Nos. 7 and 8.-International labor legislation-Amendment of May 30, 1914, of the agreement of August 27, 1907, between the German Empire and the Netherlands as to accident insurance. National labor legislation-France: Law, July 10, 1915, amending Titles III and V of Book I of the Labor Code [minimum wages for female home workers in the clothing industry]; Circular letter of July 24, 1915, of the minister of labor containing instructions as to the enforcement of the law of July 10, 1915. Germany: Publication of the ratification of the amendment to the agreement between the German Empire and the Netherlands as to accident insurance. Spain: Royal decree of August 24, 1913, determining the maximum hours of labor of workers of both sexes in the textile industry and regulating piece rates in the industry. Switzerland: Federal law, June 18, 1915, amending the federal law of June 13, 1911, relating to sickness and accident insurance. Neuchâtel (Canton): Law, November 24, 1910, relating to Sunday rest; Decree of November 21, 1912, amending the law on Sunday rest; Decree of February 15, 1913, relating to the supervision of mercantile apprentices and their final examination. Vaud (Canton): Law, August 24, 1911, relating to industrial courts; Law, November 22, 1911, relating to the apprenticeship system; Order of December 29, 1911, regulating the enforcement of the apprenticeship law. Lucerne (Canton): Law, November 26, 1913, relating to public holidays. United States: Act, February 24, 1914, regulating the hours of employment and safeguarding the health of females employed in the District of Columbia; Act, October 15, 1914, supplementing existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies and for other purposes (Clayton Act). Appendix: War measures relative to the protection of labor (German Empire, Prussia, Austria, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Switzerland). MISCELLANEOUS. Austria.-Amtliche Nachrichten des k. k. Ministeriums des Innern betreffend die Unfallversicherung und die Krankenverischerung der Arbeiter. September, 1915.-General part: Joint order of the ministers of justice, interior, and public works, August 11, 1915, as to the form of decisions, agreements, judgments, etc., of arbitration courts of the accident and invalidity insurance; Decisions of the administrative court as to old-age insurance of salaried employees. Accident insurance: Election and appointment of officers of workmen's accident insurance institutes and courts of arbitration; Decisions of the courts of arbitration; Financial report of the workmen's accident insurance institutes, 1913. Sickness insurance: Decisions of the administrative court. October, 1915.-General part: Communications of the ministry of the interior as to care of persons injured in the war; Decisions of the administrative court relating to invalidity and old-age insurance of salaried employees. Accident insurance: Election and appointment of officers of workmen's accident insurance institutes and courts of arbitration; Decisions of the courts of arbitration. Sickness insurance: Summary statistics of the sick funds, 1913. Supplement: Imperial decree of September 16, 1915, relating to extension of article 9 of the miners' fund law to members of such funds who in the present war have directly or indirectly rendered military or other similar services to the German Empire. Germany.-Amtliche (Monthly.) Nachrichten des Reichsversicherungsamts. Berlin. January 15, 1915.-Official: A. Accident insurance: Accident statistics and financial reports of the carriers of the workmen's accident insurance for 1913. B. Sickness, invalidity, and survivors' insurance: Statistics and financial reports of the carriers of the workmen's old-age and invalidity insurance for 1913. February 15, 1915.-Official: Administrative report of the imperial insurance office for 1914. March 15, 1915.-Official: A. General news: Circular order of the imperial chancellor of August 6, 1914, to all imperial diplomatic representatives and consular authorities as to observation of the regulations for German subjects entitled to accident pensions who live in foreign countries and as to cooperation of the imperial representatives in foreign countries in the enforcement of the imperial workmen's insurance law. B. Accident insurance: Administrative orders; Decisions on appeals; Decisions of the decision senates; Miscellaneous decisions. C. Sickness, invalidity, and survivors' insurance; Administrative orders; List of admitted substitute sick funds (Ersatzkassen); Decisions of the decision senates; Miscellaneous decisions; Disbursements of the invalidity insurance institutes, November and December, 1914, for pensions and benefits to insured persons and their survivors; Receipts in December, 1914, and January, 1915, from the sale of contribution stamps. Unofficial: Book reviews. April 15, 1915.-Official-A. Accident insurance: Circular letter of February 27, 1915, of the central committee in re cooperation of the trade accident insurance associations with the Red Cross Association; Administrative orders; Decisions on appeals; Decisions of the decision senates; Miscellaneous decisions. B. Sickness, invalidity, and survivors' insurance: Administrative orders; Statement of the funds of the invalidity insurance carriers available for and invested in workmen's housing work; Decisions on appeals; Decisions of the decision senates; Miscellaneous decisions; Contribution stamps sold, 1914; Disbursements of the invalidity insurance institutes in January and February, 1915, for pensions and benefits to insured persons and their survivors; Receipts in February and March, 1915, from the sale of contribution stamps. May, 1915.-Official-A. Accident insurance: Circular order of April 18, 1915. of the imperial insurance office supplementing the regulations as to payment of accident compensations; Decisions on appeals; Decisions of the decision senates. B. Sickness, invalidity, and survivors' insurance: Decree of the imperial chancellor, April 23, 1915, increasing maternity benefits during the war; Circular letter of the imperial insurance office to the directorates of the insurance Institutes showing the extent and cost of care of pensioners in homes for invalids; Circular letter of the imperial insurance office showing investment for welfare purposes of funds of the invalidity insurance institutes; Decisions on appeals; Decisions of the decision senates; Miscellaneous decisions; Disbursements of the invalidity insurance institutes, March, 1915, for pensions and benefits to insured persons and their survivors; Receipts in April, 1915, from the sale of contribution stamps. June 15, 1915.-Official-A. Accident insurance: Supplementary convention, May 30, 1914, between the German Empire and the Netherlands as to accident insurance and notice of the imperial chancellor as to ratification of this convention; Decisions on appeals; Miscellaneous decisions. B. Sickness, invalidity, and survivors' insurance; Circular letter of the imperial insurance office, May 28, 1915, as to the care of wounded soldiers; Circular letter of the imperial office, April 20, 1915, to the invalidity insurance institutes providing that in the pension and benefit lists all cases in which invalidity or death is due to the war shall be specially indicated; Decisions on appeals; Miscellaneous decisions; Disbursements of the invalidity insurance institutes, April, 1915, for pensions and benefits to insured persons and their survivors; Receipts in May, 1915, from the sale of contribution stamps. July 15, 1915.-Official-Approval by the imperial insurance office of regulations for accident prevention and risk tariffs, second quarter, 1915; Decisions on appeals; Miscellaneous decisions. B. Sickness, invalidity, and survivors' insurance: Circular order of the imperial insurance office, June 23, 1915, relating to the care of wounded soldiers; Supplementary list of special sick funds admitted by the imperial insurance office; Decisions on appeals; Miscellaneous decisions; Disbursements of the invalidity insurance institutes, May, 1915, for pensions and benefits to insured persons and their survivors; Receipts in June, 1915, from the sale of contribution stamps. Italy.—Bollettino dell'Emigrazione, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Commissariato dell'Emigrazione. Rome. (Monthly.) August 15, September 15, 1915.-Decrees of the emigration commission as to passenger rates for the transportation of emigrants in 1915. Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio. Ufficio del Lavoro. Bollettino dell'Ispettorato dell'Industria e del Lavoro. Rome. Bimonthly. January-February, 1915.-Orders relating to the inspection service; Activity of the inspectors; Administrative orders; Court decisions relating to labor. Special investigations and reports: The manufacture of motors and electric transformers. March-April, 1915.-Orders relating to the inspection service; Activity of the inspectors; Administrative orders; Court decisions relating to labor. Special investigations and reports: Therapeutical bathing establishments and the law on Sunday rest; The baking industry in Aquila; Employment of children and female minors on linotype machines. May-June, 1915.—Orders relating to the inspection service; Activity of the inspectors; Labor legislation; Administrative orders; Court decisions relating to labor. Special investigations and reports: Cultivation and manufacture of oriental tobacco in Italy; Manufacture of oriental tobacco in the district of Lecce. O INDEX TO VOLUME I. A. Month and page. Accident boards and commissions, industrial, national association of, annual meeting........Nov. 27-37 ...Dec. Accident insurance institute, workmen's, memorial volume of twenty-fifth anniversary, Lower Pennsylvania department of labor and industry, bulletins Dec. 1914 and Jan. 1915.. Agricultural labor and the land question, recommendations of the Industrial Relations Commis- .Nov. 57 .Aug. 45-48 .Oct. 103 ..Aug. 14. 15 Arbitration court, industrial, reports, New South Wales, 1914. Arbitration, industrial, in Norway. Argentina, Departamento Nacional del Trabajo. Boletin, Nos. 29 to 32.. Arbitration, mediation, and investigation, recommendations of the Industrial Relations .Aug. 52, 53 .Aug. 54 .Nov. 62 .Sept. 80; Oct. 106; Dec. 96 Report No. 3, manufacturing industries, 1912. Aug. 49 .Aug. 50 Report No. 5, prices, cost of living, etc., 1913-14. Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, annual report, 1913. Austria: Belgian refugees, first report of governmental committee, Great Britain...... .....Aug. Ministère de l'Interieur. Annuaire Statistique de la Belgique et du Congo Belge, 1913..... Dec. Nov. 91 Building trades, training and employment of boys in, London County Council report.........Aug. 80 Bureau (U.S.) of Labor Statistics, new investigations of. California: Bureau of labor statistics, sixteenth biennial report, 1913 and 1914. .Aug. 30 ..Sept. 58 58 Industrial and vocational education, report of commissioner, year ending June 30, 1914....Aug. .....Aug. 31 Canada: Department of labor, fourth annual report of labor organizations, 1914 ..Sept. 66 Wholesale prices (sixth of series), 1914.. Department of public works, Province of Alberta, annual report, 1914.. Carpenters and street railway surface lines' employees, collective agreements, Chicago.. Child labor, Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, seventeenth biennial report, 1915.. Dec. 81 Disputes Dec. 81 |