SPANISH EMIGRATION TO AMERICA DURING MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY, 1914, 1915, BY DESTINATION. The crisis in the home labor market is discussed. The demands for employment far exceed the places open for employment; many factories are doubtful of being able to continue operations; many are giving labor to their employees for only three days each week; and others, because of scarcity of raw materials, allow their employees to work in turns. Owing to these conditions there is little effort necessary to secure laborers for employment in France. To prevent deception and fraud, this emigration should be regulated; accredited employment agencies alone should be permitted to operate in Spain, and a deposit sufficient to pay return passage in case of fraud should be required. Several pages are devoted to labor conditions in the countries to which most of the Spanish emigration is directed-Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Cuba. Instituto de Reformas Sociales. Legislacion del Trabajo. Apendice Decimo, 1914. Legislacion-Proyectos de Reforma. Madrid, 1915. 433 pp. Contains laws, decrees, and orders of interest to labor enacted and promulgated in Spain during the year 1914, together with bills and administrative measures proposed. The subject matter is classified under 15 heads: (1) Industrial accidents, (2) Mutual aid and charity, (3) Associations, (4) Cooperation, (5) Emigration, (6) Industrial education, (7) Statistics and investigation, (8) Housing of the working classes, (9) Factory inspection, (10) Legislation affecting the Institute of Social Reform (Instituto de Reformas Sociales), (11) Employment of women and children, (12) Public granaries, (13) Social welfare, (14) Agricultural associations, and (15) Miscellaneous. Instituto de Reformas Sociales. Memoria General de la Inspección del Trabajo Correspondiente al Año 1912. Madrid, 1914. 518 pp. and 28 charts. This report is a review of the activities of the industrial inspection service in Spain during the year 1912. The following shows the more important data resulting from the inspection of industrial establishments: Number of inspections made.... Number of infractions of law for employment of children under age limit.. Number of infractions of law for not permitting opportunity for religious and primary instruction.... 13, 814 2,066 2, 106 Number of infractions of law for lack of certificate of vaccination. 77, 971 Number of infractions of law for lack of age certificate. Number of infractions of law for working without parents' permission. Number of infractions of law for no display of law, rules, etc. 3, 408 Number of infractions of law for failure to draft working rules. 4, 062 Number of infractions of law for no book for registering inspections. Number of infractions of law for failure to provide safety appliances. Number of infractions of law for law, rules, etc., not posted in visible place.. Number of prosecutions.... 431 The total number of infractions of the labor code was reported as 201,219. Of this total, 189,750 were reported as infractions of the woman and child labor law. Tables are presented showing the number of persons employed in establishments subject to inspection, by sex and by age, maximum, minimum, and average wages paid; hours of labor for day and for night laborers, by sex: in each inspection district. The totals of the different classes of employees for the kingdom are as follows: Males: There were 31,118 males and 7,926 females, or a total of 39,044 persons, employed in night work. The last chapter presents a chronological index of all labor laws enacted to date in Spain. Sweden. Socialstyrelsen. Arbetsinställelser i Sverige, År 1914. Stockholm 1915. 63 pp. (Sveriges Officiella Statistik Socialstatistik). Contains report on strikes and lockouts, occurring in 1914, giving number involved, causes, duration, and results. During the year 1914 there occurred 115 labor disputes, of which 8 were lockouts and 2 were of mixed character, involving 14,385 workmen. As to results, 33 terminated in favor of the employer and 26 in favor of the workman, 47 were compromised, while as to 9 the result was unknown or indecisive. Short tables follow. presenting the more important data concerning these strikes. The following table shows the number of labor disputes, persons involved, and resuit for each year 1908 to 1914: STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN SWEDEN, NUMBER OF PERSONS INVOLVED, AND RESULTS, BY YEARS, 1908-1914. outs. Per Per Per Per Per volved. Num- sons Num- sons Num- sons Num- sons Num- sons ber. in- ber. in- ber. in- ber. in- ber. involved. volved. volved. volved. The days of work lost varies from 11,799,700 in 1909 to 39,000 in 1910. this item is reported as 620,469. In 1914 The following table gives data similar to that in the preceding table for labor disputes In 1914 classified by principal causes. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN SWEDEN, NUMBER OF PERSONS INVOLVED, AND RESULTS, BY CAUSES, 1914. Switzerland. Handels-, Industrie- und Landwirtschafts- Department. Berichte der Kantonsregierungen über die ausführung des bundesgesetzes betreffend die Arbeit in den Fabriken 1911 und 1912; 1913 und 1914. Veröffentlicht vom schweizerischen Industriedepartement. Aarau, 1913, 1915. 2 vols. These two volumes constitute the reports of the cantonal factory inspectors of Switzerland, each report covering a biennial period, i. e., 1911–12 and 1913-14. The Federal department merely brings together and prints the reports of the inspectors of each of the cantons, and no general summary is presented. Save for annual conferences with the department of commerce and industry the cantonal inspectors work quite independently of the federal inspection service, which consists primarily of functional inspectors who perform specialized duties and who refer all general matters of inspection to the inspectors of the different cantons. For further information on factory inspection in Switzerland reference may be made to Bulletin 142 of this bureau. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS OF FOREIGN LABOR DEPARTMENTS AND BUREAUS. In the pages following the various periodical publications issued by the foreign departments and bureaus of labor are listed and the table of contents given. This list includes all the periodical publications received during July and the first week of August, 1915. Some countries, it will be noticed, are not represented by any publication. Since the beginning of the European war most of these publications have been somewhat irregular in their appearance, and in certain cases it will be noticed that the issues of several months have been postponed or consolidated. Argentina. Departamento Nacional. Boletin del Trabajo. Buenos Aires. No. 29-Dec. 31, 1914.-Reports from the department: Reports from the division of inspection; Spread of labor legislation; Collaboration by the workmen in inspection, etc.; Industrial establishments; Infractions of the law and prosecutions; Sunday rest; Application of the labor law; The cooperative kitchens; Home labor; Grain elevators; Caisson workers; Emigrant agencies; Agricultural laborers; Labor conditions in Upper Parana. Quarry workers. Oil prospecting. Free courts for laborers. Employment agencies. Division of statistics: Strikes and lockouts. Home labor in the Federal capital. Unemployment. Accident prevention during 1913. Division of legislation. Canada.-Department of Labor. The Labor Gazette. Ottawa. July, 1915.-Industrial and labor conditions during June, 1915. Special articles on-The industrial disputes investigation act, 1907; Wholesale prices in Canada during 1914; Annual convention of the Canadian Manufacturers Association; Labor disputes in Germany, 1914; New York State Industrial Commission; Statement of dispute between the Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. of Levis, Quebec, and its employees. Statistical returns on Wholesale and retail prices, June, 1915; Trade disputes and industrial accidents during June, 1915; Emigration and colonization; Building permits during June. Reports of departments and bureaus. Recent legal decisions affecting labor. Denmark.—Statistiske Efterretninger, udgivet af det Statistiske Departement. Copenhagen. June 14, 1915.-Special census of farm animals, May 15, 1915. June 30, 1915.-Hotels, restaurants, and public houses, 1914. Retail prices, June 1, 1915. Imports and exports of flour, grain, etc., 1914. Deaths by accidents, 1914. Divorces, 1914. Population of Sweden and Norway, July 12, 1915. The crop outlook, July 7, 1915. Imports of products from eastern markets, 1914. Population of Denmark, July 1, 1915. Index numbers of the Economist. Finland.-Industristyrelsen. Arbetsstatistisk Tidsrift. Helsingfors. No. 3, 1915.-Activities of the employment offices, 1914. Maximum prices of food products and of clothing and leather products fixed by Government order. Finnish employers' association, 1914. Reports from foreign countries. Retail prices, first quarter, 1915. France. Bulletin du Ministère du Travail et de la Prévoyance Sociale. Paris. January, February, March, April, 1915.-(Single issue for four months.) Social movement: France: Inquiry concerning industrial and commercial activities, August, 1914, to January, 1915; Mine labor, December, 1914, to February, 1915; Strikes from January to April, 1915; Unemployment in France during the first seven months of 1914; Report of the national unemployment fund, 1914; Free public employment offices, 1914; Economic situation expressed in index numbers, third quarter, 1914; Reports of operations on the old age retirement laws for industrial and agricultural laborers; Trade associations, January 1, 1914; Promotion of cooperative societies; Providing wages and normal hours of labor in the building trades in Paris, in 1913. International: Strikes and lockouts during 1912 and 1913. Foreign countries: Review of labor conditions in Germany; Cost of living in Berlin, December, 1914, to January, 1915; Measures adopted to combat unemployment in Germany; Unemployment in trade unions in Austria, May to November, 1914; Cost of living in Vienna, January, 1915; Austrian census of occupations, 1910 (preliminary figures); Reports of labor conditions in Great Britain, strikes and lockouts, January to February, 1915; Wages, cost of living, and employment exchanges, 1914; Labor conditions in Italy during the last six months of 1914; Conditions of labor in the Netherlands, 1914; Legislation in Portugal concerning hours of labor in the employment of children; Public employment offices in Sweden, 1902-1912. Miscellaneous: Reports from the industrial courts (Conseils de Prud'hommes), fourth quarter, 1914; Export trade of France, 1913-1914, first three months of 1915; Production of sugar and alcohol; Current prices, January to March, 1915; and prices of bread. Laws, decrees, orders, circulars relative to industrial accidents, labor contracts, wages, public employees, subsidies to mutual benefit societies, housing of workingmen, trade unions, etc. Germany. Reichs-Arbeitsblatt, Herausgegeben vom Kaiserlichen Statistischen Amte, Abteilung für Arbeiterstatistik. Berlin. June, 1915.-Labor market in Germany, May, 1915. Conditions in Berlin, May, 1915. Labor markets in foreign countries (Great Britain, Netherlands, Switzerland, and British colonies). Legislation: Prussian law on noncommercial employment exchanges. Employment offices and unemployment. War measures: Measures taken in France to combat unemployment; Maternity benefits. Labor conditions: Membership and wage statistics in the Magdeburg sickness insurance fund; Limitations upon attachment of wages. Social insurance: Results of German accident insurance during 1913; Sickness insurance reports from the miners' funds, 1913. Labor market statistics. Great Britain.-The Board of Trade Labor Gazette. London. June, 1915.-Employment chart. The labor market in May. Special articles on Employment in Germany in April; Retail food prices in the United Kingdom at 1st June; Food prices in Berlin in April; Retail food prices in Vienna in April; Rise in cost of living in Sweden; Regulation of food prices in Spain; Organization in coal mines to increase output; Changes in wages of agricultural laborers; Labor disputes in Germany. Conciliation and arbitration cases. Government work: committee on production. Reports on employment in the principal industries. Labor in the Dominions and in foreign countries. Board of trade labor exchanges. Statistical tables: Prices of bread, wheat, and flour; Trade disputes; Changes in rates of wages; Sliding scale changes in wages; Women's employment bureaus; Unemployment insurance; Diseases of occupations; Fatal industrial accidents; Pauperism; Foreign trade; Cooperative wholesale societies, quarterly sales; Distress committees; Passenger movement to and from the United Kingdom; Immigration to and emigration 4418°-15-6 |