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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIL
NO. 1.—JULY, 1918.
Page.

Announcement............................................................................................................
v
Special article:
New York Harbor employees, by Benjamin M. Squires................................. 1-21
Labor and the War:
President sustains National War Labor Board’s decision in telegraph
dispute...................... ’....... ................................................................................. 22, 23
Organization and functions of the War Labor Policies Board........................ 23-27
Industrial councils in Great Britain.................................................................. 27, 28
Provision for the disabled and vocational education:
Government provides for vocational rehabilitation of soldiers and sailors... 29-31
What becomes of men crippled in industry? by Carl Iiookstadt..................32-49
Massachusetts laws for training disabled soldiers and persons crippled in
industry.............................................................................................................. 50, 51
Recommendation for technical education and industrial training in the
United Kingdom .............................................................................................. 51-53
Prices and cost of living:
Retail prices of food in the United States........................................................ 57-68
Retail prices of dry goods in the United States............................................... 68-70
Comparison of retail price changes in the United States and foreign coun­
tries..................................................................................................................... 70-72
Changes in wholesale prices in the United States, 1913to May, 1918........... 72-74
Price changes, wholesale and retail, in the United States.............................. 74-78
Cost of food and fuel in the State'of Washington............................................. 78-80
Cost of living and wages in the Netherlands.................................................... 80, 81
Cost of living and wages in Russia....................................................................... 8.1-83
Food control:
Food control in Great B ritain....................................................
84-94
Food control in France............................................. ...................................... 95-104
Wages and hours of labor:
United States Shipping Board increases wages in deck and engine depart­
ments...................................................................................................................
105
Increases in British railway wages compared with increases in cost of
living................................................................................................................. 106-108
Wage increases reported by American consuls in Great Britain and
Canada............................................................................................................. 108-110
Minimum wage:
Orders of Kansas Industrial Welfare Commission regarding employment
of women......................................................................................................... 111-114
Regulation of hours and wages in the pea canneries of Wisconsin............. 114,115
Women in industry:
Women munition workers in France, by MaryConyngton............................ 116-129
Woman and child labor in Tennessee............................................................ 129-131
Agreements between employers and employees:
Agreement for adjustment of railroad labor disputes.......................................
132
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Employment and unemployment:
Page.
Activities of the United States Employment Service.................................133-135
President urges employers to recruit all unskilled war labor through United
States Employment Service......................................................................... 136,137
Work of public employment offices in the United States and of provincial
employment offices in Canada..........................................
137-143
Activities of public employment offices in Massachusetts in 1917..............143,144
Report of employment exchanges in the United Kingdom (Great Britain
and Ireland) for five weeks ending April 12, 1918.................................... 145-147
Employment in selected industries in May, 1918........ ................................ 147-T52
Index numbers of employment and of pay roll, January, 1915, to May,
1918.................................................................................................................. 153-155
Volume of employment in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Ireland)
in April, 1918............................................................................................... 156,157
Chinese labor emigration law and labor recruiting agency regulations... 158-160
Industrial accidents:
Causation of industrial accidents, Great Britain.......................................... 161-164
Industrial accidents in Tennessee........... ............................................................
164
Workmen’s compensation and social insurance:
Workmen’s compensation report for California, 1916-17............................ 165-167
Workmen’s compensation report for Indiana, 1917..........................................
168
Annuity and benefit plans for employees of the Standard Oil Co............. 168,169
Canadian Government railway employees’ insurance, May, 1890, to Decem­
ber 31, 1917.........................................................................................................
170
Labor laws and court decisions:
Federal child labor law declared unconstitutional.................................... . 171-177
Sabotage law of Minnesota declared constitutional...................... ...............177-179
Workmen’s compensation law of New Brunswick........................................ 179-181
Industrial Arbitration Act of New South Wales........................................... 181-184
Industrial poisons and diseases:
Injurious substitutes for turpentine in the painting trade.........................185-190
Hookworm disease among the miners of California........................................ 190-192
Welfare work:
Food of munition workers and industrial canteens in Great B ritain..........193-195
Duties of welfare supervisors for women, Great Britain.............................. 195-197
Arbitration and conciliation:
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor, May 15 to June 14, 1918.. 198-205
Strikes and lockouts:
Strikes and lockouts in the United States, January to March, 1918.......... 206-210
Immigration:
Immigration in March and April, 1918.......................................................... 211, 212
Publications relating to labor:
Official—United States....................................................................................... 213,214
Official—foreign countries................................................................................ 214, 215
Unofficial............................................................................................................ 215-219
No. 2.—AUGUST, 1918.
Special articles:
Labor survey of Cleveland cloak industry, by Boris Emmet, Ph. D ........ 221-249
Second Interallied Conference on After-care of Disabled Men, by N. C.
Adams............................................................................................................. 251-263
Associations of harbor boat owners and employees in the Port of New York,
by Benjamin M. Squires............................................................................... 265-282


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Labor and the War:
Page.
Organization oi the War Labor Administration completed........................ 283-291
Basic 8-hour day and minimum wage involved in decisions of National
War Labor Board........................................................................................... 292-295
Government’s position concerning child labor and prison labor................ 295, 296
Constitution and functions of a joint industrial council.............................. 296-299
Progress in the establishment of joint industrial councils in Great B ritain. 300, 301
Operation of works committees in Great B ritain......................................... 301-304
War bonuses for Government employees in Great B ritain......................... 304-309
British reconstruction programs for the electrical, the engineering, and the
iron and steel trades..................................................................................... 310-313
Reconstruction program for the generation and distribution of electrical
energy in Great Britain................................................................................ 313-317
New regulations of the war subsidies and cost-of-living bonuses of German
Government employees................................................................................ 318-320
Suspension of regulations for the protection of labor in Germany during
the War........................................................................................................... 320-323
Labor outlook in Austria after the War. . ............................ ....................... 323-325
Provision for disabled soldiers and sailors:
Work of local war pensions committees in Great B ritain............................ 326-331
Trades for disabled men in Great Britain..................................................... 331, 332
Prices and cost of living:
Retail prices of food in the United States................................ ................... 333-345
Price changes, wholesale and retail, in the United States......................... 345-349
Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States, 1913 to June, 1918 350, 351
Cost of living in North Atlantic sliipbuPding districts............................... 352-355
Maximum prices for certain foods in Uruguay............................................ 355, 356
Food control:
Food control in the United States.................................................................. 357-361
Food regulations and the “ fair price list” in the District of Columbia__ 361-364
Food situation in England............................................................................... 364-366
Reduction of the bread ration in Germany................................................... 366-368
War nutrition and public health in Germany.............................................. 368-371
Wages and hours of labor:
News print paper workers granted wage increase by National War Labor
Board.............................................................................................................. 372,373
Hours of work as related to output and health of workers in cotton manu­
facturing......................................................................................................... 373-375
Settlement of wage disputes in British Columbia shipyards...................... 375-380
Wages of women and girls on munitions work in Great B ritain................ 380, 381
Wages of Lancashire cotton operatives increased 25 per cent, effective in
June, 1918..........................................................................................................
382
Wages of German building trades workers in December, 1917................... 382, 383
Wage increases of German seamen.....................................................................
383
Women in industry:
Training of women for war work: A bibliography, prepared by Mrs. Y. B.
Turner...............................
384-391
Employment of women on Government war contracts...................................
391
Replacement of men by women in Great Britain........................................ 392-398
Employment of women and girls in Great Britain in January, 1918......... 39S. 399
Agreements between employers and employees:
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Employment and unemployment:
Page.
Work of public employment offices in the United States and of provincial
employment offices in Canada..... ................................. . j . ............... ..... . 405-411
Employment in selected industries in June, 1918....................................... 411-417
Industrial accidents:
An investigation of the factors concerned in the causation of industrial
accidents............. ....................................................................... .................. 418-421
Industrial hygiene and disease:
Executive order regarding public health and industrial hygiene................
422
Conditions of labor in certain New York City laundries............................ 423-425
Precautions to prevent danger of infection by anthrax.............................. 425-428
Labor laws and regulations:
Compulsory work provisions in Montana and Rhode Island.................... . 429, 430
Compulsory work regulations affecting draft registrants.................................
430
Workmen’s compensation legislation in Canada...............................
430-432
Minimum wage laws of British Columbia and Manitoba........^ ................. 432, 433
Labor organizations:
Rapid progress of trade-union movement in Hungary................................ 434, 435
Trade-union movement in the Scandinavian countries, 1917.................... 435,436
Economic demands of the Swiss workmen........................ ......................... 436, 437
Welfare work:
Welfare work for civilian employees of the United States, by Augustus P.
Norton............................................
438-451
Conciliation and arbitration:
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor, June 17 to July 16, 1918.. 452-457
Conciliation and arbitration in Great B ritain............................................... 457-460
Labor bureaus:
Projected labor bulletin for Brazil.....................................................................
461
Immigration:
Immigration in May, 1918............................................................................... 462, 463
Publications relating to labor:
Official—United States..................................................................................... 464-466
Official—foreign countries.......... ..............................................................
466-471
Unofficial...........................................................................................
471-476
No. 3.—SEPTEMBER, 1918.
Special article:
New Yo’rk Harbor wage adjustment, by Benjamin M. Squires................. 477-502
Labor and the War:
Awards and findings of the National War Labor Board.............................. 503-513
Appointment and function of the Director of Negro Economics, United
States Department of Labor........................................................................ 513, 514
Employment of prisoners in the Atlanta Penitentiary................................ 515, 516
Final report of the British Health of Munition Workers Committee........ 516-525)
Second report on joint industrial councils by the British Ministry of
Reconstruction................. ............................................................................. 529-531
Industrial councils and trade boards in Great Britain................................ 534-540
Industrial Reconstruction Council organized in Great Britain................. 540-542
Status of civil-service employees in Great Britain under the military service
acts, 1916........................................................................................................ 542, 543
Provision for the disabled and for vocational education:
Economic aspects of the disabled soldier problem with particular reference
to Canada, by Mrs. M. A. Gadsby.............................................................. 544-556
Discrimination againstemployment of war cripples..................................... 557-559
Occupational opportunities for handicapped men in the printing trades. 559-5GI

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Provision for the disabled and for vocational education—Concluded.
pag.e.
Rehabilitation of injured workmen in Wisconsin....................................., . 561-563
Disabled soldiers placed by French institutions........................ ................ 563, 564
Farm colonies In Great Britain............... ........................................................ 564, 565
Manual training schools in Brazil................................................ .......................
565
Prices and cost of living:
Retail prices of food in the United States..... ......................................... . . 566-577
Changes in wholesale prices in the United States..................... .................. 577-5S0
Price changes, wholesale and retail, in the United States.......................... 580-583
Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States, 1913 to July, 1918 584, 585
Wholesale prices in the United States and foreign countries, 1890 to June,
!918..................................................................................................
586,587
Cost of living in the District of Columbia: Eighth article.......................... 588-590
Cost of living in the Pacific shipbuilding d istric ts..................... ............... 591-593
Year’s clothing bill of 100 families of wage earners in Yew York City ship­
building district........................
594-598
Food control:
Food control in the United S tates.. . : ..................................................... .
599-604
Control of sale and distribution of sugar in the District of Columbia___ 604, 605
Food regulations in France. ____________________ _______________ ____
606
Wages and hours of labor:
Increase of wages in mechanical department of railroads under Federal
control..................................... ...................... ................................. .............. 607-610
Union scales in the building, metal and granite and stone trades and in
freight handling.............................................. .............. .................. ............610-637
Rates of wages paid to workers placed by public employment offices in the
United States, July, 1918............................................. ....................’ ......... 637-661
Labor adjustment and the payment of bonuses at coal mines................... 662-664
Recent application of the eight-hour day..................................................... 664-672
Wages of German miners........................................ ..................... ................ 672-674
High cost of living bonuses to private salaried employees in Ita ly ..............
675
Japanese factory law in its relation to weavers and matchmakers............ 675, 676
Minimum wage:
Minimum wage decrees in Massachusetts...................................................... 677, 678
Minimum wage for laundry workers in Manitoba.............. .......................... 678, 679
Minimum wage legislation in Norway.'...................................... ...... ............ 680, 681
Women in industry:
Women in mechanical trades in the United States, by Mrs. Y. B. Turner. 682-691
English experience with women in heavy work.......................................... 691-694
Health of women munition workers in England.......................................... 695-698
Employment of women in France during the war............. .......................... 699-708
Training school for female metal turners in Italy ........................................ 708, 709
Industrial safety:
Seventh annual safety congress, National Safety Council.......................... 710, 711
Industrial hygiene and poisons:
Trinitrotoluene poisoning, by T. M. Legge, M. D ............................ ..........712-71S
Dinitrophenol poisoning in munition works in France, by Alice Hamilton,
M. D ........... ................... ................................................................................ 718-726
Annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.................... 726, 727
Workmen’s compensation:
Annual meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident
Boards and Commissions.___ ___________ ^^
, ...........;____ ____ 728-730
History and theory of workmen’s compensation insurance rates............... 730-738
New workmen’s compensation law of Porto Rico.......... ............................. 738, 739
Workmen’s compensation experience in Ontario, 1917............................... 739-741

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Labor laws and regulations:
rage.
Emergency suspensions and variations of labor laws................................... 742-746
Retirement system for lighthouse employees....................... ...........................
746
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of Canada............................................
747
French decree governing the recruiting and distribution of labor................
748
Civilian auxiliary service established in Italy by vice-regal decree......... 749-752
Law regulating night work in Uruguay.............................................................
752
Woman and child labor laws of Vera Cruz, Mexico..................................... 752, 753
Housing and welfare work:
A modern copper mining town, by Leifur Magnusson................................ 754-759
760
Restaurant facilities for shipyard workers.......................................................
Employment and unemployment:
Work of public employment offices in the United States and of provincial
employment offices in Canada................................................................
761-768
Employment in selected industries in July, 1918...................................... 769-774
Central recruiting of unskilled labor by United States Employment Serv­
ice.................................................................................................................... 774-777
Medical examination of applicants for work....................................................
778
Work of Ohio Free Labor Exchanges for year ending June 30, 1917......... 778-780
Meeting of American Association of Public Employment Offices.................
780
Value of the British national employment exchanges dming the war. . .. 780-785
Labor organizations:
Thirty-eighth annual convention of the American Federation of L abor.. 786-792
Proposed labor party in Minnesota................................................................ 793-795
Annual conference of the British Labor P arty....... ..................................... 795-803
Labor organization in Canada, 1917............................................................... 804, 805
Strikes and lockouts:
Strikes and lockouts in the United States, April to June, 1918................. 806-810
Conciliation and arbitration:
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor, July 17 to August 15,
1918.................................................................................................................. 811-817
Immigration :
Immigration in June, 1918............................................................................... 818, 819
Publications relating to labor:
Official—United States..................................................................................... 820-821
Official—Foreign countries.............................................................................. 821-826
Unofficial............................................................................................................ 826-835
No. 4.—OCTOBER, 1918.
Special article:
Labor turnover and employment policies of a large motor vehicle manu­
facturing establishment, by Boris Emmet, Ph. D.................................... 837-855
Labor and the War:
Awards and decisions of the National War Labor Board____ _________ 856-864
Classification of war industries to facilitate distribution of labor and ma­
terials..........................................................................................
864-870
National service scheme of Great B ritain......................................
870-880
Federation of British industries, and industrial councils........................... 880-883
Canadian Government’s declaration of a war labor policy... . .................. 883-886
Reconstruction in industry:
English reconstruction problems from the standpoint of employers and
trade-unionists............................................................................................... 887-890
Industrial self-government.............................................................................. 890-897
Austrian employers’ preparations for peace tim e.............................................
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Provision for the disabled, and vocational education:
Page.
Economic consequences of permanent disability accidents in California. 898-902
Opportunities for the employment of disabled m en.................................... 902-905
Loans authorized to French war pensioners as aid in establishing homes. 905-907
Vocational reeducation and employment of disabled soldiers in Italy— 907-921
What becomes of the man disabled in industry in Denmark..................... 921-926
Prices and cost of living:
Retail prices of food and coal in the United States..................................... 927-940
Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States, 1913 to August,
1918................................................................................................................. 941,942
Price changes, wholesale and retail, in the United States......................... 943-946
Comparison of retail price changes in the United States and foreign coun­
tries................................................................................................................. 947,948
Cost of living in shipbuilding districts.......................................................... 948-956
Wages and cost of living in mining district of Santa Rosalia, Lower Cali­
fornia, Mexico................................................................................................ 957, 958
Increased cost of living in South Africa........................................................ 958, 959
Food control:
Food control in the United States.................................................................. 960-963
Food regulation in the District of Columbia................................................ 963-965
Wages and hours of labor:
New wage orders issued by the Director General of Railroads.................. 966-975
Union scales in the building, metal, and granite and stone trades, and in
freight handling........................................................................................... 975-1007
War bonuses for Government employees in Great B ritain...................... 1008,1009
Wages and hours of labor in Germany during the war............................ 1009-1012
Minimum wage:
Minimum wage law for the District of Columbia..................................... 1013-1017
Minimum wage decrees in Kansas, Massachusetts, and Minnesota....... 1017-1021
Report of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission, 1917........... 1022-1025
Minimum wages for female workers in foodstuff factories in Manitoba. 1025-1027
Women in industry and child welfare:
War-time employment of women in the metal trades.............................. 1028-1032
Office cleaning as an occupationfor women................................................ 1032-1035
Wastage of labor in English munition factories employing w om en.. . . 1035-1037
Infant welfare in Germany during the war............................................... 1037-1042
Industrial accidents:
Accident frequency and severity rates in Wiscosnin, 1915-1917........... 1043-1050
Workmen’s compensation and social insurance:
Medical and surgical provisions in compensation law and administration,
by Lindley D . Clark................................................................................. 1051-1064
Workmen’s compensation experience in K entucky................................. 1064-1066
Workmen’s compensation in British Columbia, 1917..................... ........ 1066-1068
New law regarding retirement annuities in France......................................... 1069
Unemployment Funds in France............................................................... 1069-1071
The cost of pensions in Germany’s war bill............................................... 1071-1075
Labor laws and regulations:
Legislation in the United States limiting hours of labor for m en.......... 1076-1083
Provincial law of Buenos Aires, Argentina, relating to woman and child
labor............................................................................................................ 1083-1085
Housing and welfare work:
Order of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin regarding the length of
lunch period for female workers.............................................................. 1086-1087
Roe Green village scheme, Kingsbury, England, by Sir Frank Baines. 1087-1093
Housing notes from Great Britain............................................................... 1093-1096
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Employment and unemployment:
Page.
Readjustment of administrative functions of United States Employment
Service........................................................................................................ 1097-1101
Employment Offices Coordination Act in Canada........................................... 1101
Work of public employment offices in the United States and of provincial
employment offices in Canada................................................................. 1101-1107
Report of employment exchanges in the United Kingdom (Great Britain
and Ireland) for five weeks ending July 12, 1918................................ 1107-1109
Employment in selected industries in August, 1918....................................1109-1115
Volume of employment in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Ireland)
in July, 1918............................................................................................... 1115,111(5
Conciliation and arbitration:
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor August 16 to September 15,
1918.............................................................................................................. 1117-1124
Conciliation board to inquire into labor differences in Jamaica............ 1124,1125
Immigration:
Immigration in July, 1918............................................................................ 1126,1127
Publications relating to labor:
Official—United States................................................................................. 1128-1132
Official—foreign countries............................................................................ 1132-1140
Unofficial........................................................................................................ 1140-1149
No. 5 —NOVEMBER, 1918.
Special articles:
Adjusting wages to the cost of living, by Prof. Irving Fisher................1151-1155
Food situation in Germany during the summer of 1918, compiled and
translated by Alfred May lander.............................................................. 1155-1178
Labor and the war :
Awards and findings of the National War Labor Board.......................... 1179-1185
Organization of production committees at bituminous coal mines........1186-1188
Standardized contract clauses for Government purchases...................... 1188-1190
Conference of State labor officials, Washington, D. C., September 30 and
October 1, 1918.......................................................................................... 1190-1196
Demands of German agricultural workers................................................. 1196,1197
Reconstruction in industry
Proposed legislation on reconstruction in the United States.................. 1198-1203
Injunctions against strikes during war emergency................................... 1203-1205
Postwar labor program of the International Association for Labor Legis­
lation........................................................................................................... 1205-1212
Relation of industrial and social conditions to adult education............. 1213-1220
Socio-political-program of the German employers.................................... 1220-1222
Reconstruction program of the Italian Superior Labor Council............. 1222-122 !
Meaning of reconstruction............................................................................ 1224,1225
Prices and cost of living:
Retail prices of food in the United States. .•............................................. 1226-1236
Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States........................ 1237,1238
Price changes, wholesale and retail, in the United States...................... 1239-1242
Comparison of food costs in 45 cities, September, 1917, to August, 1918, by
Elma B. Carr.............................................................................................. 1243-1253
Farm prices and retail prices compared.................................................... 1253,1254
General index numbers of food prices on a nutritive value base........... 1254-125(5
Food conditions in Brazil................................................................... .
1256,1257
Increase in food prices in France, 1914 to 1918........................................ 1257,1258
Cost of living in Scandinavian countries..................... ............................. 1258,1259
Food prices and cost of living in Switzerland during the war............... 1260-1263

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Food control:
page
New food conservation program in the United States............................. 1264-1266
Regulation of prices in public eating places in the District of Columbia. 1266,1267
Food control in Great Britain..................................................................... 1267-1270
Cost of food in national restaurants in London......................................... 1271,1272
Food and fuel control in France................................................................. 1272-1279
Cooperation :
,
National cooperative convention at Springfield, 111................................ 1280-1282
Wages and hours of labor:
Eight-hour basic day adopted by the steel corporation.................................. 1283
Union scales in the building, metal, and stone trades and in freight han­
dling............................................................................................................ 1283-1316
Wage situation in anthracite and bituminous coal districts..................... 1316-1320
Minimum wage:
Minimum wage decrees in California, Oregon, and Washington............ 1321-1329
Trade Boards Act of Great Britain, 1918................................................... 1329-1331
Women in industry:
Federal policy in the employment of women........................................... 1332-1340
Conference of trade-union women under auspices of United States Depart­
ment of Labor............................................................................................ 1340-1342
Bureau of women in industry established in New York State............... 1342,1343
Effect of industrial employment of women upon m aternity.................. 1343-1347
Industrial safety:
Report of seventh annual safety congress, National Safety Council___ 1348-1354
Workmen’s compensation:
Fifth annual convention of International Association of Industrial Accident
Boards and Commissions.......................................................................... 1355-1364
“ Arising out of and in course of employment,” by George A. Kingston. 1364-1376
Hernia as a factor in workmen’s compensation awards, by C. F. Stod­
dard............................................................................................................. 1377-1390
Lack of uniformity in compensation legislation, by Lindley D. C lark.. 1390-1403
Workmen’s compensation law of Wyoming held constitutional............. 1403,1404
Reports of workmen’s compensation commissions—
Mighigan......................................................................................................... 1404
West Virginia......................................................................................... 1405,1406
Labor organizations:
Movement for a Pan American federation of labor.................................. 1407-1409
Trades-union congress, Great B ritain......................................................... 1409-1415
Labor laws and regulations:
Regulations by United States Department of Labor for admission of Mex­
ican laborers............................................................................................... 1416-1421
Housing:
Public utility societies, England................................................................ 1422-1425
Billeting of civilian war workers in England............................................ 1425,1426
Employment and unemployment:
Employment in selected industries in September, 1918....................... 1427-1432
Placement of women in industry............................................................... 1432-1434
Rôle of the employment department in securing and training
employees.................................................................................................. 1434-1436
Extent of unemployment among discharged soldiers...................................... 1437
Strikes and lockouts:
Provision to prevent strikes and lockouts in Minnesota during the w ar.. 1438,1439
Recent strikes in Great Britain................................................................... 1439-1448
Immigration:
Immigration in August, 1918....................................................................... 1449,1450

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Conciliation and arbitration:
Page.
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor, September 16 to October 15,
1918..........................................................................................
1451-1468
Publications relating to labor:
Official—United States..................................................
1459-1466
Official—foreign countries............................................................................ 1466-1470
Unofficial..................................
1470-1481
NO. 6.—DECEMBER, 1918.
Special articles:
“ Engineering revision” as seen by safety committees, by Lucian W.
Chaney.................................................................................
1483-1499
Problem of the crippled man in industry, by Carl Hookstadt............... 1499-1512
Labor and the war:
Final report on joint industrial councils,Great Britain.............................. 1513-1516
Progress of joint industrial councils in Great Britain.............................. 1516-1518
Shop stewards in Great Britain................................................................... 1518-1522
Industrial league for the improvement of relations between employers and
employed, Great Britain........................................................................... 1522,1523
War work of school children in Germany................................. ....................... 1523
Reconstruction in industry:
Education act, 1918 (England and Wales)................................................. 1524-1528
List of references on reconstruction, prepared by Mrs. V. B. T urner.. 1529-1561
Provision for the disabled and vocational education:
Plan of Federal Board for Vocational Education for assisting disabled
soldiers and sailors..................................................................................... 1562-1567
Employment of cripples in a large industrial plant................................. 1567,1568
Retraining of crippled soldiers in Queen Mary’s workshops, Brighton,
E ngland..................................................................................................... 1569-1571
Prices and cost of living:
Retail prices of food in the United States................................................. 1572-1582
Retail prices of dry goods in the United States........................................ 1583-1586
Price changes, wholesale and retail, in the United States...................... 1586-1589
Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States, 1913 to October,
1918.............................................................................................................. 1590-1592
Changes in wholesale prices in the United States.................................... 1592-1595
Wholesale prices in the United States and foreign countries, 1890 to Sep­
tember, 1918............................................................................................... 1595,1596
Consumption of food in shipbuilding districts.......................................... 1597-1628
Index numbers of wholesale prices published by the Federal Reserve
Board........................................................................................................... 1628-1631
New cost of living regulations in Canada...................................
1631-1634
Food prices in Great Britain........................................................................ 1634-1638
Increase in the cost of living in Sweden from 1914 to the end of July,
1918............
1638,1639
Food and fuel control:
Food control in the United States................... ...............
1640-1644
Food control in the District of Columbia................................................... 1644-1640
Reasons for and effect of “ heatless days ” order issued by Fuel Administra­
tion in January, 1918.......
1646-1649
Food situation in Austria during the summer of 1918, compiled and
translated by Alfred Maylauder............................................................... 1650-1678
Milk and butter supply in Switzerland.......... ...........
1678


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Wages and hours of labor:
Page
New wage adjustment in the shipbuilding industry......................... . . . 1679-1694
Rates of pay of employees of firms manufacturing coal-tar chemicals.. 1695,1696
Union scales in the bakery, millwork, and printing trades, and of
chauffeurs, teamsters, and drivers.......................................................... 1696-1741
Rates of wages paid to workers placed by public employment offices in
the United States, October, 1918 ........................................................... 1742-1791
Minimum and overtime rates of wages fixed by agricultural wage boards
for England and Wales.............................................................................. 1792.1793
Women in industry:
Summary of English experience with women munition workers........... 1794-1797
Industrial accidents:
Safety movement in the iron and steel industry............................
1798,1799
Workmen’s compensation:
Comparative survey of workmen’s compensation laws............................ 1800-1802
Workmen’s compensation experience in Montana, 1917-18.................... 1802-1804
Statement of the Ohio State Insurance Fund as of May 15, 1918.......... 1805-1807
Standards of safety under the Washington Workmen’s Compensation
law.............................
1807.1808
Recent changes in British workmen’s compensation law in regard to
occupational diseases................................................................................ 1808-1810
Labor laws:
Compulsory work laws in the United States............................................. 1811,1812
Uruguay law requiring employers to provide chairs for female em­
ployees ............................................................................
1812
Housing and welfare work:
Housing schemes of the Ministry of Munitions, Great B ritain............... 1813-1817
Women’s requirements in working-class dwellingsin England................. 1817-1819
Employment and unemployment:
Employment in selected industries in October, 1918............................... 1820-1825
Index numbers of employment and of pay roll, January, 1915, to
October, 1918 ............................................................................................. 1825-1827
Post-bellum program of German trade-unions as toemployment........... 1827-1833
Proposed new system of German labor market and employment sta­
tistics .......................................................................................................... 1833-1836
Labor organizations:
Thirty-fourth annual conference of the trades and labor congress of
Canada........................................................................................................ 1837-1840
Strikes and lockouts:
Strikes and lockouts in the United States, July to September, 1918.. 1841-1845
Conciliation and arbitration:
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor, October 16 to November 15, 1918................................................................................................. 1846-1853
Arbitration in shipbuilding dispute in Australia............................ .
1853,1854
I mmigration :
Immigration in September, 1918................................................................ 1855, 1856
List of officials of bureau of labor, employment offices, industrial commis­
sions, compensation commissions, minimum-wrage boards, factoryinspection bureaus, and arbitration and conciliation boards in the
United States and Canada........................................................................... 1857-1874
Publications relating to labor:
Official—United States....................
1875-1879
Official—foreign countries..........................
1880-1886
Unofficial.................................................................................
1886-1894

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SERIES OF BULLETINS PUBLISHED BY THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.
[T h e p u b lic a tio n o f th e a n n u a l a n d sp ecia l re p o r ts a n d o f th e b im o n th ly b u lle tin was
d is c o n tin u e d in J u ly , 1912, a n d sin c e th a t tim e a b u lle tin h a s been p u b lis h e d a t irregular
in te rv a ls. E a ch n u m b e r c o n ta in s m a tte r d e v o te d to o n e o f a series o f g en era l s u b je c ts .
T h e se b u lle tin s are n u m b e r e d c o n s e c u tiv e ly b e g in n in g w ith N o. 101, a n d u p to N o. 236 th e y
also carry c o n se c u tiv e n u m b e r s u n d e r e a ch series. B e g in n in g w ith N o. 237 th e serial n u m ­
bering h a s b een d is c o n tin u e d . A lis t o f th e serie s is g iv e n below . U nder e a ch is g ro u p ed all
th e b u lle tin s w h ic h c o n ta in m a te r ia l re la tin g to th e s u b je c t m a tte r o f th a t series. A lis t
o f th e r e p o r ts a n d b u lle tin s o f th e b u rea u is s u e d p r io r to J u ly 1, 1912, w ill be fu r n is h e d on
a p p lic a tio n .]
W h o lesale P ric e s.

Bui. 114.
Bui. 149.
Bui. 173.
Bui. 181.
Bui. 200.
Bui. 226.

Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1912.
Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1913.
Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States and foreign countries.
Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1914.
Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1915.
Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1916.

R etail P ric e s a n d C o st o f L iving.

Bui. 105. Retail prices, 1890 to 1911: Part I.
Retail prioes, 1890 to 1911: Part II—General tables.
Bui. 106. Retail prices, 1890 to June, 1912: P art I.
Retail prices, 1890 to June, 1912: Part II—General tablet.
Bui. 108. Retail prices, 1890 to August, 1912.
Bui. 110. Retail prices, 1890 to October, 1912.
Bui. 113. Retail prices, 1890 to December, 1912.
Bui. 115. Retail prices, 1890 to February, 1913.
Bui. 121. Sugar prices, from refiner to consumer.
Bui. 125. Retail prices, 1890 to April, 1913.
Bui. 130. Wheat and flour prices, from farmer to consumer.
Bui. 132. Retail prices, 1890 to June, 1913.
Bui. 136. Retail prices, 1890 to August, 1913.
Bui. 138. Retail prices, 1890 to October, 1913.
Bui. 140. Retail prices, 1890 to December, 1913.
Bui. 156. Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1914.
Bui. 164. Butter prices, from producer to consumer.
Bui. 170. Foreign food prices as affected by the War.
Bui. 184. Retail prices, 1907 to June, 1915.
Bui. 197. Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1915.
Bui. 228. Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1916.
W a g es a n d H o u rs o f L abor.

Bui. 116. Hours, earnings, and duration of employment of wage-earning women in selected Industries
in the District of Columbia.
Bui. 118. Ten-hour maximum working day for women and young persons.
Bui. 119. Working hours of women in the pea canneries of Wisconsin.
Bui. 128. Wages and hours of labor in the cotton, woolen, and silk industries, 1890 to 1912.
Bui. 129. Wages and hours of labor in the lumber, miliwork, and furniture industries, 1890 to 1912.
Bui. 131. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, 1907 to 1912.
Bui. 134. Wages and hours of labor in the boot and shoe and hosiery and knit goods industries, 1890 to
1912.
Bui. 135. Wages and hours of labor in the cigar and clothing industries, 1911 and 1912.
Bui. 137. Wages and hours of labor in the building and repairing of steam railroad cars, 1890 to 1912.
Bui. 143. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 15,1913.
Bui. 146. Wages and regularity of employment in the dress and waist industry of New York City.
Bui. 147. Wages and regularity of employment in the cloak, suit, and skirt industry.
Bui. 150. Wages and hours of labor in the cotton, woolen, and silk industries, 1907 to 1913.
Bui. 151. Wages and hours of labor in the iron and steel industry in the United States, 1907 to 1912.
Bui. 153. Wages and hours of labor in the lumber, miliwork, and furniture industries, 1907 to 1913.
Bui. 154. Wages and hours of labor in the boot and shoe and hosiery and underwear industries, 1907 to
1913.
Bui. 160. Hours, earnings, and conditions of labor of women in Indiana mercantile establishmeui.
and garment factories.
Bui. 161. Wages and hours of labor in the clothing and cigar industries, 1911 to 1913.
Bui. 163. Wages and hours of labor in the building and repairing of steam railroad cars. 1907 to 191
Bui. 168. Wages and hours of labor in the iron and steel industry in the United States, 1907 to 1913
Bui. 171. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 1,1914.
Bui. 177. Wages and hours of labor in the hosiery and underwear industry, 1907 to 1914.
Bui. 178. Wages and hours of labor in the boot and shoe industry. 1907 to 1914.
Bui. 187. Wages and hours of labor in the m en’s clothing industry, 1911 to 1914.
Bui. 190. Wages and hours of labor in the cotton, woolen, and silk industries, 1907 to 1914.
Bui. 194. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 1,1915.
Bui. 204. Street railway employment in the United States.
Bui. 214. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 15,1916.
Bui. 218. Wages and hours of labor in the iron and steel industry, 1907 to 1915.
Bui. 225. Wages and hours of labor in the lumber, miliwork, and furniture industries, 1915.
Bui. 232. Wages and hours of labor in the boot and shoe industry, 1907 to 1916.
Bui. 238. Wages and hours of labor in woolen and worsted goods manufacturing, 1916.
Bui. 239. Wages and hours of labor in cotton goods manufacturing and finishing, 1916.
Bui. 245. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 15,1917. [In press.]
Bui. 252. Wages and hours of labor in slaughtering and meat-packing industry. [In pres#.]


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Bui. 109.
Bui. 172.
Bui. 182.
Bui. 183.
Bui. 192.
Bui. 195.
Bui. 196.
Bui. 202.
Bui. 206.
Bui. 220.
Bui. 223.
Bui. 227.
Bui. 235.
Bui. 241.
Bui. 247.

Statistics of unemployment and the work of employment offices In the United State*.
Unemployment in New York City, N. Y.
Unemployment among women in department and other retail stores of Boston, Mass.
Regularity of employment in the women’s ready-to-wear garment industries.
Proceedings of the American Association of Public Employment Offices.
Unemployment in the United States.
Proceedings of the Employment Managers’ Conference held at Minneapolis. January, 1910,
Proceedings of the conference of the Employment Managers’ Association of Boston, Mass.,
held May 10, 1916.
The British system of labor exchanges.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Public Employ­
ment Offices, Buffalo, N. Y., July 20 and 21,1916.
Employment of women and juveniles in Great Britain during the War.
Proceedings of the Employment Managers’Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., April 2 and 3,1917.
Employment system of the Lake Carriers’ Association.
Public employment offices in the United States.
Proceedings of Employment Managers’ Conference, Rochester, N. Y., May 9-11, 191,S.
[In press]

W o m en in 'In d u s try .

Bui. 116. Hours, earnings, and duration of employment of wage-earning women In selected industries
in the District of Columbia.
Bui. 117. Prohibition of night work of young persons.
Bui. 118. Ten-hour maximum working-day for women and young persons.
Bui. 119. Working hours of women in the pea canneries of Wisconsin.
Bui. 122. Employment of women in power laundries in Milwaukee.
Bui. 160. Hours, earnings, and conditions of labor of women in Indiana mercantile establishments
and garment factories.
Bui. 167. Minimum-wage legislation in the United States and foreign countries.
Bui. 175. Summary of the report on condition of woman and child wage earners in the United States.
Bui. 176. Effect of minimum-wage determinations in Oregon.
Bui. 180. The boot and shoe industry in Massachusetts as a vocation for women.
Bui. 182. Unemployment among women in department and other retail stores of Boston, Mass.
Bui. 193. Dressmaking as a trade for women in Massachusetts.
Bui. 215. Industrial experience of trade-school girls in Massachusetts.
Bui. 223. Employment of women and juveniles in Great Britain during the war.
Bui. 253. Women in the lead industry. [In press.]
W o rk m en ’s In s u ra n c e a n d C o m p e n sa tio n (in c lu d in g law s re la tin g th e re to ).

Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.

101.
102.
103.
107.
126.
155.
185.
203.
210.

Bui. 212.
Bui. 217.
Bui. 240.
Bui. 243.
Bui. 248.

Care of tuberculous wage earners in Germany.
British National Insurance Act, 1911.
Sickness and accident insurance law of Switzerland.
Law relating to insurance of salaried employees in Germany.
Workmen’s compensation laws of the United States and foreign countries.
Compensation for accidents to employees of the United States.
Compensation legislation of 1914 and 1915.
Workmen’s compensation laws of the United States and foreign countries.
Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the International Association of Industrial
Accident Boards and Commissions.
Proceedings of the conference on social insurance called by the International Association of
Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions.
Effect of workmen’s compensation laws in diminishing the necessity of industrial employ­
ment of women and children.
Comparison of workmen’s compensation laws of the United States.
Workmen’s compensation legislation in the United States and foreign countries.
Proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of the International Association of Industrial
Accident Boards and Commissions. [In press.]

In d u s tria l A ccid en ts a n d H y g ien e .

Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.

104.
120.
127.
141.
157.
165.
179.
188.

Bui. 201.
Bui. 205.
Bui. 207.
Bui. 209.
Bui. 216.
Bui. 219.
Bui. 221.
Bui. 230.
Bui. 231.
Bui. 234.
Bui. 236.
Bui. 251.

Lead poisoning in potteries, tile works, and porcelain enameled sanitary war* factories.
Hygiene of the painters’ trade.
Dangers to workers from dusts and fumes, and methods of protection.
Lead poisoning in the smelting and refining of lead.
Industrial accident statistics.
Lead poisoning in the manufacture of storage batteries.
Industrial poisons used in the rubber industry.
Report of British departmental committee on danger in the use of lead in the painting of
buildings.
Report of committee on statistics and compensation insurance cost of the International
Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. [Limited edition.)
Anthrax as an occupational disease.
Causes of death by occupation.
Hygiene of the printing trades.
Accidents and accident prevention in machine building.
Industrial poisons used or produced in the manufacture of explosive».
Hours, fatigue, and health in British munition factories.
Industrial efficiency and fatigue in British munition factories.
Mortality from respiratory diseases in dusty trades.
Safety movement in the iron and steel industry, 1907 to 1917.
Effect of the air hammer on the hands of stonecutters.
Preventable deaths in the cotton manufacturing industry. [In prera.]


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C o n ciliation a n d A rb itra tio n (including s trik e s a n d lo c k o u ts).

Bui. 124. Conciliation and arbitration in the building trades of Greater New Nork.
Bui. 133. Report of the industrial council of the British Board of Trade on its inquiry into industrial
agreements.
Bui. 139. Michigan copper district strike.
Bui. 144. Industrial court of the cloak, suit, and skirt industry of New York City.
Bui. 145. Conciliation, arbitration, and sanitation in the dress and waist industry of New York City.
Bui. 191. Collective bargaining in the anthracite coal industry.
Bui. 198. Collectice agreements in the men’s clothing industry.
Bui. 233. Operation of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of Canada.
L ab o r L aw s o f th e U n ited S ta te s (in c lu d in g d ec isio n s o f c o u rts re la tin g to la b o r).

Bui. 111.
Bui. 112.
Bui. 148.
Bui 152.
Bui. 166.
Bui. 169.
Bui. 186.
Bui. 189.
Bui. 211.
Bui. 213.
Bui. 224.
Bui. 229.
Bui. 244.
Bui. 246.

Labor legislation of 1912.
Decisions of courts and opinions affecting labor, 1912.
Labor laws of the United States, with decisions of courts relating thereto.
Decisions of courts and opinions affecting labor, 1913.
Labor legislation of 1914.
Decisions of courts affecting labor, 1914.
Labor legislation of 1915.
Decisions of courts affecting labor, 1915.
Labor laws and their administration in the Pacific States.
Labor legislation of 1916.
Decisions of courts affecting labor, 1916.
Wage-payment legislation in the United States.
Labor legislation of 1917.
Decisions of courts affecting labor, 1917. [In press.]

F o reig n L a b o r L aw s.

Bui. 142. Administration of labor laws and factory inspection in certain European countries.
V o cational E d u c atio n .

Bui. 145.
Bui. 147.
Bui. 159.
Bui. 162.
Bui. 199.

Conciliation, arbitration, and sanitation in the dress and waist industry of New York City.
Wages and regularity of employment in the cloak, suit, and skirt industry.
Short-unit courses for wage earners, and a factory school experiment.
Vocational education survey of Richmond, Va.
Vocational education survey of Minneapolis.

L ab o r a s A ffected by th e W a r.

• Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.
Bui.

170.
219.
221.
222.
223.
230.
237.
249.

Foreign food prices as affected by the war.
Industrial poisons used or produced in the manufacture of explosives.
Hours, fatigue, and health m British munition factories.
Welfare work in British munition factories.
Employment of women and juveniles in Great Britain during the war.
Industrial efficiency and fatigue in British munition factories.
Industrial unrest in Great Britain.
Industrial health and efficiency. Final report of British Health of Munition Workers Com­
mittee. (In press.]

M is c e lla n e o u s S e rie s.

Bui. 117.
Bui. 118.
Bui. 123.
Bui. 158.
Bui. 159.
Bui. 167.
Bui. 170.
Bui. 174.
Bui. 208.
Bui. 222.
Bui. 242.
Bui. 250.

Prohibition of night work of young persons.
Ten-hour maximum working dav for women and young persons.
Employers’ welfare work.
Government aid to home owning and housing of working people in foreign countries.
Short-unit courses for wage earners, and a factory school experiment..
Minimum-wage legislation in the United States and foreign countries.
Foreign food prices as affected by the war.
Subject index of the publications of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics up to
May 1,1915.
Profit sharing in the United States.
Welfare work in British munition factories.
Food situation in Central Europe, 1917.
Welfare work for employees in industrial establishments in the United States. [In press


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