Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1917 — WITHOUT AGITATORS INDUSTRY FLOURISHES [ARTICLE]

WITHOUT AGITATORS INDUSTRY FLOURISHES

Figures Show Big Increase In Wages and Factories In Queens. Wherever labor agitators are few, there industry flourishes and workers are prosperous- This is the lesson to be gleaned from the remarkable industrial growth in the Borough of Queens. New 'York City, as shown by ti e figures recently compiled by the Bureau of Census for: the year 1914. The figures record a decided gain not only in the number of new facto-'

ries, capital invested rn manuiacauring, and the value of manufactured products, but also in the sum total of salaries and wages and the number of ‘salaried 1 ' employe's and wage earners since the taking of the last census in 1909. From a percentage standpoint, the increase over the several items was as follows: Salaried employes, 62.7 per cent; salaries, 50.8 per cent; wages, 35 per cent; wage earners, 30.7 per cent; capital invested, 29 per cent; number of factories, 2G.6 per cent; value of products, 8.8 per cent. While complete figures have not Leen published as yet for all the cities and States, still from the figures that are now available it is evident that the Borough of Queens for the year 1914 exceeded in the value of its manufactured products many States of the Union, .such as Vermont, Delaware. Oregon, Florida, and Wyoming; iUexceeded, also, iu this respect every city in New York State, with the exception of Buffalo. In fact, there were not more than fifteen or sixteen cities in the United States which produced manufactured products greater In value than those made-in Queens for the the year 1914. —Industrial Conservation, N'. Y.