Monthly labor review. v. 3, 1916, Volume 3

Front Cover
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916

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Contents

Workmens compensation law of Cuba 244 245
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Vocational education survey of New Orleans_ 245250
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Immigration in May 1915 263 264
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Unofficial publications relating to labor 280282
108
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor 283 284
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Work of State and municipal employment bureaus_ 286290
8
Special meeting of the safety committee of the International Association
16
New agreement in cloak suit and skirt industry in New York City 307311
25
Agreement between the Boston Elevated Railway Co and its employees 319 320
37
Retail prices of coal 1907 to 1916_ 325
43
Labor conditions in Hawaii__ 327334
45
Workmens compensation legislation of 1916__ 334337
52
Grouping of industries appearing in the Workmens Compensation Manual_ 338
59
Report of Womens Clothing Wage Board to Massachusetts Minimum
66
Minimumwage legislation in Australasia__ 353359
71
Application of the minimumwage law for female home workers in
77
Employment of discharged soldiers and sailors on the land in Great
87
Sickness insurance in France_ 372378
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Official reports relating to labor__ 384394
102
Recent unofficial publications relating to labor 394397
112
Bureaus of labor industrial commissions etc and their chief officials__ 398 399
118
Arbitration and conciliation boards and officials_ 406408
127
Job selling in industrial establishments in Ohio 411415
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Federal employment work of the Department of Labor__ 417419
9
Strikes and lockouts March to August 1916__ 427430
20
Law and order in industry 436438
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Compensation law for injured employees of the United States______ 443451
33
Prevention of industrial accidents 456461
46
Recent reports relating to workmens compensation and industrial acci
48
Trinitrotoluol manufacturing precautionary measures 462 463
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Amendments relating to invalidity
58
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor 560 561
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Employment in selected industries in September 1916 566569
22
Strikes and lockouts January to September 1916_ 572575
28
Milinery as a trade for women__ 576582
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Retail prices of food in foreign countries_ 593604
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Workmens compensation investigation commission Virginia___ 612
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State insurance commissioners and social insurance__ 615623
71
Recent reports relating to workmens compensation and accident insur
79
Synthesis of rates for workmens compensation__ 629631
85
Accident experience of the Portland Cement Association in 1915___ 631635
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Occupational diseases in the chemical industry 644649
100
Dope poisoning_ 649652
108
Standards of health insurance_____ 658662
114
Proposed amendment of British National Health Insurance Act 662666
122
Industrial pensions 673675
129
Single tax in the California constitution____ 679 680
135
Unofficial publications relating to labor 694699
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DECEMBER 1916
Work of State and municipal employment bureaus in the United States
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Strikes and lockouts January to October 1916 712715
12
Proposed changes in Canadian industrial disputes investigation act 719 720
22
Demand for extension of State workmens compensation laws to cover
28
Revision of industrial accident and sickness insurance laws of Norway 768771
68
Welfare work in Great Britain__ 781788
81
Some new studies of industrial fatigue_ 797805
97
Output in relation to hours of work 805820
105
Report of chief inspector of factories and workshops of Great Britain_ 821823
123
Official publications relating to labor 835841
135
Unofficial publications relating to labor_ 841847
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Page 84 - Columbia or any such contractor or subcontractor whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control the services of such laborers or mechanics to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in f*y calendar day except in case of extraordinary emergency.
Page 122 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 5 - That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any article or commodity the product of any mine or quarry, situated in the United States, in which within thirty days prior to the time of the removal of such product therefrom children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work...
Page 38 - Eczematous ulceration of the skin produced by dust or liquids, or ulceration of the mucous membrane of the nose or mouth produced by dust.
Page 92 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract in the employ of the contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 9 - ... and who were not physically or mentally defective, the commission shall, on any review after the time when the monthly wage-earning capacity of such persons would probably, but for the injury, have Increased, award compensation based on such probable monthly wage-earning capacity.
Page 124 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from one place In a Territory to another place in the same Territory...
Page 2 - That after the injury the employee shall, as frequently and at such times and places as may be reasonably required, submit himself to examination by a medical officer of the United States or by a duly qualified physician designated or approved by the commission.
Page 92 - SEC. 2. That nothing in this Act shall apply to contracts for transportation by land or water, or for the transmission of intelligence, or for the purchase of supplies by the Government, whether manufactured to conform to particular specifications or not...
Page 109 - Proceedings of the fourteenth annual convention of the Association of Governmental Labor Officials of the United States and Canada, held at Paterson, NJ, May 31-June 3, 1927.

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