H. M. DOUTY, Chief, Division of Wages and Industrial Relations

W. DUANE EVANS, Chief, Division of Interindustry Economics

EDWARD D. HOLLANDER, Chief, Division of Prices and Cost of Living
RICHARD F. JONES, Chief, Division of Administrative Services

WALTER G. KEIM, Chief, Division of Field Service

PAUL R. KERSCHBAUM, Chief, Office of Program Planning

LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Chief, Office of Publications

D'ALTON B. MYERS, Chief, Division of Productivity and Technological Developments

DAVID J. SAPOSS, Special Assistant to the Commissioner

WALTER W. SCHNEIDER, Acting Chief, Division of Construction Statistics

OSCAR WEIGERT, Chief, Division of Foreign Labor Conditions

FAITH M. WILLIAMS, Chief, Office of Labor Economics

SEYMOUR L. WOLFBEIN, Chief, Division of Manpower and Employment Statistics

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Editor

CONTENTS

Special Articles

373 Financing of Union Activities

381 The Employer's Duty To Supply Data for Collective Bargaining

388 Construction Labor on Public Housing in the South

395 Wage Developments in Japan During the Occupation

Summaries of Studies and Reports

400 United Nations Report on World Social Situation

401 Future Production and Employment in the United States

403 Woolen and Worsted Textiles Earnings in April-May 1952

408 Wage Chronology No. 8: Full-Fashioned Hosiery, Supplement No. 2

410 Wage Chronology No. 17: North Atlantic Longshoring, Supplement

No. 1

413 Earnings in Selected Industries in Late 1951 and Early 1952:

Candy and Other Confectionery Products

413

425 Survey of Consumer Expenditures in 1950: Interpretation and Use of

the Results

Departments

III The Labor Month in Review

429

Recent Decisions of Interest to Labor

432 Chronology of Recent Labor Events

433 Developments in Industrial Relations

437 Publications of Labor Interest

442 Current Labor Statistics (list of tables)

October 1952. Vol. 75. No. 4

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Community Wage Studies

for 40 Major Labor Market Areas

These bulletins, for sale at the indicated prices, provide, for each area,
cross-industry averages and distributions by earnings classes for office, pro-
fessional, technical, maintenance, power plant, custodial, warehouse, and
shipping jobs.

• Separate data (where possible) for manufacturing, utilities, trade, finance,
and service.

• Summaries of prevailing work schedules, shift differentials, vacations,
sick leave, benefit plans, and other practices.

• Special information on important local occupations and union wage
scales.

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