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Show AMERICA'S WORKMEN. Statistics Show That Last Year Nearly a Million Men Were Oat or Employment. California Chinese Buy Cheap Tickets and Are Off for the East. Robbers in Mississippi Handle an Old Lady in an Atrocious Manner. The Bureau of Labor Iteport. Washington, March 21. The first - annual report of the Bureau of Labor is completed. It will cover about 600 pages. Under the head of "Industrial Depressions ' in " the United States,". Commissioner Wright says: "From the observations of agents of the Bureau and from other sources from which it has been possible to form conclusions, it is undoubtedly true that out of the. total number of establishments suoh-as factories, mines, etc., existing in the country, about ' five per cent, were absolutely idle during 1885, and that perhaps five per cent, more were idle a part of the time, or for the first estimate 7 per cent, of the whole number of such establishments were idle or the equivalent during the past year. Applying the per cent, arrived at, we have a total of 998,003 unemployed persons in 1885. A MILLION MEN OUT OP EMPLOYMENT Means a loss to the consumptive power of the country of at leant $1,000,000 per day. or crippling the trade of the country $300,000,-000 $300,000,-000 per year. It is curious to observe, however, how-ever, that while the severity of the depression depres-sion causes a crippling to the extent of several sev-eral hundred million dollars per year of the consuming power of the people, the volume of business transacted is not crippled comparatively com-paratively to any such extent. The employment of contract labor, of foreign for-eign importation and rapid immigration generally, are features which have a positive posi-tive influence in crippling the consuming power. By the census of 1880, the whole number of people engaged in agriculture in the United States was 7,870,849. Into this number there had been absorbed 812,829 foreign for-eign born; the total number employed in manufactures, mechanical and mining in-' dustries, was 3,837,112, of whom 1,225,787 iwere of foreign birth. It will be seen at once that THE TENDENCY OF IMMIGBANTS Is to assimilate with our mechanical industries. indus-tries. This increase of supply of labor in comparison to the demand, lowers . wages, contributes to whatever production exists, and cripples the consuming power of the whole. So far as investigation indicates, the employment of foreign labor under contract con-tract to plaoes dissatisfied with home laborers labor-ers has been a miserable failure for all parties par-ties concerned, except, perhaps, the parties imported. As to the severity of the present industrial depression and its duration, it can safely be asserted that the depression commenced com-menced early in 1882, and has continued until the present time. At the present time (March, 1886,) the effects of the depression are wearing away, and all indications are that prosperity is slowly and gradually, but safely returning. . - . i |