Show STATISTICS LABOR WTiatBulletin of New York State Department Shows Albany N Y March 30he quarterly quar-terly bulletin of the New York State department de-partment of abor shows that for the last qjuarter ending January 1 1902 tho decreased Idleness In building clothing and baking trades WAS noticeable A table shows that in 1901 50253 members mem-bers of labor unions gained n weekly addition t their wages o 80807 which Is equivalent to an advance of 5173 each per week The first large scale system of pensions pen-sions for superannuated employces In the State has been established by the Metropolitan Street railway of New York At the age of 70 the employees will be retired on pensions those who have been In the service of the company com-pany for twentyfive years receiving 25 per cent of their wanes and for thirty five years service a pension amounting to 10 per cent of wages Immigration jit the port of New York has been spreading rapidly The number num-ber of arrivals In I the fourth quarter of 1901 was 93028 as compared with 71132 one year ago |