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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Frances P erkins, S ecreta ry B U R E A U OF LABO R ST A T IST IC S Isad or L u b in , C o m m is s io n e r (o n le a v e ) A . F . H in r ic h s , A c t i n g C o m m is s io n e r ♦ Monthly Labor R eview Index to Volume 55 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis J u ly to D ecem ber 1942 M A Z 0 Û PUBLIC f ■ U N IT E D S T A T E S G O V E R N M E N T P R I N T I N G O F F IC E W A S H I N G T O N : 1943 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis In d e x to V o lu m e 55— J u ly to D e ce m b e r 1942 Note.—This is a Subject I ndex . Names of authors do not appear as main entries Page Absenteeism. Great Britain. Coal-mining industry. Extent of, and probable causes... Nov. 944-5 Accident prevention, United States: Lumber industry. Woodworking hazards and preventive methods_________________ Nov. 962-5 Lumber products, finished. Measures which could have prevented injuries sustained in 1941 ___ _________ ____ ______ 1_________________________________________ Nov. 973-7 Shipyards. Unsafe conditions in connection with injuries in 1941___________________ Oct. 692-6 Accident prevention, Great Britain. Factories. Proneness to accidents as characteristic of certain workers___________ ____________ ______________________________________ Dec. 1199-1202 Accident statistics: Employment and hours worked, 1941. Increases in, as related to increases in number of disabling injuries---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sept. 512-16 Industrial injuries during 1941 (Kossoris)________________________________________ Sept. 501-27 Iron and steel industry. BLS survey in 1941, findings of__________________________ Dec. 1191-9 Lumber products. Summary, year 1941 (McElroy and McCormack)______________ Nov. 960-73 Shipyards. Frequency, kinds, and causes of injuries, 1941 (McElroy and McCormack). Oct. 680-96 Age distribution. Population of United States, 1940 Census, by sex, race, and urbanization, and comparison with 1930 figures________________________________________________ Aug. 264-7 Agricultural implements. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942__________________________ July 159; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1062; Dec. 1290 Agriculture, United States: Manpower and wages, in wartime (Bowden)____________________________________ Dec. 1111-24 Migratory workers, Arizona and California. Association for medical care established by FSA and California State agencies; statistics of operation, July 1939 to June 1940_____ Nov. 957-9 Agriculture, foreign countries: China. Wartime conditions in, and Governmental policies________________________ Dec. 1162-3 Germany. Youth, policies adopted to retain on the land__________________ _______ Aug. 237 Aircraft industry: Engine-manufacturing plants. Characteristics of industry, and scope of BLS survey, May 1942________________________________________________________________ Dec. 1230-1 Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942 _______ ____________________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Aircraft-parts industry: Employees, Los Angeles, hired during June 1942. Distribution by occupation, industries formerly employing, age, race, and marital status______________________________ Nov. 926-31 Airframe industry: Eastern States. Characteristics, and scope of BLS report, 1941-42 (Solomon and Tolies)July 15-18 Michigan and Buffalo area. Characteristics, and scope of BLS study, May 1942 (Solomon and Tolies)_______________________________________________________________ Aug. 289-91 Airframe plants. Midcontinent. Characteristics of industry and scope of BLS wage study, June 1942 (Solomon and Tolies)------------— . ------------— ------------- -----Oct. 772-4 Air-raid protection. Company policies as to compensation for employees’ time lost---------Sept. 476-7 Aliens, United States. Discrimination against in employment, prevention of. President’s statement of July 13. 1942 (text)--------------------------------------------------------------------------Sept. 465-6 Aliens, foreign countries: Brazil. Suspension of enemy-alien employees ordered by decree law of September 1, 1942_____________________________________________________________________ Dec. 1155-6 Paraguay. Legal restrictions on employment of-------------------------------------------------Sept. 477 Aluminum industry. Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942____________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 American Federation of Labor. (See under Labor organizations.) Apparel industries. Employment in, as affected by war conditions------------------------------- Sept. 449-58 Automobiles and bodies; automobile parts and equipment. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942. July 159; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1062; Dec. 1290 Banks, labor. (See under Cooperation.) Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, August and September 1942________________________________________________________ Nov. 1062; Dec. 1290 Bonus: Canada. Cost of living. Wartime provision for______________________________ Sept. 466, 470-2 Great Britain. Building and civil engineering. Legal provision for, in certain cases, order of 1941______________________________________________________________ Aug. 362-3 Boot and shoe industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942________________________________ July 159; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1062; Dec. 1290 Box (paper) industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June; August and Sep tember 1942_________________________________ July 159; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1062; Dec. 1290 Brass, bronze, and copper products. Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942____________ July 161;Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Brick, tile and terra cotta industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942____________________ July 159; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1062; Dec. 1290 Building construction: Continental United States. Estimated activity, 1939-42, by character of structures and quarterly period----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sept. 601-5 Defense units, publicly and privately financed, by region, specified periods, January 1940 to August 1942____________________________________________________________ Dec. 1203-12 Federal and State buildings, principal cities. Value of contracts awarded, May to Octo ber 1942__________________________________ July 164; Aug. 375; Oct. 848; Nov. 1068; Dec. 1296 513208—43 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1331 1332 MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW [1942 Building construction—Continued. Page Federal Housing Administration, financed by. Net volume, 1934 through 1940; analysis of 1940 activities_________________________________________ _________________ Oct. 752-5 Principal cities. Number and kind of buildings, and permit valuation, May to October^ 1942______ '___________ July 162-3; Aug. 373-4; Sept. 612-13; Oct. 845-7; Nov. 1065-7; Dec. 1293-5 State funds (financed from). Public buildings, May to October 1942. _ July 164; Aug. 375; Sept. 614; Oct. 847; Nov. 1067; Dec. 1295 Wage stabilization for duration of war provided for by collective agreements as of July 1, 1942, and establishment by Secretary of Labor of Wage Adjustment Board-------------July 86-8 (See also Housing.) Case-goods-furniture industry. Characteristics, and method and scope of BLS survey, March-April 1942_____________________________1----------------------------------------------July 124-5 Cast-iron pipe. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_________________________________________ July 159; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Cement industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and Sep tember 1942____________________________________ July 159; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov.1063; Dec. 1291 Chemical industry: Collective bargaining, status of in May 1942, and provisions of 84 agreements (summary) _ July 64-85 July 53-7 Productivity and technological changes, 1929-40 (BLS study)------------------------------- Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942 ----July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Child welfare, foreign countries. Turkey. Provisions for under republican government, summary______________________________________________________________ Aug. 246 Cigars and cigarettes. (See under Tobacco industry.) Civilian defense workers. Payment by employers for time lost, policies concerning---------Sept. 476 Clothing industry: Men’s cotton garment. Characteristics of industry and scope of BLS survey, March 1941_____________________________________________________________________ Aug. 335-39 Men’s. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942______________________________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Collective agreements, United States: Building trades (A. F. of L.) and agencies of U. S. Government. Wartime constructionwork stabilization plan, May 22, 1942_________________________________________ Dec. 1263 Chemical industry. Provisions (as of May 1942, 84 contracts) covering duration and renewal; union status; wages; hours, shifts, and overtime; holidays, vacation and leave; seniority, lay-off, and promotion; working foremen; apprenticeship; military service; health, safety, and welfare; adjustment of disputes; strikes and lock-outs----------------July 64-85 Military service men. Provisions concerning reemployment, seniority, insurance and — --- Dec. 1147-55 benefit plans, and provision for dependent survivors________________ Workers released for war jobs. Seniority and rehiring provisions---------------------- -----Dec. 1154-5 Collective bargaining: Chemical industry. Status summarized as of July 1942-----------------------------------July 64-85 Incentive-wage systems, controls established___ ____---------------- -----------; --------------July 8-14 College-trained workers. Wartime need for; proportion in total working force in December 1941 and in ordnance plants in April 1942_____________________ ------------------- r -----.--July 60-3 Colleges and universities. Enrollment in, as affected by war. Findings of BLS inquiry, academic year 1941-42________________________________________; -----------------------Aug. 250-4 Compulsory labor. Switzerland. Decree of September 18, 1942. Provisions-----------------Dec. 1166 Conciliation and arbitration: . Department of Labor, work of. By States, industries, and type of situation, fiscal year ended June 30, 1942_______________________________________________________ Oct- 747-9 -----By States, industries, and type of situation, May to October 1942. -------------------July 90-2; Aug. 256-8; Sept. 575-7; Oct. 749-51; Nov. 954-6; Dec. 1187-9 Railway Labor Panel, National. Establishment by Executive order, 1942, and members appointed (text of order)___________________________________ --- --------------July 92-3 Congress of Industrial Organizations: (See under Labor organizations.) Construction industry: Continental United States. New activity, estimated, in 1941 and 1942------- ... ---- Dec. 1297-8 — Public and private, by character of project and quarter, 1939-42----------- Sept. 601-5; Dec. 1297-8 Contract work. Professional and scientific personnel employed, July 1942---------- ------Nov. 932-5 Employment, new projects, by type, average monthly and yearly, 1939-42----------------Oct. 737-41 Federal funds (financed from). Value of contracts awarded and force-account work started, May to October 1942_____ ___ July 164; Aug. 375; Sept. 614; Oct. 847; Nov. 1067; Dec. 1295 State funds (financed from). Public roads (highways), May to October 1942 -----July 164; Aug. 375; Sept. 614; Oct. 847; Nov. 1067; Dec. 1295 (See also Building construction.) Construction-machinery industry. Characteristics, and scope of BLS survey, FebruaryApril 1942___________________________________________________________________ July 117-19 Consumer goods. Wartime changes in American markets (Webb)_______ . . . --------- Nov. 891-902 Conventions, meetings, etc.: American Federation of Labor, 62d convention (Toronto, October 1942). Summary of proceedings_____________________________________________________________ 7- Nov. 1000-6 British Trades Union Congress, 1942 (September). Resolutions, etc., and membership statistics_________________________________________________________________ Dec. 1223-5 Canadian Congress of Labor, 1942 (September). Resolutions summarized----------------- Dec. 1222-3 Oct. 725-6 Canadian Trades and Labor Congress (Winnipeg, August 1942)____________________ Congress of Industrial Organizations, annual (Boston, November 1942). Addresses, res olutions, president’s report, and election summarized__ _ ---- ---------------------------- Dec. 1219-22 Inter-American Committee on Social Security (Santiago de Chile, September 10-16, 1942); agenda for_________________________ __ ____________________________ Aug. 238-9 Shipbuilding Conference, National, 1942, composition of personnel (in footnote) and results of proceedings____________________________________________________________ July 85-6 Cooperation, United States: Banks, labor. Capital, surplus, and undivided profits, deposits, and total assets, by individual bank, June 30, 1942; and for 4 banks combined, 1942 and 1941---------- Nov. 999 Consumers. Summary for 1941, including geographical distribution by type; statistics of membership and business; operation of commercial federations and local associations; and employment and wages________________________________________________ Nov. 980-99 Credit unions. Operations, funds, earnings, and dividends, by States, 1940 and 1941; number, by State and type of charter, end of 1941-------------------- --- ---------------------Sept. 540-7 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1942] IN D E X TO VOLUME 55 1333 Cooperation, foreign countries: Eage Canada. Situation, 1940, and service in production for war________________________ Sept. 555-6 Sept. 556 Ceylon. Progress of movement during year 1939-40______________________________ China. Development and growth 1937-40 and importance of production for w ar.. _ __ Sept. 557-8 —— Rural, banks and other. Statistics as of December 194 L . . . .... ..... . .... Dec. 1163 Sept. 561 Estonia. Extent of movement prior to occupation by aggressor____________________ Finland. Connection with cooperatives of other countries severed by war___________ Sept. 560-1 France. Effects of German occupation of country_______________________________ Sept. 563 Germany. Suppression of movement during years 1933-41________________________ Sept. 559-60 Great Britain. Development, 1900 to 1940, and effect of World War II. Summary___ Sept. 549-55 —— “Naffy,” cooperative of military, naval, and air forces. Status in 1941__________ Sept. 549-50 Sept. 556 India. Impetus given to movement as result of World War I I _____________________ Lithuania. Subversion of movement to purposes of army of occupation_____________ Sept. 561 Malay States, Federated, and Straits Settlements. Credit-type movements. Probable Sept. 556 effects of Japanese occupation_______________________________________________ Manchuria. Destructive effect of Japanese-enacted cooperative promotion law of 1940-_ Sept. 556 Movement throughout world as affected by World War II _______ ________________ Sept. 547-66 Netherlands. Effects of German occupation of country___________________________ Sept. 562-3 New Zealand. Cooperative contract system for loading and discharging vessels extended as result of war, 1940_______________________________________________________ Sept. 556 Norway. Effects of German occupation of country______________________________ Sept. 562 Poland. Subversion of movement to purposes of army of occupation_______________ Sept. 561-2 Sept. 556 South Africa, Union of. Consumers’ association. Work on military contracts_______ Soviet Union. Growth of movement to 1940 and importance of production for w ar____ Sept. 558-9 Sept. 564-5 Sweden. Status in 1940 and effects of war conditions_____________________________ Switzerland. Restrictions imposed, 1940 and 1941, and effects upon movement_______ Sept. 565-6 Yugoslavia. Importance of movement prior to war, and effects of German occupation of country________________________________________________________________ Sept. 563-4 Cost of living, United States: Index (BUS). What it measures, items covered, frequency of issue, relative importance of items, sources of information, cities covered, how to read it, etc______________ ■_. _ Aug. 268-77 Indexes. By item and by cities, May 15 to October 15, 1942; by item and year, 1935-41: by item and month January 15, 1941, to October 15, 1942____ ___________________ July 155-6; Aug. 280-2; Sept. 569-70; Oct. 759; Nov. 1011-13; Dec. 1228-9 Intercity differences, 33 large cities, estimated amounts and indexes, June 15, 1942_____ Sept. 570-3 Percentage changes in large cities. By item and month, May715 toOctober 15, 1942. _ _ July 152-5; Aug. 277-79; Sept. 567-9;Oct. 756-8;Nov. 1008-10; Dec. 1226-7 — *- By item from May 1942 (beginning of price control) and from earlier specified dates, to August 1942__________________________________ __ _ ___________ Oct. 760-71 Price increases, indirect, as result of advancing costs and material shortages in war time (Ulmer)________________________________________________________ Nov. 903-12 Stabilization of, through wage and price control________ ________________________ Nov. 917-24 Wartime. City families. Expenditure, by item and income group, 1941 and first quar ter of 1942____________________________________________ ____________________ Sept. 419-34 -----Farm and nonfarm families. Expenditures by item, 1935-36, 1941, and 1942; and Oct. 700-13 general differences between the two classes____________________________________ Cost of living, foreign countries: Finland. Wages to be adjusted to, under Government regulations___ __________ --Nov. 1014 Iceland (Reykjavik). Indexes of total and of food alone, by months, January 1941 to July 1942_________________________________________________________________ Nov. 1014 Uruguay. Indexes, certain months, 1939, 1940, and 1941. ____ _______ ____________ Aug. 366 Cotton-textile manufacturing: Labor turn-over. Monthly rates April to June 1942; August and September 1942_____ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Productivity indexes, by quarters 1938-42, and factors influencing (BLS study)_______ July 47-53 Court decisions, United States: Fair Labor Standards Act. Actual straight-time rate, in absence of contract, held to be basis for computing overtime (U. S. Sup. C t.—Missel case)_____________________ Sept. 532 -----Agreed-upon hourly rate in excess of legal minimum, upheld (by U. S. Sup. Ct.— Belo case) as basis in computing overtime__________________________ July 103-5, 106; Sept. 532 -----Held to apply to maintenance and service employees in loft building used for manu facture of goods for interstate commerce (U. S. Sup. C t.—Kirschbaum v. Walling)----July 102-3: Sept. 531-2 -----Held to require employer to pay one and a half times regular rate after 40 hours, and not minimum wage, since no provision in contract for overtime (U. S. Sup. Ct.— Motor Transportation Co. case)______________________________ ______________ July 103, 105-6 Migration, interstate. “Anti-Oakie” law (California) ruled unconstitutional (U. S. Sup. C t.)_____________________________________________________________________ Sept. 538 Supreme Court (U. S.). Labor decisions, 1940-42; summary_______________________ Sept. 530-9 Court decisions, foreign countries. New Zealand. Wage-rate increases awarded in 1940 and 1942, by Court of Arbitration_______________________________________________ Sept. 590-3 Credit unions. (See under Cooperation.) Decisions. (See Court decisions; National War Labor Board decisions.) Dyeing and finishing textiles. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_________________________ ___ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Education: Colleges and universities. Adaptation of courses of study to war effort______________ Aug. 250-4 Professional, as related to wartime manpower needs. Findings of 1942 survey sum marized.- _______________________________________________________________ Aug. 247-50 Electrical machinery. Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942______________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Employment agencies: Fee regulation by State (Nebraska) upheld by U. S. Supreme Court-----------------------Sept. 532 (See also Employment Service, U. S. Government.) Employment opportunities. College students, demand for, due to wartime c o n d itio n s Aug. 253-4 Employment problems. Migration to war-industry areas. Need for planning to prevent unemployment after war_______________________________________________________ July 58-60 Employment Service (U. S. Government). Placement work, first half of 1942----------------Sept. 482-3 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1334 M O N T H L Y LABOR R E V IE W [1042 Employment, stabilization of. U. S. War Manpower Commission rulings. (See under Page Manpower.) Employment statistics: Aircraft (Los Angeles). Workers hired during June 1942. Previous employment, age; color, and marital status________________________________________________ Nov. 926-31 Civilian labor force, each month, April 1940 to October 1942, by sex and age group____ July 191; Aug. 406-7; Sept. 646-7; Oct. 879-80; Nov. 1100-1; Dec. 1317-19 Construction, contract. Professional and technical personnel, July 1942_____________ Nov. 932-5 Construction industry. New projects, by type, average monthly and yearly, 1939-42.. Oct. 737-41 Factory wage earners, by sex, industry group, and geographical region, April 1941 and April 1942-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 913-16 Federal employees. Executive branch and principal war agencies. Increase in number, June 1940 to May 1942, by montn and area____________________________________ Aug. 217-22 Federal service. By branch; projects under United States agencies (PWA, RFC, WPA, NYA, CCC),and projects financed from regular Federal appropriations, May to October 1942_________ July 179-80; Aug. 394-6; Sept. 632-3; Oct. 865-6; Nov. 1086-8; Dec. 1316-17 Government and private industry, March 1942, and potential labor supply (University of Minnesota study)_________________________________ _____________________ Aug. 203-5 Government workers, Federal, State, and local. By month, January 1939 to July 1942; by State, July 1942________________________________________________________ Nov. 935-40 Industrial and business, by industry or trade, including pay rolls and average hours and earnings, May to October 1942____________________________________________ .. July 176-90; Aug. 391-405; Sept. 629-45; Oct. 862-78; Nov. 1083-99; Dec. 1313-17 Sawmills and logging camps. Douglas fir and western pine areas, 1941-42____________ Dec. 1127-9 Shipbuilding (west coast). Workers hired during June 1942. Previous employment, age, color, and marital status________________________________________________ Nov. 926-31 Textile industries, mill products and apparel, by month, 1940-42____________________ Sept. 446-58 Woman workers. Manufacturing, in wartime. Estimated total in April 1942, and by specified industries in May 1942______________________________________________ Sept. 441-5 Engines and turbines industry. Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Engines, internal-combustion. Characteristics of industry, and scope and method of BLS survey (spring of 1942)_________________________________________________________ Nov. 1042-4 Explosives industry. Labor turn-over. Quit rate only, July, August, and September 1942______________________ ____________________________________________ Nov. 1064; Dec.1292 Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (wage and hour law) U. S. Supreme Court decisions concerning, October 1940 to June 1942. Summary____________________________________ Sept. 531-2 Family allowances, United States. Enlisted men in armed forces. Act approved June 23, 1942, provisions______________________ ________________.________________________ Aug. 226-8 Family allowances, foreign countries: Great Britain. “White paper” issued June 1942, estimating cost of plan. S u m m a r y - A u g . 243-4 Turkey. Provided for needy large families by Government_______________________ Aug. 246 Federal employees. By major Government function, by month (January 1939 to July 1942) and by State (July 1942)_______________________________________________________ Nov. 935-40 Federal Housing Administration (U. S. Government). Mortgages insured and propertyimprovement loans, August 1934 to December 1940. Summary_______________________ Oct. 752-5 Firearms industry. Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, July, August, and September 1942 _ Nov. 1064 Dec. 1292 Flour industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and Sep tember 1942___________________________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Food. Cost to consumer. (See under Retail prices; Cost of living; Price control.) Food-products machinery. Characteristics, and scope of BLS survey, 1942______________ Dec. 1241-3 Foundries and machine shops. Labor turn-over. M onthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_____________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Furniture industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942___ ____________________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Gauges (pressure and vacuum), manufacturing. Survey by BLS, August 1942, scope and purpose of-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ___ Nov. 1021 Glass industry. Labor turn-over. M onthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942----------------------------------------- ------ --------------- July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Government employees. Federal, State, and local. By major Government function, by month (January 1939 to July 1942) and by State (July 1942)__________________________ Nov. 935-40 Handicapped workers. Rates provided under Fair Labor Standards Act made effective also by amendments to Public Contracts Act determinations; September 15, 1942_______ Oct. 843-4 Hardware industry. Labor turn-over. M onthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942------------------------------------------------ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Health and hygiene, United States: Arizona and California. Migratory workers. Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nov.957-9 Disability frequency of male industrial employees, specified periods 1936-41. (From U S. Public Health Reports, April 17, 1942)_____________________________________ Aug.262-3 Mining, nonferrous metal (Utah). Silicosis and other occupational diseases, incidence of- Aug. 259-62 Health and hygiene, foreign countries. Turkey. Development of services under republican government, sum m ary__________________________________________________________ Aug.244-6 Health (or sickness) insurance. Rhode Island. Compulsory system. Law enacted, 1942, provisions_____________________________________________________________________ July 101-2 Hospitalization. (See under Medical care.) Hours of work, United States: Civil Aeronautics Authority. 8-hour law suspended for laborers and mechanics on con Nov. 924 struction projects, October 3, 1942____________________________________________ Optimum (8 per day, 48 per week) recommended for maximum production in war plants. Sept. 459-60 Public Contracts (Walsh-Healey) Act. Overtime provision amended, 1942__________ July 101 Hours of work, foreign countries: Brazil. 10-hour working day (with overtime payment for time in excess of 8 hours) authorized by decree law August 31, 1942______________________________________ Dec. 1283 Great Britain. 52-hour week ruled minimum for industrial labor, by Ministry of Labor, M ay 20,1942_________ ____ ________________________________________________ July42 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1942] IN D E X TO VOLUME 55 1335 Housing: Page Bridgeport, Conn. Occupancy of new and old homes by workers in war industries----- Aug. 206-16 Defense areas (138). Publicly and privately financed units, by region, specified periods, January 1940 to August 1942_______________________________ j ------------------------- Dec. 1203-12 Federal Housing Administration, financed by. Net volume, 1934 through 1940; analysis of 1940 activities___________________________________________________________ Oct. 752-5 Nonfarm areas. New dwelling units, first quarter, first half, and first 9 months of 1942, by type, size of city, geographic division, source of funds, and permit valuation----- - July 94-100; Sept. 606-12; Dec.1212-18 Incentive-w age systems, United States: Definition; prevalence; reasons for worker opposition; effects on efficiency, employment, and unionization; collective-bargaining controls, union participation, and adjustments of grievances______________________________________________________________ July 1-14 Incentive-wage systems. Great Britain. Building and civil engineering, under order of 1941_________________________________________________________________________ Aug. 362-3 Income, United States: Annual wages and salaries in United States, 1939, summarized from 1940 Census------------ July 149-51 Puerto Rico. Agriculture. Small farmers, earnings and incomes, by type of farm, and use and sources of credit________________________________________________ Dec. 1280-3 Wartime. City families, 1941 and first quarter of 1942------------------------------------------- Sept. 419-34 -----Farm and nonfarm families, 1935-36, 1941, and 1942____________________________ Oct. 700-4 Income, foreign countries: Great Britain. National. By year, 1938, 1940, 1941, and Government expenditures and taxes____________________________________________________________________ July 31-32 Uruguay. Packing-house and chemical workers. Average monthly, April 1940--------Aug. 366 Industrial diseases and poisons: Lead poisoning. Nonferrous-metal mining (Utah). Incidence and symptoms________ Aug. 261-2 Mines, nonferrous metal (Utah). Hazards, incidence of cases, and recommendations of U. S. Public Health Service concerning----------------------------------------------------------- Aug. 259-62 Silicosis. Nonferrous-metal mining (Utah). Causes and incidence, and recommenda tions of U. S. Public Health Service concerning------------------------------------------------- Aug. 259-62 Industrial disputes, United States: National War Labor Board decisions, May to July 1942, summary--------------------------- Sept. 484-97 July 89-90: Strikes and lock-outs. Recent, by month, May to October 1942, summary----------------Aug. 255-6; Sept. 574-5; Oct. 746; Nov. 953-4; Dec. 1186 Industrial disputes, foreign countries: Australia (New South Wales). Coal-mine strikes, unauthorized, prohibited by regula tions, July 25, 1942_________________________________________________________ Nov. 925 Great Britain. Coalmining. Extent of in 1940 and 1941_________________________ Nov. 945 New Zealand. National Emergency Disputes Board established September 8, 1942; powers and functions______________________________________________________ Dec. 1189-90 Industry mobilization. Great Britain. Wartime measures for, summary of, to April 1942.. July 25-41 Insurance. Service men’s rights to participate in employer’s plans equally with employees on leave-of-absence status_________________________________________________________ Dec. 1153-4 Iron and steel industry: Injury experience in 1941________ _____ ___________ __________ ____ ________ .. Dec. 1191-9 Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942-------------------------- July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 599 K nit-goods industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_______________________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 L abor and industrial relations, United States: Munition plants, Government owned, privately operated. Statement by War and Navy Departments, July 18, 1942____________________________________________ Sept. 462-5 National War Labor Board decisions, May to July 1942___________________________ Sept. 484-97 Navy Department. Announcement of policy, August 8, 1942, summarized__________ Oct. 719-20 Supreme Court (U. S.) decisions concerning, October 1940 to June 1942. Summary------- Sept. 532-8 Labor and industrial relations, foreign countries: Great Britain. Coal-mining industry. Mine Workers’ Federation request (May 1942) for general increase, and decision of Greene Tribunal____________________________ Nov. 942-3 -----Coal-mining industry. National Wages Board reestablished, 1942_______________ Nov. 943,950 -----Fair Wages Resolution, proposed, for submission at close of war. Discussion and text_____________________________________________________________________ Dec. 1285-7 -----Government committees on which labor is represented, as of March 1942__________ July 40-1 Norway. Indirect conscription of labor by Germans_____________________________ Nov. 951-2 Labor mobilization, foreign countries: Canada. Wartime methods as described by Prime Minister, March 24, 1942_________ July 42-5 July 25-41 Great Britain. Wartime measures for, summary, to April 1942____________________ Labor organizations, United States: American Federation of Labor. Convention (October, Toronto). Summary of address es; membership statistics; organizing activities; labor unity; plans for post-war readjustment__________________________________.__________________________ Nov. 1000-6 Boilermakers. International Brotherhood of. AVomen admitted to membership after referendum_______________________________________________________________ Nov. 1006 Congress of Industrial Organizations. Annual convention, 1942. Addresses, resolutions, organization activities, and election summarized_______________________________ Dee. 1219-22 Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee. Name changed to “ United Steelworkers of America,’’May 1942_______________________________________________________ Sept. 497 United Steelworkers of America. First constitutional convention, May 1942, and pro visions of constitution adopted---------------------------- ------------------------------------------ Sept. 497-500 Labor organizations, foreign countries: Canada. Canadian Congress of Labor, 1942 (September). Resolutions s u m m a r i z e d . D e c . 1222-3 Canadian Trades and Labor Congress, 1942. AVartime policies discussed------------------Oct. 725-6 Great Britain. Amalgamated Engineering Union. Women admitted to membership by vote of home, Australian, and South African branches_________________ _____ Nov. 1007 Great Britain. Trades Union Congress, 1942, September. Resolutions, etc., and mem bership statistics__________________________________________________________ Dec. 1223-5 Norway. Conditions under German occupation of country-----------------------------------Nov. 951 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1336 MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW [1942 Labor supply. Potential, for war work, in St. Paul, Minn., March 1942 (University of Minn Page study)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aug. 203-5 Labor turn-over: Manufacturing industries. M onthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July ! 57— 01; T . Aug. 368-72; Sept. 596-600; Nov. 1060-4; Dec. 1288-92 Leather industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and Sep tember 1942.__ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------July 160: T •1 TT oL * T, ,, 1 andJ general: , Au^- 371i Sept- 599; Nov. 1063: Dec. 1291 Legislation, United^ States, Federal Economic stabilization through wage and price control. Act of October 2 and Executive order of October 3, 1942. -------- ------------------------- -------------------Oct. 679; Nov. 917-24 8-hour law suspended as affects laborers and mechanics on construction projects for Civil Aeronautics Authority_____________, ________________________ Nov. 924 Family allowances for enlisted men in armed forces. Act approved June 23, 1942, pro visions_____________________________________________________________ Aug. 226-8 Life Insurance Act, National Service. Amendment liberalizing provisions _ _ OK[Jl Sept. 473 Overtime provision of Walsh-Healey (Public Contracts) Act amended 1942 July 101 Price Control, Emergency Act of 1942 (January 30). Amendment October 2, 1942, to provide for economic stabilization; provisions of Executive order under____ Oct. 679; Nov. 917-24 — Operation under until passage of amendment October 1942_______ ’ Oct 659-79 Price Regulations, General Maximum, April 28,1942, under Emergency Price Control Act of 1942. Operation to September 1942_____________________ _____ Oct. 659-79 Railway Labor Panel, National. Created by Executive order, 1942 (text) July 92-3 Rent control. Executive order of October 3, 1942, under anti-inflation law amending Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, effect upon coverage_____ Nov. 918 Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, amended. Reemployment rights of Service men, provisions concerning_________________________________________ Sept. 473; ____ Dec. 1147- 55 State labor laws passed in 1942, summary of_____________________________ NcV *978-9 Sunday, Saturday, and holiday war work. Executive order, September 9, 1942, prohibit ing double pay, and supplemental order September 17, 1942_________ Oct. 717-19 Wage and salary control, Executive order of October 3, 1942, under anti-inflation law amending Emergency Price Control Act of 1942. Provisions summarized___ _ Nov 917-24 Regulations issued under. Dec. 1142-4 Legislation, United States, by States: Louisiana. Child-labor law strengthened, 1942________________________________ Nov. 978 -----War emergency exemption from labor laws that interfere with war industry, 1942 xNov. 978 Mississippi. Industrial relations law, 1942, prohibiting certain activities____________ Nov. 979 New York. Discriminatory employment policies by employers holding war production contracts. Industrial Commissioner given power to enforce Civil Rights law pro hibiting, 1942____________________________________________ Nov. 978 -----War emergency exemption from labor laws interfering with war industry________ - . . Nov. 978 Puerto Rico. Child-labor law strengthened, 1942___________________ ------Nov. 978 Rhode Island. Emergency powers, wartime, conferred upon Governor _ _____ Nov. 978 -----Health (or sickness) insurance (compulsory), law, 1942. ProvisionsJuly 101-2; Nov. 979 —;— Workmen’s compensation. Law liberalized and strengthened, 1942_____________ Nov. 979 Virginia. War emergency exemption from hours laws interfering with war industrv, 1942___________________________________________________ Nov. 978 -----Workmen’s compensation. Coverage of act extended, 1942____________ ) ______ _ Nov. 979 Legislation, foreign countries: Argentina. Minimum w7age on Government contract printing. Provision in decree of November 12, 1941_________________________________________________________ Aug. 361 Australia (New South Wales). Strikes by coal miners prohibited bv regulation, July 25, 1942___________________________________________________ ____ Nov. 925 Brazil. Enemy-alien employees. Decree law of September 1, 1942, ordering suspension- Dec. 1155-6 -----10-hour working day (with overtime payment for time in excess of 8 hours) authorized by decree law August 31, 1942_______________________________________________ Dec. 1283 Canada. Hiring to be through public employment exchanges, order in council of June 12, 1942. Provisions__________________________________________________________ Aug. 228-9 -----Rationing orders covering tea, coffee, sugar (May 19 and June 16, 1942), and gasoline (Feb. 19, 1941); provisions___________________________________________________ Aug. 283-4 -----Selective Service Regulations, National, effective September 1, 1942, provisions___ Oct. 722-5 —— Unemployment insurance. Temporary extension by order of January 7, 1942. Pro visions______________________________________________________ July 45-6 -----Wartime Wages Control Order, July 1942. Principle of equal pay for equal work ruled under provisions of___________________________________________________ Dec. 1160-1 -----Wartime Wages Control Order, July 1942. Wage and cost-of-living bonus provisions summarized___________: __________________________________________________ Sept. 466-72 Costa Rica. Social insurance, compulsory and voluntary. Law of November 1941, provisions------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ■________ Aug. 239-40 Cuba. Port work, Habana. Rotation provided by decree of May 5, 1942, provisions; and earlier legislation affecting_______________________________________________ Aug. 229-30 France. Social insurance system amended by laws (2) of January 6, 1942. Provisions- Sept. 479-81 Germany. Cooperatives required to hand over assets and properties to Labor Front, by decree of February 18, 1941__________________________________________________ Sept. 559-60 -----Manpower control. Decree of November 7,1936, provisions, and operations under, to March 1942______________________________________________ 1_____________ Oct. 727-8 Great Britain. Coal-mine labor, measures affecting wartime conditions summarized--. Nov. 941-50 -----Coal-mine royalties, nationalization of, under 1938 law7, effective July 1942 -- Nov. 941, 947-8 -----Cooperatives. Various war measures affecting__________________________ _____ Sept. 551-5 -----Defense (General) Regulations, 1939. Powers given Minister of Agriculture: price control measures under_____________________________________________________ Oct. 730, 733 -----Essential Work (Building and Civil Engineering) Order, 1941. Provision for pro duction bonus____________________________________________________________ Aug. 362-3 -----Food control. Acquisition of Food (Excessive Quantities) Order, 1939__________ Oct. 729-30 -----Food control. Essential Commodities Reserves Act of 1938____________________ Oct. 729 -----Manpower control. Provisions and operation of various acts covering__________ Dec. 1134-41 -----Old-Age and Widows’ Pensions Act. Regulations adopted July 29, 1942, increasing rates under_______________________________________________________________ Oct. 744 -----Unemployment assistance. Regulations July 29, 1942, under acts of 1934 and 1939, increasing allowance rates_________________________________________ _________ Oct. 744-5 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 10421 INDEX TO VOLUME 5 5 1337 Legislation, foreign countries—Continued. Page Ireland. Unemployment, intermittent, in building industry, insurance against provided for by 1942 a c t________ __________ _____________________________________ ___ Dec. 1167 Manchuria. “ Cooperative promotion law” of 1940 passed by Japanese, and destructi%re effect of__________________________________________________________________ Sept. 556-7 New Zealand. Industrial Disputes Emergency Regulations of 1942. Machinery estab lished under_____ ________________________________________________________ Dec. 1189-90 Palestine. Manpower control. Defense (War Service Occupations) Regulations, 1942__ Dec. 1165 Paraguay. Aliens, employment of, decree of June 26, 1942. ____ ________ _________ . _ Sept. 477 Switzerland. Compulsory labor. Decree of September 18, 1942. Provisions______ _ Dec. 1166 Venezuela. Baking and bus-transportation industries. Resolutions, June and July 1942, fixing weekly hours to combat unemployment________ __ ___ _____________ Oct. 742 -----Labor conditions. Power to regulate given by decree 138 of June 13, 1942_________ Oct. 741-2 Legislative sessions. Federal and State, in 1943. Month of convening and length of period. Nov. 979 Lighting-equipment industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942____ _____________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 “Little Steel” decision. National War Labor Board, July 16, 1942, issues decided by and principle adopted_________________________________________________________ Sept. 487-9, 495-6 Lumber industry: Finished-products establishments. Injuries, 1941, by branch of industry, size of estab lishment, and type of accident; and preventive measures which should have been used. Nov. 960-77 Logging camps (and sawmills), western. Labor situations, 1941 and 1942____________ Dec. 1125-33 Manpower. U. S. War Commission’s stabilization plan, summary of____________ .. Oct. 714-17 Planing mills. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates April to June 1942; August and Sep tember 1942_______________________________ July 160; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Sawmills. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates April to June 1942; August and Septem ber 1942___________________________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 M achine-tool industry: Characteristics, and scope of BLS survey, spring of 1942__________ ________________ Oct. 802-4 (Metal-working.) Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942___________________ Tuly 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Machinery (miscellaneous industrial). Characteristics of industry and scope and method of 1942 survey__________________________________________________________________ Aug. 306-13 Maintenance of membership. National War Labor Board decisions, May 1 to July 31, 1942. Sept. 489-96 Manpower, United States: Farming, in wartime. Wages as related to_____________________________________ Dec. 1111-24 Merchant marine. Required personnel, by occupation, and potential wartime labor supply___________________________________________________________________ Sept. 435-40 Nonferrous metals and lumber industries. War Manpower Commission plan announced for, summary_____________________________________________________________ Oct. 714-17 “Pirating,” prevention of.War Manpower Commission announcement, July 1942_____ Sept. 460-2 Potential supply in an urban area (University of Minnesota study)_________________ Aug. 203-5 Professionally trained. Future supply estimated (American Council on Education survey)__________________________________________________________________ Aug. 247-50 Shipbuilding employees, Portland, Vancouver, and Seattle areas, June 1942. Industries Oct. 735-6 formerly worked for_____________________________________________- __________ War Manpower Commission. Labor directives (8) issued June 22, 1942, summary of.^ _ Aug. 223-6 Wartime need for college-trained personnel (BLS survey, 1941)_____________________ July 60-3 Women with young children, employment of. War Manpower Commission policies regarding_______________________________________ _________________________ Dec. 1184-5 Manpower, foreign countries: Oct. 720-5 Canada. Administration of policy and measures for control_______________________ Germany. Control measures, 1936 to 1942, summarized___________________________ Oct. 727-8 Great Britain. Control policies since outbreak of war, summary___________ ___ ____ Dec. 1134-41 Palestine. Control regulations issued August 12, 1942____________________________ Dec. 1165 Maternity and infant welfare. Turkey. Services provided under republican government, summary____________________________________________________________________ Aug. 246 Medical care: Farm workers, migrant, Arizona and California. Agricultural Workers’ Health and Medical Association, plan of, and statistics of operation, July 1939 to June 1940______ Nov. 957-9 Hospitalization. Proportionate expense of, 1939-40, in Agricultural Workers’ Health and Medical Association (Arizona and California)______________________________ Nov. 957-9 Metals, nonferrous. (See inverted title.) Metalwork, structural and ornamental. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Metalworking (Machine tool) industry. Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_________ _ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600: Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Metalworking machinery. Miscellaneous. Characteristics of industry and scope of BLS survey, April-June 1942________________________________________________________ Dec. 1236-8 Migration: Agricultural Workers’ Health and Medical Association, established for migratory workers by FSA and California authorities, operation for year ended June 1940_____________ Nov. 957-9 Wartime labor. Sections affected by, extent of, and results-----------------------------------July 58-60 Military service of employees: Collective agreement provisions concerning reemployment, seniority, separation pay ments, participation in insurance plans, allowances to dependent survivors________ Dec. 1147-55 Legislative provisions and company policies as to reemployment, supplemental and vacation allowances, insurance and pension privileges___________________________ Sept. 473-6 Minimum wage, United States: Button and buckle industry. Order under Fair Labor Standards Act, effective October 19, 1942______________ ____________________________________________________ Dec. 1285 Cigars and cigarettes. (See under Tobacco industry, this section.) Cotton garment and allied industries. Determination under Public Contracts Act, effective July 20, 1942_____________________________________________________-Aug. 367 Furniture industry. Wood, and public seating, branches. Determination under Public Contracts Act, effective August 15, 1942_______________________________________ Sept. 595 Glove and mitten industry. Order under Fair Labor Standards Act, effective September 21, 1942 __ _ ___ __ _ __ __________________________ Oct. 844 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1338 MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW [1942 M inimum wage, United States—Continued. Page Handicapped or superannuated workers given same rates as provided under Fair Labor Standards Act by amendments to all determinations under Public Contracts Act; Oct. 843-4 effective September 15, 1942_________________________________________________ H at and cap industry, women’s. Determination under Public Contracts Act, effective July 11, 1942______________________________________________________________ Aug. 367 Luggage, leather goods, and women’s handbag industry. Order under Fair Labor Standards Act, effective July 27, 1942________________________________________ Sept. 594 Railroad-carrier industry. Order under Fair Labor Standards Act, effective August Oct. 844 31, 1942__________________________________________________________________ Shoe manufacturing and allied industries. Application of 40-cent rate to all, by deter mination under Public Contracts Act, effective July 11, 1942____ _______________ Aug. 367 Textile industry. Determination under Public Contracts Act, effective June 24, 1942__ Aug. 367 Tobacco industry. Cigar makers and cigar leaf-tobacco handlers. Order under Fair Labor Standards Act, effective August 10, 1942_________________________________ Sept. 594 —— Cigarettes, snuff, chewing and smoking tobacco. Determination under Public Dec. 1285 Contracts Act, effective December 4, 1942_____________________________________ ------ Cigarettes, snuff, chewing and smoking- tobacco. Order under Fair Labor Stand ards Act, effective August 10, 1942____________________________________________ Sept. 594-5 Virgin Islands. Sugarcane workers. Determination by U. S. Department of Agriculture July 21, 1942______________________________________________________________ Sept. 595 Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division (U. S. Department of Labor) merged Oct. 843 into one agency, October 15, 1942____________________ ________________________ Minimum wage, foreign countries: Argentina. Printing, Government contracts, under decree of November 12, 1942______ Aug. 361 Great Britain. Fair Wages Resolution, proposed, for submission at close of war. Dis cussion and text___________________________________________________________ Dec. 1285-7 Mining, United States. Nonferrous metal. (Utah). Occupational diseases, incidence of, hazards and recommendations by U. S. Public Health Service_______________________ Aug. 259-62 Mining, foreign countries. Great Britain. Coal. Wartime conditions and policies adapted to avert shortage______________________________________________________________ Nov. 941-51 N atio n al War Labor Board (U. S. Government), decisions of. (See under Industrial dis putes.) Navy (Ü. S. Government). Labor-relations policy announced August 8, 1942___________ Oct. 719-20 Negro workers, Indiana. Placement. Biracial committee’s organization in 1941 to promote, and activities to April 1942, summary____________________________________________ Aug. 231-4 Nonferrous metals: Manpower. U. S. War Commission’s stabilization plan, summary of_______________ Oct. 714-17 Mining of (Utah). Occupational diseases (study by U. S. Public Health Service)____ Aug. 259-62 Primary fabrication. Description and characteristics of industry and scope of BLS sur vey, August 1941____________________________________ ______________________ Aug. 314-21 Smelting and refining. Characteristics of industry, and scope of BLS survey, August 1941_____________________________________________________________________ July 129-35 Office of Economic Stabilization (U. S. Government). Creation of, by Executive order of October 3, 1942, and appointment of Director_______________________________ Oct. 679; Oil-field-machinery manufacturing. Characteristics of industry and scope and method of BLS survey, February-March 1942______________________________________________ Overtime: Premium payments for. Adjustment factors to eliminate from gross average hourly earn ings_____________________________________________________________________ Public Contracts (Walsh-Healey) Act amended, 1942, relative to employees under agree ment with certified union______________________________________ ____________ Sunday, Saturday, and holiday war work. Double pay prohibited by Executive order September 9, 1942; certain exceptions authorized by supplemental order of September 17, 1942__________________________________________________________________ Nov. 917-24 Sept. 578-81 Nov. 1053-6 July 101 Oct. 717-19 Paint and varnish industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942____________________ ______ July 160; A.ug. 371; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Paper and pulp industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, A pril to June 1942; August and September 1942___ __________________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept, 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Pensions. Great Britain. Old Age and Widows’ Act, regulations July 29, 1942, increasing Oct. 744 rates under_______________________ _________________ ___ ___________________ Petroleum refining. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942___________ ___________________ July 160; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Pipe, cast-iron. (See inverted title.) “ Pirating” of workers. Manpower control, to prevent. Statement issued July 1942 by War Manpower Commission_______________________________________________________ Sept. 460-2 Pocket-cutlery industry. Characteristics, and scope and method of BLS survey, July 1942.. Nov. 1015-17 Price control, United States: Cost-of-living changes from establishment of system May 1942, for first 3 months. Sum m ary____________________________________________________________________ Oct. 760-71 Emergency Act of 1942. Effect of amendment October 2, 1942, providing for Office of Economic Stabilization_______ ______________________________________ Oct. 679; Nov. 917-24 General Maximum Price Regulation, April 28, 1942, under Emergency Price Control Act of 1942; operation to September 1942______________________________________ Oct. 659-79 Office of Price Administration measures to restrict indirect price increases_________ Nov. 912 Progress to September 1942 (Nelson)___________________________________________ Oct. 659-79 Price control, foreign countries : Canada. Establishment and maintenance of, and relation to other w'artime controls____ Dec. 1156-60 Great Britain. Methods, and penalties prescribed for violation of regulations________ Oct. 732-3 Prices: Increases, indirect, in wartime, caused by advancing costs and material shortages (Ulmer)__________________________________________________________________ Nov. 903-12 Steel products. Effect of indirect increases____________________________________ Nov. 906-7; 908 Structural-steel forms. Increases, indirect, by change in basing point_______________ Nov. 908 Printers. Union. Lengthened life span in 1942 as compared with record for 1892__________ Sept. 527-9 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1942 J INDEX TO VOLUME 5 5 1339 Printing and publishing. Book and job, and newspapers and periodicals. Labor turn-over. Page Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942________________________ July 160; Aug. 372; Sept. 599, Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Printing industry. Book and job. Characteristics, and scope of BLS wage and hour survey, January 1942__________________________________________________________________ Oct.785-90 July 29-30 Production. Great Britain. Wartime. Increase, September 1941 to April 1942___________ Productivity of labor, United States: Chemicals industry. Indexes 1929-40, and effect of technological changes (BLS study) July 53-7 Cotton-textile manufacturing. Indexes, by quarter, 1938-42. Factors influencing, and outlook (BLS study)________________________________________________________ July 47-53 Productivity of labor. Great Britain. Coal-mining. Variation, from outbreak of war to June 1942, and causes___________________________________________________________ Nov.945-6 Professional workers. Estimate of future available supply_______________________ ____ Aug. 247-50 ----- Construction, contract. Number employed, by occupation and sex, July 1942, and estimated changes to December 1942_____________________________________________ Nov. 932-5 Public Contracts Division, Department of Labor (U. S. Government). Merged with Wage and Hour Division of Department of Labor, October 15, 1942________________________ Oct. 843 Race distribution. Population of United States, 1940 Census, by age group______________ Aug. 265 Radio and phonograph industry. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_____________________ July 160; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Railroads: Railway Labor Panel, National. Establishment by Executive order, 1942, and members appointed_____________________________ _____ ____________________________ July 92-3 Oct. 743 Retirement benefits. Summary for year ended June 30, 1942______________________ Rationing, United States. Gasoline. Atlantic Seaboard. System inaugurated July 22, 1942________________________________________________________________________ Aug. 282-3 Rationing, foreign countries: Canada. Commodities affected by, as of July 1, 1942, and systems governing sugar and gasoline__________________________________________________________________ Aug. 283-4 Great Britain. Fuel. Plan submitted to Parliament, April 1942, but (up to October 1942) not adopted_________________________ ________________________________ Nov. 946-7 Rayon and allied products. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942____________________________July 160; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Recreation. Community. 1941 conditions, and effect of war (summary of National Recrea tion Association, 1942 report)___________________________________________________ Aug. 286-8 Reemployment: Service men, returned. Legal provisions and union-agreement clauses concerning____ Dec. 1147-53 Dec. 1154-5 Workers released for war jobs. Problems concerning_____________________________ Retail prices: Coal. Average, by kind, for large cities combined, March, June, and September 1942_Sept. 622-3 Dec. 1306-7 Electricity. Changes in rates, March to June and September 1942____________ Aug. 384; Nov. 1076 Food. Average, by item, 51 large cities combined; indexes, by commodity group, and all items combined, by cities, May to October 1942_____________________________ July 165-70; Aug. 377-84; Sept. 615-21; Oct. 849-56; Nov. 1069-75; Dec. 1299-1305 Food. Indexes. All items in 51 cities combined, by year 1913-14, by month January 1941 to October 1942________________________ Aug. 384; Sept. 621; Oct. 856; Nov. 1076; Dec. 1306 Gas. Changes in rates, March to June and September 1942________________ Aug. 385; Nov. 1076-7 Retirement. Railroad employees. Benefits, summary for year ended June 30, 1942______ Oct. 743 Rubber industry: Boots and shoes. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates April to June 1942; August and September 1942_____________________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1291 Tires. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates April to June 1942; August and September 1942 ------------------------------------------------------ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Salary control. (See under Wage control.) Savings: Wartime. City families, 1941 and first quarter of 1942____________________________ Sept. 419-34 -----Farm and nonfarm families, 1935-36, 1941, and 1942____________________________ Oct. 706-13 Sawmills and logging camps, western region, labor turn-over, 1941 and 1942______________ Dec. 1129-31 Seamen. Merchant marine. Required personnel, by occupation, and potential wartime labor supply______________________________________________________________ Sept. 435-40 Seniority: Dec. 1150-1 Service men, returned. Legal provisions and union-agreement clauses______________ Workers returned from war jobs, union-agreement provisions______________________ Dec. 1154-5 Shipbuilding industry: Employees hired. Portland, Vancouver and Seattle areas combined, during a week in June 1942. Distribution by industries formerly employing_______________________ Oct. 735-6 -----West coast, during June 1942, by areas, occupations, industries formerly employing, race, and marital status_______ _____________________________________________ Nov. 926-31 Labor turn-over. Quit rates only, monthly, April to June 1942; August and September 1942______________________________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Private yards. Characteristics of industry and plan of BLS study, spring of 1942_____ Oct. 810-14 Wage stabilization. Provisions effective for Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Gulf areas, under 1942 amendments to collective agreements as result of National Shipbuild ing Conference____________________________________________________________ July 85-6 Wartime. Characteristics, labor aspects, stabilization program, and scope of study, spring of 1942______________________________________________________________ Aug. 298-301 Shoe industry. (See Boot and shoe industry.) Sickness statistics. Industrial employees, male. Disability frequency, by malady, specified periods 1936-41 (Review of Public Health Reports, April 17, 1942)____________________ Aug. 262-3 Silk and rayon goods. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_______________________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Skilled workers. Professionally trained manpower to become available in 1942 or by January 1943, findings of survey________________________________________________________ Aug. 247-50 Slaughtering and meat packing. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942___________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Social assistance. Turkey. Development under republican government, summary______ Aug. 244 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1340 MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW [1942 Social insurance: Page Costa Rica. Compulsory and voluntary types. Law of November 1941, provisions__ Aug. 239-40 France. Laws of January 6, 1942, making changes in system_______________________ Sept. 479-81 Social security. Inter-American Conference, Santiago de Chile, September 1942, program outlined--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aug. 238-9 Stamped and enameled ware. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_____________________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 State (or Home) Guards. Company policies concerning supplemental allowances to______ Sept. 476 Steam and hot-water heating apparatus. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942_________________ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Stoves. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1 9 4 2 . July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 599; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Sunday, Saturday, and holiday work. Wartime. Double pay prohibited by Executive order of September 9, 1942; certain exceptions authorized by supplemental order of Sep tember 17, 1942---------------------------------------------------- ____________________________ Oct. 717-19 Superannuated workers. Subminimum rates provided under Fair Labor Standards Act made effective also under Public Contracts Act, by amendment on September 15, 1942__ Oct. 843-4 T an k s, military. Creation of industry, and scope of BLS wage survey, August 1942, in assembly shops_______________________________________________________________ Oct. 697-9 Technical workers. Construction, contract. Number employed, by occupation and sex, July 1942, and estimated changes to December 1942_____________ ___________________ Nov. 932-5 Tennessee Valley Authority (U. S. Government). Wage conferences held with Tennessee Nov. 1059 Valley Trades and Labor Council_______________________________________________ Textile industries: Cotton, rayon, and wool fabrics. Probable material shortage, as result of war________ Sept. 453-6 Sept. 446-58 Employment in, as affected by war conditions (Clem) ____________________________ New England (9 plants). Employees granted increases by National War Labor Board decision, July 6, 1942__________________________________ ___________________ Sept. 487 Textile-machinery industry: July 107-11 Characteristics, and plan and scope of BLS wage survey, March 1942________________ Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942______ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Tobacco industry. Cigars and cigarettes. Labor turn-over. Monthly rates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942__________________ July 160; Aug. 371; Sept. 598; Nov. 1063; Dec. 1291 Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, flies, and saws). Labor turn-over. Monthlyrates, April to June 1942; August and September 1942__ July 161; Aug. 372; Sept. 600; Nov. 1064; Dec. 1292 Tractor manufacturing. Characteristics, and scope of survey, 1942______ _____________ Nov. 1048-50 Training. Shipbuilding (Pacific Coast). In yards and by special agencies, for skilled work_. Aug. 299 U n em p lo y m en t. Civilian labor force, by months, April 1940 to October 1942, proportions in and out of employment (WPA estimates)_________ ___ ________________________ July 191; Aug. 406-7; Sept. 646-7; Oct. 879-80; Nov. 1100-1; Dec. 1317-19 Unemployment, foreign countries: Great Britain. Assistance, under laws of 1934 and 1939. Increase in allowance rate, July 29, 1942______________________________________________________________ Oct. 744-5 Venezuela. Baking industry. From flour scarcity. Resolution June 18, 1942, reducing workweek to 40 hours_____________________________________________: ___ _____ Oct. 742 -----Bus drivers. From tire shortage. Resolution, July 3, 1942, fixing maximum 40-hour week as remedy _________________________________________________________ Oct. 742 -----Emergency situation, 1942, and law granting power to change working standards___ Oct. 741-2 Unemployment compensation. Operations, first half of 1942, summarized______________ Sept. 478-9 Unemployment insurance: Canada. Wartime extension of provisions, by law of January7 7, 1942_______________ July745-6 Great Britain. Cost of benefits, by year, 1920-41___________ _____________________ Dec. 1168-9 -----Payment of debt of fund, March 31, 1941, and receipts and expenditures years 1940 and 1941; general and agricultural accounts, condition of_________________________ Aug. 240-3 Ireland. Compulsory, in building industry against intermittent unemployment, law of 1942__________________________________________________________ : __________ Dec. 1167 United Steelworkers of America. Convention (first), May 1942, and provisions of constitu tion_________________________________________________________________________ Sept. 497-500 V acations with pay, United States: Douglas fir operators (Puget Sound area). 10,000 employees granted 1 week by National War Labor Board decision June 16, 1942______________________________________ Wartime industries. Policies of 167 companies summarized (National Industrial Con ference Board study, 1942)__________________________________________ _______ Vacations with pay. Great Britain. 2 weeks ruled maximum by Ministry of Labor, May 20, 1942______________________________________________________________________ Sept. 486 Aug. 285-6 July 42 Wage Adjustment Board for Building Construction Industry (U. S. Government). Estab lishment by Secretary of Labor, July 1942 (text of order)____________________________ July 86-8 Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions (Department of Labor, U. S. Government). Agency formed by merging two divisions, October 15,1942___________________________ Oct. 843 AVage control: Office of Economic Stabilization established by Executive order, October 3,1942. Powers of Director_______________________________________________________________ Nov. 917-24 War Labor Board’s statement of policy under law and regulations__________________ Dec. 1144-7 Wartime (wages and salaries). Regulations issued by Director of Economic Stabili zation_____ __________________________________________________________ __ _ Dec. 1142-4 Wage incentive systems. (See Incentive-wage systems.) Wages and hours, United States: Agriculture (Puerto Rico). Sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, and minor crops, daily rates- Dec. 1281 Agriculture. Trend, 1942 and earlier years, and relation to wartime labor shortage (Bowden)________________________________________________________________ Dec. 1111-24 Aircraft-engine plants, May 1942. Entrance hourly rates by region; hourly scales by region, shift, and occupation_________ ______ ________________________________ Dee. 1231-5 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1942] INDEX TO VOLUME 5 5 Wages and hours, United States—Continued. Airframe industry. Eastern States. Recent history of rates and factors affecting, and hourly rates by length of training period, occupation, and region, April 1942___ -----Hourly earnings by occupation and by region—Midcontinent, Buffalo, East Coast, 1942; California, 1941_______________________________________________________ Airframe plants. East Coast, April 1942, and California, December 1941. Hourly earn ings, by occupation and grade_______________________________________________ ----- Michigan and Buffalo, N. Y. Hourly earnings, by occupation, length of training and (Buffalo) grade, May 1942 ______________________________________________ -----Midcontinent. Hourly earnings by occupation and length of training period, June 1912 __ . . . __________ ______________________ _____ ___ Annual wages and salaries received in 1939 (Census of 1940, summary)_______________ Building trades. Union scales as of July 1, 1942—hourly rates by occupation and city; overtime and Sunday rates, and weekly hours, by occupation. Indexes—trend of hourly rates and weekly hours, 1907-42; by occupation 1916-42____________________ Case-goods furniture industry. Hourly and weekly earnings and weekly hours, by area, selected periods 1940-42; hourly earnings by occupation and area, March-April 1942... Changes, by month, in rates (See Rate changes, under this section.) Clothing industries, men’s. Cotton garments. (See Cotton garments, m en’s, under this section.) Construction-machinery industry. Hourly earnings and weekly hours, selected periods 1939-42, and by occupation, February April 1942..__________________ ___________ Cotton garments (men’s) industries. Hourly rates, by industry, region, occupation, and sex, March 1941, and changes since February-March 1939______________ ________ Engines, internal-combustion. Hourly earnings by occupation, and weekly hours, March-May 1942____________. . ________________________________________ Food-products machinery. Hourly earnings by occupation, and shift differentials, M ay-July 1942, and trend of hourly earnings and weekly hours, 1939-42. Gauges, pressure and vacuum, manufacturing. Hourly earnings, by occupation, over time and shift provisions, August 1942________________________________________ Libraries. Public. Cities over 10,000 minimum and maximum annual salaries, by occupation (those over 200,000 also by city), as of November 1, 1941_____ __________ ----- Universities, colleges, and schools. Minimum and maximum annual rates, as of May 1, 1941...____________________________________________ .. Machine tools. Hourly rates by occupation and region, April-June 1942___. Machinery, miscellaneous industrial. Hourly rates, February to April 1942, by occu pation and region___________________________ _____________________________ Metals, nonferrous. (See Nonferrous metals, under this section.) Metalworking machinery, miscellaneous. Hourly earnings by occupation, and shift differentials, April-June 1942_____ __________________________________________ Minimum rates (See Minimum wage, United States.) National War Labor Board decisions concerning. (See under Industrial disputes.) Nonferrous metals. Mining and processing. Hourly earnings, by product, process, region, and occupation, June 1942______________________________________ ._____ ----- Primary fabrication. Hourly and weekly earnings and weekly hours, by occupation and region, August 1941____________________________________________________ — - Smelting and refining. Method of payment and hourly and weekly earnings, by kind of metal, region, and occupation, August 1941______________________________ Oil-field-machinery manufacturing, hourly earnings, February-March 1942__________ Overtime premium payments. Adjustment factors for eliminating from gross average hourly earnings___________________________________________________________ Pocket-cutlery industry. Hourly and weekly earnings and weekly hours, by occupa tion, July 1942____________________________________________________________ Printing, book and job. Hourly earnings, by type of work, region, and sex, 1942______ —— Hourly earnings by type of work, size of plant, and occupation, 1942____________ Puerto Rico. Farm workers, sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, and minor crops, daily rates. Rate changes, by industry group, April to October 1942 ___ Aug. 351-3; Sept. 585-7; Oct. 838-40; Nov. 1056-9; Shipbuilding. Atlantic coast. Stabilization agreement, 1941. Results to spring of 1942_____________________________________________________________________ — Pacific coast. Hourly rates by occupation, spring of 1942_______________________ — Private yards. Hourly earnings by occupation and region, spring of 1942_________ Shipbuilding. Stabilization agreements of 1942, provisions of_____ _________________ Tanks, military. Assembly shops. Hourly earnings, by occupation, August 1942__ Tennessee Valley Authority. Hourly and annual rates, by occupation______________ Textile-machinery industry. Hourly earnings and weekly hours, selected periods, 193942; hourly earnings by occupation and region, March 1942________________________ Tractor manufacturing. Hourly earnings by occupation, and weekly hours, 1942_____ Wartime control of salaries and wages. (See Wage control.) Wages and hours, foreign countries: Canada. (Vancouver and Winnipeg.) Libraries. Annual rates, by occupation, as of November 1, 1941____________________________________________________ _____ Finland. Increase to correspond with rise in cost of living_________________________ Germany. Hourly rates, by industry, sex, and skill, December 1941________________ Great Britain. Building and civil engineering. Production bonus system, effective July 1941_________________________________________________________________ ■ ---- Mining, coal. Minimum provided by Greene Tribunal decision, effective July 10, 1942__________________________________________________________________ •---- (and Northern Ireland). Weekly earnings by industry, sex, and age, October 1938 and January 1942__________________________________________________________ Mexico. Printing trades. Daily rates, union scale, by occupation, 1942_____________ New Zealand. Increases awarded in 1940 and 1942, and situations resulting in awards-. Minimum rates. (See Minimum wage, foreign countries.) Switzerland. Specified industries, daily and hourly rates, by skill and sex, 1941______ -----(Zurich.) Average rates by occupations, October 1939, 1940, and 1941____________ — (Zurich and Lausanne.) Rates, by occupation, end of October 1939 and 1941, and April 1942________________________________________________________________ Uruguay. Agricultural workers, monthly and daily rates, 1942____________________ ----- Leather manufacture. Monthly rates, by skill______________________________ -----Meat packing. 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Vacation plans of 167 companies summarized_______ Aug. 285-6 Wartime conditions, Great Britain. Coal-mine labor shortage threatened under war con ditions, and measures to avert__________________________________________________ Nov. 941-51 Wartime policies, United States: Aliens. Prevention of discrimination against in employment. Preisdent’s statement Sept. 465-6 on July 13, 1942 (text)______________________________________________________ Cost-of-living stabilization by wage and price control_____________________________ Nov. 917-24 Federal employment, increase in, June 1940 to May 1942, by month and area_________ Aug. 217-22 Freezing of stocks and restriction of production. Effects upon consumer markets in household furnishings and furniture, textiles, leather products, and wearing apparel (Webb)__________________________________________________________________ Nov. 891-902 Hours of work. Optimum recommended by 8 Government agencies for maximum pro duction in war plants______________________________________________________ Sept. 459-60 Labor directives (June 22, 1942) of War Manpower Commission. Summary of 8 orders, concerning (1) essential activities and occupations; (2) critical war products, relative importance of jobs connected with; (3) placement priorities; (4) transfers to essential activities; (5) occupational deferments from military duty; (6) recruitment for agricul ture; (7) housing for transient agricultural workers; (8) transportation for essential Aug. 223-6 workers__________________________________________________________________ Manpower control (See under Manpower.) Munition plants, Government owned, but privately operated. Labor-relations policy. Statement by War and Navy Departments, July 18, 1942________________________ Sept. 462-5 Navy Department. Labor-relations policy announced August 8, 1942, summary______ Oct. 719-20 Oct. 659-79 Price control. Progress to September 1942 summarized___________________________ Aug. 282-3 Rationing. Gasoline, on Atlantic Seaboard. System inaugurated July 22, 1942_______ Sunday, Saturday, and holiday war work. Double pay for, prohibited by Executive or der, September 9, 1942______________________________________________________ Oct. 717-19 Wage and salary control, wartime. (See Wage control.) War Manpower Commission. Rulings of. (See under Manpower.) Woman workers. Employment of, and work of U. S. Women’s Bureau-------------------- Dec. 1170-84 — Mothers with young children, policy of War Manpower Commission----------------- Dec. 1184-5 Woman’s Policy Committee, appointed under War Manpower Commission--------------- Nov. 924-5 Wartime policies, foreign countries: Australia (New South Wales). Coal-mine strikes, unauthorized, prohibited by regula Nov. 925 tion of July 25, 1942________________________________________________________ Canada. Hiring to be through public employment exchanges (order of June 12, 1942). Aug. 228-9 Provisions summarized____________________________________________________ Oct. 720-5 ---- Manpower allocation, regulations effective September 1, 1942, provisions-------------July 42-5 -----Manpower utilization as summarized by Prime Minister, March 24, 1942_________ ----- Price ceilings, establishment and maintenance of, and relation to other wartime controls__________________________________________________________________ Dec. 1156-60 — Rationing. Commodities covered as of July 1, 1942, and systems for sugar and Aug. 283-4 .. - - — ---------------------------------------------------gasoline______ -----Trades and Labor Congress, 1942. Resolutions passed by 1942 convention-----------Oct. 725-6 -----Unemployment insurance extended by provision of order of January 7, 1942---------July 45-6 ----- Wage control and cost-of-living bonus. Order of July 10, 1942, summary of pro visions __________________________________________________________________ Sept. 466-72 China. Governmental economic measures, nature and effectiveness of______________ Dec. 1161-5 Cuba. Port labor (Habana) regulated by decree of May 5, 1942, provisions__________ Aug. 229-30 Germany. Hitler Youth Movement’s Land Service. Activities in connection with land Aug. 237 settlement. - .. ._ -----.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------Nov. 951-2 -----Indirect conscription of Norwegian workers for defense projects_________________ Aug. 234-7 -----Juvenile employment plan and vocational guidance___________________________ -----Manpower. Centralization of control, summary of steps taken since 1936------------Oct. 727-8 Great Britain. Coal mines. Government measures to assure sufficient working force.. Nov. 941-51 -----52-hour week ruled minimum for industrial labor, by Ministry of Labor, M ay 20, July 42 1942_____________________________________________________________________ -----Food control. Agriculture; supplies, distribution, and rationing; prices; and post Oct. 728-34 war implications______________ ____________________________________________ July 40-1 -----Government committees on which labor is represented, as of March 1942_________ -— Manpower-control since outbreak of war, summary to August 1942_____________ Dec. 1134-41 July 25-41 -----Mobilization of industry and labor, summary of measures taken to April 1942------------Production bonus, building and civil engineering, certain projects and operations, Aug. 362-3 effective July 1941___________________________ __________________________ Wholesale prices. Indexes. 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Rate increase granted by Sept. 488 National War Labor Board decision__________________________________________ Union membership. Vote of International Brotherhood of Boilermakers to permit ad Nov. 1006 mission, to ________________________________________________________________ Wartime employment. Manufacturing. Estimated total April 1942; and by specified Sept. 441-5 industries May 1942___________________________ ____________________________ -----Possibilities for extension of U. S. Women’s Bureau summary__________________ Dec. 1170-84 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1942] IN D E X TO VOLUM E 55 1343 Woman workers, foreign countries: Page Canada. Equal pay for equal work. Ruling of War Labor Board, under Wartime Wages Control Order of July 1942__________________________________________ Dec_ 1160-1 Germany. Wartime governmental policies summarized__________________________ Aug. 236-7 Great Britain. 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