CERTIFICATE This publication is issued pursuant to the provisions of the sundry civil act (41 Stats. 1430), approved March 4, 1921. Contents Special articles: Wastage of men, by Ethelbert Stewart, United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics.... Steadying the workers' income-Trade-union and joint out-of-work benefit plans, by Margaret Gadsby, of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics____ Industrial relations and labor conditions: Page 1-8 8-32 Work of Association of Governmental Labor Officials, 1923-24, by 33, 34 34-37 Grievances handled under an employce representation plan. Prices and cost of living: Retail prices of food in the United States.-- 37, 38 38-41 41-44 44-47 47-54 55-75 Retail prices of coal in the United States... 76-78 Index numbers of wholesale prices in May, 1924. 79 80-89 Comparison of retail price changes in the United States and foreign countries. Wages and hours in the blast-furnace, Bessemer, open-hearth, and tin-plate departments of the iron and steel industry, 1924---- 101-119 Effect of changes in hours of work on output_---Massachusetts-Earnings of male and female workers in manufacturing establishments, April, 1924...-- 124 New York State-Average weekly earnings in factories, April, 1924. 124, 125 Wages in the building industry in Marseilles... 125 125, 126 Sweden--Utilization of leisure resulting from eight-hour day.. 126 127 127, 128 Child labor: Child labor amendment to the Constitution... Indiana-Accidents to unlawfully employed children... Texas-Employment and welfare of children in cotton-growing areas. 128-130 Labor agreements, awards, and decisions: Labor agreements, awards, and decisions-Concluded. Amalgamated Clothing Workers-Baltimore___. Collective agreements reported to Ministry of Labor in 1923 Employment and unemployment: Page 139 140 140, 141 Light and power employees--Portland, Oreg- France 142, 143 143 Employment in selected industries in May, 1924. 144-153 Employment and earnings of railroad employees, April, 1923, and March and April, 1924. Extent of operation of bituminous coal mines, May 3 to 24, 1924- 154, 155 155, 156 156-158 Housing: Problem of unemployment among intellectual workers abroad.. 169–182 Effect of housing shortage on industry....... 182, 183 184, 185 Great Britain-Report of National House Building Committee___ 185-187 187-190 Industrial accidents and hygiene: Recommendation by American Safety Engineering Council of use of safety codes. _ _ _ _ 191 Coal-mine fatalities in the United States and Europe.. 191-193 193, 194 New York-Fatal industrial accidents in May, 1924___ 195 195 Workmen's compensation and social insurance: Amendment of Federal compensation act to include occupational diseases... New York Decision as to assessments on employers having employees without dependents_ - - 199, 200 Belgium - Sickness and invalidity insurance.. Denmark-Recent changes in invalidity insurance law. 200-202 202, 203 Workmen's compensation and social insurance-Concluded. France Application of law relating to occupational diseases, 1921 and Page 203, 204 Mutual social insurance societies in 1921_ 204, 205 Germany-Social insurance legislation in 1923 – 205-209 Italy-New regulation of unemployment and old-age and invalidity insurance. 209-211 Norway-Old-age pensions. 211, 212 Scandinavia and Finland-Reciprocity agreements on industrial accident insurance.......... 212 Labor laws and court decisions: Status of orders of United States Railroad Labor Board... 213-215 Spain Provision for technical education.... Labor organizations and conventions: Canada-Trade-unionism, 1923 Chile Trade-unions... Strikes and lockouts: Poland-Strikes in 1923.. Conciliation and arbitration: Conciliation work of the Department of Labor in May, 1924, by 218-220 221, 222 Where graduate apprentices in Wisconsin find work.... Australia-Intensive training for bricklayers in New South Wales. 222 222-224 224 225, 226 226 227 228-231 232 232, 233 South Africa-New conciliation and arbitration law_. Immigration: Statistics of immigration for April, 1924, by W. W. Husband, Commissioner General of Immigration........ 234-238 Admittance of wives and children of "nonquota" immigrants... 239-240 |