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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. BULLETIN BUREAU OF LABOR. V O L U M E I X -1 9 0 4 . WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1904. EDITOR, CARROLL D. WRIGHT, COMMISSIONER. ASSOCIATE EDITORS, G. W. W. HANGER, CHAS. H. YERRILL, G. A. WEBER. II CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. No. 50.—JANUARY, 1904. Labor unions and British industry, by A. Maurice Low............................... Land values and ownership in Philadelphia, by A. F. Davies...................... Agreements between employers and employees............................................... Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics: Maryland.......................................................................................................... Michigan.......................................................................................................... North Carolina................................................................................................. O hio................................................................................................................. Reports of State boards of arbitration................................................................ Digest of recent foreign statistical publications................................................ Decisions of courts affecting labor....................................................................... Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___ No. 51.—MARCH, 1904. Course of wholesale prices, 1890-1903................................................................ The union movement among coal mine workers, by Frank Julian Warne, Ph.D...................................................................................................................... Agreements between employers and employees............................................... Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics: Rhode Island.................................................................................................. Virginia............................................................................................................ Digest of recent foreign statistical publications................................................. Decisions of courts affecting labor........................1........................................... Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___ No. 52.—MAY, 1904. Child labor in the United States, by Hannah R. Sewall, Ph. D.................. Agreements between employers and employees............................................... Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics: Wisconsin........................................................................................................ Digest of recent foreign statistical publications................................................ Decisions of courts affecting labor............................................................... Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January L, 1896___ No. 53.—JULY, 1904. Wages and cost of living....................................................................................... Agreements between employers and employees............................................... Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics: New Jersey................................ Digest of recent foreign statistical publications................................................. Decisions of courts affecting labor...................................................................... Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___ iii Page.. 1-103 104-131 132-147 148-150 150-152 152-155 155-157 158-161 162-171 172-208 209-218 219-379 380-414 415-435 436,437 437-439 440-445 446-466 467-484 485-637 638-650 651-654 655-677 678-693 694-702 703-932 933-936 937-940 941-949 950-963 964-968 IV CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. NO. 54.—SEPTEMBER, 1904. THE EXHIBIT OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. Page. Introduction, by G. W. W. Hanger.................................................................... 969-971 The working of the United States Bureau of Labor, by Carroll D. Wright. 973-989 Bureaus of statistics of labor in the United States, by G. W. W. Hanger... 991-1021 Origin of bureaus............................................................................................. 994-999 Personnel and financial resources................................................................ 999-1004 Duties of bureaus and their officers............................................................ 1004-1008 Legal powers and methods of investigation............................................... 1008-1013 Character and scope of actual work done.....................................................1013-1020 Results.............................................................................................................. 1020,1021 Bureaus of statistics of labor in foreign countries, by G. W. W. Hanger.. 1023-1086 Austria.............................................................................................................. 1024-1027 Belgium............................................................................................................ 1028-1040 Canada.............................................................................................................. 1040-1046 Denmark.......................................................................................................... 1046,1047 France.............................................................................................................. 1047-1056 Germany.......................................................................................................... 1056-1059 Great Britain................................................................................................... 1060-1063 Italy.................................................................................................................. 1063-1071 Netherlands..................................................................................................... 1072,1073 New South Wales........................................................................................... 1073,1074 New Zealand................................................................................................... 1074,1075 Norway............................................................................................................ 1075,1076 Ontario.............................................................................................................. 1076,1077 Russia................................................................................................................ 1077 Spain.................................................................................................................. 1077,1078 Sweden.............................................................................................................. 1078-1080 Switzerland....................................................................................................... 1080 International association for the legal protection oflabor....................... 1080-1086 Value and influence of labor statistics, by Carroll D. Wright...................... 1087-1096 Strikes and lockouts in the United States, 1881 to 1900, by G. W. W. Hanger.......................................................................................................... 1097-1117 Wages in the United States and in Europe, 1890 to 1903, by G. W. W. Hanger........................................................................................................... 1119-1128 Cost of living and retail prices in the United States, 1890 to 1903, by G. W. W. Hanger........................................................................................................... 1129-1164 Cost of living................................................................................................... 1129-1155 Consumption of food..................................................................................... 1156-1158 Retail prices..................................................................................................... 1158-1163 Wholesale and retail prices........................................................................... 1163,1164 Wholesale prices in the United States, 1890 to 1903, by G. W. W. Hanger. 1165-1190 Housing of the working people in the United States by employers, by G. W. W. Hanger................................................................................................ 1191-1243 American Waltham Watch Company, Waltham, Mass.......................... 1194-1198 Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.............................................................. 1198-1206 .J. B. and J. M. Cornell Company, Coldspring, N. Y ............................. 1206,1207 The Draper Company, Hopedale, Mass..................................................... 1207-1209 Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Ludlow, Mass................................... 1209-1213 Maryland Steel Company, Sparrow Point, M d.........................................1214,1215 CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. V Housing of the working people in the United States, etc.—Concluded. Page. N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company, Leclaire, 111............................... 1215-1218 Niagara Development Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y ........................... 1218-1220 Peacedale Manufacturing Company, Peacedale, Rhode Island............ 1221-1223 Pelzer Manufacturing Company, Pelzer, South Carolina........................ 1224-1226 Plymouth Cordage Company, North Plymouth, Massachusetts.......... 1226-1234 The John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania................ 1234-1239 S. D. Warren & Company, Cumberland Mills, Maine............................. 1239-1241 Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.......... 1241-1243 Public baths in the United States, by G. W. W. Hanger............................. 1245-1367 Municipal— Albany, New York................................................................................. 1271,1272 Baltimore, Maryland............................................................................. 1272-1275 Boston, Massachusetts........................................................................... 1275-1296 Bridgeport, Connecticut........................... ......................................... 1296,1297 Brookline, Massachusetts...................................................................... 1297-1305 Brooklyn, New York............................................................................. 1305-1308 Buffalo, New York................................................................................. 1308-1311 Cambridge, Massachusetts.................................................................... 1311,1312 Chicago, Illinois....................................................................................... 1312-1319 Cleveland, Ohio................................................. 1319,1320 Des Moines, Iowa................................................................................... 1320 Detroit, Michigan................................................................................... 1320,1321 1321 Hartford, Connecticut........................................................................... Hoboken, New Jersey........................................................................... 1321,1322 Holyoke, Massachusetts........................................................................ 1322,1323 Kansas City, Missouri........................................................................... 1323 Louisville, Kentucky............................................................................. 1323,1324 Milwaukee, Wisconsin........................................................................... 1324-1326 Minneapolis, Minnesota....................................................................... 1326 Newark, New Jersey............................................................................. 1326,1327 New Bedford, Massachusetts................................................................ 1327 Newton, Massachusetts......................................................................... 1328 New York, New York........................................................................... 1328-1336 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.................................................................. 1336,1337 Portland, M aine..................................................................................... 1337,1338 Providence, Rhode Island.................................................................... 1338 Rochester, New Y ork.......................................................................... 1338,1339 St. Paul, Minnesota............................................................................... 1339-1341 Springfield, Massachusetts.................................................................... 1341,1342 Syracuse, New York............................................................................... 1342 Taunton, Massachusetts....................................................................... 1342,1343 Troy, New York..................................................................................... 1343 Utica, New Y ork ................................................................................... 1343 Washington, District of Columbia...................................................... 1343-1347 Wilmington, Delaware......................................................................... 1347 Worcester, Massachusetts...................................................................... 1347 Yonkers, New York............................................................................... 1347-1349 Nonmunicipal— New York, New York........................................................................... 1349-1351 Allegheny, Pennsylvania...................................................................... 1351-1352 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania....................................................................... 1352-1354 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania........................ 1354-1357 VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX . Public baths in the United States, etc.—Concluded. Page. N onmunicipal—Concluded. San Francisco, California...................................................................... 1357-1361 Special bathing appliances............................................................................ 1361-1367 Trade and technical education in the United States....................................... 1369-1417 Introduction..................................................................................................... 1369-1382 New York Trade School, New York, New York..................................... 1383-1385 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York........................................................ 1385-1389 St. George’s Evening Trade School, New York, New York................. 1389,1390 • Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, Pennsylvania.............. 1390-1392 The California School of Mechanical Arts, San Francisco, California. 1392-1394 The Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts, San Francisco, California. 1395 Dairy School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.............. 1396,1397 Department of Dairying, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Me chanic Arts, Ames, Iowa............................................................................ 1397,1398 Young Women’s Christian Association School, Boston, Massachusetts. 1399,1400 Young Women’s Christian Association School, New York, New York. 1400,1401 Women’s Training School, St. Louis, Missouri......................................... 1401 Philadelphia Textile School and School of Industrial Art, Philadel phia, Pennsylvania..................................................................................... 1403,1404 Lowell Textile School, Lowell, Massachusetts......................................... 1404-1407 New Bedford Textile School, New Bedford, Massachusetts.................. 1407,1408 Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics’ Institute, Rochester, New York. 1408-1410 Armstrong and Slater Memorial Trade School, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia........................................... 1411-1414 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama..........1414-1416 1417 Mount Meigs Colored Industrial Institute, Waugh, Alabama.............. Snowhill Industrial Institute, Snowhill, Alabama................................. 1417 Hand and Machine Labor in the United States............................................... 1419 Labor Legislation in the United States, by G. A. W eber............................. 1421-1486 Labor in factories, sweat shops, etc............................................................ 1422-1427 1428-1430 Mine labor.............................. Railway labor................................................................................................... 1430-1435 Hours of labor................................................................................................. 1435-1439 Sunday labor.................................................................................................... 1439,1440 Employment of women.................................................................................. 1440-1443 Child labor................................................................................................ 1443-1454 Licensed occupations...................................................................................... 1454-1460 Payment of wages........................................................................................... 1460-1469 Employers’ liability........................................................................................ 1469-147#4 Boycotting, blacklisting, intimidation, etc................................................. 1474-1477 Labor organizations....................................................................................... 1477-1480 Boards of arbitration and conciliation........................................................ 1480-1484 Bureaus of labor............................................................................................... 1484 Free public employment bureaus................................................................ 1484-1486 Labor conditions in Hawaii.................................................................................. 1487-1490 No. 55.—NOVEMBER, 1904. Child labor—editorial note.................................................................................... 1491 Building and loan associations in the United States, by G. W. W. Hanger. 1491-1572 The revival of handicrafts in America, by Max West, Ph. D........................ 1573-1622 Agreements between employers and employees............................................... 1623-1635 CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. Digest of recent reports ofState bureaus of labor statistics: Illinois.............................................................................................................. Indiana.............................................................................................................. Iow a............................ Kansas.............................................................................................................. Missouri............................................................................................................ New Jersey...................................................................................................... Pennsylvania.................................................................................................. Digest of recent foreign statistical publications................................................. Decisions of courts affecting labor........................................................................ Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___ VII Page. 1636-1638 1638-1640 1640-1642 1643-1645 1645,1646 1646-1650 1650-1652 1653-1670 1671-1677 1678-1686