BOARD OF TRADE LabourTHE • 1 J Gazette VOLUME VIII. JANUARY-DECEMBER ■ mg ■ 1900. s LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY HORACE MARSHALL & SON, TEMPLE HOUSE, TEMPLE AVENUE, and 125 FLEET STREET, E.C. & INDEX [Note.-*T&5 references given in this Index to the principal groups of Trades relate to the general summaries, tables, and special articles in which those Trades are dealt with, but not to the Local Correspondents' Monthly Reports, for which reference must be made to the various Towns and Districts,'] ABERDEEN & DISTRICT, Reports on Employment in, 24, 54, I ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION CASES AND COL­ 88,119. T5°» 182, 214, 247. 279, 311,344, 375. LECTIVE AGREEMENTS, MONTHLY NOTES ON (cont.):: ACCIDENTS [See also “ Cotton Trade," “Factories and Work­ --------------, Northumberland Conciliation Board, 8, 295. shops," “Mining and Quarrying," “Railway Servants," and ----- *-----South Staffordshire Conciliation Board, 295. “ Seamen "J: Coopering Trade, London, 198, 359. Compensation Act (Workmen’s), 1897. Contracting-out Schemes Cotton Trade, Bolton,. Wages Agreement in Spinning Trade, certified by Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, 192, 221. 38. —---------- 7---------- ------------------ , Proceedings in Sheriff Courts -, Brooklands Agreement Amended, 134. in Scotland and in County Courts in Ireland in 1898, 166. -, Colne, Twisting and Drawing (coloured work),. -------------------------------------------in 1899, 22/. 198. --------------------------------- ———, Legal Cases under, 8, 39, 73, ■, New Uniform List for Weaving Jacquards, 263. 103, 134, 167, 198, 229, 359. -, Radcliffe and District Twisting and Drawing, Cotton Trade. Accidents from Machinery in, Home Office (coloured work). New Uniform List, 263. Report on Prevention of, 37. ------------------, Wigan, 229. Industrial, Monthly Tables of, 25, 55, 89, 123, 151, 187, 219, Earthenware Trade, 164. 251, 281, 315, 345' 379. Gas Trade, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Gateshead, 133, 197. ———, in 1899, 67. Glass Bottle Makers, Yorkshire, 38. Insurance against, Compulsory, in Austria, 69, 299. Harness Stitchers, Walsall, New Price List, 295. ----------------------------------------in Denmark, 332. Iron and Steel Trade, Workington, 359. ---------------------------------------- in Germany, 132, 324. Iron Mining Industry, Dalton-in-Furness, 229. ---- ——--- •------------------------ - in Switzerland, 170. Lightermen, Hull, 253, 294. Notice of Accidents Act, 1894, Monthly Returns of Accidents Limestone Quarrying Trade, West Cumberland, New Board of' reported under,*25, 55, 89, 123, 151, 187, 219, 251, 281, 315, Conciliation, 198. 345, 354. 379- Printing Trade, London, Overtime in, 134. Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act, 1900,261. Railway Servants, North-Eastern Railway Wages and Hours Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1900, 261. Agreement, 38. AGREEMENTS, For list of, see under Arbitration and Concilia- -----------------------, Taff Vale, 259. tion Cases, etc. Sheet Millworkers, South Wales, 102. AGRICULTURE: Shipbuilding Trade, Plumbers and Brass Finishers, Port of Agricultural Produce, Irish, Prices of, 166. the Mersey, Demarcation Dispute, 166. Employment in, State of, 2, 15, 34, 45, 66, 79, 98, 110, 130, --------------------- ----- , The Clyde, Weekly Payments discon­ 141, 162, 173, 194, 205, 226, 237, 258, 270, 290, 302,. 322, 334. tinued, 155. 354, 365. -------------------------- . The Tyne, Demarcation Award, 197. Harvest Wages in 1900, 293. ---------- “----------:—» Shipwrights and Joiners, Liverpool' Hirings in England, 377. and Birkenhead, Demarcation Agreement, 134. ------------- Scotland, 7, 228. Tailoring Trade, London, 166. Labourers, Irish Migratory, in 1900, 260. Timber Trade, West Hartlepool, 73. — ----------, Wages and Earnings of, 262. Tin and Ironware Articles, London Price List for making, 3*59*. Wages, Recent Changes in, 195. Tin Plate Trade, Morriston, 72. ------- from 1850 to 1899, 325. Tramway Employees ; Oldham, Ashton and Hyde, 329. ------- in December, 1898 and 1899, 69. Weavers (Sateen); Sateen List, Additions for Staves, 229. Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1900, 261. ----------- (Shawl), Saddleworth, 102. ALIEN IMMIGRATION [See “ Emigration and Immigration.’’] —— (Velvet), Oldham, 102. ANTHRAX [See “ Diseases of Occupations.’’] AUSTRALASIA, Friendly Societies in, 167. ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION CASES AND COL­ AUSTRALIA [See under separate Colonies.] LECTIVE AGREEMENTS, MONTHLY NOTES ON: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY : Boot and Shoe Trades, Bristol (Clickers and Pressmen), 38. Accident and Sickness Insurance Laws, Working of, in* ------------------------- —, East of Scotland (Clickers and Press­ 1897, 69. | men), 102. Accidents in the Mining Industry, Central Reserve Funi ■ -----------:-------------- -, Glasgow, 295. for, 299. ------- —-------------- Leeds (Clickers and Pressmen), 198. Agricultural Labour Bureau in Hungary, 169. ------------------- —----------------(Rivetters and Finishers), 229,263. Book-printing and Typefounding Trades, Uniform Conditions, - ---- ---------------------, Leicester, 295. of Work, Renewal of Agreement, 107. ------------------- -——-, Liverpool, 198. Disputes in 1898, 72. ----- 7---------- ——, Manchester (Slipper Makers). Revised ----------- in 1899, Provisional Figures, 77. Uniform List, 295. —■— ■, 12, 67, 100, 107, 171, 202, 234, 267, 299, 363. ■ -------------------------- , Northampton, 8. ----------- , Coal Miners (Koflach-Voitsberg District, Styria), 12. ---------------------------, Renewal of Trust Deed, 72. —*--------,-----------------, 67, 100. Brass.Trade, Arbitration in, 133, 166, 356. ----------- , Employees in Machine Factory of Hungarian State Building Trades, Aberdeen, 134. Railway (Buda Pesth), 234. — ----------------Barrow (Masons and Bricklayers), 263. Employers and Employed, Hungarian Law regulating the? “—---------- :—Cheltenham, 263. relations between, in relation to the construction of Water­ -------------------- -, Dundee, 134. works, Roads, &c.. 203. -------------------, Dunfermline, 134. Hours of Labour in Austrian Factories in 1899, 324. --- ;---------- , Leicester (Plumbers and Engineers). De­ Insurance against Accidents, 69, 299. marcation Dispute, 133. ---------- --------- — Sickness, 69. ‘----------------rr, London, 133. Labour in, 12, 42, 76, 107, 138, 171, 202, 234, 267, 299, 331, 363.. 4————, Demarcation Agreement, 329, 359.. —;—— Department, Austrian: Journal of, 76. ---------------------- (Plastering Trade), 102. Printing and Typefounding Trades, Employment in, in 1899,107. ----------- , North Staffordshire, 102, 133. Seamen’s Relief Funds, 138. --------—s Nottingham (House Painters), 73, 102, Wages, Increase of, in Government Printing Establishment, 138. ——, Paisley, 263. --------- , Potteries and Newcastle, 133. ~~-----------, Tamworth (House Painters and Decorators), 133,166. \ BAKING TRADES: ---------------- , Wigan, 166. Disputes, 157. Cabinet Making Trade, London, 263. ' Hours of Labcfar, Changes in, 186, 218, 250. Goal Porters, London, 38. Wages, Changes in Rates of, 27,122,186, 217, 250. 284,347, 377.. Coal Trade, Durham, 134. BANKRUPTCIES, Numbers Gazetted Monthly [See “ Mis­ ' ~-----, Merthyr, 102, 197. cellaneous Trade Notes ”]. iv.—Index.] THE LABOUR GAZETTE. THE LABOUR GAZETTE. [Index.—v. BARNSLEY, Reports on Employment in [See 41 Sheffield, CHARTS, showing (continued) : Barnsley, and Rotherham District ”]. Unemployed in Trade Unions, Percentage of, 1, 33, 65, 97, i2g 161,193, 225, 257, 289. 321, 353." plNGEROUS TRADES : • DISPUTES—Foreign Countries (continued): BARROW. Reports on Employment in [See “ Cumberland and United Kingdom : Barrow”]. Wages of Agricultural Labourers from 1850 to 1899, 325. -------- , Weavers (Berteaucourt les-Dames), 137. CHILDREN, EMPLOYMENT OF: Elementary Education Home Office Orders, 320. --------------------- (St. Quentin), 137. BELFAST AND DISTRICT, Reports on Employment in, 24, 54, Lead Compounds in Pottery Manufacture, 7. 88, 119, 150, 183, 215, 247, 280, 311, 344, 375. (School Attendance) Act (1893) Amendment Act, 1899, 2. Germany, Cabinet Makers (Berlin), 76, 100. CLOTHING TRADES: Foreign Countries: ----------- -, Coal Miners (Saxony), 75. BELGIUM: Belgium, Additions to List of Trades classified as Dangerous, 138. Co-operative Societies in 1899, 42. Arbitration and Conciliation, 8, 38, 72, 102, 166,198, 229, 263, ----------- , Shipbuilding Trade (Hamburg), 233, 267, 298. as 295. Germany, Zinc Smelting Works, Special Rules for, 76. Holland, Dock Labourers (Amsterdam), 20z. 298. Dangerous Trades, Additions to List of Trades Classified Russia, Boiler Attendants in Mines, New Rules, 332. Dangerous, 138. Disputes (Monthly Tables), 61, 125, 157, 189, 253, 287,* 316,317, - ---------------------------------(Rotterdam), 202. 233. 349, 381. DENMARK: ---------------------------------- (Zaandam), 298. Diamond Cutting Industry in Antwerp, Condition of, 11, Accidents, Insurance of Fishermen against, 332. Disputes, 138,170, 196, 202, 233, 267, 298, 331, 363. Employment in. State of, 2, 34, 66, 98, 130, 162, 194, 226, 258, ----------- , Iron Ore Workers (Amsterdam), 202. 290, 322, 354. Agricultural Wages, 328. Spain, Building Trades (Bilbao), 171. ----------- , Coal Miners (Battice, near Verviers), 267. Co-operative Distributive Societies in 1898, 42. ---------, Cotton Weavers (Ghent), 196. Hours of Labour, Changes in, 218. -------- , Dock Labourers (Bilbao), 171. Wages, Changes in Rates of, 58,121,154 185,217,283, 313,376 Disputes in 1898, 5. -------- , Miners (Bilbao), 171. -----------, Dock Labourers (Ghent), 233. Insurance, Accident, 332.