III. REPORT ON THE COMPARATIVE FINANCIAL STATISTICS OF CITIES AND TOWNS. (ISSUED ANNUALLY.) Containing: Tabular presentations showing the Cost of Municipal Government in Massachusetts; Summarized Statement of All Receipts and Payments for the 354 Citles and Towns of the Commonwealth; Tabular Presentation of Municipal Indebtedness Compared with Assessors' Valuations; Statement of the Public Debt (itemized according to purpose of creation) and of the Sinking Funds for the 354 Cities and Towns of the Commonwealth; together with Analysis Tables and a Glossary of Classifications and Terms intended to promote uniformity in accounting and presentation of municipal reports. The first annual report on the Compara tive Financial Statistics of Massachusetts Cities and Towns for the financial year ending between November 30, 1906, and April 1, 1907, is issued in paper and cloth. The paper edition will be mailed on receipt of 11 cents or the cloth edition on receipt of 15 cents to cover cost of mailing. IV. REPORT ON THE FREE EMPLOYMENT OFFICES. Free employment offices are maintained under the jurisdiction of this Bureau in Boston, Springfield, and Fall River. The annual reports contain numerous statistical tables and descriptive matter relative to the work of the offices, and will be sent on receipt of 5 cents each to cover the cost of mailing. The reports are issued in January of each year, the first one covering the year ending Nov. 30, 1907. V. THE LABOR BULLETIN. The Bulletin contains a large variety of interesting and pertinent matter on the Socia and Industrial Condition of the Workingman, Summaries of Court Decisions affecting labor, etc. Some of the leading articles in recent issues are enumerated below. We can supply copies of Numbers 14, 15, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 40 to 51, 53 to 60, and 62 and they will be forwarded upon receipt of 5 cents each to cover the cost of mailing. No. 55, December, 1907. 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 The Oilcloth and Linoleum Industry in Massachusetts Recent Foreign Labor Legislation - Index to Volume XII (Bulletins Nos. 51 to 55). No. 56, January, 1908. Conciliation in British Trade Disputes-The Immigrant Population of Massachusetts - Employers' Associations — -Extracts from the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma. No. 57, February, 1908. The Unemployment Situation in Massachusetts - Recent Cases under the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. VI. THE DECENNIAL CENSUS. The Decennial Census of the Commonwealth for 1905 is to be published complete in four volumes as follows: Vol. I. POPULATION AND SOCIAL STATISTICS; about 1,000 pages. Will be sent on receipt of 35 cents to prepay carriage. (In preparation.) Vol. II. OCCUPATIONS AND SOCIAL STATISTICS; about 1,000 pages, Will be sent on receipt of 35 cents to prepay car. riage. (In preparation.) Vol. III. MANUFACTURES AND TRADE. 362 pages. (Now ready.) Will be sent on receipt of 20 cents to prepay carriage. Vol. IV. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, AND COMMERCE; about 600 pages. Will be sent on receipt of 30 cents to prepay carriage. (In preparation.) APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF PUBLICATION. MASSACHUSETTS Bureau of Statistics of Labor Rooms 250-258, State House, Boston MANUFACTURES DIVISION.-Engaged in the Preparation of the Annual Statistics of Manufactures. MUNICIPAL STATISTICS DIVISION.—Engaged in the Preparation of the Annual Comparative Financial Statistics of Cities and Towns. LABOR STATISTICS DIVISION. -Engaged in the Preparation of the Labor Bulletin, and Annual Reports on Strikes and Lockouts, Changes in Rates of Wages and Hours of Labor, Trade Unions, Special Investigations, etc. CENSUS DIVISION.-Engaged on the Decennial Census. FREE EMPLOYMENT OFFICES DIVISION. Boston Free Employment Office, 8 Kneeland Street. For a list of the publications of the Bureau see pages 3 and 4 of this cover. |