PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO LABOR.

LABOR DEPARTMENTS AND BUREAUS.

Argentina. Boletin del Departamento Nacional del Trabajo. Buenos Aires. July, 1915 (No. 32).—Part I.-General conditions of labor; Report of investigation of labor conditions existing in the Territories of Chaco and Formosa; "Character of work, contractors and overseers; Prices; Use of legal money, scrip, bonuses, due bills, etc.; Dwellings, food, and clothing; Hygiene, health, and hospitals; Weekly rest, and other conditions obtaining in the lumber regions. Part II. Two most important establishments engaged in lumbering in Territories of Chaco and Formosa; Capital employed; Sugar factories; Wood extract (tannin); Hours of labor; Wages; Prices of articles of food and clothing; Accidents; Laborers' dwellings.

Australia.-Commonwealth ́Bureau of Census and Statistics. Labor and Industrial Branch. Labor Bulletin (published quarterly). Melbourne. January-March, 1915 (No. 9).-Industrial conditions; Unemployment; Retail prices, house rents, and cost of living; Price indexes and the purchasing power of money; Wholesale prices; Industrial disputes; Changes in rates of wages; Current rates of wages; Operations under arbitration and wages board acts; Assisted immigrants; State free employment bureaus; Industrial accidents; The Commonwealth conciliation and arbitration acts; Prohibition of strikes and lockouts; Under-rate workers; Reports of departments and bureaus in Australia; Imperial and foreign publications received.

Canada. The Labor Gazette issued by the Department of Labor by order of Parliament. Ottawa.

October, 1915.-Notes on current matters of industrial interest; Industrial and labor conditions during September, 1915; Reports of local correspondents; Reports of women correspondents; The Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907; Annual convention of the trades and labor congress of Canada; British coal-mining industry; War organization in distributing trades in Scotland; New Brunswick legislation affecting labor; Mining accident at Coal Creek, British Columbia; Public employment bureaus; Prices, wholesale and retail, Canada, September, 1915; Fair wages schedules in Government contracts, September, 1915; Trade disputes, September, 1915; Industrial accidents, September. 1915; Immigration and colonization; Building permits, September, 1915; Notes on official reports; Recent legal decisions affecting labor.

Denmark. Statistiske Efterretninger udgivet af det Statistiske Departement.

Copenhagen.

August 21, 1915 (No. 18).-Rise in p.ices during the war, August, 1914, to July, 1915; Law on right of import, 1914; Index number of the Economist.

October 2, 1915 (No. 21).-Crop conditions (grains, hay, and straw); Unemployment, July, 1915; Retail prices, September, 1915.

Finland.—Arbetsstatistisk Tidskrift utgifven af Industristyrelsen. Helsingfors, No. 5, 1915.—Activities of the municipal committee of Helsingfors on relief works, winter of 1914-15; Public employment offices, second quarter, 1915; Industrial accidents, 1912; Finnish industries, 1913; Reports from foreign countries; Maximum Government prices; Retail prices of articles of household consumption by locality, second quarter, 1915.

France.-Bulletin du Ministère du Travail et de la Prévoyance Sociale. Paris. May, June, 1915 (Nos. 5 and 6).—Social movement-France: Industrial and commercial activity, April, 1915; Strikes and lockouts, May and June, 1915; Collective agreement in the coal-mining industry of Arras; Production of coal, lignite, etc., 1913–1914; Employment in mines, March to May, 1915; Workmen's distributive cooperative societies, January 1, 1914; National unemployment fund (Paris); Benefits paid by the typographical union of Paris; Results of invalidity and old-age insurance law, 1913; Economic situation expressed in index numbers, fourth quarter, 1914; Central employment exchange for refugees and other unemployed. Reports from foreign countries: Review of labor conditions in Germany, February to April, 1915; Cost of living, Berlin, February to April, 1915; Strikes and lockouts, 1914, and during the war in Germany; Trade-unions in Germany, 1913; Trade-union unemployment labor exchanges and strikes and lockouts (1913) in Austria; Trade-unions in Belgium, 1913; Canadian Industrial Disputes Act; Amendment of unemployment insurance law and subsidized funds in Denmark, 1911 to 1914; Unemployment in New York, 1914; Review of the labor market, strikes, employment offices, March to May, 1915, for Great Britain; Trade-unions in Great Britain, 1913; Proposed remedies for the shortage of labor in coal mining in Great Britain. Miscellaneous: Reports of the councils of prudhommes, fourth quarter, 1914; Foreign commerce of France, first six months, 1915; Production of sugar and alcohol; Wholesale prices, April to June, 1915; Bread prices, June, 1915; Laws, decrees, orders, and circulars relative to accident insurance for agricultural laborers; Social insurance during the war; Old-age pensions; Housing, etc.

Great Britain.-The Board of Trade Labor Gazette. London.

October, 1915.-Employment chart; The labor market. Special articles: Employment in Germany in August; Retail food prices in United Kingdom; Retail food prices in Berlin; Retail food prices in Italy; Wages during the war; Labor disputes in 1914; Control of prices and supplies in Germany; Minimum wages for female workers in France. Recent conciliation and arbitration cases; Reports on employment in the principal industries; Labor in the Dominions and in foreign countries; Board of trade labor exchanges. Statistical tables: Trade disputes; Changes in rates of wages and hours of labor; Immigration to the United States; Sliding-scale changes in wages; Distress committees; Building plans; Prices of wheat, flour, and bread; Unemployment insurance; Pauperism; Diseases of occupations; Fatal industrial accidents; Foreign trade; Passenger movement to and from the United Kingdom; Legal cases, official notices, etc.

Italy. Bollettino dell' Ufficio del Lavoro, Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio. Rome. (Semimonthly.)

October 1, 1915.—Investigations and provisions relative to unemployment; Labor market by localities and industries; Labor disputes; Employers' and employees' associations; Congresses and conventions; Retail prices, August, 1915; Publications of the labor office. Labor legislation: Decree of August 22, 1915, regulating the mobilization of industry; Decree of September 9, 1915, regulating accident compensation of workmen employed by the military administration in the war zone; Activities of the labor office; Court decisions relating to labor.

October 16, 1915.-Investigations and provisions relative to unemployment; Labor market by localities and industries; Labor disputes; Employers' and employees' associations; Congresses and conventions. Labor legislation: Decree of September 26, 1915, putting the working force in military establishments 15187-15-7

under military jurisdiction; Ministerial circular of October 1, 1915, relating to the extension and annulment of agricultural tenancy contracts; Ministerial decree of October 13, 1915, relating to the manufacture and sale of bread; Activities of the labor office; Occupational diseases of iron and steel workers. Netherlands.-Manndschrfit van het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. The

Hague.

July, 1915.-Review of the labor market, second quarter, 1915, and July, 1915 (harbors and fishing); Employment exchanges, June, 1915; Unemployment and unemployment insurance, June, 1915; Strikes and lockouts, June, 1915; Prices, wholesale and retail. Miscellaneous reports of social and economic import. International: Foreign countries and the war (France, Great Britain, and Ireland); Poor relief convention between the Scandinavian countries; Labor market; Employment offices; Strikes and lockouts; Wholesale and retail prices, etc. Statistical tables on the labor market, employment exchanges, prices, building and housing inspection, factory permits, number and occurrence of industrial diseases, and the State revenue, June, 1915. Laws and official documents concerning the protection of workmen, accident insurance, railroad employees, employment exchanges and emigration.

September, 1915.-Introductory. Labor market: August, 1915 (building trades, clothing, commercial laundries, coal mining); September, 1915 (harbors and fishing); Employment of interned soldiers in the Netherlands, September 23; Unemployment and unemployment insurance, August, September, 1915; Employment exchanges, August, 1915; Strikes and lockouts, August, 1915; Work regulations and .collective agreements; Trade unions; Wholesale and retail prices, September, 1915; Emigration; Court decisions affecting labor; Miscel laneous reports of social and economic import. International: Foreign countries and the war (Germany, Denmark, Italy, Austria). Foreign countries: Labor market; Employment exchanges; Strikes and lockouts; Retail and wholesale prices, etc. Statistical tables on the labor market, employment exchanges, building and housing inspection, factory building permits, occupational diseases and the State budget. Laws and official documents concerning invalidity insurance, accident insurance, etc.

New South Wales.-Industrial Gazette issued by the Department of Labor and Industry. Sydney.

August, 1915.-Introductory matter. The industrial situation, July, 1915: Questions of the cost of living and minimum wage; Emergency legislation; Strikes and lockouts; Employment and unemployment; Labor-exchange system of New South Wales. The statute law of industrial import, New South Wales; Administrative cost of wage boards, 1914-15, and comparisons, 1912 with 1915; Early-closing acts; Judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings. Departmental reeords, July, 1915: Chief inspector of factories; Gas examiner; Industrial registrar; Investigation office; Labor exchanges. Records of industrial boards and conciliation committees; Awards expired or rescinded, July, 1915; Awards gazetted, July 15-August 11, 1915; Compendium of titles to awards published: Industrial agreements. Labor-exchange supplement, No. 5.

September, 1915.-Introductory matter. The industrial situation, August. 1915: Questions of the cost of living and minimum wage; Emergency legislation; Strikes and lockouts; Employment and unemployment. The statute law of industrial import, New South Wales; Judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings. Departmental records, August, 1915: Chief inspector of factories; Gas examiner; Industrial registrar; Investigation office; Labor exchanges. Records of industrial boards and conciliation committees; Awards expired or rescinded,

August 1-September 8, 1915; New awards, August 13-September 8, 1915; Awards in force, September 8, 1915; Industrial agreements; Abridgment of monthly records. Labor-exchange supplement, No. 6.

New York.-The Bulletin, issued monthly by the New York State Industrial Commission. Albany, N. Y.

November, 1915 (vol. 1, No. 2).-Commission's power in anthrax cases; A model State board; Bureau of compensation; Operations of the State fund; Bureau of inspection; The commission's budget; Commission ruling on one-dayof-rest-in-seven law; The labor market, September, 1915; Legal aspects and decisions under the compensation law.

New Zealand. Journal of the Department of Labor, Wellington.

September, 1915.—Labor market (summary); Conditions of employment; Women's employment branches (reports); Unions' reports; recent legal decisions; Shops and offices act; Workers' compensation act; Recent legal decisions affecting labor in Great Britain. Statistics: Persons assisted to employment during August, 1915; Cooperative works in New Zealand; Accidents in factories reported up to August 27, 1915; Accidents reported under the scaffolding-inspection act; Additional associations and unions registered under the industrial conciliation and arbitration act, 1908; Additional union canceled under the industrial conciliation and arbitration act, 1908; Current retail prices, August 14, 1915; War increases. Special articles: Employment in Germany in May; Employment of soldiers in harvesting; Produce of crops in the United Kingdom in 1914; War problems and how to meet them.

Sweden. Socialstyrelsen. Sociala Meddelanden. Stockholm.

No. 9, 1915.-State and municipal measures pending the war (reports of the State unemployment commission and the commission on the food supply); Wage bonuses, etc., during the period of the war; Investigation of sanitary conditions in the wood-pulp industry; Conciliation in labor disputes, 1914; Registered sick funds, 1912, 1913; Accidents due to electric current, 1914. Brief notices: State Insurance Institute, January-August, 1915; Employment in Great Britain, July, August, 1915; in Germany, July, 1915; Emigration to the United States; Recruiting through the employment exchanges; Dual representation (paritätische) employment exchanges; Wage bonuses in Denmark and Great Britain during the war; Mine labor in Great Britain; Employment of women in Great Britain; Wage rates in the munition industry in Canada; Retail prices in Denmark, 1914-15. Retail prices of foodstuffs, Great Britain, August, 1914-July, 1915. Public employment bureaus in Sweden, August, 1915; Retail prices of food commodities, August, 1915, 1904 to August, 1915; Price of cattle on the hoof in Sweden, 1904 to August, 1915, June-August, 1915; Prices of fish at Stockholm, August, 1914-August, 1915.

International Labor Office (Basel, Switzerland).—Bulletin des Internationalen Arbeitsamts. Jena, 1915.

[The German edition of this bulletin, which appears also in French and English, is the earliest published and its contents are therefore here listed.] Nos. 1 and 2.-National labor legislation-Austria: Joint decree of the ministers of commerce and interior, September 22, 1913, relating to Sunday rest and rest periods in industrial establishments; Imperial decree, April 7, 1914, relating to accident insurance of miners. Belgium: Law, May 26, 1914, amending the law of December 13, 1889, relating to the employment of women and children. Canada: Law, May 27, 1914, prohibiting the manufacture, importation, and sale of matches containing white phosphorus. France: Law, August 7, 1913, relating to recruiting for the army; Law, August 8, 1913, relating to enlistments and

reenlistments in the navy and amending the law of December 24, 1896, as to registration of enrolled seamen. Greece: Law of association, June 21, 1914. Hungary: Decree of the minister of commerce, December 31, 1912, regulating the enforcement of the law (No. 5, 1911) prohibiting the manufacture of matches from white or yellow phosphorus. Switzerland: Federal law, December 23, 1914, relating to insurance of persons in military service. Appendix: War measures relative to the protection of labor (German Empire, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Switzerland).

Nos. 3 and 4.-National labor legislation-British Colonies: Victoria: Act, September 4, 1911, amending the friendly societies act of 1907; Act, October 20, 1911, relating to pension and compensation rights of certain officers and employees in the railway service and the reinstatement of certain persons in the railway service and for other purposes; Act, October 24, 1911, to insure the better provision of hut accommodations for shearers and others; Act, December 2, 1912, amending the public-service acts and for other purposes; Act, December 7, 1912, consolidating the law relating to the supervision and regulation of factories and shops; Act, December 31, 1912, amending the boiler-inspection act of 1906; Act, December 31, 1912, amending the factories and shops act of 1912; Act, February 17, 1914, amending the mines acts and for other purposes; Act, February 20, 1914, providing for compensation to workers for injuries occurring in the course of their employment; Act, November 2, 1914, to further amend the factories and shops act of 1912. France: Decree of March 21, 1914, prohibiting dangerous occupations to female and juvenile workers. Germany: Federal decree of February 2, 1914, regulating the enforcement of the law relating to the sale of potassium salts; Decree of the imperial commission of standards as to transitional regulations for the regauging of box cars and buckets in stone quarries. Portugal: Law, January 22, 1915, determining the daily hours of labor of mercantile employees; Law, January 22, 1915, determining the hours of labor in industrial establishments; Law, January 22, 1915, amending the decree relating to the labor of juvenile and female workers: Switzerland: Zurich (City): Decree, February 21, 1914, relating to the award of contracts for the city of Zurich. Schwyz (Canton): Resolution of February 28, 1912, amending the regulations for the enforcement of the federal factory law of January 12, 1894; Resolution of February 28, 1912, amending the police regulations of January 12, 1894, relating to observance of Sunday rest. Freiburg (Canton): Decree of the council of state of March 26, 1910, regulating the activities of the cantonal employment office for men. Basel (City): Resolution of the Government council of May 14, 1914, amending the decrees of December 15, 1906, and February 9, 1910, relating to regular night work of apprentices; Law, May 28, 1915, amending the law of December 16, 1909, relating to the creation of a State unemploy ment fund and the grant of subsidies to private unemployment funds. Appendix: War measures relative to protection of labor (German Empire, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy. Netherlands, Roumania, Russia, Sweden, and Switzerland).

Nos. 5 and 6.—(An analyses or digest according to subjects.) National labor legislation; General labor legislation; Protective legislation for special occupations; Unemployment and employment offices; Industrial courts; Right of coalition; Courts of conciliation and arbitration; Workmen's housing; Labor inspection. National social insurance: Sickness, accident, old-age, invalidity, and survivors insurance. Labor legislation in the United States, 1912, 1913. Pending labor legislation (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden). Current publications on labor matters.