Centraal Bureau voor de Statistick. Uitkomsten der Beroepstelling in her Koninkrijk der Nederlanden Gehounden op den een en dertigsten December, 1909. The Hague, 1912-13. 5 vols. (Bijdragen tot de Statistick van Nederland. New Series. No. 167.)

These 5 volumes constitute the occupational census of the Netherlands of December 31, 1909, the final volume of which was only recently received (Apr. 19, 1915) by the Bureau. All persons engaged in gainful occupations are here listed, classified by town and commune or other geographical division, by sex, age, and civil status, and by industrial group. No minimum age is indicated, the lowest age classification constituting that group of persons 12 years of age and under. No text or summary tables of any kind are presented. Persons engaged in each specified occupation are classed in one of four groups: (1) Employers and heads of establishments of their own ownership; (2) employers and heads of establishments for others; (3) employees who direct others, i. e., managers, superintendents, etc.; (4) workers or laborers. Thirtythree principal industrial groups are recognized, together with those retired, not reported, or without occupation, as follows: (1) Clay, pottery, and stone; (2) Precious stones; (3) Printing and lithographing; (4) Building, including cleaning of buildings and streets; (5) Chemical industries (oils, varnish, paints, explosives); (6) Wood working, mill work, etc.; (7) Clothing and cleaning thereof; (8) Art industries; (9) Leather, oil cloth, rubber; (10) Mining and peat digging; (11) Metals; (12) Machinery and machine tool manufacture; (13) Ship and boat building; (14) Paper; (15) Textiles; (16) Manufacture of gas and electric power; (17) Foods and drinks; (18) Agriculture; (19) Fishing and hunting; (20) Commerce and trade; (21) Transportation; (22) Banks and credit institutions; (23) Insurance; (24) Liberal professions; (25) Teaching, exclusive of public schools; (26) Care of the poor, sick, and other dependents; (27) Domestic service; (28) Casual laborers; (29) Civil service of the State; (30) Civil service of the Provinces; (31) Civil service of municipalities (not including public works); (32) Canal and waterworks; (33) Clergymen, religious workers, etc.; (34) Retired on pension; (35) Not reported; (36) Without occupation.

NUMBER OF PERSONS IN GAINFUL OCCUPATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS, DEC. 31,

1 Excluding public school teachers.

2 Excluding labor on public works and some other industrial enterprises like gas works, etc., but including public school teachers.

Departement van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel. Verslag omtrent den Staat der Rijksverzekeringsbank. The Hague, 1915. 213, vi. pp. Folded tables and diagrams.

This is a report for the year 1913 of the State insurance bank organized for the administration of the Dutch compensation act of 1901. Compensation is

payable for accidents in the course of employment causing death or disability for over two days; the act covers practically all manufacturing, mining, quarrying, building, and engineering enterprises, and all establishments using power or handling explosive materials, together with transportation and fishing in internal waters; but agriculture is excluded. All workmen, both in private and public employment, are included. During the year 1913 there were reported $2,703 accidents subject to compensation, as compared with 76,496 in 1912, 68,485 in 1911, and 62,963 in 1910. The total number of reported accidents was, however, larger in each year by from 4 to 5 per cent.

AMOUNT PAID IN BENEFITS (MEDICAL COSTS, BURIAL EXPENSES, ACCIDENT COMPENSATION TO DEPENDENTS, ETC.), CLASSIFIED BY INSURANCE CARRIERS, UNDER THE DUTCH COMPENSATION LAW, 1905–1913.

New Zealand.-Department of Labor. Twenty-second Annual Report of the Department of Labor, 1913. Wellington, 1913. 175 pp. Folded diagrams. Twenty-third Annual Report of the Department of Labor, 1914. Wellington, 1914. 92 pp. Folded diagrams.

These reports cover operations of the public employment department and the activities of the factory inspection service, for each of the financial years ending March 31, 1913 and 1914. The number for whom employment was found in each of the years indicated was as follows:

1910-11.

1911-12_
1912-13_.

1913-14

7, 102

5, 735

5, 848
5, 645

The total for whom employment had been found since the establishment of the labor exchange department in 1891 was 102,009, of whom 56,365 had been placed in Government work and 45,644 in private work. There was expended by the department in the payment of fares for persons to their places of work since the year 1909-10, when such assistance was first given, the sum of £11,306 ($55,020.65), of which 96 per cent had been repaid. factories and employees for specified years was as follows:

Year. 1910-11.

1911-12

The number of

1912-13.

1913-14

87,517

The number of accidents reported in 1913-14 was 12.61 per thousand, slightly higher than for the previous year. Thirty-eight strikes-35 were reported for the preceding year-were reported during the year, involving 13,731 workers. In December, 1912, the number of trade-unions was reported as 322, and in 1913 as 372, whose membership was 60,622 and 71,544, respectively. Under the

1 Not reported.

Factory Act 64 prosecutions were taken before the courts, as against 96 in 1913, and under the Works and Shops Act 252 cases in 1913 and 217 in 1912. Convictions were obtained in 63 cases in 1913, and 1 case was dismissed. For the operations of the department in relation to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act reference may be made to Bulletin 167 of this Bureau.

Department of Labor. Workers' Dwellings Act. Yearly statement ending March 31, 1914. Wellington. 7 pp. Illustrated.

This report relates to operations under the Workers' Dwellings Act of 1910, concerning the extension of Government credit to workmen for the construction and purchase of homes. During the year the Board set aside from public land or otherwise purchased 1643 acres to be available for the erection of workers' dwellings in country districts. In 1913 an act permitted counties and municipalities to buy, subdivide, and sell land for the same purpose. During the year 81 dwellings were erected and disposed of by the Board. There was expended in acquiring lands £13,601 15s. 8d. ($66,193.08); for preparing land for housing purposes £1,215 10s. 10d. ($5,915.43); for working houses £26,923 14s. 7d. ($131,034.32); while expenses of administration and traveling amounted to £282 19s. Od. ($1,376.97), making a total expenditure for the fiscal year of £42,024 Os. 1d. ($204,509.80).

For further information concerning the operation of this and similar acts in New Zealand reference may be made to Bulletin No. 158 of this Bureau.

Registrar General's Office. The New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1914. Twenty-third Year of Issue. Wellington, 1914. 1017 pp.

Contains in text and tabular form information concerning economic conditions in New Zealand; it is divided into 28 sections, with a supplement on certain special subjects, appendixes, index, maps, and diagrams. Particularly of interest as relating to labor are section 13 on railroads and their employees, section 18 on mines and mine labor, section 20 on manufacturing industries, section 21 on labor laws, arbitration and conciliation, strikes and lockouts, employment offices, etc., and section 22 on Government financial aid to settlers and workers.

Norway. Statistiske Centralbyraa.

Statistisk Aarbok for Kongeriket Norge.

34te Aargang. Christiania, 1914. 196 pp. This is the thirty-fourth issue of the statistical yearbook for Norway, containing an analytical table of contents in both Norwegian and French, together with an index by subject matter. Of the 17 sections into which the work is divided those of interest as relating to labor are section 6, on mining and the factory and handworking industries, which show the number of establishments and employees for the latest year available; section 11 on social insurance, summarizing the reports of the State Insurance Institute; and section 13, more particularly devoted to labor conditions, reporting such matters as trade-unions, unemployment, employment offices, number employed in specified industries, strikes and lockouts, and average retail prices.

Christiania,

Riksforsikringsanstalten. Fiskerforsikringen for Aar 1913. 1914. 16*, 75 pp. (Norges Officielle Statistik. VI: 21.) This is a report of operations under the law of August 8, 1908, guaranteeing accident compensation to fishermen in Norway. From 1909 to 1913 there had been paid in premiums 677,638.50 crowns ($181,607.12), while compensation had been paid to the amount of 816,028.24 ($218,695.57). The difference between the premiums and the compensation is paid by the State Harbor Fund, so called.

ACCIDENTS REPORTED AND COMPENSATED AND RATE PER 10,000 PERSONS INSURED, FISHERMEN'S ACCIDENT INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, NORWAY,

For further information concerning accidents in Norway fisheries, reference is made to Bulletin No. 157 of this Bureau, pp. 139-141.

Statistiske Centralbyraa. Haandverkstællingen i Norge 1910. Christiania, 1912-1914. 4 vols. (Norges Officielle Statistik. V: 167, 194; VI: 1, 7). This is a report of the census of handworking trades taken in connection with the census of population December 1, 1910. It is the third of a series of general occupation censuses, having been preceded by that of agriculture, 1907, and of factories in 1909. It includes only those trades not subject to the factory law of 1909, including practically those industries subject to the operation of the so-called law on handicrafts. A supplementary trade exercised by handicraftsmen for three months or more during 1910 was classed as a separate trade. There is presented general information concerning each trade, its rature, income and earnings from it, number of workmen and period during which it has been exercised by each individual, etc. Information concerning the individuals in the trade is presented, showing their age, place of birth, occupation of their parents, education, etc. Detailed information is shown concerning the use of power and power machinery in the handicrafts, quantity and value of production, hours of labor, and wages. The census included 31.766 trades, employing 28,939 additional workmen (not including 42 trades and 24 workers, reported while the report was in process of printing), making the number of persons enumerated 60,705. Of the trades enumerated 4,064, employing 1,547 additional workmen, were exercised as supplementary trades, thus reducing the actual number of handicraftsmen to 27,702, employing 27,392 workmen. The largest proportion of the trades (34.8 per cent) are classified under the clothing and underwear industry, and the next largest proportion (20.6 per cent) under the building industry. Returns as to average earnings were reported for 15,658 independent handicraftsmen; the average earnings for males was 941 crowns ($252.19) and for females 340 crowns ($91.12). The largest average annual earnings of those located in the country districts was received by a butcher (826 crowns, or $221.37), the next largest (773 crowns, or $207.16) by a barber, and the third largest by a tanner (744 crowns, or $199.39). In the cities the largest average income (4,208 crowns, or $1,127.74) was received by a shoemaker, the next largest (2,406 crowns, or $644.81) by an instrument maker, and the third largest (2,404 crowns, or $644.27) by a gold and silver smith. Reports were received from employer handicraftsmen

as regards the hours of labor for 23,726 workmen. The average hours were 59.07 per week. This average does not include overtime nor hours worked by apprentices. One-half the employees had a working week of 57 to 60 hours, about one-fourth a working week of less than 57 hours, the remaining fourth a week of over 60 hours. Classified weekly wages for 15,485 handworkers are indicated in the table which follows:

NUMBER OF HANDWORKERS AND PER CENT RECEIVING CLASSIFIED WEEKLY WAGES ON DEC. 1, 1910.

This is the second issue of the yearbook issued by the Swedish statistical office, and presents the usual information contained in such publications. The material is grouped in 20 sections, together with an appendix. There is no index, but a detailed table of contents both in the vernacular and in French. Of interest to labor are parts of section 8, presenting industrial statistics much in the nature of our census of manufactures; also sections 12 and 13, relating to cooperative and benefit societies and labor conditions, presenting information concerning industrial accidents for the current year, activities of employment agencies, unemployment, strikes and lockouts, collective agreements, retail prices, and wages of agricultural laborers.

Riksförsäkringsanstalten år 1912, 1913. (Sveriges Officiella Statistik.)

Stockholm, 1913, 1914. 2 v.

Contains annual reports of operations under the Swedish compensation act of 1901 during the years 1912 and 1913. The act provides for compensation resulting from an accident while at work which may cause death or disability for more than CO days. The act covers practically all manufacturing industries, mining, and quarrying, and trade and transportation carried on by both private or State enterprises. The act has been in operation since January 1, 1903; since 1908