only exception being in the typographical trades. Trades represented by female unionists for the first time this year are telegraphers and janitresses.

The percentage increase of organized working women between June 30, 1899, and the same date in 1900 was 43.5 in the metropolis and 33.9 in the remainder of the State.

LAPSED UNIONS.

Binghamton.-Carriage and Wagon Makers' Union.
Elmira.-Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators No. 10.

New York, Brooklyn.-Amalgamated Bluestone Cutters, L. A. 9110, K. of L.

New York, Brooklyn.-Bridge, Curb and Crosswalk Setters, L. A. 558, K. of L.

New York, Manhattan.-Artificial Stone Masons and Helpers' Union, S. T. and L. A.

New York, Manhattan.-Painters and Paper Hangers' Union.

New York, Manhattan.-Progressive Clothing Cutters of New York and Vicinity.

New York, Manhattan.-Suspender Trimming Operators' Union.
New York, Manhattan.-Mattress Makers' Union.

New York, Manhattan.-Jobbing Confectioners' Salesmen's Union.
Niagara Falls.-Carbide Workers.

Oneonta.-Hod Carriers' Protective Union.

Peekskill.-Retail Clerks' National Protective Association No. 222.
Schenectady.-Bartenders' International League No. 189.

Syracuse.-Wax Workers.

Tarrytown.-Tarrytown Branch Granite Cutters' National Union.

AMALGAMATED WITH OTHER UNIONS.

New York, Brooklyn.-Journeymen Freestone Cutters' Association. New York, Brooklyn.-Pants Makers' Union.

New York, Brooklyn.-Brewery Firemen's Union No. 1.

New York, Manhattan.-Independent Coat Tailors and Pressers, Branches 1, 2 and 3.

New York, Manhattan.-United Coat Pressers' Union No. 15, U. G. W. of America.

New York, Queens.-Iron Molders' Union No. 271.

II. Unemployment.

The amount of unemployment in this quarter was about the same as in previous years, with the exception of 1899, as appears in the following comparison with the corresponding dates in former years:

TABLE 8.

NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF MEMBERS OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IDLE.

No statistics of this kind were collected in 1896, but it can be seen that the proportion of idle unionists remained fairly constant from 1895 to 1899, when it diminished nearly one-half. This year it has once more increased to the figures of the years preceding 1899. The increased idleness is quite general, a few of the smaller trades furnishing the only exceptions, thus:

TABLE 9.

NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF TRADE UNIONISTS IDLE.

At the end of June-
1900.

1899.

During entire second quarter1900. 1899.

Men. Building, etc..

Number. Percentage. Percentage. Number. Percentage. Percentage.

Inasmuch as nearly two-thirds of all unionists and a still larger proportion of the unemployed members belong to metropolitan unions, it is important to analyze the figures of idleness in New York City. The subjoined table contains the proportions of idleness among trades union members in the various industries for the second quarter of 1900 as compared with the corresponding period of 1899:

TABLE 10.

PROPORTION OF UNION MEMBERS IDLE IN NEW YORK CITY, SECOND QUARTER 1900 AND 1899.

At the end of June, 1900, the proportion of idleness for all the groups was 25.5 per cent, as against 13.3 per cent on the same date of the preceding year; while for the entire quarter the unemployed constituted, respectively, 13.1 per cent and 4 per cent of the total membership. The increases in building, stoneworking, etc., clothing and textiles, and tobacco raised the figures materially in the aggregate. In the three groups named the proportions on the last day of the quarter were 35.8 per cent and 14 per cent respectively, and during the entire three months 19.3 per cent and 4.1 per cent respectively. Conditions in each of the other nine groups were for the most part equal in the two quarters. Considering these latter classes together, the computation shows that on the 30th of June in the corresponding periods noted above the respective percentages of idleness were. 10.8 and 12.3, and for the whole three months 4.9 and 3.8.

The large number of plans approved by the several borough building departments in December and during the fore part of this year betokened a brisk season in the constructive industry, but the comparatively high advance in prices of materials tended. to retard investment for awhile. The idleness reported in this group may be attributed to the fact that builders awaited a receding market in these products and consequently did not engage extensively in operations during the spring and early summer, but with the advent of lower prices came an improvement in midsummer. This is emphasized by an official of a leading union in

the marble trade, who, in filing with the Bureau the report of his organization for the quarter ended on June 30th last, wrote as follows on August 4th: "I might add that our trade up to my writing is booming. Every man is at work, and from all indications will be so for the next eighteen months, dating from July 1, 1900."

In the clothing industry the dullness peculiar to June was more pronounced this year than in the same month of 1899. Reports to the Bureau from large trade unions in the garment-making trades note, however, a successful general movement at the end of August for increased wage rates, thus denoting renewed activity in that line of business.

As to the tobacco industry the large proportion of idleness throughout the quarter which closed last June was caused by strikes and lockouts in several large cigar factories, a full description of which was printed in the June BULLETIN. The conflicts are still in progress.

In the interior towns and cities continuous idleness during the whole second quarter of 1900 was no more prevalent than a year ago-indeed, in the majority of trades it was actually less prevalent. On one particular day, however, the idleness was greater this year than last, as appears from the following table:

TABLE 11.

IDLENESS AMONG MEMBERS OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY, SECOND QUARTER 1899 AND 1900.

The idleness at the end of June, 1900, was principally caused by numerous strikes for higher wages, and by the check in building operations* following the advance in prices. There was also perhaps more dullness in the iron and steel trade than usual, but otherwise the number out of work as a consequence of factory shut-downs was about as small as it was a year ago.

Table III shows the amount of idleness among members of labor organizations in each town in the State. Below is given a table comparing the percentage of unemployment in the principal cities this year and last year at the corresponding date: