CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIX.

No. 83.-JULY, 1909.

Women's trade union movement in Great Britain, by Katherine Graves

Busbey, A. B.:

Page.

Liability to victimization and apathy....

Attitude of male trade unionists to organization of women.

Growth of organization among women workers...

Results of organization of women workers.......

Aid secured through legal proceedings..

Recent legislation....

Crusade against living-in and truck systems.......

Protection against fines and imposition.

The marriage dowry.....

Conciliation and arbitration...

9, 10

11-18

18-22

22-32

22, 23

23-25

25-29

29-31

31, 32

32

The Women's Trade Union League...

32-43

Methods employed by the league....

32-37

Advantages of representation in the Trade Union Congress....

Advantages of affiliation with the General Federation of Trade

Unions....

37, 38

39-43

Relation of women's trade unions to low wages and the sweating system.

44-50

Conclusions...

50-58

Appendix....

58-65

Cost of living of the working classes in the principal industrial towns of France:

Scope of the investigation.....

Changes in retail prices and rates of wages between October, 1905, and

October, 1907...........

86, 87

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Earnings and hours of labor in British textile industries:

General summary.

Cotton industry...

Woolen and worsted industry.

Linen industry..

Jute industry..

Silk industry...

Page.

88-92

92-95

95-97

98,99

99

100, 101

101, 102

Hosiery industry.

Lace industry..

Digest of recent reports of state bureaus of labor statistics:

California-Thirteenth Biennial Report, 1907 and 1908: Hours and

wages-Factory inspection-Farm labor-Employment agencies--

Labor organizations-Child labor-Chinese and Japanese.........

Colorado-Biennial Report, 1907 and 1908: Coal production-Railroad

employees-Labor organizations-Free employment bureaus...

Connecticut Twenty-third Report, 1907 and 1908: New factory con-

struction-Effects of the industrial depression-Free public employ-

ment bureaus Child-labor conference-Strikes and lockouts-Em-

ployer's liability-Tenement houses..

Indiana-

Twelfth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Statistics, 1907 and 1908:

Labor organizations-Electric railroads.

102, 103

104, 105

106

106-108

108, 109

Sixth Biennial Report of the Indiana Labor Commission, 1907 and
1908....

Iowa-Thirteenth Biennial Report, 1906 and 1907: Graded wages and

salaries New industries-Trade unions-Wage-earners-Railroad em-

ployees Employers' statistical report-Canning industry.

Montana-Tenth report, 1905 and 1906: Labor-Industries...

Digest of recent foreign statistical publications:

109

109-111

111, 112

Belgium:

113

Reports on home workers in Belgium: Furniture industry at Malines,

the making of embroidery and women's apparel, and rope making.

Report as to wages and hours of labor in the metal-working industry. 113-120

Germany:

Report on unemployment in Berlin and 27 suburbs on November

17, 1908......

120-124

Report on unemployment in Halle on the Saale on January 10, 1909. 124-127

Report of the experience of the city of Magdeburg and of various

European governments in connection with the problem of unem-

ployment...

Great Britain:

128-136

Report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops for the year

1908....

137-141

Report of the chief inspector of factories on the administration of

the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901, by local authorities in

respect of workshops, outwork, etc., in 1907....

Italy: Report on the question of employment on Sundays and holidays..

Decisions of courts affecting labor:

Decisions under statute law...

142, 143

143

144-163

Assignments of wages-Rights of assignees-Priority of wage claims

over claims of mortgagees-Construction of statute (Union Trust Co.

v. Southern Sawmills and Lumber Co.).

Contract of employment-intent to defraud-constitutionality of

statute-imprisonment for debt (Bailey v. State)................

144-147

147, 148

Decisions of courts affecting labor-Concluded.

Decisions under statute law-Concluded.

Employers' liability-employment of children in violation of

statute-contributory negligence course of employment (Strafford

v. Republic Iron and Steel Co.)...

Employers' liability—railroad companies-construction of statute-

assumption of risk-acts in emergencies (Cleveland, Cincinnati,

Chicago and St. Louis Railway Co. v. Bossert)....

Employers' liability-safe place to work-questions for jury-as-

sumption of risk-construction of statute-contributory negli-

gence-course of employment (Harvey v. Texas and Pacific Railway

Co.)........

Labor organizations-strikes-injunctions-conspiracy-interfer-

ence with employment-secondary boycott-reciprocal rights of

employers and employees (Iron Molders' Union v. Allis-Chal-

mers Co.)......

Decisions under common law.

......

Page.

149, 150

150-153

153-157

157-163

163-181

163-165

165-167

Employer and employee-disclosure of trade secrets-confidential

relations injunction (Stevens & Co. v. Stiles)....

Employer and employee-wrongful discharge-remedy-duty to

seek new employment-burden of proof (Quick v. Swing).......

Employers' liability-duty of employer as to employment of com-

petent fellow-servants-evidence of incompetence-contract with

trade union as defense (Pearson v. Alaska Pacific Steamship Co.).. 167–169

Labor organizations-boycott-secondary or compound boycott-

conspiracy-injunction-unincorporated associations (The Ameri-

can Federation of Labor v. The Buck Stove and Range Co.)......... 169–179

Labor organizations-interference with employment-liability for

procuring discharge rights of members (Blanchard v. Newark Joint

District Council of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of

America et al.).

No. 84.—SEPTEMBER, 1909.

Accidents to railroad employees in New Jersey, 1888 to 1907, by Frederick S.

180, 181