151. nob stated 194,57' 10,88* 827,058- not state<£ -256 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OBJECTS. -Principal Causes or Objects of Strikes in Italy, with the number of Work- people directly affected, 1901-5. NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN STRIKES. ^ - - Principal Cause or Object. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 'Wages— 284,796 4,096 252,059 4,661 65,017 4,842 particulars ^lot given. K Total • • • 288,892 256,720 69,859 u It ."Hours of Labour — 13,885 475 7,853 1,684 6,176 644 particulars It not given. Other . . ■ • ■ ... Total , • • 14,360 9,537 6,820 u " 116,273 77,849 55,155 " (. 419,525 344, 106 131,834 " <( GROUPED BY RESULTS. Percentage of Workpeople Directly affected by Strikes (a) in Italy, grouped according to Results, 1901-5. PERCENTAGE OF WORKPEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN STRIKES. Result of Strikes. In favour of workpeople. In favour of employers. . Compromised Unknown 1901. 3611 16-76 47-13 Total. 100-00 1902. 14-77 30-81 53-84 0-58 1903. 1904. 1905. 13-43 particulars not given. 30-82 52-26 3-49 100*00 100 00 (a) In addition to the strikes, particulars of which ai'e given in the table, there are stated to have 'been certain lock-outs, most of which however, appear to have been stoppages of work having no connec- tion with any dispute between employers and employed. Excluding stoppages of this class the number ^f lock-outs and the number of workpeople directly involved were as follows; — 6 in 1901, involving 937 workpeople; 7 in 1902, involving 3,999 workpeople; 4 in 1903, involving 219 workpeople: 7 in 1904, 6 involv- ing 1,655 workpeople; and 15 in 1905 involving 9,047 workpeople. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 257 VIII.— TRADE DISPUTES IN BELGIUM, 1901-05. Number of Trade Disputes in Belgium and Number of Workpeople directly affected by such Disputes, grouped by Trades, 1901-05. NUMBER OF DISPUTES. Group of Trades. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport trades Printing and paper trades Woodworking and furnishing trades. Chemical, glass and potfery trades. Food and tobacco trades Leather trades Other trades Total. 117 73 70 81 NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport trades Printing and paper trades Woodworking and furnishing trades. Chemical, glass and pottery trades. , Food and tobacco trades Leather trades Other trades Total. 421 21,523 586 1,147 68 15,063 6 91 4,234 100 79 496 43,814 52 6,732 988 1,623 86 158 162 138 419 26 93 1,005 542 1,247 521 50 41 3,298 358 147 371 10,477 7,649 6,097 771 2,060 140 20 78 559 62 82 2,506 12,375 4.5418—17 258 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OBJECTS. Pbincipal Causes or Objects of Trade Disputes in Belgium, with the Number of Workpeople Directly affected by such Disputes, 1901-05. NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. Cause or Object. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. Wages^ 2,820 31,269 364 5,326 661 555 3,823 954 643 4,041 1,739 1,066 66,001 Against decrease 2,563 Other 1,225 Total 34,453 6,542 5,420 6,846 69,789 Hours of Labour — 230 229 301 40 604 20 2,777 592 386 Other 44 Total 459 341 624 3,369 430 Employment of particular classes or persons 3,613 1,770 3,519 2,098 789 633 74 3ft) 442 863 1,238 349 254 319 3,002 2,373 Trade unionism 7& Other 1 43,814 10,477 7,649 12,375 75,67a GROUPED BY RESULTS. Pekcentage of Workpeople Directly affected by Trade Disputes in Belgium^ rouped according to the Results of such Disputes, 1901-1905. PERCENTAGE OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. Result. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 2-18 92-76 6-06 10-12 79-09 10-79 41-21 5003 8-76 18-02 .58-02 23-96 50^ In favour of eroDlovera 87-27^ 7-70 Indefinite Total 100 00 10000 iftoo 100- 00 100-00 INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN CANADA AND ELSEWHERE, 1906-10. (For this Period the Returns are less complete than for the Preceding Quinquennium.) 45418—171 259 SriUKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 261 iX.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN CANADA, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 1906-10. A Comparative Statement, Showing Number of Industrial Disputes, Number of Employees Affected and Time Losses in Working Days in Canada and various others countries in the period 1906-10. Year. Canada. United Kingdom. United States. Germany. France . Italy. Austria. Belgium. Population 7,204,838 (1911) 45,613,000 (1911) 91,972,000 (1911) 64,903,000 (1911) 39,602,000 (1911) 34,687,000 (1911) 28,568,000 (1911) 7,500,000 (1911) NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. 1906 141 486 3,626 2,512 1 314 Figures not 1 133 207 1907 149 601 Figures 1,279 1,112 221 1908 68 399 1,524 1,652 1 104 756 101 1909 69 436 available . 1,025 1,021 609 119 1910 84 . 531 3,228 Not given 952 676 108 511 2,453 12,542 4,722 1,973 4,286 756 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. 26,050 217,773 376,415 439,280 Not given 166,786t 36,224 147,498 Figures 286,016 198,136 " 189,6241 25,293 295,507 not 119,781 124,248 " 86,372t 17,332 300,819 available . ■ 130,883 167,000t 19,600(a) 66,531} 21,280 515,165 370,000t Not given 195,000 (a) 74,000(o) 49,000(a) 61, 000(a) 17,000(a) 15,000(a) 27, 000(a) AGGREGATE DURATION OF DISPUTES IN WORKING DAYS. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. 359,797 3,028,816 9,445,420 2,191,815t 621,962 2,162,151 Figures Figures 3,563,237 Figures 2,087,523t 708,285 10,834,189 not not 23,071,20 not l,011,036t 871,845 2,773,986 given. available . Not given available . 729,309t 718,635| 9,894,831 Not given Not given Figures not available . (o) Reckoned to nearest thousand. jApproximate number of employees directly affected only. JApproximate number of employees affected, lockouts not included. 262 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR X.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN THE Number of Disputes beginning in each of the Years 1906-10, Number of Working Days of all Disputes in progress during each Principal Cause or Object. Year. Number of Distotes in Each Year the Result OP WHICH were: — In favour of Work- people. In favour of Employers. Com- promised. Indefinite. Total No. of disputes beginning in each year. Hours of Labour. Employment of particular classes or persons. Working arrangements, rules and discipline (other than above). Trade unionism. 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 190S 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910t 116 34 44 116 148 107 103 94 122 120 108 109 141 It •The aggregate duration in any year of disputes which began in that year is printed in roman. The aggregate duration of disputes which began in an earlier year is printed in Italics. The aggregate duration is computed on the basis of the total number involved, directly or indirectly. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 263 THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1906-10. Workpeople Involved in such Disputes and the Aggregate Duration in year, 1906-1910. Classified by Causes and Results. Number or Wobkfeofle Direct^ LT Involved in Disputes, the Resuw or WHICH webe: — 15,532 14,882 3,564 4,134 925 236 663 532 1,184 2,349 2,579 2,689 4,145 1,404 1,634 3,254 Ivf ,21,786 47,913 13,082 9,832 10,001 30,044 It 30,928 15,871 36,066 17,248 11,376 609 878 7,( 4,175 823 2,428 4,933 3,584 5,202 4,840 3,159 4,619 6,466 4,278 28,439 773 543 556 1,902 2,113 41,455 25,305 136,259 20,646 58,302 5,391 277 1,045 82,529 90,572 1,112 6,417 4,915 5,601 105,808 1,973 5,549 2,747 2,978 11,982 2,064 2,814 1,830 1,032 620 18 763t 10 Aggregate Duration* in Working Days or all Disputes in Progress in EACH Year, the Result or which were: 87,933 56,058 175,889 42,028 76,474 7,0S6 2,080 8,377 87,367 91,927 4,734 13,699 11,078 13,492 114,793 6,536 11,802 12,467 8,892 62,207 50,750 16,439 12,218 12,935 32,777 I o H 49,283 31,592 53,640 57,364 45,676 311 2,636 708 60,076 37,481 5,580 6,146 6,300 3,830 12,359 2,'; 2,497 6,063 6,442 28,274 2,019 1,554 1,173 1,311 4,043 161, 3, 233, se 122 83 S 141, 267 om 942 9J,S 407 599 821 17,714 4,684 7,246 1,239 1,196 15,769 21,599 1,S7B 9,057 23,790 23,863 10,374 8,080 4,0W 32,943 8,915 3,047,757 319,654 i,SBO 79,589 63,764 1S,4S8 37,141 S2,9ii 166,442 1B,SS0 a a 1,043,071 429,600 7l,i99 3,875,777 /,6,B9S 456,168 57,537 253,822 49,115 8,680 19,358 35,805 S,590 105,356 12,734 7,891 27,872 5,730 80,561 78,299 36,170 102,273 57,961 700 50,716 eso 134,917 60,755 g8,000 136,090 1,000 119,027 4,S5t 13,924 11,556 S,BOg 6,.873 1,674 78,969 5,908 24,972 o 1 O 685,204 S87,79B 525,223 les.ess 6,089,510 57,924 716,839 79,488 1,923,888 570,475 62,015 8,800 6,062 9,548 678.036 S,S40 2,420,586 25,940 490 220,645 88,936 SBB 47,502 11,400 627,651 43,907 8,6B0 45,220 658 116,108 31,649 16,B06 403,060 81,572 iSB 36,476 4,160 7, eso 6,799 70,680 $48 108 58,010t 90 n 1,889,650 4SB,011 1,188,765 273,867 10,087,694 110,173 1,256,606 140,2BB 2,377,541 320,790 88,409 8,800 30,104 52,599 3,B90 784,631 S,S40 2,434,516 7,891 69,671 6,SS0 322,805 i,375 176,292 37,026 173,565 11,400 709,475 700 104,997 9,300 188,217 4,668 209,806 28,000 176,654 17,B06 3,569.844 4,351 415, ISO 1,BSB 127,621 3,B02 74,797 22,762 122,909 38,822 262,094 15,S68 tThe figures for 1910 have been revised in a few the report for the year was issued. JThis dispute is still (October, 1912) unsettled. cases in which the final result was undecided when 264 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR X.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES iN Number of Disputes beginning in each of the Years 1906-10, Number of Working Days of all Disputes in progress during each Year. Number or Disputes in Each Year, OF WHICH were: — THE Result Total No. of disputes beginning in each year. Principal Cause or Object. In favour of Work- people. In favour of Employers. Com- promised. Indefinite. Sympathetic 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910t 1 2 2 6 7 6 1 3 2 7 2 180 247 174 199 196 3 1 1 2 7 g 9 2 3 s 3 7 2 Grand total 153 193 80 79 135 151 161 145 153 199 2 486 601 399 5 u 436 531 *The aggregate duration in any year of disputes which began in that year is printed in roman. The aggregate duration of disputes which began in an earlier year is printed in italics. The aggregate duration is computed on the basis of the total number involved, directly and indirectly. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 265 UNITED KINGDOM, 1906-10— Continued. Workpeople Involved in such Disputes and the Aggregate Duration in year, 1906-1910. Classified by Causes and Results. Ndmbbb of Workpeople Direct- ly Involved in Disputes, the Result of which were : — •SH , a o a O o H Aqobegate Duration* in Working Dats op all Disputes in Progress in EACH Year, the Result op which were .ft o 11 US a| o ft O «a Qgl il 100 .30 10 67,159 32,883 19,475 19,123 62,640 357 2,888 3,183 5,663 770 282 1 950 2,006 121 38,667 27,483 57,606 37,846 53,375 23 92 355 1,023 52,018 40,362 146,888 112,307 268,307 28 982 763t 33 368 2,980 3,538 6,786 800 282 960 2,006 121 157,872 100,728 223,969 170,258 385,085 3,554 188 1,234 370 546 644 2,345 100 1,350 1,013 59,901 46,770 71,538 130,561 130,080 1,200 519 525,667 i.srs 348,440 i!l,S91 235,447 19, Ug 154,684 S6,14S 3,382,279 5,175 27,410 16,146 S,2SS 187,066 1,540 15,446 3,050 26,993 1,134 1,145,803 47,S71 696,613 74,801 4,087,969 116,029 889,301 67,681 656,716 62,067 960 2,921 2,661 899,282 JfiB,920 833,626 166,280 6,309,222 66,410 1,431,685 109,732 5,448,526 270,823 198 84,752 58,010t 1,014 5,721 28,370 19,067 S,2S8 190,927 15,446 60 3,080 26,993 1,134 2,570,950 457,866 1,878,679 283,472 10,632,638 .201, SSI 2,560,425 - 21S,B6l 9,545,631 349,300 tThe figures for 1910 have been revised in a few cases in which the final result was undecided when the report tor the year wns issued. , JThe dispute is still (October, 1912) unsettled. 266 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR XL— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE. GROUPED BY TRADES. Number of Trade Disputes in the German Empire, and Number of Workpeople directly and indirectly affected, 1906-10. NUMBER OF DISPUTES (o). Group o£ Trades. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. Building Mining and smelting (b) Metal-working Engineering and implements manufacture Textile Clothing and cleaning (c) Transport Gardening Printing and allied trades Paper Woodworking (d) Chemical Gas, oil, soap, varnish, etc Stones and earths (e) Food, tobacco, etc., preparation Hotels and restaurants Leather Art-work Commercial employment Other Total ,166 107 336 238 163 134 95 12 89 49 467 34 20 295 149 2 94 5 167 4 788 95 195 170 103 174 102 16 26 27 225 22 21 194 186 8 56 7 94 3 505 43 87 110 57 108 33 9 11 15 173 19 11 152 106 4 40 3 35 3 656 25 122 94 72 92 41 4 14 22 227 13 7 120 80 5 34 1 21 2 1^ 3,626 2,512 1,524 3,228 NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY ANDINDIRECTLY AFFECTED BYDISPUTES (a). Building Mining and smelting (i) Metal-working Engineering and implements manufacture Textile Clothing and cleaning (c) Transport Gardening Printing and allied trades Paper Wood-working (d) Chemicals. ^ Gas, oil, soap, varnish, etc Stones and earths (e) Foods, tobacco, etc., preparation , . . Hotels and restaurants Leather Art-work Commercial employment Other Total 102,888 25,801 28,931 51,688 45,146 ,12,644 13,080 676 7,109 8,294 24,699 4,648 665 18,723 '8,533 49 8,944 117 13,361 419 376,415 90,890 24,346 24,860 24,254 16,970 24,414 8,630 1,454 789 1,834 23,987 1,768 812 13,239 11,628 119 4,399 308 11,225 90 286,016 30,016 54,017 8,601 10,510 6,887 10; 253 24,445 5,697 17,064 9,070 6,086 5,802 2,055 4,255 229 124 349 304 982 1,399 6,592 10,898 822 743 472 310 8,861 9,816 3,162 4,757 188 78 1,707 1,806 82 88 1,107 934 74 22 119,781 130,883 ♦370,000 (a) The disputes referred to in the table are those which terminated in' the respective years. (6) Includes salt works and puddling and rolling mills, (c) Includes laundries, hairdressers' shops; bathing establishments, and garment renovating, (d) Includes work in bone, Ivory and similar materials which admit of being carved, (e) Includes quarries, gravel, lime and cement, etc., works, pottery, brick, tile, etc., making, and glassworks. *Approximate, and not including those indirectly affected. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 267 GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OB;JECTS. Number of Trade disputes in the German Empire in 1906-10, grouped according to Causes or Objects. Cause or Object, (o) 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. Wages — For increase Against decrease Other Hours of Labour — For decrease Other Working arrangements Employment of particular classes or persons Other causes 2,863 73 1,038 1,009 192 124 727 1,250 ,985 82 661 667 139 62 378 704 925 224 122 244 61 8 1,097 185 151 264 42 13 826 (o) A dispute which had, say, two causes or objects is counted twice and so on. GROUPED BY RESULTS. Percentage of Disputes terminated in the year, the Results of which were as shown. Result. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. per cent. 17-90 35-99 46-11 per cent. 15-45 42-79 41-76 per cent. 14-04 52-76 33-20 per cent. 17-67 47-28 35-05 per cent. Figures not. availa- 'Compromised ble. Total 100-00 100-00 100 00 100-00 268 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR XII.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN FRANCE. GROUPED BY TRADES. Number of Trade disputes in France, Number of Workpeople directly, affected, and aggregate duration in Working Days of such disputes, classified by Trades, 1906-1910. NUMBER OF DISPUTES. Group of Trades. Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades, properly so-called Textile goods Transport Agriculture, forestry and fishing. Other trades ' Total 1906. 1907. 1908 1909. 1910. 234 311 471 57 60 64 o 6 S V 194 154 74 -5 «1 209 247 LSI Sra is 28 136 50 15 141 63 40 1? 406 288 217 1,314 1,279 1,104 *1,025 NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN THE DISPUTES. Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades, properly so-ealled Textile goods Transport Agriculture, forestry and fishing. Other trades Total 91,963 89,151 90,352 48,7981 4,464; 20,711 14,832 79,009 439,280 41,462 56,691 13,067 12,675 21,868 5,944 33,348 10,614 769 2,593 43,248 10,665 9,402 6,669 34,972 18,397 198,136 124, 248 9 © 3 *167,000 AGGREGATE DURATION OF DISPUTES IN WORKING DAYS. Building trades Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades, properly so-called Textile goods Transport Agriculture, forestry and fishing. Other trades Total 1 2,990, 1,792 934, 39, 98 183 1,974; 537 116 051 470 468 833 159 786 9,445,420 697,660 167,054 488,959 ,044,865 9,639 339,181 143,861 672,028 3,563,237 891,550 258,380 87,112 257,273 13,619 162,878 54,609 581,699 2,307,120 2_^ 2.-= 9 a ♦Approximate and not including lock-outs. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 269 Causes or Objects of Trade Disputes in France, with the Number of Work- people directly affected by such disputes, 1906-10. NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE (a) WHO TOOK PART IN DISPUTES. Cause or Object. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909, 1910. Wages^ For increase 301,178 2,600 198,229 220,438 124,506 3,773 41,399 35,266 14 33,970 62,907 38,198 83,762 2,461 21,458 53,304 200 25,252 17,541 18,876 Figures not available . Figures Other Hours of labour— For decrease not Other Employment of particular classes or persons Working arrangements 74,215 49,575 124,150 available . Other causes GROUPED BY RESULTS. Pekcentage of Workpeople directly , affected by Trade Disputes in France, grouped according to Results of such disputes, 1906-1910. Results. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. 7- 15 35 13 57-72 12-36 21-62 66-02 18-62 26-76 .54-62 Figures not available . In favour of emplovers not Compromised available. Total 10000 100 00 100-00 1 (a) In the figures given in this table a workman who took part in a strike which had more than one cause or object is counted under each. 270 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR XIII.— INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN AUSTRIA. GROUPED BY TRADES. « Number of Strikes (a) in Austria, -Workpeople directly affected and Working Days lost, 1906-1910, classified by Trades. NUMBER OF STRIKES. Group of Trades. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. Building trades Mining Metal, engineering, etc., trades Textile trades Clothing trades .' Transport and communication Woodworking, indiarubber and furnishing tradffs (6) Chemical, glass, pottery, etc., trades Other trades Total .■ r 189 68 136 130 105 24 118 123 190 201 144 144 152 66 18 105 107 149 1,086 145 81 95 59 47 27 56 103 108 721 87 62 m 83 45 11 54 80 92 Figures not available. 580 676t NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE TAKING PART IN STRIKES. Group of Trades. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. Building trades Mining Metal, engineering, et.^., trades Textile tj^des Clothing trades Transport and communication Woodworking, indiarubber and furnishing trades (6) Chemical, glass, pottery, etc., trades Other trades .• Total strikers affected Non-strikers affected Total workpeople affected 16,309 38,705 22,014 28,970 13,018 3,341 5,598 12,295 13,438 153,688 13,098 166,786 16,684 44,501 15,639 39,725 18,419 7,387 7,021 9,249 18,164 12,664 26,803 8,585 7,284 2,170 4,444 2,204 6,204 8,274 21,064 4,595 10,478 2,498 559 3,1.56 7,372 3,982 Figures not available. 176,789 12,835 78,562 7,810 61,978 4,553 189,624 86,372 66,531 i 74,000t (a) In this table lockouts are not included. (b) Includes work in bone, ivory and similar substances which adijjit of being carved. tApproximate, lockouts included. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 NUMBER OF WORKING DAYS LOST BY STRIKERS. 271 Group of Trades. Building trades Mining Metal, engineering, etc., trades Textile trades Clothing trades , Transport and communication Woodworking, indiarubber and furnishing trades (o) Chemical, glass, pottery, etc., trades: Other trades Total working days lost by strikers Total working days lost by non-strikers. : Total working days lost by all workpeople ailected 1906. 357, 199 296,465 334,081 513,477 202, 156 20,548 104,602 218,950 144,337 1907. 169,780 126,907 276,789 697,203 182,486 17,189 118,183 129,781 369,205 2,191,815 2,087,523 Not given Not given 1908. 189,729 75,745 298,702 110,675 23,946 27,611 73,420 97,680 113,628 1,011,( Not given 1909. , 53,471 163,489 50,884 247,954 41,604 3,234 33,959 110,842 23,872 729,309 Not given 1910. Figures not available. GROUPED BY RESULT. Workpeople directly affected by Strikes (6) in Austria, Grouped according to Results of such strikes, 1906-10. PERCENTAGE OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY STRIKES. Result of Strikes. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. 11-96 21-60 66-44 10-27 20-75 68-98 12-93 39-54 47-53 13-95 31-92 54-13 Figures not In favour of employers 1 Total 100-00 100-00 100-00 100 00 . ' '-, (a) Includes work in bone, ivory and similar substances which admit of being carved, i (6) In addition to the strikes referred to in the tables, mention is made of the following lockouts: — In 1906, 50 lockouts directly involving 67,872 persons; in 1907, 26 lockouts directly involving 14,539 persons; in 1908, 35 lockouts, directly involving 9,588 persons, and in 1909, 29 look- outs directly involving 18,165 persons. 272 DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR XIV.— TRADE DISPUTES IN BELGIUM, 1906-10. Number of Trade Disputes in Belgium and Number of Workpeople Directly affected by such Disputes, grouped by Trades, 1906-10. NUMBER OF DISPUTES. Groups of Trades. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. Building Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport trades Printing and paper trades Woodworking and furnishing trades Chemical, glass and pottery trades. Food and tobacco trades Leather trades Other trades Total 212 207 98 117 2 24 16 37 2 10 5 2 5 5 102 NUMBER OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. Building Mining and quarrying Metal trades Textile trades Clothing trades Transport trades Printing and paper trades Woodworking and furnishing trades Chemical, glass and pottery trades. F^od and tobacco trades Leather trades Other Total 441 14,735 1,648 6,164 184 US 258 696 623 632 861 582 26,972 3,024 13,793 4,613 7,680 7 10,660 399 1,401 1,082 490 1,373 430 44,952 410 4,518 1,572 3,091 10 294 1,032 749 206 67 11,949 713 6,649 087 022 92 112 22 466 943 202 158 443 13,909 505 18,203 665 2,178 83 454 588 45 338 120 23,179 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 GROUPED BY CAUSES OR OBJECTS. 273 Principal Causes or Objects of Trade Disputes in Belgium, with the Number of Workpeople Directly affected by such Disputes, 1906-10. NUMBER OP WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. Cause or Object. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. 14,764 673 1,808 27,060 988 6,647 2,864 3,518 1,914 3,357 965 1,202 19,575 28 Against decrease Other 933 Total 17,145 33,701 8.296 5,. 524 20,536 Hours of labou]^ For decrease 2,629 13 3,256 736 530 G35 105 Other Total 2.642 3,992 530 740 Employment of particular classes or persons Working arrangements 4,214 1,237 323 331 4,222 2,1-50 971 234 1,690 1,526 2,122 34 2,671 1,385 456 89 1,982 3,508 222 Other.....' 41 Grand total 26,892 45,270 14, 198 10,865| 26,289 GROUPED BY RESULTS.- Percentage of Workpeople Directly affected by Trade Disputes in Belgium, grouped according to the Results of such Disputes, 1906-10. PERCENTAGE ' OF WORKPEOPLE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY DISPUTES. Result. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. , In favour of workpeople 15-59 60-42 23-99 15-27 34-52 50-21 3-36 51-74 44-9 5-63 66-29 28-08 3-84 77-77 K, Compromised .- .■ 18-39 1 Total 100-00 100-00 100-00 100-00 100-00 45418—18 CHAPTER VII. SPECIMEN FORMS OF ENQUIRY. On the following pages are printed copies of the forms used by the depart- ment in gathering information respecting strikes and lockouts. These forms are sent to employers and employees, also to secretaries of local branches of trades unions which may be interested and to correspondents of the Labour Gazette for the city or district. Necessarily other and less formal communications are frequently sent to both parties and the department is in close touch with firms and employees. 275 STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 277 Specimen Form of Enquiry (A). Reference No. THE LABOUR GAZETTE. Department of Labour, Ottawa Sir, — The Labour Gazette of the Department of Labour publishes, among other matters of importance to employers and workmen, a monthly record of trade disputes in Canada, and in order that its account may be as accurate and impartial as possible, request is made of interested parties, or their representa- tives,, for a statement of the facts in regard to the matter in dispute in so far as these are to be ascertained. This information is requested in pursuance of section 12, chap. 96, R.S.C. (Conciliation and Labour Act,) which provides that the Department of Labour shall collect, digest and publish in suitable form, statistical and other information relating to the conditions of labour. The department has been informed of a dispute in and that the matter is one of concern to . In accordance with the custom of the department, I enclose herewith a blank form such as is sent to parties interested in trade disputes, and request that you will kindly supply the desired information and return it at your earliest convenience to this department. If no reply is received from you, the department will be compelled, in its published account, to rely on other sources for information relating to this matter. I am, sir, your obedient servant, F, A. ACLAND, Deputy Minister of Labour. STRIKES ANt) LOCKOUTS, 1901-12 279 Reference No. Specimen Form of Enquiry (B). The Depaktment of Laboue, Canada. TRADE DISPUTES. Locality - Trade or industry Names of firms or establishments involved Union or Unions (if any) involved *Cause or object of dispute Number of firms or establishments affected . Approximate number of employees affected :- Males, 21 years or over Males, \mder 21 years Females, 21 years or over Females, under 21 years Total DIRECTLY tiNDIHECTLT. Date of commencement . Date of termination .... ♦Result ♦Remarks: Signature of person supplying above information. D. L. Form No. 3. Date of signature . ♦Continue on next page if necessary. t" Indirectly" refers to those thrown out of work at the establishments where the dispute occurred, but not themselves on strike or locked out. Cornell university Library HD 5327.A48 1913 Report on strike' and loSffiilSSr DATE DUE GAYLORD 1 PRINTED IN U.S.A.