NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS REPORTED AS ADOPTING THE 8-HOUR DAY IN 1915, NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES REPORTED AS HAVING WORKDAY REDUCED TO 8 HOURS IN 1915, 1916, AND THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1917, BY STATES AND BY INDUSTRIES. [Based on 193 reports showing number of employees affected.] Of the 534 reports examined, as shown in the table on page 43, the largest numbers were for the following six States in the order named: Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut; 312 in all, or 58 per cent of the total number of reports made. The largest numbers of establishments involved were found in the following six States in the order named: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, 3,183 in all, or 92 per cent of all the establishments involved. The largest numbers of employees affected were found in the following six States in the order named: Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts; a total of 538,050, which, omitting the 400,000 railroad employees not included in any State in the above figures, is 83 per cent of all. The industry in which the largest number of employees was affected by the introduction of the 8-hour day was the railroads where more than 400,000, or 38 per cent of all mentioned in the above tables, were affected. In the mining industry 11 reports were made, in 4 of which 56 establishments were involved and in 3 of which 186,000 employees were affected. For garment workers 28 reports were obtained, in 17 of which 2,079 establishments were involved and in 20 of which 175,975 employees were affected. In several industries the number of establishments involved and the number of employees affected were given in but few of the reports, as in the building trades, where 112 reports were found in which the 8-hour day had been adopted, but in only 12 of which were the number of establishments and of employees given, and in 13 reports of bakers where only 4 contained the number of establishments involved and 6 contained the number of employees affected. The number of establishments involved and of employees affected as given in the reports of the first six months of 1917 is smaller than in either of the preceding years. This is due to the fact that few official reports of organizations for this period are as yet available, thus rendering it necessary to depend upon the more incomplete reports found elsewhere. RULES FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CHILD-LABOR LAW.1 Rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States approved September 1, 1916, entitled "An act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes." REGULATION 1.-Certificates of age. Certificates of age, in order to protect the producer, manufacturer, or dealer from prosecution, shall be either: 1. Federal age certificates issued by persons hereafter to be designated by the board for children between 16 and 17 years of age when employment in or about a mine or quarry is contemplated and for children between 14 and 16 years of age when employment in a mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment is contemplated. Such certificates shall contain the following information: (1) Name of child; (2) place and date of birth of child, together with statement of evidence on which this is based, except when a physician's certificate of physical age is accepted by the issuing officer, in which case 1 U. S. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau. Rules and regulations made by the board, consisting of the Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor, for carrying out the provisions of an act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes, approved Sept. 1, 1916. Child Labor Division Circular No. 1, issued Aug. 14, 1917. physical age shall be shown; (3) sex and color; (4) signature of child; (5) name and address of child's parent, guardian, or custodian; (6) signature of issuing officer; and (7) date and place of issuance; [or] 2. Employment, age, or working certificate, permit, or paper issued under State authority in such States as are hereafter designated by the board. REG. 2.-Proof of age. Persons authorized by the board to issue age certificates under the authority of this act shall issue such certificates only upon the application in person of the child desiring employment, accompanied by its parent, guardian, or custodian, and after having received, examined, and approved documentary evidence of age showing that the child is 14 years of age or over if employment in a mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment is contemplated, or that the child is between 16 and 17 years of age if employment in or about a mine or quarry is contemplated; which evidence shall consist of one of the following-named proofs of age, to be required in the order herein designated, as follows: (a) A birth certificate or attested transcript thereof issued by a registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged with the duty of recording births. (b) A record of baptism or a certificate or attested transcript thereof showing the date of birth and place of baptism of the child. (c) A bona fide contemporary record of the date and place of the child's birth kept in the Bible in which the records of the births in the family of the child are preserved, or other documentary evidence satisfactory to the Secretary of Labor or such person as he may designate, such as a passport showing the age of the child, a certificate of arrival in the United States issued by the United States immigration officers and showing the age of the child, or a life insurance policy; provided that such other satisfactory documentary evidence has been in existence at least one year prior to the time it is offered in evidence; and provided further that a school record or a parent's, guardian's, or custodian's affidavit, certificate, or other written statement of age shall not be accepted except as specified in paragraph (d). (d) A certificate signed by a public-health physician or a publicschool physician, specifying what in the opinion of such physician is the physical age of the child; such certificate shall show the height and weight of the child and other facts concerning its physical development revealed by such examination and upon which the opinion of the physician as to the physical age of the child is based. A parent's, guardian's, or custodian's certificate as to the age of the child and a record of age as given on the register of the school which the child first attended, or in the school census, if obtainable, shall be submitted with the physician's certificate showing physical age. The officer issuing the age certificate for a child shall require the evidence of age specified in subdivision (a) in preference to that specified in any subsequent subdivision and shall not accept the evidence of age permitted by any subsequent subdivision unless he shall receive and file evidence that the evidence of age required by the preceding subdivision or subdivisions can not be obtained. REG. 3.-Authorization of acceptance of State certificates. States in which the age, employment, or working certificates, permits, or papers are issued under State authority substantially in accord with the requirements of the act and with regulation 2 hereof may be designated, in accordance with section 5 of the act, as States in which certificates issued under State authority shall have the same force and effect as those issued under the direct authority of this act, except as individual certificates may be suspended or revoked in accordance with regulations 4 and 8. Certificates in States so designated shall have this force and effect for the period of time specified by the board, unless in the judgment of the board the withdrawal of such authorization at an earlier date seems desirable for the effective administration of the act. Certificates requiring conditions or restrictions additional to those required by the Federal act or by the rules and regulations shall not be deemed to be inconsistent with the act. REG. 4.-Suspension or revocation of certificates.. SECTION 1. Whenever an inspector duly authorized under this act shall find that the age of a child employed in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, manufacturing establishment, mine, or quarry as given on a certificate is incorrect, or that the time record is not kept in accordance with regulation 8, he shall notify the child, the employer, and the issuing officer that the certificate or the acceptance of a State certificate for the purposes of this act is suspended and indicate such suspension on the certificate or certificates. SEC. 2. A statement of the facts for which the suspension was made shall be forwarded by the inspector to the Secretary of Labor, or such person as he may designate, who will either (a) revoke or withdraw the certificate or the acceptance of the certificate, or (b) veto the suspension according as in his judgment the facts of the case warrant. . Due notice shall be sent to the child's parent, guardian, or custodian, to the employer, and to the issuing officer of the action taken in regard to a suspended certificate. SEC. 3. If the suspension of a certificate be vetoed, a new certificate shall be issued upon the surrender of the one suspended. If for any |