on women's clothing; confectionery; overall; brick; chemical; glass; leather; paper; pottery; rubber; automobile; car; electrical apparatus; foundry; machinery; machine-tool; and typewriter. An article Practice regarding the payment of punitive overtime rates" covers overtime rates established by legislation and the rulings of the National War Labor Board, and such rates in organized trades and certain basic industries. The vital subject of industrial relations is considered in "Relations between employer and employee," which discusses the planning, creation, and administration of a labor policy; "Employees' representation in management of industry," a general discussion of the subject; "Development of shop committee systems," treating of the movement in the United States and Great Britain; and "National Guilds movement in Great Britain," describing a movement the professed objects of which are "the abolition of the wage system and the establishment by the workers of selfgovernment in industry through a democratic system of national guilds working in conjunction with a democratic State." Articles describing the situation in the following important strikes were published: The bituminous coal strike; the steel strike; the strikes of the harbor employees and the longshoremen at the port of New York; "vacations" in the printing industry in New York City; the British railway strike; the Australian shipping strike; and the strike of Italian Government employees. In a number of articles on housing the following are worthy of notice: "Housing development as a postwar problem in Canada,” a description of the Canadian national housing project; and "Company housing in the bituminous coal fields" and "Company housing in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania," summarizing the results of a survey of company housing in these coal regions made by the bureau. "The cooperative movement in the United States" presents a short history and shows the extent and character of the cooperative movement in the United States. Other instructive articles on cooperation are "Aims and possibilities of the consumers' cooperative movement," "Progress of cooperation in various countries," and "Russian cooperative movement," the latter tracing briefly the history of the movement and showing its extent and character and its value in the uncertain political situation existing in Russia. On the subject of workmen's compensation a number of important articles appeared, among them "Comparison of Canadian compensation laws" and "Scope and operation of the workmen's compensation laws of the United States," the latter a summary reply of the Department of Labor to a questionnaire of the British Government on the subject of compensation to workmen for injuries. Other articles of interest along various lines are "British labor exchanges and United States employment offices," a comparison of the two systems; "The foreman's bonus for accident reduction," giving results of experience in the application of such a bonus; Trade-union attitude toward nationalization of coal mines," a résumé of the action taken by British and American coal miners; "Hygienic control of the anilin dye industry in Europe," the report of a personal investigation by an agent of the bureau made for the purpose of ascertaining the measures taken in those countries for the protection of workers against the danger of industrial poisoning, for the purpose of safeguarding the workers in this new industry in our country; "Mobility of labor in American industry," a summary statement of the results of an investigation made by the bureau on this subject; "Opportunities for the study of industrial medicine in the United States," containing a statement of the educational institutions including industrial medicine or hygiene in their curricula, and of their courses, and also of the clinics specializing in the treatment of industrial diseases or accidents; "The Government's wage policy during the last quarter century," a comparison of salaries and purchasing power thereof each year and of wages in other industries; a translation of "The road to the eighthour day," by Dr. Stephan Bauer, and a series of articles giving a description of the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations and summaries of its decisions. In "Laws and agreements governing working conditions among American seamen is presented a summary statement of the general working conditions of American seamen made by the Department of Labor in answer to a questionnaire submitted to the United States Government by the International Labor Office, while "The International Labor Conference," "National Industrial Conference, Washington, D. C.," and "Report of President's Industrial Conference," present short reports of these very important conferences. Summary statements of the trade agreements in the following industries and occupations have been published: In the cloak, suit, and skirt industry of New York City; in the men's clothing industry in Chicago; in the building trades in New York City and in Norfolk, Va.; and in marine occupations on Atlantic and Gulf coast vessels operated by the United States Shipping Board and the American Steamship Association; also tentative draft agreements to govern relations in the longshore industry and harbor marine industry. The award of the Bituminous Coal Commission, the ruling of the Postmaster General granting the right of collective bargaining to employees of telephone companies, and the acts of Congress increasing salaries of post-office employees and of policemen in the District of Columbia are also summarized. During the year summaries of the following conventions and conferences appeared in the Monthly Labor Review: Joint Shipping Industrial Conference, Washington, June 4-6, 1919. Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Housing and Town Planning Association. Seventh Biennial Convention of the National Women's Trade-Union League of America. Fourth Annual Convention of the American Association of Industrial Physiclans and Surgeons. Thirty-ninth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor. Convention of Association of Governmental Labor Officials, Madison, Wis., June 2-4, 1919. Tenth German Trade-Union Congress. National Industrial Conference, Washington, D. C., October 6-24, 1919. First Canadian Industrial Conference, Ottawa, September 15-20, 1919. Sixth annual meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident International Labor Conference, Washington, D. C., October 29-November 29, Seventh annual meeting of the American Association of Public Employment Offices. First International Congress of Working Women, Washington, D. C., October 28-November 6, 1919. Forty-seventh annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Twenty-third Annual Convention of the International Seamen's Union of President's Industrial Conference, Washington, D. C., December 1, 1919-March 6, 1920. All-American Farmer-Labor Cooperative Congress, Chicago, February 12-14, 1920. Ninth Scandinavian Labor Congress. Fourth Conference of the International Union of Woodworkers. Conference of Employers and Employees called by Government of the Union of South Africa, Pretoria, November 3-7 and December 8-11, 1919. 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 regularly during the year, and statistics of 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. REPORTS TRANSMITTED BUT NOT PUBLISHED. In addition to the 25 publications issued (13 bulletins and 12 numbers of the Monthly Labor Review) 12 other bulletins were sent to the Government Printing Office before July 1, on 8 of which most of the proof reading had been done. The subjects covered by the 12 bulletins and their serial numbers are as follows: 263. Housing by employers in the United States. 266. A study of family expenditures in the District of Columbia. 267. Anthrax as an occupational disease. (Revised.) 268. Historical survey of international action affecting labor. 269. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1919. 270. Retail prices, 1890 to 1919. 271. Adult working-class education in Great Britain and the United States. 272. Workmen's compensation legislation of the United States and Canada, 1919. 273. Proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. 274. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, May 15, 1919. 275. Comparison of workmen's compensation laws of the United States and Canada. 276. Standardization of industrial accident statistics. STUDIES IN PROCESS. Two indexes are in course of preparation, one a cumulative index of the Monthly Labor Review, for which there has been a great demand, and the other covering all material relating to labor included in public documents of the United States Government, excepting publications of the United States Department of Labor. The final data on the Nation-wide cost-of-living study are being prepared, and retail price data are being assembled to show the cost of living from December, 1919, to June, 1920. Wage studies on cotton manufacturing, the coal industry, and boot and shoe manufacturing are in progress, and data on union scales of wages are being collected. The detailed data secured in the industrial survey are being prepared with a view to publication in a series of bulletins. A revision of Bulletin No. 173," Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States and foreign countries," for which there has been a great demand, has been made and is now in the hands of the editors. A study of compensation insurance systems, covering 20 States and 2 Provinces, including all States having State funds except Wyoming, made from a personal examination of the records of the various State industrial commissions and including a study of their claims procedure, is being carried on for the purpose of ascertaining the relative merits of State funds as compared with mutual, stock, and self insurance, especially as to cost, security, and service, to employer, employee, and the State. A report on labor mobility in American industry, covering 260 establishments, employing over 500,000 workers, in 17 of the most inportant industrial States, and presenting data obtained in two extensive field investigations-a prewar inquiry made in 1915 and 1916 and reporting in a general way the extent of turnover, and the efforts to reduce it, during the five-year period 1910-1915, and, in more detail, 1913 and 1914, and a war-time investigation made in 1918 and resulting in an intensive report of the mobility situation for the 12-month period ended May 31, 1918, some of the data being brought down to the end of 1919 by material secured by correspondence is nearing completion. A compilation of the awards and official documents of the various war industrial adjustment boards, showing the American industrial experience during the war, which is to include the labor experience of the Fuel Administration, with a running account of its work, is being made, with a view to publication. Mutual benefit societies in the Government departments in Washington, D. C., are being studied by the bureau, and the results of the study will appear in the Monthly Labor Review. Hon. W. B. WILSON, Secretary of Labor. ETHELBERT STEWART, Commissioner of Labor Statistics. |