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TABLE 4.-IMMIGRANT ALIENS ADMITTED AND EMIGRANT ALIENS DEPARTED, JULY TO SEPTEMBER, 1922, BY OCCUPATIONS.

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TABLE 4.-IMMIGRANT ALIENS ADMITTED AND EMIGRANT ALIENS DEPARTED, JULY TO SEPTEMBER, 1922, BY OCCUPATIONS-Concluded.

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TABLE 5.-FUTURE PERMANENT RESIDENCE OF IMMIGRANT ALIENS ADMITTED AND LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE OF EMIGRANT ALIENS DEPARTED, JULY TO SEPTEMBER, 1922, BY STATES AND TERRITORIES.

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TABLE 5.-FUTURE PERMANENT RESIDENCE OF IMMIGRANT ALIENS ADMITTED AND LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE OF EMIGRANT ALIENS DEPARTED, JULY TO SEPTEMBER, 1922, BY STATES AND TERRITORIES-Concluded.

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TABLE 6.-IMMIGRATION OF ALIENS INTO THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE PER CENTUM LIMIT ACT OF MAY 19, 1921, AS EXTENDED BY PUBLIC RESOLUTION NO. 55, SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, APPROVED MAY 11, 1922, JULY 1 TO NOVEMBER 8, 1922.

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1 After all charges against the annual quota in each case have been deducted.

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WHAT STATE LABOR BUREAUS ARE DOING.

Massachusetts.

THE Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries has recently given public hearings in Boston and Worcester on the adoption of the regulations for safeguarding punch presses.

At the request of the New England Manufacturers Confectioners Association that the manufacture of candy be declared a seasonal industry, the department of labor and industries gave a public hearing on the question. Following the hearing the department voted to deny the petition. In only two occupations has the seasonal exemption been granted. These are the straw-hat industry and the tobacco sorting and packing industry.

Minnesota.1

Some Activities of the State Industrial Commission.

THE inspectors of the Minnesota Industrial Commission's accident prevention division have been making extra efforts to finish at the earliest possible date their work outside of St. Paul and Minneapolis so that the entire force will be available for the special inspection of mercantile establishments, office buildings, etc., which is shortly to be undertaken in the twin cities.

The accident-prevention division made 2,355 inspections in October, 1922, divided as follows: Factories, 439; buildings, 493; railways, 76; special, 126. Nearly 1,000 orders were issued the same month, which is an indication of the number of imperfections found in tools, machinery, or general working conditions at the inspected places.

In the report on the work of the division of women and children for October, 1922, the following were among the activities listed: Inspections of manufacturing and mechanical establishments.. Inspections of mercantile establishments..

Inspections of restaurants..

Reinspections.

Child-labor investigations....

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CCORDING to the eighteenth biennial report of the Nebraska Department of Labor the factory-inspection work of the department is greatly facilitated by the fact that the employers now realize

1 Typewritten report forwarded in letter of Nov. 6, 1922, from the Industrial Commission of Minnesota.

that it is to their own advantage to protect their workers. Industrial establishments can reduce their compensation-insurance premiums by carefully safeguarding all machinery in accordance with the law. Insurance companies are cooperating with the State department of labor in the matter of factory inspection and are obliged under the law after they have inspected the premises covered by insurance policies to furnish to the department complete reports on the physical defects of such premises, together with the recommendations of the insurance representatives making the reports.

While there were 15 complaints filed with the department under the female labor law, no arrests were made, the violators agreeing to comply promptly with legal requirements.

The age and school certificates filed from January 1, 1921, to July 1, 1922, numbered 756. With the exception of a few instances in which complaints were made, there has been general compliance with the law. It was not necessary to make arrests, as the employers seemed disposed to avoid future violations.

The department has been experiencing great difficulty in getting manufacturers to reply to its inquiries. As a result of sending out 1,400 questionnaires on industrial statistics in 1921 only 363 establishments made returns. The firms which reported represented a capitalization of $41,447,116.92. The cost of material in such establishments for 1921 was $64,150,548.12; the value of products $88,249,446.73; and the wages paid, $14,701,876.17.

Although the material wealth of Nebraska is based on agriculture, the State is making great industrial progress.

The appropriation for the department of labor for 1919-1921 was $35,420; for 1921-1923, $50,358.

Wyoming.1

MUCH of the work of the Wyoming Department of Labor in

connection with the enforcement of the labor laws has been educational. Fewer violations are found as the people learn more about State labor legislation. The sentiment for legal protection for women and minors is increasing every day.

More has been accomplished along the line of mediation and conciliation in the last two years than ever before, and never in the previous history of the department has so much been done to assist workers in the collection of wages as in the last year.

Many hundreds of workers have obtained profitable jobs through the labor department's free employment office in cooperation with other agencies, both public and private.

1 Letter from the commissioner of labor and statistics of Wyoming, under date of Nov. 9, 1922.

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