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INDEX TO VOLUME X—JANUARY TO JUNE, 1920.
N ote.—In this index names of places are used only as author headings. Both monthly and consecutive
page numbers are given.
A.
Page.
Absentee ownership, discussed by Royal Meeker, 1919.............................................. Feb. 1, 2-4 (305, 306-8)
Accessions. (See Mobility of labor.)
Accident compensation. (See Accident insurance; Workmen’s compensation.)
Accident insurance:
Czechoslovakia.................................................................................................................. Feb. 244-5 (548-9)
France. Amended law of October 25,1919, covering occupational diseases...........Jan. 259-61 (259-61)
Illinois. Proposed standard plan for public employees................................................... Apr. 190 (1020)
Italy. Merchant marine. Compensation for. (Agreement of 1919)..................Jan. 162, 173 (162, 173)
Portugal. Compulsory, under recent decree................................................................. Jan. 264-5 (264-5)
(See also Workmen’s compensation.)
Accident prevention:
Canada. Laws of various Provinces, referred to .............................................................. Mar. 180 (774)
Effect of workmen’s compensation laws. (Reply to British questionnaire).............. Apr. 30-1 (860-1)
Iron and steel. Three cardinal methods of safety movem ent....... ................................. j une 163 (1469)
Statistical method (Meeker)............................................................................................... Mar. 1-3 (595-7)
United States. Use of geophone for mine rescue w ork........................................... Apr. 183-4 (1013-14)
(See also Safety provisions.)
Accident rates, Frequency and severity:
Hours of work as related to output and accident rate............................................. May 158-63 (1232-7)
Iron and steel. United States. As affected by the war, 1914-1919...................... June 151-63 (1457-69)
Resolution adopted by International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and
Commissions committee re new basis for measuring rates..................................... Jan. 218-19 (218-19)
Accident statistics:
United States. Mining. Coal. Six months ending January, 1920....................... June 163-4 (1469-70)
----------- Metal. Injuries and deaths, 1917 and 1918......................................................... June 165 (1471)
-----Reports of various State industrial accident boards............... Jan. 247-51; Feb. 218-23; May 166-7.
(247-51; 522-7;‘1240-1)
-----Steam railroads. 1918. Accident Bulletin No. 70 of Interstate Commerce Com
mission......................................................................................................................... Mar. 159-60 (753-4)
(See also Disability; Workmen’s compensation.)
Accidents, cost of. Address by Royal Meeker, 1920........................................................... Apr. 1-13 (831-43)
Adams, N. C.:
British raihvay -wages..................................................................................................... Mar. 16-25(610-19)
Reabsorption of labor and unemployment in the United Kingdom................... Apr. 155-74 (985-1004)
Adamson Act:
Provision regarding payment for overtime work on United States railroads................ Mar. 116 (710)
Referred to ............................................................................................................................
Apr. 50 ( 880)
Age, effect upon duration of disability................................................................................ Mar. 4-15 (598-609)
Agreement, articles of. Seamen. Agenda prepared by International Labor Office . .. May 3, 15-19 (1077,
1089-93)
Agreements. (See Collective agreements; Labor treaty; Trade agreements; Treasury agreement.” )
Agriculture:
Cooperation. All-American Farmer-Labor Cooperative Congress, Chicago, February,
1920.............................................................................................................................. Apr. 128-30 (958-60)
-----Joint Farmer-Labor Cooperative Congresses, Chicago, November 21-22, 1919, and
February 12-15,1920.............. ...................................................................................... Feb. 133-4 (437-8)
-----United Kingdom..................................................................................................... June 120-1 (1426-7)
-----United States. Recommended by President’s Industrial Conference....................
Apr. 39 (869)
Hours. France. Agreement of August 8,1919.......................................................... Mar. 123-4 (717-18)
-----Poland. Eight-hour d a y .............................................................................................
Jan. 8 (8)
Labor. Recommendations of International Labor Conference, 1919, re agricultural
employment................................................................................................................... Jan. 13-14 (13-14)
Training. Iowa. Part-tim e classes.......................................................................... May 117-18 (1191-2)
Unrest. Italy ............................................................................................................... June 223-4 (1529-30)
Wages. France. Agreement of August 8,1919........................... ............................. Mar. 123-4 (717-18)
-----United States. 1918 and 1919.......................................................................... ....... Apr. 108-9 (938-9)
Alcohol, wood. Recommendations concerning manufacture and use of...................... Feb. 197-201 (501-5)
Aden labor:
France. Privileges of Italian workers under Franco-Italian treaty........................... Feb. 47-53 (351-7)
Italy. Privileges of French -workers under Franco-Italian treaty ............................. Feb. 47-53 (351-7)
Recommendations of International Labor Conference, 1919.................. Jan. 13-15; Feb. 30 (13-15; 334)
(See also Immigration.)
Allen, Nila F. Statement re child labor law ........................................................................... Apr. 178(1008)
Allowances, family. France. Street railways..................................................................... Apr. 65-6 (895-6)
Allowances, mothers’. (See Mothers’ pensions.)
Allowances in lieu of wages. Merchant marine. Italy ..................... Jan. 158-60, 163, 168 (158-60, 163, 168)
(See also Board and lodging in lieu of wrages.)
Allport, Frank. Compensation table for visual losses of one eye.................................. Apr. 187-8 (1017-18)
Alschuler, Samuel. Award re overtime in packing industry, United States................ Mar. 113-14 (707-8)
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Agreement with Chicago clothing m anu
facturers, December, 1919....................................................................................................Apr. 141-2 (971-2)
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American Cooperative Convention, resulted in organization of National Cooperative
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Association.......................................................................................................................... Apr. 117-18 (947-8)
American Public Health Association:
New Orleans meeting, 1919. Paper on influenza m ortality among wage earners and
their families. ( Frankel and Dublin)........................................... ........................... Jan. 223-4 (223-4)
-----Resolution adopted re health insurance...................................................................... Feb. 226 (530)
Plans for reporting sickness formulated in cooperation with the Public Health Service .Jan. 220-3 (220-3)
(See also United States: Public Health Service.)
Amputations, arm. Men so handicapped difficult to place. (Institute for Crippled and
Disabled Men).......................................................................................................................... Apr. 148 (978)
Anilin manufacture. Poisoning, benzene and anilin. (Summary of article by C. R. New
ton).................................................................................................................................... June 169-70 (1475-6)
Anthrax. Recommendation of International Labor Conference, 1919...........Jan. 21-2; Peb. 30 (21-2,334)
Apartments. (See Housing.)
Apprenticeship :
Great Britain. Building industry. Report of industrial council, 1919................. May 119-22 (1193-6)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees............ June 224 (1530)
United Kingdom. Completed agreements up to Peb. 9, 1920 .................................Apr. 171-2 (1001-2)
Wisconsin. Work of Industrial Commission.................................................................... June 220 (1526)
(See also Industrial education and training.)
Approved societies. (See Health insurance—Great Britain.)
Arbitration. (See Conciliation and arbitration.)
Architects. Salaries. United States. Navy Department, 1893 to 1919..................June 24, 29 (1330.1335)
Army, British. Increases in pay, allowances, etc., 1919..................................................... Jan. 156-7 (156-7)
Automobile manufacturing. Wages and hours. United States.
Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.................................................................. June 82-94 (1388-1400)
B.
Baldwin, F. Spencer. Statement re New York State Insurance Fund......................... Peb. 217-18 (521-2)
Banks and banking. Cooperation. United States. Work of credit unions, referred to ... Apr. 130 (960)
Benefit period. (See Workmen’s compensation.)
Benzene poisoning. Anilin manufacture. (Summary of article by C. R. Newton.).. June 169-70 (1475-6)
Bern Convention, 1906. Adherence to, recommended by International Labor Conference,
1919............................................................................................................................ Jan. 15, 16. 22 (15, 16, 22)
Bibliographies. Labor. (See List of publications at end of each monthly number.)
Bituminous Coal Commission, United States. (See United States: Bituminous Coal
Commission.)
Board and lodging. District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single man or wom an.. Jan. 35, 36-7
(35, 36-7)
Board and lodging in lieu of wages:
Agriculture. France............................................................................................................ Mar. 123 (717)
-----United States. 1918 and 1919........ .......................................................................... Apr. 108-9 (938-9)
Army. Great Britain. Amount of allowances............................................................ Jan. 156-7 (156-7)
Domestic service. Bavaria................... ............................................................................. Feb. 132 (436)
Hospitals. District of Columbia. Survey of wages paid to women, by Minimum
Wage Board, 1919.......................................................................................................... Jan. 147-8 (147-8)
Hotels, restaurants, etc. District of Columbia................................. Jan. 144-8; Mar. 132-6; Apr. 113;
June 116 (144-8; 726-30; 943; 1422)
Public housekeeping. Washington (State). Resolution adopted by industrial welfare
commission........................................................................................................................ May 111 (1185)
(See also Allowance in lieu of wages.)
Board for vocational education. United States. (See U nited States. Federal Board for
Vocational Education.)
Bolshevism. Dr. Pardo in charge of inquiry projected by League of Nations..................... May 197 (1271)
Bonuses:
Cost-of-living. France. Increased, to meet cost of living......................................... Mar. 120-1 (714-15)
—— -----Street railways................................. .................................................................. Apr. 65-7 (895-7)
-----Italy. Merchant marine. Agreement of 1919..................................... Jan. 158-67, 172 (158-67, 172)
Domestic service. Austria................................................................................... .............. June 192 (1498)
Steam railroads. Russia.......................... ............................................................. ....... May 66-7 (1140-1)
Various industries. Germany........................................................................................ Mar. 126-9 (720-3)
War. Engineers. Great Britain. (Awarded October, 1917).............. ......................... June 111 (1417)
-----Merchant marine. Italy. Agreement of 1919.................................................... Jan. 158-67 (158-67)
(See also Profit sharing; Wages.)
Book reviews. (See List of publications at end of each monthly number.)
Boot and shoe manufacturing:
Socialization. Austria. September, 1919.................................................................... Feb. 55-6 (359-60)
Wages and hours. United States. 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference
Board.)..................................................................................... ....................... Jan. 141, 143-4 (141 143-4)
Bread. Prices fixed by Food Administration...................................................................May 29-30 (1103-4)
Brick industry. United States. Wages and hours. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919.................................................................................................................................. May 92-107 (1166-81}
Brissenden, Paul F. Mobility of labor in American industry....................................... June 36-56 (1342-62)
Budgets, family:
Canada. Cost per week, 1914 to 1919................................................................................
Mar. 73 (667)
District of Columbia. Minimum quantity necessary to maintain worker’s family of
five in health and decency........................................ ............................................... June 1-18 (1307-24)
-----Per cent of increase in cost of various items, 1913 to 1919...........................................Jan. 98-9 (98-9)
Germany. Average expenditures, April, 1916, 1917, and 1918.................. .................... Jan. 114 (114)
Illinois. Relative dailyliving costs in 1913,1915,1917,1918, and to May, 1919............... Jan. 150 (150)
Italy. December, 1919, compared with first six months of 1914. (Workman’s family
in M ia n ...... . _...................................................................................................................
Apr. 90 (920)
Massachusetts. National Industrial Conference Board and Bureau of Labor Statistics
figures compared. (Lawrence).................................................................................... Mar. 71-2 (665-6)
United States. Furniture and house furnishings. (Bureau of Labor Statistics and
National War Labor Board survey, 1918-1919.)........................................................Jan. 27-34 (27-34)
-----Per cent of increase in cost of various items, 1913 to 1919.......................................... Jan. 97-8 (97-8)
-----Per cent of increase in cost of various items, 1914 to 1919,14 cities...................... May 84-7 (1158-61)
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United States. Per cent of increase in cost of various items, 1914 to 1919. (National
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Industrial Conference B oard).......................................................................................... May 89 (1163)
(See also Cost of living; Food expenditures; Retail prices.)
Budgets, individual:
District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single man or woman, August-September, 1919....................................................................................................... ................. j an. 35-44 (35-44)
Massachusetts. Inquiry made by wage board into cost of living of self-supporting
girl................... ........1........ ........................................................................................ May 110-11 (1184-5)
(See also Minimum wage.)
Building-materials, cost, United States, 1919....................................................................... Feb. 250-1 (554-5)
Building trades:
England. Housing scheme of building guild............................................................. June 220-1 (1526-7)
France. Wages in force March, 1919, and wages and hours under agreement of June 11,
1919...................................................................................... ............................................... Mar. 121 (715)
Great Britain. Demands of workers, 1920............................................................... June 113-14 (1419-20)
-----Report on apprenticeship, November 25, 1919.................................................... May 119-22 (1193-6)
New York City. Agreement of November, 1919................................................. ....... Feb. 147-9 (451-3)
Norfolk, Va. Agreement of August, 1919................................................................ Feb. 149-51 (453-5)
United States. Increase in wages, 1919 ov.er 1913............................................................ Feb. 250 1554)
Bureau of Labor Statistics. (See United States: Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
Bureau of Mines. United States. (See United States: Bureau of Mines.)
Jan. 100-8,
Butter. United States. Production, storage, and wholesale and retail prices...................
113-14 (100-8,113-14)
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California. Industrial Accident Commission. Report, July 1, 1918, to June 30,1919.. Feb. 218-21 (522-5)
-----State committee on soldiers’ reemployment. Activities of.............................................. Feb. 162 (466)
Caliiornia. (See also specific subjects.)
Car building. Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919..................................... ; ......................................................................................... June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Car fares. District of Columbia. Allowance for single person; effect of increased fares.. Jan. 35, 42 (35, 42)
Car service. Mines and mining. Irregularity of employment caused by car shortage. . . Apr. 45-6 (875-6)
Carr, Elma B. Production, cold-storage holdings, and wholesale and retail prices of butter
and cheese.................................................................................................................................
Jan. 100-14
Castiglione, Dr. G. di Palma. (See Palma Castiglione, G. di.)
Casual labor. Great Britain. Dock labor. Report of court of inquiry, March 31, 1920...
May 57, 58
(1131, 1132)
Casualties. (See Accident statistics.)
Central States Cooperative Society. Organization and grow th...................................... Apr. 125-7 (955-7)
Chambers of labor. Austria. Established by law, provisions summarized................. June 189-91 (1495-7)
-----Germany. National workers’ councils to constitute........................................................ May 174 (1248)
Chaney, Lucian W.:
Analyses of accident records of certain steel plants............................................................
Apr. 4 (834)
Influence of the war on accident rates in the iron and steel industry, 1914-1919.. June 151-63 (1457-69)
Charts:
Accident rates, iron andsteel, as affected by the war, 1914-1919............ .............. June 151-63 (1457-69)
Butter. Amount in storage, etc., 1917-18.......................................................................... Jan. 103 (103)
Cheese. Amount in storage, etc., 1917-18........................................................................... Jan. 110 (110)
Hours of labor of hotel and restaurant employees. (Pope).................... Mar. 102,105,107 (696,699,701)
Increase in salaries of Government employees compared with increase in retail food
prices, 1915-1919.................................................................................................................. June 31 (1337)
Increase in salaries of Government employees compared with increase in retail food
prices, earnings in New York State factories, etc., 1915-1919.....................................
June 33 (1339)
Mobility of labor m American industry.................................................................. June 45,52 (1351,1358)
Retail prices of food, United States.....................................................................................
Jan. 73;
Feb. 67; Mar. 39; Apr. 75: May 74; June 64 (73,371,633,905,1148,1370)
—— Per cent increase or decrease, January, 1920, compared with January, 1919.......... Mar. 29 (623)
Wholesale prices, number of pounds produced, and increase or decrease of amount in
storage, butter (1917-18).................................................................................................... Jan. 103 (103)
Wholesale prices, number of pounds produced, and increase or decrease of amount in
storage, cheese (1918-19).................................................................................................. Jan. 110 (110)
Workmen’s compensation laws of the United States........................................................
Apr. 32 (862)
(See also Illustrations; Maps.)
Check off, mines and mining. Operators recommend that present system be abolished. . .
Apr. 42 (672)
Check weighing in various industries act, 1919, Great Britain. Summarized. Feb. 238-9 Mar. 202 (542-3,796)
Cheese. United States. Production, storage, and wholesale and retail prices..............Jan. 108-14 (108-14)
Chemical industry:
Hazards. Investigation by New York Industrial Commission............................... Mar. 165-8 (759-62)
Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919.
(Chemicals, oils, and paints).................. ......................................................................... Apr. 110 (940)
Wages and horns. United States. 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference
Board)..................................... ......................... ..................................................... Jan. 142,143 (142,143)
----------- Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919...................................................... May 92-107 (1166-81)
Chicago Opthalmological Society. Table adopted as basis of settlement of visual losses of
one eye.............................................................................................................................. Apr. 187-8 (1017-18)
Chief executives ofrailroad organizations. Reports containing details of wage movement
among organized railway employees. Summary.................................................................. May 49 (1123)
Child labor:
Agenda prepared by International Labor Office....................................................... May3,20(1077,1094)
Czechoslovakia. Law of December, 1918....................................................................... Feb. 241-2 (545-6)
-----Law promulgated July 28,1919........................................................................... Apr. 178-82 (1008—
12)
Discussion by International Labor Conference, 1919..................................................... Jan. 17-22 (17—
22)
Draft conventions adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919___Feb. 25-9,31-2 (329-33,335-6)
France. Protection of Italian workers provided for by Franco-Italian treaty ...........Feb. 51-2 (355—
6)
India. Discussion by International Labor Conference, 1919...........................................
Jan. 20 (20)
Italy. Merchant marine. Hours; night work prohibited. (Agreement of 1919)......... Jan. 170(170)
-----Protection of French workers provided for by Franco-Italian treaty...................Feb. 51-2 (355—
6)
Japan. Discussion by International Labor Conference, 1919..........................................
Jan. 20 (20)
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Child labor—Concluded.
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Minimum age. Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919. Feb. 25-7 (329-31)
Recommendation of President’s Industrial Conference....................................................
Apr. 38 (868)
Resolutions passed by International Congress of Working Women, 1919.......................
Jan. 20 (20)
Switzerland. Insurance. Number insured at end of 1917.............................................. Apr. 198 (1028)
United States. During the war. Report of Children’s Bureau................................ Feb. 174-5 (478-9)
-----Estim ated per cent of working children not covered by Federal law....................... Apr. 178 (1008)
Childbirth and employment. (See Married women employed.)
Children’s Bureau, United States. (See United States: Children’s Bureau.)
Chorin, Franz. Statement re Hungarian industry under soviet system..............................
Feb. 55 (359)
Cigar industry:
Wages. United States. 1913 to 1919. Relative earnings per hour...............................
Jan. 140;
Feb. 116; Mar. 90 (140,420,684)
Wages and hours of labor. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919. Mar. 77-90 (671-84)
Civil service. (See Public employees.)
Civil service retirement. (See Old-age and invalidity pensions; Old-age insurance.)
Civil Service Commission, United States. (See United States: Civil Service Commission.)
Clark, Lindley D.:
Legislation as to rehabilitation of injured workers...................................................... Apr. 202-6 (1032-6)
Scope and operation of the workmen’s compensation laws of the United States. . . Apr. 14-32 (844-62)
Classes for employees:
Compulsory continuation schools until 18, recommended by International Congress of
Working Women...............................................................................................................
Jan. 20 (20)
Recommendation by National Society for Vocational Education, committee on
women in industry............................................................................................................ Apr. 140 (970)
Part-tim e classes. Alabama. Textile workers. Agreement.................................. Jan. 189-90 (189-90)
-----Illinois. Packing industry. (Chicago)....................................................................... May 118 (1192)
-----Iowa. Agriculture.................................................................................................May 117-18 (1191-2)
-----------Machinists............................................................................................................... Apr. 135 (965)
-----------Painters.................................................................................................................. Apr. 135 (965)
-----United States. Development................................................ Apr. 133-6; May 117-19 (963-6,1191-3)
Classification Commission. (See United States: Congress. Joint commission on reclassi
fication.
Clerical service:
Budgets, individual. District of Columbia. Tentative quantity-cost budget, single
person, August-September, 1919.................................................................................. Jan. 35-44 (35-44)
Italy. Decree of February 9,1919, establishing employment office................................ Apr. 192 (1022)
United States. Salaries. 1893 to 1919. (Tables)................................................. June 26,29 (1332,1335)
(See also Public employees.)
Clerks, mercantile. (See Mercantile industry.)
Clinics, industrial. (See Hospital and medical service.)
Clothing:
Letter to President Wilson from Royal Meeker re appointment of textile and clothing
administrator, Aug. 29,1918........................................................................................ May 39-41 (1113-15)
Men’s. Trade agreements. Chicago. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
and Chicago manufacturers, December, 1919.............................................................Apr. 141-2 (971-2)
-----Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919............... Apr. 110 (940)
— -----United States. 1913 to 1919. Relative earnings per hour................................
Jan. 140;
*
Feb. 116; Mar. 90 (140,420,684)
---- Wages and hours of labor. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919................................................................................................................................ Mar. 77-90 (671-84)
Overtime. Compensation in garment industry. United States.................................... Mar. 117 (711)
Prices fixed by War Industries Board......................................................................... May 39-41 (1113-15)
Women’s. Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919. Apr. 110 (940)
-----Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919. Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
Clothing expenditures:
D istrict of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single man or woman...................Jan. 35, 37-9 (35,37-9)
France. Paris. January, 1920, compared with 1914 and April, 1919.................................Mar. 74 (668)
Germany. Increase, 1914 to 1919..................................................................................... Apr. 93-4 (923-4)
(See also Cost of living.)
Clothing requirements. District of Columbia. Minimum, family of five.....................June 6-10 (1312-16)
Coal:
Price to miners for domestic use. Recommendation of operators, and aw ard.. . . Apr. 42,43 (872,873)
Prices fixed by Fuel Administration............................................................................. May 31-4 (1105-8)
Retail prices, United States. 1913 and 1919 and January, 1920, by cities................. Mar. 57-63 (651-7)
(See also Fuel and light; Mines and mining.)
Coal Commission, Bituminous. United States. (See United States: Bituminous Coal
Commission.)
Coal commission, Germany. (See Germany. Coal commission.)
Coal Industry Commission Act, 1919, Great Britain. Summarized..................................... Mar. 201 (795)
Coal Mines Act, 1919, Great Britain. Summarized................................................................ Mar. 201 (7951
Coal mining. (See Mines and mining.)
Cobb, Stanley. Application of psychiatry to industrial hygiene, summarized............... Jan. 226-9 (226-9)
Code, seamen’s Agenda prepared by International Labor Cilice........... ............ May 2,4-7 (1076,1078-81)
Cold storage. (See Markets and marketing.)
Collective agreements:
Chicago. Agreement in men’s clothing industry, December, 1919............................ Apr. 141-2 (971-2)
France. Street railways. Agreement of August 18,1919............................................ Apr. 65-6 (895-6)
Germany. Creation of archive for................................................................................. Feb. 152-3 (456-7)
Switzerland. Act of June 27,1919................................................................................ May 184-5 (1258-9)
(See also Trade agreements.)
Collective bargaining:
Declaration of President’s Industrial Conference............................................... Apr. 33,37-8 (863,867-8)
Principle recognized by employers engaged on Government work during the war.......
Feb. 2 (306)
(See also Employees’ representation; Industrial councils; Shop committees.)
Colorado. Industrial commission. Provisions of........................................................... Mar. 216-17 (810-11)
Commission on reclassification. (See United States: Congress. Joint commission on re
classification.)
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Communist Party. Opinion of Secretary of Labor with regard to membership i n . . . Mar. 218-21 (812-15)
Company housing. (Sec Housing.)
Compensation commission. United States. (See United States: Employees’ compensa
tion commission.)
Compensation systems. (See Workmen’s compensation.)
Compositors. (See I rinting and publishing.)
Compulsory health insurance. (See Health insurance.)
Compulsory holidays. (See Holidays.)
Compulsory labor. Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia................................. Apr. 210-11 (1040-1)
Conciliation Act, 1896. Great Britain. For settlement of disputes. (Reported to)...........Apr. 232 (1062)
Conciliation and arbitration:
Chicago. Men’s clothing industry. Award of board of arbitration............................... Apr. 142 (972)
France. Strike of textile workers, Cctober, 1919........................................................ Mar. 124-5 (718-19)
Germany. Tendency to settle disputes by arbitration................................................... Feb. 170 (474)
Great Britain. Industrial courts act (1919).......................................... Feb. 41-6; Mar. 201 (345-50-795)
-----Provisions for dealing with labor disputes during the w ar.................................. Apr. 232-4 (1062-4)
-----Report on dock labor by court of inquiry instituted under Industrial Courts A ct..
May 54-62
(1128-36)
New York City. Board of arbitration provided for under building trades agreement. Feb. 149 (453)
-----Printing industry, 1919.............................................................................................. Jan. 278-9 (278-9)
New Zealand. Report of National Industrial Conference Board........................... May 216-18 (1290-2)
Norfolk, Va. Board of arbitration provided for under building trades agreement. Feb. 149-50 (453-4)
Preliminary report of President's Industrial Conference.................................................. Jan. 62-8 (62-8)
United States. Steam railroads. Report of Division of Labor, United States Railroad
Administration, 1919.........................................................................................................
Apr. 59 (889)
-----------Transportation act, 1920, provisions................................................................ Apr. 50-57 (880-7)
(See also Disputes, methods of adjusting; United States: National War Labor Board.)
Confectionery industry. United States. Wages and hours. Bureau of Labor Statistics
survey, 1919........................................................................................-............................ Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
Conferences. (See Congresses, conventions, etc.)
Congresses, conventions, etc.:
American Cooperative Convention, Springfield, 111., September, 1918....................... Apr. 117-18 (947-8
American Public Health Association. Paper on influenza-pneumonia among wage
earners. (Summarized)....................... j ...................................................................... Jan. 223-4 (223-4)
-----Resolution re health insurance............................................................• ....................... Feb. 226 (530)
Australian employers’ federations, Melbourne, 1919.......................................................Apr. 60-2 (890-2)
Chicago Woman’s Club, Woman’s City Club, Chicago Housewives’ League, and Illinois
Federation of Women’s Clubs................................................ ................................. May 113-14 (1187-8)
Conferences called by Minimum Wage Board of District of Columbia to establish mini
mum wages in various industries........................ . .................................................... Mar. 132-6 (726-30)
Employers and employees of South Africa, Pretoria, November 3-7,1919..................... June 224 (1530)
Farmer-labor cooperative congresses, Chicago, Nov. 21-22, 1919, and Feb. 12-15,
1920................... T...................................-...................................... Feb. 133-4; Apr. 128-30 (437-8,958-60)
General Conference of International Labor Organization of League of Nations. Agenda
prepared by International Labor Office re working conditions of seamen............ May 1-20 (1075-94)
International Congress of Working Women, Washington. Resolutions re child labor.
Jan. 20 (20)
International Labor Conference, Washington, October-November, 1919....................... Jan. 1-26 (1-26)
-----Draft conventions adopted..................................................................................... Feb. 15-32 (319-36)
International Seamen’s Union of America, San Francisco, January, 1920................. Mar. 203-5 (797-9)
International Union of Woodworkers, Amsterdam, Dec. 8-10,1919.........................May 201-2 (1275-6)
Joint International Conference Council, Chicago, Apr. 21,1919,Printing...................... Jan. 272 (272)
National and international trades-unions, and executives of the four railroad brother
hoods. Declarations adopted.....................................................................; ............. Feb. 33-41 (337-45)
National Councilof Port Labor Employers and National Workers’ Federation, London,
A pril,1920........................................................................................................................... June 114 (1420)
National Safety Council. Paper on the coordination of industrial and community
health activities (Ford)..................................................................................................- - Feb. 201 (505)
----- Paper on industrial clinics in general hospitals (Edsall)............................. J an- 224-5 (224-5)
National Society for Vocational Education and Vocational Education Association of
the Middle West. Report........................................................................................ ^F.r '
Pennsylvania Safety Congress. Address by Royal Meeker........................................Apr. 1-13 (831-43)
President’s Industrial Conference. Report................................................................. Apr. 33-40 (863-70)
-----Preliminary statem ent.............................................................................................. . .
Scandinavian Labor Congress, Copenhagen, Jan. 21-23,1929.................................... Apr. 22L6 (1054r-6)
Seamen’s Conference, Genoa, June, 1920. Agenda prepared by International Labor
Office................................................................................................................................... May 198 (1272)
Trades-Union Congress (Great Britain), Glasgow, September, 1919........................... Feb. 256-8 (560-2)
Connor, J. F. Report on investigation into management and affairs of New York Indus
trial Commission............................................................................................................... Fed. 212-18 (516-22)
Construction trades. (See Building trades.)
Continuation classes. (See Classes for employees.)
Continuous industry:
_ n
. ...
International Labor Conference, 1919........................................................................ Jjm 7, 9,19(7, 9,19)
Rest day in. Plans (Croxton).................................................................................. Feb. 118-27 (422-31)
Convention of Bern, 1906. (See Bern Convention, 1906.)
Conventions. (SeeCongresses,conventions,etc.)
...
Conyngton, Mary. The Government’s wage policy during the last quarter century. June 19-35 (1325-41)
Cooks. (See Hotels,restaurants, etc.)
° Consumers’. Review of Albert Sonnichsen’s book, Consumers’ Cooperation....... Feb. 134-7 (438—
41)
Consumers’cooperative movement. Aims and possibilities............................... , - June 117-22 (1423-8)
Denmark. Development............................................................................................... . Ju n e I3,0.
France. Development...................................................................................................June 130 1 (1436- 7)
Germany. Development............................................................................................June 132 5 (1438-41)
Great Britain. Activities of cooperative societies during 1917.................................... Jan. isi-3 (m -3 )
-----CooperativeUnion. Mem bership,etc.................................................................... Apr. 131-2(961-2)
-----Cooperative Wholesale Society. Description of benefits.......................................- - Apr. 118 (948)
-----Rochdale principles................... - - ............................................................................ Mar. 138-9 (732-3)
-----(See also Cooperation: United Kingdom.)
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India. Development....................................................................................................... June 136-7 (1442-3)
Italy. Development........................................................................................................ June 137-8 (1443-4)
-----National Cooperative Union for Importation [of foodstuffs]................................. Apr. 130-1 (960-1)
Netherlands. Development....................................................................................... June 138-41 (1444—
7)
Norway. Development....................................................................................................... June 141 (1447)
Roumania. Development.............................................................................................. June 141-3 (1447-9)
Russia. Various societies, described (Zelenko)....................................................... June 122-30 (1428-36)
Sweden. Development............................................................................................... June 143-4 (1449-50)
U nited Kingdom. Activities of British cooperative societies during 1918................ Apr. 131-2 (961-2)
-----Development................................................................................................................... June 120 (1426)
-----(See also Cooperation: Great Britain.)
U nited States. Consumers’ cooperative wholesale societies in the U nited States.......Apr. 117-28 (947-58)
-----Cooperative Wholesale Society of America. Activities............................................ Apr. 124(954)
-----Development...............................................................................................
Mar.138-45(732-9)
-----Farmer-labor cooperative congresses, Chicago, Feb. 12-11, 1920, and Nov.
21-22,1919................. ......................................................... Feb. 133-4; Apr. 128-30 (437-8,958-60)
-----Rochdale principles..........................................................................................................Mar. 138 (732)
-----Recommended by President’s Industrial Conference.................................................
Apr. 39 (869)
Various countries. Development............................................................................. June 130-44 (1436-50)
Washington State. Activities of trade-unions.................................................................. Apr. 129(959)
Cooperative Central Exchange, Superior, Wis. Activities, e tc ............................................. Apr. 125 (955)
Cooperative insurance. Discussed at All-American Farmer-Labor Cooperative Congress,
Chicago, February, 1920..................................................... , .................................................... Apr. 129 (959)
Cooperative Wholesale Society, England. (See Cooperation—U nited Kingdom.)
Cooperative Wholesale Society of America. (See Cooperation—United States.)
Copartnership. U nited Kingdom. Report of Ministry of L abor..................................June 144-5 (1450-1)
Copper. Prices fixed by War Industries B oard...............................................................May 38-9 (1112-13)
Cost of living, increase in:
Argentina. 1913,1917, and 1919..................................................... r.............................. June 80-1 (1386-7)
Australia. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to d ate.................................... Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94,916)
-----W holesaleprices,indexnumbers, 1890 to date.....................................
Mar.66-7(660—1)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1913 to date............................................................ June 75 (138l)
Belgium. Retailprices, index numbers, January to September, 1919...........................
Feb. 98 (402)
----- Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to date..................................................................
Apr. 86 (916)
Canada. Retailprices, index numbers, 1914 to date........................................ Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94,916)
----- Retail prices, various commodities, 1914 to 1919.......................................................... Mar. 73 (667)
----- Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1890 to date......................................................... Mar. 66-7 (660-l)
----- Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1913 to date........................................................... June 75 (1381)
Czechoslovakia. Retailprices of food, April, 1914, and December, 1919........................
Mar. 76 (670)
Denmark. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to date.................................... Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94,916)
District of Columbia. Per cent of increase from 1913 to 1919.................................. ....... Jan. 98-9 (98-9)
----- Quantity-cost budget, single m an or woman, August-September, 1919................. Jan. 35-44 (35-44)
France. January, 1920, compared with 1914 and April, 1919 (P aris).......... , ................
Mar. 74 (-668)
------ Retailprices, index numbers, 1914 to date................................................. Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94, 916)
___ Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1890 to date......................................
Mar.66-7(660-l)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1913 to date........................................................... June 75 (138l)
Germany. 1914 to 1919.................. ................................................................................ Apr. 93-4 (923-4)
----- 1916 to 1918.......................................................................... : ................................. Jan. 114-17 (114-17)
Great Britain. Dock labor. Report of court of inquiry, March 31, 1920................ May 57-8 (1131-2)
----- Retail priees. Per cent of increase, various dates....... ............................................. Jan .96; Feb.85;
Mar. 75; Apr. 88; May 90; June 80 (96,389,669,918,1164,1386)
----- Retailprices, index numbers, 1914 to date..................... ............................. Jan. 95; Apr. 86 (95, 916)
---- - (See also Cost of living, increase in, United Kingdom.)
Illinois. Relative costs for family of five, 1913 to 1919 (Peoria)...................................... Jan. 150 (150)
Italy. A cause of labor unrest after the w ar......................... ........................................... May 204 (1278)
-----1914 to 1919............................................................................................................... Apr. 89-93 (919-23)
-----Retailprices, index numbers, 1914 to date................................................... Jan. 95; Apr. 87 (95, 917)
Massachusetts. B udget of self-supporting girl..................... ..................................... May 110-11 (1184-5)
—.—. Study of NationallndustrialConference Board, 1919. (Lawrence).................... Mar. 71-2 (665-6)
Apr. 87 (917)
Netherlands. Retailprices, index numbers, 1914 to d ate...............................................
New Zealand. Retailprices, index numbers, 1914 to d ate...............................Jan. 95; Apr. 87 (95, 917)
Norway. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to date....................................... Jan. 95; Apr. 87 (95,917)
Roumania. RetailpricesoffoodstuffsandfirewoodinBucharest, 1911,1914, and 1919. May 90-1 (1164-5)
South Africa. 1910 to September, 1919..........................................................................Mar. 75-6 ( 669-70)
Spain. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to date..........................................................
Apr. 87 (917)
Sweden. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to date........... ............................ Jan. 95; Apr. 87 (95,917)
-------Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1913 to date............. ........................................... June 75 (1381)
Switzerland. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to d ate................................................
Apr. 87 (917)
United Kingdom. Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1890 to date............................ Mar. 66-7 ( 660-1)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1913 to d a te ............................................................. June 75 (1381)
-----(See also Cost of living, increase in. Great Britain.)
United States. Changes, 1914 to 1919. (NationallndustrialConferenceBoardreport) May 88-9(1162-3)
-----Changes, 1917 to 1919,13 cities.......................................... .....................................June 76-9 (1382-5)
-----Changes, 1914 to 1919,14 cities............................................................................ . May 84-7 (1158-61)
-----Family food expenditures based on retail prices, by city..........................................Jan. 91; Feb.82;
Mar. 55 (91, 387,649)
-----Furniture and house furnishings. (Bureau of Labor Statistics and National War
Labor Board survey, 1918-19)...................................................................................... Jan. 27-34 (27-34)
-----Improbability of decrease. (Article by Royal Meeker)..................................... Feb. 95-7 (399-401)
— Increase in salaries of Government employees compared with increase in retail
food prices, earnings in New York State factories, etc., 1915-1919................................ June 33 (1339)
-----Per cent of increase, 1913 to 1919....................................... ...........................................Jan. 97-8 (97-8)
-----President’s IndustrialConference recommends further investigation......................
Apr. 39 (869)
-----Relation to wage adjustments. (Survey and increase by one firm )................. Jan. 148-52(148-52)
-----Retail prices of food. (Charts)......................................... ..........................................Jan. 73; Feb. 67;
Mar. 39; Apr. 75; May 74; June 64 ( 73,371,633,905,1148,1370)
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Cost of living, increase in—Concluded.
Eage.
United States. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to date............................... Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94,916)
-----Retail prices, food—January, 1920, compared with January, 1919. (Chart and
table).............................................................................................................................. Mar. 29-30 ( 623-4)
-----Retail prices, percentage change in, 22 food articles................................................ Apr. 76; May 75;
^
June 65 (906,1149,1371)
-----Retail prices, relative. Recent dates compared with earlier years.................... Jan. 72; Feb. 63-5;
Mar. 36-7; Apr. 72-4; May 72-3; June 61-3 (72, 367-9, 630-1, 902-3, 1146-7, 1367-9)
-----Retailprices of food compared with salaries of Government employees, 1915-1919... June 31 (1337)
-----Retail prices. (See also Cost of living—United States—Wholesale and retail
prices.)
-----Wholesale and retail prices, relative. Selected cities, 1913 to d a te ... Mar. 70; June 73 (664, 1379)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1890 to 1919............................................................ Feb. 89 (393)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1890 to date........................................................ Mar. 66-7 (660-1)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1913 to date........................................................... June 75 (1381)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers. Groups of commodities, 1913 to date...........Jan. 93; Feb. 87-8;
Mar. 65; Apr. 84; May 78; June 69 (93, 391-2, 659, 914, 1152,1375)
-----Wholesale prices, percent of change in one month, groups of commodities... Apr. 83; May 76-7;
’
June 68 (913, 1150-1, 1374)
-----Wholesale prices, relative, various commodities....................... Feb. 91-4; May 80-3 (395-8,1154-7)
-----(See also Cost of living, increase in. Specific States.)
United States and foreign countries. Retail prices, index numbers, 1914 to date................Jan. 94-5;
Apr. 85-7 (94-5, 915-17)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1890 to date........................................................ Mar. 66-7 (660-1)
-----Wholesale prices, index numbers, 1913 to date.............................................. ............ June 75 (1381)
(See also Budgets, family; Budgets, individual; Butter; Cheese; Clothing expenditures,
Rents; Retail prices; Wholseale prices.)
Cost ofliving, reduction in: Improbability of decrease (article by Royal Meeker).........Feb. 95-7 (399-401)
-----Object of cooperative movement................................................................................... Mar. 138 (732)
Cost-of-living bonuses. (See Bonuses: Cost-of-living.)
Cost of living compared w ith wages:
Germany. Deficits in family budgets................................................................................... Jan. 117 (117)
Illinois. Survey and increase by one firm, described. . : ........................................... J an. 148-52 (148-52)
New York. Factory earnings and food prices. (Index numbers).................................. Feb. 128 (432)
(See also Bonuses: Cost-of-living.)
Cotton manufacturing. Wages and hours. United States. 1914 to 1919. (National In
dustrial Conference Board)...............................1............. .............. ....................... J an. 142,143-4 (142,143-4)
Council of National Defense. (See United States: Council of National Defense.)
Court decisions. (See Decisions of courts.)
Credit unions, referred to .............................................................................. ............................... Apr. 130 (960)
Crimms, Commander, in charge of questions relating to seamen, International Labor Office. May 197 (1271)
Crippled. (See Handicapped.)
Croxton, Fred C. Schedule for rest day in continuous operation industry................... Feb. 118-27 (422-31)
D.
Dangerous and'injurious occupations:
Canada. Workmen’s compensation laws apply to only hazardous employments.Mar. 172,174 (766,768)
Discussion by International Labor Conference, 1919.............................................. Jan. 2, 2i-22 (2, 21-22)
Employment of minors. (Recommendation of International Congress of Working
Women, 1919)....................................................................................................................
Jan. 20 (20)
Hazardous employment defined in North Dakota workmen’s compensation law......... Feb. 209 (513)
Industries in which skin diseases have developed............................................................. Feb. 207 (511)
Manufacture and use of wood alcohol, recommendations concerning................. . - - Feb. 197-201 (501-5)
New York. Investigation of United States Public H ealth Service and New York In
dustrial Commission.................................................................................................. Mar. 161-8 (755-62)
Recommendations adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919.......................... Feb. 30-2 (334-6)
States including only hazardous employments in workmen’s compensation laws........ Jan. 235 (235)
(See also Accidents; Disease; Poisoning.)
Day of rest:
Austria. Domestic service. Provisions of law..................................................................June 191 (1497)
Czechoslovakia. Law of December, 1918........................................................................... Feb. 241 (545)
France. Agriculture. Agreement of August, 1919................................................. Mar. 123-4 (717-18)
-----Steam railroads. Order of Minister of Public Works................................................ Apr. 64 (894)
Russia. Code of labor laws................................................................................................. Apr. 213 (1043)
Schedule for 8-hour day and 6-day week in continuous operations (Croxton).........Feb. 118-27 (422-31)
(See also Hours; Rest periods.)
Days worked. (See Hours.)
Death benefits. (See Workmen’s compensation. Benefits.)
Decisions of courts relating to labor:
Wages. Electric railroads. K ansas......................................................................... June 106-7 (1412-13)
Seamen’s act held constitutional.................................................................................. June 187-9 (1493-5)
Delevingne, Sir Malcolm. Report on child labor, International Labor Conference, 1919. Jan. 17-20 (17-20)
Demands, important strikes:
,
Belgium. Coal industry. Strike a t Charleroi, December, 1919..................................... Apr. 228 (1058)
Italy. Public employees (postal, telegraph, and telephone), 1918-19..................... May 205-7 (1279-81)
----- Steam railroads, 1919............................................................................................ May 209-12 (1283-6)
New York City. Printing industry, 1919......................................................................Jan. 270-9 (270-9)
United States. Bituminous coal strike, 1919............................................................... Apr. 41-2 (871-2)
(See also Strikes.)
Demobilization:
,
.
Belgium. Law providing for reemployment of demobilized soldiers........................ Feb. 163-4 (467-8)
United Kingdom. Reabsorption of labor, and unemployment.......................... Apr. 155-74 (985-1004)
(See also Soldiers and sailors.)
Department of Labor. United States. (See United States: Department of Labor.)
Dermatosis:
Investigation by National Safety Council......................... .......................................... Feb. 206-8 (510-12)
Leather trade. (Summary of article by R. Prosser W h ite )..... . — ................. Apr. 184-5 (1014-15)
Director General of Railroads. (See United States: Railroad Administration.)
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Duration among wage earners. (Em m et).................................................................. Mar. 4-15 (598-609)
Partial. Period and amount of compensation..................... Jan. 239,242-243,245 (239,242-243, 245)
Provisions of British national health insurance system................................................. Jan. 46-7 (46-7)
Provisions of labor laws of Soviet Russia........................................................................... Apr. 214 (1044)
Total. Period and amount of compensation........................................... Jan. 239,241,245 (239,241,245)
{See also Accident statistics; Disease; Workmen’s compensation.)
Disabled. (See Handicapped; Soldiers and sailors.)
Disabled Men (Facilities for Employment) Act, 1919, Great B ritain.................................... Mar. 201 (795)
Discharge of employees. (See Employment management.)
Discharged soldiers and sailors. {See Soldiers and sailors.)
Disease:
Accident insurance law amended to include occupational diseases, France............ Jan. 259-61 (259-61)
Dermatosis. Investigation by National Safety Council............................................ Feb. 206-8 (510-12)
-----Leather trade. Discussion by R . Prosser W hite................................................ Apr. 184-5 (1014-15)
Diseases and industries covered by amended accident insurance law, France.............. Jan. 261 (261)
Influenza-pneumonia among wage earners...................................................................... Jan. 223-4 (223-4)
Workmen’s compensation laws, Canada, include occupational diseases... Mar. 172, 175-6 (766,769-70)
{See also Dangerous and injurious occupations; Poisoning; Sickness.)
Disputes. {See Demands, important strikes; Lockouts; Strikes.)
Disputes, methods of adjusting:
Belgium. Coal industry, 1919..................................................................................... Apr. 228-9 (1058-9)
Colorado. Provisions of industrial commission........................................................ Mar. 216-17 (810-11)
Great Britain. During the w a r.................................................................................. Apr. 232-4 (1062-4)
-----Industrial oourts act, 1919............................................................ . Feb. 41-6; Mar. 201 (345-50, 795)
Kansas. Court of industrial relations......................................................................... Mar. 214-15 (808-91
—— Electric railroads. National War Labor Board, referred t o .................................... June 106 (1412)
-----First cases decided by court of industrial relations................................................ May 52-4 (1126-8)
New York City. Printing industry. 1919............................................................... Jan. 278-9 (278-9)
New York State. Work of bureau of mediation and arbitration under proposed or
ganization of department of lab o r......................................................................... ......... Jan. 268 (268)
New Zealand. Report of National Industrial Conference Board........................... May 216-18 (1290-2)
United States. Proposals of President’s Industrial Conference__ Jan. 62-8; Apr. 33-40 (62-8, 863-70)
-----Railroads. Division of labor of United States Railroad Administration............ Apr. 58-9 (888-9)
-----------Provisions of Transportation Act (1920)............................. Apr. 50-7; May 46-9 (880-7, 1120-3)
{See also Conciliation and arbitration; Trade agreements; United States: National
War Labor Board.)
Disputes, methods of preventing. Proposals of President’s Industrial Conference_____ Apr. 36-7 (866-7)
District of Columbia:
Minimum Wage Board. Conferences to decide minimum wage for w om en............ Mar. 132-6 (726-30)
----- Report for 1919........................................................................................................ Apr. 112-15 (942-5)
-----Wages of women in hotels, restaurants, etc., 1919................................................... Jan. 144-8 (144-8)
District of Columbia. {See also specific subjects.)
Dock labor. {See Shipping.)
Docks and harbors. {See Shipping.)
Domestic service:
Austria. Recent law ..................................................................................................... June 191-3 (1497-9)
Bavaria. Wages and hours............................................................................................ Feb. 131-2 (435-6)
England. Wages and hours................................................................................................ Feb. 130 (434)
United States. Plans for improvement.................................................................. May 112-16 (1186-90)
Douglas, Dorothy W. American minimum wage laws at work. (Summarized).............. Jan. 180 (180)
Draftsmen. Salaries. United States. Navy Department, 1893 to 1919..............June 24, 29 (1330, 1335)
Dry goods. Retail prices. United States.................................................................. ...... Aor. 77-82 (907-12)
Dublin, Louis I. Study of influenza-pneumonia................................................................. Jan. 223-4 (223-4)
Dust:
Sand blasting. Protection by apparatus used in investigation for United States Pub
lic Health Service...................................................................................................... May 154-7 (1228-31)
Various industries. Hazards. New York............................ ......................
Mar. 162-3 (756-7)
Earnings. {See Wages.)
Jan. 224-5 (224-5)
Edsall, D. L. Industrial clinics in general hospitals. (Summarized)...................
Education:
Courses in industrial medicine.................................................................................. May 143-52 (1217-26)
Expenditures. District of Columbia. Quantity cost budget, single man or woman. Jan. 35, 43 (35, 43)
France. Public schools. Rights of Italian workers under Franco-Italian treaty .......
Feb. 52 (356)
Italy. Public schools. Rights of French workers under Franco-Italian treaty..........
Feb. 52 (356)
Russia. Educational activities of cooperative societies. (Zelenko)........................ June 127-9 (1433-5)
United States. Courses in cooperation by cooperative societies............................. Apr. 119-20 (949-50)
{See also Apprenticeship; Classes for employees; Industrial education and training;
Reeducation.)
Efficiency:
Investigation by National Association of Credit Men................................................ June 219-20 (1525-6)
Standard output required. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia.................................... Apr. 213 (1043)
{See also Employment management.)
Eight-hour day:
Australia. Shipping. Award of arbitration court in strike........................................... Feb. 265 (569)
-----Steam railroads. (Queensland)....................................................................... •........... Mar. 118 (712)
Belgium. Trade-unions promise.................................................................................
May 200 (1274)
Discussion by International Labor Conference, 1919.........................................................Jan. 6-12 (6-12)
Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919.......................... Feb. 15-20 (319-24)
France. Building and construction trades....................................................................... Mar. 122 (716)
-----Petroleum industry. Agreement of June, 1919.......................................................... Mar. 123 (717)
-----Printing and publishing................................................................................................ Mar. 122 (716)
-----Steam railroads. Order of Minister of Public Works................................................. Apr. 64 (894)
-----Street railways..............................................................................................................
Apr. 67 ( 897)
Great Britain. John Dawson Works, England................................................................
Feb. 9 (313)
International convention, topical sum m ary................................................................ Mar. 189-90 (783-4)
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Eight-hour day—Concluded.
p age
International labor conference. Discussion.................................
Jan 6-12 (6M2)
Italy. Public employees (postal, telegraph, and telephone). Demand for’8-hour'day
a cause of strikes.............................................................
May 204 (1278)
-----Steam railroads. Demand of employees, 1919...
......................................... May 210 (1284)
Poland. Regulations governing application of law................................................ Apr. 209-10 (1039^40)
Resolution passed by International Congress of Working Women, 1919..
Jan 12 (12)
Rest day in continuous operation industry (Croxton)....................
Feb 118-27 (422-31)
Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia..........................
’
' Apr 213 (1043)
United States. Coalmining. Award and recommendations of U nited'statesB itum“ ?usCoal(Commission......... ..................................................................... Apr. 43,48-9 (873,878-9)
—— United States. Recommendation of President’s Industrial Conference...
Apr. 38 (868)
Various foreign countries. Comparison of law s................
Mar 184-98(778-92)
(See also 48-hour week; 44-hour week; Hours.)
Electric railroads:
Wages. Kansas. Decision of court of industrial relations...................
June 106-7 (1412- 13)
(See also Street railways.)
Electrical apparatus manufacture. Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor
Statistics survey, 1919................................................................................................... June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Electrical workers:
'
France. Wages in force March, 1919..............
Mar 121 ( 713)
Germany Strike of 1919.........................................................................! ! " ! " " " '. '. " 'j a n . 280-1 (280-1)
Emergency Engineer Corps,” Germany, to break strikes................................
Apr. 229-31 (1059-61)
Emergency Fleet Corporation. United States. (See United States: Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation.)
Emmet, Boris. Duration of wage earners’ disabilities....................
Mar 4-15 (598- 609)
Employees’ Compensation Commission. United States. (See United States: Employees’
Compensation Commission.)
Employees’ representation:
France. Steam railroads............................................................................................ Apr. 63,65 (893,895)
Germany. Works council law, January, 1920.............. '.......................................... May 172-81 (1246-55)
GreatBritain. Application of Whitley industrial council scheme to civil service... Jan. 195-6 (195-6)
------ Experiments in...........................
Feb 9 (313)
Italy. Demands of workers, 1920...................................................... " " " 'May 204-5', 210 (1278-9,1284)
South Africa. Resolution of conference of employers and employees, 1919..
June 224 (1530)
United States. Address by Royal Meeker, 1919.......................................................... Feb. 1-14 (305-18)
-----Proposals of President’s Industrial Conference............................................. ........Apr. 33-40 (863-70)
-----■AVorks councils and shop committees in the United States. (National indus
trial Conference Board and New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce studies.). . Ian. 191-4 (191-4)
(See also Collective bargaining; Industrial councils; Shop committees.)
Employers’ liability act, 1908, referred to ............................................................................
Apr. 50 (880)
Employers’ organizations:
'
Australia._ Conference of employers’ federations on industrial relationships. Recom
mendations ..................................................................................................................... Apr. 60-2 (890-2)
District of Columbia. Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association 'friendly toward
minimum wage law ........................................................................................................... Apr. 112 (942)
Employers’ Association of Niagara Falls. L etter asking permission to introduce
women in to “ shift work. ” ............................................... ............................................... Mar. 161 (755)
NewZealand. Membership of employers’ unions, 1907, 1914, and 1917
’ May 217 (1291)
Opinions of employees. Report of Division of Labor, United States Railroad Admin
i s t r a t i o n . ....................................................................................................................
Apr. 5 9 ( 889)
Printing in d u stry . . . . ........................................................................................................
Jan. 272 (272)
Employment. (See Employm ent statistics; Unemployment.)
Empl oyment agencies:
California. Committee on soldiers’reemployment......................................................... Feb. 162(466)
Illinois. Commission for obtaining employment for soldiers......................................... Feb. 161 (465)
Indiana.^ Creation ofcom m issiontosecureem ploym entforex-servicem en................. Feb. 161 (465)
International labor conference. Recommendations........... ...........................................
Jan. 13 ( 13)
Italy. Measures for preventing unemployment........................................................ Apr. 191-8 (1021-8)
—— Established by Government to improve conditions of working classes................... May 204 (1278)
Missouri. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Employment Organization created to assist exservice men in finding employment.................... ......................................................... Feb. 161 (465)
Montana. Veterans-’ Welfare Commission of Montana, for securing employment for
ex-service m en..................................................................... ............................................ Feb. 161 (465)
New York. Program of employment bureau under proposed reorganization of departm ent of labor............................................................................................................. Jan. 268 (268)
Oregon. Creation of soldiers’ and sailors’ commission to assist ex-service men in ob
taining em ploym ent.................................................................................................... Feb. 161-2(46.5-6)
Rhodelsland. Employment offices for ex-servicemen................................................... Feb. 162(466)
United Kingdom. Figuresfor five weeks ending January 9,1920..............
Apr. 175 (1005)
-----Figures for September and October, 1919........................................................ ........... Jan. 202 (202)
United States. Federal. Scope and activities...................................................... May 127-40 (1201-14)
-----President’s Industrial Conference recommends establishment of ..........
Apr. 40 (870)
-----Service and information departm ent, War Department, for placing ex-service
^
m en............................................................................................................................... Feb. 158-60 (462-4)
Employment management:
Notice of intention to discharge and quit. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia........... Apr. 212 (1042)
-----Demobilized workmen. Belgium....................................... ........................................ Feb. 164 (468)
-----Domestic service. Austria. Provisions of law.......................................................... June 192 (1498)
- —-------Bavaria................................................................................................................... Feb. 131 (435)
Street railways. France......................................................................................................
Apr. 67 (897)
Employment of women. (See Woman labor.)
Employment service,. (See Employment agencies.)
Employment statistics:
Bituminous coal mines. United States. 1919 and 1920.......................................... June 149-50 (1455-6)
Home work, Switzerland...................................................................................................... June 223 (1529)
Selected industries. United States. 1919 and 1920................................................
Jan. 197-201;
Feb. 154-8; Mar. 146-50; Apr. 143-7; May 123-7; June
146-9 (197-201, 458-62,740-4, 973-7, 1197-1201,1452-5)
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Employment statistics—Concluded.
,?£JLe*o\
Various industries. France. Various dates................................................................ Mar. 151-4 (745-8)
----- Great Britain. 1919................................................................................................ Mar. 150-1 (744-5)
-----United Kingdom. (September and October, 1919, and October, 1918)................. Jan. 203-4 (203-4)
----------- (January, 1920).................................................................................................Apr. 176-7 (1006-7)
(Seealso Homs: Unemployment.)
..
Engineering trades. Wages. Great Britain. Increases, December, 1919.....................Feb. 128-30 (432-4)
Engineers:
Great Britain. Wages. Increases, various dates............................................................. June i l l (.141/j
United States. Hydrographic and geodetic engineers of Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Salaries, 1893 to 1919............................................................................................... June 24,29 (1330,1335)
Equal pay for equal work:
_ ....
Furniture industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.......... Jan. 135-7 (13o-7)
Government service. Report of Women’s Bureau, United States Department of
Labor.............................7...........................................................................................Jan. 208-17(208-17)
Recommendation of President’s industrial Conference....................................................
Apr- 38 (868)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees............ June 224 (1530)
(See also National Industrial Conference Board—Report on wartime changes in wages;
Wage increases during war; Wages; Woman labor.)
Ex-service men. (See Soldiers and sailors.)
Executive orders:
.
Control of railroads, December 26,1917....................................................................-----Price-fixing during war....... , ..........................................- ........................................ May 21-45 (109o-1119)
Eyeinjuries:
Compensation for loss of vision, Virginia law................................................................ - - - Apr. iso uoio)
Compensation table for visuallosses of one eye (Allport)........................................... Apr. 187-8 (1017-18)
F.
Factories. (See Employment statistics; Hours; Wages.)
Factory inspection. Recommendation of International Labor Conference, 1919.. Jan. 22; I eb. 32 (22,33b)
Family allowances. (See Allowances, fam ily.)
Family expenditures. (See Budgets, family; Clothing expenditures; Food expenditures,
etc.)
Fares, car. (See Car fares.)
Farm labor. (See Agriculture.)
Farmer-Labor Cooperative Congresses, Chicago, November, 1919, and February, 1920.........
Peb. 133-4;
Apr. 128-30 (437-8, 958-60)
Fatigue. Investigation of United States Public Health Service, National Research Coun
cil, and Council of National Defense, re hours as related to output and accident rate.. May 158-63 (1232-7)
(See also Day of rest; Hours.)
Federal Board for Vocational Education. (See United States: Federal Board for Voca
tional Education.)
Federal control act (1918), United States. Provides for Government control of railroads
during war.................................................................................................................................
Apr. 51 (881)
Federal employees. (See Public employees.)
Federal Vocational Education Act. Law, February, 1917, Development under................ Apr. 133 (9b3)
Fisher, Irving. Stabilizing the dollar. (Reviewed)........................................................ Mar. 222-3 (816—
17)
Fishing industry. British Columbia. Minimum-wage order.............................................. Apr. 116 (946)
Flour. Prices fixed by Food Administration................................................................... May 29-30 (1103-4)
Food and Fuel Control Act, United States. Provisions empowering President to fix
p rices..................................................................................................................................... May 22-3 (1096-7)
Food control:
Italy. Decrease in food consumption, 1919........................................................... ..........
APr - 93 (922)
-----National Cooperative Union for Importation established to consider questions of
purchase and distribution of food supplies............................................................. . Apr. 130-1 (960-1)
United States. Price-fixing during the war.......................................................- • - May 21-31 (1095-1105)
Food expenditures:
Australia. Index numbers of retail prices of food, 1914-1919.......................... Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94,916)
Canada. Index numbers of retail prices of food, 1914 to 1919.......................... Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94,916)
Czechoslovakia. April, 1914, and December, 1919............................................................
Mar. 76 (670)
Denmark. Index numbers of retailpriees, 1914 to 1919................................... Jan. 94; Apr. 86 (94,916)
District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single m an or woman................. Jan. 35,36-37 (35, 36-37)
France. January, 1920, compared with 1914 and April, 1919. (Paris)..........................
Mar. 74 (668)
Germany. Amount and per cent of expenditure, and consumption per unit, 1916,1917,
and 1918.............................................................................................................................. , Jan.
-----Requirements of family of four, 1914 to 1919.............................................................Apr. 93-4 (923-4)
Great Britian. Increase, 1914 to 1920.................................................................. - .........
Apr. 88 (918)
-----Index numbers of retailpriees, 1914 to 1919............................................... Jan. 95; Apr. 86 (95,916)
Italy. Index numbers of retailpriees, 1914 to 1919......................................... Jan. 95; Apr. 87 (95,917)
-----Workman’s family in Milan, December, 1919, compared with first six months of
1924........................................... ! ................ ...................................................................... Apr. 91 (921)
Netherlands, index numbers of retailpriees, 1914 to 1919..............................................
Apr. 87 (917)
New Zealand. Indexnumbers ofretailprices, 1914 to 1919................................. Jan. 95; Apr. 87 (95,917)
Norway. Index numbers ofretailprices, 1914 to 1919....................................... Jan. 95; Apr. 87 (95,917)
-----Retail prices, 1914 and 1917 to 1919............................................................................. - Feb. 100 (404)
Roumania. Average retailpriees in Bucharest, 1911,1914, and 1919............................May 90-1 (1164-5)
Spain. Index numbers ofretailprices, 1914 to 1919.........................................................
Apr. 87 (917)
Switzerland. Index numbers ofretailprices of food, 1914 to 1919..................................
Apr. 87 (917)
United States. Changes in retailcostof22 food articles in one month and in 12 months,
and average cost in 1913........................................................ -....................... Apr. 76; May 75 (906,1149)
-----1913, January to December, 1919, and 1919.................................................................
Mar. 33 ( 627)
-----Retailpriees of food,index numbers, 1914 to 1919.......... ............ ............ .
Apj: 86 (916)
-----Twenty-two articles, fifty cities.. Jan. 90-2; Feb. 82-3; Mar. 54-6; Apr. 76 (90-2; 586-7; 648-50; 906)
(See also Budgets, family; Cost of living; Retailpriees.)
Food industries. Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919.
(Food, beverages, and tobacco)............................................................................................... Apr. U0 (940)
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District of Columbia. Minimum quantity, family of five........................................... June 1-6 (1307-12)
Great Britian. Woman labor. Study of munition workers, referred to..................Jan. 225-6 (225-6)
Ford, C. E. The coordination of industrial and community health activities. Address,
1919........................................................................................................................................ Feb. 201-2 (505-6)
Foreign workers. (See Alien labor.)
Forty-eight-hour week:
Discussion by International Labor Conference, 1919........................................................ Jan. 6-12 (6-12)
Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919.......................... Feb. 15-20 (319-24)
France. Petroleum refineries and warehouses. Agreement of June, 1919.................... Mar. 123 (717)
Recommendation of President’s Industrial Conference....................................................
Apr. 38 (868)
Rest day in continuous industry. (Croxton)........................... ................................ Feb. 118-27 ( 422-31)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees............ June 224 (1530)
(See also Eight-hour day.)
Forty-four-hour week:
Great Britain. John Dawson Works, E ngland...............................................................
Feb. 9 (313)
-----Manuallabor. Resolution adopted by Fifty-first Trades-Union Congress............. Feb. 257 (561)
New York City.- Building trades. (Agreement of November, 1919)............................. Feb. 147(4511
-----Printing industry. Demand for, resume of outbreak of 1919......................... Jan. 270-279 (270-279)
Resolution adopted by the International Typographical Union, 1917............................ Jan. 273 (273)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees........ June 224 (1530)
United States. Resolution of International Typographical Union, 1917....................... Jan. 273 (273)
(See also Eight-hour day.)
Forty-hour week:
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees............ June 224 (1530)
(See also Eight-hour day.)
Foundries:
Great Britain. Wage increases, December, 1919....................................................... Feb. 128-30 (432-4)
United States. Wages and hours. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919__ June 82-94 (1388-1400)
France. Ministry of social hygiene, social insurance, etc., created....................................... Apr. 185(1015)
France. (See also specific subjects. )
Frankel, Em il. Mobility of labor in American industry......................................... . June 36-56 (1342-62)
Frankel, Lee K. Study of influenza-pneumonia................................................................. Jan. 223-4(223-4)
Frequency rates. (See Accident rates, frequency and severity.)
Frincke; M. C., jr ., compiler. Laws and agreements governing working conditions among
American seamen.............................................................................................................. May 1-20 (1075-94)
Fruit and vegetable industry. Minimum-wage order. British Columbia.......................... Apr. 116 (946)
Fuel:
Retailprices. Norway. 1914 and 1917 to 1919................................................................. Feb. 100 (404)
-----Roumania. Prices of firewood in Bucharest, 1911,1914, and 1919.......................May 90-1 (1164-5)
Fuel and light:
District of Columbia. Minimum requirements, family of five....................................... June 13 (1319)
(See also Housing; Light and power; Working conditions.)
Fuel control:
United States. Price-fixing during the w ar................................................................. May 31-4 (1105-8)
---- Recommendation of United States Bituminous Coal Commission.........................
Apr. 43 (873)
Funds, insurance. (See Hospital and medical service; Workmen’s compensation—Security.)
Fur. Earnings o f factory workers. New York State, 1914 and 1916 to 1919. (Furs,
leather, and rubber goods)...................................................................................................... Apr. 110 (940)
Furniture expenditures. United States. (Bureau of Labor Statistics and National War
Labor Board survey, 1918-19.) Furniture and house furnishings................................ Jan. 27-34 (27-34)
(See also Budgets, family; Cost of living.)
Furniture industry:
United States. Hours. 1919 and decrease since 1913. (Bureau of Labor Statistics
survey, 1919)............................................................................................................... Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
-----Hours and wages. Changes, 1913 to 1919.................................................................... Jan. 140 (140)
-----Wages. 1919andincreasesincel913. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919). Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
-----------1913 to 1919. Relative earnings per hour...... ........... Jan. 140; Feb. 116; Mar. 90 (140, 420, 684)
(See also Woodworking.)
Furniture requirements. District of Columbia. Minimum, family of five................. June 13-16 (1319-22)
G.
Garment industry. (See Clothing.)
Gas. Retailprices. United States. 1913 to 1920............................................................... June 66-7 (1372-3)
Geologists. Salaries. United States Geological Survey, 1893 to 1919...................... June 27,29 (1333,1335)
Geophone (used in war operations) for mine rescue work................. ............................ Apr. 183-4 (1013—
14)
Germany. Coal commission. Findings re working hours in Ruhr hard-coal mines...... Jan. 173-7 (173-7)
Germany. (See also specific subjects.)
Glass industry. Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919................................................................................................................................... May 92-107 (1166-81)
Goldmark, Josephine. Report on effects of industrial conditions on output.................May 158-63 (1232-7)
Government control. (See Food control; Fuel control; Price control; Steam railroads—
Government control.)
Government employees. (See Public employees.)
Government housing. (See Housing.)
G eat Britain:
Central wages board. Proposed for railways....................................................................
Mar. 24 (618)
-----Function and personnel............................................................................................ Feb. 237-8 ( 541-2)
Ministry of Labor. Report of proceedings under the Conciliation Act. 1914-1918. Apr. 232-4 (1062-4)
-----Report on profit sharing......................................................................................... June 144-5 (1450-1)
Ministry of transport. Created, August, 1919.................................................................. Feb. 235 (539)
National health insurance joint committee. Organization and duties............... Jan. 53-4, 59 (53-4, 59)
National wages board. Organization................................................................................
Mar. 24 (618)
Treasury. Committee on old age pensions. Report................................................... Jan. 258-9 (258-9)
Great Britain. (See also specific subjects.)
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Great Britain. Scheme for absorption of disabled ex-service men into industry— Jan. 205-7 (205-7)
United Kingdom. Registrations, placements by industry............... ...... Apr. 171, 173-4 (1001, 1003-4)
United States. Reeducation and placement of cripples under Minnesota plan.......... Jan. 184-9 (184-9)
-----Rehabilitation of disabled. Bill approved June 2,1920..................................... June 186-7 (1492-3)
-----------(Summary of article by C. D. Selby).............................................................. Feb. 164-7 (468-71)
-----Training and placement of ex-service men under Vocational Rehabilitation
A ct.............................................................................................................................. Feb. 138-47 (442-51)
——• Resume of work of Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men.......................... Apr. 147-54 (977-84)
(See also Reeducation; Rehabilitation; Soldiers and Sailors'.)
Harris, Henry J .:
British national health insurance system, 1911-1919..................................................... Jan. 45-59(45-59)
Maternity benefit systems in certain foreign countries................................................. Feb. 226-8 (530-2)
Hazards:
*
Hazardous employments defined in North Dakota workmen’s compensation laws__ Feb. 209 (513)
Hazardous employments. In workmen’s compensation laws....................................... Jan. 235 (235)
Industries of Niagara Falls. Investigation of United States Public Health Service
and New York Industrial Commission..................................................................... Mar. 161-8 (755-62)
Sand blasters. Protection afforded by apparatus used in investigation for United
States Public Health Service.................................................................................... May 154-7 (1228-31)
Tellurium as an industrial health hazard.................................................................... Juile 166-7 (1472-3)
(Sec also Accident statistics; Dangerous and injurious occupations; Disease; Poison
ing.)
Health expenditures. District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single m an or wom
an.................................................................................................................................... Jan. 35,40-1 (35,40-1)
Plealth insurance:
Attitude of Medical Society of the State of New York................................................. Jan. 255-8 (255-8)
Czechoslovakia. Law of May, 1919............................................................................... Feb. 243-4 (547-8)
France. Street railways......................................................................................................
Apr. 67 (897)
Germany. Increase in membership of sick funds, January, 1920..................................... May 140 (1214)
Great Britain. National health insurance system. (Harris.) (Summary of pro
visions of acts, 1911-1919)............... t ............................................................................. Jan. 45-59 (45-59)
Illinois. Recommendation by special commission for public employees.......................Apr. 190 (1020)
Portugal. Compulsory, by recent decree............................................ .......................... Jan. 261-2 (261-2)
Switzerland. Table showing number of persons insured at end of 1917........................ Apr. 198(1028)
United States. Resolution adopted by American Public Health Association, 1919__ Feb. 226 (530)
-----Duration of disability. Experience of workmen’s sick and death benefit fund
(Em m et)............................................................................................................. Mar. 4-15 (598-609)
(See also Workmen’s compensation.)
Hearings. Bills re employment service, United States.................................................. May 127-30 (1201-4)
Heat. (See Fuel and light.)
Hernia. Men placed in various occupations by Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men. Apr. 153 (983)
Hexamethylene-tetramine poisoning, rubber industry..................................................... June 168-9 (1474-5)
Holidays:
France. Saturday half-holiday. Printing and publishing............................................ Mar. 122 (716)
Germany. Hotel employees in Berlin obliged to take a week’s leave........................... Mar. 155 ( 749)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees........... June 224 (1530)
(See also Hours; Overtime; Vacations.)
Holmes, Paul M. Report on hazards in industries of Niagara Falls................................ Mar. 161-5 (755-9)
Home work:
Illinois. Re vocational education...................................................................................... Apr. 134 (964)
Switzerland. Census of workers......................................................................................... June 223 (1529)
Hookstadt, Carl:
Comparison of Canadian workmen’s compensation laws.......................................... Mar. 171-80 (765-74)
Comparison of compensation laws in the United States, including 1919................... Jan. 230-47 (230—
47)
Estimates of wage-earners covered by workmen’s compensation laws. (Referred to
by Royal Meeker)............................................................................................................ Apr. 1-2 (831-2)
Hopkins, Mary D. Effects of industrial conditions on output...................................... May 158-63 (1232-7)
Hosiery and underwear:
United States. Relative earnings per hour, 1913 to 1919........ Jan. 140; Feb. 116; Mar. 90 (140,420,684)
-----Wages and hours. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919...................... .. Feb. 101-17 (405-21)
Hospital and medical service:
Industrial clinics in general hospitals, advantages of. Address. (Edsall)................. Jan. 224-5 (224-5)
Provisions for Government employees, under Federal compensation act................... Jan. 251-4 (251-4)
Switzerland. Statistics of funds and persons insured, 1917....................................... Apr. 198-9 (1028-9)
(See also Health insurance; Workmen’s compensation.)
Hospitals. District of Columbia. Survey of wages paid to women. (Minimum Wage
Board, 1919).......................................................................................................................... Jan. 147-8 (147-S)
Hotels, restaurants, etc.:
Hours. United States................................................................................................ Mar. 91-108 (685-702)
Minimum wage. District of Columbia................ Mar. 132-6; Apr. 112-15; June 116 (726-30 942-5, 1422)
Wages. District of Columbia. Survey of wages paid to women. Minimum Wage
Board, 1919....................................................................... , ........................................... Jan. 144-8 (144-8)
-----Saskatchewan. Minimum-wage order................................................................ ........June 116 (1422)
Hours:
Discusssion by International Labor Conference, 1919...................................................... Jan. 6-12 (6-12)
Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919........................ Feb. 15-20 (319-24)
Full-time hours per week. Woodworking industries, United States, 1919. Jan. 121,125-34 (121,125-34)
Practice regarding the payment of punitive overtime rates....................................... Mar. 111-12 (705-6)
Recommendation of President’s Industrial Conference....................................................
Apr. 38 (868)
(See also Eight-hour day; Forty-eight-hour week; Forty-four-hour week; Hours, speci
fied industries and occupations; Hours, various industries.)
Hours, specified industries and occupations:
Agriculture. France. Agreement of August, 1919........................................... ........ Mar. 123-4 (717-18)
•-----Italy. Demand of workers’ syndicates.............................................................. June 223-4 (1529-30)
Automobile manufacturing. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919................................................................................................................................. June 87-8 (1393-4)
Boot and shoe industry. United States. 14 establishments, 1914 to 1919. (Na
tional Industrial Conference Board.)............................................................................... Jan. 141 (141)
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Paae.
Brick industry. United States. Bureau oi Labor Statistics survey, 1919.............
May 101 (1175')
Building and construction trades. France. July, 1919................................................... Mar. 122 (716)
trades. New York City. Forty-four-hour week, by agreement of November,
1919... . ............. .................................... ....... . ................................................................... Feb. i 47 (45i)
Car building. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919................... June 88-9 (1394-5)
Chemical industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.............. May 101 ( 1175)
------- — Twelveestablishments, 1914to 1919. (NationallndustrialConferenceBoard). Jan. 142 (142)
Cigar industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.............. Mar. 80-3 (674-7)
Clothing, men’s. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919..............Mar. 84-6 (678-80)
Clothing, women’s. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919. .
Apr 101- 3 (931- 3')
Coalmines. Belgium 1919.................................. ............................................................ Apr. 228 (1058)
-----Germany. .Report of Government commission investigating question of shorter
working day......... ...................................................................................................... Jan. 173-7(173-7)
-----— Shorter working day....................................................................................... Mar. 130-1 724-5)
------Pennsylvania. 1919 and 1920..,.......................................................................... j une 95.7 ( 1402- 3)
— United States. Demands of miners and award and recommendations of Bitu
minous Coal Commission............................................................................................ Xpr. 40-50 (870-80)
Confectionery. _United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919...................... Apr. 103 (933)
Cooperative societies. England. Shorter than for workers under capitalistic manage" ’
’
m ent.. . . . . . . ..... ..................................................... ...................... .
Feb 135 (439)
Cotton manufacturing. United States. 15 establishments, 1914 to 1919. ' (National
'
Industrial Conference Board).......................................................................................
j an 142 ( 142)
Domestic service. Bavaria........................... ................................................ . . . . . . Feb. 132-2 (435- 6)
Feb 130 (434)
England— ................................................... ...................... .
Electrical apparatus manufacture. United States. Bureau of Labor" Statistics'sur■mVeI ’-19^9' —.......... - -.................................................................................................... June89-90 (1395-6)
Electrical workers. Kansas. Decision ofcourt ofm dustrial relations re linemen em
ployed by Topeka Edison Company........................................................................... May 52-4 (1126-8)
foundries. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919................... June 90-1 (1396-7)
Furniture industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919__ Jan. 131-4 ( 131—4)
Glass industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919................ May 102-3 (1176-7)
Hosiery and underwear industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919........................... ........................................................................................ Feb. 106-10 (410-14)
Hotels and restaurants. _ UnitedStates. BureauofLaborStatisticssurvey,1919. Mar. 91-108 (685- 702)
Leather industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919___ May 103-4 (1177-8)
Lumber industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.............Jan. 125-9 (125-9)
Machine building. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919_____June 91-2 (1397-8)
Machinetoolmanufacturing. UnitedStates. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919 June 92-3 (1398-9)
Manual labor. Resolution adopted by Fifty-first Trades-Union Congress (Great Britain,)> 1919........... ---------................ -............................................................................. Feb. 257 (561)
Merchant marine. Italy. In port and at sea. (Agreement of 1919.)................... Jan. 158-73 (158-73)
Metal manufacturing. UnitedStates. 72 establishments, 191419 1919. (National Industrial Conference Board).............................................................................................. j an_442 (442)
Mill work industry. UnitedStates. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919*__Jan. 129-31 ( 129- 31)
Overalls industry. UnitedStates. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919................ Apr. 104 (934)
Paper and pulp industry. UnitedStates. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919 May 104-45 (1178-9)
-----------32 establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference Board).
Jan 142 (142)
Paper-box manufacturing. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
„ 1919........................... -........; - ........... - -........................................................................ Apr. 100-1 (930-1)
Petroleum refineries and warehouses. France. Eight-hour day by agreement of June,
1919— _.......................................................................................................................
Mar. 123 (717)
Pottery industry. _ United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919__ May 105-6 (1179-80)
Printing and publishing. France. Agreement of June, 1919......................................... Mar. 122 (716)
——New York City. Demand for 44-hour week a cause of outbreak of 1919................ Jan. 270 (270)
Rubber manufacturing. UnitedStates. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.. May 106-7 (1180-1)
---------- Eight establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference Board.). Jan. 142 (142)
Seamen. Agenda prepared by International Labor Office........................... May 2,4-7 (1076,1078-81)
Shipping. Australia. Award of arbitration court in shipping strike, 1919................... Feb. 265 (569)
Silk manufacturing. UnitedStates. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.. Feb. 110- 13 (414- 17)
~--------- 29 establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference B oard)... J a n .142(142)
Steam railroads. Australia. Award of 1919........................................................... Mar. 118-19(712-13)
-----France. Recent orders of Minister of Public W orks..............................................
4pr 6 4 (894)
-----Italy. Employees demand eight-hour day, 1919........................................................ May 210 (1284)
Street railways. France......................................................................................................
Apr. 67 (89-7)
Typewriterindustry. UnitedStates. BureauofLaborStatisticssurvey,1919.. Ju n e93-4(1399-1400)
Woodworking. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.........Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
Wool manufacturing. United States. 20 establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National
Industrial Conference Board).......................................................................................... Jan. 142 (142)
Hours, various industries:
Belgium. Appeal for eight-hour day................................................................................. May 200 (1274)
Czechoslovakia. Child labor. Provisions of law promulgated July 28, 1919__ Apr. 179 (1009)
-----Law of December, 1918........................................................................................... Feb. 240-1 (544-5)
China. Discussed by International Labor Conference, 1919....................................... Jan. 11-12 (11-12)
Denmark. Study of industrial workers by Danish statistical office...................... May 108-9 (1182-3)
France. Changes, March to August, 1919............................................................... Mar. 119-24 (713-18)
Great Britain. Various industries. Reduced, November, 1919.................................... Apr. I ll (941)
India. Discussed by International Labor Conference, 1919............................................
Jan. 11 (11)
Japan. Discussed by International Labor Conference, 1919....................................... Jan. 10-11 (10-11)
Poland. Regulations governing application of eight-hour law..........................Apr. 209-10 (1039-40)
Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia...................... ............................................ Apr. 213 (1043)
South Africa. Resolutionadoptedbyconferenceofemployersandemployees............... June 224 (1530)
Hours in relation to health. Coalmines. Germany.............................................................. Jan. 174 (174)
Hours in relation to output:
Coalmines. Germany. Diminished output since reduction of hours........................... Jan. 174 (174)
-----United States. Study of bituminous coal commission............................................ Apr. 47-8 (877-8)
Investigation by Public Health Service, Council of National Defense, and National
Research Council....................................................................................................... May 158-63 (1232-7)
Opinions of various delegates, International Labor Conference, 1919.............................. Jan. 7-8 (7-8)
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Hours worked. (See Hours.)
House furnishing expenditures. (See Furniture expenditures.)
House furnishing requirements. (See F urniture requirements.)
Household work. (See Domestic service.)
Housekeepers'Alliance, Washington, D. C. Action toward solution of domestic-service
Page.
problem...................................................................................................................................... May 115 (1189)
Housing:
Company housing. Anthracite region of Pennsylvania........................................... May 186-95 (1260-9)
-----Bituminous coal fields. United States............................................................... Apr. 216-17 (1046-7)
D istrict of Columbia. Government residence halls, Washington rates.....................Jan. 36,37 (36,37)
England. Scheme of building guild to erect 1,000 housesin Irlam .......................... June 220-1 (1526-7)
France. Apartments. Maximum annual rental (table)................................................. Feb. 254(558)
-----State loans for cheap dwellings............................................................................... Feb. 253—5 (557-9)
Germany. 70,000 homes required for miners................................................................ Mar. 130-1 ( 724- 5)
Great Britain. Cost.............................................................................................................j une 114 (1420)
Italy. State aid.......................................................................................................... May 195-6 (1269 -70)
Pennsylvania. _ Anthracite coal fields. Company housing..................................... May 186-95(1260-9)
Recommendation of President’s Industrial Conference....................................................
Apr. 38 (868)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees............ June 224 (1530)
United States. Bituminous coal fields. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of 1916.
,
Apr. 215—22 (1045-52)
-----Cost. 1913 and 1919. (Sherman).......................................................................... Feb. 247-53 (551- 7)
Housing requirements. District of Columbia. Minimum, family of five................... June 10-13 (1316-19)
Hygiene. (Sec Industrial hygiene.)
I.
Idaho. Industrial accident board. Report, January 1,1918, to October 31,1918...........Jan. 247-8 (247-8)
Idaho. (See also specific subjects.)
'
Hlinois:
Industrial Commission. Annual report, June 30,1919.............................................. June 175-6 (1481-2)
Pension Laws Commission. Report, 1918-19....................................................... Apr. 189-90 (1019-20)
Illinois. (See also specific subjects.)
'
Illustrations:
Company housing in anthracite region of Pennsylvania........................................... May 186-95 (1260-9)
52)
Company housingin bituminous coal fields, United States................................... Apr. 215-22 (1045—
Immigration:
United States. Aliens adm itted, 1913 to 1919, by month........................... Jan. 282; Feb. 267 (282 571)
-----Allens adm itted, 1915 to 1919, by nationality........................................ Jan. 283; Feb. 268 (283,’ 572)
-----Opinion of Secretary of Labor with regard to membership in Communist Party.
Mar. 218-21 (812-15)
Index numbers. (See Cost of living; Retail prices; Wholesale prices.)
Industrial Accident Commission, Oregon. (See Oregon: Industrial accident commis
sion.)
Industrialaccidents. (See Accidentstatistics.)
Industrialclinics. (See Hospital and medical service.)
Industrial Commission, New York. (See New York: Industrial commission.)
Industrial Commission, Oklahoma. (See Oklahoma: Industrial commission.)
Industria l conditions, Belgium, 1919.................................................................................... May 62-5 (1136-9)
-----French railways................................................................................................................. Apr. 63-7 (893-7)
-----Russia..
. ............ ..................................................................................................... May 65-7 (1139-41)
(See also Workmg conditions.)
Industrial conference. (See United States: Industrial Conference.)
Industrial councils:
Australia. Whitley scheme recommended by employers................................................
Apr. 61 (891)
Austria. Opposition of wage earners to ............................................................................ June 189 (1495)
Great Britain. Application of Whitley scheme to Civil Service................................. Jan. 195-6 (195-6)
-----Discussed by Royal Meeker, 1919............................................................................. Feb. 4-6 (308-10)
-----Docklabor. Report of court ofinquiry, March 31, 1920............................................ May 61 (1135)
-----Report on apprenticeship in building industry, November, 1919.................... May 119-22 (1193-6)
New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce study. (Summarized)................................ Jan. 193-4 (193- 4)
(See also Employees’ representation.)
Industrial courts:
Great Britain. Industrial courts act (1919)........................................... Feb. 41-6; Mar. 201 (345-50, 795)
-----Report on dock labor by court of inquiry instituted under industrial courts
a c t ............................................................................................................................... May 54-62 (1127-36)
Industrial courts act (1919), Great B ritain................................................... Feb. 41-6; Mar. 201 (345-50, 795)
Industrial democracy. (See Employees’representation.)
Industrial education and training:
Building industry. Great Britain. Report of industrial council.......................... May 118-22 (1193-6)
Continuation schools, compulsory. Recommended for minors by International Con
gress of Working Women, 1919...........................................................................................
Jan. 20 (20)
Recommendations of National Society for Vocational Education, committee on women
in industry.......................................................................................................................... Apr. 140 (970)
Trade schools. United States. Number of female pupils enrolled, 1918-19................. Apr. 138 (968)
Woman labor. United Kingdom. Training of unemployed women. (Statistical
table)........................................................ .......................................................................... Apr. 173 (1003)
-----United States. Report of committee on women in industry, National Society
for Vocational Education, February, 1920.............................................................. Apr. 136-40 (966-70)
(See also Apprenticeship; Classes for employees; Reeducation.)
Industrial hygiene and medicine;
Application of psychiatry to. (Article by Stanley Cobb, summarized).................... Jan. 226-9 (226-9)
Coordination of Federal, State, and local agencies to promote.................................... Feb. 202-5 (506-9)
France. Ministry of Social Hygiene, Social Insurance, and Social Provision, created. Apr. 185 (1015)
Industrial physicians, qualifications of.......................................................................... Feb. 201-2(505-6)
Opportunities for studying, in United States........................................................... May 142-54 (1216-28)
(See also Hospital and 'medical service; Working conditions.)
Industria lr elations:
Australia. Conference of employers’ federations on industrial relationships..............Apr. 60-2 (890-2)
Colorado. Provisions of industrial commission........................................................ Mar. 216-17 (810-11)
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Great Britain. Dock labor. Report of court of inquiry on wages and working condiPage.
tions, March 31, 1920.................................................................................................. May 54-62 (1128-36)
-----Provisions of Transport Act, August, 1919................... ........................................ Feb. 235-7 (539—
41)
Kansas. Creation of court of industrial relations....................................................... Mar. 214-15 (808-9)
-----Decision of court re wages on interurban railways............................................. June 106-7 (1412-13)
-----First cases decided by court of industrialrelations................................................ May 52-4 (1126-8)
. Organized labor’s grievances, protests, and demands (railways)............................... Feb. 33-41 (337-45)
President’s Industrial Conference. Final report, March 6, 1920............................... Apr. 33-40 (863-70)
-----Proposal for system of Federal administrative machinery for adjustment of
industrialrelations............................................................................ Jan. 60-8; Apr. 33-40 ( 60-8,863-70)
United States. Coal mines. Report of United States Bituminous Coal Commis
sion............................................................................................................................... Apr. 40-50 (870-80)
-----Steam railroads. Annual report of Division of Labor to United States Railroad
Administration for 1919.............................................................................................. Apr. 58-60 (888-90)
----- — - Board for adjustment of, provided by railroad control act............................ May 46-9 (1120—
3)
-----------Provisions of Transportation Act (1920) for adjustment of disputes..............Apr. 50-7 (880-7)
(See also Collective bargaining; Disputes, methods of adjusting; Employees’ repre
sentation.)
Industrial surveys. (See Surveys.)
“ Industrialundertakings,” defined by International Labor Conference, 1919.................. Jan. 15-16 (15-16)
Industrial unrest. (See Unrest.)
Instability of labor. (See Mobility of labor.)
Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men. Work of finding employment for disabled
civilians (Stein)................................................................................................................ Apr. 147-54 (977-84)
Insurance. (See Accident insurance; Health insurance; Maternity insurance; Old-age in
surance; Social insurance; Unemployment insurance; Workmen’s compensation; and
references under Pensions.)
Insurance funds. (See Hospital and medical service; Workmen’s compensation—Security.)
International Allied Printing Trades Association. Unions composing................................ Jan. 270 (270)
International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. Resolution
of committee re basis for measuring accident rates, 1919............................................... Jan. 218-19 (218-19)
International Congress of Working Women, 1919:
Resolution re eight-hour day...............................................................................................
Jan. 12 (12)
Resolution re child labor, continuation schools, etc..........................................................
Jan. 20 (20)
International Labor Conference, 1919 (October-November):
Admission to .......................................................................................................................... Jan. 23-5 ( 23-5)
Agenda...................................................................................................................................
Jan. 2 (2)
Countries represented........................................................................................................... Jan. 3,4 (3,4)
Draft conventions and recommendations adopted............................................................
Jan. 21-2;
Feb. 15-32; Mar. 186-90 (21-2,319-36,780-4)
Officers, steering committee, etc.......................................................................................... Jan. 4-5 (4-5)
Résume (Turner)..................................................................................................................Jan. 1-26 (1-26)
Jan. 25 (25)
International Labor Conference, 1920. Agenda to bo determined by governing body........
International Labor Office:
Agenda re working conditions of seamen...................................................................... May 1-20 (1075-94)
Personnel: Agenda for Seamen’s Conference................................................................ May 197-9 (1271-3)
Personnel of governing body, exclusive of Government representatives........................ Jan. 22-3 (22-3)
International Seafarers’ Federation. Convention to be held in Europe, summer of 1920.. Mar. 204 (798)
International Seamen’s Union of America. Convention, 1920. Ré mine........................ Mar. 203-5 (797-9)
International Union of Woodworkers. Conference at Amsterdam, 1919. Resolutions, etc. May 201-2 (1275-6)
InterstateCommerceCommission. (Se« United States. InterstateCommerceCommission.)
Invalidity. (See Disability; Handicapped.)
Invalidity insurance. (See Health insurance; Old age insurance.)
Invalidity pensions. (See Old age and invalidity pensions.)
Iron and steel:
.Accidents. United States. As affected by the w ar,, 1914-1919............................. June 151-63 (1457-69)
Eight-hour day, basic. Employees of United States Steel Corporation...................... Mar. 113 (707)
Hazards. Analysis by L. W. Chaney................................................................................
Apr. 4 (834)
Overtime. Order of United States Steel Corporation. October, 1918........................... Mar. 113 (707)
Prices fixed by War Industries Board......................................................................... May 37-8 (1111-12)
Shifts........................................................................... ....................................................... Mar. 113 (707)
Wages. United States. 1913 to 1919. Relative earnings per h o u r.. Jan. 140; Feb. 116; Mar. 90 (140,420,
684)
(See also Metal.)
Irregularity of employment. (See Mobility of labor.)
Italy. Officio nazionale per il collocamento e la disoccupazione. Established by royal
decree. Oct. 19, 1919........................................................................................................ Apr. 193-7 (1023-7[)
Italy. (See also specific subjects.)
John Dawson Works. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Employees management.......................... Feb. 9-10 (313-14)
Joint Congressional Commission on reclassification. (See United States: Congress. Joint
commission on reclassification.)
Joint International Conference Council. Meeting at Chicago, Apr. 21, 1919. Printing
industry....................................................................................................................................
Jan. 272 (272)
Joseph, G. W. N. Effect of employment of mothers upon sickness among school children Feb. 167-8 (471-2)
K.
Kansas. Court of Industrial Relations. Review of act....... ........... Mar. 214r-17; May 52-4 (808-11; 1126-8)
Kansas. (See also specific subjects.)
Kentucky. Workmen’s compensation board. Report, 1918-19.................................... June 176-7 (1482-3)
Kentucky. (See also specific subjects.)
Kerenski, Alexander. Articles on labor conditions in Russia, summarized................... May 65-7 (1139-41)
“ King’s National Roll,” for employers adopting plan of reemploying ex-service men,
Great B ritain............................................................................................................................ Jan. 205 (205)
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Knit-goods industry. Minimum wage. Massachusetts. Kates effective July 1,1920.........May 110 (1184)
Krall, Stanley. Poisons in the rubber industry............................................................. June 168-70 (1474-6)
L.
Labor. (See Alien labor; Casual labor; Compulsory labor; Woman labor.)
Labor and the war. Resolutions of International Union of Woodworkers, 1919............ May 201-2 (1275-6)
Labor bibliographies. (See List of publications at end of each monthly number.)
Lalx>r bureaus, commissions, etc.:
.
France. Creation of Ministry of Social Hygiene, Social Insurance, and Social Pro
vision; personnel..................................................................... -........................................ Apr. 185 (1015)
International Labor Office. Personnel............................................................................... May 197 (1271)
Italy. Decrees establishing.......................................................................................... Apr. 191-2 (1021-2)
Massachusetts. Act creating department of labor and industries............................. Mar. 209-13 (803-7)
New York. Keeent changes in personnel of Industrial Commission............................. May 199 (1273)
Oklahoma. Recent changes in personnel of Industrial Commission.............................. May 199 (1273)
Switzerland. Labor department established by act of June 27,1919...................... May 182-5 (1256-9)
Labor codes. (See Laws and legislation.)
Labor conditions. (See Living conditions; Working conditions,)
Labor congresses. (See Congresses, conventions, etc.)
_
Labor contract. Austria. Provisions of Austrian Civil Code............................................... le b . 240 (o44)
Labor copartnership. (See Copartnership.)
Labor decrease; Labor flux; Labor increase; Labor instability. (See Definition under
Mobility of Labor.)
Labor laws. (See Laws and legislation. )
Labor department. United States. (See United States: Department of Labor.)
Labor market. (See Employment statistics; Unemployment.)
Labor mobility._ (See Mobility of labor.)
Amsterdam Conference of International Union of Woodworkers, December 8-10,1919 May 201-2 (1275-6)
Austria. Trade-union statistics................................................................................... J une 194r-5 (1500—
1)
Belgium. Membership of trade-unions, 1913 and 1919.................................................... May 200 (1274)
Czechoslovakia. Trade-union statistics..................................................................... J u n ^ W H (1501-2
Denmark. Trade-union statistics.....................................................- ...........................--„ i H
Germany. Activities, membership, etc....................................................................... Mar. 206-8 (800-2)
-----Trade-union statistics............................................................................................... - -J u n e 194X1500)
-----(See also Metal workers’ federation.)
..
Great Britain. Fifty-first Trades-Union Congress, Glasgow, September, 1919........... Feb. 256-8 (560-2)
-----Membership of trade unions in 1918; increase in female membership................ Apr. 223-4 (10o3-4)
-----Re “ Treasury agreement” ............................................................................................ Vpr. 232 (1062)
Holland. Trade-union statistics................................................................................... .
Hungary. Trade-union statistics................................................................................ June 196-7 (1502-3)
Italy. Demands of II Sindacato Ferrovieri Italiani (syndicalistic union of railroad
„„
employees) 1919......................................................................................................... May 2°9-12 (1283-6)
New Zealand’. Membership of workers’ unions, 1907,1914, and 1917............................. May 217 (1291)
Scandinavia. Ninth Scandinavian Labor Congress, Copenhagen, January 21-23,1920 Apr. 224-6 (1054-6)
Switzerland. Trade-union statistics............................. :r.......................................... June 197-8 (1503-4)
UnitedStates. Effects of shop committees on unionism. (New Jersey State Chamber
of Commerce study)...................................................................... --------........... - - - - Jan- 193~4 (193-4)
-----Effects of works councils on unionism. (National Industrial Conference Board
study)................................................................................................................................. Jan- 192 (192>
-----Grievances, protests, and demands of railroad brotherhoods. Conference, 1919 Feb. 33-41 (337-45)
-----Groups of employees to be represented on board for adjustment of industrial rela
tions on railroads.................................................................-----.................... MaV 46J >48 ( J 20?1»4422)
-----Wage movement of organized railway employees, 1919-20............................... May 49-02 ( 1123- 6)
Washington (State). Trade-unions active in cooperation............................................... Apr. 129 (959)
(See also Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Middle Classes Union; Public
Union (ine.); Recognition of union, etc.)
Labor shortage. (See Employment statistics.)
Labor surplus. (See Employment statistics.)
Labor temple: Built by trade-unions in Seattle....................................................................- - -Apr. 129 (959 )
Labor treaty, Franeo-Italian, Septemer 30,1919.................................................................. Feb. 47-53 (351-7)
Labor turnover. (See Mobility of labor.)
Labor unrest. (See Unrest.)
Laborers’ wages. (See Wages.)
Land acquisition:
T
,, ,
France. Italian workers. Provisions of Franeo-Italian treaty......................................
I eb. 49 (353)
Italy. French workers. Provisions of Franeo-Italian treaty.........................................
Feb. 49 (353)
Land settlement:
.
-California. Scheme for ex-service m en.............................................................................. 4
France. Small holdings for laborers...................................................................................
?»o ; I ca\
North Dakota. Scheme for ex-service m en.................................................................... le b . 162 (4bb)
South Dakota. Scheme for ex-service m en........................................ ............................ , •
Laundries. Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 191J)....... Apr. 110 (940)
Laundry expenditures. District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single man or
woman. . . . . ................................................................................................................ Ja n .35,39-40 (35,39-40)
Laws and legislation:
,
,
, „ onc „
m
Argentina,. Retirement law for railroad employees, April, 1919............................. Apr. 206-9 (1036-9)
Austria. Annual leave for manual workers, August, 1919........................................ Feb. 245-6 ( ^ S O )
-----Chambers of labor established by recent law...................................................... June 189-91 (1495-7)
-----Domestic service.............................................- ...................................................... Ju n eir ; 3i f f i
-----Provision re compensation for overtime work............. - ............................................. yLarUC4)
California. Provision re compensation for overtime work.........................................
Mar 110 Q04)
Canada. Workmen’s compensation laws compared............................................... Mar. 171-80 ( tb5-14)
Colorado. Act creating industrial commission, 1915...............- .............................. Mar. 216-1/(810-1 J)
Czechoslovakia. Child labor, December, 1918...........................................................- 244 2 ¿¡„'’Tv!
-----Child labor law promulgated July 28, 1919................. i ..................................... Apr. 178-82 (1008-12)
----- Woman labor, December, 1918......................... ............ ......................................... Feb. 241-2 (545-6)
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Laws and legislation—Concluded.
Page.
Denmark. Limiting hours of labor.................................................................................... Slay 108 (1182)
District of Columbia. Police. Act of Congress relative to pay and right to strike
(December, 1919), summarized..................................................................................... j an. 153-5 (153-5)
—— .Retirement system for school teachers, January, 1920.......................................... Feb. 224-5 (528-9)
Ecuador. Provision re compensation for overtime work............................................ Mar. 110-11 (704-5)
Finland. Provision re compensation for overtime w ork..............................Mar! 110-11 (704-5)
Foreign countries. Eight-hour laws compared......................................................... Mar. 184-98 (778-92)
France. Accident insurance law, amended to cover occupational diseases...........Jan! 259-61 (259-61)
-----Compensation for overtime work............................................................
Mar 110-11 ("704-51
-----Franco-Italian labor treaty .........................................................
Feb
47-53 (351-7)
----- Retirement of public employees, Oc.tober, 1919....................... !. ! ! "!.................Feb 229-31 (533-5)
Germany. Maternity insurance, 1919........................................................................... Feb. 232-4 (536-8)
-----Unemployment relief. Order effective February 1,1920.......
May
181-2 (1255-6)
----- Works council law, January, 1920...........................................
May 172-81 (1246-55)
Great Britain. Checkweighing in Various Industries Act, 19Î9......... Feb." 238A); Mar. 202 (542-3, 796)
-----Coal Industry Commission Act, 1919.................... .............
Mar 201 (795)
----- Coal Mines Act, 1919........................................................................................ !!!!"".".’ Mar *201 (795)
-----Disabled Men (Facilities for Employment) Act, 1919. "(Summarized)"." ............ Mar 201 (795)
----- Great Britain. Industrial Courts Act (1919) enacted November, 1919
Feb 41-6 (345-50)
-----Health insurance system .. . ................................................................................... Jan."45-57 (45-57)
----- Legislation dealing with settlem ent of disputes during the w ar............
. Apr 232-4 (1062-4)
----- Old-age Pensions Act, 1919..................................................................................... Mar. 181-2 (775-6)
----- Profiteering Act, 1919................................................................ ........................... Mar. 199-200 (793-4)
----- l rovision re compensation for overtime work........
Mar 111 (705)
----- Summary of legislation in 1919......................................".".’.’.".".".‘.’ .’ .".".’.".'.""Mar.
20042 (794-6)
— Transport Act, August, 1919................................................................................. Feb. 235-8 (539-42)
Illinois. Recommendations of pension laws commission...................................... Apr. 189-90 (1019—
20)
Indiana. Creation of commission for securing employment for ex-service men! ! ... ’ Feb. 161 (465)
Italy. Franco-Italian labor treaty ................................................................................ Feb. 47-53 (351- 7)
-— Royal decree. Compulsory insurance against unemployment..........................Apr. 193-7 ( 1023—
7)
Jugo-Slavia. Provision re compensation for overtime work..................................... Mar. 110-11 (704-5)
Kansas. Establishment of court of industrial relations, January, 1920.........! ! ! ! ! ! Mar! 214-15 (808-^9)
-----Provision re compensation for overtime work.................................................
Mar. 110 (704)
Massachusetts. Minimum wage commission, a division of department" of labor and" ’
industries. . . .
...................................................................................................... Mar. 136-7 (730-1)
----- Organization of departm ent of labor and industries............
Mar 211-13 (805- 7)
-----Preference of Employment Act (1919), giving preference to discharged soldiers
and sailors................................................ .......................................................................... Feb. 161 (465)
Missouri. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Employment Organization created to assi’st"ex-serv
ice men in finding employment....................................................................................... Feb. 161 (465)
New York. Opposition to proposed health insurance legaislation............... Jan. 255-8 (255—
8)
-----Suspended sentences in labor law cases................................................................... Mar. 183-4 (777—
8)
North Dakota. Constitutionality of workmen’s compensation law....... ............ Feb. 209-10 (513-14)
Oregon. Creation of soldiers’ and sailors’ commission to assist ex- service men in ob
taining employment................................................................................................. Feb. 161-2 (465-6)
— - 1 rovision re compensation for overtime work. (Laws of 1913 and 1917).............. Mar. 110 (704)
Philippine Islands. Provision re compensation for overtime work, 1917................. Mar. 110 (704)
Poland. Eight-hour day, November, 1918............................................................ Apr. 209-1(5 (1039-40)
------ Provision re compensation for overtime work.........................................
Mar. 110-11 (704-5)
Porto Rico. Provision re compensation for overtime work, 1919......................._____ Mar. 110 (704)
Portugal. Provision re compensation for overtime work..................
"M ar. 110-11 (704-5)
— Sickness, invalidity, old-age, and industrial accident insurance made compulsory
by recent decrees
....................................................................................................Jan. 26l-5 (261-5)
Russia Code of labor law s.........................................................................................Apr. 210-14 (1040-4)
Switzerland. Proposed law to establish labor department, etc................................May 182-5 (1256-9)
Tennessee. Constitutionality of workmen’s compensation law .............................. Feb. 211-12 (515-16)
United States. Federal child labor law declared unconstitutional, June, ig is ..."....... Feb. 174 (478)
-----Federal child labor tax law. Scope...............................
Apr 178(1008)
----- Federal control act, Mar. 21,1918. Railways...................
..................... A.pr 51 (881)
-----Federal Vocational Education Act, February, 1917.'.
................... Apr 133 (963)
— - Mediation. Erdm an (1898) and Newlands (1893) Acts, referred t o ....... !..’.’ !!!.’.' Apr. 50 (880)
-----Medical treatm ent for Government employees provided by Federal compensation
act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
...........................................................................Jan. 251-4 (251-4)
-----Part-time instruction. Various S tates.....................................................................Apr. 133-5 (963-5)
-----Permission to use tax-free domestic alcohol for industrial purposes.......................Feb. 198-9 (502-3)
-----Provision of Federal 8-hour law re compensation for overtime................................. Mar. 109 (703)
-----Provisions of various Statesfor retraining disabled ex-service m en.....................Apr. 202-6 (1032-6)
-----Railroads. Adamson Act. Provision regarding payment for overtime work___ Mar. 116 (710)
---------- Transportation Act. Labor provisions.................................. Apr. 50-7; May 46 (880-7,1120)
-----Reeducation Act, Minnesota.....................................................................................jan. 184-9 (184-9)
-----Rehabilitation of disabled; bill approved June 2, 1920 .............................
June 186-7 (1492-3)
----- Requirements re part-tim e schools.....................................................
Apr. 133-4 (963-4)
— - Retirement of civil-service employees, May 22, 1920..........................
" June 184-6 (1490-2)
-----Seamen’s Act declared constitutional...................................................
June 187-9 ( 1493- 5)
-----Steam railroads. Transportation act, 1920..........................
.......
Apr. 50 (880)
-----Vocational Rehabilitation Act, 1919.................................................
Feb. 138 (422)
-----Workmen’s compensation. Maritime service. Constitutionality of"amendment
to Judicial Code......................................................................................................... j une 171-5 (1477-81)
------------ Scope and operation. (Clark)...........................................................................Apr.-32 (844-62)
-----------Provisions of various States cited by Royal Meeker........................Apr. i-2 ,5-6 (831-2,835-6)
-----------Various States compared. (Hookstadt).......................................
Jan. 230-17 (230-47)
Virginia Workmen’s compensation law amended............................................................. Apr. 186 (1016)
(See also Minimum wage.)
Lead, diseases resulting from, included in amended accident insurance law of France....... Jan. 261 (261)
Lead poisoning. Recommendation of committee, International Labor Conference, 1919.
t
,
, ... .~
.
Jan. 21; Feb. 31. (21,335)
Learners certificates. District of Columbia. Protect employer and employee.................. Apr. 115 ( 945)
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Hazards. Dermatosis among workers. (Discussion by R. Prosser W hite)......... Apr. 184-5 (1014-15)
Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, i914 and 1916 to 1919. (Furs,
leather, and rubber goods)............................................................................................... Apr. 110 (940)
Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.......May 92-107 (1166-81)
Leave. (See Vacations.)
#
Legge, T. M. Unhealthy processes (lead poisoning and anthrax)....................................... Jan. 21-2 (21-2)
Legislation. (See Laws and legislation.)
Lehlbach-Sterling bill fo retirem ent of civil-service employees...................................... June 184-6 (1490-2)
Length of service. (See Mobility of labor.)
Leubuscher, Charlotte. Article on development of woman-labor organization in Germany
during the war, reviewed.................................................................................................. Feb. 258-63 (562-7)
Lewis, John L. Position of bituminous coal miners presented b y .................................. Apr. 41-2 (871-2)
Library employees. United States. Salaries. Library of Congress, 1897 to 1919.. June 23,29 (1329,1335)
Library of Congress. Salaries. 1897 to 1919........................... .................................... June 23,29 (1329,1335)
Light and power:
Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919. (Water,
light and power)................................................................................................................ Apr. 110 (940)
(See also Fuel and light; Housing; Working conditions.)
Lithographers. (See Printing and publishing.)
Living conditions:
France. Italian workers to have same living conditions as nationals under new FrancoItalian labor treaty ............................................................................................................
Feb. 47 (351)
Germany. Wage increases have not improved economic condition of German workers.
(Article by Metal Workers’ Federation)...................................................................... Jan. 178-9 (178-9)
Italy. French workers to have same living conditions as nationals under FrancoItalian labor treaty ............................................................................................................
Feb. 47 (351)
(See also Housing.)
Living wage:
Self-supporting woman. Estimate of Bureau of Labor Statistics; Estimate of Min
imum Wage Board of District of Colum bia.............................................. Mar. 132; Apr. 113 (726,943)
(See also Minimum wage.)
Lockouts:
Canada. 1919.................................................................................................................. May 203-4 (1277-8)
Germany. Metal workers. September, 1919.................................................................... Jan. 280 (280)
New York City. Printing industry, 1919..................................................................... Jan. 274-5 (274-5)
United States. Statistics, various periods............................................................ June 199-218 (1505-24)
(See also Disputes, methods of adjusting; Strikes.)
Locomotor ataxia. Disabled men placed in employment by Institute for Crippled and
Disabled m en...................... ..................................................................................................... Apr. 153 (983)
Lodging in lieu of wages. (See Board and lodging in lieu of wages.)
Longshoremen. (See Shipping.)
Lost time. (See Time lost due to strikes.)
Lumber industry:
United States. Changes in hours, wages, etc., 1913 to 1919....................... ..................... Jan. 139 (139)
-----Hours. 1919 and decrease since 1913. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919)...................................................................................... : ................................... Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
-----Wages. 1&19 and increase since 1913. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919..................................................................................... ...................................... Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
(See also Woodworking.)
M.
Machine building. Wages and hours. United States. (Bureau of Labor Statistics sur
vey, 1919)....................................................................................................................... June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Machine tool manufacturing. Wages and hours. United States. (Bureau of Labor
Statistics Survey, 1919)........................................................................................... June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Machinery industry. Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to
1919............................................................................................................................................. Apr. 110 (940)
Machinists. Part-time classes. Iowa....................................................................................... Apr. 135 (965)
Macy Board. Policy re wage adjustments............................................................................... June 20 (1326)
Magnusson, Leifur:
Company housing in anthracite region of Pennsylvania.......................................... May 186-95 (1260-9)
Company housing in the bituminous coal fields...................................................... Apr. 215-22 (1045-52)
Comparison of foreign eight-hour laws........................................................................ Mar. 184-98 (778-92)
Practice regarding the payment of punitive overtime rates.................................... Mar. 109-17 (703-11)
Malingering. Department of Labor reply to British questionnaire as to conditions and
results under laws o f various States........................................................................................
Apr. 30 (860)
Manitoba. W orkmen’s Compensation Board. Report, 1919......................................... June 182-3 (1488-9)
Manitoba. (See also specific subjects.)
Manual workers:
Austria. Annual leave by law..................................................................................... Feb. 245-6 (549-50)
Italy. Decree of November, 1918, establishing employment office.......................... Apr. 191-2(1021-2)
Manufacturing industry. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to
1919................................................... ................................................................................. Apr. 109-10 (939-40)
-----------Weekly earnings. 1914-1919........................................................................................ Feb. 128 (432)
(See also specific industries.)
Maps:
Federal and cooperating State and municipal employment offices in the United States,
April, 1920........................................................................................................................... May 129 (1203)
States having workmen’s compensation laws, 1919........................................................... Jan. 232 (232)
Markets and marketing:
All-American Farmer-Labor Cooperative Congress, Chicago, February, 1920....... Apr. 128-30 (958-60)
Butter. United States. Production, storage, prices, etc.....................Jan. 100-8,113-14 (100-8,113-14)
Cheese. United States. Production, storage, prices, e tc ......................................... Jan. 108-14 (108-14)
Married women employed:
Effect upon sickness among school children................................................................. Feb. 167-8 (471-2)
Employment before and after childbirth. Discussion and draft convention of Inter
national Labor Conference, 1919.............................................. Jan. 2,16-17; Feb. 21-3 (2, 16-17, 325-7)
(See also Woman labor.)
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Maryland:
Page.
Industrial accident commission. Annual report, 1917-18........................................... Ian. 248-9 (248-9)
— Annual report, 1918-19.......................................................................................... May 166-7 (1240-1)
Maryland. (See also specific subjects.)
Massachusetts:
Department of labor and industries. [Act creating].................................................. Mar. 209-13 (803-7)
—7-. Organization and personnel.................................................................................. Mar. 209-13 (803-7)
Minim run wage commission. Act placing under department of labor and indus
tries............................................................................................................................... Mar. 136-7 (730-1)
Match making. Recommendation adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919..
.................................................................................................................................... Jan. 22; Peb. 32 (22, 336)
Maternity:
Employment of women before and after childbirth. Discussion and draft conven
tion of International Labor Conference, 1919........................... Jan. 2,16-17; Feb. 21-3 (2,16-17,325-7)
(See also Married women employed; Maternity insurance; Woman labor.)
Maternity insurance:
Discussion and draft convention of International Labor Conference, 1919. Jan. 2,17; Feb. 22 (2,17,326)
Germany. New regulation............................................................................................ Feb. 232-4 (536-8)
Great Britain. Benefits under health insurance system ................................................ Jan. 48-9 (48-9)
Switzerland. Cost................................................................................. ............................. Apr. 199 (1029)
Various foreign countries................................................................................................. Feb. 226-8 (530-2)
(See also Mothers’ pensions.)
Maylander, Alfred:
European trade-union statistics.................................................................................... June 194-8 (1500-4)
Standard rates of pay of ofiicersand crews of Italian merchant marine. (Agreement
of 1919.) (Translation)............................................................................................ Jan. 158-73 (158-73)
Strikes 0 f Italian Government employees................................................................ May 204-15 (1278-89)
Meals. District of Columbia. Recommendation of conference called by Minimum Wage
Commission............................................................................................................................... Mar. 136 (730)
(See also Board and lodging in lieu of wages.)
Medical service. (See Hospital and Medical service; Workmen’s compensation.)
Medical Society ofthe State of New York. Attitude to ward compulsory health insurance. Jan. 255-8(255-8)
Meeker, Royal.
Cost of industrial accidents. Address, 1920.................................................................. Apr. 1-13 (831-43)
Employees’ representation in management of industry. Address, 1919...................... Feb. 1-14 (305-18)
Improbability of decrease in prices and cost of living................................................. Feb. 95-7 (399-401)
Letter to President Wilson re appointment of a textile and clothing administrator,
Aug. 29, 1918........................................................................................................... May 39-41 (1113-1115)
Prevention of accidents by the statistical method........................................................ Mar. 1-3 (595- 7)
(See also United States: Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
Men’s clothing. (See Clothing, men’s.)
Mental tests. Dr. Stanley Cobb quoted, re use of............................................................... Jan. 228 (228)
Mercantile industry. Minimum wage. District of Columbia. Report of Board for 1919. Apr. 112-15 (942-5)
-----Convention re m aternity cases among employed women extended commercial occu
pations—International Labor Conference, 1919..................................................................... Jan. 17 (17)
Merchant marine. (See Shipping.)
Mercurial poisoning, diseases resulting from, included in amended accident insurance law
ofFrance. .................... ........................................................................................................ Jan. 261 (261)
Metabolism of women munition workers, Great Britain. Calorie requirements for various
operations.................................................................................................................................Jan. 225-6 (25-6)
Metal trades:
Strikes. Germany. 1919............................................................................................. Jan. 279-81 (279-81)
Wages. France. March, 1919............................................................................................. Mar. 121 (715)
—— New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919. (Metals, machin
ery, and conveyances)....................................................................................................... Apr. 110 (940)
Wages and hours. United States. 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference
, , , B oard)..................................................................................................................... Jan. 142,143(142,143)
Metal Workers’ Federation, Germany:
B y-law s............................................................................................................................ Mar. 207-8 (801-2)
Effect of wage increases on economic condition of workers............................................Jan. 178-9 (178-9)
Manifesto opposed to joint industrial leagues. (Arbeitsgemeinschaften)...................... Mar. 207 (801)
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Study of influenza-pneumonia among industrial policyholders (Dublin)................................................................................................................. Jan. 223-4 (223-4)
Metropolitan police. (See Police. Great Britain.)
“ Meyer’s amendment,” United States Senate. Attem pt to prohibit Government em
ployees joining organizations which use strike weapon......................................................... Jan. 154 (154)
Middle Classes Union, Great B ritain. Principles, e tc.....................................................June 221-3 (1527-9)
Migration of workers. International Labor Conference, 1919.........................................Jan. 13-15 (13-15)
Millinery. Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919.........Apr. 110 (940)
Millwork industry:
United States. Changes in hours, wages, etc., 1913 to 1919..............................................Jan. 139 (139)
-----Hours. 1919 and decrease since 1913. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919)
.................................. ................ - ..........................................................................Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
-----Wages. 1919 and increase since 1913. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919)
, ................................................................................................................................. Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
(See also Woodworking.)
Mine accidents:
United States. Injuries and deaths, 1917 and 1918........................................................ June 165 (1471)
-----Six m onthsending January, 1920..........................................................................June 163-4 (1469-70)
-----Use of geophone for mine rescue work................................................................... Apr. 183-4 (1013-14)
Mines, Bureau of. United States. (See United States: Bureau of Mines.)
Mines and mining:
Anthracite coal. Pennsylvania. Housing............................................................. May 186-95 (1260-9)
-----------Wages and hours, 1919and 1920...................................................................... June 95-103 (1401-9)
-----(See also Mines and mining—Coal.)
Bituminous coal. Ohio. Relative increases in wages, 1913 to 1920. (Hocking Valley
District)................................................................................................................. June 104-6 (1410-12)
----- United States. Company housing. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of 1916)
............................................................................................................................Apr: 215-22 (1045-52)
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Mines and mining—Concluded.
Page.
Bituminous coal. United States. Employment statistics, 1919 and 1920....... June 149-50 (1455-6)
— -----Report of U nited States Bituminous Coal Commission, March, 1920........... Apr. 40-50 (870-80)
-----(See also Mines and mining—Coal.)
Coal. Belgium. Labor unrest, 1919............................................................................ Apr. 228-9 (1058-9)
-----Germany. Shorter working day. (Six-hour shift).........Jan. 173-7; Mar. 130-1 (173-7, 724-5)
—— Great B ritain. Checkweighmen Act, 1919...................................................... Feb. 238-9 (542-3)
----------- Various demands; increases granted, 1919 and 1920.............................June 109-11 (1415-17)
-----United States. Accidents, six months ending January, 1920........................June 163-4(1469-70)
---- - —— Paym ent for overtime........................................................................................ Mar. 117 (711)
Metals. Accidents. United States. 1918........................................................... June 164-5 (1470-1)
Minimum age. Child labor. (See Child labor—Minimum age.)
Minimum wage:
Australia. Recommendation of conference of employers’ federations.......................... Apr. 62 (892)
Belgium. Movement of trade-unions............................................................................ May 200 (1274)
District of Columbia. Hotels and restaurants...................... Jan. 144-8; Mar. 132-6 (144-8, 726-30)
-----------Report of board for 1919..................................................................................Apr. 112-15 (942-5)
—— Mercantile industry. Report of board for 1919.................................................... Apr. 112-15 (942-5)
—— Printing and publishing. Report of board for 1919..........................................Apr. 112-15 (942-5)
Exemptions. District of Columbia. Licenses provided for substandard workers.. Apr. 115 (945)
-----France. Street railways. Substandard workers m ay be paid lower rate than
regular wages............................................................................................................ . Apr. 67 (897)
Great Britain. Docklabor. Reportofcourtofinquiry,M arch31,1920.........May56-9,62(1130-3,1136)
Legislation. United States. American minimum wage laws at work. (Douglas.)
(Review of article)................................................... .-......................................................Jan. 180 (180)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees.........June 224 (1530)
Minimum wage board. District of Columbia. (See District of Columbia: Minimum
wage board.)
Minimum wage commission, Massachusetts. (See Massachusetts: Minimum wage com
mission.)
Minimum wage for men. Kansas. Provision in court of industrial relations.........Mar. 214-15 (808-9)
-----Oregon. Proposed legislation............................................................................ Mar. 214-15 (808-9)
Minimum-wage orders:
Bavaria. Domestic service.......................................................................................... Feb. 131-2 (435-6)
British Columbia. Fishing industry................................................................................ Apr. 116 (946)
-----F ruit and vegetable industry....................................................................................... Apr. 116 (946)
District of Columbia. Hotels, restaurants, etc..........................Apr. 112-15; June 116 (942-5, 1422)
»England. Domestic service................................................................................................. Feb. 130 (434)
Massachusetts. Knit-goods industry................................................................................ May 110 (1184)
Saskatchewan. Hotels, restaurants, etc............................................................................ June 116 (1422)
Washington (State). Public housekeeping.................................................................. May 111 (1185)
Ministry of Health Act. Great Britain. Administration of insurance system............... Jan. 52-7 (52-7)
Ministry of Social Hygiene, Social Insurance, and Social Provision, created, France. (See
France. Ministry of social hygiene, etc.)
Minors. Part-time schools. United States...................................................................... Apr. 133-6 (963-6)
Missouri. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Employment Organization, function............................... Feb. 161 (465)
Missouri. (See also specific subjects.)
Mobility of labor:
Certain industries of Niagara Falls................................................................................... Mar. 164 (758)
Coalmining. Opinion of United States Bituminous Coal Commission.......... Apr. 45-6,48 (875-6,878)
-----Kansas. Investigation by court of industrial relations with view to establishing
employment......................................................................................................... ................ May 54 (1128)
Definition........................................................................................................................ June 37-40 (1343-6)
Effect of works committees o n ............................................................................................. Jan. 192 (192)
Hotels, restaurants, etc. District of Columbia. (In minimum-wage study, 1919)......... Jan. 145 (145)
In American industry. Summary article................................................................. June 36-56 (1342-62)
Montana:
Industrial accident board. Report, June 30, 1919..................................................... Jan. 249-51 (249-51)
Veterans’ welfare commission. Scope................................................................................ Feb. 161 (465)
Montana. (See also specific subjects.)
Mortality statistics:
Jan. 248 (248)
Idaho. In report of industrial accident board, 1918.................................................... .
United States. Metal mines, 1917 and 1918....................................................................... June 165 (147l)
United States and Canada. Study of influenza-pneumonia among wage earners,
1918-19............................................................................................ •...............................Jan. 223-4 (223-4)
Mortenson, Clara E. Minimum wage for women in hotels and restaurants in District of
Colum bia............................................................................................................................ Mar. 132-6 (726-30)
(See also District of Columbia. Minimum wage board.)
Mothers’ pensions:
Great Britain. Resolution adopted by Fifty-first Trades-Union Congress, Glasgow,
September, 1919.................................................................................................................. Feb. 257 (561)
Ontario. Report on proposed scheme, 1920................................................................. May 170-1 (1244-5)
Municipal employees. (See Public employees.)
Munitions of War Acts, 1915,1916, and 1917. Great Britain. (Summarized).......................Apr. 233 (1063)
Mutual aid societies'
France. Benefits to Italian workers under Franco-Italian t r e a t y ............................. Feb. 49-51 (353-5)
Italy. Benefits to French workers under Franco-Italian t r e a t y ............................... Feb. 49-51 (353-5)
N.
National Association of Credit Men. Investigation of efficiency of la b o r .....................June 219-20 (1525-6)
National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness. Suggestions for uniform control of
use of wood alcohol......................................................................................................... Feb. 199-201 (503-4)
National Cooperative Union for Importation, Italy, to consider purchase and distribution
of food su p p lies..... ..............................................................................................................Apr. 130-1 (960-1)
NationalCooperative Wholesale Association. Organization, activities, etc .Apr. 117-18,120-1 (947-8,950-1)
National Defense Act. Provision empowering President to commandeer manufacturing
plants...................................................................................................................................... May 21-2 (1095-6)
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National Health Insurance Act, 1919, Great B rita in ....... .................................................. Mar. 201-2 (795-6)
National Health Insurance Joint Committee. (See Great Britain. National health insur
ance joint committee.)
National Housewives’ League. Action taken toward solution of domestic service problem. May 113 (1187)
National IndustrialConference Board:
Report on changes in cost of living, 1914 to 1919........................................................... May 88-9 (1162-3)
Report on conciliation and arbitration in New Zealand........................................... May 216-18 (1290-2)
Report on cost of living among wage earners, Lawrence, Mass., November, 1919___Mar. 71-2 (665—
6)
Report on war-time changes in wages. (Sum m arized)................................ .............. Jan. 141-4 (141-4)
Works councils in the United States. (Sum m arized).................................................. Jan. 191-2 (191-2)
National Industrial Tribunal proposed by President’s Industrial Conference....... Jan. 63; Apr. 35 (63,865)
National Research Council. Investigation re hours as related to output and accident
rate..................................................................................................................................... May 158-63 (1232-7)
National Safety Council:
Paper on Industrail clinics in general hospitals. (Edsall).........................................Jan. 224-5 (224-5)
Paper on The coordination of industrial and community health activities. (Ford). . . Feb. 201 (505)
Investigation of industrial dermatoses......................................................................... Feb. 206-8 (510—
12)
National Society for Vocational Education. Report on vocational training................Apr. 136-40 (966-70)
National War Labor Board. (See United States: National War Labor Board.)
Nationalization of coal mines. Discussed at 51st Trades-Union (Great B ritain)................ Feb. 256 (560)
Nernst Lamp Co., Pittsburgh. Established first known works committee (1904).............. Jan. 191 (191)
Neuropsychiatry. (See Psychiatry.)
Neurosis. Apnlication of psychiatry to industrial cases. (Cobb)..................................... Jan. 228-9 ( 228-9)
New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce. Bureau of State Research. Shop committees
and industrial councils............................................................................ ............................ Jan. 193-4 (193-4)
New Jersey. (See also specific subjects.)
New Ministries and Secretaries Act, 1916, Great Britain. (Summarized)...... : .................. Apr. 233 (1063)
New York (State):
Bureau of workmen’s compensation. Report, 1917-18................................................ Feb. 221-3 (525-7)
Industrial commission. Annualreport, year ending June 30, 1918........................... Feb. 221-3 (525-7)
-----Recent changes in personnel.............................. ......................................................... May 199 (1273)
-----Report on investigation into management and affaire......................................... Feb. 212-18 (516-22)
-----Health hazards of the chemicalindustry. (Bulletin)........................................ Mar. 165-8 ( 759-62)
Moreland act commissioner. Report by J. F. Connor............................................ Feb. 212-18 (516-22)
Reconstruction commission. Summary of report on retrenchment and reorganization
in the State government............................................................................................... Jan. 266-9 (266-9)
New York (State). (See also specific subjects.)
New York State College for Teachers. Action taken toward solution of domestic-service
problem............................................................................................................................. May 112-13 (1186-7)
Newton, C. R . Article on Industrial blood poisons, summarized................................ June 169- 70 (1475-6)
Night work:
Child labor. Discussed by International Labor Conference, 1919...................... Jan. 2,19-20 (2,19-20)
-----Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919..................... Feb. 27-9 (331-3)
Czechoslovakia. Law of December, 1918............................................................................. Feb. 241 (545)
Minors. Devastated regions of Europe. International Labor Conference of 1921 to
discuss...................................................................................................................................... Jan. 20(20)
Woman labor. Discussed by Interjnational Labor Conference, 1919............................. Jan. 2,15 (2,15)
-----Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919..................... Feb. 23-5 (327-9)
(See also Hours; Minimum-wage orders.)
Notice of intention to discharge and to quit. (See Employment management.)
O.
Occupation, effect upon duration of disability....... .......................................................... Mar. 4-15 (598-609)
Occupational diseases. (See Disease.)
Oklahoma. Industrial commission. Recent changes in personnel....................................... May 199 (1273)
-----Reports, 1918,1919......................................................................................................... June 177 (1483)
Oklahoma. (See also specific subjects.)
Old-age and invalidity pensions;
Argentina. Railroad employees. Retirement law passed Apr. 16,1919................. Apr. 206-9 (1036-9)
District of Columbia. School teachers. Law of January, 1920.................................. Feb. 224-5 (528-9)
France. Public employees. Law of October, 1919................................................... Feb. 229-31 (533-5)
Great Britain.Old-age Pension Act, 1919.................................................................... Mar. 181-2 (775-6)
-----Report of British Parliamentary Committee.......................................................... Jan. 258-9 (258-9)
-----Resolution adopted by Trades-Union Congress, September, 1919.............................. Feb. 257 (561)
Illinois. Recommendations of Pension Laws Commission, 1918,1919................. Apr. 189-90 (1019-20)
Italy. Pension funds. Merchant marine. Provisions of agreement of 1919......... Jan. 158-61 (158-61)
United States. Public employees. Law enacted May 22,1920............................... June 184-6 (1490-2)
Old-age insurance:
France. Italian workers to have same privileges as nationals under Franco-Italian
treaty .............................................................................................................................. Feb. 48-9 (352-3)
Italy. French workers to have same privileges as nationals under Franco-Italian
treaty............................................................................................................................... Feb. 48-9 (352-3)
Portugal. Compulsory, by recent decree............ ........................................................ Jan. 262-4 (262-4)
(See also Old-age and invalidity pensions.)
Old Age Pensions Act, 1919. Great B ritain.............................................................................. Mar. 202 (796)
Ontario. Department of labor. Mothers’ allowances; an investigation........................ May 170-1 (1244-5)
Ontario. (See also specific subjects.)
Oregon. Industrial accident commission. Investigation of........................................... Mar. 169-70 (763-4)
—— Report for three-year period ending June 30,1918.............................................. June 178-9 (1484-5)
Oregon. (See also specific subjects.)
Organization, labor. (See Labor organizations.)
Out-of-work donations. (See Unemployment insurance. Great Britain.)
Output. (See Hours in relation to output.)
Overalls industry. United States. Wages and hours. (Bureau of Labor Statistics sur
vey, 1919).......................................................................................................................... Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
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Overtime:
Page.
Building trades. New York City. Agreement of November, 1919................................. Feb. 148 (452)
Discussion and draft convention of International Labor Conference, 1919.................... Jan. 9-10: Feb.
17; Mar. 111(9-10,321,705)
Domestic service. Bavaria................................... ............................................................... Feb. 132 (436)
International convention, referred to ...................................................................... Mar. 188,190 (782,784)
Merchant marine. Italy. Agreement of 1919............................. Jan. 162,169,171,173 (162,169,171,173)
Petroleum industry. France. Agreement of June 16,1919............................................. Mar. 123 (717)
Printing and publishing. France. Agreement of June 11,1919....................................... Mar. 122(716)
Railways. France. Orders of Minister of Public Works................................................... Apr. 65 (895)
Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia..................................................................... Apr. 213 (1043(
Shipping. Australia. Award of arbitration court...............................................t .......... Feb. 266 (570)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees...........June 224 (1530)
Steam railroads. Australia................................................................................................... Mar. 118 (712)
U nited States and foreign countries. Practice regarding payment of punitive overtime
rates..................■........................................................................................................ Mar. 109-17 (703-11)
(See also Union scales.)
P.
Packing industry:
Overtime. Award of May, 1918................................................................................... Mar. 113-14 (707-8)
Part-time classes. Chicago, 111............................................................................................ May 118 (1192)
Pacific Cooperative League. Organization, etc................................................................ Apr. 121-4 (951-4)
Painters. Part-time classes. Iowa............................................................................................ Apr. 135 (965)
Palma Castiglione, G. di. International Labor Office....................... .................................... May 197 (1271)
Paper. (See Pulp and paper.)
Paper-box manufacturing. Wages and hours. United States. (Bureau of Labor Statis
tics survey, 1919).............................................................................................................. Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
Pardo, Dr. In charge of inquiry into Bolshevism projected by League of Nations............ May 197 (1271)
Park police. (See Police.)
Parker, Florence E.:
Aims and possibilities of the consumers’ cooperative movement............................ June 117-22 (1423-8)
Consumers’ cooperative wholesale societies in the United States............................ Apr. 117-28 (947-58)
Cooperative movement in the United States...............................................................Mar. 138-45 (732-9)
Part-tim e classes. (See Classes for employees.)
Partial disability. (See Disability—Partial.)
Pay, equal. (See Equal pay for equal work.)
Paym ent by results:
Australia. Employers’ federation recommend adoption of system............................. Apr. 61-2 (891-2)
Germany. Regarded as necessary in State-owned establishments.................................. Mar. 126 (720)
Great Britain. Dock labor. Report of court of inquiry, Mar. 31, 1920............................ May 59 (1133)
Russia....................................................................................................................................... May 66 (1140)
(See also Piecework; Wages.)
Peale, Rembrandt. Representative of operators on United States Bituminous Coal Com
mission......................................................................................................................................
Apr. 41 (871)
Pennsylvania. H ealth insurance commission. Report................................................... July 220-6 (220-6)
Pennsylvania. (See also specific subjects. )
Pennsylvania Safety Congress. Address by Royal Meeker on The cost of industrial acci
dents. .................................................................................................................................. Apr. 1-13 (831-43)
Pension Laws Commission. (See Illinois. Pension laws commission.)
Pensions. (See Mothers’ pensions; Old-age and invalidity pensions; and references under
Insurance.)
People’s Yearbook, England. 1920................................................................................... Apr. 131-2 (961-2)
Permits to work. Minors. Recommendations of International Congress of Working
Women, 1919.............................................................................................................................
Jan. 20 (20)
Petroleum refineries. France. Agreement of June, 1919, establishing eight-hour day, etc.. Mar.l23(717)
Phelan, E. J. In charge of preliminary organization of conferences, International Labor
Office......................................................................................................................................... May 197 (1271)
Phosphorus. Recommendation and resolution of International Labor Conference,
1919........................................................................................................ -.................. Jan. 22; Feb. 32 (22,336)
Physical examination of workers. Review of article by Dr. Selby............................... Feb. 164-7 (468-71)
Physiologic needs of woman workers in relation to income. (British study)...................Jan. 225-6 (225-6)
Piecework:
Furniture industry. United States. Earnings of male and female workers com
pared.............................................................................................................................. Jan. 136-7 (136-7)
Railway shops. Germany............................................................................................. Mar. 126-9 (720-3)
Various industries. Germany........................................................................................ Mar. 126-9 (720- 3)
-----Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia...................................................... Apr. 212-13 (1042-3)
(See also Payments by results; Wages.)
Pillsbury, A. J. Article on An adventure in State insurance referred to ............... ............
Apr. 21 (851)
Placement. (See Employment agencies; Rehabilitation.)
Planing-millproducts. (See Millwork industry.)
Poisoning:
Anilin manufacture. Benzene and anilin poisoning. (Summary of article by C. R.
Newton)................................................................................................................... June 169-70 (1475-6)
Composite industrial poisons: A review................................................................. Feb. 176-97 (480-501)
Lead and mercury. Diseases resulting from, i ncluded in amended accident insurance
law, France........................................................................................................................
Jan. 261 (261)
Lead compounds. When to be considered as soluble. (Recommendation of Inter
national Labor Conference, 1919).......................................................................................
Jan. 21 (21)
Leather trade. Discussion of dermatosis by Dr. R. Prosser W hite...................... Apr. 184-5 (1014-15)
Rubber industry. Hexamethylene-tetramine....................................................... June 168-9 (1474-5)
Tellurium as an industrial health hazard.................................................................. June 166-7 (1472-3)
Wood alcohol. Recommendations concerning manufacture and use................... Feb. 197-201 (501-5)
(See also specific subjects.)
Police:
District of Columbia. Pay increase, 1919, by act of Congress................................ Jan. 153-5 (153-5)
-----Right to join labor organizations with strike clause denied......................................
Jan. 153 (153)
Great Britain. Police federation.............................................................................. ........ Mar. 202 (796)
Police Act, 1919, Great B ritain.................................................................................................
Mar. 202 (796)
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Pope, Dorothy. Hours of labor of hotel and restaurant employees.......... ................Mar. 91-108 (685-702)
Portenar, A. J. “Vacations” in the printing industry in New York Gity [1919].......... Jan. 270-9 (270-9)
Postal employees. Italy. Strikes. W inter of 1918-19................................................ May 205-9 (1279-83)
Pottery industry. United States. Wages and hours. (Bureau of Labor Statistics sur
vey, 1919)........................................................................................................................ May 92-107 (1166-81)
Potts disease. Number of disabled m en placed in various occupations by Institute for
Crippled and Disabled Men.................................................................................................... Apr. 152 (982)
Premiums. Merchant marine. Italy. Officers. (Agreement of 1919)............................ Jan. 161 (161)
(See also Bonuses.)
*
President's Industrial Conference. (See United States. Industrial conference.)
Pressmen. (See Printing and publishing.)
Pre-war Practices Act, 1919. Great B ritain............................................................................ Mar. 201 (795)
Price control:
Italy. DecreeestablishingNational Cooperative Union for Importation [of foodstuffs], Apr. 130(960)
United States. During the w ar................................................................................ May 21-45 (1095-1119)
Prices:
Germany. Increases, 1914 to 1919..................................................................................... Apr. 93-4 (923-4)
United States. Improbability of decrease. (Article by Royal Meeker)................. Feb. 95-7 (399-401)
(See also Cost of living; Retail prices; Wholesale prices.)
Printing and publishing:
Demands for 44-hour week. New York City................................................................. Jan. 270-9 (270-9)
Hours. France. Eight-hour day....................................................................................... Mar. 122 (716)
Minimum wage. District of Columbia. Report of board for 1919........................... Apr. 112-15 (942-5)
Salaries. United States. Compositors and pressmen, Government Printing Office,
1893 to 1919.................................................................................................June 27,28,29 (1333,1334,1335)
Strike, 1919. New York City. Resumé.................................................................... Jan. 270-9 (270-9)
Wages. New York State. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919............ Apr. 110 (940)
Prisoners of war. Resolution of International Union of Woodworkers, Amsterdam.........May 202 (1276)
Production committees:
Germany. Railway shops................................................................................................... Mar. 128(722)
Great Britain. Committee on production established in 1915.................................. . Apr. 232 (1062)
Profit sharing:
Australia. Employers’ federations recommend introduction.................................... Apr. 61-2 (891-2)
Italy. Merchant marine. Agreement of 1919.................................Jan. 158-61,168,172 (158-61,168,172)
United Kingdom. Report of British Ministry of Labor, summarized.....................June 144-5 (1450-1)
United States. Recommendation of President’s Industrial Conference......................
Apr. 38 (868)
(See also Bonuses; Cooperation.)
Profiteering. Great Britain. Actofl919providingforinvestigationofcomplaints__ Mar. 199-200 (793-4)
-----Result of increased prices. (Meeker).......................................................................... Feb. 95-6 (399-400)
Profits. South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees... June 224 (1530)
(See also Retail prices; Wholesale prices.)
Protective clothing. (See Safety provisions. )
Providence Housewives’ League. Re domestic service problem.......................................... May 116 (1190)
Psychiatry. Application to industrial medicine................................................................ Jan. 226-9 (226-9)
Psychoneurosis. (See Neurosis. )
Public employees:
District of Columbia. Report of Federal Reclassification Commission................... Apr. 105-8 (935-8)
France. Old-age pensions. (Law of October, 1919).................................................Feb. 229-31 (533-5)
Great Britain. Application of Whitley industrial council scheme to civil service__ Jan. 195-6 (195-6)
-----Civil-service pensions....................................................................................................... Mar. 182 (776)
-----Wage increases, 1918........................................................................................................ Apr. I l l (941)
Illinois. Recommendation of Pension Laws Commission.................................... Apr. 189-90 (1019-20)
Italy. Strikes. (Compiled by Alfred Maylander. ) ................................................ May 204-15 (1278-89)
United States. Medical service for Government employees. (Trask)..................... Jan. 251-4 (251-4)
-----Relation to proposed scheme of adjustment of industrial relations; right to strike.
(President’s Industrial Conference.).......................... Jan. 61, 67-8; Apr. 35-6, 39 (61, 67-8, 865-6, 869)
-----Recommendation of joint congressional commission on reclassification of salaries.
Apr 105-8 (935-8)
-----Report of Women’s Bureau on exclusion of women from civil service examina
tio n ............................................................................................................................. Jan. 208-17 (208-17)
-----Retirement law enacted May 22,1920, for civil-service employees....................... June 184-6 (1490-2)
-----Salaries of Government employees, 1893 to 1919. (Tables. ) ........................ June 21,29 (1327, 1335)
-----Scope of workmen’s compensation laws in some States. (Reply to British
questionnaire. ) ...................................................................................................................
Apr. 19 (849)
-----States covering, in workmen’s compensation laws....................................................... Jan. 235 (235)
■---- Tentative quantity-cost budget, single person, District of Columbia................... Jan. 35-44 (35-44)
-----Wage policy of Government during last quarter century.................................. June 19-35 (1325-41)
(See also Clerical service. )
Public health:
France. Ministry of Social Hygiene,Social Insurance, and Social Provision, created. Apr. 185 (1015)
Recommendation adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919.................................. Feb. 32 (336)
United States. Coordination of Federal, State, and local agencies to promote industrial
hygiene............................................................................ ...................... ..........
Feb. 202—
5 (506-9)
(See also American public health association; United States Public Health Service.)
Public housekeeping. (See Hotels, restaurants, etc.)
Public Union (Inc. ), New York. Aims, etc..................................................................... June 222-3 (1528-9)
Public utilities:
.
Employees. Recommendations re industrial relations; right to strike. By Presi
dent’s Industrial Conference........................................... -............. Jan. 61, 67; Apr. 35-6 (61, 67, 865-6)
Germany. Emergency strike breaking corps. Organization, etc.......................... Apr. 229-31 (1059-61)
Public works:
France. Scale of wages effective August, 1919............................................................ Mar. 120-1 (714-15)
Italy. Methods of preventing unemployment........................................................... Apr. 196-7 (1026-7)
Recommendations of International Labor Conference, 1919................................................... Jan. 13 (13)
Publications relating to labor. (See List of publications at end of each monthly number.)
Pulp and paper:
Wages. New York State. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919. (Paper) Apr. 110 (940)
Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919— May 92-107 (1166-81)
-----------1914 to 1919. National Industrial Conference Board........................ Jan. 142,143-4 (142,143-4)
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Decreasein prices and cost of living improbable. (Meeker.)................................... Feb. 95-7 (399-401)
United States. Re Government employees’salaries, 1893-1919............................... June 21-8 (1327-34)
Q.
Quantity-cost budget. (See Budgets,,individual.)
*
R.
Railroad Administration, United States. (See United States: Railroad Administration.)
Railroad Labor Board. (See United States: Railroad Labor Beard.)
Railroadlegislation. (See Laws and legislation.)
Railroads. (See Steam railroads.)
Rand, Wm. H ., if. D. Composite industrial poisons: A review............................... Feb. 176-97 (480-501)
Rationing. _ (See Food control.)
Raw materials. Effect of scarcity, distribution, e tc ., on unemployment. (International
Labor Conference, 1919.)........................ ...................................................................... - ...............Jan. 14 (14)
Reclassification Commission. (See United States: Congress. Joint Commission on Re
classification. )
Recognition of union:
Great Britain. Government recognizes railway unions...................................................... Mar. 24(618)
South Africa. Resolution adopted by conference of employers and employees........... June 224 (1530)
(See also Collective bargaining; Right to organize.)
Reconstruction:
Readjustm ent of industry. 'Willrequire several years. (Meeker).................................... Feb. 97 (401)
Reabsorption of labor. Great B ritain................................................................... Apr. 155-74 (985-1004)
(See also Laws and legislation; Reeducation; Rehabilitation.)
Record forms. Reporting sickness........................................................................................Jan. 220-2 (220-2)
Recreation expenditures. District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single m an or
wom an............................................................................................................................ Jan. 35,42-3(35,42-3)
Recruiting of labor. Recommendations of International Labor Conference, 1919.....................Jan. 13 (13)
Red Cross Institute, etc. New name—Institute for Crippled and Disabled M en................. Apr. 147 (977)
Reeducation:
United Kingdom. Training and placement of disabled ex-service men. (Statistics of
special industries)..................................................................................... Apr. 171, 173-4 (1001, 1003-4)
U nited States. Laws of various States........................................................................ Apr. 202-6 (1032-6)
-----Minnesota plan for reeducation and placement of disabled................................ .. Jan. 184-9 (184-9)
-----■Training and placement of disabled ex-service m en......................................... Feb. 138-47 (422-51)
(See also Rehabilitation; Soldiers and sailors).
Reemployment. (See Rehabilitation.)
Regional Adjustment Conference proposed by President’s Industrial Conference............... Apr. 34 (864)
Rehabilitation:
California. Law summarized............................................................................................. Apr. 203 (1033)
----- Provision of rehabilitation a ct..................................................................................... Feb. 220 (524)
Great Britain. Scheme of Government......................................................................... Jan. 205-7 (205-7)
Illinois. Law summarized.................................................................................................. Apr. 204 (1034)
Massachusetts. Law summarized............................................................................... Apr. 202-3 (1032-3)
Minnesota. Law summarized............................................................................................. Apr. 204 (1034)
Nevada. Law summarized........................................................................ .......................Apr. 205 (1035)
New Jersey. Law summarized.................................................................................... Apr. 203-4 (1033-4)
North Dakota. Law summarized...................................................................................... Apr. 203 (1033)
Oregon. Law summarized.................................................................................................. Apr. 203 (1033)
Pennsylvania. Law summarized....................................................................................... Apr. 204 (1034)
Rhode Island. Law summarized....................................................................................... Apr. 205 (1035)
United Kingdom. Placement of disabled ex-service men, month ending January 9,
1920.........7........................................................................................................................... Apr. 171 (1001)
United States. Disabled persons, vocational rehabilitation defined.............................. June 187 (1493)
-----Placement of disabled. Minnesota plan described; law quoted...................... Jan. 184-9 (184-9)
-----Provisions for training and placement of disabled ex-service m en................. Feb. 138-47 (442-51)
-----Provisions of law summarized................................................................................June 186-7 (1492-3)
-----Provisions of various State laws for rehabilitating injured workers................... Apr. 202-6 (1032-6)
—— Work of Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, New York City............. Apr. 147-54 (977-84)
United States and foreign countries. Placement of soldiers and sailors.............. Feb. 158-64 (462-8)
Virginia. Law summarized.......................................................................................... Apr. 205-6 (1035-6)
(See also Reeducation; Soldiers and sailors.)
Rent expenditures:
District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single man or woman..........................Jan.35,36 (35, 36)
(See also Budgets, family; Cost of living; Rents.)
Rents:
Anthracite region of Pennsylvania. Company houses..............May 189-90,194,195 (1263-4,1268,1269)
Argentina. Quotation from Commerce Reports, April 8, 1920....................................... June 81 (1387)
Company houses. Bituminous coal fields. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of
1916. (Magnusson)................ .................................................................................... Apr. 221-2 (1051-2)
(See also Budgets, family; Cost of living; Housing; Rent expenditures.)
Rest periods:
Czechoslovakia. Law of December, 1918...................................................................... Feb. 240-1 (544-5)
Child labor. Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919....... Feb. 28 (332)
Domestic service. Austria. Provisions of law .................................................................June 191 (1497)
Public housekeeping. Washington (State). Resolution adopted by industrial welfare
commission......................................................................................................................... May 111 (1185)
Steamrailroads. France. Order of Minister of Public Works...................................... Apr. 64 (894)
Woman Labor. Draft convention adopted by International Labor Conference, 1919.. Feb. 24 (328)
(See also Day of rest.)
Rest periods, weekly. (See Time off.)
Rest rooms. (See Welfare work.)
Restaurants. (See Hotels, restaurants, etc.)
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Canada. Changes, 1914 to 1919...................... ..................................................................... Mar. 73 (667)
Czechoslovakia. April, 1914, and December, 1919.... ....................................................... Mar. 76 (670)
Norway. 1914 and 1917 to 1919............................................................................................ Feb. 100 (404)
United States. Averages, and recent changes................................................................ Jan. 70; Feb. 59;
Mar. 28; Apr. 68-9; May 69; June 57-8 (70, 363, 622, 898-9, 1143, 1363-4)
-----Averages, recent dates compared with earlier years.................................................Jan. 71; Feb. 60;
Mar. 31; Apr. 70;May70; June 59 (71, 364, 625, 900, 1144, 1365)
—— Averages for 1913, January to December, 1919, and year1919.................................... Mar. 33 (627)
-----Averages for cities reporting to the Bureau, recent dates............................... Jan. 84-9; Feb. 76-81;
Mar. 48-53 (84-9, 380-5, 642-7)
-----Averages for selected cities reporting to the Bureau, recent dates compared with
earlier years................................................... Jan. 76-83; Feb. 68-75; Mar. 40-7. (76-83, 372-9, 634-41)
----- Butter, Chicago. 1916 to 1919, average,first six months of 1918 and of 1919.. Jan. 102,107(102,107)
—— Cheese, Chicago. 1916 to 1919....................................................................... Jan. I ll, 112 (111, 112)
-----Compared to wholesale. Selected cities, 1913 to date.............. Mar. 68-9; June 71-2 (662-3, 1377-8)
-----Per cent of increase, January, 1920, compared with January, 1819. (Chart and
table).............................................................................................................................. Mar. 29-30 (623-4)
(See also Budgets, family; Cost of living; Food expenditures; Retail prices—Various
commodities; Wholesale prices.)
Retail prices—Various commodities:
s
Argentina. 1913,1917, and 1919..................................................................................... June 80-1 (1386-7)
Belgium. April, 1914, and January to September, 1919................................................... Feb. 98 (402)
Canada. 1914 to 1919............................................................................................................ Mar. 73 (667)
District of Columbia. Clothing. Increase, 1916 to 1919 not less than ioo per cent...........Jan. 38 (38)
-----Clothing, men’s. August-September, 1919. (Budget item s)..................................... Jan. 38 (38)
-----Clothing, women’s. August-September, 1919. (Budget item s)..........................Jan. 38-9 (38-9)
France. January, 1920, compared w ith 1914 and April, 1919, P a ris...............................
Mar. 74 (668)
Norway. Fuel. 1914 and 1917 to 1919................................................................................ Feb. 100 (404)
Roumania. Foodstuffs and firewood, average in Bucharest, 1911,1914, and 1919... May 90-1 (1164-5)
United States. Coal. 1913 to 1919, and January, 1920, by cities.............................. Mar. 57-63 ( 651-7)
-----Dry goods, various cities........................................................................................ Apr. 77-82 (907-12)
-----Gas. 1913 to 1920...................................................................................................... June 66-7 (1372-3)
(See also Budgets, family; Cost of living; Retailprices—Food; Wholesale prices.)
Retail stores. (See Mercantile industry.)
Retirement. (See Old-age and invalidity pensions; Old-age insurance.)
Retirement bill. (See Lehlbach-Sterlingbill.)
Retraining. (See Industrialeducation and training; Reeducation.)
Right to employment. _Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia.................................. Apr. 211 (1041)
Right to organize. United States. Public employees. Views and recommendations of
President’s Industrial Conference........................................................... Jan. 61,67-8; Apr. 39 (61,67-8,869)
Right to strike:
District of Columbia. Police. Regulation of Federal act, 1919..................................... Jan. 153 (153)
Germany. Effect of Emergency Engineer Corps........................................... ...... Apr. 229-31 (1059-61)
Great Britain. Railroads. Privilege of instantaneous strike renounced......................
Mar. 25(619)
United States. Public employees. Views and recommendations of President’s
. Industrial Conference........................................................................ Jan. 61,67-8; Apr. 39 (61,67-8, 869)
Robinson, Henry M ., Chairman of United States Bituminous Coal Commission................
Apr. 41 (871)
Rochdale movement. (See Cooperation.)
Room and board. (See Board and lodging; Food expenditures; Rent expenditures.)
Rothband scheme for reemployment of disabled men, Great Britain, referred to ............... Jan. 205 (205)
Rubber industry:
Hazards. Hexamethylene-tetramine poisoning. ...................................................... June 168-9 (1474-5)
Wages. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919. (Furs,
leather, and rubber goods)................................................................................................ Apr. 110 (940)
Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919........ May 92-107 ( 1166- 81)
-----------1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference Board)............................ Jan. 142,143 (142,143)
S.
Sabotage. Germany................................................................................................................... Apr. 231 (1061)
Safety. (See Accident prevention; safety provisions.)
Safety provisions:
Alcohol. Regulations suggested by the National Committee for the Prevention of
Blindness............................................................................................... '................... p eb. 199-201 (503-5)
Industries of New York State..................................................................................... Mar. 161-8 (755-62)
Lead. Recommendations for prevention of lead poisoning, International Labor
Conference, 1919.................................................................................................................
j an. 21 (21)
Need for accurate accident statistics (Meeker)............................................................... Mar. 1-3 (595-7)
Protective clothing. Gloves and helmets for employees handling wood alcohol.......... Feb. 200 (504)
Recommendations of International Labor Conference, 1919.............. Jan. 21-2; Feb. 30-2 (21-2,334-6)
Rusisa. Code of labor laws of Soviet R ussia.............................................................. Apr. 213-14 (1043-4)
Sand blasting. Protection against dust..................................................................... May 154-7 (1228-31)
(See also Accident prevention.)
Sailors. (See Shipping; Soldiers and sailors.)
Salaried employees. (See Public employees; clerical service.)
Salaries. (See Salaried employees; Wages.)
Sand blasters. Protection against dust hazard............................................................... May 154-7 (1228-31)
Sanitary conveniences, company houses. (See Housing.)
Sanatorium benefits. (See Health insurance; Hospital and medical service; Workmen’s
compensation.)
Sash, doors, and blinds. (See Millwork industry.)
Saturday half-holiday. (See Holidays.)
Savings. District of Columbia. Quantity-cost budget, single m an or woman............... Jan. 35,44 (35,44)
Scales of wages. (See Union scales.)
Scandinavian Labor Congress, Copenhagen, January 21-23,1920.................................... Apr. 224-6 (1054-6)
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leans, October, 1919.............................................................................................................. Feb. 202-5 (506-9)
Scientific workers. Salaries. United States, 1893 to 1919......................................... June 27, 29 (1333,1335)
Seamen. (See Shipping.)
Seamen’s Act declared constitutional................................................................................. June 187-9 (1493-5)
Seasonal labor........................................................................................................................ June 49-51 (1355-7)
Second injuries. (See Workmen’s compensation—Second injuries.)
Selby, C. D. Reclaiming the physicalexamination ofindustrial workers. (Reviewed.) Feb. 164-7 (468-71)
Self-msurance. (See Workmen’s compensation—Security.)
Separation allowances. British Army. August, 1914, and June, 1919................................
Jan. 157 (157)
Separations. (See Mobility of labor.)
Service, Civil. (See Public employees.)
Service and information department, War Department. (See United States: War
Department. Service and information departm ent.)
Severity rates. (See Accident rates, frequency and severity.)
Shepard, Norman A. Poisons in the rubber industry................................................... June 168-70 (1474-6)
Sherman, Le Roy K. Comparative cost of building, 1913 and 1919............................... Feb. 247-53 (551-7)
Shifts:
France. Railways. Order of Minister of Public Works.................................................
Apr. 64 (894)
Germany. Demand for 6-ho r shift by coal miners. Results of investigation as to
conditions....................................................................................................................... Jan. 173-7 (173-7)
United States. Hotels and restaurants.................................................................... Mar. 91-108 ( 685-702)
----- Iron and steel................................................................................................................. Mar. 113 (707)
-----Shift systems successfully introduced in connection with part-time instruction..
Apr. 135 (9651
Woman and child labor discussed by International Labor Conference, 1919... Jan. 16,19-20 (16,19-20)
(See also Day of rest; Hours; Overtime.)
Shipbuilding. Overtime. Decision of Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board............ Mar. 114-15 (708-9)
Shipping:
Convention of International Seamen’s Union of America, San Francisco, January,
1920................................................................................................................................ Mar. 204-5 (797-9)
Docks and harbors. Great Britain. Committee set up to settle questions of piece
work rates, etc.................................................................................................................... June 114 (1420)
-----------Report of court of inquiry,March 31, 1920.................................................... May 54-62 (1128-36)
-----New York Harbor. Longshoremen. Overtime................................................ Mar. 115-16 (709-10)
Hours. Agenda prepared by International Labor Office................................ May 2,4-7 (1076,1078-81)
Laws. France. Provision for Italians under Franco-Italian treaty .............................
Feb. 52 (356)
-----Italy. Provision for French seamen under Franco-Italian treaty ...........................
Feb. 52 (356)
Merchant marine. Italy. Standard rates of pay of officers and crews. (Agreement
of 1919).......................................................................................................................... Jan. 158-73 (158-73)
Seamen. Agenda prepared by International Labor C ffice........................ May 1-20,198 (1075-94,1272)
-----Referred to special conference by International Labor Conference...........................
Jan. 25 (25)
Seamen’s Act. Constitutionality upheld................................................................... June 187-9 (1493-5)
Strikes. Australia. September, 1919.....................; .................................................... Feb. 264-6 (568-70)
Workmen’s compensation. Maritime service. Constitutionality of amendment to
Judicial Code............................................................................................................. June 171-5 (1477-81)
-----Seamen excluded from laws in some States. (Reply to British questionnaire).. Apr. 19 (849)
Shipping Board, United States. (See United States: Shipping Board.)
Shoe industry. (See Boot and shoe manufacturing.)
Shop committees:
Opinion o f President’s Industrial Conference....................................................................
A pr. 36 (866)
United States. Discussed by Royal Meeker.................................................................. Feb. 6-9 (310-13)
-----National Industrial Conference Board study, summarized....................................Jan. 191-2 (191-2)
-----New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce study, summarized.............................. Jan. 193-4 (193-4)
(See also Collective bargaining; Employees’ representation; Industrial councils.)
Shorter work day:
Germany. Coalmines....................................................................... Jan. 173-7; Mar. 130-1 (173-7,724-5)
Italy. Public employees. Demand for eight-hour day, 1919......................................... May 204 (1278)
United States. Bituminous coal mines. Report of Bituminous Coal Commission,
March, 1920.......................................................................................................... Apr. 47,48-9 (877,878-9)
(See also Hours.)
Shuford, Augusta. Opportunities for the study of industrial medicine in the United
States...................... . . . ................................................................................................... May 142-54 (1216-28)
Sick funds. (See Health insurance.)
Sick leave. Merchant marine. Italy. Officers. (Agreement of 1919)................................ Jan. 162 (162)
Sickness:
Expenditures, single persons, District of Columbia. (Bureau of Labor Statistics
study, 1919)........................................................................................................................ Jan. 40-1 (40-1)
School children, effect of employment of mothers upon.............................................. Feb. 167-8 (471-2)
Standard method of reporting......................................................................................... Jan. 220-3 (220-3)
(See also Disability.)
Sickness insurance. (See H ealth insurance.)
Sight. (See Eye.)
Silk:
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Wages. United States. 1913 to 1919. Relative earnings per h o m ...............................
Jan. 140;
Feb. 116; Mar. 90 (140,420,684)
Wages and hours. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919........Feb. 101-17 (405-21)
----------- 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference Board).................... Jan. 142,143-4 (142,143-4)
(See also Textiles.)
Six-day week. Rest day in continuous operation industry. (Croxton)...................... Feb. 118-27 (422-31)
Six-hour day:
England. To be introduced into John Dawson Works. (Meeker)..............................
Feb. 9 (313)
Germany. Demanded by coal m iners............................................................................... Mar. 130 (724)
-----Proposal of coal-mining commission, 1919................................................................... Jan. 176 (176)
Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia.................................................................... Apr. 213 (1043)
United States. Demand of bituminous coal miners not granted..................................
Apr. 47 (877)
(See also Hours.)
Skins. (See Leather trade.)
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Great Britain. Army. Officers’ pay subject to revision in 5 years (from 1919) and
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each 3 years thereafter....................................................................... ............................... Jan. 156 (156)
-----Railway employees. To be instituted after September, 1920...................................
Mar. 18 (612)
Smith, Constance. Report to International Labor Conference, 1919. (Woman labor).. Jan. 15-17 (15-17)
Social insurance:
Italy. System developed by Government to improve conditions of working classes.. May 204 (1278)
Switzerland. Various funds, number of persons insured, e tc...................................Apr. 198-9 (1028-9)
(See also Accident insurance; Health insurance; Maternity insurance; Old-age insur
ance; Unemployment insurance; Workmen’s compensation.)
Socialization:
Austria. Shoe industry................................................................................................... Feb. 55-6 (359-60)
Germany. Original object of Government........................................................................ May 172 (1246)
Hungary. Experiences of manufacturers....................................................................... Feb. 53-5 (357-9)
Russia. Effect of “ nationalization”............................................................................ May 65-7 (1139-41)
Soldiers and sailors:
Belgium. Law providing for reemployment of demobilized soldiers........................ Feb. 163-4 (467-8)
Germany. Order providing for reemployment........................................... Feb. 164; Mar. 155 (468,749)
Great Britain. Scheme of Government for employment of disabled.......................... Jan. 205-7 (205-7)
-----Statistics on reabsorption into industry..................................................................Apr. 156-8 (986-8)
United Kingdom. Number of placements, specified dates.......................................Apr. 171-4 (1001-4)
United States. Laws providing for rehabilitation.....................................................Apr. 202-6 (1032-6)
-----Provisions for reemployment. Various State activities................................... Feb. 158-63 (462-7)
-----Provisions for training and placem ent.................................................................. Feb. 138-47 (422-51)
(See also Reeducation; Rehabilitation.)
Sonniehsen, Albert. Consumers’ cooperation................................................................. Feb. 134-7 (438-41)
Soviet system:
Hungary.......................................................................................................................... Feb. 53-5 (357-9)
Russia. Code of labor laws; policy of Government............... Apr. 210-14: May 65-7 (1040-4, 1139-41)
Spread of hours. Railroads. France. Recent orders of Minister of Public Works.......... Apr. 64 (894)
Stability of labor. (See Mobility of labor.)
Standard of living. Great Britain. Dock labor. Report of court of inquiry................... May 57 (1131)
Standardization:
Sickness reporting. Plans prepared by American Public Health Association and the
Public Health Service................................................................................................. Jan. 220-3 (220-3)
-----Wages. Great Britain. Railway employees................................................... Mar. 16-25 (610-19)
State aid:
France. Paris. Unemployment benefits. 1918 and 1919.............................................. Mar. 153 (747)
-----Building of cheap dwellings.................................................................................... Feb. 253-5 (557-9)
Germany. Unemployment relief, order effective February, 1920.................................. May 181 (1255)
Italy. Housing.......................................................................................................... May 195-6 (1269-70)
Poland. Assistance for the unemployed............................................................................ Apr. 201 (1031)
State insurance funds. (See Workmen's compensation—Security.)
State insurance, an adventure in. Article in American Economic Review, by A. J. Pillsbury, referred t o ....................................................................................................................... Apr. 21 (851)
Statistics. See Accident statistics; Employment statistics; and various subjects.)
Steam railroads:
Accidents during 1918, United States....................................................................... Mar. 159-60 ( 753-4)
Construction. Italy. Method of relieving unemployment........................................... Apr. 197 (1027)
Cooperation. United States. Cooperative selling of clothing........................... Apr. 121,128 (951,958)
Demand of organized employees, and Government reply, Italy........................... May 209-14 (1283-8)
Government control, Great Britain, to cease August, 1921.............................................. Mar. 25 (619)
Government operation. United States. Report on, 1919.........................................Apr. 58-60 (888-90)
Grievances, protests, and demands. United States. Conference of railway employees,
1919............................................................................................................................... Feb. 33-41 (337-45)
Industrial relations. United States. Board provided by railroad control act....... May 46-9 (1120-3)
Labor conditions. France.............................................................................................. Apr. 63-5 ( 893-5)
-----United States........................................................................................................... Apr. 58-60 (888-90)
Laws. Great Britain. Transport act, August, 1919................................................. Feb. 235-8 (539-42)
Laws. United States. Labor provisions of Transportation Act, 1920...................... Apr. 50-7 ( 880-7)
Overtime. United States. Agreement of September, 1919.................................... Mar. 116-17 (710—11)
Piecework system and railway shops. Germany...................................................... Mar. 126-9 (720-3)
Resolution of employees regarding aid to disabled soldiers and,sailors...................... Feb. 141-2 (445-6)
Retirement. Argentina. Law of April, 1919........................................................... Apr. 206-9 (1036-9)
Strikes. Italy. January, 1919................................................................................... May 209-15 (1283-9)
-----United States, 1919.......................................................................................................
Apr. 60 (890)
Unemployment. Italy, 1919............................................................................................... Apr. 197 (1027)
United States Railroad Administration. Annual report of Division of Labor for 1919
Apr. 58-60
(888-90)
Wages. Australia. Award of 1919. (Queensland)................................................. Mar. 118-19 (712-13)
-----Germany. Piecework system.............................................................................. Mar. 126-9 (720-3)
-----Great Britain. Demands, increases granted..................................................... June 111-13 (1417-19)
-----—— 1919-20............................................................................................................ Mar. 16-25 (610-19)
-----United States. Movement of organized employees; 1919-20............................... May 49-52 (1123-6)
Woman labor. Statistics on hours, wages, and working conditions under United
States Railroad Administration................................ ^ .............................................. Mar. 156-8 (750-2)
Workmen’s compensation. United States. Employees excluded in some States.
(Reply to British questionnaire)..................................................................................... Apr. 19 (849)
(See also Transportation; United States: Railroad administration.)
Steel corporation, united States. (See United States Steel Corporation.)
Stein, Gertrude R. Finding employment for disabled civilians in the United States. Apr. 147-54 (977-84)
Sterling bill. (See Lehlbach-Sterling bill.)
Stoddard, C. F. Price fixing by the Government during the w ar.......................... May 21-45 (1095-1119)
Stone, clay, and glass manufacturing. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and
1916 to 1919................................................................................................................................ Apr. 110 (940)
Storage. (See Markets and marketing.)
Street railways:
Labor conditions. France............................................................................................... Apr. 65-7 (895-7)
(See also Electric railroads.)
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Strike benefit. Germany. Provisions of by-laws of Metal Workers’ Federation.........Mar. 207-8 (801-2)
Strikebreaking. Organization of corps in Germany...................................................... Apr. 229-31 (1059-61)
Strikes:
Australia. Shipping. 1919................................................ .......................................... Feb. 264-6 (568-70)
Belgium. Coal industry. Strike a t Charleroi, December, 1919............................... Apr. 228-9 (1058-9)
Canada. 1919................................................................................................................ May 203-4 (1277-8)
France. Textiles. New wage agreement signed.................................................... Mar. 124-5 (718-19)
Germany. Electrical workers, Berlin, 1919...................................... Jan. 280-1; Apr. 230 (280-1, 1060)
-----Establishment of an emergency strike-breaking corps.................................... Apr. 229-31 (1059-61)
-----Metal workers, Berlin, 1919.................................................................................... Jan. 279-81 (279-81)
Great Britain. Disputes in 1919.................................................................................. Apr. 227-8 (1057-8)
-----Railroads. Negotiations after strike of September, 1919.................................. Mar. 16-25 (610-19)
Italy. Public employees. (Compiled by Alfred Maylander)................................ May 204-15 (1278-89)
Kansas. Electric railroads....................................................................... .......................... June 106 (1412)
New York City. Agreement of November, 1919.......................................................... Feb. 148-9 (452-3)
----- Printing industry, 1919............................................................................................. Jan. 270-9 (270-9)
United Kingdom. Unemployment caused by railway and molders’ strikes................ Apr. 155,156,
160,165 (985,986,990,995)
United States. Attitude of Communist Party toward.............................................. Mar. 220-1 (814-15;
----- Bituminous coal. Report of United States Bituminous Coal Commission___Apr. 40-50 (870-80)
—— Mines and mining. Cause of 10.6 per cent of days lost, 1910 to 1918.......................
Apr. 48 (878)
-----Report of Labor Division of United States Railroad Administration on anthracite
strikes in 1919.....................................................................................................................
Apr. 60 (890)
-----Statistics, various periods.................................................................................. June 199-218 (1505-24)
(See also Disputes, methods of adjusting; Lockouts.)
Strikes, cost of, more accurately calculated in terms of product unproduced. (Meeker). ..
Apr. 7 (837)
Studensky, Paul. Shop committees and industrial councils........7.................................. Jan. 193-4 (193-4)
Substandard workers. (See Minimum wage—Exemptions.)
Sugar. Prices fixed by Food A dm inistration.................................................................... May 30-1 (1004-5)
Sullivan, Oscar M. Minnesota plan for the reeducation and placement of cripples........Jan. 184-9 (184-9)
Sunday work. (See Day of rest; Overtime.)
Surveys:
Cost of living, United States. (Bureau of Labor Statistics and National War Labor
Board, 1918-19.) Furniture and house furnishings................................................... Jan. 27-34 (27-34)
Housing. Anthracite region of Pennsylvania. (Magnusson)................................ May 186-95 (1260-9)
-----Bituminous coal fields, 1916. (Magnusson)......................................................... Apr. 215-22 (1045-52)
Industrial. Niagara Falls. United States Public Health Service and New York
Industrial Commission re hazards in certain industries.......................................... Mar. 161-8 (755-62)
-----United States. Hours. Hotel and restaurant employees
....................... Mar. 91-108 (685-702)
-----United States. Wages and hours, 1919. (Bureau of Labor Statistics)................
Jan. 118-41;
Feb. 101-17; Mar. 77-90; Apr. 95-104; May 92-107; June
82-94 (118-41, 405-21, 671-84, 925-34, 1166-81, 1388-1400)
Labor turnover. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1915,1916, and 1918.................................June 40 (1346)
Mothers’ pensions. Ontario. Department of labor................................................... May 170-1 (1244-5)
Workmen’s compensation. British questionnaire, 1919............................................ Apr. 14-32 (844-62)
Suspended sentences. New York. Pamphlet by Bernard L. Shientag concerning prac
tice re violations of labor laws, reviewed........................................................................... Mar. 183-4 (777-8)
T.
Taxes. Provisions of Franco-Italian labor treaty..................................................................... Feb. 52 (356)
Taylor Society (New York). Cost of living in relation to wage adjustments, reviewed. Jan. 148-52 (148-52)
Teachers. Retirement. District of Columbia. Law of January, 1920............................ Feb. 224-5 (528-9)
Telegraph. Strikes. Italy. Winter of 1918-19............................................ 1............... May 205-9 (1279—
83)
Telephone. Strikes. Italy. Winter of 1918-19.............................................................. May 205-9 (1279-83)
Tellurium, an industrial health hazard............................................................................... June 166-7 (1472-3)
Textiles:
Part-time classes. Alabama. One mill (with State and Federal aid)................... Jan. 189-90 (189-90)
Prices fixed by War Industries Board; letter to President Wilson from Royal Meeker
re appointment of textile and clothing adm inistrator........................................... May 39-41 (1113-15)
Wages. France. Increases, agreement of October, 1919, Lyon............................... Mar. 124-5 (718—
19)
■---- New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919............................... Apr. 110 (940)
(See also Silk; Wool.)
Thomas, Albert, Director, International Labor Office............................................................ May 197 (1271)
Thomas, J. H., chairman, Trades-Union Congress (Great Britain), 1919............................. Feb. 256 (560)
----- General secretary, National Union of Railwaymen, Great Britain...............................
Mar. 24 (618)
Time lost due to strikes:
Canada. 1919......................................................................................................................... May 203 (1277)
United States. Report of Bituminous Coal Commission, March, 1920..........................
Apr. 48 (878)
Time off:
Child labor. Discussed by International Labor Conference, 1919............................... Jan. 19-20 (19-20)
Steam railroads. Italy. Demand of workers, 1919.......................................................... May 210 (1284)
Woman labor. Discussed by International Labor Conference, 1919..............................
Jan. 16(16)
Time workers. Furniture industry. United States. Earnings of males and females
compared............................................................................................................................... Jan. 136-7 (136-7)
Tips, hotels and restaurants, District of Columbia. Minimum-wage order.......................... June 116 (1422)
Topeka E dison Co. Decision of Kansas court of industrial relations re wages of linemen.. May 52-4 (1126-8)
Total disability. (See Disability—Total.)
Trade agreements:
Chicago. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Chicago clothing manu
facturers, December, 1919..............................................................................................Apr. 141-2 (971-2)
Denmark. Table showing result of agreement of 1919 between National Federation of
Trade Unions and National Employers’ Association..................................................... May 109 (1183)
France. Agricultural workers’ unions and employers’ association, August, 1919.. Mar. 123-4 (717-18)
----- Petroleum industry. National association of employers and General Federation
of Workers in Chemical Products, June, 1919................................................................. Mar. 123 (717)
•----- Printing and publishing. Master Printers’ Union of France, French Federation
of Typographers, and National Federation of Lithographers, June, 1919................... Mar. 122 (716)
-----Textiles. October, 1919.......................................................................................... Mar. 124-5 (718-19)
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Italy. Shipping. Shipowners and Seamen’s Federation, m erchant marine, 1919. Jan. 158-73 (158—
73)
London. Building trades. March, 1920............................................................................ June 113 (1419)
New York City. Building trades. Building Trades Employers’ Association and
Building Council, November, 1919.............................................................................. Feb. 147-9 (451-3)
Norfolk, Va. Building trades. Employing contractors and members of unions,
August, 1919................................................ ............................................................... Feb. 149-51 (453-4)
United States. Railroad Administration and maintenance-of-way employees and
railway shop laborers, December, 1919................................................ .......................... Mar. 117 (711)
-----Railroad Administration and railway employees department of American Feder
ation of Labor, September, 1919......................................................................................... Mar. 116 (710)
(See also Collective agreements.)
Trade schools. (See Industrial education and training.)
Trades-unions. (See Labor organizations.)
Trades-Union Congress, Great Britain. Glasgow, September, 1919.................................Feb. 256-8 ( 560- 2)
Training. (See Classes for employees; Industrial education and training; Reeducation.''
Tramways. (See Street railways.)
Transportation:
France. Labor conditions on railways and tramways................................................. Apr. 63-7 (893-7)
Great Britain. Transport act, August, 1919............................................................... Feb. 235-8 (539-42)
Italy. Provisions for manual workers............................................................................... Apr. 191 (1021)
(See also Electric railroads; Shipping; Steam railroads; Street railways.)
Transportation act, 1919, Great B ritain............................................................................. Feb. 235-8 (539-42)
Transportation act, 1920. United States. Labor provisions.................... Apr. 50-7; May 46 (880-7, 1120)
Trask, John W. Medical and hospital treatm ent under United States compensation
a c t.......................................................................................................................................... Jan. 251-4 (251-4)
“ Treasury Agreement,” Great Britain. Industrial truce for period of war. Briefly sum
marized...................................................................................................................................... Apr. 232 (1062)
Trinitroluol. Toxic effect due to inhalation of fum es....................................................... Mar. 167-8 (761-2)
Triple alliance, Washington (State). Farmers, railroad brotherhoods, and organized
labor, formed in 1919............................................. ................................................................... Apr. 129 (959)
Tri-State Cooperative Association. Activities, etc............................................................ Apr. 127-8(957-8)
Turner, V. B. The International Labor Conference [1919].....................................................Jan. 1-26 (1-26)
Turnover, labor. (See Mobility of labor.)
Typewriter industry. Wages and hours. United States. (Bureau of Labor Statistics
survey, 1919)................................................................................................................ June 82-94 (1388-1400)
U.
Underwear. (See Hosiery and underwear.)
Unemployment:
Address by Royal Meeker re relation to accidents, 1920.............................................. Apr. 1-13 (831-43)
Austria. Conditions during September and October, 1919......................................... Feb. 172-3 (476-7)
Belgium. December, 1919.............................................................................................. May 62-5 (1136-9)
France. Various dates.................................................................................................... Mar. 151-4 (745-8)
Germany. 1919 and 1920....................................... Feb. 168-72; Mar. 154-5; May 140(472-6, 748-9, 1214)
Great Britain. 1919..........................................................................................................Mar. 150-1 (744-5)
-----Rothband scheme, referred to ....................................................................................... J a n . 205 (205)
Switzerland. February, 1920.............................................................................................. May 141 (1215)
United Kingdom. 1919-1920................................................................................... Apr. 155-74 (985-1004)
United States. Coal mining. Irregularity of mining operations a cause of unrest.. Apr. 45-6 (875-6)
(See also Employment agencies; Employment statistics; Mobility of labor.)
Unemployment, methods of preventing:
Australia. Discussed at conference of employers’ federations............................................. Apr. 61 (891)
Discussion, draft convention, and recommendation of International Labor Conference,
1919................................................................................ Jan. 12-15; Feb. 20-1, 29-30 (12-15, 324-5,333-4)
Italy. Establishment of employment offices, etc....................................................... Apr. 191-8 (1021-8)
South Africa. Resolutions adopted by conference of employers and employees.........June 224 (1530)
United States. Recommendations of President’s Industrial Conference................Apr. 39-40 (869-70)
Unemploy ment i nsurance:
Austria. Conditions during September and October, 1919......................................... Feb. 172-3 (476-7)
-----Restricted becaus e of financial situation...................................................................... Mar. 182 (776)
Belgium. December, 1919.............................................................................................. May 64-5 (1138-9)
Czechoslovakia. Law. December, 1918............................................................................ Feb. 243 (547)
France (Paris). Statistics, 1918and 1919...................................................................... Mar. 152-4 (746-8)
•---- Reduction of State subsidies.......................................................................................... Feb. 231 (535)
Germany. Number of persons receiving, on December 1,1919........................................ Mar. 154 (748)
-----Provisions of by-laws of Metal Workers’ Federation................................................. Mar. 208 (802)
-----Various regulations.................................................................. Feb. 171-2; May 181-2 (475-6,1255-6)
Great Britain. Figures for 1919......................................................................................Mar. 150-1 (744-5)
-----Modification of out-of-work donation plan ............................................................. Feb. 228-9 (532-3)
Italy. Decree of October 19,1919........................................................................... . Apr. 192-6 (1022-6)
-----Monthly disbursements, February to October, 1919...................................................Apr. 198 (1028)
Poland. State assistance for th e unemployed...................................................................Apr. 201 (1031)
Recommendations of International Labor Conference, 1919..............................................
Jan. 13 (13)
Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia..................................................................... Apr. 214 (1044)
Seamen. Agenda prepared by International Labor Office............................................. May 19 (1093)
Switzerland. Benefits. Number of persons receiving, a t end of 1917........................... Apr. 198 (1028)
-----Provisions of decree of 1919................................................................................ Apr. 199-201 (1029-31)
United Kingdom. Out-of-work donations............................................................ Apr. 156,160 (986, 990)
United States. Discussed by Royal Meeker (address, 1920)...................................... Apr. 8-10 (838-40)
“ Unemployment on the job,” defined by Royal Meeker........................................................
Apr. 7 (837)
Uniforms. Merchant marine. Italy. Employers and m en share (unequally) in costs.
(Agreement of 1919)................................................................................................................. Jan. 168 (168)
Uniforms, protective. (See Safety provisions.)
Union of South Africa:
Office of census and statistics. Supplement to half-yearly abstract of union statistics.
1919................................................................................................................................. Mar. 75-6 (669-79)
(See also specific subjects.)
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Union scales:
Wages. Building trades. Norfolk, Va. Fixed by agreement of August, 1919............ Feb. 151 (455)
-----------United States. Increase in 1918........................................................................... Feb. 250 (554)
-----Various trades. United States. 1907 to 1919...................................................... Feb. 117-18 (421-2)
-----------------1915 to 1919...................................................................................................... June 32 (1338)
(See also Wages.)
U nited States:
.
Bituminous Coal Commission. Report, March, 1920................................................. Apr. 40-50 (870-80)
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages and hours, 1919. Automobile industry. . . June 82-94 (1388-1400)
----------- Brick industry.............................................................................................. May 92-107 (1166-81)
----------- Car industry................................................................................................. June
82-94 (1388-1400)
----------- Chemical industry....................................................................................
May
92-107 (1166-81)
----------- Cigar industry................................................................................................................ Mar. 77-90(671-84)
----------- Clothing, m en’s..................,..................... ................ ....................................... Mar. 77-90 (671-84)
----------- Clothing, women’s............. .,.......................................................................... Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
----------- Confectionery industry........................................................................................................... Apr.95-104(925-34)
----------- Electrical apparatus..........................................................................
June
82-94 (1388-1400)
----------- Foundries...................................................................................................... June
82-94 (1388-1400)
----------- Glass industry................................................................................................ May
92H07 (1166—
81)
----------- Leather industry........................................................................... -............. May 92-107 (1166-81)
----------- Machine tool industry...........................................................................
June
82-94 (1388-1400)
----------- Machinery industry.................................................................................... June
82-94 (1388-1400)
----------- Overalls industry............................................................................................ Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
----------- Paper industry............................................................................................... May 92-107 (1166-81)
----------- Paper box industry........................................................................................ Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
----------- Pottery industry............................................................................................ May
92-107 (1166-81)
----------- Rubber industry............................................................................................ May
92-107 ( 1166-81)
----------- Typewriter industry.................................................................................... June
82-94 (1388A400)
----------- Woodworking industry................................................................................................. Jan. 118-41(118-41)
----------- (See also Surveys.)
Bureau of Mines. Metal-mme accidents in the United States, 1918........................ June 164-5 (1470-1)
Children’s Bureau. Maternity benefit systems............................................................ Feb. 226-8 (530-2)
-----Report on child labor and the war........................................................................... Feb. 174-5 (478-9)
Civil Service Commission. Ruling of 1919, admitting women to all examinations....... Jan. 208 (208)
Congress. Joint commission on reclassification of salaries. Report, March 12,1920. Apr. 105-8 (935-8)
— Joint committees on labor. Hearings. National employment system ................. May 128 (1202)
Council of National Defense. Investigation re hours as related to output and accident
rate................................................................................................................................ May 158-63 (1232-7)
Department of Labor. Employment Service. Annual report, year ending June 30,
1919...................................................................................................................................... May 130 (1204)
----------- Scope and activities....................................................................................... May 127-40 (1201-14)
-----Women’s Bureau. Bulletin.................................................................................. Jan. 208-17 (208-17)
Employees’ Compensation Commission. Benefits provided by United States Em
ployees’ Compensation A ct........................................................................................... Jan. 251-4 (251-4)
—- Report, 1918-19....................................................................................................... May 164-6 (1238-40)
Federal Board for Vocational Education. Provisions of vocational rehabilitation
a ct................................................................................................................................. Feb. 138-47 (442-51)
Industrial Conference. Preliminary statement, personnel, etc., 1919............................. Jan. 62-8 (62-8)
------ Report of conference, 1919....................................................................................... Apr.
33-40(863-70)
Interstate Commerce Commission. Accident bulletin No. 70.................................. Mar. 159-60 (753-4)
National War Labor Board. Decision re wage controversy on electric railroads,
Kansas. Referred to ......................................................................................................... June 106 (1412)
-----Decisions in regard to payment for overtime w ork............................................... Mfir.
111-12(705-6)
-----Policy re wage adjustm ents.......................... ................................................................ J une 20 (1326)
Public Health Service. Program to meet after-the-war needs................................... Feb. 204-5 (508-9)
----- Public health report. Health hazards in the industries of Niagara Falls....... Mar. 161-8 (755-62)
----------- Investigation of problems arising in sand blasting...................................... May 154-7 (1228-31)
----------- Sickness records.................................................................................................. Jan. 220-3 (220-3)
— Studies in industrial fatigue................................................................................. May 158-63 (1232-7)
Railroad Administration. Annual report of division of labor, 1919......................... Apr. 58-60 (888-90)
— — Plan of cooperation with Federal Board for Vocational Education, adopted
October, 1Ô19.................................................................................................................. Feb. 142-3 (446-7)
-----Statement summarizing claims of railroad employees........................................... May 50-2 (1124-6)
— Women’s Service Section. Annual report, 1919................................................... Mar. 156-8 (750-2)
Railroad labor board. Duties, personnel, etc........................................... Apr. 51-7, May 49 (881-7,1123)
Reclassification Commission. (See United States: Congress. Joint Commission on
Reclassification.)
Shipbuilding labor adjustment board. Decision....................... ............................... Mar. 114-15 (708-9)
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Investigation of illegal employment
of children in shipbuilding plants, in cooperation with Children’s Bureau................ Feb. 175 (479)
War Department. Policy re wage adjustm ents.............................................................. J une 20 (1326)
-----Service and information department. Plans for placement of ex-service men. Feb. 158-60 (462-4)
Women’s Bureau. (See United States. Department of Labor. Women’s Bureau.)
United States. (See also specific subjects.)
United States Steel Corporation. Order re basic 8-hour day and overtime, 1918................ Mar. 113 (707)
Unrest:
Australia. Opinion of employers’ federations as to causes........................................... Apr. 60-1 (890-1)
Belgium. Coal industry................................................................................................ Apr. 228-9 (1058-9)
Germany. Among public utility workers......................................................................... Apr. 230 (1060)
Great Britain. Commission of inquiry appointed June, 1917.......................................... Apr. 233 (1063)
Italy. After the war............................. ............................................................................... May 204 (1278)
----- Agriculture.............................................................................................................. June 223-4 (1529-30)
Feb. 1 (305)
United States. Address by Royal Meeker, 1919...............................................................
Unskilled labor. Wages. Various industries in United States, 1914,1918,1919.........Jan. 143,145 (143,145)
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V.
Vacation expenditures. (See Recreation expenditures.)
Vacations:
Page.
Domestic service. Austria. Provisions of law .........................
............................... June 191 (1497)
Hotels. Germany. Compulsory holidays............................... ........................................ Mar. 155 (749)
Manual workers. Austria. Annual leave by law, 1919............................................ Feb. 245-6 (549-50)
Merchant marine. Italy. Provisions of trade agreement re annual leave Jan. 162, 167,172 (162,167,172)
Printing industry. New York City. 1919.................................................................... Jan. 270-9 (270-9)
Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia.................................................................. Apr. 213 (1043)
Shipping. Australia. Award of arbitration court, 1919................................................. Feb. 266 (570)
Street railways. France. Orders of Minister of Public W orks....................................
Apr. 67 (897)
(See also Holidays.)
Vegetable industry. (See F ruit and vegetable industry.)
Veterans’ Welfare Commission. (See Montana. Veterans’ welfarecommission.)
Virginia. Industrial Commission. Annual report, year ending Sept. 30,1919............ May 168-9 (1242-3)
Virginia. (See also specific subjects.)
Vocational education. (See Classes for employees; Industrial education and training;
Reeducation; United States: Federal Board for Vocational Education.)
Vocational education act, United States, February, 1917....................................................... Apr. 133 (963)
VocationalEducation Association of theM iddle West. Convention. Report, February,
1920 ................................................................................................................................... Apr. 136-40 (966-70)
Vocational Rehabilitation Act, June 27,1918.......................................................... ................ Apr. 202 (1032)
W.
Wage earners, duration of disabilities............................................................................... Mar. 4-15 (598-609)
Wage increases during war:
United States. Relative earnings per hour in eight industries................................. Jan. 140; Feb. 116;
Mar. 90 (140, 420, 684)
(See also National Industrial Conference Board—Report on wartime changes in wages.)
Wage rates, changes in. United States. Selected industries............................. Jan. 199-201; Feb. 156-8;
Mar. 148-50; Apr. 145-7; May 124-7; June 147-9 (199-201,460-2. 742-4,975-7,1198-1201,1453-5)
Wages—Specified industries and occupations. (See also Wages—Various industries.)
Agriculture. France. Agreement of August 8,1919.................................................. Mar. 123-4 (717-18)
-----Italy. Demand of workers’ syndicates, 1920............................................................. June 224 (1530)
-----United States. 1918 and 1919.................................................................................. Apr. 108-9 (938-9)
Architects. United States. Navy Department, 1893 to 1919............................. June 24,29 (1330,1335)
Army. Great Britain. Increases, 1919.........................................................................Jan. 156-7 (156-7)
Automobile manufacturing. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919......................................................................................................................... June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Boot and shoe manufacturing. United States. 14 establishments, 1914 to 1919.
(National Industrial Conference Board)........................................................ Jan. 141,143-4 (141,143-4)
Brick industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.......... May 92-107 (1166-81)
Building and construction trades. France. March, 1919, and under agreement of
June 11,1919................................................................................................................ Mar. 121-2 (715-16)
Building trades. Great Britain. Increases, 1920.................................................. June 113-14 (1419-20)
-----New York City. Agreement of November, 1919..................................... ............ Feb. 147-8 (451-2)
-----Norfolk, Va. Wage scale fixed by agreement, August 1, 1919.............................. Feb. 151 (455)
Car building. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919..............June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Chemical industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919... May 92-107 (1166-81)
Chemical manufacturing. United States. 12 establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National
Industrial Conference Board)................................................................................ Jan. 142,143 (142.143)
Cigar industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919............ Mar. 77-90 (671-84)
Clerical work. United States. Adjudicating Clerks, General Land Office, Interior
Department, 1893 to 1919...................................................................................... June 26, 29 (1332,1335)
Clothing, men’s. United States. Agreement of 1919, Chicago.................................. Apr. 141-2 (971-2)
-----------Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919...................................................... Mar. 77-90 (671-84)
Clothing, women’s. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919... Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
Coalmining. Anthracite. Pennsylvania. 1919and 1920.................................... June 95-103 (1401-9)
-----Bituminous. Ohio. Relative increases, 1913 to 1920. (Hocking Valley District.)
June 104-6 (1410-12)
— - Great Britain. Demands; increases granted................................................. June 109-11 (1415-17)
-----United States. Report of Bituminous Coal Commission___ Apr. 42,44-5,47-8 (872,874-5,877—
8)
Confectionery industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919. Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
Cooperative societies. England. Higher than for workers under capitalistic manage
m ent.................................................................................................................................... Feb. 135 (439)
Cotton manufacturing. United States. 15 establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National
Industrial Conference B oard)......................................................................... Jan. 142,143-4 (142,143-4)
Dock labor. Great Britain. Report of court of inquiry, March 31, 1920... May 56-9,62 (1130-3,1136)
Domestic service. Austria. Provisions of law, 1920.......................................................June 191 (1497)
-----Bavaria. Award of June 4,1919 .......................................................................... Feb. 131-2 (435-6)
-----England. 1919.............................................................................................................. Feb. 130 (434)
Draftsmen. United States. Navy Department, 1893 to 1919............................ June 24,29 (1330,1335)
Electric railroads. Kansas. Decision of court of industrial relations................. June 106-7 (1412-13)
Electrical apparatus industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919.......... .............................................................................................................. June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Electrical workers. Kansas. Decision of court of industrial relations re linemen
employed by Topeka Edison Co................................................................................. May 52-4 (1126-8)
Engineering and foundry trades. GreatBritam. Award of arbitration court....... Feb. 128-30 (432—
4)
Engineers. Great Britain. Increases, various dates...................................................... June 111 (1417)
- — Hydrographic and geodetic engineers, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1893 to 1919.
June 24, 29 (1330, 1335)
Factories. New York (State). Index numbers of earnings........................................... Feb. 128 (432)
-----------Earnings, 1914 to 1919.................................................................................... Apr. 109-10 (939-40)
Foundries. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919................. June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Glass industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.........May 92-107 (1166-81)
Hosiery and underwear industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919........................................................................................................................... Feb. 101-17 (405-21)
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Hospitals. District of Columbia. Survey of wages paid to women. (Minimum
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Hotels, restaurants, etc. District of Columbia. Minimum wage for women.
(Mortenson.)................................................................................................................ Mar. 132-6 (726-30)
-----------Minimum-wage order, effective May 26,1920.......... .♦.......................................... June 116 (1422;
-----------Survey of wages paid to women. (Minimum Wage Board, 1919)............... Jan. 144-8 (144-8)
—— Germany. Waiters, Ham burg. . . '.............................................................................. Mar. 155 (749)
-----Saskatchewan. Minimum-wage order........................................................................ June 116 (1422)
Leather industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919.......May 92-107 (1166-81)
Library employees. District of Columbia. Library of Congress, 1897 to 1919.. June 23,29 (1329,1335)
Machine building. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919... June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Machine-tool manufacturing. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919.......................................................................................................................... June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Manufacturing industry. Illinois. Cost of living in relation to wage adjust
m ents............................................................................................
Jan.
148-52(148-52)
Manufacturing industry. New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to
1919.............................................................................................................................. Apr.
109-10(939-40)
Merchant marine. Italy. Standard rates of pay of officers and crews. (Agreement
of 1919).................................................................................................................. .... Jan. 158-73 (158-73)
Metal manufacturing. United States. Eighty-five establishments, 1914 to 1919.
(National Industrial Conference Board.)..............................................................Jan. 142,143 (142,143)
Mines and mining. Subcommittee appointed to negotiate wages contract, in accord
ance with recommendations of United States Bituminous Coal Commission report.. Apr. 50 (880)
Overalls industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919....... Apr. 95-104 (925-34)
Paper box manufacturing. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919 .......
Apr.
95-104(925-34)
Paper industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919..........May 92-107 (1166-81)
-----—— Forty-seven establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference
Board.)..................................................................... , ................................«... Jan. 142,143-4 (142,143-4)
Police. District of Columbia. Increase, 1919............................................................... Jan. 153-5 (153-5)
Pottery industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919....... May 92-107 (1166-81)
Printing and publishing. Compositors and pressmen. United States. Government
Printing Office, 1893 to 1919..................................................................... June 27,28,29 (1333,1334,1335)
-----New York City. Demand for increase a cause of outbreak of 1919.......................... Jan. 270 (270)
Public employees. District of Columbia. 1893 to 1919. United States Govern
m ent)....................................................................................................................... June 21,29 (1327,1335)
-----Italy. Demands of postal, telegraph, and telephone employees, January,
1920.............................................................................................................................. May 204-7 (1278-81)
-----United States. Government service. Entrance salaries of women compared with
those of m en................................................................................................................ Jan. 213-17(213-17)
------------ Policy of Government during last quarter century................................... June 19-35 (1325-41)
— -----Report of Reclassification Commission, March, 1920...................................... Apr. 105-8 (935-8)
Rubber industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics sunny, 1919....... May 92-107 (1166-81)
-----——• Fourteen establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference
Board)...................................................................................................................... Jan. 142,143 (142,143)
Scientific workers. Geologists, United States Geological Survey, 1893 to 1919.. June 27,29 (1333,1335)
Shipping. Australia. Award of arbitration court in shipping strike, 1919................... Feb. 265 (569)
Silk industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919............. Feb. 101-17 (405-21)
-----------Twenty-nine establishments, 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conference
Board)............................................................................................................... Jan. 142,143-4(142.143-4)
Steam railroads. Australia. Award, 1919, Queensland.......................................... Mar. 118-19 (712-13)
-----Great Britain. 1919................................................................................................. Mar. 16-25 (610-19)
-----------Demands; increases granted, 1919 and 1920............................................... June 111-13 (1417-19)
-----Italy. Demands of workers, 1919......................................................................... May 209-12 (1283-6)
-----United States. Demands of organized employees, 1919-20................................. May 49-52 (1123-6)
— -— Provisions of Transportation Act, 1920...............................................................* Apr. 53 (883)
-----—— Woman labor. Annual report of Women’s Service Section, United States
Railroad Administration, 1919..................................................................................... Mar. 156-8 (750-2)
Street railways. France. Various decrees.................................................................... Apr. 65-7 (895-7)
Textiles. France. Lyon. Agreement of October, 1919........................................... Mar. 124-5 (718-19)
Typewriter industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919. June 82-94 (1388-1400)
Woodworking industry. United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, 1919 Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
Wool manufacturing. United States. Twenty establishments, 1914 to 1919. (Na
tional Industrial Conference Board)............................................................... Jan. 142,143-4 (142,143-4)
Wages—Various industries. (See also Wages—Specified industries and occupations.)
Argentina............................................................................................................................... June 81 (1387)
Denmark. Study of industrial workers by Danish Statististical Office.................. May 108-9 (1182-3)
France. Changes, March to August, 1919.................................................................. Mar. 119-24 (713-18)
-----Italian workers to receive same pay as nationals, under new Franco-Italian labor
treaty...................................................................................................................................
Feb. 47 (351)
Germany. Increases have not improved economic condition of workers. (Metal
Workers’ Federation).............................................. ...................................................... Jan. 178-9 (178-9)
Great Britain. Increases, November, 1919........................................................................ Apr. I l l (941)
-— Increases, 1920...................................................................................................... June 108-15 (1414-21)
Italy. French workers to receive same pay as nationals under new Franco-Italian
labor treaty ....................................................................................................................«..
Feb. 47 (351)
Russia. Code of labor laws of Soviet Russia............................................................. Apr. 212-13 (1042-3)
Switzerland. Boards created for adjustment of........................................................ May 182-5 (1256-9)
United States. Hourly earnings of males in 62 occupations and of females in 30 occu
pations, 1914,1918, and 1919. (National Industrial Conference Board)................. Jan. 143-4 (143-4)
-----1907-1919. Changes in union wage scales................................................................ Feb. 117-18 (421-2)
-----1913 to 1919. Relative earnings per hour.............................................................. Jan. 140-1 (140-1)
-----Recommendation of President’s Industrial Conference............................................ Apr. 38-9 (868-9)
-----Salaries of Government employees, 1893-1919.................................................. June 19-35 (1325-41)
Womanlabor. Physiologic needs in relation to incomes. (British study)................Jan. 225-6 (225-6)
(See also Wages—Specified industries and occupations; Wage increases dining war;
Wage rates, changes in; Allowances in lieu of wages; Board and lodging in lieu of
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Wages (Temporary Regulation) Act, 1918, Great B ritain............ . ............................ -...... . - Apr. 233 (1063)
Wages (Temporary Regulation) Extension Act, 1919, Great B ritain................................ Mar. 200-1 (794-5)
Waiting period. (See Workmen’s compensation.)
Waiters. (See Hotels, restaurants, etc.)
Waitresses. (See Hotels, restaurants, etc.)
W ar bonuses. (See Bonuses, war.)
W ar Department, United States. (See United States: War Department.)
War-Risk Insurance Act. Compensation for ex-service m en.................................... Eeb. 138,139 (442,443)
Washington (State). Industrial insurance department. Annual report, 1919...........June 179-81 (1485-7)
Washington (State). (See also specific subjects.)
Washington, D. C. (See District of Columbia and special subjects.)
Washington agreement, October 6,1917, bituminous coal mining................................ Apr. 42,47 (872,877)
Weekly rest day. (See Day of rest.)
Welfare work. Progress made in railway service, United States, re rest rooms, lunch
rooms, etc. . ............................................................................................................................... Mar. 157 (751)
White, John P. Representative of miners on United States Bituminous Coal Commis
sion....................... .................................................................................................... Apr. 41,47-9 (871,877-9)
White, R. Prosser. Discussion of occupational dermatosis in leather trade................Apr. 184-5 (1014-15)
Whitley councils. (See Industrial councils.)
W hitney, Edson L ., compiler. Strikes and lockouts in the United States, 1916,1917,1918,
and 1919..................... f . .............................................................................................. June 199-218 (1505-24)
Wholesale prices—Food:
„
_____ .
United States. B utter.................................................................................................. Jan. 102-7 (102-7)
----- Cheese................................................................................................................... Jan. 108—
12 (108—
12)
-----Compared with retail. Selected cities, 1913 to d ate................ Mar. 68-9; June 71-2 (662-3,1377-8)
(See also Cost of living; Retail prices.)
Wholesale prices—Various commodities:
United States. Groups of commodities, recent dates compared with earlier years.........
Feb. 91-4;
May 80-3 (395-8,1154-7)
(See also Cost of living; Retail prices.)
Wilson, President. Letter of appointment, President’s Industrial Conference, November,
1919....................................... ...................................................................................................
Jan. 60 (60)
Wilson, William B., before international Labor Conference, 1919......................................Jan. 1,4-5 (1,4-5)
Wisconsin. Industrial Commission. Apprenticeship. Report, 1919................................. June 220 (1526)
Wisonsin. (See also specific subjects.)
Woman labor:
Age classification................................ .................................................................................. Apr. 137 (967)
Demobilization. United Kingdom. February 18, 1920.................................... Apr. 155,158 (985,988)
Discussion and draft conventions of International Labor Conference, 1919................... Jan. 15-17,21-2;
Feb. 21-5,31-2 (15-17,21-2,325-9,335-6)
Domestic service. Plans for improvement............................................................... May 112-16 (1186-90)
Furniture industry. United States. 1919.................................................................. Jan. 135-7 (135-7)
Government service. United States. Report by Women’s Bureau, Department of
Labor, on equality of opportunity, etc............................................................Jan. 208-17 (208-17)
Hours. Various industries. United States. 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Con
ference Board).............................................................................................................. Jan. 141-2 (141-2)
Industries. Niagara Falls. Number employed (various industries), 1918................... Mar. 162 (756)
Insurance. Switzerland. Number insured at end of 1917....... ...................................... Apr. 198 (1028)
International Labor Conference. (See Woman labor. Discussion and draft conven
tions.)
Knit-goods industry. Massachusetts. Minimum wage effective July 1,1920.............. May 110 (1184)
Laws. Czechoslovakia. December, 1918..................................................................... Feb. 241-2 (545-6)
Minimum wage. (See Minimum-wage orders.)
Munitions. Physiologic needs in relation to incomes. (British study)...................Jan. 225-6 (225-6)
Organization. Germany. Development during the w ar....................................... Feb. 258-63 (562-7)
— —Great Britain. Increase in trade-union membership, 1918......................................Apr. 224 (1054)
Per cent ofwage earners formed by women, 1900,1910, andl919....................................... Apr. 137 (967)
Public housekeeping. Washington. Minimum wage effective June 2, 1920..... ......... May 111 (1185)
Steam railroads. Annual report of Women’s Service Section, United States Railroad
Administration............................................................................................................. Mar. 156-8 (750-2)
Street railways. France. Orders of Minister of Public Works..................................... Apr. 67 (897)
Training. Great Britain. Number of women trained in specific occupations............ Apr. 173 (1003)
-----Report of special committee on women in industry of National Society for Voca
tional Education....................................................................... ...............................Apr. 136-40 (966-70)
Unemployment. Switzerland. February, 1920.............................................................. May 141 (1215)
Wages. District of Columbia. Hotels and restaurants, etc__ Jan. 144-8; Mar. 132-6 (144-8,726-30)
-----Hospitals. District of Columbia. Survey by Minimum Wage Board, 1919-----Jan. 147-8 (147-8)
—— Recommendation of President’sIndustrial Conference............................................ ' Apr. 38 (868)
-— - Thirty occupations, United States. Average hourly earnings, 1914,1918, and 1919. Jan. 144 (144)
----- Various industries. United States. 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Con
ference Board).............................................................................................................. Jan. 141-4 (141-4)
—— Woodworking industries. United States............................................................. Jan.l 35-7 (135-7)
-----(See also Minimum-wage orders.)
(See also Equal pay for equal work; Married women employed; Minimum wage;
Mothers’ pensions; United States: Department of Labor. Women’s Bureau.)
Woman labor in countries wnere industrial conditions differ. (International Labor Con
ference, 1919.)............................................................................................................................
Jan. 16(16)
Women in industry. (See Woman labor.)
Women’s bureau. (See United States: Department of Labor. Women’s Bureau.)
Women’s clothing. (See Clothing, Women’s.)
Wood alcohol. (See Alcohol, wood.)
Woodworkers, International Union of. Conference, 1919..... .......................................... May 201-2 (1275-6)
Woodworking:
,,
France. Weekly wages. March, 1919................................................................ ............... Mar. 121 (715)
New York. Earnings of factory workers, 1914 and 1916 to 1919....................................... Apr. 110 (940)
United States. 1913 to 1919. (Relative earnings per h o u r.). Jan. 140; Feb. 116; Mar. 90 (140,420,684)
Wages and hours of labor. United States. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey,
1919)
..............................................................................Jan. 118-41 (118-41)
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Wool. Wages and hours. United States. 1914 to 1919. (National Industrial Conp a<*e
ference Board)......................................................................................................... Jan. 142,143-4 (142,143-4)
(See also Textiles.)
Woolf, Leonard. Cooperation and the future of industry, quoted................................. June 120-1 (1426-7)
Work permits. (See Permits to work.)
Workers’ councils, Germany. Attitude of Government toward.............................. May 173-4 (1247-8)
Working conditions:
Cooperative societies. England. Employees’ wages, hours, etc.................................... Eeb. 135 ( 439)
Dock labor. Great Britain. Report of court of inquiry on wages and working con
dition^ March 31, 1920............................................................................................... May 54-62 (1128-36)
Laws. France. Italian workers to work under same conditions as nationals, under
Franco-Italian treaty.................................................................................................... Feb. 47-53 (351-7)
-----Italy. French workers to work under same conditions as nationals, under
Franco-Italian treaty.................................................................................................... Feb. 47-53 (351-7)
Merchant marine. Italy. As fixed by agreement of 1919....................................... Jan. 158-73 (158-73)
Mines and mining. United States. Award and recommendations of Bituminous
Coal Commission............................................................................................................ Apr. 42-3 (872-3)
Public employees. (Postal, telegraph and telephone.) Italy. Improvement de
manded, January, 1920............................................................................................... May 204-5 (1278-9)
Seamen. United States. Agenda for meeting of General Conference, 1920............ May 1-20 (1075-94)
Steam railroads. Woman labor. Résumé under United States Railroad Adminis
tration...........................................................................................
Mar. 156-8 (750-2)
-----Declarations of organized labor. Conference, Washington, D. C., 1919............ Feb. 33-41 (337-45)
Various industries. Switzerland. Act of June 27, 1919............................................ May 182-5 (1256-9)
(See also Hours, Wages, etc.)
Worlanen’s compensation:
Administration. Canada.................................................................................................... Mar. 180 (774)
—— Oregon. Investigation of Industrial Accident Commission............................ Mar. 169-70 (763-4)
-----United States.............................................................................................................. Jan. 246-7 (246-7)
----------- (Reply to British questionnaire)....................................................................... Apr. 31-2 (861-2)
Benefits. Canada. Laws of various Provinces........................................................... Mar. 177-9 (771-3)
-----Estimation of compensation for visual losses of one eye. (Allport)................. Âpr. 187-8 (1017-18)
-----United States. Maximum period and amount, various States....................
Jan. 238-46 (238-46)
-----------(Reply to British questionnaire)................................................................... Aor. 29-30 (859-60)
Compulsion or election. United States. Reply to British questionnaire......................
Apr. 19 (849)
— ----State laws compared, 1919..................................................................................... Jan. 231 (231)
Cost. Massachusetts. Year ending June 30,1917...........................................................
Apr. 28 (858)
-----United States. Address by Royal Meeker............................................................ Apr. 1-13’ (831-43)
-----------Reply to British questionnaire..................................... .................................... Apr. 27-9 (857-9)
Coverage. United States. Article by Royal Meeker...................................................... Apr. 1-2 (831-2)
-----------Reply to British questionnaire......................................................................... Apr. 18-19 (848-9)
—— -----State laws compared, 1919..............................
Jan. 235-7 (235-7)
Apr. 12 (842)
— Various States. Number and per cent of workers covered (table).........................
Death benefits. Unitq^ States. Period and amount of compensation.........Jan. 239,240-1 (239,240-1)
Disease. Some State laws cover occupational disease. (Reply to British question
naire.)................................................................................................ ,......................... Apr. 19-20 (849-50)
Fraud. New York. Discussed in report.......................................................................... Feb. 214 (518)
Funds. (See Workmen’s compensation. Security.)
Legislation. Alabama. Main provisions of act............................................................... Jan. 230 (230)
—— British questionnaire as to conditions and results under laws of various States. Apr. 14-18 (844-8)
-----Canada. Comparison of laws. (Hookstadt)...........................................
Mar. 171-80 (765-74)
—— France. Amendment of law to include occupational diseases.......................... Jan. 259-61 (259-61)
-----Great Britain. Amendment, December 30,1919......................................................... Mar. 181 (775)
-----North Dakota. Constitutionality of law...............................
Feb. 209-10 (513-14)
-----Tennessee. Constitutionality of law............................
Feb. 211-12 (515-16)
-----United States. Comparison of laws of various States........................................ Jan. 230-47 (230-47)
-----------Maritime service. Constitutionality of amendment to Judicial
Code.................. ....................................................................................................... June 171-5 (1477-81)
----------- Scope and operation........................................................................................ Apr. 14r-32 (844-62)
------ Various States. Cited by Royal Meeker, 1920........................................ Apr. 1-2,5-6 (831-2,835-6)
-----Virginia. Amendments................................................................................................ Apr. 186 (1016)
Medical service. Canada..................................................... ..................................................Mar. 179 (773)
-----United States. Reply to British questionnaire................................................. Apr. 29-30 (859-60)
--------— Treatment for Government employees under Federal compensation a c t... Jan. 251-4 (251-4)
Merchant marine. Italy. Agreement of 1919........................................................ Jan. 162,173 (162,173 )
Partial disability. Period and amount of compensation................. Jan. 239,242-3,245 (239,242-3,245)
Permanent total disability. Period and amount of compensation...............................
Jan. 239,
241,245(239,241,245)
Reports. ¿California. Year ending June 30,1919....................................................... Feb. 218-21 (522-5)
-----Idaho. January-October, 1918......................................................... ..................... Jan. 247-8(247-8)
— Illinois. Year ending June 30,1919...................................................................... June 175-6 (1481-2)
-----Kentucky. Year ending June 30,1919....................... .................................. June 176-7 (1482-3)
-----Manitoba. 1919......................................................................................................June 182-3 (1488-9)
---- - Maryland. November, 1917, ho October, 1918....................................
Jan. 248-9 (248-9)
---------- November, 1918, to October, 1919.................................................................. May 166-7 (1240-1)
-----Montana. June, 1918, to June, 1919................................................ ................. Jan. 249-51 (249-51)
-----New York (State). Investigation of industrial commission........................ Feb. 212-18 (516-22)
-----------Year ending June 30,1918........................................................................... Feb. 221-3 (525-7)
-----Oklahoma. Two years ending January 1, 1920.........................................................June 177 (1483)
-----Oregon. Three years ending June 30,1918.............................. .......................... June 178-9 (1484-5)
-----United States. Employees’ Compensation Commission. June 30,1919___ May 164-6 (1238-40)
•-----Various States, various years............................................................................................. Apr. 3 (833)
-----Virginia. Year ending September 30, 1919......................................................... May 168-9 (1242-3)
-----Washington (State). Year ending September 30,1919................................... June 179-81 (1485-7)
-----Wyoming. Year ending December 31,1919...................................................... June 181-2 (1487-8)
Resolution adopted by 51st Trades-Union Congress (Great Britain), 1919....................... Feb. 257 (561)
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Second injuries. Minnesota. Raising of insurance rates for handicapped workers
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made illegal, 1919............................................................................................................... Jan. 188 (188)
-----United States. Reply to British questionnaire............................................................. Apr. 30 (860)
Security. Kinds of insurance allowed, various States, 1919.................................... Jan. 233-5 (233-5)
-----California. Status of fund June, 1919............................................. ,........................ Feb. 221 (525)
-----Canada. Self-insurance and State insurance funds......................................
Mar.172(766)
——M aryland. Condition of State accident fund, 1918................................................... Jan. 249 (249)
-----Montana.
Experience under various plans.......................................................... Jan. 250 (250)
-----New York. Facts re State insurance fund, 1916-1918...................... Feb. 215-16, 223 (519-20, 527)
-----Ohio. Re State fund..................................................................................................... . Apr. 23 (853)
-----United States. Reply to British questionnaire.................................................. Apr. 20-7 ( 850-7)
-----West Virginia. Statistics of administration of State fund, 1917................................ Apr. 28 (858)
Statistics. Compensation paid in recent years, 25 States (tables)........................ Apr. 11-12 (841-2)
-----Canada.
By Provinces......................................................................... Mar. 176 (770)
---- Short waiting period encourages malingering. (Em m et)........................................... Mar. 5 (599)
Waiting period. United States. Laws of various States......................................... Jan. 237-8 (237-8)
---- -Wage loss suffered, Idaho, 1918 report....................................................................... Jan. 247 (247)
{See also Accident insurance.)
Workmen’s Compensation (War Addition) Amendment Act, 1919, Great Britain............... Mar. 202 (796)
Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund of the United States of America. Experience,
1912 to 1916......................................................................................................................... Mar. 4-15 (598-609)
Works committees. (See Employees’ representation.)
AVorks councils. (See Employees’ representation.)
Wyoming. Workmen’s compensation department. Report, 1919..................................June 181-2 (1487-8)
Wyoming. (See also specific subjects.)
Z.
Zeiss Optical AVorks, Jena, Germany. Workers favor piecework........................................... Mar. 128 (722)
Zelenko, A. J. Russian cooperative movement............................... ; ......................... June 122-30 (1428-36)
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No. 1.— JANUARY, 1920.
Special articles:
Page.
The International Labor Conference, b y Mrs. V. B. Turner.........................
1-26
Cost of liv in g in th e U n ited States—Furniture and house furnishings.. . .
27-34
Q uantity-cost budget necessary to m aintain a single man or woman in
W ashington, D. C......................................................................................................
35-44
The British national health insurance system , 1911-1919, b y H enry J.
Harris.......................................................................................................
45-59
Industrial relations:
Prelim inary statem ent of P resid en t’s industrial conference..........................
60-68
P rices and cost of living:
R etail prices of food in the U n ited S tates............................................................
69-89
Comparison of retail food prices in 50 cities in the U n ited States...............
90-92
In d ex num bers of wholesale prices in th e U n ited States...............................
92, 93
Comparison of retail price changes in th e U n ited States and foreign
countries........................................................................................................................
93-95
R etail price changes in Great B ritain....................................................................
95, 96
Changes in cost of liv in g in th e U n ited States, 1913 to October, 1919___
97, 98
Changes in cost of liv in g in the D istrict of Columbia......................................
98, 99
Production, cold storage holdings, and wholesale and retail prices of
butter and cheese, b y Elm a B. Carr................................................................. 100-114
Cost of liv in g in Germany, 1916 to 1918................................................................ 114-117
W ages and hours of labor:
Wages and hours of labor in woodworking industries....................................... 118-141
War-time changes in w a g e s ../.................................................................................. 141-144
Wages of women in hotels and restaurants in th e D istrict of C olum bia... 144-148
Cost of liv in g in relation to wage adjustm ents.................................................... 148-152
Increases in pay of policem en in' the D istrict of Columbia............................ 153-155
Increases in British army p ay................................................................................... 156,157
Standard rates of pay of officers and crews of Italian merchant marine.
Translated b y Alfred M aylander.......................................................................... 158-173
Shorter working day in German coal m in es........................................................ 173-177
H ave wage increases im proved the economic condition of German
workers?......................................................................................................................... 178,179
M inim um w age:
American m inim um wage laws at work.................................................................
180
Cooperation:
A ctivities of B ritish cooperative societies during 1917.................................... 181-183
Vocational education:
M innesota plan for the reeducation and placem ent of cripples, b y Oscar
M. S u llivan ................................................................................................................... 184-189
Agreem ent providing part-time instruction for te x tile workers.................... 189,190
E m ployees’ representation:
Works councils and shop com m ittees in th e U n ited States........................... 191-194
A pplication of industrial council plan to British civ il service..................... 195,196
Employment and unemployment:
E m ploym ent in selected industries in Novem ber, 1919.................................. 197-201
Report of em ploym ent exchanges in th e U n ited K ingdom .............. ............
202
V olum e of em ploym ent in th e U n ited Kingdom in October, 1919............. 203, 204
E m ploym ent of disabled ex-service m en in Great B ritain........... ................ 205-207
Women in industry:
Women in the Governm ent service......................................................................... 208-217
Industrial a c cid e n ts:
New basis for measuring accident frequency and severity rates.................. 218, 219
Industrial hygiene and m ed icin e:
A standard method of sickness reporting.............................................................. 220-223
Study of influenza-pneum onia among wage earners.............................. .......... 223, 224
Advantages of industrial clin ics in general hospitals........................................ 224, 225
Physiologic needs of woman workers in relation to incom es.......................... 225, 226
The use of psychiatry in industrial m edicine..................................................... 226-229
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W orkmen's compensation:
Comparison of com pensation laws in the U n ited States, inclu d in g 1919
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legislation, b y Carl H ookstadt........................................................................ - 230-247
Reports of industrial accident boards—
Id aho...........................................................................- ............................................ 247, 248
M aryland................................................ .................................................................. 248,249
M ontana..................................................................................................................... 249-251
M edical treatm ent for Governm ent em ployees under Federal com pensation.act....................................................................................................................... 251-254
Social insu ran ce:
A ttitud e of M edical Society of th e State of New York toward compulsory
health insurance......................................._......................................._...................... - 255-258
Report of B ritish D epartm ental Committee on old-age pensions---- . . . . . 258, 259
A ccid en t insurance law of France am ended to inclu d e occupational
diseases........................................................................................................................... 259-261
Social insurance in Portugal........................................................................................ 261-265
Labor departm ents:
Proposed organization of N ew York State Departm ent of Labor................. 266-269
Strikes and lock ou ts:
“ V acations” in the printing industry in New York City, b y A. J. Portenar................................................................................................................................ 270-27
Berlin m etal workers’ strike....................................................................................... 279-281
Immigration:
Immigration in October, 1919............................................... ...................................... 282, 283
P ublications relating to labor:
Official—U nited States................................................................................................• 284—288
Official—foreign countries........................................................
289-295
Unofficial........................................................................................................................... 295-303
No. 2.— FEBRUARY, 1920.
Special articles:
E m ployees’ representation in m anagement of industry, b y Royal Meeker,
Commissioner of Labor Statistics.........................................................................
Draft conventions adopted b y International Labor Conference...................
Industrial relations:
Labor: Its grievances, protests, and d e m a n d s ..................................................
The Industrial Courts A ct (1919) of Great B ritain............................................
The new Franco-Italian labor trea ty .......................................................................
Hungarian industry under th e soviet system ......................................................
Socialization of the Austrian shoe ind ustry.........................................................
P rices and cost of living:
R etail prices of food in th e U nited States............................................................
Comparison of retail food costs in 50 cities in th e U nited States.................
R etail price changes in Great B ritain....................................................................
In d ex num bers of wholesale prices in th e U n ited States, 1913 to D ecem
ber, 1919.................................. .................- .................................................................
Changes in w holesale prices in th e U n ited States.............................................
Im probability of decrease in prices and cost of liv in g , b y R oyal Meeker,
Commissioner of Labor S tatistics..................................
R etail prices in B elg iu m ............................................................................................
Prices of food and fuel in Norway in 1914, 1917, 1918, and 1919.................
W ages and hours of labor:
Hours and earnings in th e hosiery and underwear and silk in d u str ie s.. .
Changes in union wage scales, 1907 to 1919................................................ _----A rest day in a continuous industry, b y Fred C. Croxton, Ohio In stitu te
for P ublic E fficien cy................................................................................................
Comparison of earnings of N ew York State factory workers w ith retail
prices of food........................................
Increased wages for workers in engineering and foundry trades, Great
B ritain....................................................... - .......................................... ; .....................
Wages and hours of dom estic servants in England and Bavaria..................
Cooperation:
Joint farm-labor cooperative congress.....................................................................
Consumers’ cooperation...............................
Vocational education:
Training and placem ent of disabled ex-service men in the LTnited States .
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Collective bargaining:
R ecent agreements in b u ild in g trades—
New York C ity ................................................................................. .....................
Norfolk, V a.................... .........................................................................................
Creation of a German archive for collective agreem ents.................................
Employment and unemployment:
E m ploym ent in selected industries in Decem ber, 1919..................................
Provisions for em ploym ent of ex-service m en—
U n ited States...........................................................................................................
B elgiu m ................................................. ...................................................................
G erm any...................................................................................................................
Overcoming opposition to physical exam ination of workers............................
Effect of em ploym ent of mothers upon sickness among school c h ild re n ..
U nem ploym ent and unem ploym ent relief in Germany and Austria..........
Child labor:
Child labor and the war..............................................................................................
Industrial hygiene and m ed icin e:
Composite industrial poisons: A review, by Wm. H . Rand, M. 1 ) . ...........
R ecom m endations concerning the manufacture and use of wood alcohol.
Qualifications of industrial p h ysician s......................................
Coordination of Federal, State, and local agencies to promote industrial
h ygien e..........................................................................................................................
Industrial dermatoses to be investigated b y N ational Safety C ouncil___
W orkmen’s compensation:
C onstitutionality of workm en’s com pensation laws of North Dakota and
T ennessee......................................................................................................................
Final report on investigation of N ew York Industrial Commission...........
R ecent reports of industrial accident commissions—
C alifornia.................................................................................................................
N ew York............................................................................... , .......... .....................
Social in su ran ce:
Provision for retirem ent of school teachers in D istrict of Colum bia...........
H ealth insurance in resolutions of American P ublic H ealth A sso cia tio n ..
M aternity benefit system s in certain foreign countries.....................................
Modification of British out-of-work donation p la n ...........................................
Pensions for em ployees of State industrial establishm ents in F ran ce___
R eduction of State subsidies to unem ploym ent funds in France...............
N ew regulation of m aternity insurance in G erm any........................................
Labor la w s :
New transport act in Great B ritain .........................................................................
Checkweighmen A ct of Great B ritain.....................................................................
Labor law s of Czecho-Slovakia......................•..........................................................
Annual leave b y law for manual workers in A ustria........................................
H ousing:
Comparative cost of building, 1913 and 1919, b y Le Roy K. Sherman,
president, U n ited States H ousing Corporation................... ....................... ....
State loans for cheap dw ellings in F ran ce........................ .........................
Labor organizations:
Fifty-first annual trade-union congress, Great B ritain .....................................
D evelopm ent of woman labor organization in Germany during the w a r ..
Strikes and lockouts:
The Australian shipping str ik e ........................................................
Im m igration:
Immigration in Novem ber, 1919................ ........................................ ................ ....
P ublications relating to labor:
Official—U n ited S tates.................................................................................................
Official—foreign countries.........^................................................................................
U n official..................................................................
No. 3.— M ARCH, 1920.
‘Special articles:
P revention of accidents b y the statistical method, b y Royal Meeker,
U nited States Commissioner of Labor S tatistics............................................
Duration of wage earners’ disab ilities, b y Boris Em m et, Ph. D ..................
Industrial relation s:
British railway wages, b y N. C. A d a m s...............................................................
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201,202
202-205
206-208
209-212
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218-221
221-223
224, 225
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229-231
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Prices and cost of living:
R etail prices of food and coal in the U n ited States..........................................
In d ex num bers of wholesale prices in th e U n ited S ta te s ..............................
W holesale prices in th e U n ited States and foreign countries, 1890 to
Decem ber, 1919....................................................................................... _..................
Price changes, wholesale and retail, of im portant food articles in selected
c i t i e s ..............................................................................................................................
Cost of liv in g in Lawrence, Mass., in 1919............................................................
Changes in retail prices in Canada, 1914 to 1919...............................................
Cost of liv in g in Paris in January, 1920, compared w ith 1914 and April,
1 9 1 9 ........................... ...................................................................................................
R etail price changes in Great B r ita in ...................................................................
Cost of liv in g in South Africa, 1910 to September, 1919.................................
R etail prices of food in Czecho-Slovakia, April, 1914, and December,
1 9 1 9 ................................................................................................................................
W ages and hours of labor:
Wages and hours of labor in th e cigar and the m en ’s clothing in d u stries..
Hours of labor of hotel and restaurant em ployees, by Dorothy P o p e.........
Practice regarding the paym ent of pu n itive overtim e rates, b y Leifur
M agnusson....................................................................................................................
R ecent railroad wage award in Q ueensland, Australia....................................
Changes in wages and hours in certain industries in France, March to
August, 1919.................................................................................................................
Increased wages for te x tile workers at Lyon, France.......................................
Return to piecework rates in G erm any.................................................................
Shorter working day in German coal m in es........................................................
M inim um w age:
M inimum wage for women in hotels and restaurants in D istrict of Colum
bia, b y Clara E. M ortenson....................................................................................
M inimum wage law of M assachusetts.....................................................................
Cooperation:
T he cooperative m ovem ent in the U nited States, b y Florence E. Parker.
Employment and unemployment:
E m ploym ent in selected industries in January, 1920.......................................
E m ploym ent and unem ploym ent in Great Britain in 1919................. .. . . .
E m ploym ent and unem ploym ent conditions in F rance..............................
U nem ploym ent in G erm any......................................................................................
Women in industry:
Annual report of w om en’s service section, U n ited States Railroad A dm in
istration..........................................................................................................................
Industrial a c cid e n ts:
A ccidents on steam railroads in th e U n ited States in 1918............................
Industrial hygiene and m e d icin e :
H ealth hazards in certain industries of N ew York S tate................................
W orkmen’s compensation:
Investigation of Oregon Industrial A ccid en t Commission..............................
N ew chairman of California Industrial A ccid en t Com mission.......................
Comparison of Canadian workm en’s com pensation laws, b y Carl Hooksta d t................................................................................................................................
Social insurance:
Increase in statutory benefits under B ritish law s..............................................
Restriction of unem ploym ent benefits in Austria.............................................
Labor law s r
Suspended sentences in labor law cases in N ew York S ta te..........................
Comparison of foreign eight-hour laws, b y Leifur Magnusson.......................
Profiteering A ct of Great B ritain .............................................................................
Summary of labor legislation in Great Britain in 1919....................................
Labor organizations:
Annual convention of International Seam en’s U nion of America, Jan
uary, 1920...........................................................................
A ctivities of German trade-unions...........................................................................
Labor bu reaus:
Organization of M assachusetts D epartm ent of Labor and In du stries----Conciliation and arbitration:
A djustm ent of industrial disputes in Kansas and Colorado...........................
Kansas court of industrial relations.........................................................................
Colorado Industrial Commission.................................. .............................................
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Im m igration:
Opinion of Secretary of Labor w ith regard to membership in Communist
P a rty ......................
Book reviews:
Stabilizing th e dollar, b y Irving Fisher..........................................................
Publications relating to labor :
Official—-United S ta tes.................................................................................................
Official— foreign countries..........................................................................................
U n official..........................................................................................................................
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224-227
228-231
231-236
No. 4.— APRIL, 1920.
Special articles:
T h e cost of industrial accidents, b y R oyal Meeker, U n ited States Com
m issioner of Labor S tatistics..................................................................................
1-13
Scope and operation of th e w orkm en’s com pensation laws of th e U nited
States, b y L in d ley D. Clark..................................................................................
14-32
Industrial relations:
Report of th e P resid en t’s Industrial Conference...............................................
33-40
40-50
Report of th e U n ited States Bitum inous Coal Commission...........................
A nalysis of labor provisions of the new transportation a c t.............................
50-57
Annual report of division of labor, U nited States Railroad Adm inistration
for 1919...................... _...................................................................................................
58-60
Conference of Australian em ployers’ federations on industrial relation
sh ip s................................................................................................................................
60-62
Labor conditions on French railways and tramways........................................
63-67
P rices and cost of liv in g :
R etail prices of food in the U nited States.............................................................
68-76
R etail prices of dry goods in the U nited States.................................................
77-82
82-84
In d ex num bers of wholesale prices in th e U n ited States...............................
Comparison of retail price changes in the U n ited States and foreign
countries.......................................................................................................................
85-87
R etail price changes in Great B ritain....................................................................
88
Cost of liv in g in Ita ly ...................................................................................................
89-93
Cost of liv in g in Germany, 1914 to 1919................................................................
93, 94
W ages and hours of labor:
Wages and hours in th e paper box, w om en’s clothing, confectionery, and
overalls industries...................................................................................................... 95-104
Report on reclassification of Governm ent em ployees....................................... 105-108
Average wages of farm labor in th e U n ited States in 1918 and 1919........... 108,109
Earnings in manufacturing industries in N ew York State, December,
1914, and 1916 to 1919........................................................................................... .. 109,110
Changes in wages and hours of labor in Great B ritain .....................................
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M inim um w age:
M inim um wages in the D istrict of C olum bia..................................................... 112-115
M inim um wages for women in certain industries in B ritish Columbia__ 115,116
Cooperation:
Consumers’ cooperative wholesale societies in the U nited States, by
Florence E. Parker................................................................................................... 117-128
The all-American farmer-labor cooperative congress...................................... 128-130
N ational cooperative union for im portation of foodstuffs into Ita ly ........... 130,131
The activities of British cooperative societies during 1918............................ 131,132
Vocational education:
R ecent developm ent of part-time or continuation schools in th e U nited
States.............■................................................................................................................ 133-136
Vocational training for women in in d u stry.......................................................... 136-140
Collective bargaining:
N ew agreements affecting th e m en ’s clothing industry in Chicago............. 141,142
Employment and unem ploym ent:
Em ploym ent in selected industries in February, 1920.................................... 143-147
F in ding em ploym ent for disabled civilian s in th e U n ited States, b y
Gertrude R. S te in ..................................................................................................... 147-154
Reabsorption of labor, and unem ploym ent in th e U n ited Kingdom. Com
piled b y N . C. A dam s.............................................................................................. 155-174
Report of em ploym ent exchanges in th e U n ited K ingdom ..........................
175
Volum e of em ploym ent in th e U nited Kingdom in January, 1920............. 176,177
Child labor:
E m ploym ent of children under Federal child-labor tax la w ........................
178
Regulation of child labor in Czecho-Slovakia..................................................... 178-182
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Industrial accidents and h ygien e:
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U se of the geophone for m ine rescue work........................................................... 183,184
An occupational dermatosis observed in the leather trade............................ 184,185
M inister of h ygiene for France..................................................................................
185
W orkm en’s, compensation:
186
W orkm en’s com pensation law of Virginia am ended.........................................
Compensation table for visual losses of one eye, by Frank Allport, M. D . _ 187,188
Social in su ran ce:
Report of th e Illin ois pension, laws com mission, 1918-19............................... 189,190
R egulation of th e em ploym ent service and unem ploym ent insurance in
I ta ly ......... ..........................................................................
191-198
Social insurance in Sw itzerland............................................................................. 198,199
Provisions for unem ploym ent relief in Sw itzerland......................................... 199, 201
State assistance for th e un em p loyed in P olan d ..................................................
201
Labor law s and regu lations:
Legislation as to rehabilitation of injured workers, by L in d le y D. C la r k .. 202-206
R etirem ent law for railroad em ployees in A rgentina....................................... 206-209
R egulations governing application of eight-hour law in P olan d.................. 209, 210
Code of labor laws of S oviet R ussia......................................................................... 210-214
H ousing:
Company housing in th e bitum inous coal fields, b y Leifur M agnusson... 215-222
Labor organizations:
M embership of trade-unions in Great Britain in 1918...................................... 223, 224
N in th Scandinavian labor congress, Copenhagen, January 21-23, 1920.. 224-226
S trik es:
Trade disputes in Great B ritain in 1919................................................................ 227, 228
Labor unrest in the Belgian coal in d u stry ........................................................... 228, 229
Establishm ent of an em ergency strike-breaking corps in G erm any............ 229-231
Conciliation and arbitration:
Provisions for dealing w ith labor disputes in Great B ritain during the war. 232-234
Publications relating to labor:
Official—U n ited S ta te s................................................................................................ 235, 236
Official—foreign countries........................................................................................... 236-239
Unofficial........................................................................................................................... 239-244
No. 5.—MAY, 1920.
Special a rticles:
Laws and agreements governing working conditions among American
seam en...........................................................................................................................
Price fixing b y th e Government during the war, b y C. F. Stoddard........
Industrial relation s:
N ew system of wage adjustm ent for railw ays......................................................
Wage m ovem ent of organized railway em ployees, 1919-20............................
The Kansas court of industrial relations...............................................................
B ritish report on dock labor.......................................................................................
Industrial conditions in B elgium in 1919.............................................................
Change in labor policy of th e Russian G overnm ent.........................................
P rices and cost of living:
R etail prices of food in th e U n ited S ta te s..........................................................
In d ex num bers of wholesale prices in th e U n ited States..............................
Changes in wholesale prices in th e U n ited States.............................................
Changes in cost of liv in g in 14 cities in th e U n ited States, 1914 to 1919..
N ational Industrial Conference Board report on changes in cost of liv in g ..
R etail price changes in Great B ritain............................................ •......................
R etail prices of foodstuffs and firewood in Bucharest, Roumania, 1911,
1914, and 1919.............................................................................................................
W ages and hours of labor:
Wages and hours of labor in brick, chem ical, glass, leather, paper, pot
tery, and rubber industries in 1919....................................................................
Wages and hours of labor in D enm ark...................................................................
M inim um w a g e :
N ew m inim um -wage awards in Massachusetts and W ashington...................
Women in industry:
Plans for im provem ent of dom estic service..........................................................
Vocational training:
Part-tim e instruction..............................; ....................................................................
Report on apprenticeship in the bu ild in g industry, Great B ritain............
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Employment and unemployment:
E m ploym ent in selected industries in March, 1920..........................................
Present scope and activities of th e Federal E m ploym ent S erv ice.............
Labor market in Germany and Sw itzerland........................................................
Industrial h ygiene:
O pportunities for th e study of industrial m edicine in the U n ited States,
by Augusta Shuford..................................................................................................
Protection of sand blasters against the dust hazard..........................................
Industrial a ccid en ts:
Hours of work as related to output and accident rate................ .....................
W orkmen’s compensation:
R ecent reports on operation of workm en’s compensation laws—
Federal E m p loyees’ Compensation Commission........................................
M aryland..................................................................................................................
Virginia.....................................................................................................................
Social in su ran ce:
Report on proposed schem e for m others’ allowances in O ntario.................
Labor law s and regulations:
German works’ council law .................
N ew regulation of unem ploym ent relief in G erm any..................... .................
Proposed labor law of Sw itzerland..........................................................................
H ousing:
Company housing in anthracite region of Pennsylvania, b y Leifur Magnusson............................................................................................................................
State aid to solve housing problems in Ita ly .......................................................
Labor b u reaus:
T he International Labor Office................................................................................
R ecen t changes in personnel of State industrial com m issions......................
Labor organizations:
Growth of trade-union m ovem ent in B elg iu m ....................................................
Amsterdam conference of International Union of Woodworkers..................
Strikes and lockouts :
Strikes and lockouts in Canada during 1919........................................................
Strikes of Italian Governm ent em ployees, b y Alfred M aylander................
Conciliation and arbitration:
Conciliation and arbitration in N ew Zealand......................................................
P ublications relating to labor:
Official—U n ited States...............................................................................................
Official—foreign countries...........................................................................................
Unofficial...........................................................................
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197-199
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203, 204
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220-224
224-231
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Special articles:
M inimum quantity budget necessary to m aintain a worker’s fam ily of five
1-18
in health and d ecen cy.......................................... ...................................................
The G overnm ent’s wage p olicy during th e last quarter century, b y Mary
19-35
Conyngton....................................................................................................................
M obility of labor in American industry, b y P aul F . Brissenden and E m il
Frankel..........................................................................................................................
36-56
P rices and cost of living:
R etail prices of food in th e U n ited States........................................ ..................
57-65
R etaibprices of gas in th e U n ited States..............................................................
65-67
In d ex numbers of wholesale prices in th e U n ited States...............................
67-69
Price changes, wholesale and retail, of im portant food articles in selected
c itie s................................................................................................. ■-...........................
70-73
W holesale prices in th e U n ited States and foreign countries, 1913 to March
1920.....................................
74,75
Changes in cost of liv in g in th e U n ited S tates...................................................
76-79
R etail price changes in Great B ritain....................................................................
79, 80
Cost of livin g in Argentina in 1913, 1917, and 1919..........................................
80, 81
W ages and hours of labor:
Wages and hours in autom obile, car, electrical apparatus, foundry, machin
ery, m achine tool, and typew riter ind ustries..................................................
82-94
Wages and hours of labor in anthracite coal m ining industry, 1919 andl920 95-103
Increases in rates of wages in bitum inous coal m in es...................................... 104-106
Decision of Kansas Court of Industrial R elations as to wages on interurban railw ays............................................................................................................ 106,107
R ise of wages in B ritish ind ustries..................................... .......... -........................ 108-115
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M inim um w age.
M inimum wages for hotel and restaurant workers—
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D istrict of Colum bia.............................................................................................
116
Saskatchewan..........................................................................................................
116
Cooperation and profit sharing:
Aims and possibilities of th e consum ers’ cooperative m ovem ent, b y Flor
ence E . Parker............................................................................................................ 117-122
Russian cooperative m ovem ent, b y A. J. Z elenko........................ ........ .......... 122-130
Progress of cooperation in various countries........................................................ 130-144
Profit sharing and labor copartnership in th e U n ited K ingdom .................. 144,145
Employment and unemployment:
E m ploym ent in selected industries, April, 1920................................................ 146-149
Changes in volum e of em ploym ent in representative bitum inous coal
m in es.............................................................................................................................. 149, 150
Industrial a c cid e n ts:
Influence of war on accident rates in the iron and steel industry, 1914—
1919, b y Lucian W. C haney.................................................................................. 151-163
Coal-mine accidents in th e U n ited States in six months ending January,
1920................................................ ............................. - ................................................. 163,164
M etal-mine accidents in th e U n ited States during 1918............... ................. 164,165
Industrial p o iso n s:
Tellurium as an industrial hazard.................................... ....................... ,............. 166,167
H exam ethylene-tetram ine as a poison in th e rubber in d u stry..................... 168,169
Industrial blood poisons in anilin m anufacture................................................. 169,170
W orkmen’s compensation:
C onstitutionality of am endm ent to Judicial Code as to m aritim e injuries. 171-175
R ecent reports on operation of w orkm en’s com pensation laws-—
Illin ois........................................ - .......... .......... ...................- - ...................
175,176
K en tu ck y..................................................................................................- ............ 176,177
O klahom a........................................ ................................................ ............ ..
177
Oregon....................................................... ............................................................... 178,179
W ashington............................................ ...
7. ......... ......................... .......... 179-181
W yom ing................................................................................................................. 181, 182
M anitoba..................................................... ......................... .................................... 182,183
Labor law s and d e c is io n s:
R etirem ent of civil-service em p loyees................................................................... 184-186
Federal provision for vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons........... 186,187
C onstitutionality of th e Seam en’s A ct u n h eld .................................................... 187-189
Austrian law establishing chambers of labor....................................................... 189-191
Austrian dom estic service law ................................................................................. 191-193
Labor organizations:
European trade-union statistics. Compiled b y Alfred M aylander............ 194-198
Strikes £m.cL lockouts *
Strikes and lockouts in th e U n ited States, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919.
Compiled b y Edson L. W h itn ey .......................................................................... 199-218
Current notes of interest to labor:
Efficiency of labor increasing....................................... .............. ............................. 219, 220
Apprenticeship in W isconsin............................................ ................ .............. ........
220
A hom e-building experim ent in Manchester, E nglan d................................... 220, 221
M iddle classes union of Great B ritain.................................................................... 221-223
Census of hom e workers in Sw itzerland................................................................
223
Unrest among agricultural labor in northern Ita ly ............................................ 223, 224
R esolutions of conference of em ployers and em ployees of South A frica. .
224
P ublications relating to labor:
Official—U n ited States...........................
225-229
Official—foreign countries......................
229-231
Unofficial........................................................................................................................... 231-236
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