one purchaser to another to enable buyers who were forced to move from one locality to another to dispose of their holdings. For the collection of monthly payments, inspection and care of the properties, attention to delinquents, handling of transfers, etc., a small number of field agents have been assigned to the various districts. The limited appropriation available to the corporation for the fiscal year 1921, however, has placed it under the necessity of utilizing local banks, without compensation, for this purpose at several points. Character of sales.-Local conditions in a few communities made it advisable to dispose of certain of the corporation's holdings to real estate companies. In one place, for instance, the thinning out of the temporary population of war workers converted a housing. shortage into a housing surplus in a few months, and it appeared the part of wisdom to dispose of portions of the project en bloc rather than to launch an expensive and protracted sales campaign on a sluggish market. In Bridgeport, Conn., the scene of the largest single operation of the corporation, 889 families had been provided for in 247 buildings. Of these, 151 houses were sold to individuals, and the remainder of the project, consisting of apartments and houses, was sold to a local housing company. The Rock Island project, comprising developments at Rock Island, Moline, East Moline, and Davenport, aggregated 649 houses, which were sold to tenants or other individuals. The New London (Conn.) project, comprising 118 houses, was disposed of without undue delay. At Bremerton, Wash., 245 houses and one apartment were sold within a short period of time. Difficulty, however, was encountered at Vallejo, Calif., one of the navy-yard projects, due to a rumor which had gained currency to the effect that the Mare Island Navy Yard was to be abandoned. Nearly 50 per cent of the 237 houses at this point had been disposed of when this difficulty arose. It has, of course, materially retarded the progress of the sale of the others. In Washington, D. C., employees of the navy yard, for whom a project had just been initiated when the war came to a close, attempted to organize a syndicate on the cooperative basis for the purpose of buying the building lots owned by the corporation. The plan failed because of inability to make the requisite financial arrangements, and an effort is now being made to dispose of this unimproved land to individuals. Summary. The United States Housing Corporation built approximately 6,000 house and 64 dormitories. Through the utilization of existent accommodations and improved transportation facilities it provided housing for 100,000 more persons. By way of appropriations from Congress the corporation received $100,000,000. Of this amount it expects to return to the Treasury of the United States, after deducting all losses on account of excess war costs, of the abandonment of contracts, of the return of building materials, and expenses of general administration, $66,911,065.71, as follows: Real estate sales realization, as of Oct. 18, 1920---. $16, 570, 495. 43 4,321, 630. 28 6, 934, 898. 82 1,656, 771. 76 127, 475.99 4,799, 793. 43 Cash returned to United States Treasury (act of July 11, 1919) 32, 500,000.00 66, 911, 065. 71 In addition to this $66,911,065.71, which may be termed recoveries to be applied to its capital account, will be added rentals from its various properties and interest on its different loans, the computation of which can not properly be attempted at this time. In conclusion, the corporation asks reiteration of the recommendation which was embodied in its report of last year-that some permanent provision be made by the Federal Government for the utilization of the materials and information which were acquired by it in the conduct of its work. Its records constitute what is probably the most comprehensive and valuable repository on the subject of housing that anywhere exists. REPORTS OF THE BUREAUS. Each bureau attached to the Department makes its own report. Though separately published, the bureau reports will in due course be bound with this report, as has heretobefore been done, so but an abstract of the report of each bureau is hereinbelow presented. The titles of the bureaus in the chronological order of their creation are: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Immigration, Children's Bureau, Bureau of Naturalization, and Women's Bureau. The abstracts of their reports follow in the same order. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, created nearly 30 years before the Department of Labor, was formally organized January 1, 1885, as the Bureau of Labor in the Department of the Interior and made an independent department in 1888 as a "Department of Labor," but without Cabinet representation. In 1903 it was renamed the "Bureau of Labor" and placed in the Department of Commerce and Labor. Upon the creation of the present Department of Labor, this bureau was transferred to it with its present title of Bureau of Labor Statistics. The fact-gathering bureau of the Department, its function is to gather, collate, and report statistics of labor, and generally to disseminate labor information. The Monthly Labor Review.-The Monthly Labor Review, established in the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Department under the name "Monthly Review," has completed its fifth year of publication, and is more fully each year fulfilling its purpose of an authoritative medium of news relating to labor. The broad range of subjects treated and the exact and current statistics published therein have made it much sought after by those desiring reliable news along labor lines. Many important short articles on labor subjects are published in the Review, and the results of investigations by the bureau appear in short reports on various phases of the subject under investigation as soon as the data are compiled. Up-to-date information on all phases of the subject of labor is printed, and the latest developments in the domestic and foreign labor situation receive attention. Reports of the various State labor bureaus and other agencies dealing with labor, and digests and reviews of important new legislation, so See annual reports of the Department of Labor for 1913, 1914. 1915, 1916, 1917, -1918, and 1919. 15283-LAB 1920- -11 161 court decisions, and administrative orders affecting labor are published promptly. Statistics of immigration and a summary of the conciliation work of the Department have been published during the year. Important trade agreements and the proceedings of prominent labor conferences and conventions, both here and abroad, are summarized. Monthly retail and wholesale prices of food, quarterly prices of dry goods, semiannual prices of coal, and annual prices of gas were published in the Monthly Labor Review during the year, and statistics of the volume of employment in selected industries appeared monthly. Minimum wage orders of the several State boards and commissions have been printed in full or in summary form soon after their issue. A directory of labor officials in the United States and Canada appeared in the December issue, and current notes of interest to labor and reviews of new books on labor subjects have also been printed. The existing shortage of paper and the high cost of printing and labor having made it necessary to exercise economy in printing and distributing Government literature, the number of pages of the Review has been cut down, and commencing with the June, 1920, issue the type has been set solid, so that the same amount of information may be presented in fewer pages. In the same spirit of economy the Department decided, beginning with the July, 1920, issue, to put the Monthly Labor Review on a subscription basis to all except labor departments and bureaus, workmen's compensation commissions, and other offices connected with the administration of labor laws, and organizations exchanging publications with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Publications other than the Monthly Labor Review.-At the end of the fiscal year 1920 there had been issued in completed form, besides the 12 numbers of the Monthly Labor Review, 13 bulletins. The 25 publications issued contained 7,537 pages of printed matter, 44 illustrations, 59 charts, 4 outline maps, and 1 text chart. Listed according to serial numbers, the bulletins issued during the fiscal year are as follows: 251, Preventable death in the cotton-manufacturing industry; 252, Wages and hours of labor in the slaughtering and meat-packing industry; 254, International labor legislation and the society of nations; 255, Joint industrial councils in Great Britain; 256, Accidents and accident prevention in machine building; 257, Labor legislation of 1918; 258, Decisions of courts and opinions affecting labor, 1918; 259, Union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 15, 1918; 260, Wages and hours of labor in the boot and shoe industry, 1907 to 1918; 261, Wages and hours of labor in woolen and worsted goods manufacturing, 1918; 262, Wages and hours of labor in cottongoods manufacturing and finishing, 1918; 264, Proceedings of the. fifth annual meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions; 265, Industrial survey in selected industries in the United States, 1919. In addition the bureau compiled and issued quantity and cost budgets (prices secured in August and September, 1919) necessary to maintain a family of five, and a single woman and a single man in the clerical service of the Government, in Washington, D. C., at a level of health and decency, and also a quantity budget necessary to maintain a worker's family of five in health and decency. Much has been accomplished by the bureau in its efforts toward standardizing and harmonizing State legislation and administration. Through one of its agents it has aided some of the State compensation commissions in establishing statistical departments and others in reorganizing their statistical methods. A systematic correspondence with State labor bureaus has been maintained, and much research work done to furnish information along labor lines requested by Members of Congress and other persons interested. Reports transmitted but not published.-In addition to the 25 publications issued (13 bulletins and 12 issues of the Monthly Labor Review) there were 12 bulletins in the course of preparation. The subjects of these 12 bulletins are as follows: Housing by employers in the United States; a study of family expenditures in the District of Columbia; anthrax as an occupational disease (a revision); historical survey of international action affecting labor; wholesale prices, 1890 to 1919; retail prices, 1913 to 1919; adult working-class education in Great Britain and the United States; workmen's compensation legislation of the United States and Canada, 1919; proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions; union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 15, 1919; comparison of workmen's compensation laws of the United States and Canada; standardization of industrial accident statistics. Bureau of Immigration. Origin and functions.-This is the second oldest of the permanent bureaus of the Department, having been organized in 1819 in the Treasury Department under the title of " Office of the Superintendent of Immigration." From 1903 to 1913 its functions were administered under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and in the lastnamed year, in accordance with the provisions of the organic act creating this Department, it became a part thereof. Under the direction of the Secretary of Labor this bureau is charged with the administration of the various acts regulating immigration and the admission of Chinese to the United States, and with |