The strike movement was very wide. According to official statistics, the agitation of the Confederation affected 2,585 industrial establishments and involved 202,507 workingmen. The sweep of the movement may be grasped from the following table giving the statistics of strikes in France since 1892: _Year_ _Number of _Number of _Number of strikes_ establishments_ workingmen_ 1892 261 500 50,000 1893 634 4,286 170,123 1894 391 1,731 54,576 1895 405 1,298 45,801 1896 476 2,178 49,851 1897 356 2,568 68,875 1898 368 1,967 82,065 1899 740 4,290 176,826 1900 902 10,253 222,714 1901 523 6,970 111,414 1902 512 1,820 212,704 1903 567 3,246 123,151 1904 1,026 17,250 271,097 1905 830 5,302 177,666 1906 1,309 19,637 438,466 1907 1,275 8,365 197,961[198] [198] _Statistique des Grèves_, 1893-1908. The movement assumed various forms in different trades. The printers, for instance, pursued their conciliatory methods and obtained a nine-hour day in about 150 towns. In some trades the strikes developed a more or less acute character and continued for several months after the first of May. Some of the "reformists" declared that the movement was a complete failure.[199] According to official statistics,[200] the results of the strike movement were as follows: [199] _XV Congrès National Corporatif_ (Amiens, 1906), p. 103. [200] _Statistique des Grèves_, 1906, pp. 774 _et seq._ A: Strikes B: Establishments C: Strikers -----------+----------------+--------------------+-------------------- | Success | Compromise | Failure Demand |----------------|--------------------|-------------------- | A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | C -----------+----+-----+-----|----+-------+-------|----+-------+------- 8 hour day| 2 | 5 | 45 | 13 | 1,970 |25,520 | 88 | 7,556 |109,786 9 hour day| 36 | 135 |2723 | 28 | 994 |30,750 | 45 | 755 | 17,023 10 hour day| 40 | 582 |7409 | 16 | 220 | 2,000 | 27 | 368 | 7,251 -----------+----------------+--------------------+--------------------