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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
B U R E A U OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
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Bulletins and Articles Published
by Bureau o f Labor Statistics




A Selected List of References

Compiled by
ELIZABETH A. JOHNSON
of the

Bureau of Labor Statistics

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: I have the honor to transmit herewith a
selected list of references to bulletins and articles published by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
This list has been compiled as a means of ready reference to the
material contained in the publications of the Bureau, and especially to
render accessible the recent articles published in the Monthly Labor
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Bureau o f Labor Statistics
Number 614

WASHINGTON

June 1935

Bulletins and Articles Published by Bureau of
Labor Statistics: A Selected List of References

The references given on the following pages do nob constitute a
complete catalog of publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
but, as noted in the title above, are a selected list. A list of the
Bureau’s bulletins published since July 1912, classified by subject,
is available in a printed leaflet, and a chronological list of all its
publications is given in the list of publications of the Department
of Labor. A detailed index to the material carried in the Monthly
Labor Review is published for each volume (6 numbers).
The Bureau has a limited number of its bulletins for distribution
and as long as the supply lasts they are furnished free upon request.
This also applies to single copies of the Monthly Labor Review, but
regular distribution of the Review is on a subscription basis, the sub­
scriptions being handled by the Superintendent of Documents,
Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. The free-distribution supply of some of the publications noted in this list is exhausted
(indicated by an asterisk), but most if not all of them can be pur­
chased at a nominal charge from the Superintendent of Documents,
or consulted in local libraries, many of which are depositories for
publications of the Federal Government.
The letters M. L. R. indicate the Monthly Labor Review.
Child Labor

Child labor in the United States, 1933, as reflected by employment certificates
issued. Prepared by United States Children’s Bureau. (M. L. R., Dec.
1934—reprint.)

Since the creation of the Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, all original
investigations of matters pertaining to child labor in the United States, conducted by the Depart­
ment of Labor, have been made by that bureau, which will be glad to furnish lists of publications
request.
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PUBLICATIONS OF BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Collective Bargaining and Agreements

♦ Collective bargaining in the anthracite coal industry. (Bui. 191, 1916.)
♦ Collective agreements in the men’s clothing industry. (Bui. 198, 1916.)
♦ Collective bargaining by actors. (Bui. 402, 1926.)
Trade agreement in the silk-ribbon industry of New York City. (Bui. 341,
1923.)
Trade agreements, 1927. (Bui. 468.)
Selection of employees’ representatives. (M. L. R., Jan. 1935—reprint.)
Employee elections conducted by National Labor Relations Board. (M. L. R.„
May 1935.)
Conciliation and Arbitration

Monthly reports on the conciliation work of the United States Department of
Labor are published in each issue of the Monthly Labor Review.
History of the Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board, 1917-1919. (Bui. 283.)
National War Labor Board: History of its formation and activities, etc. (Bui.
287, 1921.)
Analysis of labor provisions of the Transportation Act. (M. L. R., Apr. 1920.)
♦ Use of Federal power in settlement of railway labor disputes. (Bui. 303, 1922.)
Results of arbitration proceedings under Railroad Labor Act of 1926. (M. L. R.,
Oct. 1927.)
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations. (Bui. 322, 1923.)
Industrial council in the electrical construction industry. (M. L. R., Aug. 1923.)
♦ Joint industrial control in the book and job printing industry. (Bui. 481, 1928.)
Results of arbitration cases involving wages and hours, 1865-1929. (M. L. R.,
Nov. 1929.)
Arbitration in the dress industry in New York City. (M. L. R., Dec. 1931—
reprint.)
Operation of Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of Canada. (Bui. 233,
1918.)
♦ Joint industrial councils in Great Britain. (Bui. 255, 1919.)
Cooperative M ovement

♦ Cooperative credit societies (credit unions) in America and in foreign countries.
(Bui. 314, 1922.)
Consumers’, credit, and productive cooperative societies, 1929. (Bui. 531.)
Operations of cooperative credit societies in 1933. (M. L. R., Sept. 1934—
reprint.)
Operations of local consumers’ cooperative societies in 1933. (M. L. R., Nov.
1934.)
Operations of cooperative productive enterprises, 1933. (M. L. R., Feb. 1935.)
Activities of cooperative housing societies, 1933. (M. L. R., Apr. 1935.)
The cooperative movement—a selected bibliography. (M. L. R., Sept. 1930.)
Development of cooperative movement throughout the world. (M. L. R., Dec.
1933.)
♦ Cooperative burial associations in the North Central States. (M. L. R., Oct.
1931.)
Directory of consumers’ cooperative associations in the United States. (Mimeo­
graphed, 1934.)
Organization and management of consumers’ cooperative associations and clubs
(with model bylaws). (Bui. 598, 1934.)




SELECTED LIST OF REFERENCES

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Organization and management of cooperative gasoline and oil associations (with
model bylaws). (Bui. 606, 1934.)
Organization and management of cooperative housing associations (with model
bylaws). (Bui. 608, 1934.)
Employment and Unemployment

Trend of employment: A monthly report, issued in printed pamphlet form,
showing trend of industrial employment and pay rolls by industry, State,
and city; employment in the executive departments of the Federal Govern­
ment; and employment created by various public works projects. Also
contains data on average hourly and weekly earnings and wage-rate changes.
Summary data on employment in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing
industries are issued in a press release in advance of the printed report.
The monthly reports are also carried in the Monthly Labor Review.
Revised indexes of factory employment and pay rolls, 1919-1933. (Bui. 610.)
Employment created during one year (August 1933-July 1934) by public works.
(M. L. R., Oct, 1934.)
First year’s work of United States Employment Service (July 1, 1933-June 30,
1934). (M. L. R., Oct. 1934—reprint.)
Monthly reports on the work of the United States Employment Service are carried in the Monthly Labor
Review.

Employment, hours, earnings, and production, January 1933 to January 1935.
(M. L. R., Mar. 1935—reprint.)
Unemployment surveys in specified localities:
♦ Baltimore, Md., February 1930. (M. L. R., Apr. 1930—reprint.)
Bloomington, Ind., February 1930. (M. L. R., July 1930.)
Bridgeport, Conn., 1934. (M. L. R., Mar. 1935—reprint.)
♦ Buffalo, N. Y., November 1933. (M. L. R., Mar. 1934.)
*Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1934. (M. L. R., Sept. 1934.)
Columbus, Ohio, 1921-1925. (Bui. *409; summary, M. L. R., July 1926.)
♦ Kansas, 1930-1934. (M. L. R., Sept. 1934.)
Lancaster, Pa., 1934. (M. L. R., May 1935—reprint.)
♦ Lincoln, Nebr., 1933. (M. L. R., Sept. 1934.)
Louisville, Ky., March-May 1933. (M. L. R., May 1934.)
Massachusetts, January 1934. (M. L. R., Dec. 1934 and Apr. 1935.)
Philadelphia and Allegheny counties, Pa., February 1934. (M. L. R.,
Oct. 1934.)
Springfield, Ohio, 1934. (M. L. R., Apr. 1935.)
♦ Syracuse, N. Y., November 1931. (M. L. R., Apr. 1932.)
♦ Family unemployment in Buffalo, N. Y., November 1931. (M. L. R., May
1932.)
Family unemployment in Syracuse, N. Y., November 1931. (M. L. R., June
1932—reprint.)
Unemployment as a cause of family dependency. (M. L. R., Dec. 1929—
reprint.)
Unemployment survey of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (M. L. R., Mar.
1931—reprint.)
Social and economic character of unemployment in Philadelphia, April 1930.
(Bui. *555; summary, M. L. R., July 1930.)
Fluctuation of employment in Ohio, 1914-1929. (Bui. 553.)
Fluctuation of employment in Ohio in 1933 and comparison with previous
years. (M. L. R., Feb. 1935.)




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PUBLICATIONS OF BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Fluctuation of employment in automobile manufacturing and related indus­
tries in Ohio, 1923-1928. (M. L. R., July 1930.)
Fluctuation of employment in mining and quarrying in Ohio, 1914^-1929.
(M. L. R., Aug. 1930.)
♦ Causes of seasonal fluctuations in construction industry. (M. L. R., Sept.
1931—reprint.)
♦ Employment in the construction of an apartment house, 1931-32. (M. L. R.,
Oct. 1932.)
Decrease in railroad employment. (M. L. R., Jan. 1931—reprint.)
Stability of railroad employment. (M. L. R., Aug. 1928.)
Stability of employment in the men’s clothing industry. (M. L. R., Jan.
1929—reprint.)
Report of Advisory Committee on Employment Statistics. (Bui. 542, 1931.)
Laws relating to employment agencies in the United States, as of January 1,
1933. (Bui. 581.)
Laws relating to employment agencies in the United States enacted in 1933.
(Pamphlet.)
Public employment services. (M. L. R., Jan. 1931—reprint.)
The work of European labor exchanges. (M. L. R., Dec. 1928—reprint.)
Measures to combat unemployment in Europe. (M. L. R., Apr. 1928—
reprint.)
Proceedings of International Association of Public Employment Services.
Some of the proceedings of this association have been published in bulletin form by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the latest bulletin (No. 538) containing the proceedings of the seventeenth and eighteenth
meetings, held in 1929 and 1930, respectively.
Effects of technological changes upon employment. (See Productivity of labor

and technological unemployment.)

Five-Day Week

♦ Five-day week and other proposals for a shorter work week : A list of references.
(M. L. R., Feb. 1931—reprint.)
Extent of five-day week in American industry in 1932. (M . L. R., Nov. 1932—
reprint.)
Housing and Construction Activities

Building construction: Data on building permits issued in principal cities of the
United States are collected by the Bureau and published monthly in a printed
pamphlet, preceded by a press release giving summary figures. The data
show number and estimated cost of all kinds of new construction projects,
and of alterations and repairs to existing buildings, the number of families
provided for in new dwellings, and the value of contracts awarded for all
construction projects financed from Federal funds. Some of this material
is also published in the Monthly Labor Review. The latest detailed report
on building permits published by the Bureau in bulletin form (No. 545)
covered 1930, with comparative data for each year back to 1921.
Trend toward apartment-house living in American cities, 1927. (M. L. R.,
June 1928.)
♦ Causes of seasonal fluctuations in the construction industry. (M. L. R., Sept.
1931—reprint.)
Relative cost of material and labor in building construction, 1931-32. (M. L. R.,
Oct. 1932—reprint.)
Relative cost of material and labor in construction of water and sewerage systems,
(M. L. R., Jan. 1935—reprint.)




SELECTED LIST OF REFERENCES

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Relation of repairs to total building construction, 1921-1932. (M. L. R.,
May 1933.)
♦ Employment in the construction of an apartment house, 1931-32. (M. L. R.,
Oct. 1932.)
Elapsed time in building construction, 1929 and 1931. (M. L. R., Jan. 1933—
reprint.)
Extent of housing construction in comparison with increase in number of fami­
lies, 1930-1932. (M. L. R., July 1933.)
Trend of building construction in groups of cities of classified size, 1921-1932.
(M. L. R., July 1933.)
Housing by employers in the United States. (Bui. 263, 1920.)
Housing activities of labor groups. (M. L. R., Aug. 1928—reprint; chap. VII
of Bui. *465, Beneficial activities of American trade-unions.)
Labor and the Tennessee Valley experiment (including information on housing).
(M. L. R., June 1934.)
Federal aid to housing in the United States. (M. L. R., Nov. 1934.)
♦ Recent developments in subsistence-homesteads movement. (M. L. R., Feb.
1934.)
Subsistence homesteads for industrial and rural workers at end of 1934. (M. L. R.,
Jan. 1935—reprint.)
Housing situation in Philadelphia, 1934. (M. L. R., Apr. 1935.)
Housing conditions in American cities. (M. L. R., Mar. 1935.)
Activities of cooperative housing societies, 1933. (M. L. R., Apr. 1935.)
Organization and management of cooperative housing associations (with model
bylaws). (Bui. 608, 1934.)
♦ Government aid to home owning and housing of working people in foreign coun­
tries. (Bui. 158, 1914.)
Industrial Accidents and Accident Prevention

Statistics of industrial accidents in the United States to the end of 1927. (Bui.
490.)
Industrial injuries in the United States, 1917-1932. (M. L. R., May 1934—
reprint.)
Accidents in manufacturing industries, 1926-1932. (M. L. R., Dec. 1933—
reprint.)
Accident experience in the iron and steel industry to the end of 1932. (M. L.
R., Sept. 1933—reprint.)
♦ Accidents to telegraph messengers, 1931. (M. L. R., Jan. 1934.)
Accident experience of Government employees, 1921-1932. (M. L. R., Mar.
1934—reprint.)
Industrial accidents to employed* minors in California, 1932. (M. L. R.,
Nov. 1934—reprint.)
Causes and prevention of accidents in the iron and steel industry, 1910-1919.
(Bui. 298.)
♦ Accidents and accident prevention in machine building. (Bui. 256, 1919.)
Settlements for accidents to American seamen. (Bui. 466, 1928; summary,
M. L. R., June 1928—reprint.)
Cost of industrial accidents to the State, the employer, and the man. (M. L.
R., Nov. 1930—reprint.)
Proceedings of Industrial Accident Prevention Conference, held at Washington,
D. C., July 14-16, 1926. (Bui. 428; summary, M. L. R., Aug. 1926.)
Causes of death, by occupation. (Bui. 507, 1930.)
Standardization of industrial accident statistics. (Bui. 276, 1920.)
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PUBLICATIONS OF BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Minimum standards for the safet}T and health of workers in manufacturing
industries. (Pamphlet, 1934.)
Safety and health standards for mercantile establishments. (M. L. R.,
Dec. 1934.)
Status of industrial safety codes and regulations in the various States. (M. L.
R., Nov. 1933—reprint.)
Safety specifications in New York building construction. (M. L. R., May
1929—reprint.)
Many articles on industrial accidents and accident prevention appear in the
annual proceedings of the International Association of Industrial Accident
Boards and Commissions and of the Association of Governmental Officials
in Industry of the United States and Canada. These proceedings have been
published in bulletin form by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Safety Codes

♦ Safety code for the protection of industrial workers in foundries. (Bui. 336,
1923.)
A revision of this code has been published by the American Standards Association.

Rules governing the approval of headlighting devices for motor vehicles. (Bui
350, 1924.)
♦ Safety code for the construction, care, and use of ladders. (Bui. 351, 1923.;
A revision of this code is in process of publication by the American Standards Association.

Safety code for laundry machinery and operations. (Bui. 375, 1924.)
*Code of lighting school buildings. (Bui. 382, 1928.)
A revision of this code has been published by the American Standards Association.

Safety code for paper and pulp mills. (Bui. 410, 1926.)
*Safety code for power presses and foot and hand presses. (Bui. 430, 1926.)
Safety code for rubber mills and calenders. (Bui. 447, 1927.)
Safety code for forging and hot-metal stamping. (Bui. 451, 1927.)
Safety code for mechanical power-transmission apparatus—first revision. (Bui.
463, 1928.)
Textile safety code. (Bui. 509, 1929.)
Code for identification of gas-mask canisters. (Bui. 512, 1930.)
Safety code for woodworking plants, as revised 1930. (Bui. 519.)
Safety code for the use, care, and protection of abrasive wheels, as revised 1930.
(Bui. 527.)
Code of lighting: Factories, mills, and other work places, as revised 1930.
(Bui. 556.)
Safety codes for the prevention of dust explosions. (Bui. 562, 1931.)
Industrial Disputes

A monthly report on industrial disputes in the United States is published in each
issue of the Monthly Labor Review. A report covering the calendar year
is also carried in the Review, the one for 1934 being in the May 1935 issue.
Review of industrial disputes in the United States from 1919 to 1933. (M. L. R.,
July 1934—reprint.)
Injunctions in labor disputes: Select list of references. (M. L. R., Sept. 1928—
reprint.)
Anti-injunction laws in labor disputes. (M. L. R., July 1932—reprint.)
Jurisdictional disputes. (M. L. R., Nov. 1925—reprint.)




SELECTED LIST OF REFERENCES

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Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases
Occupation hazards and diagnostic signs: A guide to impairments to be looked
for in hazardous occupations. (Bui. 582, 1933.)
Causes of death, by occupation. (Bui. 507, 1930.)
Discussions of industrial accidents and diseases at the 1933 meeting of the
International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions,
Chicago, 111. (Bui. 602.)
Occupational-disease legislation in the United States. (M. L. R .f June 1934—
reprint.)
Occupational diseases: Definition, cause, prevalence, and prevention. (M. L. R.,
July 1929— reprint.)
Minimum standards for the safety and health of workers in manufacturing
industries. (Pamphlet, 1934.)
*Lead poisoning in potteries, tile works, and porcelain-enameled sanitary ware
factories. (Bui. 104, 1912.)
*Lead poisoning in the smelting and refining of lead. (Bui. 141, 1914.)
♦Lead poisoning in the manufacture of storage batteries. (Bui. 165, 1914.)
A new test for industrial lead poisoning. (Bui. 460, 1928.)
Deaths from lead poisoning, 1925-27. (Bui. 488.)
Hygiene of the painter’s trade. (Bui. 120, 1913.)
Spray-painting practices and hazards. (M. L. R., May 1929— reprint.)
♦Industrial poisons used in the rubber industry. (Bui. 179, 1915.)
industrial poisons used or produced in the manufacture of explosives. (Bui. 219,
1917.)
industrial poisoning in making coal-tar dyes and dye intermediates. (Bui. 280,
1921.)
♦Carbon-monoxide poisoning. (Bui. 291, 1921.)
Radium poisoning. (M. L. R., June 1929— reprint.)
Final report on benzol poisoning by National Safety Council committee. (M.
L.R., Sept. 1926.)
Survey of hygienic conditions in the printing trades. (Bui. 392, 1925.)
Health survey of the printing trades, 1922 to 1925. (Bui. 427.)
♦Mortality from respiratory diseases in dusty trades (inorganic dusts). (Bui.
231, 1918.)
The problem of dust phthisis in the granite-stone industry. (Bui. 293, 1922.)
♦Effects of the air hammer on the hands of stonecutters. (Bui. 236, 1918.)
♦Preventable death in the cotton-manufacturing industry. (Bui. 251, 1919.)
Anthrax as an occupational disease. (Bui. 267, 1920.)
Phosphorus necrosis in the manufacture of fireworks and in the preparation of
phosphorus. (Bui. 405, 1926.)
Mule spinner’s cancer. (M. L. R., Sept. 1928— reprint.)
Duration of wage earners’ disabilities. (M. L. R., Mar. 1920— reprint.)
Health of the workers. (M. L. R., Jan. 1925— reprint.)
Health of working boys in New York City. (M. L. R., July 1927— reprint.)
General health work of labor organizations. (M. L. R., Dec. 1928— reprint;
also in Bui. *465, Beneficial activities of American trade-unions.)
Work environment as a factor in the general health of workers. (M. L. R.,
Jan. 1932.)
Proposed outline of industrial medical course for medical schools (including
list of references on industrial hygiene). (M. L. R., Nov. 1930— reprint.)




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PUBLICATIONS OF BUBEAU OF LABOB STATISTICS

Industrial Relations and Labor Conditions
*Industrial relations in the West Coast lumber industry. (Bui. 349, 1923.)
*Labor relations in the Fairmont (W. Va.) bituminous-coal field. (Bui. 361,
1924.)
Labor conditions in the shoe industry in Massachusetts, 1920-1924. (Bui. 384.)
Labor relations in the lace and lace-curtain industries in the United States.
(Bui. 399, 1925.)
Conditions in the shoe industry in Haverhill, Mass., 1928. (Bui. 483.)
Labor conditions in the Territory of Hawaii, 1929-30. (Bui. 534.)
Cargo handling and longshore labor conditions. (Bui. 550, 1932; summary,
M. L. R., Oct. and Nov. 1930— reprint; Feb. 1931.)
Labor through the century 1833-1933. (Bui. 605.)
National economic councils: A list of references. (M. L. R., May 1931— re­
print.)
Labor in the shirt industry, 1933. (M. L. R., Sept. 1933— reprint.)
Labor conditions in sugar-beet fields, and suggested remedies. (M. L. R., July
1934— reprint.)
Labor conditions in the onion fields of Ohio. (M. L. R., Feb. 1935— reprint.)
Industrial homework, 1934. (M. L. R., Apr. 1935.)
♦Chinese migrations, with special reference to labor conditions. (Bui. 340, 1923.)
Postwar labor conditions in Germany. (Bui. 380, 1925.)
Works council movement in Germany. (Bui. 383, 1925.)
Labor conditions of women and children in Japan. (Bui. 558, 1931.)

International Labor Organization
The work of the International Labor Organization. (M. L. R., May 1927—
reprint.)
International Labor Office. (M. L. R., Jan. 1932— reprint.)
International labor conventions. (M. L. R., Apr. 1934— reprint.)
Report of United States delegation at the International Labor Conference,
Geneva, June 1933. (M. L. R., Dec. 1933.)
Report of United States delegation at the International Labor Conference,
June 1934. (M. L. R., Sept. 1934— reprint.)

Labor Legislation (Other Than Workmen’s Compensation)
Labor laws of the United States.

(Bui. 370.)

Basic volume containing all legislation up to and including 1924.
Labor laws of the United States, 1925 to 1932. (Buis. *403, *434, 470, 486, 528,
*552, 590.)
Labor legislation enacted in 1933. (M. L. R., Mar. 1934— reprint.)
Labor legislation enacted in 1934. (M. L. R., Dec. 1934— reprint.)
Labor legislation enacted by Seventy-third Congress. (M. L. R., Aug. 1934—
reprint.)
Decisions of courts and opinions affecting labor, 1931 and 1932 (with a cumula­
tive index to all previous volumes). (Bui. 592.)
*Labor laws that have been declared unconstitutional. (Bui. 321, 1922.)
Proceedings of National Conference for Labor Legislation, held at Washington,
D. C., February 14 and 15, 1934. (Bui. 583.)
♦Comparative digest of labor legislation for States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, Tennessee. (Bui. 603, 1933.)




SELECTED LIST OF REFERENCES
Federal legislation concerning railroad employees.
reprint.)

9

(M. L. R., Apr. 1929—

For later legislation regarding railroad employees, see Labor legislation enacted by Seventythird Congress (M. L. R., Aug. 1934.)
Laws relating to employment agencies in the United States, as of January 1,
1933. (Bui. 581.)
Laws relating to employment agencies in the United States enacted in 1933.
(Pamphlet.)
Laws relating to prison labor in the United States, as of July 1, 1933. (Bui. 596.)
Laws relating to prison labor in the United States enacted in 1933 and 1934.
(M. L. R., Nov. 1934— reprint.)
Anti-injunction laws in labor disputes. (M. L. R., July 1932— reprint.)
Laws regulating hours of labor of motor-bus drivers, as of January 1, 1933.
(M. L. R., Jan. 1933— reprint.)
Legal restrictions on hours of labor of men in the United States, as of January 1,
1934. (M. L. R., April 1934— reprint.)
Legislation regulating rates of wages of employees on public works, as of Feb­
ruary 1, 1932. (M. L. R., Feb. 1932— reprint.)
Prevailing wage rate laws. (Published as Senate Doc. 27, 74th Cong., 1st sess.,
1935. )
Labor legislation of Uruguay. (Bui. 494, 1929.)
Labor legislation of Argentina. (Bui. 510, 1930.)
Labor legislation of Venezuela. (Bui. 549, 1931.)
Labor legislation of Paraguay. (Bui. 554, 1931.)
Labor legislation of Ecuador. (Bui. 559, 1931.)
Labor legislation of Mexico. (Bui. 569, 1932.)
Many articles of interest on labor legislation appear in the annual proceedings
of the Association of Governmental Officials in Industry of the United
States and Canada. These proceedings have been published in bulletin
form by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(See also Minimum wage, Old-age pensions, etc.)

Labor Offices and Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics: Its history, activities, and organization. (Bui.
319, 1922.)
* Methods of procuring and computing statistical information of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. (Bui. 326, 1923.)
Activities and functions of a State department of labor. (Bui. 479, 1928.)
Personnel research agencies, 1930 edition. (Bui. 518.)
What are labor statistics for? (Bui. 599, 1933.)
♦Handbook of labor statistics, 1931 edition. (Bui. 541.)

In this Handbook were brought together in summary form all of the original studies made by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics since the preparation of the previous (1929) edition of the Handbook, with summaries
of the more important material on labor subjects published by other government offices and by private
agencies.
Labor offices in the United States and in Canada. (M. L. R., Aug. 1935—
reprint.)
History of Association of Governmental Officials in Industry. (M. L. R., Oct.
1929— reprint.)

Labor Organizations
♦Handbook of American trade unions, 1929 edition. (Bui. 506.)
Historical review of trade-union incorporation. (M. L. R., Jan. 1935— reprint.)




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PUBLICATIONS OF BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Trade-union organization and membership in United States, 1934. (M. L. R.,
Feb. 1935— reprint.)
’•‘International Seamen’s Union of America: A study of its history and problems.
(Bui. 342, 1923.)
Beneficial activities of American trade unions. (Bui. *465, 1928; summary,
M. L. R., Jan. 1929— reprint.)
Recreational activities of labor organizations. (M. L. R., May 1928— reprint;
chap. VI of Bui. *465.)
Housing activities of labor groups. (M. L. R., Aug. 1928— reprint; chap. VII
of Bui. *465.)
Labor organizations in Chile. (Bui. 461, 1928.)

Labor Turn-Over
Monthly labor turn-over rates for a number of industries are published in each
issue of the Monthly Labor Review.
Special studies for individual industries:
Automobile, 1931 and 1932. (M. L. R., June 1933.)
*Boot and shoe, 1931 and 1932. (M. L. R., Oct. 1933.)
Cotton manufacturing, 1931 and 1932. (M. L. R., Nov. 1933.)
♦Foundries and machine shops, 1931 and 1932. (M. L. R., Feb. 1934.)
Furniture, 1932 and 1933. (M. L. R., Aug. 1934.)
Iron and steel, 1932 and 1933. (M. L. R., June 1934.)
Men’s clothing, 1932 and 1933. (M. L. R., Mar. 1935.)
Sawmill, 1933 and 1934. (M. L. R., May 1935.)
Slaughtering and meat packing, 1932 and 1933. (M. L. R., Nov. 1934.)
Labor turn-over in American factories, 1933. (M. L. R., Mar. 1934.)
A standard procedure for compiling labor turn-over statistics. (M. L. R.,
Dec. 1931— reprint.)
Hiring and separation methods in American factories. (M. L. R., Nov. 1932—
reprint.)
Labor turn-over: A selected bibliography. (M. L. R., Apr. 1927— reprint.)

Legal Aid
Growth of legal-aid work in the United States.

(Bui. 398, 1926.)

Minimum Wage
Minimum-wage legislation in various countries. (Bui. 467, 1928.)
Minimum-wage legislation in the United States. (M. L. R., Dec. 1933— reprint.)
Interstate compact for establishing uniform minimum wage. (M. L. R., July
1934— reprint.)

National Recovery Administration
Summaries of the labor provisions of the N. R. A. codes have been published
in the Monthly Labor Review, beginning with the September 1933 issue,
and reprinted in pamphlet form. Other developments under the ‘ ‘ recovery”
program are also followed in each issue of the Review.
Analysis of labor provisions of N. R. A. codes. (M. L. R., Mar. 1935— reprint.)
Employment, hours, earnings, and production, January 1933 to January 1935.
(M. L. R., Mar. 1935— reprint.)




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11

Negro in Industry
The Negro: A selected bibliography. (M. L. R., Jan. 1926— reprint.)
Housing of Negroes in Washington, D. C. (M. L. R., May 1930.)
The Negro in the industrial depression. (M. L. R., June 1931— reprint.)

Occupations and Occupational Changes
Occupational changes since 1850, as shown by census reports. (M. L. R., Nov.
1933— reprint.)
Shifting of occupations among industrial-insurance policyholders. (M. L. R.,
Apr. 1924— reprint.)
Occupations of gainful workers on urban relief. (M. L. R., May 1935.)
The “ white-collar workers.” (M. L. R., Mar. 1934— reprint.)

Old-Age Care, Insurance, and Pensions
Public old-age pensions and insurance in United States and foreign countries.
(Bui. 561, 1932.)
Public old-age pension legislation in the United States, as of June 1, 1934.
(M. L. R., June 1934.)
Experience under State old-age pension acts, 1933. (M. L. R., Aug. 1934.)
Public old-age pensions in the United States: References, 1929-1931. (M. L.
R., Mar. 1932— reprint.)
♦Extent and distribution of old-age dependency in the United States. (M. L. R.,
Jan. 1934.)
♦Occupational distribution of old-age pensioners in New York. (M. L. R.,
Feb. 1933.)
Industrial pensions for old age and disability. (M. L. R., Jan. 1926— reprint.)
♦Care of aged persons in the United States. (Bui. 489, 1929.)
Homes for the aged, operated by fraternal organizations. (M. L. R., Mar.
1929— reprint (under title “ Care of the aged in the United States” ); also
in Bui. *489.)
Homes for the aged, maintained by religious organizations. (M. L. R., Mar.
1929— reprint (under title “ Care of the aged in the United States” );
also in Bui. *489.)
Old people’s homes maintained by various nationality groups. (M. L. R.,
Apr. 1929; also in Bui. *489.)
Private benevolent homes for the aged. (M. L. R., Apr. 1929; also in Bui.
*489.)
Old people’s homes for certain occupational groups. (M. L. R., Sept. 1929.)
Homes for aged colored persons. (M. L. R., Aug. 1929.)
Administration and conditions of old people’s homes. (M. L. R., July 1929;
also in Bui. *489.)
Problem of idleness in old people’s homes. (M. L. R., Dec. 1929— reprint.)
Directory of homes for the aged in the United States. (Bui. 505, 1929.)
Church pension and relief plans for ministers. (M. L. R., May 1929; also in
Bui. *489.)
Trade-union provision for sick, aged, and disabled members, and for dependents.
(M. L. R., Jan. 1928— reprint; also in Bui. *465, Beneficial activities of
American trade unions.)
Trade-union old-age pensions and homes for the aged and tubercular. (M. L.
R., Feb. 1928; also in Bui. *465.)
♦Cost of American almshouses. (Bui. 386, 1925.)




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Older Worker in Industry
The older worker in industry: List of references. (M. L. R., July 1929—
reprint.)
Age and employability. (Reprint from Bui. 530, Association of Governmental
Officials in Industry, seventeenth annual convention, 1930.)
Age distribution of workers in a small group of establishments. (M. L. R.,
Nov. 1929.)
Age limit for hiring. (In “ Hiring and separation methods in American facto­
ries” , M. L. R., Nov. 1932.)
*Age limits in industry in Maryland and California. (M. L. R., Feb. 1931.)
♦Employment of older persons in Springfield, Mass., department stores. (M. L.
R., Oct. 1932.)

Prison Labor

Prison labor in the United States, 1932. (Bui. 595; summary, M. L. R., July
1933— reprint.)
Laws relating to prison labor in the United States, as of July 1, 1933. (Bui.
596.)
Laws relating to prison labor in the United States enacted in 1933 and 1934.
(M. L. R., Nov. 1934— reprint.)

Productivity of Labor and Technological Unemployment
Digest of material on technological changes, productivity of labor, and labor
displacement. (M. L. R., Nov. 1932— reprint.)
♦Productivity of labor in 11 manufacturing industries. (M. L. R., Mar. 1930—
reprint.)
Significance of nonmechanical factors in labor productivity and displacement.
(M. L. R., Nov. 1933.)
♦Hand and machine labor. (Thirteenth annual report of United States Commis­
sioner of Labor, 1898.)
♦Growth in use of power equipment in the United States, 1849 to 1923. (M. L.
R., July 1928.)
Employment, hours, earnings, and production, January 1933 to January 1935.
(M. L. R., Mar. 1935— reprint.)
Mechanization of agriculture as a factor in labor displacement. (M. L. R.,
Oct. 1931— reprint.)
Progress and limitations of farm mechanization in the United States. (M. L. R.,
Mar. 1933.)
Effects of technological changes upon employment in the amusement industry.
(M. L. R., Aug. 1931— reprint.)
Effects of technological changes upon employment in the motion-picture
, theaters of Washington, D. C. (M. L. R., Nov. 1931— reprint.)
Labor productivity in the automobile-tire industry. (BuL 585, 1933; summary,
M. L. R., Dec. 1932.)
Bread making in the modern bakery. (M. L. R., Dec. 1923.)
Productivity of labor in merchant blast furnaces. (Bui. 474, 1928; summary,
M. L. R., Dec. 1928— reprint.)
Productivity costs in the common-brick industry. (Bui. 356, 1924.)
Labor productivity and costs in certain building trades. (M. L. R., Nov. 1924.)
Cargo handling and longshore labor conditions. (Bui. 550, 1932; summary,
M. L. R., *Feb. 1931.)




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13

Technological changes in the cigar industry and their effects on labor. (M. L.
R., Dec. 1931— reprint.)
An analysis of coal-mine labor productivity. (M. L. R., Dec. 1930— reprint.)
Employment in relation to mechanization in the bituminous-coal industry.
(M. L. R., Feb. 1933— reprint.)
Technological changes and employment in the electrio-lamp industry. (Bui.
593, 1933; summary, M. L. R., June 1933.)
Productivity of labor in the glass industry. (Bui. 441, 1927; summary, M. L.
R., Apr. 1927.)
Labor productivity and displacement in the leather industry. (M. L. R.,
Sept. 1932— reprint.)
♦Effect of technological changes upon occupations in the motor-vehicle industry.
(M. L. R., Feb. 1932.)
Productivity of labor in newspaper printing. (Bui. 475, 1929; summary,
M. L. R., May 1929.)
Labor cost of production and wages and hours of labor in the paper box-board
industry. (Bui. 407, 1926.)
Technological changes and employment in the United States Postal Service.
(Bui. 574, 1932; summary, M. L. R., Oct. 1932— reprint.)
*Wages, hours, and productivity in the pottery industry, 1925. (Bui. 412).
Productivity of railroad labor. (M. L. R., Mar. 1927— reprint.)
Productivity, hours, and compensation of railroad labor. (M. L. R., Dec. 1933,
Jan. and Feb. 1934— reprint.)
Labor efficiency and productiveness in sawmills. (M. L. R., Jan. 1923— re­
print.)
Time and labor costs in manufacturing 100 pairs of shoes, 1923. (Bui. 360.)
Man-hours of labor per unit of output in steel manufacture. (M. L. R., May
1935— reprint.)
Productivity of labor in street and road building and in ditch digging. (M. L. R.,
Dec. 1931— reprint.)
♦Effects on employment of the printer telegraph for handling news. (M. L. R.,
Apr. 1932.)
Displacement of Morse operators in commercial telegraph offices. (M. L. R.,
Mar. 1932.)
♦Displacement of Morse telegraphers in railroad systems. (M. L. R., May 1932.)
Productivity and displacement of labor in ticker telegraph work. (M. L. R.,
June 1932— reprint.)
Productivity and labor displacement in private-wire systems. (M. L. R., July
1932.)
The dial telephone and unemployment. (M. L. R., Feb. 1932— reprint.)
Time and labor cost of production in the woolen and worsted industry, United
States, England, France, Germany. (M. L. R., Sept. 1928— reprint.)

Retail Prices and Cost of Living
Retail food prices are issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics biweekly in the
form of press releases, and monthly in a printed pamphlet; prices of coal
are published monthly in the pamphlet with food prices; prices of gas and
electricity have been collected and published semiannually, as of June
and December, the months of the cost-of-living surveys, but it is now
planned to collect them quarterly, for periods corresponding to the changed
dates of the cost-of-living surveys (see note below on cost of living). Com­
parative index numbers of retail food prices in the United States and certain




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foreign countries are published quarterly. With a few exceptions, all of
the data on retail prices are published in the Monthly Labor Review.
The latest detailed report on retail prices published by the Bureau in
bulletin form (No. 495) covered the period 1890 to 1928.
Data on cost of living have been collected by the Bureau for many years semi­
annually, as of June and December, and published in a printed pamphlet
and in the Monthly Labor Review, preceded by a press release giving
summary figures. The printed report has also included a tabulation of
comparative index numbers of cost of living in the United States and certain
foreign countries. The Bureau now hopes to be able to make the cost-ofliving surveys quarterly instead of semiannually as heretofore. The latest
survey was as of March 1935.
A study of food costs in various cities. (M. L. R., Aug. 1919— reprint.)
A study of rents in various cities. (M. L. R., Sept. 1919— reprint.)
Tentative quantity-cost budget necessary to maintain a family of five in
Washington, D. C. (M. L. R., Dec. 1919— reprint.)
Quantity-cost budget necessary to maintain a single man or woman in Wash­
ington, D. C. (M. L. R., Jan. 1920— reprint.)
Minimum quantity budget necessary to maintain a worker’s family of five in
health and decency. (M. L. R., June 1920— reprint.)
Cost of living in the United States. (Bui. 357, 1924.)
The use of cost-of-living figures in wage adjustments. (Bui. 369, 1925.)
Standard of living of employees of Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. (M. L. R.,
June 1930.)
International cost-of-living inquiry. (M. L. R., Jan. 1932— reprint.)
Cost of living of Federal employees in five cities. (M. L. R., Aug., Sept., Oct.,
Nov. 1929.)
Measuring changes in cost of living of Federal employees living in Washington.
(M. L. R., Mar. 1934.)
Changes in cost of living of Federal employees in District of Columbia, 19281933. (M. L. R., July 1934— reprint.)
New study of money disbursements of wage earners and lower-salaried workers.
(M. L. R., Apr. 1935— reprint.)

Self-Help Activities of the Unemployed
Cooperative self-help activities among the unemployed. (M. L. R., Mar.,
Apr., May 1933.)
Cooperative self-help activities among the unemployed— general summary.
(M. L. R., June 1933— reprint.)
Federal grants to self-help organizations of unemployed. (M. L. R., Feb.
1934— reprint.)
Production by self-help organizations of unemployed. (M. L. R., July 1934—
reprint.)
Self-help activities among the unemployed in Washington, D. C.
(M. L. R.,
Mar. 1935— reprint.)

Social Insurance and Benefits
Operation of unemployment-insurance systems in the United States and foreign
countries. (M. L. R., June, July, Aug., Sept. 1934— reprint.)
’'Unemployment-benefit plans in the United States and unemployment insur­
ance in foreign countries. (Bui. 544, 1931; summary, M . L. R., Dec. 1931.)




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15

Unemployment insurance and reserves in the United States: A selected list of
references. (Bui. 611, 1935.).
State unemployment-insurance laws. (M. L. R., May 1935— reprint.)
Unemployment insurance in Switzerland, 1934. (M. L. R., May 1935.)
Report and recommendations of U. S. Committee on Economic Security.
(M. L. R., Feb. 1935— reprint.)
*Operation of French social-insurance law. (M. L. R., Sept. 1934.)
Progress of social insurance in Japan. (M. L. R., Mar. 1935.)
British health insurance system. (M. L. R., Oct. 1934— reprint.)
Dismissal compensation: A list of references. (M. L. R., Feb. 1932— reprint.)
Dismissal compensation in American industry. (M. L. R., Nov. 1934— reprint.)
Dismissal compensation in foreign countries. (M. L. R., Apr. 1935— reprint.)
CSee also Old-age care, insurance, and pensions; Workmen’s accident compen­
sation, etc.)

Unemployment Relief

Operation of idle factories by Ohio relief authorities for benefit of unemployed.
(M. L. R., Dec. 1934— reprint.)
Selection of men for Civilian Conservation Corps. (M. L. R., May 1935—
reprint.)

Vocational and Workers* Education

*Adult working-class education in Great Britain and the United States. (Bui.
271, 1920.)
Apprenticeship in building construction. (Bui. 459, 1928.)
Vocational education and employment of the handicapped, with special reference
to crippled soldiers: An annotated list of references. (M. L. R., Sept.
1917— reprint.)
Workers’ education: A list of references. (M. L. R., June 1922—Teprint.)
Minnesota plan for the reeducation and placement of cripples. (M. L. R., Jan.
1920— reprint.)
Vocational guidance recommendations of White House Conference on Child
Health and Protection. (M. L. R., Jan. 1932.)
For recent information on the subject of vocational education, consult the
Vocational Education Division, U. S. Office of Education, Department of
the Interior, and the Division of Emergency Educational Programs,
Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

Wages and Hours of Labor
In specified industries, etc.:
Air transportation, 1933. (M. L. R., Mar. 1934— reprint.)
Airplanes and aircraft engines, 1929. (Bui. 523; summary, M. L. R.,
June 1930.)
Aluminum, brass, and copper utensils and wares, 1927. (M. L. R., Aug.
1928.)
Automobile tires, 1923. (Bui. 358; summary, M. L. R., Nov. 1923.)
Bakeries— bread and cake, 1931. (Bui. 580; summary, M. L. R., May
1932— reprint.)
Barbers, union, 1934. (Mimeographed.)
Batteries and small motors, 1927. (M. L. R., Nov. 1928.)
Blacksmiths, union, 1933. (M. L. R., Aug. 1933.)




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L.

Boots and shoes, 1932. (Bui. 579; summary, M.
R., Sept. 1932—
reprint.)
Brick, 1922. (Bui. 356.)
Building trades, union scales, 1934. (M. L. R., June 1935.)
Cement, 1932. (M. L. R., Mar. 1933— reprint.)
♦Cereal beverages, 1932. (M. L. R., Feb. 1933.)
Cigarettes, 1930. (Bui. 532; summary, M. L. R., Oct. 1930.)
Cigarettes, Virginia and North Carolina, July 1934. (M. L. R., Oct. 1934.)
♦Cigars, 1911-1913. (Bui. 161.)
Cigars, York County, Pa., 1934. (M. L. R., Nov. 1934.)
Coal— anthracite, 1931. (M. L. R., Apr. 1932— reprint.)
Coal— bituminous, 1933. (Bui. 601; summary,- M. L. R., Sept. 1933—
reprint.)
Common labor, entrance rates, 1934. (M. L. R., Dec. 1934— reprint.)
Common street labor, 1932. (M. L. R., July 1933— reprint.)
Compositors, book and job, union, 1934. (M. L. R., June 1935.)
Cotton compresses, 1927. (M. L. R., June 1928.)
♦Cotton gins, 1927. (M. L. R., May 1928.)
♦Cottonseed-oil mills, 1927. (M. L. R., July 1928.)
Cotton textiles, 1933-34. (Special study made in accordance with Presi­
dential order of Sept. 26, 1934.) * Mimeographed. Summary, M. L.
R., Mar. 1935— reprint.)
Dyeing and finishing of textiles, 1932. (Bui. 588; summary, M. L. R.,
Aug. 1932— reprint.)
Fire departments, 1932. (M. L. R., June 1933— reprint.)
Foundries and machine shops, 1933. (M. L. R., Dec. 1933— reprint.)
Furniture, 1931. (Bui. 571; summary, M. L. R., Mar. 1932.)
Gasoline-filling stations, 1931. (Bui. 578; summary, M. L. R., June 1932—
reprint.)
♦Glass, 1932. (M. L. R., Oct. 1933— reprint.)
Hosiery and underwear, 1932. (Bui. 591; summary, M. L. R., Nov. 1932—
reprint.)
Hosiery, boys’ golf, 1934. (M. L. R., Dec. 1934.)
Hotel and restaurant workers, union, 1933. (M. L. R., Aug. 1933.)
Iron and steel, 1933. (M. L. R., Sept., *Oct., Nov. 1933.)
Leather, 1932. (Bui. 589; summary, M. L. R., Oct. 1932.)
Longshoremen, 1924-1930. (Bui. 550; summary, M. L. R., Oct. and Nov.
1930.)
Lumber, 1932. (Bui. 586; summary, M. L. R., *Oct. 1932— reprint.)
M en’s clothing, 1932. (Bui. 594; summary, M. L. R., Feb. 1933.)
Metal trades workers, union, 1933. (M. L. R., June 1933.)
Metalliferous mining, 1931. (Bui. 573; summary, M. L. R., June 1932.)
♦Millwork (sash, doors, etc.), 1915. (Bui. 225.)
Motion-picture machine operators, 1933. (M. L. R., May 1933.)
Motor-bus and truck transportation, 1933. (M. L. R., June 1934—
reprint.)
Motor-vehicle manufacturing, 1932. (M. L. R., June 1933— reprint.)
Motor-vehicle repair garages, 1931. (Bui. 578; summary, M. L. R., July
1932— reprint.)
Motors, small, 1927. (M. L. R., Nov. 1928.)
Newspaper editorial employees, 1934. (M. L. R., May 1935— reprint.)
♦Oil wells and pipe lines, 1929. (M. L. R., Mar. 1930.)
Paper box-board, 1925. (Bui. 407; summary, M. L. R., *Oct. 1925.)
Paper and pulp, 1923. (Bui. 365; summary, M. L. R.,* Mar. 1924.)




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17

Park recreation areas— superintendents, 1925-26. (Bui. 462.)
Pennsylvania Railroad, 1900-1927. (Bui. 514.)
♦Petroleum, 1920. (Bui. 297.)
Police departments, 1932. (M. L. R., May 1933— reprint.)
Pottery, 1932. (M. L. R., Apr. 1933— reprint.)
Public Works Administration construction. (M. L. R., June 1935.)
Quarry workers, union, 1933. (M. L. R., Apr. 1933— reprint.)
Radio sets, speakers, and tubes, 1927. (M. L. R., Sept. 1928— reprint.)
Rayon and other synthetic yarn, 1932. (Bui. 587; summary, M. L. R.,
Mar. 1933— reprint.)
Shirt industry, 1933. (M. L. R., Sept. 1933— reprint.)
Silk and rayon goods, 1933-34. (Special study made in accordance with
Presidential order of Sept. 26, 1934.) Mimeographed. (Summary,
M. L. R., June 1935— reprint.)
Silk and rayon weavers on 4-loom basis, April 1934. (M. L. R., July
1934— reprint.)
Slaughtering and meat packing, 1931. (Bui. 576; summary, M. L. R.,
June 1932— reprint.)
Stove foundries— molders and mounters, 1934. (M. L. R., Dec. 1934.)
Sugar refining, cane, 1930. (Bui. 547; summary, M. L. R., *Feb. 1931.)
Sugar-beet fields, 1933. (M. L. R., July 1934— reprint.)
Taxicab drivers, 1931-1933. (M. L. R., Mar. 1934— reprint.)
Theater stage employees, 1933. (M. L. R., May 1933.)
Tobacco, smoking and chewing, Virginia and North Carolina, July 1934.
(M. L. R., Oct. 1934.)
Union scales, 1933. (Bui. 600; summary, M. L. R., Sept, and Nov. 1933—
reprint.)
Upholsterers, and carpet and linoleum mechanics, union, 1933. (M. L. R.,
Sept. 1933.)
Wood carvers, union, 1933. (M. L. R., Sept. 1933.)
Woolen and worsted goods, 1932-34. (Special study made in accordance
with Presidential order of Sept. 26, 1934.) Mimeographed. (Summary,
M. L. R., June 1935— reprint.)
Summary of wage surveys by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1928-1932.
(M. L. R., July and Aug. 1933— reprints.)
Index numbers of wages per hour, 1840-1932. (M. L. R., Sept. 1933— reprint.)
History of wages in United States from colonial times to 1933. (Bui. 604.)
Historical review of wage rates and wage differentials in cotton-textile industry.
(M. L. R., May 1935— reprint.)
Average wage and salary payments in various industries in Ohio, 1916-1933.

A series of articles on this subject has been published in the Monthly Labor Review beginning with Jan­
uary 1934.
Earnings and standard of living of 1,000 railway employees during the depression.
(Pamphlet, 1934.)
Employment, hours, earnings, and production, January 1933 to Januaryl935.
(M. L. R., Mar. 1935— reprint.)
Rates of wages on public-road work, August 1933. (M. L. R., Nov. 1933.)
Wages and other conditions in government and in private employment. (M .
L. R., Aug. 1929— reprint.)
Work of State labor offices in behalf of wage claimants, 1932. (M. L. R.,
Oct. 1933— reprint.)
Labor conditions in the Territory of Hawaii, 1929-30 (including wages). (Bui.
534; summary, M. L. R., Apr. 1931.)




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Wages in foreign countries. (Compiled by Bureau of Labor Statistics; published
as Senate Doc. 9, 71st Cong., 1st sess., 1929; not available from Bureau of
Labor Statistics.)

More recent data on wages in foreign countries have been published in various issues of the
Monthly Labor Review.
Family allowances in foreign countries. (Bui. 401,1926.)
Laws regulating hours of labor of motor-bus drivers, as of January 1, 1933.
(M. L. R., Jan. 1933— reprint.)
Legislation regulating rates of wages of employees on public works, as of Feb­
ruary 1, 1932. (M. L. R., Feb. 1932— reprint.)
Legal restrictions on hours of labor of men in the United States, as of January 1,
1934. (M. L. R., Apr. 1934— reprint.)
Prevailing wage rate laws. (Published as Senate Doc. 27, 74th Cong., 1st. sess.,
1935. )
The monthly report on trend of employment includes data on average hourly
and weekly earnings and on wage rate changes in various industries.

Welfare Work
Health and recreation activities in industrial establishments, 1926. (Bui. 458;
summary, M. L. R., Apr. 1928.)
Vacations with pay for wage earners. (M. L. R., May 1926; also in Bui. 458.)
Sick leave with pay for factory workers. (M. L. R., Apr. 1927; also in Bui. 458.)
Medical and hospital service for industrial employees. (M. L. R., Jan. 1927;
also in Bui. 458.)
Lunch rooms in industrial establishments. (M. L. R., Mar. 1927; also in
Bui. 458.)
Group insurance experience of various establishments. (M. L. R., June 1927;
also in Bui. 458.)
Establishment funds for the benefit of disabled workers. (M. L. R., July 1927;
also in Bui. 458.)
Welfare work in company towns. (M. L. R., Aug. 1927; also in Bui. 458.)
Outdoor recreation for industrial employees. (M. L. R., May 1927; also in
Bui. 458.)
Indoor recreation for industrial employees. (M. L. R., Sept. 1927; also in
Bui. 458.)
Encouragement of thrift by employers. (M. L. R., Oct. 1927; also in Bui. 458.)
Park recreation areas in the United States, 1930. (Bui. 565; summary, M. L. R.,
July 1932.)
Italian National Leisure Time Society. (M. L. R., Feb. 1935.)

Wholesale Prices
The Bureau collects wholesale prices and compiles index numbers for 784 indi­
vidual commodities. Index numbers for groups of these commodities are
issued weekly in a press release; indexes for groups and subgroups of com­
modities and the actual prices of the 784 items are published monthly in a
printed pamphlet, which also includes data on purchasing power of the
dollar at wholesale. A summary of this material is published in the
Monthly Labor Review. A comparison of index numbers of wholesale
prices in the United States and certain foreign countries is published quar­
terly in the printed pamphlet on wholesale prices and in the Monthly Labor
Review. The latest detailed report on wholesale prices published by the
Bureau in bulletin form (No. 572) gave actual prices for the year 1931 and
index numbers for each year back to 1920.
♦Revised index numbers of wholesale prices, 1923 to July 1927. (Bui. 453.)




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19

Women in Industry
Since the creation of the Women’s Bureau of the United States Department of
Labor, all original investigations of matters pertaining to women in industry
in the United States, conducted by the Department of Labor, have been
made by that Bureau, which will be glad to furnish lists of publications
upon request.

Workmen’s Accident Compensation and Legislation
Workmen’s compensation legislation of the United States and Canada, as of
July 1, 1926. (Bui. 423.)

Basic volume containing all legislation up to and including 1926.
Workmen’s compensation legislation of the United States and Canada, as of
January 1, 1929 (with text of legislation enacted in 1927 and 1928). (Bui.
496.)
No complete presentation of workmen’s compensation legislation has been made
since the publication of Bui. 496, but summaries of the legislation for each
subsequent year are available as follows:
1929. (M. L. R., May, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. 1929 and Mar.
1930— reprint.)
1930. (M. L. R., Dec. 1930— reprint.)
1931. (M. L. R., Jan. 1932— reprint.)
1932. (M. L. R., Nov. 1932— reprint.)
1933. (M. L. R., Apr. 1934— reprint.)
1934. (M. L. R., Dec. 1934— reprint.)
Decisions of courts on workmen’s compensation are included with the decisions
on other topics of legislation in a special series of bulletins. (See Labor
legislation.)
Comparison of workmen’s compensation insurance and administration. (Bui.
301, 1922.)
Status of relief, etc., workers under workmen’s compensation laws. (M. L. R.,
Sept. 1934— reprint.)
Provisions for “ second injuries” under workmen’s compensation laws. (M. L.
R., June 1932— reprint.)
Occupational-disease legislation in the United States. (M. L. R., June 1934—
reprint.)
International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions: Its
accomplishments, 1914 to 1928. (M. L. R., Nov. 1928— reprint.)
Workmen’s compensation legislation of the Latin American countries. (Bui.
529, 1930.)
New workmen’s compensation legislation in Mexico. (M. L. R., Dec. 1931—
reprint.)
Many articles of interest on workmen’s accident compensation and legislation
appear in the annual proceedings of the International Association of Indus­
trial Accident Boards and Commissions. These proceedings have been
published in bulletin form by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.




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