STATISTICS OF LABOR-1917. PREFATORY NOTE. The matter presented in this volume constitutes the Forty-eighth Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor for Massachusetts, and consists of four parts which have been issued by this Bureau as Labor Bulletins Nos. 119 to 122, respectively. Beginning with the year 1913, all of the publications of the Labor Division of the Bureau have been styled "Labor Bulletins," and a certain number of copies have been set aside for binding and publication at the end of the year under the title of the "Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor." The subject matter of the several parts, or bulletins, issued in 1917 may be briefly described as follows: PART I. SIXTEENTH ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1917. (Labor Bulletin No. 119.) This directory contains the name, location, place of meeting, and the name and address of the secretary and of the business agent of each labor organization having its headquarters in Massachusetts, together with a list of all of the national and international organizations having one or more affiliated local unions in the United States, and the names and addresses of their respective secretaries, in so far as these data could be ascertained. PART II. SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON UNION SCALE OF WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1916. (Labor Bulletin No. 120.) The information presented in this report was obtained principally from local trade unions in the Commonwealth whose members were known to be working under a time-rate system. The authority for the data presented in this report was derived in most cases from information furnished by organizations of employees. Exceptions, however, appear in the case of employees in the steam and electric railway service and in telephone, telegraph, and federal service, regarding whom the necessary information was obtained from wage scales furnished for the most part by the employers. To some extent information was also obtained from employers in order to supplement or confirm the data obtained from trade union officials. Except where otherwise specifically mentioned, the data. were as of the date, October 1, 1916. |