persons thrown out of work in these 2 groups formed 50.4 per cent of all persons thrown out of work by strikes and lockouts. There were 15 disputes, or 3.4 per cent of all disputes, which had a duration of 25 weeks and over. While the number of employees involved in disputes in this group formed but 0.9 per cent of all employees affected by strikes and lockouts, yet the aggregate days lost by strikers and locked-out employees was 16.1 per cent of the aggregate working-days lost by all employees engaged in the disputes of the

year.

The following tables, in which the disputes are classified by results, show the number of disputes and of persons affected and the number of working-days lost in each group of industries:

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, BY RESULTS, AND WORKING-DAYS LOST, FOR EACH GROUP OF INDUSTRIES.

["Aggregate working-days lost by all employees thrown out of work" includes aggregate duration in specified years of disputes which began in preceding years, and excludes duration in the following year of disputes which began in the specified year.]

STRIKERS AND EMPLOYEES LOCKED OUT, BY RESULTS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES THROWN OUT OF WORK, FOR EACH GROUP OF INDUSTRIES.

In both years, 1908 and 1909, the number of disputes, persons directly affected, persons indirectly affected, and aggregate workingdays lost in the mining and quarrying, metal, engineering, and shipbuilding, and textile groups of industries exceed similar items in every other industrial group. Of the total in 1908, there were 79 disputes, involving 19,185 workpeople, which resulted in favor of employees; 171 disputes, involving 56,437 workpeople, which resulted in favor of employers; and 144 disputes, involving 146,850 workpeople, which were compromised. The remaining 5 disputes were indefinite or unsettled as to results. Of the total in 1909, there were 79 disputes, involving 19,123 workpeople, which resulted in favor of employees; 199 disputes, involving 37,846 workpeople, which resulted in favor of employers; and 153 disputes, involving 112,307 workpeople, which were compromised. The remaining 5 disputes were indefinite or unsettled as to results.

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS DURING FIVE YEARS.-During the 5-year period 1905 to 1909 there was a yearly average of 456 disputes, affecting an average of 211,020 employees yearly and entailing an average yearly loss of 4,253,866 working-days.

The following table shows the number of strikes and lockouts, employees thrown out of work, and working-days lost in each year of the period named.

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, EMPLOYEES THROWN OUT OF WORK, AND WORKINGDAYS LOST, BY YEARS, 1905 TO 1909.

["Aggregate working-days lost by all employees thrown out of work" includes aggregate duration in each year of disputes which began in previous years and extended beyond the year in which they began, and excludes the duration in 1910 of disputes which began in 1909.]

The number of strikes and lockouts and employees thrown out of work in each year from 1905 to 1909 are shown in the following table, by industries:

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS AND EMPLOYEES THROWN OUT OF WORK, BY INDUSTRIES AND YEARS, 1905 TO 1909.

The following table shows, by groups of industries, the aggregate working-days lost by all employees thrown out of work for each year of the period 1905 to 1909:

AGGREGATE DURATION IN WORKING-DAYS OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS, BY INDUSTRIES AND YEARS, 1905 TO 1909.

["Aggregate working-days lost by all employees thrown out of work" includes aggregate duration in each year of disputes which began in previous years and extended beyond the year in which they began, and excludes the duration in 1910 of disputes which began in 1909.j

There were more strikes and lockouts during 1907 than during any other year of the 5-year period, but the number of employees thrown out of work in 1907 is less than the number thrown out of employment in any other year, except 1905. During the 5-year period the greatest number of disputes arose in the mining and quarrying industry, the yearly average being 133, and in 1909 the number of disputes constituted 47.5 per cent of all disputes in the year. The textile industry ranks second, and the metal, engineering, and shipbuilding industry third in number of disputes for the period, the yearly averages being 94 and 91, respectively. In 1908 the textile trades show the greatest number of employees thrown out of work and of aggregate working-days lost. In 1909 similar items are greatest in the mining and quarrying industry.

The number of strikes and lockouts and the number of strikers and employees locked out for each year of the period 1905 to 1909 are shown in the next table, by principal causes.

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS AND STRIKERS AND EMPLOYEES LOCKED OUT, BY PRINCIPAL CAUSES AND YEARS, 1905 TO 1909.

The number of disputes relative to wages in 1909 made no significant change from the number in 1908, but shows a material decrease from the number recorded in 1906 and in 1907. The number of strikers and employees locked out in 1908 by far exceeded the number in any other year of the period, but in 1909 decreased by nearly onefourth the number recorded in 1908. The number of disputes in 1908 relative to hours of labor was practically the same as in the three preceding years, but nearly doubled in 1909, while the number of strikers and employees locked out in 1909 was more than ten times the number in 1908. Disputes in 1908 and 1909 on account of the employment of particular classes of persons numbered 54 and 63, respectively, as compared with the high number 88 in 1907, while the employees involved numbered 11,078 and 13,492, respectively, as compared with 13,699 in 1907, the greatest number in the 5-year period. Disputes arising from the remaining named causes show for

1908 and 1909 a record not strikingly different from that of the preceding years.

The following table shows, by results, the number of strikes and lockouts and employees directly affected during each year, 1905 to

1909:

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS AND STRIKERS AND EMPLOYEES LOCKED OUT, BY RESULTS AND YEARS, 1905 TO 1909.

[The figures for years previous to 1909 have been revised to include the results of disputes terminated after the reports of those years were published.]

This table shows that for each year during the 5-year period the number of disputes resulting in favor of the employees was less than the number in which the employers were successful. The total number of disputes during the 5-year period was 2,280, of which 575, or 25.2 per cent, were settled in favor of the employees; 968, or 42.5 per cent in favor of the employers; 729, or 32 per cent, were compromised, and 8, or 0.3 per cent, were indefinite or unsettled. In 1909, of the 436 disputes, 18.1 per cent were favorable to the employees and 45.6 per cent to the employers, 35.1 per cent were compromised, and 1.2 per cent were indefinite or unsettled at the end of the year.

During the 5-year period there were in the aggregate 720,480 employees directly affected by strikes and lockouts. Of this number, 155,342 employees, or 21.6 per cent of all employees directly affected, were involved in disputes in which employees were successful; 184,631, or 25.6 per cent in disputes in which the employers were successful; 379,469, or 52.7 per cent, in disputes which were compromised, and 1,038, or 0.1 per cent in those of which the settlement was indefinite or which were unsettled.

In the following table the number of strikes and lockouts and the number of strikers and employees locked out are shown by methods of settlement for each year of the period 1905 to 1909: