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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.

BULLETIN

BUREAU OF LABOR.

V O L U M E




V I I I .-1 9 0 3 .

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,

1903.




EDITOR,

CARROLL D. W RIG H T,
COMMISSIONER.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS,

G. W . W . H AN GER,
CHAS. H . Y E R R IL L , G. A . W EBER.

CONTENTS OF V O L U M E T IL L
No. 44.—JA N U A R Y, 1903.
P a ge.

Factory sanitation and labor protection, b y C. F. W. Doehring, Ph. D . . .
Agreements between em ployers and em ployees...............................................
Statistics of cities—erra ta ......................................................................................
Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics:
K ansas...............................................................................................................
M ich igan ...........................................................................................................
Digest of recent foreign statistical publications.................................................
Decisions of courts affecting labor........................................................................
Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___

1-131
132-135
136
137
137-140
141-156
157-174
175-202

No. 45.— M ARCH , 1903.
Course of w holesale prices, 1890-1902 .................................................................
Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics:
M assachusetts...................................................................................................
New H am pshire................................................................................................
P en nsylvania...................................................................................................
R hode Isla n d ...................................................................................................
W est V irginia...................................................................................................
Digest of recent foreign statistical publications.................................................
Decisions of courts affecting la b o r ......................................................................
Laws o f various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___

203-356
357,358
359,360
360-364
364,365
365-367
368-379
380-390
391-436

No. 46.—M A Y , 1903.
Report of the Anthracite Coal Strike Com mission:
H istory of the appointm ent of the Com m ission.......................................
Anthracite coal region and its p rod u ction .................................................
M arket condition s............................................................................................
Hazardous nature of anthracite m in in g .....................................................
H istory and causes of the strike of 1902.....................................................
Losses from the strik e ....................................................................................
W ork of the C om m ission..............................................................................
Demands o f the m ine w orkers......................................................................
Summary o f answers of operators................................................................
Findings of the Com m ission..........................................................................
A ppendixes.......................................................................................................




h i

437-443
443-448
449-453
453-457
457-463
463
463-465
465-467
467,468
468-513
515-683

IV

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.
No. 47.—JU LY, 1903.

Report of the Com m issioner of Labor on H aw aii:
In trodu ction ......................................................................................................
H istory of the penal labor con tra ct.............................................................
Plantation labor................................................................................................
Labor conditions in the sugar industry in Hawaii, California, Texas,
Louisiana, Cuba, and Porto R ic o .............................................................
M inor rural in du stries....................................................................................
Urban em ploym ents........................................................................................
General conditions affecting la b o r ...............................................................
General tables—wages, hours of labor, and prices of fo o d ......................
Agreem ents between em ployers and em ployees...............................................
Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics:
California...........................................................................................................
C olorado.............................................................................................................
M issouri.............................................................................................................
New Y o r k .........................................................................................................
W ashington.......................................................................................................
Digest of recent foreign statistical publications.................................................
Decisions of courts affecting labor........................................................................
Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___

Page.
685-689
689-697
697-766
767-772
772-776
777-784
784-797
798-902
903-909
910,911
911-913
913-915
916-918
918-920
921-934
935-977
978-982

No. 48.— SEPTEM BER, 1903.
Editorial n o te ...........................................................................................................
983
Farm colonies of the Salvation Arm y, by Commander B ooth Tucker........ 983-1005
The Negroes of Xenia, O hio: A social study, b y Richard R. W right, jr.,
B .D ......................................................................................................................... 1006-1044
Agreem ents between em ployers and em ployees............................................... 1045-1063
Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics:
M innesota.......................................................................................................... 1064-1068
N orth D akota....................................................................................................
1069
Statistics of manufactures in Massachusetts: Sixteenth annual report........ 1070-1074
Digest of recent foreign statistical publications................................................. 1075-1099
Decisions of courts affecting la b o r ....................................................................... 1100-1125
Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896___ 1126-1136
No. 49.— NOVEM BER, 1903.
Cost of liv in g ............................................................................................................ 1137-1141
Labor conditions in New Zealand, b y V ictor S. Clark, Ph. D ...................... 1142-1281
Industrial conciliation and arbitration act of New Zealand............................ 1282-1311
Agreem ents between em ployers and em ployees..................................................1312-1340
Digest of recent reports o f State bureaus of labor statistics:
C onnecticut....................................................................................................... 1341-1344
M ain e................................................................................................................. 1344-1347
M assachusetts.................................................................................................... 1347-1351
M ontana.............................................................................................................. 1351-1353
N ebraska............................................................................................................ 1353,1354
Digest of recent foreign statistical publications................................................. 1355-1359
Decisions of courts affecting la b o r ....................................................................... 1360-1379
Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1 8 9 6 .... 1380-1388