The matter presented in this volume constitutes the Forty-fourth Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor for Massachusetts. Part I is the twelfth annual directory of Labor Organizations, 1913, and was given to the public in pamphlet form on March 28, 1913, as Labor Bulletin No. 94. Part II contains the Labor Legislation enacted during the legislative session of 1913, an index of the bills affecting labor introduced during the session with the action taken on each, the veto messages of the Governor on labor bills, opinions of the attorney-general on pending legislation, a reprint of the labor legislation of 1912, and a cumulative index of the labor laws of the Commonwealth. This part was given to the public in pamphlet form on October 23, 1913, as Labor Bulletin No. 95. Part III is the fifth annual report on Labor Organizations and contains statistics of membership, unemployment, and union rates of wages and hours of labor in the various organized trades. The publications of the Bureau in the field of labor statistics were formerly presented in the annual report on the Statistics of Labor, the Labor Bulletin, and Special Reports. It was practically impossible, however, to draw any well-defined line of demarcation between those publications which should be issued as Labor Bulletins and those which should be styled "Parts" of an annual report on the Statistics of Labor, with the result that certain annual presentations in some years appeared as parts of the annual report and in others as bulletins, being somewhat arbitrarily assigned to either series as time and circumstances of publication might determine. In 1913, therefore, upon my recommendation, the law governing the number of copies of the annual report on the Statistics of Labor to be issued was amended (Chapter 358) so as to allow the Director to issue an additional number of the several "Parts" of said report, such as in his judgment might be required to meet the public demand. This act was approved March 26, whereupon it was decided to present all the reports compiled by the Labor Division in the form of parts of the Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor and to designate each part a Labor Bulletin, to be numbered consecutively, as issued, beginning with No. 94. Under this plan of publications, therefore, the Labor Bulletins issued during each fiscal year (ending November 30) will hereafter, beginning with this volume, constitute the annual report on the Statistics of Labor for the year. These reports continue to be prepared under the immediate supervision of Mr. Frank S. Drown, Chief Statistician of the Labor Division of the Bureau of Statistics, and Mr. Roswell F. Phelps, Assistant. CHARLES F. GETTEMY, Director, Bureau of Statistics. STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, November 30, 1913. CONTENTS. [Page references refer to the numbers in brackets at the bottom of the page.] PART II. - LABOR LEGISLATION IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1913, WITH TEXT OF An Act to facilitate the gathering of information relative to the wages of women and minors, Chapter 365. An Act relative to posting in country hotels notice of the hours of employment therein of women and minors, Chapter 389. An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a free employment office for minors of the city of Boston by the school Chapter 467. An Act to require the attendance of illiterate minors between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years in a public evening school, Chapter 673. An Act to increase the powers and further define the duties of the minimum wage commission, Chapter 758. An Act relative to the hours of employment of women and An Act relative to the establishment and maintenance of continuation schools and courses of instruction for working children, . |