in the course of employment is being urged generally and more frequently. If, therefore, modifications of the law regarding accidents should be made at no distant date, a new order of things will arise for the liability companies to meet. Commission on Industrial Education. On January 8 Governor Guild appointed Milton P. Higgins, of Worcester, to be a member of the commission on industrial education, vice Mary Morton Kehew, resigned. The commission on industrial education has a representative of labor in the person of Charles H. Winslow, but there has been hitherto no representative of the employers of skilled labor on the commission. Mr. Higgins is the head of the Norton company, one of the leading machinery concerns in the Commonwealth, and was for many years a professor in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Emigration. That more than $110,000,000 was taken out of the United States in 1907 by the unprecedented outward rush of emigrants is the estimate of one of the large foreign steamship companies, which sought many different sources for information upon this point. All the authorities questioned agreed that the average amount of money taken home by the returning foreigners, estimated as numbering 550,045, is about $200. Temporary curtailment in the volume of immigration from Italy to the United States will undoubtedly result from the promulgation of the new Italian law, effective from January 1, prohibiting any but twin-screw vessels carrying immigrants from an Italian port. The new law affects only the carrying of immigrants, and does not operate as a restraint to the carrying of other pas sengers. The Chief of the Employment Bureau of the Department of Commerce and Labor has written letters to the boards of trade of the country asking that those organizations aid in the giving of assistance to the information bureau at Washington in obtaining employment for immigrants who come to this country in search of work and who do not know where to apply for positions. The board of trade associations are requested to furnish a list of all persons needing help of any nature, whether manufacturers, farmers, merchants or otherwise, and help of this kind may be easily obtained in this way. Trade Unions in the United Kingdom, 1906. The Labour Department of the Board of Trade reported that the number of trade unions known to be in existence in the United Kingdom was 1,161, with a total membership of 2,106,283. This membership was the highest on record, and shows an increase of 10.1 per cent compared with 1905. The most considerable changes in membership in 1906 were increases in 73,000 (or 15.3 per cent) in the coal mining group of unions; of 36,000 (or 13.8 per cent) in the textile group; and of 19,000 (or 23.7 per cent) among railway employees. In the building trade. unions, on the other hand, there was a decline in membership for the sixth year in succession. In 1906 the decline was 9,000 (or 4.5 per cent) compared with 1905. The number of female members of trade unions rose from 125,142 at the end of 1904 to 135,477 in 1905 and 162,453 in 1906, an increase of 29.8 per cent in two years. A large majority of the female trade unionists are engaged in the textile trades. During the 10 years under review $85,222,150 has been spent by the 100 principal unions. Of this amount about $18,852,800, or 22.1 per cent, has been spent on unemployed benefits; $11,411,950, or 13.4 per cent, on strike benefits; and $36,197,000, or 42.5 per cent, on other benefits (principally sick, accident, superannuation, and funeral benefits); the remaining $18,760,400, or 22.0 per cent, having been used in the payment of working and miscellaneous expenses. ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR. The following issues of the annual reports of this Department remain in print, and will be forwarded when requested upon receipt of the price set against each Part and bound volume. 1898. Bound in cloth, postage 15 cents. This report contains a special report on Unemployment, and Labor Chronology for the year 1893; this latter will be mailed separately for 5 cents. 1896. Bound in cloth, postage 15 cents. Contains, I. Social and Industrial Changes in the County of Barnstable (postage 5 c.); II. Graded Weekly Wages, 1810-1891, second part (postage 10 c.); III. 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Strikes and Lockouts in Massachusetts, 1906 (postage 5 c.); Part II. Recent British Legislation (postage 7 c.); Part III. Industrial Opportunities not yet Utilized in Massachusetts [second report] (postage 5 c.); Part IV. Annual Statistics of Manufactures-Comparisons for 1905 and 1906 (postage 5 c.); Part V. First Annual Report of the State Free Employment Offices (postage 5 c.). ANNUAL REPORTS ON THE STATISTICS OF MANUFAC TURES. Publication begun in 1886, but all volumes previous to 1893 (and 1901) are now out of print. Each volume contains comparisons, for identical establishments, between two or more years as to Capital Devoted to Production, Goods Made and Work Done, Stock and Materials Used, Persons Employed, Wages Paid, Time in Operation, and Proportion of Business Done. Beginning with the year 1904, the Annual Report on the Statistics of Manufactures was discontinued as a separate volume and now forms a part of the Report on Labor. The volumes remaining in print are given below, the figures in parentheses indicating the amount of postage: 1893 (15 c.); 1894 (15 c.); 1895 (15 c.); 1896 (10 c.); 1897 (10 c.); 1898 (15 c.), contains also a historical report on the Textile Industries; 1899 (10 c.); 1900 (10 c.); 1902 (10 c.); 1903 (10 c.). LABOR BULLETINS. These Bulletins contain a large variety of interesting and pertinent matter on the Social and Industrial Condition of the Workingman, together with leading articles on the Condition of Employment, Earnings, etc. The following numbers now remaining in print will be forwarded upon receipt of five cents each to cover the cost of postage. Non-Collectable No. 42, July, 1906. Indebtedness - Pawnbrokers' Pledges Hours of Labor in Certain Occupations -Labor Legislation in 1906 - Current Comment on Labor Questions: The Inheritance Tax-Industrial Information - - Industrial Agreements - Trade Union Notes - Recent Legal Labor Decisions-Excerpts Relating to Labor, Industrial, Sociological, and Gen. eral Matters of Public Interest-Statistical Abstracts. No. 46, February, 1907. Unemploy. ment in Massachusetts — State Free Employment Office - Insurance against Unemployment in Foreign Countries -The Metropolitan District-Population: Boston and Massachusetts Labor Legislation: United States and Canada, 1906 - Industrial Agreements Excerpts Statistical Abstracts - Industrial Information. Germany - Employees' Mutual Benefit Associations in Massachusetts, 1906 - Movement of Manufacturing Establishments in Massachusetts, 1906-Factory Construction in Massachusetts, 1906- Failures in Massachusetts, 1906-Trade Union Notes - Industrial Agreements - Recent Court Decisions Relating to Labor - Excerpts - Statistical Abstracts-Industrial Information. No. 53, October, 1907. Editorial Review Acute Diseases Workmen's Compensation Acts-The Industrial World. No. 54, November, 1907. Editorial Review - Chronic Diseases- Shipbuilding in Massachusetts Recent Court Deci. sions Affecting Labor Massachusetts Monthly Statistical Reports - The Industrial World. No. 55, December, 1907. Editorial Review-The Maimed, Lame, and Deformed -The President on Labor Matters-Massachusetts Average Retail Prices, October, 1907 The Need of Industrial Education in the Textile Industry Massachusetts Monthly Statistical Reports - The Oilcloth and Linoleum Industry in Massachusetts Recent Foreign Labor Legislation - Recent Court Decisions Affecting Labor - The Industrial World-Index to Volume XII (Bulletins Nos. 51 to 55). SPECIAL REPORTS. A Manual of Distributive Co-operation1885 (postage 5 c.). Reports of the Annual Convention of the National Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor Statistics in America-1902, 1908, 1904, 1905, 1906, and 1907 (postage 5 cents each). APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF PUBLICATION. |