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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.

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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___




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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



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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........................
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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



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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___




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