OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO LABOR. UNITED STATES. CALIFORNIA.-Industrial Accident Commission. Boiler safety orders, effective January 1, 1917. [Sacramento], 1916. 147 pp. These are the commission's orders, prepared under authority of the workmen's compensation insurance and safety act. The orders are the result of consultation with general safety orders committees organized in San Francisco and Los Angeles and representing employers and employees who would be affected by the application of the orders. Bulletin No. 2, relating to safety and efficiency in mines, May, 1916. [Sacramento], 1916. 15 [1] pp. One of a series of bulletins which will discuss the causes and prevention of accidents in connection with some particular phase of mining. ILLINOIS.-Industrial Board. Third annual report for the year ending June 30, 1916. Springfield, 1916. 69 pp. Reports the operation of the workmen's compensation law, giving statistical data concerning 16,869 accidents (closed cases) filed by 5,670 employers during the calendar year ending December 31, 1915. There were 125 fatal-accident cases disposed of by the board. Compensation amounting to $1,075,287 and medical expenses amounting to $217,448 were paid in the 16,869 cases. A more complete digest of this report will appear in a future issue of the REVIEW. MASSACHUSETTS.-State Board of Labor and Industries. Suggestions to employers and employees for the protection of eyes and the prevention of accidents. Boston, 1916. 10 pp. (Industrial Bulletin No. 5.) Rules and regulations suggested for the prevention of anthrax. Boston, 1916. 10 pp. (Industrial Bulletin No. 6.) 12 pp. Rules and regulations governing compressed-air work. Boston, 1916. (Industrial Bulletin No. 7.) 18 pp. Third annual report, January, 1916. Boston, 1916. 140 pp. MICHIGAN. MARQUETTE COUNTY.-Inspector of Mines. The annual report of inspector of mines for the year ending September 30, 1916. Contains a descriptive account of 12 fatal accidents occurring in the mines of Marquette County, and also notes the occurrence of 226 serious accidents and 539 slight injuries. These accidents are classified by causes. The following summary table is submitted: Total number of men employed in and about the min Total number of fatal accidents per thousand men on 1.27 Total number of fatal accidents per thousand men en- 2.58 NEW YORK.-State Department of Labor. The labor law and the industrial code with amendments, additions, and annotations to July 1, 1916. Prepared by the Burcau of Statistics and Information. Albany, 1916. 258 pp. This volume, printed in advance from the annual report of the Department of Labor for 1916, gives the text of the general labor law (ch. 31, Consolidated Laws) and of the Industrial Code (comprising rules and regulations supplementary to the labor law) and the penal provisions relating thereto. A full index appears at the end of the volume. In notes are given cross references to laws and to court decisions or opinions of the Attorney General construing the laws. State Industrial Commission. Monthly bulletin. Albany, October, 1916. Current reports on the work of the Commission, rulings under the State industrial code, operations of the State fund, legal decisions under the compensation act, work of the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, and review of the labor market. Outlines the work of the first State safety congress, which will be held under the auspices of the commission at Syracuse on December 11, 12, 13, and 14. University of the State of New York. Division of agricultural and industrial education. Vocational training of girls in the State of New York, by Anna C. Hedges, State specialist in vocational education of girls. Albany, 1915. 41 pp. Plates. (Bulletin No. 612, Apr. 1, 1916.) RHODE ISLAND.-Twenty-ninth annual report of the commissioner of industrial statistics. Providence, 1916. 108 pp. Reports the activities of the commissioner of industrial statistics largely in connection with duties involving the State workmen's compensation act; the compilation of a card index on the rates of wages in the industries of the State; in recording strikes; in assisting the unemployed to obtain work and in furnishing general statistical information pertaining to the State. The tables on rates of wages show a material increase in rates and a reduction in hours of labor in many occupations particularly where women are employed. The tables on workmen's compensation show that 2,330 establishments are under the act, a gain of 113 over the preceding year. The average number of wage earners under the act in 1915 was 154,538, a grain of 2,133 over the number employed in 1914. There were 11,611 accidents in establishments under the act, and 31 deaths; a total of $216,372.20 was paid out on account of accidents and deaths. A digest of this report will appear in a future issue of the REVIEW. TENNESSEE.-Department of workshop and factory inspection. Third annual report for the fiscal year beginning December 1, 1914, and ending December 1, 1915. Nashville [1916]. v., 75 pp. This report declares that there has been a general awakening of public interest in working conditions in industry, as manifested through civic organizations, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, manufacturers' associations, and women's clubs. "And this awakened public conscience has been in a large measure brought about by the activity and interest exercised by organized labor in this State." In the course of the year the inspector discovered 99 child workers illegally employed; in 65 instances minors between 14 and 16 were employed without affidavits or certificates, and in 34 cases were under age (14 years). The following table is compiled from the recapitulatory statement of the report: WORK OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF WORKSHOP AND FACTORY INSPECTION FOR THE THREE FISCAL YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 1, 1915. UNITED STATES.—Bureau of Mines. The nitration of toluene, by E. J. Hoffman. Children's Bureau. A tabular statement of infant welfare work by public No. 16.) The report represents an effort to outline the extent of the work carried on in the United States for the reduction of infant mortality. It presents for each State and for each city of 10,000 population and over, according to the census of 1910, a statement of the civic measures for the reduction of the infant death rate, and indicates the infant-welfare work by private agencies in these cities and characteristic work in some smaller communities. Full descriptions of the methods used by both public and private agencies will be furnished in another report now in preparation. In collecting the information, schedules or inquiries were sent out early in 1915. These were addressed to the State health officers in all States, to the secretaries of all State colleges and universities, to health officers in cities of 10,000 population and over, and to private agencies. In this initial report a complete and original census of all phases of infant-welfare work by private agencies was not regarded as practicable. The choice of agencies addressed is the result of the investigations of individuals and agencies in close touch with infant-welfare activities in all sections of the country. Department of Agriculture. The normal day's work of farm implements, workmen, and crews in western New York. Washington, 1916. 16 pp. (Bulletin No. 412.) This bulletin is an attempt to analyze, on the basis of the experience of several hundred practical farmers in western New York, what should constitute a standard production or unit in the way of labor performed in the different operations of farming. The results are the average of records reported to the investigator by experienced farmers as to what constitutes a day's work under their conditions of farming. It is not a study of the question of hours of labor. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Mortality statistics, 1914: Fifteenth annual report. Washington, 1916. 714 pp. This report is based on the transcripts from the records of the registration area, which in 1914 had an estimated population of 65,989,295, or 66.8 per cent of the total estimated population of the United States. "The number of deaths registered was 898,059, corresponding to a death rate of 13.6 per thousand of population, the lowest ever recorded for the registration area.” The passage, during 1915, of “excellent laws for the registration of births and deaths is noted in the case of Florida and Illinois. |