OFFICIAL REPORTS RELATING TO LABOR RECEIVED FROM JANUARY 1 TO MAY 31, 1915.

In the following pages the various State and foreign reports relating to labor have been listed, and a brief note or statement made in regard to the character of the report or its contents, and in certain cases a brief summary of the more important facts presented in the report. It will be the purpose of this REVIEW to present such lists monthly, adding wherever the material seems to demand it more extended abstracts of the contents.

UNITED STATES.

Arizona.-State Mine Inspector. Third Annual Report for the year ending November 30, 1914. 64 pp.

Contains statistics of mines showing number of employees, character of ore, method of operation, and tonnage for each mine. Particulars of each fatal, serious, and minor accident are given. The report shows that among the men employed at last inspection-surface, 1,917; underground, 7,505-the number of fatal accidents was 62; and of serious and minor accidents, 758. No definition is given of the accidents classified as serious and minor.

California.-Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixteenth Biennial Report, 1913 and 1914. 1914. 328 pp.

Contains a review of the bureau's activities in enforcing labor laws, special reports on the lumber industry in California, the Portland cement industry in California, and statistical tables in regard to hours and rates of wages of organized labor, and employees and wages in manufacturing industries. The bureau's activity in conducting prosecutions during the last two years is shown by the following statement:

PROSECUTIONS CONDUCTED BY BUREAU DURING TWO YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1914.

During the period covered by the report, the bureau collected 7,117 claims for wages, amounting to $147,362.62. Claims against employment agencies, based on 1,402 complaints, secured the return of fees and expenses to the amount of $3,712.75.

The bureau reports especially interesting results from its investigation of the collection of hospital fees by employers from employees, made in May, 1914. The investigation had the definite object of eliminating the evils connected with hospital fees, particularly the practice of hiring the men for one or two days and deducting

hospital fees of $1 from their wages for that time. The importance of the subject is indicated by the bureau's estimate that hospital fees collected by companies from their employees in the State amount to over $600,000 a year.

Industrial Welfare Commission. First Biennial Report, 1913 and 1914. 1915. 123 pp.

Describes the organization of the commission established to administer the California minimum-wage law, and gives results of investigations of wages, hours, and conditions in mercantile establishments, laundries, manufacturing industries, and telephone and telegraph companies. The cost of living investigation included returns from self-supporting women in San Francisco and Los Angeles. No minimum-wage determinations had been made at the time of the report, the work of the commission having been devoted to acquiring a thorough knowledge of conditions preliminary to the fixing of wages.

State Board of Education. Report of the Commissioner of Industrial and Vocational Education for the year ending June 30, 1914. 47 pp.

Reviews situation in elementary high schools as related to the need for vocational education; contains recommendations in regard to the establishment and maintenance of vocational education, and gives digests of laws of States that provide State aid.

Colorado.-Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fourteenth Biennial Report, 1913 and 1914. Denver, 1914. 248 pp.

Reviews work of bureau, including factory inspection, operation of State's four free employment offices, the licensing and regulating of private employment offices, and the enforcement of State labor laws. A section devoted to the wages of women workers gives the result of investigations made with the object of assisting the State minimumwage board. It covers telephone employees, and wages and cost of living in various other occupations in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo. The report also gives statistics of labor organizations and railroads, and an account of the Colorado coal strike and of the efforts of the State bureau toward its settlement.

Bureau of Mines. Thirteenth Biennial Report for the years 1913 and 1914. Denver, 1914. 228 PP.

Largely a description of metal mines and mining activities and development during 1913 and 1914. Report as to accidents in metal mines may be summarized as follows:

EMPLOYEES ABOVE AND UNDER GROUND.

State Wage Board. First Report for the biennial period ending November 30, 1914. Denver, 1914. 28 pp.

Report was summarized in Bulletin No. 167, page 40.

Connecticut. Board of Compensation Commissioners. First Annual Report for the year ending September 30, 1914. Hartford, 1914. 32 pp.

A brief report of the operation of the Workmen's Compensation Act for the year shows 18,054 accidents reported, most of them, however, resulting in short disabilities. The agreements entered into by employer and employee and approved by the commissioners numbered 3,444, and the hearings where the formal finding and the award were made numbered 106. Recommendations are made for amendment of the law.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Twenty-sixth Report for the two years ending November 30, 1914. Hartford, 1914. 78 pp.

Contains report of new factory and tenement house construction, occupational diseases as reported under the Connecticut law, work of five free employment bureaus, private employment agencies, a record of strikes, lockouts, and trade agreements, and a directory of labor organizations in the State. The report shows that only 25 cases of occupational diseases, 18 of which were lead poisoning, were reported to the bureau between December, 1912, and November 30, 1914.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Report on the conditions of wage-earning women and girls, by Charlotte M. Holloway. Hartford, 1914. 138 pp.

Report will be summarized in the September issue of the REVIEW.

Factory Inspector. Fourth Biennial Report for the two years ending September 30, 1914. Hartford, 1914. 107 pp.

Covers industrial accidents reported, inspection of bakeshops, mercantile elevators, tenement houses, factories, home work, mercantile establishments, and contains sections on welfare work and new legislation, and a list of Connecticut manufacturers and their products. A number of illustrations show proper methods of safeguarding, and the equipment of typical emergency rooms in Connecticut factories.

Convict Labor Commission. Report of the General Assembly, 1915. Hartford, 1915. 90 pp.

Report of a commission to investigate convict labor in Connecticut and in other States and foreign countries. Describes methods in various States and in foreign countries and submits recommendations.

Idaho.-Inspector of Mines. Sixteenth Annual Report for the year 1914. 1915. 55 pp. Devoted chiefly to the mining, development, progress, and resources of the State. The products of the Idaho mines are lead, zinc, silver, copper, and gold. The inspector estimates the number of men exposed to the hazards of the mining industry during 1914 as 5,200. The accidents reported were 27 fatal, 79 serious, and 312 minor. Of the 27 fatal accidents 4 were shaft accidents, 20 were underground other than shaft accidents, one was a milling accident, one a power-plant accident, and one a placermill accident.

Illinois. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Seventeenth Biennial Report. Child labor. Springfield, 1915. 131 pp.

The investigation was undertaken upon the recommendation of the board of labor commissioners to obtain information as to the advisability of enacting a 16-year minimum-age law. The purpose was to ascertain the number of employers favorable to a 16-year minimum age, the extent of education, the apparent physical and mental condition of the children, their reasons for working, and the income of the children and of the families to which they belong. The report consists almost entirely of statistical tables.

In the investigation 2,365 children employed in 139 industries were interviewed, all except about 100 of whom were residents of Chicago. The employers of 912 children were in favor of making 16 years the minimum working age. Those of 1,003 children were opposed to the 16-year minimum, while the employers of 50 children were in favor of a Federal 16-year minimum-age law. The wages received varied greatly, from less than $2 per week in three cases to $10 or more in six cases. Twenty-six per cent were receiving between $4 and $4.50 per week. Of the children interviewed, 76 per cent reported that they left school to earn money to help provide for themselves and families. Nearly 82 per cent of the children left school at 14 years of age, while 5 per cent left at an earlier age. Over 13 per cent left school before reaching the fifth grade, while 14 per cent were in that grade when they left school. Slightly over 25 per cent were in the eighth grade or in the high school when they left school.

State Board of Prison Industries. Report for the years 1913 and 1914. 1915. 88 pp. Devoted chiefly to detailed financial statistics of the prison industries of Illinois. The facts are given separately for each industry, showing the value of the products and their disposition, the number of convicts employed, the number of days of labor upon each class of product, and the value of the plant, and the amount of salaries and expenses for each product.

Department of Factory Inspection. Twentieth and Twenty-first Annual Reports for the years July 1, 1912, to June 30, 1914. 256 pp.

Twentieth annual report contains sections devoted to child labor, the garment law and the garment industry, occupational diseases, Illinois law restricting hours of female labor, report of inspections under the blower law, inspections according to health, safety, and comfort law, inspections according to the structural law, inspections according to the ice cream and butterine law. Twenty-first annual report contains a report of the chief factory inspector with a detailed discussion of the work of his office and special sections on the work of inspection under the laws relating to child labor, health, safety, and comfort, 10-hour law for women, garment factories, washhouses, the structural law, the blower law, and the ice cream and butterine law. Sections are also given to discussion of protective measures for females in the canning industry in Illinois, the amendment of the compensation act to include occupational diseases, and a review of factory inspection and factory legislation in Illinois.

State Mining Board. Thirty-third Annual Coal Report. Springfield, 1914. 269 pp. Gives statistics of coal mines for 1913 and 1914 and a period of years, showing the persons employed, the amount of output, days of operation, and earnings of miners. An important section is that devoted to statistics of fatal and nonfatal accidents covering a period of years. The fatalities during 1913 numbered 175 and during 1914 159 These numbers show little change from the numbers in earlier years, although the number of persons employed and the amount of coal mined both show a slight increase. The number of nonfatal accidents in 1913 and in 1914 show marked increases over earlier years, but it is possible that these increases are fully accounted for by more complete reports. The number of nonfatal accidents reported in 1913 was 1,025 and in 1914 1,071.

Indiana.-Bureau of Statistics. Fifteenth Biennial Report for 1913 and 1914. Indianapolis, 1914. 790 pp.

Includes sections devoted to the free employment department, social statistics, economic statistics, and agricultural statistics. The report shows a total of over 30,000 positions secured for men and women during 1913 and 1914 by the five free public employment offices.

State Board of Education. First Annual Report on Vocational Education. 1914. 62 pp.

Includes an account of work of State vocational departments, a statement of progress made, with the instructions in elementary agriculture, domestic science, and industrial arts, taught as a part of the regular course of instruction in the public schools, as required by law, an account of trade-extension work of the county agents of agriculture, and the boys' and girls' clubs, and school and home garden work connected with instruction in agriculture given in the regular schools.

Iowa. Mine Inspector's Seventeenth Biennial Report for the two years ending June 30, 1914. Des Moines, 1914. 132 pp.

Contains detailed reports of the several mine districts of the State, including statistics of employment, production, mine equipment, and accidents. A summary for the entire State reports 24 fatal accidents in the year ending June 30, 1913, and 34 in the year ending June 30, 1914. These numbers show slight differences as compared with earlier years. Number of nonfatal accidents reported in the two years

was 176 in 1913 and 161 in 1914. No statement is made of the definition of nonfatal accidents reported.

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Maine.-Department of Labor and Industry. Second Biennial Report, 1913 and 1914, with the reports of the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation for the years 1913 and 1914. Waterville, 1915. 216 pp.

Contains a directory of manufacturing industries, with months in operation and average persons employed for each establishment, a directory of labor organizations, the report of the State board of arbitration and conciliation, and sections on industrial accidents, on child labor, and on training of men for positions in pulp and paper mills. The section on child labor is the result of an investigation of the home conditions of all 14-year-old minors employed throughout the State on June 10, 1913. Statistics are also included regarding the employment of minors, based on the birth certificates on file with the State department of labor.

The statistics of accidents, which are given in considerable detail, show a total of 1,120 accidents, 55 of which were fatal, reported in the year ending June 30, 1913, and 974, 20 of which were fatal, in the year ending June 30, 1914. These accidents are described as those in which disability exists 6 days. The accidents are classified to show industry, cause of accident, nature and extent of disability, age, nationality, wages of injured, kind of employment at which injured, the hour of accident, and the number of hours at work at the time of the accident. The report of the board of arbitration and conciliation is devoted to an account of controversies between the engineers and firemen of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad and said railroad company. Massachusetts.-Bureau of Statistics. Forty-fifth Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor for the year 1914. Boston, 1914. 692 pp.

Consists of seven parts, issued during 1914 as labor bulletins, Nos. 97 to 103, bearing the following titles:

Union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1913.

Thirteenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts.

Immigrant aliens destined for and emigrant aliens departed from Massachusetts,

1913.

Labor bibliography, 1913.

Industrial home work in Massachusetts.

Action affecting labor during the legislative session, 1914.

Wages and hours of labor in the paper and wood-pulp industry in Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics. Twenty-eighth Annual Report on the Statistics of Manufactures for the year 1913. Boston, 1914. xxxviii and 127 pp.

Contains an introductory summary of the statistics of 1913 in comparison with those of former years, with the usual statistics of capital invested, material used, wages paid, and number of wage earners, in detail and in summary form.

Bureau of Statistics. Eighth Annual Report on the State free employment offices for the year ending November 30, 1914. Boston, 1915. 31 pp.

Summarizes the work of the four free public employment offices for the year, including comparisons with former years. From 1908 to 1913 the employment offices showed a steady increase in the number of positions filled, but during 1914 there was a decrease of 15 per cent as compared with the previous years. The work of the four offices for the years 1910 to 1914 is summarized in the table which follows:

The figures for 1913 are for a full 12 months for the Boston and Springfield offices, 11 months for the Fall River office (this office having been closed during August), and 24 months for the Worcester office. 2 The figures for 1914 are for a full 12 months for the Boston, Springaeld, and Worcester offices and 11 months for the Fall River office (this office having been closed during August).