Report of the Department of Labor and Factory Inspection (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...The reports of tenement house construction come to the Department of Labor but as the law specifies just what type shall be so reported, there is no real record of the amount of home construction except that kept by the towns themselves. As the report of the Department goes all over the country, it seems as if it would be of profit and interest to include all building in the returns and that this restriction should be removed. A record of the munber of small houses available for families would be of great importance to Connecticut if it were in a book which-could be obtained by manufacturers outside the state many of whom frequently change their sites. One of their first questions is about the possibility of housing their emlployes.. rom 1915 to 1918, many large employers built homes for their hands, making them up to date in all improvements and renting or selling them to them at cost. Such was the plan of the Remington company in Bridgeport, The Scovill Mfg. Co. in Waterbury, the American Thread in Willimantic and many others. The textile operators have had homes for their employes for many years. Finely equipped houses in Oak Park in Willimantic were rented to the workers at $5 a week. The practice was discontinued largely after the war, but in Bridgeport the first named company is putting such of its houses as it has retained into good condition and will rent them at moderate prices.. There is a great deal of building and many homes outside of Bridgeport, the cars going two or three miles out of the city being crowded with workers in the evening hours. The fact that so many have to use trolleys in any city and that it costs no more to go double the distance is coming to be an inducement for men who want their own home with a little...