The aggregate invested capital exceeded that reported for 1903 by $19,937,302, and the salaries paid superintendents, office help, etc., showed an increase of $1,335,203.88. PRISON LABOR.-In the twelve penal and reformatory institutions investigated there were found 5,151 prisoners, of whom 2,220 were employed in productive labor, 2,733 in unproductive labor, and 198 were idle. Tables are given showing the class of goods or wares manufactured, systems of labor, and number of prisoners engaged in each trade compared with the number of free laborers engaged in like industries in the State. COAL MINING.-Tables are given by counties showing mines reporting, average employees, capital invested, rent, taxes and insurance paid, wages and salaries paid, value of output, etc. The following comparative table presents a summary of these statistics for the years 1903 and 1904: STATISTICS OF COAL MINING IN OHIO, 1903 AND 1904. FREE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICES. In addition to an itemized statement of the expense of each office for the year ending October 31, 1905, and text reports from each of the five offices, tables are given showing by years the results of the operation of each office from its organization, and for each week of the year ending October 26, 1905. The following table shows the operations of the five free public employment offices of the State for the year ending October 26, 1905: OPERATIONS OF FREE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICES, YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 26, 1905. Since the organization in 1890 of the five free public employment offices there has been a total of 406,920 applications for situations wanted, 355,753 applications for help wanted, and 240,865 positions secured. Of applications for situations 59.20 per cent were filled, and of applications for help 67.75 per cent were filled. The expenses of the five offices for the year ending October 31, 1905 (excluding salaries), were $2,250.89; of which the expenses of the Cleveland office were $407.52; the Columbus office, $416.05; the Cincinnati office, $515.77; the Dayton office, $454.99; and the Toledo office, $456.56. PENNSYLVANIA. Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Vol. XXXIII, 1905. Part III, Industrial Statistics. Robert C. Bair, Chief of Bureau. 622 pp. The following subjects are presented in this report: New legislation, 22 pages; comparative statistics of manufactures, 400 pages; statistics of iron, steel, and tin-plate production, 24 pages; statistics of coal mining, 37 pages; strikes and lockouts, causes given for days lost in manufacturing industries, and comments on trade conditions in 1905, 20 pages; labor statistics, 43 pages; textile industries, 36 pages; collated summaries, 1896-1905, 27 pages. NEW LEGISLATION.-The text of a law regulating the employment of minors in anthracite coal mines or collieries, and also one regulating the employment, in all kinds of industrial establishments, of women and children employed at wages or salary, and to provide for the safety of all employees in certain nonindustrial buildings, etc., passed by the legislature in 1905, are reproduced. COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF MANUFACTURES.-In this chapter a series of tables is given showing for each of 84 manufacturing industries, capital invested, cost of basic materials, days in operation, persons employed, aggregate wages, value of product, and other data for each year from 1896 to 1905, as reported by 710 identical establishments. The following summary shows the more important items: COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF 710 IDENTICAL MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, 1896 TO 1905. Other tables show the increase or decrease in the principal items for each year as compared with the next preceding year, and for 1905 compared with 1896; average yearly earnings, 1896 and 1905, and the difference in earnings in 77 industries in which an increase was reported and in 7 industries in which a decrease was reported; average yearly and daily earnings of males, females, and minors in 1905, by industries. IRON, STEEL, AND TIN-PLATE PRODUCTION.-The following summary statements show the more important items for the year 1905 relating to the production of pig iron, steel, rolled iron and steel, and tin plate: Gross tons of production---Continued. Plates and sheets (a)......... Cut nails and spikes.. Other rolled products.... Total..... Value of product (not including the tin-plate works).... Total employees (not including those in tin-plate works). Average days in operation............. Average yearly earnings of adult male employees.. Average daily wages of adult male employees.. Average value per ton........ Cost of labor per ton.... 2,310, 478 34, 212 4,361, 820 9, 210.000 $285, 218.007 111.98 113.295 $70, 612, 050 $70, 943, 628 297 $630.58 $626. 19 $2.12 $2.11 $30.97 $7.70 @ Including 294 172 tons of black plate and other sheets made by the tin-plate works. STATISTICS OF COAL MINING.-The following tables give a statistical summary of the operations of the anthracite and bituminous coal mines in the State for 1905: ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS COAL OPERATIONS, 1905. Outside workmen Aggregate wages paid to miners Aggregate wages paid to inside workmen.. Average yearly earnings (all employees) Tons of coked coal... a Average number of days coke workers were employed was 261. 291 40,186 72,536 54,744 $27,742, 023 $23,472, 188 232 $320.57 $690.34 $2.24 $2.97 61, 634, 226 1,166 102, 216 23,743 16, 148 $50, 387,074 $12, 220, 620 $8,411, 296 a 225 $502.58 $491.29 $2.21 $2.18 116, 263, 504 (b) $104, 231, 121 Not reported. 1, 137 5 38,959 27,041,826 In addition to the above coal-mining operations, there were 53 plants employing 1,490 persons, engaged in washing coal from culm banks at the mines. The plants washed 2,904,900 tons of coal, which had a market value of $1,818,062. Wages paid in this industry aggregated $574,329, making the average yearly earnings per employee $397. There were also 48 plants engaged in dredging coal from the Susquehanna and Schuylkill rivers, giving an average employment of 200 days to 174 men, to whom wages amounting to $33,320 were paid. There were 84,924 tons of coal raised, having a market value of $73,849. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.-Data relative to strikes and lockouts are reported for several industries. The information given shows for each strike reported the time lost, cause of dispute, method of settlement, result, and number of persons involved. LABOR STATISTICS.-Statistics are presented for the different industries, showing the number of establishments making returns and data relative to employees as follows: Number, number owning their own homes, average rent paid by those renting, hours of daily work, and nationality. Returns from 47 pig-iron companies showed that 429 working people owned their homes, that the average annual rental for those paying rent was $75, and that the average hours the furnaces were in blast were 148 per week; that of the 8,665 persons for whom nationality was reported 3,373 were Americans. Returns from 156 iron and steel companies showed that 3,393 working people owned their homes, that the average annual rental for those renting was $127, that the average hours of work per week were 65, and that of |