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OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

No. 38-JANUARY, 1902.

ISSUED EVERY OTHER MONTH.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

EDITOR,

CARROLL D. WRIGHT,

COMMISSIONER.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS,

G. W. W. HANGER,

CHAS. H. VERRILL, STEPHEN D. FESSENDEN, G. A. WEBER.

CONTENTS.

Page.

Labor conditions in Mexico, by Walter E. Weyl, Ph. D., of the University of
Pennsylvania

1-94

The Negroes of Cinclare Central Factory and Calumet Plantation, Louisiana, by J. Bradford Laws.....

95-120

Charts exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition

121-126

The Quebec trade disputes act.............

127-133

Digest of recent reports of State bureaus of labor statistics:

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Laws of various States relating to labor enacted since January 1, 1896...... 185-194

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To comprehend the labor conditions of a country, a consideration. of the national characteristics, especially in their relation to labor efficiency, must of necessity be regarded as preliminary. In no country is this more true than in Mexico, where practically all the conditions of labor differ from those prevailing in the United States and western Europe, and where the existing conditions can not be understood without a knowledge of the character of the country and of the economic nature and industrial characteristics of the laboring population. It is necessary to know the conditions under which the work is performed and, above all, to obtain the racial and national equation of the workers before the statistics of employment or those of remuneration are presented.

POPULATION.

The total population of Mexico has more than doubled during the last one hundred years. In 1795 there were in the country, according to a census made by the Viceroy Revillagigedo, 5,200,000 inhabitants; in 1810, according to Don Fernando Navarro y Noriega, 6,122,354; in 1824, according to the estimate of Mr. Poinsett, the American minister, 6,500,000, while the Government census returns showed the population to be 7,044,140 in 1839, 7,853,395 in 1854, 8,743,614 in 1869, 9,384,193 in 1878, 10,791,685 in 1886, 12,632,427 in 1895, and 13,545,462 (a) in

a Preliminary figures, subject to future correction.

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