PART X.-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. (For location of department and bureaus, see page 190.) Principal administrative officials.-Secretary of Labor, Assistant Secretary, Solicitor, Chief Clerk, Disbursing Clerk, Chief of Division of Publications and Supplies, Appointment Clerk, Executive Clerk, Division of Conciliation. General information and duties.-The Secretary of Labor is charged with the duty of fostering, promoting, and developing the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, improving their working conditions, and advancing their opportunities for profitable employment. He has power under the law to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever in his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done. He has authority to direct the collecting and collating of full and complete statistics of the conditions of labor and the products and distribution of the products of the same and to call upon other departments in the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them and to collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise. His duties also comprise the gathering and publication of information regarding labor interests and labor controversies in this and other countries; the supervision of the administration of the act of Congress providing for the payment of compensation to artisans or laborers of the United States injured in the course of their employment; the supervision of the immigration of aliens, and the enforcement of the laws relating thereto, and to the exclusion of Chinese; the direction of the administration of the naturalization laws; and the direction of the work of investigating all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and to cause to be published such results of these investigations as he may deem wise and appropriate. The Assistant Secretary performs such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or may be required by law. He acts as the Secretary of Labor in time of absence of the Secretary. Annual and other periodical publications.-(a) Annual Reports of the Secretary of Labor for 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917. (b) Annual Reports of the Department of Labor (report of the Secretary and reports of the bureaus consolidated) for 1913, 1914, 1915, and 1916. (c) Annual Report of the Chief, Division of Publications and Supplies, for 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917. These are distributed free as long as available. List of publications.-A list of publications of all bureaus is published semiannually and is distributed free. No monthly list is published. Mailing lists.-Mailing lists are maintained for free distribution of above publications. Maps.-Maps are published only when necessary for use in connection with publications, and then are attached and form a part and are distributed free with other publications. Correspondence.-Requests for above publications should be addressed Chief, Division of Publications and Supplies, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. SOLICITOR FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Publications of the solicitor.-The only publication available for distribution is the Opinions of Solicitor, U. S. Department of Labor, on Workmen's Compensation (under act May 30, 1908), 1 volume, April, 1915. The volume includes topics on the subject of compensation for injured United States employees under the act of May 30, 1908 (35 Stat., 556), as follows: Employment by the United States of artisan or laborer; Manufacturing establishments; Arsenals; Navy yards; River and harbor works and fortifications; Hazardous work in connection with the Reclamation Service; Isthmian Canal Commission; Forestry Service; Employment excluded by the act; Legal definitions, decisions and phrases; Persons entitled to compensation; Medical examination, claims; Opinions of Attorney General; Decisions of the comptroller, etc. This publication will be available for free distribution until the present supply is exhausted, and application should be made to the Solicitor for the Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. The compensation act of May 30, 1908, has been superseded by the act of September 7, 1916 (39 Stat. 742), which lodges the jurisdiction of all questions concerning compensation to injured United States employees in the United States Employees Compensation Commission, which see page 151. UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. Principal administrative officials.—Director, two Assistant Directors, and Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-The purpose of the United States Employment Service is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States by so conserving and distributing their industrial activities as to improve their working conditions and advance their opportunities for profitable employment, in harmony with the general good, with the necessities of war, with the just interests of employers, and with the development in practice of the recognized principle of a common responsibility for production and a common interest in distribution. General publications.-The only publication issued is the "United States Employment Service Bulletin," which is the official organ of the United States Employment Service, and is published every Tuesday (weekly) for the information of the United States Employment Service and its field force and branches, cooperating State, county, and municipal employment services and other organizations interested in employment matters. It contains information as to the labor mobilizing and distributing work of the United States Employment Service; instructions to the field service; reports as to shortages and surpluses of labor in various localities; locations of branch employment offices, etc. Method of distribution.-Copies are free. Circulation restricted to offices and employees of the United States Employment Service; other public employment services, State, county, and municipal employment offices and officers and organizations and individuals actually interested in employment matters, as employers, etc. Mailing list.-Free mailing lists are maintained. Correspondence.—Address Director, U. S. Employment Service, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION. Principal administrative officials.-Commissioner General of Immigration; Assistant Commissioner General; Commissioners of Immigration: Ellis Island, N. Y., Boston, Mass., Gloucester, N. J., Baltimore, Md., Montreal, Province of Quebec, San Juan, P. R., New Orleans, La., Seattle, Wash., Angel Island, San Francisco, Cal. General information and duties.-The Bureau of Immigration is charged with the administration of the laws relating to immigration and of the Chineseexclusion laws. It supervises all expenditures under the appropriation for Expenses of regulating immigration." It causes alleged violations of the Immigration. Chinese-exclusion, and alien contract-labor laws to be investigated, and when prosecution is deemed advisable submits evidence for that purpose to the proper United States district attorney. General publications.-Bulletins are issued on immigration statistics, immigration laws, and rules, treaty laws, rules governing the admission of Chinese, and agricultural opportunities in different parts of the country. Distributed free as long as available. Annual and other periodical publications.—(a) Annual Report by the Commissioner General of Immigration. (b) Monthly statement for press and individuals directly concerned, giving comparative statistics of immigration and the inward and outward passenger movements. List of publications.-Printed in the Department of Labor list. Correspondence.—Address Commissioner General of Immigration, Washing ton, D. C. BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION. Principal administrative officials.-Commissioner of Naturalization; Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization; Chief Naturalization Examiners, 11 located in the following cities: Boston, Mass., New York, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., Washington, D. C., Pittsburgh, Pa., Chicago, Ill., St. Paul, Minn., St. Louis, Mo., Seattle, Wash., San Francisco, Cal., Denver, Colo. General information and duties.-The act approved March 4, 1913, creating the Department of Labor, provided a Bureau of Naturalization, and that the Commissioner of Naturalization, or, in his absence, the Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization, shall be the administrative officer in charge of the Bureau of Naturalization and of the administration of the naturalization laws under the immediate direction of the Secretary of Labor. Under the provisions of the act of June 29, 1906, naturalization jurisdiction was conferred upon approximately 3,500 United States and State courts. The duties of the Bureau of Naturalization are to supervise the work of these courts in naturalization matters, to require an accounting from the clerks of courts for all naturalization fees collected by them, examine and audit these accounts, deposit them in the Treasury of the United States through the disbursing clerk of the department, and render an accounting therefor quarterly to the Auditor for the State and Other Departments, to conduct all correspondence relating to naturalization, and, through its field officers located in various cities of the United States, to investigate the qualifications of the candidates for citizenship and represent the Government at the hearings of petitions for naturalization. In its administration of the naturalization laws the bureau obtains the cooperation of the public-school authorities throughout the United States, receives reports therefrom of courses in citizenship instruction, and, acting as a clearing house of information on civic instruction, it disseminates the information received throughout the public-school system. It stimulates the preparation of candidates for citizenship for their new responsibilities by bringing them into contact at the earliest moment with the Americanizing influences of the public-school system, and thereby contributes to the elevation of citizenship standards. In the archives of the bureau are filed duplicates of all certificates of naturalization granted since September 26, 1906, as well as the preliminary papers of all candidates for citizenship filed since that date, averaging an annual receipt of approximately 450,000 naturalization papers. General publications.-(a) Naturalization laws and regulations; (b) proceedings of the naturalization reception, Philadelphia, Pa., 1915; (c) reception, Washington, D. C., 1916; (d) outline of course in citizenship for foreign and native born. Annual reports.-Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Naturalization. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. Principal administrative officials.—Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Chief Statistician. General information and duties.-The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity. It is especially charged to investigate the causes of and facts relating to controversies and disputes between employers and employees as they may occur, and which may happen to interfere with the welfare of the people of the several States. It is also authorized, by act of March 2, 1895, to publish a bulletin on the condition of labor in this and other countries, condensations of State, and foreign labor reports, facts as to conditions of employment, and such other facts as may be deemed of value to the industrial interests of the United States. This bulletin is issued in a number of series, each dealing with a single subject or closely related group of subjects, and the bulletin is published at irregular intervals as matter becomes available for publication. 1 By the act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, as amended, It is made the duty of the bureau to collect and present in quinquennial reports statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the Territory of Hawall, especially those statistics which relate to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary condition of the laboring classes. General publications.-Prior to July, 1912, the bureau published annual and special reports and a bimonthly bulletin. Since July, 1912, the publications of the bureau, other than the annual reports and its periodical publications, have been printed as bulletins issued at irregular intervals. Each number contains matter devoted to one of a series and also carry consecutive whole numbers, beginning with No. 101. The titles of the reports and the titles of articles contained in bulletins are shown in the following list: Accident insurance; Accidents and prevention; Acetate of lead and other poisons; Agreements between employers and employees; Agriculture implement industry; Anthracite coal; Apprenticeship; Arbitration; Bakers, wages, etc.; Benefit and retirement systems; Bethlehem strike; Blacklisting; Boarding houses; Bonus systems; Boot and shoe industry; Boycotting; Brass industry; Brewing industry; Brickmaking; Broom manufacture; Buck Stove & Range case; Building and loan associations; Button manufacture; Caisson disease of "Bends"; Canning industry; Carbon monoxide; Carpet industry; Children in industry; Chlorine as poison; Cigar industry; Clothing industry; Coal mining; Company stores; Compensation for injuries; Conciliation and arbitration; Conspiracy; Convict labor; Coolie labor; Cooperation; Copper mining; Cost of living; Cost of production; Cotton industry; Danbury Hatters case; Dangerous occupations; Death rates in industry; Decisions of courts on labor; Domestic service; Dusty occupations; Eight-hour day; Employers' liability; Employment offices; Employment (regularity); Factory inspection; Factory legislation; Fatigue in industry; Funeral benefits; Furniture industry; Glass industry; Government ownership; Hawaii (labor); Holidays; Home industry; Hook worm disease; Hospital service; Hours of labor; Housing; Illiteracy; Immigrant labor; Industrial education; Industrial poisoning; Iron and steel industry; Jewelry industry; Labor conditions; Labor legislation; Labor organizations; Laundries; Lawrence strike; Lead poisoning; Liquor problem; Living conditions; Lockouts and strikes; Manufacturers' statistics; Match industry; Mediation and arbitration; Maternity insurance; Mine labor; Mine strike, Westmoreland County; Minimum wage; Municipal ownership; Negroes; Night work; Occupational diseases; Old age pensions; Overtime; Padrone system; Paper industry; Pension funds; Peonage; Phosphorous poison; Printing trade; Profit sharing; Protection of workers; Public utilities; Purchasing power; Railroad labor; Retail prices; Rubber industry; Sanitation (industrial); Sickness insurance; Slums; Speeding up; Strikes and lockouts; Sunday work; Sweating system; Telegraph companies; Tobacco industries; Tuberculosis; Unemployment; Union wages; Vocational guidance; Wages; Welfare work; Westmoreland strike; Workmen's insurance; Zinc poisoning. Method of distribution of general publications.-All publications of the bureau are distributed free. Annual and other periodical publications.-Annual reports, presenting the results of the bureau's investigations and studies, were published from the beginning to 1910, inclusive, 25 such annual reports having been issued. Special reports, similar in character, were published from 1889 to 1905, 12 such reports having been issued. The subjects of all these reports are given in the list of publications. Miscellaneous reports, published by the bureau, are also given in list. A bi-monthly bulletin was issued by the bureau from November, 1895, to May, 1912, 100 numbers having been issued. At present the only periodical publication of the bureau is the Monthly Review, published since July, 1915, and an index is contained in the third volume, December, 1916, issue. List of publications.-A list of publications is issued from time to time and is available for distribution. A list of the more recent publcations is contained in the Monthly Review. Indexes to publications.-The only separate index to publications which the bureau has issued is Bulletin 174, constituting a subject index from the beginning down to May 1, 1915. This bulletin is available for free distribution. Mailing lists.-Free mailing lists for all publications are maintained. Correspondence-Requests for publications should be addressed to the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. CHILDREN'S BUREAU. Principal administrative officials.-Chief of Children's Bureau, Assistant Chief, Director Child Labor Law Division, Director Hygiene Division, Director Social Service Division, Director Statistical Division, Director Industrial Division, Director Publicity Division. General information and duties. The act establishing the bureau provides that it shall investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphange, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents, and diseases of children, employment, and legislation affecting children in the several States and Terri tories. The bureau is also empowered to publish the results of these investigations in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor. The bureau also enforces the United States Child Labor Law. General publications.-Reports are issued from time to time on the various subjects within the field of the bureau. Among them are series of reports on infant mortality, discussing especially the economic aspects; pamphlets addressed to the individual mothers on the care of children; reports on laws affecting children; special studies of child welfare in the warring countries and on care of dependents of enlisted men in Canada, together with other studies in the fields of the respective divisions enumerated above. Method of distribution of general publications.--Distributed free. Annual and other periodical publications.-Annual Report of the Chief. List of publications.-Multigraphed list of publications available for distribution. List also printed in each publication in the Children's Bureau. Mailing list.-Free mailing lists are maintained: (1) General mailing list; (2) Special subjects, e. g., child care, child labor; (3) Miscellaneous. Correspondence.-Address the Chief of Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C. NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD. Principal administrative officials.-The board consists of 12 members, appointed by the Secretary of Labor, five representatives of the employers, five representatives of labor, and two representatives of the public. General information and duties.-The National War Labor Board was organized in accordance with a report dated March 29, 1918, to the Secretary of Labor by the War Labor Conference. The functions and powers of the board are as follows: (a) To bring about a settlement by mediation and conciliation of every controversy arising between employers and workers in the field of production necessary for the effective conduct of the war; (b) to do the same thing in similar controversies in other fields of national activity, delays, and obstructions in which may, in the opinion of the board, affect detrimentally such production; (c) to provide such machinery by direct appointment or otherwise for selection of committees or boards to sit in various parts of the country where controver sies arise, to secure settlement by local mediation and conciliation; and (d) to summon the parties to the controversy for hearing and action by the board, in case of failure to secure settlement by local mediation and conciliation. cognizance of any controversy is taken where there is by agreement or Federal law a means of settlement which has not been invoked. No Publications. As the board has been but recently organized, it has not issued any publications. The general outline and scope of activities of the board are given in the United States Employment Service Bulletin for April 9, 1918. Correspondence.-Requests for information should be addressed to Secretary, National War Labor Board, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. BUREAU OF HOUSING. Principal administrative officials.-Director, Assistant to Director, Secretary, and Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-The Bureau of Housing is charged with the construction of buildings for housing employees at munition plants and for the clerical forces in the District of Columbia when accommodations for such employees are not adequately provided by the existing housing facilities. Correspondence.-Requests for information should be addressed to Bureau of Housing, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. |