Show LABOR STATISTICS Some Facts From the Forthcoming Report Albany K Y Feb 3The twelfth annual nual report of the commissioner of labor statistics of the state will be made to the legislature by Commissioner Thomas J Bowling tomorrow The report says I will be found from the information received that in a great many instances there nave been reductions at the hours of labor without a corresponding reduction reduc-tion in wages Recent improvements in labor saving machinery especially in the printing trade have caused a decrease in the number of employees from 2 percent per-cent i < t GCy p T cent In oilier branchiS of industry the decrease will average JS per cent and in some instances it runs as high as 60 per cent The whole number of members reportedly reported-ly 6S9 organisations is lo530J The question Has a reduction of wages been prevented by the fact of the existence of your organizations is answered an-swered by 071 labor organizations Five hundred and fortyeight organizations organlzatons reported they prevented wage reductions i say they were unable to prevent decreases de-creases in the rates of pay and 33 state there has been no demand for a reduction reduc-tion |