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No report received; membership taken from report of two years ago. -Bricklayers, $5.40; stonemasons, $4.50; plasterers, $4,95.

-Piece work, earnings reported.

12-Stonemasons, $4.50; bricklayers, $5.85. 13-Piece work, minimum earnings.

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TABLE No. 1-MEMBERSHIP AND UNION SCHEDULE OF HOURS AND WAGES-LABOR ORGANIZATIONS OF MINNESOTA-Continued

Bricklayers, Masons & Plasterers' Union No. 9.

Carpenters' Union No. 957

Musicians' Union No. 363

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Typographical Union No. 432.

Conductors, Railway No. 539.

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Engineers, Locomotive, No. 768.

Firemen & Enginemen, Locomotive, No. 103.

Trainmen, Railway, No. 436.

Blacksmiths' & Helpers' Union No. 459.

Boiler Makers' Union No. 437

Clerks' Union, Retail, No. 930.

Conductors, Railway, No. 360

Engineers, Locomotive, No. 420.

Firemen & Enginermen, Locomotive, No. 401.

Machinists' Association, No. 647

Trainmen, Railway, No. 339.

Bartenders' Union No. 617

Bricklayers' Union No. 16.

Conductors, Railway, No. 607.

Engineers, Locomotive, No. 677.

Firemen & Enginemen, Locomotive, No. 654

Industrial Workers of the World (Miners)

Machinists' Association, No. 220

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Painters', Decorators' & Paperhangers' Union No. 540..

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Plasterers' Union No. 81

1911

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TABLE NO. 2

SUMMARY OF MEMBERSHIP OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS-BY CITIES AND TOWNS

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PART X.

DIVISION FOR THE DEAF.

The Division for the Deaf in the Department of Labor began its work on August 1, 1915, but the present superintendent did not assume office until May 1, 1916. The present report covers the work done by the present superintendent between May 1, 1916, and October 1, 1916. In opening up our work we have sent a questionaire to about 262 deaf persons, from which 144 complete returns have been received. These returns are discussed in this report. We have also visited 74 employers, a large number of deaf persons in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona, Lake City and Wabasha and have attended a considerable number of meetings of societies and organizations of the deaf.

The 144 returns on the questionaire yielded some interesting information. It was fourd from these reports that spinal meningitis and scarlet fever each caused deafness in 26 of the cases; that 17 were born deaf; in 14 brain fever caused the deafness; and that 6 were made deaf by catarrh; 6 by typhoid, and 6 by diphtheria. Sixteen had no idea why they became deaf, while the remainder attributed their deafness to a variety of causes, such as whooping cough, measles and sunstroke.

Ten of these 144 were graduates of institutions of higher learning, 7 having graduated from Gallaudet College, one from St. John's University, one from the Crookston Agricultural School and one from St. Joseph's Academy. Thirty-two were able to converse by lip reading, 82 on their fingers, and 3 by both methods.

Sixty of the 144 learned printing in school, but only 9 followed it as a vocation; 35 learned sewing, but only 9 worked at it; 30 learned shoemaking, but only 5 of them are shoemakers; 17 learned cabinet making, of whom 7 are now cabinet makers; 1 learned and followed mining engineering and 1 bookkeeping, typewriting and the operation of a comptometer. The remainder of the group are now distributed among the following occupations, with the exception of 21 who live at home without any industrial occupation: Farming, 28; poultry raising, 5; teachers, 6; machine operators in factories, 23; factory laborers, 20; cigar makers, 2; and 1 each in painting, tailoring, abstracting, real estate loan office, grocery man, inventor, millinery, shoe shop, and billing clerk.

Five have homesteaded farms, 2 bought farms and 7 inherited them. At least 21 own their own homes. Our records on this point are not as complete as on some of the other matters.

We do not find any marked antagonism on the part of employers or foremen to the employment of deaf workmen, but we do find that they do not pay them as high a wage for a given type of work as they do those who can hear. The deaf workman is at some disadvantage in the securing of employment and the employers seem to take advantage of that fact to pay them less.

Neither do we find the trade unions adverse to deaf members. The reason the deaf follow trades different from those they learned in school seems to be the superficiality and unpractical character of the training they received in the school rather than any opposition on the part of the employers or the unions.

In the course of our work we have visited 74 employers to find out whether they could use deaf workmen, and if so the work in which they could use them. Only one employer was discourteous. The remainder were all glad to discuss the matter with us. Dressmakers said they could use deaf girls as mcd'stes, in plain sewing, in embroidery work and in children's shops. Newspapers and printing offices could use them as press feeders, linotype operators, job work, in cut making and in the mailing room. Paper box and envelope manufacturers and lithographers said they could use them in their machine work. Cabinet makers and wood makers find them useful as piano and wood finishers, in inlay and carving work,

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