TABLE 1.-Index Numbers of Wholesale Prices by Groups and Subgroups of Commodities, April 1941, With Comparisons for March 1941 and April 1940

Index Numbers by Commodity Groups, 1926 to April 1941

Index numbers of wholesale prices by commodity groups for selected years from 1926 to 1940, inclusive, and by months from April 1940 to April 1941, inclusive, are shown in table 2.

TABLE 2.-Index Numbers of Wholesale Prices by Groups of Commodities

The price trend for specified years and months since 1926 is shown in table 3 for the following groups of commodities: Raw materials, semimanufactured articles, manufactured products, commodities other than farm products, and commodities other than farm products and foods. The list of commodities included under the classifications "Raw materials," "Semimanufactured articles," and "Manufactured products" was given in Serial No. R. 1251-Wholesale Prices, December and Year 1940.

TABLE 3.-Index Numbers of Wholesale Prices by Special Groups of Commodities

Weekly fluctuations in the major commodity group classifications during March and April are shown by the index numbers in table 4.

TABLE 4.-Weekly Index Numbers of Wholesale Prices by Commodity Groups, March and April 1941

Recent Publications of Labor Interest

June 1941

Child Labor and Child Welfare

Report of Chief of Children's Bureau [U. S. Department of Labor], fiscal year ended June 30, 1940. Washington, 1941. 78 pp. (Reprinted from Annual report of Secretary of Labor.)

Child labor in agriculture. Statement of Beatrice McConnell, Director, Industrial Division, Children's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor, submitted to subcommittee of Committee on Education and Labor, U. S. Senate, pursuant to S. Res. 266. Washington, U. S. Children's Bureau, 1940. 66 pp., charts, maps; mimeographed.

Physically handicapped children in New York City. New York, Board of Education, Committee for Study of Care and Education of Physically Handicapped Children, 1941. 91 pp.

The report covers the medical, educational, and associated services for physically handicapped children in New York City, and makes various recommendations for improvement of these services.

Child workers in Pennsylvania: Analysis of industrial accidents to minors, 19341939. By Anna Reid. Harrisburg, Department of Labor and Industry, Bureau of Women and Children, 1940. 36 pp., charts; processed. The child-health conference suggestions for organization and procedure. Washington, U. S. Children's Bureau, 1941. 42 pp. (Bureau publication No. 261.) Social services for children. From preliminary statements submitted to White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, January 18-20, 1940, Washington, D. C. Washington, U. S. Children's Bureau, 1940. 33 pp. According to this publication, the first objective of child-welfare service is to provide for every child in need the requisite aid and guidance to assure him security, protection, and opportunity for the development of his personality.

Conciliation and Arbitration

Three years of arbitrating labor disputes. (In Arbitration Journal, New York, January 1941, pp. 65-74.)

Review of the first 3 years of experimentation with labor arbitrations by the American Arbitration Association. During this period, employers and unions submitted to the Association's voluntary industrial arbitration tribunal a total of 400 controversies, involving a variety of industries and points of dispute. Mediation, arbitration, and investigation of industrial disputes in New York State, 1937-40. By Walter P. Arenwald. (In Journal of Political Economy, Chicago, February 1941, pp. 59-89.)

Arbitration in men's clothing industry in New York City. By Rita Morgan. New York, Columbia University, Teachers College, 1940. 153 pp., bibliography, charts. (Contributions to education, No. 823.)

A case study of industrial arbitration and conference method with particular reference to its educational implications.

EDITOR'S NOTE.-The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not distribute the publications to which reference is made in this list, except those issued by the Bureau itself. For all others, please write to the respective publishing agencies mentioned.

The Railway Labor Act and the National Mediation Board. Washington, U. S. National Mediation Board, 1940. 76 pp.

Published to meet the demand for general information on the Railway Labor Act and the National Mediation Board, and to review the operations of the National Mediation Board from July 21, 1934, the date it began functioning, to June 30, 1939, the end of its fifth year of existence.

Labor under German democracy-arbitration, 1918-1933. By Frieda Wunderlich. New York, New School for Social Research, 1940. 101 pp. First of a series of monographs, being published by the New School for Social Research, on social policy in the German Republic, 1918-1933. This volume describes the development and functioning of the arbitration system in effect during that period, which, the author states, "outgrew its traditional task of conciliation in labor disputes and developed into a powerful economic force." One chapter discusses the effect of arbitration on trade unionism.

Consumer Movement

The consumer movement-what it is and what it means. By Helen Sorenson. New York, Harper & Bros., 1941. xiii, 245 pp.

Describes the development of the consumer movement and in various chapters shows how scientists, educators, consumer groups, and business enterprises fit into the picture. One chapter is devoted to a description of cooperatives and their work for labeling and improvement of quality of goods.

Consumer knowledge builds defense a selected bibliography of available pamphlet material. Washington, U. S. Office for Emergency Management, Consumer Division, 1941. 62 pp.; mimeographed. (Bull. No. 11.)

Report of Consumers' Counsel, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1940. Washington, 1940. 16 pp.

The consumer movement and business.

Address by Grace S. M. Zorbaugh at Consumer Conference of Greater Cincinnati, October 20, 1940. Columbus, Ohio, 1941. 15 pp. (Available from Ohio State University Bookstore.) Defense and the consumer. New York, Public Affairs Committee, Inc., 1941. 31 pp., charts, illus. (Public affairs pamphlet No. 54.)

This pamphlet was prepared by the Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens College, Columbia, Mo., on the basis of materials provided by the Consumer Division of the National Defense Advisory Commission. Contains a general discussion of how the defense program affects the consumer and gives a list of ways in which the family buyer can be a "good consumer" during the defense emergency.

Retailing and consumer movements. By Kenneth Dameron. (In Journal of Marketing, New York, April 1941, pp. 385-394.)

One of the papers presented at the meeting of the American Marketing Association in Chicago in December 1940, most of which are reproduced in this issue of the Journal of Marketing.

Read your labels. By Helen Dallas and Maxine Enlow. New York, Public

Affairs Committee, Inc., 1941. 31 pp. (Public affairs pamphlet No. 51.) Urges consumers to work together to obtain good laws (with adequate enforcement) for consumer protection, and lists four ways by which consumers can protect themselves against impure foods, drugs, and cosmetics. A brief reading list is appended.

Cooperative Movement

Consumers' cooperation in 1940. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941. 11 pp. (Serial No. R. 1275, reprint from March 1941 Monthly

Labor Review.) Bibliographical review of literature on legal phases of cooperation. New York, Cooperative Project, 1941. 242 pp.; mimeographed. (Studies of the Cooperative Project, Series A, Part III; prepared in cooperation with Work Projects Administration for City of New York and U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

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