U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Jp JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS ETHELBhRT STEWART, Commissioner BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES \ ( V[ A BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS/ * fllU MISCELLANEOUS SERIES PERSONNEL RESEARCH AGENCIES A GL'IDE ORGAN! IN EMPLOYMENT MANAGE 1' Labor 19'-25 (b) In other t'xecutivt* dop;irl ni.'iUs, ])oards, and conitnissions 25-4;5 II. Stair and municipal agencies : (r/) Slates alplialM'ticnlly 44-04 (/>) Cities. jjlilialMt.ic:illy M-W III. Nonoflicial aironck's : (a) Associations, societies, foundations, research bureaus and insti- tutions. alphabetically by name 67-105 (b) Universiiii's and tolle -<>.-, lOS-l'-H) Index __._ 201-207 3 488975 BULLETIN OF THE U. S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. NO. 299. WASHINGTON. NOVEMBER. 1921 PERSONNEL RESEARCH AGENCIES. INTRODUCTION. Tliis bulletin has been prepared in response to the request contained in the following resolution adopted by a preliminary conference on personnel resean-h. held in Washington, D. C., November 12, 1920, under the auspices of Engineering Foundation and National Research Council: l, That in <>nl<>r to provide the information al"uit existing agencies in the field of personnel res, 'arch. which is prerequisite to coordination of llioir work, (lie rnited States P.nrean of Lahor Statistics ho requested t<> undertake .' survey of such agencies and t<> issuo a hulletin describing their scope, methods, and present activities. The purpose of this preliminary conference, which was attended by 40 representatives of organizations of labor, manufacturers, em- ployment managers, engineers, physicians, educators, economists. and social workers, was to consider the practicability of bringing about cooperation among the many bodies conducting research relat- ing to persons employed in industry and commerce. As a result of its deliberations the Personnel Research Federation was organized in March, 1921. Personnel research has been construed to include within its scope studies and investigations of all kinds concerned with any of the problems of (a) employment management and industrial relations (such as selection and placement of employees, job analyses and speci- fications, rating and grading, lines of promotion, labor turnover, absenteeism, wage and other incentives, joint control, etc) ; (&) vo- cational psychology, including the development and standardization of intelligence and trade tests; (e) training of managers, foremen, and workmen, either in schools and colleges, in the factory, or under schemes of cooperation between educational. institutions and industrial establishments: (7) working conditions in* relation to output, includ- ing hours of labor, fatigue, lighting, ventilation, food; (e) health hazards and occupational diseases; (/) safety codes and appliances; also the special problems connected with the employment of women and young persons, foreign born workers and colored workers, the handicapped or disabled, and the mentally deficient or unstable. 5 t>\ INTRODUCTION. The agencies whose .activities are described herein are arranged in the following main divisions : (1) Official agencies: (a) Federal, (b) State, (c) Municipal. (2) Nonofficial agencies: (a) Associations, foundations, research bureaus, and institutions; (b) Universities and colleges. In each group the entries are arranged alphabetically. To facilitate reference to agencies concerned with a particular branch of personnel research a classified list arranged according to the following scheme is prefixed: Employment management. Intelligence tests, trade tests, etc. Psychopathic and mentally deficient employees. Placement. Unemployment. Industrial relations (incentives, adjustment, joint control, etc.). Cost of living. Budgets. Employment of women. - Child labor. Vocational guidance. Juvenile placement. Foreign-born workers. Colored workers. Handicapped arid disabled workers. Training. Vocational education. Working conditions. Hours of labor. Fatigue and efficiency. Industrial hygiene and occupational diseases. Industrial morbidity and mortality statistics. Safety. Accident prevention. Public employment (civil-service examinations, classification and salaries, efficiency ratings, retirement). AGENCIES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES. EMPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT. Federal agencies: Pa e e - Federal Board for Vocational Education 32 Federal Reserve Board. Governors' conference. Committee on per- sonnel 35 United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics 19 Shipping Board 41 Societies and institutions: Americiin Ai-ademy of Political and Social -^ 67 American Kiel-trie Railway Transportation and Trnllic Association 71 Associalion of Collegiate Si-!, 85 Boston Chamber of Commerce. Retail Trade Board 86 Bureau of Industrial Research *7 Bureau of Personnel Administration 89 Detroit Board of Commerce 100 Employment AIaiK!;:<-rs' Association, Boston . 101 Indus! rial Relations Association of America 105 Metroindit.au Lil'e insurance Co 118 National Association of Corporation Training 118 National Committee on 1'risons "i !..;l>oY . 123 X^acifte ODWrt Bureau of Kmpl yn;- .ich 142 ^Personnel Research Federation 143 Retail Research Association 146 Scott Company Laboratory l."io Universities and colleges : Boston University. College of Bu.- !:ninistr;'tir> Washington University. School of Commerce and Finance 105 University of Wisconsin. Bureau of Commercial and Industrial Relations 195 Department of Economics 190 INTELLIGENCE TESTS, TRADE TESTS, ETC. Federal agencies: United States. War Department. General Staff 42 State agencies: Boston Psychopathic Hospital 51 Minnesota School for Feeble-minded 52 New Jersey. Department of Institutions and Agencies 53 Municipal agencies: New York (City). Board of Education. Bureau of Reference, Re- search, and Statistics 65 Associations and institutions: American Electric Railway Transportation and Tariff Association,. 71 American Psychological Association 77 American Railway Association 79 Business Standards Association 91 Judge Baker Foundation 114 McLean Hospital 110 National Association of Directors of Educational Research 120 National Research Council. Division of Anthropology and Psychology. 131 Scott Company Laboratory 150 Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Committee on intelligence tests 153 Training School at Vineland, N. J. Department of Research 158 Traveling Engineers' Association 159 Universities and colleges: Brown University. School of Education 166 Carnegie Institute of Technology. Department of Psychology 171 University of Cincinnati. College of Engineering and Commerce 173 Clark University. Department of Psychology 174 Cleveland School of Education. Department of Psychology 175 Colorado State Teachers' College. Department of Psychology 175 Columbia University. Department of Psychology.- 175 Teachers' College. Department of Psychology 377 Dartmouth College. Department of Psychology 177 George Peabody College for Teachers. Psychological Laboratory 178 Harvard University. Psychological Laboratory 179 INTELLIGENCE TESTS, TRADE TESTS, ETC. 9 Universities and colleges Concluded. Page. University of Illinois. Bureau of Educational Research 182 Indiana University. Department of Psychology _ 1S2 State University of Iowa. Department of Philosophy and Psychology- 183 Johns Hopkins University. Psychological Laboratory 184 Lelaiid Stanford University. Department of Education 185 University of Michigan. Bureau of Mental Tests and Measurements- 186 University of Minnesota. Department of Educational Psychology 186 Department of Psychology 187 Ohio State University. Department of Psychology 189 Princeton University. Psychological Laboratory 193 Simmons College. Department of Psychology 193 University of Texas. Department of Psychology 195 University of Washington. Department of Psychology 195 University of Wisconsin. Department of Education 1!H Psychological Laboratory 197 University of Wyoming. Department of Philosophy and Psychology. 197 Yale University. Department of Education 197 Psychological Laboratory 198 PSYCHOPATHIC AND MENTALLY DEFICIENT EMPLOYEES. State agencies: Connecticut Commission on Child Welfare. Committee on defective*- 45 Boston Psychopathic Hospital 50 Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded 52 Minnesota School for Feeble-minded 52 Associations and institutions: American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Com- mittee on industrial relations 76 Engineering Foundation 102 Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene 117 National Committee for Mental Hygiene 122 National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor 123 State Charities Aid Association of New York. Committee on mental hygiene 155 Colleges: Smith College. Training School for Social Work 194 PLACEMENT UNEMPLOYMENT. Federal agencies: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics 1 19 Employment Service 24 State agencies: New York (State). Department of Labor. Bureau of Stat'st cs and Information 57 Associations and institutions: American Association for Labor Legislation 69 Coordinating Committee on Employment Activities in New York City_ 98 International Association of Public Employment Services 112 Ohio Council on Women and Children in Industry 142 Russell Sage Foundation . 148 10 AGENCIES CLASSIFIED AS TO PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. (Incentives, adjustment, joint control, etc.) Federal agencies: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Xavy Department !'> Railroad Labor Board 40 Shipping Board 41 Associations and institutions: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (57 American Academy of Political and Social Science 67 American Federal ion of Labor. Railway Employees' Denartme: 75 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 81 Baltimore Federation of Clothing Manufacturers 8> Bureau of Applied Economics Bureau of Industrial Research 87 Bureau of Personnel Administration s 1 .) Chamber of Commerce of the United Stales of America 1M Cleveland Chamber of Commerce 1)4 Industrial Information Service 104 Intel-national Association of Garment Manufacturprs. liunvu of Factory Practice and Industrial Relations 1 111 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union... TJH Labor Bureau, Inc 115 Merchants' Association of New York 117 National Civic Federation Hi! National Electric Light Association 1L'6 National Industrial Conference Board li'S National Retail Dry (Joods Association i: 5 :t New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce 140 Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Industrial relations com- mittee 144 Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Industrial inanagemeju council... 14<> Russell Sage Foundation. Department of Industrial Studies 1-ls United Typothetse of America. Department of Industrial Rehii 161 Westeni Efficiency Society 1(53 COST OF LIVING BUDGETS. Federal agencies: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics 19 Federal Reserve Board. Division of Analysis and Research 35 State agencies: Ohio. Industrial Commission. Department of investigation anil Statistics 5i> Associations and institutions: Bureau of Applied Economics 87 Bureau of Municipal Research, New York 89 Bureau of Municipal Research, Philadelphia 89 Iowa State Federation of Labor 113 Labor Bureau, Inc , iir> National Industrial Conference Board 12S New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 141 Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Industrial management council University of Chicago Settlement-- 17-S CHILD LABOR VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE - JUVENILE PLACEMENT. 11 EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. Federal agencies: United States. Bureau of Labor tv Women's Burnt u ----------------------- State agencies: California. Industrial Welfare Commission __ Connecticut. Department of Labor and Factory lns|Kviion 4ft District of Columbia. Minimum Wage Board ------ Kansas. Court of Industrial Relations ------------------- 48 ' seits. Department of Labor and Indusm-^. Division of imlnslrial safety _______________________________ ---------------- 4 ^ Division of minimum wu.ue ----------------------------- 50 Minnesota. Bureau of Women and Children ---------------- 52 Ne\v York (State). Department of Laiu>r. Bureau of Women in Industry __________________________ ------- & Oregon. Industrial Welfare Commission -------- Texas, Ruivau of Lal.or ----------- <>- Washington. Department of Labor and Industries. Industrial Wel- fare Committee _______________________ Wisconsin. Industrial Commission. Women's Deparl ni"iit --------- 03 Municipal agencies: Cleveland. State-City Five i-'.iuploymeut Servic- Women's dlviawai. 04 Associations and institutions: Ameri.-aii rouiM-il on l-:dti.':H_ . 71 liurean of N I Informntion _________ 90 Consumers' Le;;. '\i\'i -------------- 96 Consum; <>i Connecticut _____ . --------- >' Consumers' ! -yivania 97 Ciinsun.. M of N\v Jersey ------ Consul; , 'lie of NVw York ___________ National Consumers' League --------------- 124 Ohio Council on 'Women and Children in Industry ---- 142 liussell Sage Foundation _________________________ Woman's Educational and il Union _______________ 163 man's Oeeupational Bureau ------------- 1 ( ' : > Y. W. C. A. New York City, central branch-- 165 Colleges: Bryn Mawr College. Carolu Woerishoffer Graduate Department of Socia.l Economy and Social Research ____________________________ 166 Simmons College. School of Social Work_ ___________________ , ----- 193 CHILD LABOR VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE JUVENILE PLACEMENT. Federal agencies: United States. Bureau of Education, ___________________________ 26 - Children's Bureau ___________________________________________ '22 Employment Service. Junior division ------------------------ 24 Public Health Service ____________________________________ 38 State agencies: California. Bureau of Juvenile Research -------------------------- 44 Connecticut. Commission on Child Welfare _________________ _____ 45 Pennsylvania. Department of Labor and Industry _________________ 60 12 ACF.NC1KS CLASSIFIED AS TO PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES. Municipal agencies: Page. Cincinnati Public Schools. Vocation Bureau ! Kttn 13G Nela Uesejirch Laboratory I.". 4 -) .I! Manufacturing Co. Department of Industrial Hygiene 151 William H. Singer Memorial Research Laboratory 152 Tanner*' ('uuiK-il of the United Slates of America P5 Edward L. Trudeau Foundation 15M Wor ilth Bureau 164 Universities: Bryn Mawr College. Psychological Lai. 1G7 University of California. Department of Hygiene 1CS University of Cliicairo. < >tn -.. S. A. Spram:.- Memorial ! 17:! Harvard Medical School. Division of Indus! i 180 State Unhersity of Iowa. School of *' 184 Johns Hopkins University. School of II rid Public Henlth. Depart;; -'tit .f Physiology 184 Ohio Stale University. Department oi Puhhc I Menm, and Snni' 180 University of Pennsylvania. School of Publi^ Hygiene 180 Henry Phipps Instilute for the Study, Treatment, and Preven- tion of Tuberculosis 191 Yale I'liiversiLy. Laboratory of Applied- 1'hysiology 197 - School of Medicine. Department of Poblie Health 198 INDUSTRIAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY STATISTICS. Federal agencies: Pnited States. J?im:tu of Labor Ht:tisrfc.< 19 Public I K-a lib Service. Statistical Office 39 Associations and institutions: American Public Health Association. Section on Vit.nl Statistics. Committee on morbidity reports and mortality statistics in in- dustry __ 78 16 AGENCIES CLASSIFIED AS TO PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES. Associations and institutions Concluded. Page. International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Com- missions. Committee on Statistics and Compensation Insurance Cost Metropolitan Life Insurance Co Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce. Research Bureau__ 143 Prudential Insurance Co. of America 144 Workmen's Circle 165 SAFETY ACCIDENT PREVENTION. Federal agencies: United States. Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Labor Statistics 19 Bureau of Mines Bureau of Standards k 30 Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Locomotive Inspec- tion T 36 State agencies: California. Industrial Accident Commission. Department of Safety- 44 Massachusetts. Department of Labor and Industries. Division of industrial safety 49 New Jersey. Department of Labor. Bureau of electrical and me- chanical equipment , 53 Bureau of explosives 53 New York (State). Department of Labor. Bureau of industrial code 56 Bureau of Statistics and Information 57 Pennsylvania. Department of Labor and Industry. Industrial board 60 Wisconsin. Industrial Commission. Safety and sanitation depart- ment 63 Associations and institutions: American Dyes Institute 71 American Engineering Standards Committee 72 American Gas Association 75 American Railway Association 79 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 81 American Society of Refrigerating Engineers 82 American Society of Safety Engineers 82 Bureau of Safety 90 Conference Board on Safety ami Sanitation 95 Electrical Safety Conference 100 Grinding Wheel Manufacturers' Association of the United States and Canada 103 Illuminating Engineering Society 104 Institute of Makers of Explosives 110 International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Com- missions 111 National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness 123 National Electric Light Association 124 National Fire Protection Association 126 National Founders' Association 127 National Machine Tool Builders' Association 130 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. 17 Associations and institutions Concluded. Page. National Safety Council 133 National Workmen's Compensation Service Bureau 138 Portland Cement Association 144 Safety Institute of America 149 Southern Pine Association 154 Travelers' Insurance Company 158 Underwriters' Laboratories 159 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. (Civil-service examinations, classifications and salaries, efficiency rating, retirement.) Federal agencies: United States. Bureau of Efficiency 27 Bureau of Labor Statistics 22 Civil Service Commission 32 Navy Department. Departmental Wajje Board of Review 36 Women's Bureau 23 Associations and institutions: American Association of Engineers 60 Assembly oi Civil Service Commissions 83 Bureau of Municipal Research 89 Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America 93 Engineering Council 103 Institute for (lovernment Research 110 New Jersey Slate Chamber of Commerce 140 70723 Bull. 20921 2 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. (a) IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. 1712 (j Street. N W., Washington, D. C. Ethelbert Stewart, com- missioner. Organized January 1, 1885, under act of Congress approved June 27, 1884, as the Bureau of Labor in the Department of the Interior, it was given independent status as the Department of Labor (without Cabinet representation) in 1888. It again became the Bureau of Labor in 1903 under the Department of Commerce and Labor, from which it was transferred, with change of name to Bureau of Labor Statistics, to the present Department of Labor upon its establishment in 191-2. The function of the bureau as stated in the law creating it is to " collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity." Prior to July, 1912, the publications of the bureau consisted of annual and special reports and a bimonthly bulletin containing mis- cellaneous articles on labor and related topics. Since that time bulle- tins have been issued at irregular intervals, each number devoted to a special subject in one of the following groups, under which they are ified in recent printed lists, viz: Wholesale prices, Retail prices and cost of living. Wages and hours of labor. Employment and unem- ployment, Women in industry. Workmen's insurance and compensa- tion, Industrial accidents and hygiene, Conciliation and arbitration, Labor laws of the United States, Foreign labor laws, Vocational education, Labor MS aifected by the Avar, Miscellaneous series. They include also the Proceedings of the International Association of Pub- lic Employment Service (see p. 112), International Association of In- dustrial Accident Boards and Commissions (see p. Ill), and Associa- tion of Governmental Labor Officials (see p. 85), and of various employment managers' conferences (Nos. 196, 202, 227, 247). The studies on wages and hours of labor cover the following indus- tries: Anthracite and bituminous coal mining (No. 279); boot and shoe industry (Nos. 134, 154, 178, 232, 260, 278) ; clothing and cigars (Nos. 135, 161, 187) ; cotton goods (Nos. 128, 150, 190, 239, 262, 288) ; hosiery and underwear (Nos. 134, 154, 177) ; iron and steel (Nos. 151, 1GS, 218); lumber, millwork, and furniture (Nos. 129, 153, 235); men's clothing (No. 187); silk (Nos. 128, 150, 190); slaughtering and meat packing (Nos. 252, 294) ; building and repairing of steam 19 20 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. railroad cars (Nos. 137, 163) ; street railway employment (No. 204) ; woolen and worsted goods (Nos. 128, 150, 190, 238, 261, 289) ; petro- leum industry (No. 297, in press). They include also a special study of the dress and waist industry of New York City (No. 146) and the preliminary report of an industrial survey in selected industries, 1919 (No. 265). Results of other special investigations are included in the series of bulletins as follows: () Employment and Unctnplot/nn -nl: No. 172. Unemployment in New York City. 1915. 24 p. No. 182. Unemployment among women in department and other retail stores of Boston. 1916. 72 p. No. 183. Regularity of employment in the women's ready-to-wear garment industries. 1916. 155 p. No. 195. Unemployment in the United States. 1916. 115 p. No. 235. Employment system of the Lake Carriers' Association, by 1'. P. Brissenden. 1918. 58 p. No. 241. Public employment offices in the United States, by J. G. Herndon. 1918. 100 p. (b) Women in Industry: No. 116. Hours, earnings, and duration of employment of wage-earning women in selected industries in the District of Columbia, by M. L. Obenauer. 1913. 68 p. No. 119. Working hours of women in the pea canneries of Wisconsin, by M. L. Obenauer. 1913. 54 p. No. 122. Employment of women in power laundries in Milwaukee, by M. L. Obenauer. 1913. 92 p. No. 160. Hours, earnings, and conditions of labor of women in Indiana mer- cantile establishments and garment factories, by M. L. Obenauer and F. W. Valentine. 1914. 198 p. No. 176. Effect of minimum 1 wage determinations in Oregon, by M. L. Obe- nauer and B. von der Nienburg. 1915. 108 p. No. 180. The boot and shoe industry in Massachusetts as a vocation for women. 1915. 109 p. No. 193. Dressmaking as a trade for women in Massachusetts, by M. Allinson. 1916. 180 p. No. 215. Industrial experience of trade-school girls in Massachusetts. 1917. 275 p. No. 217. Effect of workmen's compensation laws in diminishing the necessity of industrial employment of women and children, by M. K. Conyngtoii. 1917. 170 p. No. 285. Minimum wage laws of the United States, by L. D. Clark. 1921. 345 p. (c) Industrial Accidents and Hygiene: No. 104. Lead poisoning in potteries, tile works, and porcelain enameled sani- tary ware factories, by Alice Hamilton. 1912. 95 p. No. 120. Hygiene of the painters' trade, by Alice Hamilton. 1913. 68 p. No. 127. Dangers to workers from dusts and fumes and methods of protection, by W. C. Hanson. 1913. 22 p. No. 141. Lead poisoning in the smelting and refining of lead, by Alice Hamil- ton. 1914. 97 p. No. 157. Industrial accident statistics, by F. L. Hoffman. 1915. 210 p. No. 165. Lead poisoning in the manufacture of storage batteries, by Alice Hamilton. 1915. 38 p. No. 179. Industrial poisons used in the rubber industry, by Alice Hamilton. 1915. 64 p. No. 209. Hygiene of the printing trades, by Alice Hamilton and C. H. Verrill. 1917. 118 p. No. 219. Industrial poisons used or produced in the manufacture of explosives, by Alice Hamilton. 1917. 141 p. No. 231. Mortality from respiratory diseases in dusty trades (inorganic dusts), by F. L. Hoffman. 1918. 458 p. No. 234. The safety movement in the iron and steel industtry, 1907 to 1917, by L. W. Chaiiey and H. S. Hanna. 1918. 299 p. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. 21 No. 236. Effects of the air hammer on the hands of stonecutters. 1918. 147 p. No. 251. Preventable death in the cotton manufacturing industry, by A U. Perry. 1919. 534 p. No. 2n:j. Women in the lead industries, by Alice Hamilton. 1919. 38 p. No. 2fii;. Accidents and accident prevention in machine building. Revision of No. 216, by L. \V. Chaney. 1920. 123 p. No. 'KM. Anthrax as an occupational disease, by J. B. Andrews. 1920. 186 p. No. 280. Industrial poisoning in making coal-tar dyes and dye intermediates, by Alice Hamilton. 1921. 87 p. No. 291. Carbon monoxide poisoning, by Alice Hamilton. 1921 (in press). No. 293. The problem of dust phthisis in the granite stone industry, by F. L. Hoffman. 1921 (in press). No. 298. Causes and prevention of accidents in the iron and steel industry, by L. W. Chaney. 1921 (in press). (9. Short-unit courses for wairc earners and a factory school experiment. 191H. 93 p. No. 1(52. Vocational education survey of Richmond, Va. 1916. 333 P; No. 19!). Vocational education survey of Minneapolis. 1917. 592 p. N-i. iL'.'J. Employers' welfare work, by K. L. Otey. 1913. 80 p. No. 208. 1'rom sharing in the United States, by P>. Emmet. 1917. 188 p. No. 2 .""><>. Welfare, work for employees in industrial establishments in the United States. 1919. 139 p. No. 2(J3. Housing by employers in the United States, by L. Maguusson. 1920. 283 p. No. 2s2. Mutual relief associations among Government employees in Wash- ington. I>. C., by V. B. Turner. 1921. 38 p. No.2S3. History of the Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board, by W. B. Hotcbkiss i>nd II. II. Stager. 1921. 107 p. No. 299. Personnel research agencies: a guide to organized research in employ- ment i:ma::onient. industrial relations, training, and working conditions, by J. 1). Thompson. 1921. The following special publications have been issued without serial numbering: Tentative quantity and co--t budget necessary to maintain a family of five in Washington, D. C., at a level of health and decency. 1919. 75 p. Wages and hours of labor in the coal-mining industry in 1919. 1919. 20 p. Minimum quantity budget necessary to maintain a worker's family of five at a level of health and decency. 1920. 20 p. Descriptions of occupations, prepared for the United States Employment Service, 1918-19: Boots and shoes, harness and saddlery. ;md tanning; Cane- sugar refining and flour milling: Coal and water gas. paint and varnish, paper, printing trades, and rubber goods; Electrical manufacturing, distribution, and maintenance: Logging camps and sawmills; Medicinal manufacturing; Metal working, building and general construction, rnilroad transportation, and ship- building: Mines and mining; Office employees; Slaughtering and meat packing; Street railways: Textiles and clothing; Water transportation. Since July, 1015, the bureau has published the Monthly Labor Re- view, which contains special articles on important phases of the labor question, summary reports of investigations by the bureau, and current labor news and information, e. g., prices and cost of living, wages and hours of labor, minimum wage, labor organizations and agreements, awards, and decisions, employment and unemploy- ment, women in industry, housing, industrial hygiene, accidents, workmen's compensation, labor laws and court decisions, strikes and lockouts, and what State labor bureaus are doing. Analyses of the data collected in the cost-of -living survey con- ducted by the bureau during the fall and winter of 1918-19 were 22 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. published in articles by Royal Meeker, W. F. Ogburn, and others in and June, 1920. Other special articles on the following personnel topics appeared in the numbers indicated : Disability among wage corn- con- Federal personnel policy, by W. E. Mosher (July, 1920) ; 'Separations from the Government service, by M. Conyngton (December, 19*20) ; Tonnage output per pick miner per day in bituminous coal fields, by Ethelbert Stewart (February, 1921); Industrial absenteeism, by R. S. Quinby (October, 1921). lucent papers dealing with industrial hygiene and occupational diseases include: Opportunities for the study of industrial medicine in the United States, by A. Shu ford. (May, 1920) ; Cost of occupational diseases under workmen's com- pensation acts in the United States, by C. Hookstadt (February, 1921) ; Occupational poisoning, by W. H. Rand (February, 1921). CHILDREN'S BUREAU. Twentieth and D Streets NW., Washington, D. C. Miss Grace Abbott, chief. Established by act of Congress approved April 9, 1912. the Chil- dren's Bureau is directed "to investigate and report * * * upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life," in- cluding "dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, employment." In its series of Publications, besides a compilation of child-labor laws (No. 10) and reports on their administration dealing with the employment certificate system of Connecticut (No. 12), New York (No. 17), Maryland (No. 41), Wisconsin (No. 85), and the adminis- tration of the first Federal child-labor law (No. 78), the bureau has published the following special studies : No. 74. Industrial instability of child workers. A study of employment cer- tificate records in Connecticut, by R. M. Woodbury. 1920. 80 p. No. 79. Physical standards for working children. Preliminary report of the committee appointed by the Children's Bureau to formulate standards of normal development and sound health for the use of physiciajis in exnr; children entering employment and children at work. 1021. 24 p. A summary of a study of the working children of Boston by TTetan &umner TVoodbury, dealing with the character, conditions, and effects of employment of children under 16 years of age, was pub- lished in the Monthly Labor Review, IT. S. Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics, v. 12, No. 1, January, 1921, p. 45-59. The bureau has in progress studies of (1) occupations open to minors, their educational requirements for entrance, and the oppor- tunities which they offer for advancement; (2) methods of juvenile guidance and placement. Under the latter, a field survey of methods of vocational guidance, juvenile placement, and supervision of work- ing children in 15 or 20 typical cities is to be undertaken by the bu- reau in the fall of 1921 in cooperation with the Junior division of the United States Employment Service. The trustees of the Notional IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. 23 Vocational Guidance Association are serving as an advisory com- mittee in connection with this project. Investigations planned for the near future cover: (1) The rela- tion between occupation and physical development and health of working boys and girls of different ages in selected employments; (2) the accident risk of different occupations with special reference to age. WOMEN'S BUREAU. Twentieth and D Streets NW., Washington, D. C. Miss Mary Anderson, director. Organized as the " Woman in Industry Service " in July, 1918, during the war emergency, to serve as a policy forming and advisory body; established as a permanent- bureau by act of Congress ap- proved June 5, i ( .h!0, ''to formulate standards and policies which shall promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their op- portunities for profitable employment," and "to investigate and re- port upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of women in in- dustry." The publications which have been issued by the bureau consist of annual reports of the director, a series of Bulletins (Nos. 1 to 17, IDID-ID'JI), and charts of labor legislation affecting woman workers. The bulletins include, besides studies of labor laws (Nos. W 2, 5, (5, 7, 16) and standards for employment of women in industry (No. tt), the following reports of special investigations: No. 1. I'r"p'>sed employment of women during the war in the industries of ra Kails. I'.HX. 1C, j>. (From Monthly Labor Ueview, V. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, .him-, 11)11). 1 No. 4. Wages of eamly linkers in i'iiil.idelphiu in 1919. 1919. 46 p. No. s. Women in the Government service, by 1'erilia M. Nienhurg. 1919. .",7 p. (.\! examinations open to women, appointments and salar 1 <"*!!!M;i f"d with II!" 1). Home work in JKridgt'p"' ' 1919. 35 p. (Deals with < and garter my kin. 1 conditions of work for women in industry in Virginia. H2 p. (Survey made :. ;iiest of Hie governor. ) No. 11. Won. ar conductors and ticket, agents. 1920. 86 p. (Sur- vey in Ieti-oii. Kansas City (Mo.), Host on. and CliU'ago ; women's hours and conditions of work compared with men's.) No. 12. New position of women in American industry. 1920. 158 p. (Sur- vey made under the war-work council of the V. VV. C. A.) No. 13. Industrial opportunities and training for women and girls. 1920. 48 p. (Covers 100 schools in 20 States.) No. 14. A physiological basis for the shorter working day for women, by Georg" \V. Webster. U>21. 20 p. No. l-">. Some effects of legislation limiting hours of work for women. 1921. 26 p. (A comparison of the effect of the v setts 48 hours with the New y 60 hours.) 17. Women's wages in Kansas. 1921. 104 p. (Survey of hours, wages, and conditions of work of women in selected industries in 31 cities made in cooperation, with the Kansas Industrial Welfare Commission.) Preliminary report of a survey of wages, hours, and conditions of work of women in industry in Georgia. 11)21. ;i5 p. Similar local investigations "of women in industry undertaken by the bureau are in progress in Ohio (hours and working condi- tions), Minnesota (wages and hours), Rhode Island (wages and hours), 'Manchester, N. IT. (dependency of 500 families on woman 24 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. workers, stability of women employees, continuity of employment and unemployment). A survey of Negro women in industry was made by this bureau December, 1918, to June, 1919, and a summary of the data secured is included in the second report of the Division of Negro Economies (see v. infra). UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. Twentieth and C Streets NW., Washington, D. C. Francis I. Jones, director general. A public emplo3 7 ment service was organized in a limited way in the Bureau of Immigration in 1907, under the direction of 'its Division of Information. This was developed from 1914 to 1917 under the present name and in December, 1917, was separated from the Bureau of Immigration and made a service in the office of the Secretary of Labor. A plan for classifying adults, registered with the Service, by the use of a modification of the army trade tests was tried out experi- mentally in the New York office, 1184 Broadway, during the first three months of 1919; but reduction of the appropriations for con- ducting the Service made it necessary to discontinue the work. JUNIOR DIVISION. Miss Mary Stewart, director. This division deals with the youth of the county, both sexes, between legal work- ing age and twenty-one. Its purpose is (a) to aid the schools of the country in assisting their charges to select and to prepare for some definite occupational responsibility in which they may be efficient, productive, and constructive workers ; (b) to do everything possible to secure for them the type of position in which they may utilize their abilities to the best possible advantage; (1 p. No. -'2. ('ours*- of instruction in piano, making. i>~> p. No. 2I1 Outline courses for instruction in lithography and photolithography. 23 p. No. 24. Industrial training for foundry workers. 68 p. No. 25. A course of instruction for workers in the cotton mills. 64 p No. 20. The foreman. 79 p. WORKING CONDITIONS SERVICE. This service was organized in three divisions: (1) Industrial hygiene and medicine, consisting of personnel detailed from the U. S. Public Health Service, (2) Labor administration^ (3) Safety engineering. The scope, functions, and activities of this service are described in its report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919 (35 p.), and a pamphlet entitled "Treatment of industrial problems by constructive methods" (15 p.) ; also in the House hearings on the sundry civil appropriation bill for 1920 (p. liVJT-1551). It was discontinued July 1 ? 1919, through failure of appropriations. The results of two special studies were published as follows: Investigation into dermatic effect and infective character of a lubricating compound, hy F. E. Deeds. 1919. 8 p. Safeguarding workers in the tanning industry, by R. S. Bonsib. 1919. 121 p. (b) IN OTHER EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. D. J. Price, engineer in charge of grain-dust explosion investi- gations. Since 1913 the Bureau of Chemistry has been making studies of the causes of dust explosions in grain elevators, feed, cereal and flour mills, starch factories, sugar refineries, and other industrial plants which handle grain, and has developed and tested effective preventive methods. Field investigations of mill, elevator, and thrashing-machine explosions have been made. An experimental 26 J. I'-;:"!;RAL attrition mill was erected at Pennsylvania State College in 1915 and experiments on gr a in- dust explosions have been conducted there under a cooperative agreement between the Department of Agricul- ture and the college. Large scale tests have been made at the test- ing station of the Bureau of Mines at Bruceton, Pa., in the large steel gallery used for experiments on the inflammability of coal dusts. An extensive educational campaign for the prevention of grain- dust explosions was inaugurated in the fall of 1917 by the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Food Ad- ministration, The United States Grain Corporation assumed finan- cial control of this campaign in July, 1919. A preliminary report on the explosibility of grain dusts, by D. J. Price and H. H. Brown, containing the results of the first investigation made in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Mines and the millers' committee of Buffalo, N. Y, was published by that committee in 1914 (now out of print). The later work is de- scribed in the following publications: Price, D. J., and McCormick, E. B. Dust explosions and fires in grain sepa- rators in the Pacific Northwest. 1916. (U, S. Department of Agriculture, Bul- letin 379.) Dedrich, B. W., Fehr,. R. B., and Price, D. J. Grain-dust explosions; in gation in the experimental attrition mill at Pennsylvania State Collect*. r.)18. (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 681.) Roethe, H. E., and Bates, E. N. The installation of dust-collecting uu thrashing machines for the prevention of explosions and fires and for grain cleaning. 1920. (Department Circular 98.) United States Grain Corporation. Grain-dust explosion prevention. New York, 1920. Proceedings of conference of men engaged in grain-dust explosion and fire-prevention campaign, New York, April 22-24, 1920. New York, 1920. Circulars, posters, etc., for use in educational campaign. The Bureau of Chemistry has also made investigations of cotton- gin fires and has found the main cause of ignition is static electricity. It has prepared a circular describing methods for preventing such fires (Department Circular 28). BUREAU OF EDUCATION. Pension Building, Washington, D. C. John James Tigert, commissioner. Special studies on educational subjects by its own staff and other specialists are published by this bureau in its series of bulletins. These have included local studies of industrial education in the United States, e. g., at Columbus, Ga. (1913, No. 25), Worcester, Mass. (1913, No. 17: A trade school for girls), Cleveland, Ohio (1913, No. 39), and Wilmington, Del. (1918, No. 25); reports on vocational and higher technical education in foreign countries (1913, No. 54; 1914, No. 23; 1915, No. 33; 1917, No. 11) : papers on voca- tional secondary education (1916, No. 21) and vocational guidance (1914, No. 14; 1918, Nos. 19, 24) in the public-school systems; teach- ing English to the foreign born (1919, No. 80) and training teachers for Americanization (1920, No. 12) ; and the following issues dealing with various systems of training and with education for particular occupations : 1908, No. 6. The apprenticeship system in its relation" to industrial educa- tion, by Carroll D. Wright. IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 27 1913, No. 50. The Fitchburg plan of cooperative industrial educntion, by M. R. 1916, No. 34. Service instruction of American corporations, by L. F. Fuld, 1916, No. 37. Cooperative system of education, by C. W. Park. 1909, No. 10. Education for HnViewv m railroad service, by J. S. Eaton. 1917, No. 9. Department-store education, by Helen R. Norton. Some of the effects of a system of industrial espionage, discovered in the course of an investigation of the problem of adult education in Passaic, N. J., by Mrs. A. B. Fernandez, are described in her report published as Bulletin 1920, No. 4. During 1919-20, six numbers of a series of Industrial edu cation circulars were issued : No. 1. Lessons from the war and their application in the training of teachers. No. 2. The cooperative school. No. 3. Industrial art M national asset. No. 4. The Army trade tests. No. 5. Progress in i.bo preparation of industrial teachers. No. G. Examples of #ood teaching in iudu.-trial education. Nos. 1 and 5 are reports of conferences of men from institutions in the Mississippi Valley engaged in training teachers ol the m-mual arts and industrial education, December, 1918, and December, 1919; and Nos. 4 and 6 are reports of conferences of specialises in indus- trial education, February. liHi), and February, n-JO. The confer- ences were called by the United States Commissioner of Education. Bibliographies of industrial, vocational, and trade education have been issued as Bulletin U)i;>, No. % 2 V 2, and. Library Leaflet No. 7. Current titles arc included in the "Monthly record of educational publications" which is published in the bulletin sen BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Winder Building, Seventeenth and F Streets, Washington, D. C. Herbert D. Brown, chief. Established as ->n of the Civil Service Commission by au- thority of the legislatixe, executive, and judicial appropriation act a] (proved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 750) ; made an independent estab- lishment im< -ont name by the urgent deficiency appropria- tion act approved February 28, 1916 (39 Stat, 15). The duties of the Bureau of Efficiency are to establish and maintain ;tem of effic .tings for the executive departments in the District of Columbia ; to investigate the needs of the several execu- departments and independent establishments with respect to personnel; and to investigate duplication of statistical and other work and methods of business in the various branches of the Gov- ernment Service. The first personnel work undertaken by the bureau was the est ab- sent of a system of efficiency rating in the Division of Dead Let- ters of the Post Office Department. This system, developed and led so as to be applicable to other classes of work, was estab- lished experimentally throughout the entire Post Office Department in December, 1914, and formally promulgated by Executive order of June L'3, 1915. A description of the procedure followed in rating .-.-iicy, the text of this order and the forms used are printed in. the report of the bureau for the period from March 25, 1913, to October 13, 1916. During this period informal ratings were made in 28 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. the office of the Treasurer of the United States, the National Bank Redemption Agency, the State Department, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts of the Navy Department. In 1919 an efficiency record sec- tion was created in the Division of Loans and Currency of the Treas- ury Department, and two systems for obtaining ratings were sub- sequently developed so as to include all employees of that office, one applying to work susceptible of precise measurement and the other to work not measurable in quantitative units. In 1920 the system was also put into operation in the office of the Register of the Treasury. By Executive order of October 24, 1921, the bureau was directed by the President to prescribe a sj^stem of rating the efficiency of em- ployees throughout the classified service. The bureau operated a training school for correspondence clerks in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance during 1918 and assisted with the establishment of a school for training revenue collectors in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. In June, 1919, an investigation of the desirability of establishing a training school for Federal employees in the District of Columbia was undertaken. A report on this sub- ject and recommendations with respect to the conduct of such a school were transmitted to the Senate March 3, 1920, and printed as Senate Document No. 246 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, second session. An investigation of the methods and procedure of the Civil Service Commission, authorized by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of March 3, 1917 (39 Stat. 1080), has recently been completed and a report is to be submitted to Congress in the near future discussing all phases of the work of the commission, in- cluding methods of recruiting candidates, examinations, ratings, and certifications, w r ith recommendations for changes in policy and prac- tice which, in the opinion of the bureau, would enable the commis- sion to perform more efficiently its primary function, that of an employment department for the Government service. By the same act of Congress the bureau was directed to make an investigation of the classification, salaries, and efficiency of Federal employees in the District of Columbia and a comparison of the rates of pay of employees of the Federal Government with those of State and municipal governments and commercial institutions performing similar services. This work, suspended during the war and again, during the life of the Joint Commission on Reclassification of Sal- aries, 1 was resumed at the beginning of 1920 at the direction of mem- bers of the House Committee on Appropriations. A brief classifi- cation of Government positions has been made and ranges of pay have been suggested for each class. 2 Prior to the passage of the retirement act of 1920 the bureau col- lected elaborate statistics on the personnel of the Government service and from these made actuarial calculations for the Senate Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment as to the cost of retiring civil employees of the Government under the various plans proposed. ir rhe report of this Joint Commission, created Mar. 1, 1919, by section 9 of the li-^is- lative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for 1919-20, submitting- a classification of positions on the basis of duties and qualifications, and schedules of compensation for the respective classes (107, 8*4 p.). was printed as House Doc. 68t>, 06th Coup., 2d scs. 2 Incorporated in one of the pending reclassification bills, viz : H. R. 2921, 67th Con- press. A different plan, the Lehlbach-Sterling bill (H. R. 8928), was, however, reported by the House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, Nov. 3, 1921. IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 29 BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE. Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. Philip B. Ken- nedy, director. This bureau has cooperated with the Federal Board for Vocational Education in the preparation and publication of texts and educa- tional guides on training in foreign commerce and shipping, which have been issued in its Miscellaneous Series, as follows : No. 81. Selling in foreign markets. 1919. 638 p. No. 85. Paper work in export trade. 1920. 152 p. No. 97. Training for foreign trade. 1919. 195 p. No. 98. Training for the steamship business. 1920. 49 BUREAU OF MINES. Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. \S/ Foster Bain, director. Established by act of Congress, approved May 16, 1910 (37 Stat. 681), this bureau is authorized to conduct investigations designed to improve health and safety in the mineral industry, and to promote efficient development and utilization of mineral resources. Its work is organized under (a) the investigations branch, consisting of the technical divisions of mining, mineral technology, fuels, metallurgy, petroleum and natural gas, and the division of mining experiment stations; (ft) the operations branch, including the divisions of office administration, education and information, mine-rescue cars and stations, explosives, and the Government fuel yard. The principal experiment station and central laboratories are at Pittsburgh, Pa.; other experiment stations are located at Bartlesville, Okla. (petro- leum) ; Berkeley, Calif.; Columbus, Ohio (ceramics); Fairbanks, Alaska ; Golden, Colo. ; Minneapolis, Minn. ; Salt Lake City, Utah ; Seattle, Wash. ; Tucson, Ariz. ; Urbana. 111. ; and appropriations have been made for two new mining experiment stations, which will serve the Birmingham (Ala.) and St. Louis (Mo.) districts. The bureau has an experimental mine at Bruceton, Pa., for explosion tests, etc. Investigations are also carried on under cooperative agreements with various State universities, mining schools, bureaus and commissions, and other agencies. Each annual report of the director contains a record of investigations completed or in progress. For purposes of safety work the country is divided into nine safety districts, each with a district engineer in charge; and the bureau maintains in them 10 mine-rescue cars and 9 safety stations, which render aid at mine disasters, and at which about 10,000 miners each year are trained in first-aid and mine-rescue methods. The publications of the bureau are the Bulletins and the Technical Papers (containing the results of investigations), the Miners' Cir- culars (written in nontechnical English and dealing with accident prevention, rescue and first-aid methods, the safeguarding of health, and other topics that directly concern the workers in mines, mills, and metallurgical plants), the annual reports of the director, and miscellaneous handbooks on special subjects, posters, charts, and schedules. A printed list of them may be obtained on application. A mimeographed series of brief reports, presenting results of minor investigations on special phases of major investigations, is also issued and distributed to the technical press and to Government organiza- tions, companies, or individuals interested. 30 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. Among the studies which have been published as Bulletins or Tech- nical Papers are many dealing with mine hazards, rescue and first- aid training for miners, health and safety conditions in mines, quar- ries, and metallurgical plants, explosives and equipment used in mines and quarries, and related subjects, viz: Coal dust, explosion tests, etc. (Bulletins Nos. 20, 50, 56, 102, 141, 167). Mine eases, explosibility. etc. (Bullet ins Nos. 42, 72, 195; Technical Papers Nos. 39, 43, 119, 121, 134, 150, 190) ; ignition by incandescent lamps (Bulletin No. 52 ; Technical Papers Nos. 23, 28). Prevention of explosions (Technical Papers Nos. 21, 56, 84). Safety of mine electrical equipment ( Bulletin Nos. 40, 68; Technical Papers Nos. 19, 44, 75, 101, 138) ; of other equipment and operations (Bulletins Nos. 57, 74; Technical Papers Nos. 103, 228, 237). Accident prevention in metal mines (Technical Papers Nos. 30, 229) ; use of stenches as warnings (Technical Paper No. 244). Safety in stone quarrying (Technical Paper No. 111). Mine rescue and first aid, gas masks, etc. (Bulletin No. 62; Technical Papers Nos. 82, 248) ; carbon monoxide detection and effects (Technical Papers Nos. 11, 62, 122) ; Report of the committee on resuscitation from mine gases (Tech- nical Paper No. 77). See also Yale University, laboratory of applied physiology (p. 197). Occupational diseases: Miner's nystagmus (Bulletin No. 93); pulmonary diseases due to rock dust in metal mines (Bulletin No. 132; Technical Papers Nos. 105, 260) ; control of hookworm infection (Bulletin No. 139). Blast furnaces, hazards, and accident prevention (Bulletins Nos. 130, 140; Technical Paper No. 136) ; asphyxiation by blast-furnace gas (Technical Paper No. 106). Steel plants, health conservation (Technical Paper No. 102) ; dust hazards (Technical Paper No. 153) ; carbon monoxide poisoning (Technical Paper No. 156). Explosibility of acetylene (Technical Paper No. 112) ; inflammability of aluminum dust (Technical Paper No. 152) ; gasoline hazards (Technical Papers Nos. 115, 127). Also accident statistics for coal mines, coke ovens, metal mines, quarries, and metallurgical works. As the result of 13 years' experience in testing and in assisting manufacturers to develop explosives which offer the minimum hazard, when properly used, in gaseous and dusty mines, the bureau has prepared standard specifications for the testing and use of per- missible explosives for use in mines (schedule 17), which have recently been submitted to the American Engineering Standards Committee for approval as " tentative American standard." BUREAU OF STANDARDS. Washington, D. C. S. W. Stratton, director. . In 1913, under authorization of Congress, this bureau began the study of the hazards of electrical practice, and from the start has had the active cooperation of all the interests concerned. This has involved not only the study of existing requirements on electrical construction embodied in State statutes, commission orders, city ordi- nances, company specifications, technical association reports, and regulations in force in foreign countries, and of current electrical practice, but also a series of investigations covering such matters as strength of splices in wires, strength of poles, weather conditions in different parts of the country, shielding effect of wires upon others mounted on the same line, methods of making ground connections, resistances of various types of ground in various soils, preservative treatment of wood and its effect upon conductivity, etc. IK OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 31 Two tentative editions of the National Electrical Safety Code issued in 1914 and 1916 as Circular No. 49 and Circular No. 54 were superseded in 1921 by the third edition published as Handbook Series No. 3. This has been submitted to the American Engineer- ing Standards Committee for approval, the Bureau of Standards having been assigned the sponsorship for the electrical safety code in the safety program of that committee. ' (See p. 73.) It consists of parts 1 to 3, dealing respectively with installation and main- tenance of (1) electrical supply stations and substations, (2) over- head and underground supply and signal lines, (3) utilization equip- ment; part 4. rules for the operation of equipment and lines; and supplementary sections which include rules for protective grounding of equipment and circuits. The discussion of the rules which ac- companied them in the second edition has been omitted and is to appear considerably amplified in a separate publication. Handbook Series No. 4, now in press. Circular No. 72 (1JH8), entitled "Scope and application of the national electrical safety code," gives further details of its preparation, describes typical accidents, suggests pro- cedure of inspections, and summarizes the rules. The researches on ground conned inns for electrical systems were published as Tech- nologic Paper No. 10S. In 1918 the bureau cooperated with the safety engineers of the War vy Departments in the preparation of a set of safety standards to be applied in the (Jo\ eminent establishments. Among these standards was one for head and eye protection, which was further developed through study and experimental work at the bureau and conferences with other p;t tio had had experience in eye protection, and then revisMJ in li)20 by an advisory committee organized for the purpose. It has now been published under the title ib National safety code for the protection of the heads and eyes of industrial worker-." as Handbook Series Xo. 2 (1921) : and having been developed by an organ i/ation and procedure substantially in conformity with the rules of the American P]ngineering Standards Committee, it has been approved as 4i recommended American prac- tice " by that committee, which had previously recognized the bureau as sponsor for this safety code. The bureau is also sponsor for the safety code for logging and sawmill operations and has organized the sectional committee repre- senting the different interests concerned and prepared the first draft. It is joint sponsor for several other codes in preparation under the auspices and rules of procedure of the American Engineering Stand- ards Committee (see p. 74), viz, the gas safety code, for which it has made a number of investigations relating to the use of illumi- nating gas; the safety code on aeronautics; the code for lightning protection, on which subject it had previously published investiga- tions in Technologic Paper No. 56. It is a member of the Electrical Safety Conference- (see p. 100), which is sponsor for the safety code on electrical power control and engaged in the development of other safety standards also. In connection with the elevator code recently compiled by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (see p. 81) the bureau made a survey of field conditions with respect 'to elevator interlocks and has prepared a report on the subject which it expects to publish. 32 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. It is cooperating with several State commissions in the preparation of safety rules and has representatives on the sectional committees developing safety codes for which various technical associations are sponsors. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 1724 F Street NW., Washington, D. C. John T. Doyle, secre- tary ; Herbert A. Filer, chief examiner. The chief examiner's office has recently given special attention to modification of the examination for departmental clerk, so as to re- duce the time occupied by the examiners in handling and rating the papers and thus the cost of the examination without interfering with its efficiency as a test of fitness for the clerical service. This has been accomplished partly by mechanical adjustment (i. e., size of papers, methods of handling, etc.) and partly by changing the character of some of the tests, e. g., arithmetic. In regard to the technical ex- aminations, the consultant expert retained by the commission for this investigation has advised against the use of trade tests under present conditions. During 1918-19 the Army alpha psychological test was given to 105 of the commission's employees and the results compared, in charts and tables, with the grades attained by these employees in the com- mission's examinations and with the efficiency ratings of these per- sons as reported by their chiefs of division. Facing a large reduction of its staff July 1, 1921, clue to a cut of $60,000 in the appropriation for the fiscal year 1921-22, the commission used the graphic rating scale, devised by the Scott Co., as an aid to eliminating the least efficient of its employees at that time. The thirty-seventh annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, includes a survey of employment conditions in the Federal civil service (p. xx-xxvii) and an account of the special method adopted in applying the merit principle to the selection of post- masters (p. xxxiii-xxxv). FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Washington, D. C. Lewis II. Carris, administrative head. Created by the act of Congress, approved February 23, 1917, which provided Federal aid for vocational schools and classes and teacher training carried on- under the direct supervision or control of State boards of vocational education, in accordance with plans approved by the Federal board. Its primary function is the administration of this act. In addition, it is charged with the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry under the act of Con- gress, approved June 2, 1920. By each of these acts the board is authorized to make studies, investigations, and reports. The duty of directing the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines, imposed by the act of June 27, 1918, was transferred to the Veterans* Bureau by the act of Congress creating that bureau, approved August 9, 1921. The first studies issued by the board in its bulletin series dealt with emergency war training courses as follows : Bulletin No. 2. Training conscripted men for service as radio and buzzer operators (international code) in the United States Arm.v. 1917. 14 p. IX OTHKFv DKPAUTMKNTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 33 Bulletin No. 3. Emergency training in shipbuilding evening and part-time classes for shipyard workers 11)18. 72 j>. (Contains job analyses for shipyard occupations and comparisons w'i'h kindred trades.) Bulletin No. 4. Mechanical and technical training for conscripted men (Air Division, U. S. Signal Corps.) 1918. 47 p. Bulletin No. 7. Emergency war training for motor-truck drivers and chauf- feurs. 1918. 75 p. Bulletin No. 8. Emergency war training for machine-shop occupations, black- smithing, sheet-metal working, and pipe fitting. 1918. 48 p. Bulletin No. 9. Emergency war training for electricians, telephone repairmen, linemen, and cable splicers. 1918. 31 p. Bulletin No. 10. Emergency war training for gas-engine, motor-car, and motor-cycle repairmen. 1918. 79 p. Bulletin No. 11. Emergency war training for oxyacetylene welders. 1918. 80 i>. Bulletin No. 16. Emergency war training for radio mechanics and radio operators. 1918. 75 p. During the war a number of Government agencies combined to carry on the training o f employment managers under the immediate direction of the War Industries Board. When the latter was discon- tinued December 31, 1918, provision was made by the President, from the appropriation for national security and defense, for the continua- tion of this work under the auspices of the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education until July 1, 1919. Subsequently, nine bulletins dealing with certain phases of employment management were pub- lished, forming the following series : Employment Management Series. No. 1. Employment management : iis rise and scope. The organization of an employment department. By B'-yd Kishcr and Edward D. Jones. 1920. 34 p. (Bulletin No. 50.) No. i'. The selection and placement of employees. By Philip J. Reilly. 1919. 84 p. (Bulletin No. 49.) No. 3. Job specifications. By Franklyn Meine. 1919. 64 p. (Bulletin No. 45.) No. 4. Employment management and industrial training. By Roy W. Kelly. 1919. 107 p. (Bulletin No. 48.) No. 5. The wage-setting process. By Alfred B. Rich. 1919. 32 p. (Bulletin No. 44.) No. G. The turnover of labor. By Boris Emmet. 1919. 60 p. (Bulletin No. 46.) No. 7. Industrial accidents and their prevention. By R. R. Ray. 1919. 66 p. (Bulletin No. 47.) No. 8. The labor audit: a method of industrial investigation. By Ordway Tead. 1920. 48 p. (Bulletin No. 43.) * No. 9. Bibliography of employment management. By Edward D. Jones. 1920. 119 p. (Bulletin No. 51.) The results of the research work undertaken to promote the effi- ciency of trade and industrial education are made available to the States through regional conferences held annually with representa- tives of State boards and through the publication of bulletins. The special types of service to State boards, as described in the fourth annual report, 1920 (p. 28-40), includes studies of training of trade and industrial teachers, and development of methods of educational trade analysis, effective programs for foremen's conferences, and methods of conducting local surveys. Short training courses on these subjects have been given at the regional conferences. The bul- letins containing results of studies in this field constitute the follow- ing subseries. 7072.') Bull. 29921 3 34 1. FEDERAL AGENCY Trade and Industrial sVnY\. No. 1. Trade and industrial education organization and administration. 1918. 125 p. (Bulletin No. 17.) No. 2. Evening industrial schools. 1918. 55 p. (Bulletin No. 18.) No. 3. Part-time trade and industrial education. 1018, 52 p. (Bulletin No. 19.) No. 4. Buildings and equipment for schools and class- < in fade and indus- trial subjects. -191S. 77 j>. (Bulletin No. 20.) No. 5. Evening and part-time schools in the textile industry in the Southern States. 1919. 106 p. (Bulletin No. 30.) Contains job analyses of textile occupations. No. 6. Training courses in safety and hygiene in the building trades. 1919. 128 p. (Bulletin No. 31.) No. 7. Foreman training courses, Parts I and II. 1919. 2 v. (Bulletin No. 36.) Based on an experiment in foreman training conducted in cooperation with an industrial plant. No. 8. General mining. 1919. 169 p. (Bulletin No. 38.) Includes analyses of mining occupations, routes for promotions, mining schools, outlines of courses, etc. No. 9. Coal-mine gases. 1919. 36 p. (Bulletin No. 39.) No. 10. Coal-mine timbering. 1919. 103 p. (Bulletin No. 40.) No. 11. Coal-mine ventilation. 1919. 63 p. (Bulletin No. 41.) No. 12. Safety lamps, including flames, safety lamps, and approved electric lamps. 1919. 72 p. (Bulletin No. 42.) No. 13. Theory and practice. Outlines of instruction in related subjects for the machinist's^ trade, including general trade subjects for certain other occu- pations. 1919. 127 p. (Bulletin No. 52.) Includes analysis of machinist's trade (p. 15-47.) No. 14. Compulsory part-time school attendance laws. 1920. 95 p. (Bulle- tin No. 55.) No. 15. Trade and industrial education for girls and women. 1920. 106 p. (Bulletin No. 58.) No. 16. Foremanship courses vs. instructor-training courses. 1921. 15 p. (Bulletin No. 60.) No. 17. Improving foremanship : trade extension courses for foremen. 1921. 42 p. (Bulletin No. 61.) No. 18. Instructor training, instructor-training courses for trade teachers and for foremen having an instructional responsibility. 1921. 43 p. (Bulletin No. 62.) No. 19. Bibliography on vocational guidance: A selected list of vocational guidance references for teachers. 1921. 35 p. (Bulletin No. 66.) No. 20. A survey and analysis of the pottery industry. 1921. 88 p. (Bulletin No. 67.) No. 21. An analysis of the railway boilermaker's trade. 1921. 24 p. ( Bulle- tin No. 69.) In the field of training for mercantile occupations some of the studies made have been issued in the following subseries of bulletins: Commercial Education Series. ,* No. 1. Retail selling. By Mrs. L. W. Prince. Rev. ed. 1919. 103 p. (Bulletin No. 22.) No 2. Vocational education for foreign trade and shipping. 1918. 85 p. (Bulletin No. 24.) No. 3. Commercial education organization and administration. 1919. 67 p. (Bulletin No. 34.) No. 4. Survey of junior commercial occupations. 1920. 77 p. (Bulletin No. 54.) Contains job analyses of 26 occupations, promotional lines, etc. A revised edition of Bulletin No. 24 on " Training for foreign trade," a bulletin on "Training for the steamship business," and a text for use in teaching, "Paper work in export trade," prepared by the Federal Board, have been published by the Bureau of Foreign IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 35 and Domestic Commerce as Nos. 97, 98, and 85, respectively, of its miscellaneous series. During 1918-19-20 the board issued three series of studies in con- nection with the vocational rehabilitation of disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines, viz: mention Series, Xos. 1-8 (Bulletins Nos. 5, 6, 15, 25, 29, 32, 33, 59), of \vltuh the !u>t four deal with tuberculous cases and were prepared with the of the X.-!ii"iia] Tuberculosis Association (see p. 137). KelKiiviiiatii '!>hs, .Joint Series. Nos. 1-67, consisting of unit courses of instruction in various school :;nl trade subjects, issued in cooperation with the Surgeon General':- < Hiiro. th<- r.urean of Medicine and Surgery (Navy De- partment), and the P.ureati of War Risk Insurance. opportunity Monoirr.sphs. Vocational Rehabilitation Series, Nos. 1-44, con- taining descriptions of < -uputious to aid disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines in chousing a vocation. The industrial rehabilitation division has thus far been concerned primarily with administration, general policy, and problems arising in connection with the establishment of rehabilitation work for per- sons disabled in industry in the several States. It has issued three bulletins up to October, 1021, viz: Industrial Kehabiliiati..:i Series: N>. 1, A Statement of Policies (Bulletin No. r>7) : No. -'. General Administration and Case Procedure (Bulletin No. 64) ; :;. Services of .\dvisvnn-ni and Cooperation (Bulletin No. 70). FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. DIVISION OF ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH. 511 Philosophy Hall. One hundred and sixteenth Street, New York ? N. Y. H. Parker Willis, !'. In order to obtain data for ascertaining changes in the cost of living of bank employees, with a view to affording a basis for adjust- ing salaries accordingly, a questionnaire was prepared by this divi- sion and distributed to all employees of Federal reserve banks re- cei\ ing salaries of less than $5,000 per annum, requesting certain in- formation relative to either family or individual expenditures for the year IDU'. The purpo>e was to determine the percentage of the total - oing toward food, rent, clothing, etc., of a typical familv or individual in each salary group, in order to give proper weighting to the price changes reported by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics at intervals of six months. Five thousand one hundred and twenty returns from 12 Federal reserve districts have been tabulated; the figures for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are published in an article on the investigation in the Federal Reserve Bulletin for December, 1920 (p. 1293-1295). GOVERNORS* CONFERENCE, COMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL. This com- mittee, appointed at the governors' conference with the Federal Re- serve Board held at Washington, D. C., April 7 to 10, 1920, has under- taken a survey of the whole field of personnel activities in all of the Federal reserve banks, and also in representative industrial and com- mercial concerns. Under date of July 15, 1920, it sent out to the banks and through them to a few other concerns in each district a comprehensive questionnaire in the form of a printed pamphlet of 45 pages quarto, in which the questions are classified according to a decimal system in nine groups, with subdivisions. 'To facilitate com- parison of information relating to the same subject from all the banks the instructions provided that the several questions should be an- swered on separate sheets of standard size, marked with the respective classification numbers. The investigation is being conducted under 36 I. FEDERAL AGENCIES. the immediate direction of H. A. Hopf , organization counsel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, room 2524, 15 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y. A report on the material received is to be submitted to the governors' conference, showing the present status of personnel activi- ties in the Federal reserve banks and in other institutions and making constructive recommendations. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Eighteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. BUREAU OF LOCOMOTIVE INSPECTION. A. G. Pack, chief inspector. This bureau administers the act of February 17, 1911, as nmended March 4, 1915, which empowers the commission to inspect and pre- scribe standards of safety for all parts and appurtenances of the loco- motive and tender, including the boiler. Its annual reports contain statistical and other data on accidents and casualties resulting from failures of locomotives and tenders and their appurtenances and on defects found by the inspectors. As it has been found that fire-box failures, due to crown sheets being overheated, are among the most prolific sources of fatal acci- dents, and that such failures are frequently due to dependence on gauge cocks to give a correct indication of the height of \vater, when in fact the true level was much lower, the bureau during the fiscal year 1919-20 made an extensive series of tests for the purpose of de- termining the action of water in the boiler on the water-indicating appliances, with respect to their correct registration. The results of the experiments made on a number of locomotives of different classes on 14 railroads in various sections of the country are given in the ninth annual report of the bureau, 1920 (p. 8-30). NAVY DEPARTMENT. Washington, D. C. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. L. D. Alderman, educational adviser. This bureau has planned and organized on the ships of the Navy an education system intended (1) to assist enlisted men in raising their ratings in the Navy, and (2) to increase the efficiency of enlisted men, whether for naval or civil life. It is carried on according to the self- instruction plan, each subject being taught through a series of lessons. The system has been started by selecting from the courses already prepared by various correspondence schools and university extension divisions those w r hich present the subjects in the most simple and direct manner; and the bureau is now having courses prepared by naval officers and others especially adapted to meet naval needs. The subjects are offered in six courses, viz : Steam engineering, electrical engineering, gas engineering, navigation, ordnance and gunnery, yeo- manrjr. A description of the courses and subjects is published in a pamphlet entitled " United States Navy education system : Announce- ment of courses" (rev. ed., Jan. 1921)*. DEPARTMENTAL WAGE BOARD or REVIEW. It is provided by law that the rate of wages of the employees in the navy yards shall con- form, as nearly as is consistent with the public interest, with those of private establishments in the immediate vicinity of the respective yards, to be determined by the commandants thereof, subject to the approval and revision of the Secretary of the Navy, who appoints a board of review to advise him. The present board (John K. Robi- son. captain. United States Navy, senior member; W. D. Bergman, IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 37 chief, appointment division, recorder) on August 31, 1921, issued its " report on the question of wages for civilian employees of naval establishments within continental limits of the United States " based on the recommendations of local wage boards, public hearings, and investigations by its members. An abstract of the report and the schedules of rates of pay. which were approved by the Secretary of the Navy and became effective September 16, are printed in the Monthly Labor Review for October, 1921 (pp. 116-127). POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Eleventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. WELFARE DEPARTMENT. Dr. Lee K. Frankel, welfare director. During the summer of 1921 a national welfare council, composed of representatives elected by the postal employees, was organized to consider matters affecting working conditions, health, and general welfare of employees in post offices, mail trains, steamships, and other divisions of the Postal Service. A model plan for constitution of local welfare councils, to be organized in all cities of sufficient size for the discussion of matters of local interest, has been adopted by the national welfare council and the welfare department and sent out from the office of the Postmaster General, October 26, 1921. It is planned to appoint committees from the permanent councils to study questions of sanitation, lighting, rest rooms, first aid, medical and nursing service, recreation, etc. The welfare department has recently sent out questionnaires to about 3,000 post offices to obtain preliminary data as to existing work- ing conditions, and about 100 of them have been personally investi- gated. These questionnaires have been placed in the hands of the post-office inspectors to study the conditions reported and submit recommendations thereon to this department. UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. Washington, D. ('. Hugh S. Gumming, surgeon general. DIVISION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Asst. Surg. Gen. J. W. Schere- schewsky in charge. Investigations of occupational diseases and in- dustrial hygiene have since 1914 constituted part of the work of this division. They are carried on under the office of industrial hygiene and sanitation either by the regular personnel of the service or by the part-time personnel in connection with certain university medical schools. Statistical studies in connection with these investigations are made by the statistical office of the division and laboratory work is done by the Hygienic Laboratory. The general policy which has been formulated is that the funds allotted are to be expended in such manner as to make known the hazards of those industries where present information is inadequate ; the prevalence of specific hazards from known poisonous elements or compounds; the causative factors of prevalent occupational dis- eases and in each instance the preventive measures and routine treatment to meet abnormal conditions whenever and wherever found. The general plan of work, which is being followed as far as circumstances permit, is to undertake each year the study of the health hazards of one industry, the hazard distribution of one occu- pational poison, and the causation, treatment, and prophylaxis of one occupational disease. Investigations are also undertaken in coopera- 38 I. FEDERAL, AGENCIES. tion with State and local authorities to provide data on which to base the administration of State labor laws and for the improvement of the sanitation of industrial communities. OFFICE OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIEXE AND SANITATION. 3 The results of some of the principal investigations conducted under the direction of this office have been published in the series of Public Health Bulletins as follows: No. 71. Studies in vocational diseases: I. The health of garment workers, by J. W. Schereschewsky. II. The hygienic conditions of illumination in work- shops of the women's garment industry, by J. W. Schereschewsky and D. H. Tack. 1915. 224 p. [See also No. 81. J No. 73. Tuberculosis among industrial workers: Report of an investigation made in Cincinnati, with special reference to predisposing causes, by D. 10. llobinson and J. G. Wilson. 1916. 143 p. No. 78. Influence of occupation on health during adolescence: Report of a physical examination of 679 male minors under 18 in the cotton industries of Massachusetts, by M. V. Safford. 1916. 52 p. No. 81. Studies in vocational diseases. The effect of gas-heated appliances upon the air of workshops, by C. Weisinan. 1917. 84 p. [Part of the garment industry investigation.] No. 85. Miners' consumption : A study of 433 cases of the disease among zinc miners in southwestern Missouri, by A. J. Lanza ; with a chapter on roentgen ray findings in miners' consumption, by S. B. Childs. 1917. 40 p. No. 92. Color blindness : Its relation to other ocular conditions, and the bearing on public health of tests for color sense acuity, by G. L. Collins. 19 IS. 29 p. [One of a series of illumination and vision studies in Government depart- ments made in 1915-1918.] No. 99. Studies of the medical and surgical care of industrial workers, by C. D. Selby. 1919. 115 p. No. 106. Studies in industrial physiology: Fatigue in relation to working capacity. I. Comparison of an 8-hour plant and a 10-hour plant: Report by Josephine Goldmark and M. D. Hopkins on an investigation by P. S. Florence and associates, under the general direction of Frederic S. Lee. 1920. 213 p. The following is a partial list of the investigations undertaken, with references to the annual reports of the Surgeon General, where they are briefly described, and to the reprints from the Public Health Reports, in which some of the results are published : (1) Surveys of health hazards of particular industries, viz: Steel plants (annual report, 1914, p. 52; 1915, p. 52; 1916, pp. 46, 48; see al*o United States Bureau of Mines, Technologic Paper No. 102) ; chemical industry (an- nual report, 1917, p. 38; 1918, p. 40) ; textile industry (annual report, 1917, p. 39; 1918, p. 40); illuminating gas manufacture and distribution (annual report, 1917, p. 38; 1918, p. 40) ; munition plants (annual report, 1918, p. 33) ; electrochemical and abrasive plants (annual report, 1919, p. 38) ; pottery in- dustry (annual report, 1919, p. 39; 1920, p. 34); foundry trades (umuui! re- port, 1920, p. 33) ; mining industry, in cooperation with United States Bureau of Mines (annual report, 1914-1920) ; glass industry (in progress, 1921) ; dye industry (planned for 1921-22). (2) Studies of specific health hazards, occupational diseases and poi viz: Heat hazard in industries (Reprint No. 441; projected for 1921-22) ; ef- fect of pneumatic hammers on hands of stone cutters (annual report, 1918, p. 47; Reprint No. 460) ; dust hazards and air conditioning (annual report, 1919, p. 40 ; 1920, p. 33 ; in progress, 1921 ; Reprint Nos. 509, 530, 585, 616) , under the di- rection of C.-E. A. Winslow, Yale Medical School (see p. 198) ; plumbism (among pottery workers, annual report, 1919, p. 39 ; 1920, p. 34 ; glass workers, in prog- ress, 1921 ; in sundry other trades, e. g., smelting and refining, white-lead works, storage batteries, planned for 1921-22) ; cutting oil dermatoses among machin- ists (annual report, 1920, p. 35; in progress. 1921) ; ink dermatosis among plate 3 From October, 1918, to June 30, 1910, the personnel was detailed to constitute the division of industrial hygiene and medicine of the Working Conditions Service of the Department of Labor (dissolved after the latter date). IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 39 and. press printers (annual report, 1920, p. 36) ; tellurium poisoning (annual report, 1920, p. 36; Reprint No. 590). (3) Studies in industrial fatigue, including field investigations in S-liour and 10-hour plants, muscle tests, lalx-i .'{<"> studies of the chemical phenomena of fatigue, etc. (annual report, 1918, p. 37; 1919, p. 41; 1920, p. 37; in progress 1921; Reprints No . 18, 465, 482, 513, 543, 605; Public Health Bulletin No. 16, v. supra; Public Health Reports, 1919, p. 1682; 1920, p. 2445) begun in 1917 in cooperation with the divisions! 1 committee on industrial fatigue, Council of National Defense, and continued since the war under the direction of Frederic S. Lee, Columbia University (see p. 176). (4) Local studies relating to women in industry, viz: Sanitary survey of Indiana industries employing woman labor (Supplement No. 17 to Public Health report-); health conditions surrounding employment of women in Wisconsin (annual report, 1916, p. 44; 1917, p. 36). STATISTICAL OFFICE. Edgar Sydenstricker, statistician, in charge. Organized in the winter of 1918-19 to provide a central plant, with '-ienced personnel and necessary mechanical equipment, for the tabulation of material collected in the field and epidemiological studies carried on by the Public Health Service, to furnish the tech- nical adviv required in planning the statistical work and in analyz- ing the results of such studies and to conduct independently certain statistical studies bearing thereon. Its activities have included com- pilation and analysis of the morbidity and mortality statistics col- lected in field investigations of influenza, studies of morbidity reports in cooperation with the Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics and State and municipal health departments, statistical studies of pul- monary tuberculosis, venereal diseases, and child hygiene, and the or- ganization of industrial morbidity statistics. The purposes of its work in the field of industrial morbidity statistics are (1) to secure current reports of disease prevalence among waji'e earners in different plants, industries, and occupations, and (2) ilect data relating to the incidence of disease according to diag- nosis among wage earners of different sexes, ages, races, and occupa- tions for the study of the influence of occupational and other condi- tions. It is believed that when a sufficiently large number of indus- trial establishments and employees' sick benefit associations cooperate with the Public Health Service in furnishing regular reports of dis- ease pivxalenre- u better basis will be laid by the study of industrial hygiene and for more definitely direct preventive measures. At the present time 45 sick benefit organizations are sending monthly reports and 10 are sending annual or special reports to this office, applying in the aggregate to 158,000 employees. In addition to statistical studies in its other lines of work, the pub- lications from this office include the following papers dealing with in- dustrial morbidity, which have appeared in the issues of the Public Health Eeports indicated by date : Sickness records for industrial establishments (Nov. 14, 1919; Reprint No. 573). Prepared in cooperation with the committee on industrial morbidity statistics of the section on vital statistics, American Public Health Association (see p. 78). Keeping tab on sickness in the plant (Apr. 9, 1920, Reprint No. 589). Sickness jind abscnti-.-!- in during 1919 in a large industrial establishment (Sept. 10, 1920). Sickness irequency among industrial employees, 1920-21 (Dec. 3, 1920; Mar. 4, July 1, 1921; Reprints No. (.24). prevalent among steel workers in a Pennsylvania city ^Dec. 31, 1920). 40 I, FEDERAL AGENCIES. Also a series of studies of disabling sickness and pellagra incidence in cotton- null villages of South Carolina (Nov. 22, 1918; Mar. 19, July 9 and 16, Nov. 12, 1920). HYGIENIC LABORATORY, Twenty-fifth and E Streets NW., Washing- ton, D. C. Surg. G. W. McCoy, director. The divisions of chemis- try and pharmacology of this laboratory conduct laboratory research required in connection with some of the industrial hygiene investiga- tions undertaken by the United States Public Health Service. This includes (1) chemical and bacteriological analyses of samples col- lected in the field, (2) research into simple tests to be used in field sampling, (3) determinations of dosage injurious to workers handling poisonous elements and compounds found in trade processes, and (4) physiological changes of the body due to abnormal condi- tions arising from or inherent in industrial activities. Thus in con- nection with the investigation of trinitrotoluene poisoning the divi- sion of chemistry developed the analytical procedures for the detec- tion of T. N. T. in the atmosphere (later applied to other nitro com- pounds) , and studied the chemistry of T. N. T.. its manufacture and impurities, and the vapor pressure and volatility of T. N. T. as influ- enced by temperature and humidity; and the division of pharma- cology dealt with the toxicological and pharmacological aspects of the problem, such as the discovery of diagnostic tests for the early recognition of poisoning, the study of absorption of the poison, and the discovery of preventive measures. The principal findings were published in Reprint No. 534 from the Public Health Reports, June 13, 1919, and also with studies of the poisonous properties of parazol and the action of mercury fulminate on the skin, as Hygienic Labora- tory Bulletin No. 126. In connection with the administration of the act of Congress levy- ing a prohibitive tax on white phosphorus matches, the division of chemistry, during 1914-15, examined samples of matches and match materials for the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and developed a new method for the detection of white or yellow phosphorus in the presence of other permissible forms (published as the fourth article in Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 96). From 1914 to 1917 this division carried on, in cooperation with the New York State Commission on Ventilation (see p. 54), studies of heat dissipation from the human body and devised various types of instrument, called the comfortimeter, intended to record the actual characteristics of the atmosphere temperature, humidity, and veloc- ity of air movement in terms of physical comfort. It also made a study of the volatility of lead and other metals from molten type metal, under conditions existing in the Government Printing Office in 1916, and analyzed samples of dust and glazes in connection with the pottery investigation by the Office of Industrial Hygiene and Sanitation in 1919. RAILROAD LABOR BOARD. 5 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. R. M. Barton, chairman. This board Avas created by section 304 of the transportation act, 1920 (41 Stat., 470) , to hear and decide disputes involving grievances, rules, or working conditions not settled by the railroad boards of labor adjustment (provided for in sec. 302) and disputes involving wages or salaries not settled by conferences of representatives of the IX OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 41 carriers and their employees or subordinate officials directly inter- ested therein (sec. 301). The following studies have been published by the board as Wage Series. Reports Nos. 1 and 2 : No. 1. Average daily and monthly \vacre rates of railroad employees on class 1 carriers; in effect under private control (December. 1917); under the United States Railroad Administration (January, 1920) ; and under Decision No. 2 (July 2,0, 1920), United States Railroad Labor Board. August, 1920. 12 p., j'old. tables. No. 2. Rules for reporting information on railroad employees, together with a classification and index of steam railroad occupations. May, 1921. 320 p. (Prepared by the board and approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, io be used by carriers in reporting wage and compensation data to either body.) In decision No. 119, April 14, 1921, providing for abrogation of the national agreement entered into during the period of Federal control, the board laid down 16 principles for the settlement of disputes as to rules and working conditions by local conferences between the car- riers and their employees, and a number of interpretations and ad- denda have been issued since the date of the original decision. Decision Xo. 22, effective August 16, 1921, has determined the con- ditions under which overtime is to be paid to the employees comprised in the six shop crafts on about 100 railroads submitting this question to the board. The machinists, boiler makers, blacksmiths, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, and carmen and their apprentices and helpers are affected. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD. 1319 F Street, XW.. Washington, D. C. DIVISION OF IxnrsTitiAi. KF.LATIONS. In 1921 this division pub- lished a " Codification of the Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board* awards, decisions, and authorizations" (341 p.). During 1918-19 the Industrial Service Section, Industrial Rela- tions Group, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia, prepared and issued the following publications : Handbook on employment management in the shipyard: Bulletin I, Organiz- ing the employment y W. K. HotcbUss, supervising examiner for the board, and II. H. Beager, its secretary, was published in 1921 as Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Xo. 283. 42 I. FKDKKAL A<:L-\C ing (organized February, 1918) were transferred in September, 1919. The advisory board, consisting of civilians (C. R. Mann, chairman), formulates the plans for training to be carried out by the training and instruction branch. The method adopted by the board has been outlined in a mimeo- graphed memorandum "The technique of army training" (8 pp.). It involves (1) the preparation by the Army authorities of minimum specifications of the personal characteristics, skill, and knowledge needed to meet the requirements of each of the many grades and ratings of the Army; (2) the preparation of standardized tests for selecting and assigning men; (3) the analysis of the required skill and knowledge into unit operations and information topics which make good instruction units, and the combination of these into a practical school program; (4) the preparation of students' manuals and instructors' guides; (5) the determination of the average time required for men to qualify for each grade or rating. The personnel of the Division of Testing and Grading (D. Edgar Rice, director) of the research and development service, recently located at Camp Grant, 111., has since the reorganization been transferred to [Washington, D. C., to continue its work under the advisory board. The activities of this division started in the summer of 1920, and its force of about 19 men was engaged throughout the fall and early win- ter in administering tests for selection and assignment of men in the various Army camps and posts. Up to May, 1921, about 58,000 men had been tested and classified, on the basis of the Army intelligence tests and several elementary educational and vocational tests. The following is a brief statement of the tests used and the research and development work which the division has undertaken : Army intelligence test Alpha. This test of intelligence for literates used during the war has been continued In use during the past year, because it was thoroughly standardized and an ample -supply of copies was already on hand in the War Department. It is not found to be entirely satisfactory for use with Army men, as it gives too much weight to results of formal training and the division is engaged upon a revision of this test with a view to adapting it more accurately to the Army needs. Army intelligence test Beta. This test, used during the war to measure the intelligence of men of a low r degree of reading ability, has during the past year been used chiefly in the testing of illiterates in the recruit educational centers. A revision of it has been undertaken with a view to eliminating the difficulty in administering it, due to the necessity for using a demonstration blackboard. Minhruuni intelligence test. As the War Department has felt the need of a very simple test of intelligence that may be administered by recruiting parties and will serve to segregate men of low intelligence from those who will make satisfactory soldiers, the division is engaged upon the development of a test of this sort. It will differ from the alpha, beta, and individual tests such as the Stanford-Binet, in that it will not accurately classify men as to mental age or degree of intelligence, but is intended simply to reject the unsatisfactory by the use of a single critical score. .Minimum literacy test. Developed over a year ago, this test has served satis- factorily in segregating those men who are of such low degree of literacy ability as to require special instruction in the recruit educational centers. ( -1 (i ssifi cation literacy test. The purpose of this additional test, developed by the division, is to classify the men in order to determine at which point their training should start. Test for discharge from recruit educational center. This test is similar in character to the other literacy tests, but is based to some extent on the course of instruction. ix OTHP:R DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS. 43 The tests above described have reference either to the measurement of intelligence for general purposes or to the specific activities of the recruit educational centers. In direct connection with the work of the Army schools, the following simple tests of formal training and mechanical aptitude have been developed to assist in properly assign- ing men to courses of training : Arithmetic test, used in determining: whether the student is prepared, with respect to a>iiity in the fundamental operations of arithmetic, to enter various vocations | courses; also to indicate the point at which his instruction in mathematics should br- Ifciiflinii /*/. used to determine whether the student has sufficient under- standing of language to enter courses in which the instruction is largely in >-d form. Mechanical-interest i ( '*t, used to determine, in a general way, the mechanical aptitude of applicants for vocational courses. This is imsed on ihe assumption that if men have an interest in iiKx-hanical work they will, without special 1 raining, pick up a fund of information about the more common mechanical tools and operations. t-rnf-tftnlc /r.s/, used to measure the specific information of applicants for ional courses with reference to the more common trades taught in the Army schools. Investigations are in progress to select from a variety of tests a small number that will be most significant of business ability, and to develop tests of proficiency in (a) stenography and typewriting, (b) certain vocational courses, viz, machine work, automotive work, ana drafting, and (r) general education subjects, such as spelling, vocab- ulary, mathematics, etc. The tests that have been used during the past year have been printed or mimeographed: their publication is controlled by the Adjutant General's Office, War Department. This division has also developed during the past year a standard system of rating students and a standard system of certification, which are now being published by the Adjutant General's Office for the use of the service. II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. STATE AGENCIES. CALIFORNIA. BUREAU OF JUVENILE RESEARCH. Whittier, Calif. J. Harold Whittier, director. Established by acts of the State legislature, 1915 and 1917, this bureau has charge of intelligence tests and related investigations in the three State schools of California, viz, Whittier State School, Whittier; California School for Girls, Ventura; Preston School of Industry, Waterman. A staff of seven persons is engaged in this work, which is divided into two main divisions, psychological and sociological. Numerous studies made in the field "of delinquency have been published in the Journal of Delinquency, issued bimonthly by Whittier State School, and its supplementary monographs. Of these the two following titles deal with vocational adaptability : The intelligence of the delinquent boy, by T. Harold Williams, Jan., 1919". 198 p. (Journal of Delinquency. Monograph No. 1.) A statistical study of intelligence as a factor in vocational progress, by Karl M. Cowdery. (Journal of Delinquency, v. 4, No. 6, Nov., 1919, p. 221-240.) CALIFORNIA. COMMISSION ON IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING. 525 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. Simon J. Lubin, president. Created by act of June 12, 1913, and empowered to make investi- gations into the condition, welfare, and industrial opportunities of immigrants in the State, including inspection of labor camps, em- ployment agencies, etc. It administers the division of immigration and housing of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations created by chapter 604, Laws of 1921, in effect July 30. The results of the commission's studies of the problems of migra- tory labor and sanitation of labor camps are summarized in its an- nual reports. It has issued several editions of an "Advisory pam- phlet on camp sanitation and housing " (T9 p.). CALIFORNIA. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION. 525 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. W. J. French, chair- man. This commission, organized January 1, 1914, administers the divi- sion of workmen's compensation insurance and safety of the De- partment of Labor and Industrial Relations created by chapter 604, Laws of 1921, in effect July 30. DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY. H. M. Wolflin, superintendent. Surveys of the special hazards of various industries have been made by this department and safety codes to cover them have been prepared by 44 STATE AGENCIES. 45 committees of employers, employees, and others interested in safety work, in cooperation with the commission. Public hearings were held to discuss the tentative drafts as completed by the committees, and after final revision the following have been adopted by the commission and made effective from the dates indicated: 1010: Jan. 1 mine safety rules, general safety rules; Aug. 1 woodworking safety orders, engine safety orders, laundry safety orders; Oct. 1 elevator safety orders. 111 7: Jan. 1 electrical utilization safety orders, air-pressure tank safety orders, window-cleaning safety orders, trench construction safety orders; Mar. 15 logging and sawmill safety orders. 1918: J:m. 1 quarry safety rules; Jan. 15 general constnu-tion. safety orders; Dec. 1 electrical station safety orders. 1919: Jan. 1- -safety rules for gold dredges; Dec. 1 tunnel safety rules, general lighting safety orders. 1920: June 1 steam-shovel and locomotive-crane safety orders. 1921 : Jan. 1 mine safety orders ; Apr. 1 petroleum safety orders, shipbuild- ing safety orders. In course oi preparation (1921) : X-ray safety orders, gas welding and cut- ting safety orders. Further information is given in a paper on " The safety move- ment in California.'' by II. M. AVolflin, in Proceedings of the Inter- national Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commis- sions. 1920 (published as U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin No. 281). CALIFORNIA. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE COMMISSION. 34). this department was made responsible for the rehabilitation of physically handicapped persons residing in the State of Illinois. By sec i ion 2 (n) it is directed t- <-<.ndm-r in vest i.Lrut ions and surveys of the several industries located in the -lain ili" HTMp:iiiuns \viiliin c;i< !i industry in \vhich physically handicapped per-o;is <- ; in niter upon remunerative employment under favorable conditions and \\ork \vii!i normal eftVct iveness and i< .ra-'tirnble changes and adjustments in industrial operations and practices m'ay facilitate, such employment. Results of a survey relating to the rehabilitation of physically handicapped poisons in Illinois are given in the official report (150 p.) published by the department in U>Jl. part of which was sum- marized in an article on " Physical restoration in the rehabilitation of disabled | by \Yillium T. Cross, survey officer, in Modern Medicine (v. X. No. 3, March, 1J'J1, p. 14:V-US). Analyses were made of 1>2 different jobs in : 2'-'> representative industries, showing that 9 per cent of the employees in these plants were engaged at work that might be performed by disabled pel-sons. (Appendix F-l of the re- port.) ILLINOIS. IMMIGRANTS' COMMISSION. Department of Registration and Education, Springfield, 111. Created in the Department of Registration and Education of the State of Illinois by an amendment to the civil administrative code approved June 10, 1919 (Laws, 1919, p. 8), and directed to investi- gate the conditions of employment and standards of housing and liv- ing, social organizations, and educational needs of the foreign born in the State. The results of its investigations completed thus far, under the direction of Miss Grace Abbott, have been published in two Bulletins : No. 1. The educational needs of immigrants in Illinois. 1920. 37 p. No.!'. The immigrant and conl-inining communities of Illinois. 1020. 43 p. ^ The work of the commission was suspended June 30, 1921, when Gov. Small vetoed its appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year. The office in Chicago has been closed and the records have been transferred to the department in Springfield, 111. The data obtained in an inves- tigation of Mexicans in labor camps, practically completed, was turned over to the Immigrants' Protective League, Chicago, which may prepare the material for publication. This league had supple- 48 II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL Ad EX t 'IKS. mented the State appropriations by approximately an equal amount from its own funds in order to extend the work of the commission. KANSAS. COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Topeka, Kans. A tribunal of three judges created by act of the special session of the legislature in January, 1920, to regulate industrial relations in all employments and industries concerned with the production and distribution of food, clothing, and fuel and in all public utilities. Decisions in cases heard before this court to date have dealt with wage scales, train crews, and hours of labor on interurban railways, cessation or limitation of work in flour mills, " one man one job " policy in a case of seasonal employment, etc. By act of March 16, 1921, the Industrial Welfare Commission and the Department of Labor were consolidated with this court. The women's division of the Industrial Welfare Commission (Miss Linna E. Bresette, director of women's work) is making a survey of the cost of living of the women of the State, to include the 31 towns in which the United States Women's Bureau made its study of hours and wages in 1920. (See p. 23.) The plan of procedure is described briefly in Monthly Labor Review of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, August, 1921 (p. 206). MASSACHUSETTS. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. State House, Boston, Mass. DIVISION OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. James A. Moycr, director. This division has given special attention to problems of immigrant education in the industries and two recent numbers of the Bulletin of the Department of Education have been devoted to this subject, Volume 5, No. 6 (whole No. 32) : Proceedings of the State eonlVivmv on im- migrant education in Massachusetts industries, Plymouth, Mass., Sept. 10-18, 1920. (Under the joint auspices of the department and the Associated Indus- tries of Massachusetts.) 124 p. Volume 6. No. 4 (whole No. 36) : Adult immigrant education in Massachusetts, 1920-21. 19 p. VOCATIONAL DIVISION. This division has recently inaugurated a program for the training of foremen. Representatives from a num- ber of different industries are being trained in various industrial cities for conference leaders. They Avill take charge of conferences and classes for foremen on returning to their respective plants. MASSACHUSETTS. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS. Room 272, State House, Boston, Mass. VOCATIONAL TRAINING DIVISION. Ernest L. Locke, director. Created under the Industrial Accident Board (now Department of Industrial Accidents) by act of May 28, 1918, for the rehabilitation of industrial cripples, this division has made several surveys of in- dustries, involving analyses of physical requirements for particular jobs, to ascertain the opportunities for handicapped persons. These investigations have covered storage battery making and repairing, decorative plastering, sign painting, etc. The results have not been published but are available in the files of the division. 5 5 Additional information on rehabilitation work in Massachusetts is siyon in the Amer- ican Labor Legislation Review, Mar., 1919 (y. 9, No. 1, p. 126-129), and in Proceedings of International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, 1920. (U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin No. 281, p. 123-128.) STATE AGENCIES. 49 MASSACHUSETTS. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES. State House, Boston, Mass. E. Leroy Sweetser, Commissioner of Labor and Industries. The Department of Labor and Industries is one of the 20 adminis- trative divisions into which the hundred or more boards, depart- ments, and commissions of the Commonwealth have been consolidated by the reorganization act of 1919 (General acts, 1919, ch. 350). It supersedes the Board of Labor and Industries; the Board of Con- ciliation and Arbitration; the Minimum Wage Commission; the divisions of labor statistics, manufactures statistics, and free em- ployment offices of the Bureau of Statistics, and the offices of the Commissioner of Standards and the Surveyor General of Lumber; and by act of May 25, 1920, the Commission on Foreign and Domes- tic Commerce was placed under it. Its work is organized under divisions of Industrial Safety. Statistics, Minimum Wage, and Standards and the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. The Bul- letin of Current Activities (v. 1, No. 1, June, 1920) describes the work of the department and its several divisions and explains how the functions of the former boards and commissions included in the department are carried on under the reorganization. DIVISION OF INDISTKIAL SAI-KTY. John P. Meade, director. This division continues the factory inspection work of the Board of Labor and Industries which, prior to the reorganization in 1919, had prepared and published in the series of Industrial Bulletins sugges- tions, rules, and regulations on the following subjects; Protection of eyes and prevention of accidents (No. 5); prevention of anthrax (No. (>) ; compressed-air work (No. 7) ; safety and machinery stand- ards (No. 9) ; working conditions in foundries and the employment of women in core rooms (No. 10) : safety in the manufacture of ben- zene derivatives and explosives (No. 11) ; prevention of accidents in building operations (No. 12) ; painting business (No. 13) ; require- ments for the care of employees injured or taken ill in industrial establishments (No. 14). The present division has added Industrial Bulletins Nos. 15 and 16: No. 15. Conserving children in the industries of Massachusetts. 1920. 20 p. I For the teaching of safety to working children in the continuation schools.) No. 16. Rules and regulations for safeguarding woodworking machinery. 1920. Studies dealing with industrial health recently made by this divi- sion include an investigation of tobacco factories, with special refer- ence to the effect of the work upon women and children, and an investigation of the health hazards of the granite-cutting industry. (Annual report, 1920, pp. 38-40.) The field work of a study of the employment of women in laundries, with special reference to the effect of the work upon health, has recently been completed. The inspection force is engaged at present in acquiring information rela- tive to accidents occurring on the power punch press, with a view to securing better guarding on a type of machine that is productive of more permanent disabling injuries than any other in the industries of the State. An investigation of the type and character of first-aid treatment rendered injured persons in the industries is to commence shortly. 70723 Bull. 29921 4 50 II. STATK AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. the outcome of an investigation in 1020 a safety council has been or-j^ini/ei! with the object of reducing accidents to street railway and steam railway employe. DIVISION OF ]\J Ethel M. Johnson, assistant com- missioner, in charge. The Minimum Wage -Commission, whose powers are now exercised by three associate commissioners of the department, was created in *1912 and has published the result its investigations of the wages of women in a series of 23 Bulletins dealing with the following industries: Brush factories (Nos. 1, 3, 7) ; corset factories (Nos. 2, 21); candy factories (Xos. 4, 18); < dries (.~S7o, 5) ; retail stores (Nos. 6, 12) ; paper-box industry (Nos. 8, 22) ; women's clothing factories (Nos. 9, 14) ; hosiery and knit goods factories (No. 10) ; men's clothing and raincoat factories (Nos. 13, 15) ; office and other building cleaners (No. 16) ; hotels and restau- rants (N"o. 17) ; canning and preserving establishments (No. 19) ; millinery industry (No. 20) ; manufacture of minor lines of confec- tionery and food preparations (No. 23). During 1920 this division made investigations of the wages of women employed by firms manufacturing druggists' preparations, compounds, and proprietary medicines, and in establishments manu- facturing stationery goods arid envelopes. (Annual report, 1920, pp. 67-69.) It is planning a study of the public housekeeping occu- pation, to include hotels and restaurants, institutions such as hos- pitals and homes, apartment houses, and similar establishments. A handbook of information for wage board members entitled "Wage Boards and Their Work" (11 pj was published in 1920. DIVISION or STATISTICS. Roswell F. Phelps, director. This divi- sion continues the annual reports issued by its predecessor, the Bu- reau of Statistics, 6 on statistics of labor (issued in parts as labor bulletins), statistics of manufactures, and public employment of- fices ; and since March, 1920, lias published quarterly the Massachus- setts Industrial Review, superseding the " Quarterly report on em- ployment in Massachusetts. It finished and published in 1920, as Labor Bulletin No. 132, the results of a special survey of " Wages and hours of labor in the metal trades in Massachusetts, 19141910 " (72 p.), which includes a chapter giving classification and descrip- tion of occupations. MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL. 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, Mass. : ;\ sketch of it;; history, or- ganization, and functions, together with a list of publication* and illustrative charts, by C. F. Gettemy. 1915. 115 p. STATK ACJEXC'IES. 61 The psychiatric problems of industry have been of special interest to this institution from the beginning. Shortly after it was opened ; ferred to it for mental tests and examinations as to mental disease from the Industrial Accident Board of Massachu- setts; and many problems concerning da. -ilowances, and com- pensation had to be looked into with the tests devised by its psy- chologists. Another group of cases that have been investigated is that of the occupation-neuroses. Through the 'Social Service of the of the i>at hie employee arid the relation between unemployment and mental diseases. The pub- lished results of these researches include the following: ,-r, H. M. rii"ini>l.).vim'iit :in and Surgery, v. -. N<>. l', M,-i Briggs, T,. AVrnon. OrmpMtionsM and industrial therapy. How can this important. Itnui.-h <>r treatment of mentally 111 be extended and improved? r. .Jour, of In- . 7-t. No. 8, 48. ) Southard. Iv K. on on illness Mi in.l'is:: >M and prevcution. '.), p. GTS During 1910-iiO further investigations in the mental hygiene of industry were undertaken by the late director, Dr. E. E. Southard, under a grant from Knginccring Foundation (see p. 102), which pub- ! j'hree papers completed by him, as Nos. 1 to 3 of its reprint (S. A report of pr- ork was published bv Miss !Mary (\ .Janvtt, v.'ho -(llaboratel Avith him, in Mental Hygiene (v. 4, No. 4. Oct., 1920). In the past t\vo yeai-s an industrial researcli worker (Miss Clara W. Butl; her time in the ire to this prob- lem and the results of the study are now being analyzed. It c< (1) intci u a few men, with special attention to employment adjustment. (2) industrial histories covering details of jobs held by patiei.ts t->r liv:- \ >re admission to the Psycho- pathic Hospital details obtained from both employers and patients, (3) a brief survey of the industrial aspects of the out-patient service of the hospital, () a bibliography of the "human element in indus- i'rom the psychiatric point of view. ^ Several papers in the above collection deal with psychiatric social service, its functions and the preparation required for it; and in order to provide a supply of trained workers in this field the Boston Psychopathic Hospital staff in 1918 cooperated in the establishment of a training school of psychiatric social work at Smith College. (Seep. 104.) PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. F. L. Wells, chief. The Yerkes- Bridges point scale was devised in this laboratory, while Dr. Yerkes here as psychologist. The following papers, dealing with this scale and its application and other similar researches, have been pub- lished, in addition to studies dealing specially with criminals and the insane : Yorkos, Robert M.. and Brides J. \V. The point scale: a new method for iriiur mental capacity. (Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., v. 171, No. 23, Dec. 3, 1914.) 52 II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. Yerkes. II. M., and Anderson, Helen M. The importance of social status as indicated by the results of the point scale method of measuring mental capacity. (Jour. Ed uc. Psychol., Mar., 1915.) Yerkes. H. M., and Wood, Louise. Methods of expressing results of measure- ments of intelligence: coefficient of intelligence. (Jour. Educ Psychol Dec 1916, v. 7, No. 10, p. 593-606.) Rossoy, C. S. The Yerkes-Bridges point scale: as applied to candidates for employment at the Psychopathic Hospital. (Boston Med. and Surg Jour Dec 7, 1916, v. 175, No. 23, p. 822-824.) Yerkes, R. M., and Rossey, G. S. A point scale for the measurement of intelligence in adolescent and adult individuals. (Boston Med. and Surg Jour Apr. 19, 1917, v. 176, No. 16, p. 546-573.) Foster, Josephine C., and Taylor, Grace A. The applicability of mental tests to persons over 50 years of age. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 4, No. 1, Mar., 1920, p. 39-58.) MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FOR THE FEEBLE-MINDED. Waverley, Mass. Walter E, Fernald, M. D., superintendent. This institution has made a survey of the subsequent careers of its discharged patients, including men employed in 39 different occupa- tions. A summary of the results was published in its seventy-second annual report for the year ending November 30, 1919, and also issued separately under the caption "After-care study of the patients dis- charged from Waverley for a period of 25 years," by W. E. Fer- nald (9 p.). MINNESOTA. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. St. Paul, Minn. DIVISION OF REEDUCATION. Oscar M. Sullivan, director. This division by its research work has added materially to the list of occupations open to different types of handicapped men. Studies have been made by members of the staff in typical plants, and the various processes analyzed, with a view to discovering new oppor- tunities for such persons. MINNESOTA. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. St. Paul, Minn. BUREAU OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Louis E. Schutz, superintend- ent. During 1918 this bureau, in conjunction with the Women in Industry Committee, Council of National Defense, carried on field investigations on the industrial employment of women in the State. The report written by Dr. Carol Aronovici and entitled " Women in industry in Minnesota in 1918 " was published by the bureau in 1920 (36 p.). MINNESOTA SCHOOL FOR FEEBLE-MINDED. Faribault, Minn. DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH. F. Kuhlmann. director. A number of studies of feeble-minded and tests of intelligence of children have been published from this department, principally in the Journal of Psycho-Asthenics, 1911-1916. A revision of the Binet- Simon system by Dr. F. Kuhlmann, was issued as a monograph supplement to the 1912 volume of this journal ; and a further extension and revision by the same author was printed by the institution in 1917. These are to be superseded shortly by the following work: Kulhmaim, F. A handbook of mental tests ; a further extension and revision of the Binet-Simon scale. Baltimore, Warwick and York, 1921. (In press.) STATE AGENCIES. 53 A paper on " Results of mental reexsmii nations of 600 feeble-minded over a period of 10 years/' by Dr. Kuhlmann, presented before the American Association for the Study of Feeble-minded in 1920 is to appear in its proceedings. NEW JERSEY. DEPARTMENT OF INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES. State Hospital, Trenton, N. J. DIVISION OF CLASSIFICATION AND EDUCATION. Edgar A. Doll, director. Since February 1919, this division has been making psycho- logical examinations of the prisoners in New Jersey State prison by the Army group test alpha supplemented by individual psychiatric and psychological examinations. Its report is included in the annual report of Now Jersey State prison; papers on the criminological re- sults entitled U A study of multiple criminal factors" and "The com- parative intelligence of prisoners," by E. A. Doll, were published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology for May and July 1920. A program of research in the application of psychological tests for the purposes of vocational education and industrial placement in the prison, outlined in the annual report for 1919 (p. 70^ 74-77), is being carried out. Surveys have been made of the prison industries and are to be followed by detailed analyses of the w r ork processes from the psychological point of view. This phase of the division's work is discussed in an article on u Intelligence and industrial tests in institutional administration," by E. A. Doll, in the Journal of Delinquency (v. r>. Xo. <>, Nov., 1920). NEW JERSEY. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Trenton, X. J. Lewis T. Bryant, commisioner. P>rm:Ai OF Ki.i:r-n:irAL .\M> Mi:< IIAMCAL EQUIPMENT. Rowland H. Leveridge. chief. This bureau has prepared and published the following safety codes and regulations: (Jrneral rules for the construct ion and installation of fire-alarm signal systems for factories, mills, and other work places. 1919. 33 p. Code- of light ing fts. 13 p. (Also in ami. rep., 1019. p. 39-49.) Safciy standards relating to the use and care of abrasive wheels. 1919. 23 p. (Also in aim. rep., 1919, p. 21-38.) BUREAU OF EXPLOSIVES. Charles H. Weeks, chief. Organized in 1917, because of the great increase in the manufacture of explosives in New Jersey during the war, this bureau prepared and issued : Laws and safety standards for the manufacture and storage of explosives. 1918. 44 p. BUREAU OF HYGIENE AND SANITATION. John Roach, chief. This bureau carries on investigations for the purpose of establishing sani- tary and safety standards and has issued the following bulletins : Sanitary standards for the felt hatting- industry. 1915. 94 p. Sanitary and engineering industrial standards. 1916. . 36 p. (Mainly speci- fications and regulations for the removal of dust, fumes, etc.) Sanitary industrial standards. 1917. 4 p. Safety standards for lead corroders and lead oxidizers, paint grinders, dry color manufacture. 1917. 28 p. Instructions for the inspection of plants where anilin is produced or handled. l'.)17. ii p. (Also in aim. rep., I'.Jlb', p. 53-55.) Safety standards for the manufacture of nitro and amido compounds. 1919. 18 p. 5-1 IE. STATE AND M.I XIC1PAL AGENCIES. Eecent annual reports of the Department of 1>abor include sum- maries of special investigations, text of regulation-, etc., made by this bureau in various industries, viz: 1!15: Summaries of special investigations in potteries, porcelain plants, mills, lithographing plants, and the manufacture of pearl billions (p. 30-49). 1916: Investigation of munitions hazards (p. 42-43) ; survey of the iron foundries in the State (p. 45-52) ; summary on chomh-al trades with ttv4 ques- tors (p. 53-81) ; paint and dry color trades (p. 81-8i>). 1917: Invesl-.iaratiou of the lunch problem in various industries (p. 30-83); .i.ry standards for power laundries (p. 33-40) ; tannery investigation and anthrax hazard (p. 54- 1919: First-aid and hospital equipment in New Jersey industrial plants (p. 59-78); schedule of a sanitary survey of the poti"ry industry by (he United States Public Health Service in cooperation with the bureau, ;<> del er- mine- the risk to health in this industry resulting from the use of lead sluze (p. 79-86) ; standards for brass and bronze foundries and metal-fini. .processes (p. 92-110). NEW YORK (STATE). COMMISSION ON VENTILATION. Prof. C.-E. A. Winslow, Yale University, chairman. Nominated by the New York Association for Improving the Con- dition of the Poor and appointed by the governor of New York State in June, 1913, this commission was endowed with $50,000 by Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson to be devoted to the study of the fun- damental problems of ventilation, with- a view to determining what atmospheric conditions are most favorable for human health and efficiency, and how they may most certainly and economically be maintained, as part of the original program of the department of social welfare of the A. I. C. P. (see p. 141). An additional sum of $25,000 was provided by Mrs. Anderson in 1915. The complete report of the work of the commission has not yet been published ; but progress reports are found in the A. I. C. P. year- books for 1913, 1914, and 1915, Journal of Industrial and Engineer- ing Chemistry (v. 6, No. 3, March, 1914), Journal of the American Medical Association, November 7, 1914 (v. 63, p. 1620-1628), Ameri- can Journal of Public Health (v. 5, No. 2, 1915), papers read at the annual meetings of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating. Engineers in 1915 and 1916 by D. D. Kimball (engineer rnemb the commission) and George T . Palmer (chief of investigating staff), and articles in Science by C.-E. A. Winslow (n. s., v. 41, p. 625-(>-'G) and Frederic S. Lee (n. s., v. 44, p. 183-190). An experiment chamber w r as fitted up at the College of the City of New York for studies of the effect of accurately controlled air conditions.. Experiments were also made in New York City school- rooms; and by cooperative work in Springfield, Mass, (at the Inter^ national Y. M. C. A. College gymnasium), and the Minneapolis schools the use of recirculated air, washed and conditioned as to tem- perature, was investigated. The commission also cooperated in spe- cial investigations with the Safety Institute of America (see p. 149) and the Framingham community 'health and tuberculosis demonstra- tion of the National Tuberculosis Association (see p. 136) and in other researches. STATE AGENC! 55 The scientific contributions by the commission's investigators ;nv published in various journals, including : (1) Papers on methods and appartu Lee, Frederic S. The rxKerimenhil -methods of the New York State Conrmis- sion of Ventilation. (Proc, Soc. Exper, Biol. and Med., 1915, v. 12, p. 113r-114.) Palmar, T. A new se -n of aerial dust- ' Vmer. Jour. Publ. Health, v. (5. No. 1, p. 54-5:1.) A study of methods tor determining air dnstiness. (Amer. .Tour. Publ. NO. 10.) \Yiiisio\v. c.-K. A. The katatherroometer as a measure of the effect of atmos- pheric coj. ifort. (Hek'iice. n. s., v. 4?>. ]>. 7KV-71JU (2) Papeis on physiological effects of air conditions on appetite, muscular work, the blood, etc.: Win- in v. (X-l :mer, G. T. The effect upon the appetite of the chenn limentH of th< '--cupied rooms. (Proc. Hoc. Exper. Biol. and . 12, p. 141-144.) I.. The action of temperature and humid- ity 0n and on the su.u'ar ot i'iie blood. (Amer. Jour. Plr S >. 3, May, 1916.) Wii '!!er. .1. A., ami N'ohle. ;tely hiu'ii a i i-io'-pl:: upon I lie formation of hemolysins. (1'roc. :x|K-r, p,; () l. and ^ed., ! ,5, p. 93-98.) (3) Special studies of the efTcK oi temperature a'nd humidity upon the liiiiroii- uiciiihraiu' of the nose and throat to shc-d li^ht on the question of su- lity to common colds and health hazards of laundry workers: Miller. Jaim-s A., an ; GF, II. Tl tn a tux spheric n the up:- \rner. (Mi'nat. an. 'i;ical, Khinological, and -<^!e. \V. < '. 'I he eil'ect Of ex: . c.ihi Q{W periinent.-i! infection of the i (Jour. Exper. Med., v. '24, No. 8, Mil-'er, Jan.' .'<--t\\ effects of .--tmospherlc condi- tions. (.\ '. Med. Sei., v. 1.13, No. 3, p- '111. ?7.) (4) A bacteriological survey of the atmosphere: Winslo\v, <'.-!:. A., and Browne, w. \\'. Tli-- microbic o lt feit of indo.'i: outdoor air. (Monthly Weather Ileview, v. 42, p. J (5) Psychological tests to show capacity of the subjects for mental work : Thorndike. K. {.., M<-(Y>11, W. A., and Chapman, J. ( '. \Vntilai ion in relation to mental work. 1910. *."> p. (Teachers' C'oile^e, Columbia University. ( -MI- triontions to Kducatlon, No. 78.) Stecher, Lorle Ida. The elr'^-t of linmidity on nervousness ane<--., 19KJ.) NEW YORK (STATE). DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Albany, N. Y. DIVISION? or VOCATIONAL AND EXTENSION EDUCATION. L. A. Wil- son, director. This division is engaged in making general industrial surveys and in establishing summer courses for the training of men to conduct foremen training conferences in indu.strial plants. It is not, however, carrying on foremen training work directly. 56 II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. NEW YORK (STATE). DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. 124 East Twenty-eighth Street, New York, N. Y. Henry D. Saver, industrial commissioner. This department is now under the administration of the industrial commissioner,- an office created by chapter 50, Laws, 1921, abolishing the State Industrial Commission, which had administered the labor laws since 1915. 7 BUREAU* OF INDUSTRIAL CODE, 124 East Twenty-eighth Street, New York City. This bureau is concerned with rules for safety and sani- tation in industrial and mercantile establishments and is charged with the revision and enlargement of the New York State Industrial Code (latest edition, 1920) which has been compiled in the course of seven years in accordance with powers conferred on the State Indus- trial Board and its successor, the State Industrial Commission, and has the force and effect of law. The bureau also conducts the indus- trial safety congress of New York State, and the safety exhibits in connection therewith, which has been held in various cities (fifth, at Syracuse, N. Y., December 6 to 9, 1920; proceedings published in 1921). BUREAU or INDUSTRIES AND IMMIGRATION, 125 East Twenty-seventh Street, New York City. Mrs. Marian K. Clark, chief investigator. Complaints by alien employees in New York industries are investi- gated by this bureau, including wage claims, exploitation by employ- ment agencies, and the like. It has also made community surveys of immigrant living and labor conditions in a large number of the towns of the State and studies of the relationship between alien illiteracy and mental defect and industrial accidents. In 1917 it issued a pamphlet on "The English for safety campaign." BUREAU OF INSPECTION. The Division of Industrial Hygiene (John H. Vogt, director), created in 1913, 8 has prepared the follow- ing issues in the series of Special Bulletins : No. 79. Anthrax. 1916. 22 p. No. 82. Hoods for removing dust, fumes, and gases. 1917. 23 p. No. 83. Dangers in manufacture of Paris green and Scheele's green. 1917. 17. p. No. 86. Dangers in the manufacture and industrial uses of wood alcohol. 1917. 17 p. No. 89. Health hazards of the cloth-sponging industry. 1918. 24 p. No. 90. A simple and inexpensive respirator for dust protection. 1918. 10 p. No. 96. Health hazards of the chemical industry. 1919. 69 p. No. 101. Asphyxiation in garages and other automobile accidents. 1920. 23 p. No. 102. Devices for sanitary control of material disengaged in industrial processes. 1921. 31 p. 7 The Now York State Factory Investigating Commission, created in 1011, presented four extensive reports (11 vols.) to the legislature, 1912-1915, including, in addition to the testimony at public hearings, appendices containing the results of special invoiina- tions, e. g., sanitation for factories, fhe hazard, working conditions in bakeries and the chemical, tobacco, printing, and canning Industries, employment of women arid children in factories and mercantile establishments, night work for women, lead and arsenic poisoning, wood alcohol, dangers to workers in the manufacture and use of commercial acids, wages in the confectionery,, paper-box, shirt, button, and millinery industries, minimum-wage problem, vocational training, cost of living. 8 Prior to this date special investigations in occupational diseases and industrial hygiene were made by the Medical Inspector of Factories and published in the annual reports of his office (included in the a.nnual reports of the Department), as follows: 1908 ventila- tion of factories; 1900 calico print, industry, bakeries in Manhattan borough, potteries; 1910 phosphorus matches, pearl buttons, results of air analyses in certain factories; 1911 felt-hat industry, cloak and suit industry in New York City, results of air analyses in these industries, ventilation of a department store. STATE AGENCIES. 57 BUREAU OF MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION. A study of " plant disa- bility funds" (16 p.) by Charles M. Mills, industrial counselor for this bureau, was published April, 1921, as Special Bulletin No. 105. BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND INFORMATION, Capitol, Albany, N. Y. E. B. Patten, chief statistician. This bureau has published, in the series of Special Bulletins, various issues dealing with statistics of unemployment, trade-unions, -wages and hours, strikes and lockouts, and industrial accidents; compilations of New York labor laws; court decisions on workmen's compensation, labor laws and indus- trial disputes; No. 76, European regulations for prevention of occu- pational diseases (77 p.). and the results of special investigations, as follows : No. 77. Industrial accident prevention. 1916. 54 p. No. 91. A plan for shop safely, sanitation, and health organization. 1919. 32 p. No. {;_'. Weekly ea ; nin^s of women in five industries (paper boxes, shirts and (Jlitrs. confectionery, cigars and tobacco, and mercantile establishments). 1919. 21 p. No. iocs. Sickness ainon- New York State factory workers in 1!M!>. 1921. 1M) p. (I'.ased on data collected and turned over to the bureau by the Associated Industries of New York State.) It also publishes monthly The Labor Market Bulletin, giving cur- rent information about the extent of employment in factories and building work, average earnings, and food prices, labor supply and demand at State employment offices. BTKKAU OF WOMKN IN IMH sTKY. 124 East Twenty-eight h Street, New York City. Miss Nolle Swart/, chief. Results of special inves- tigations relating to women in industry made by this bureau have been published in the following Special Bulletins: Xo. S>3. The industrial rep!.-. r men l.y women. 1919. 69 p. No. loo. The telephone industrv. l'JO. S,'.~ p. (An investigation of the con- ditions of employment for women in (lie telephone exrhai.ues throughout the State, with especial reference to waues. hours, sanitation, and labor turnover and its causes, made at the request <>!' the governor.) No. 104. Industrial posture and sealing. l!)Jh 50 p. Unpublished reports which have been completed deal with: (1) The paper-box industry in New York State; (2) the candy industry; the employment of women in canneries; (4) employment of women at grinding and polishing; (5) employment of women in portation; and (6) work accidents among women. Of these, (3), (4). and (5) were prepared to assist the Industrial Commission in framing rules and regulations covering employment in the occu- pations to. which they relate; some of the results' of (6) were pub- lished in The Bulletin, issued by the industrial commission (v. 6, No. 3, December. 1920, p. 56-57.) An investigation of wages, hours, and length of service of women employed in five-and-ten-cent stores is in progress. NORTH DAKOTA. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BUREAU. Bismarck, N. Dak. MINIMUM WAGE DEPARTMENT. Hazel Farkasch, secretary. Or- ganized in 1919 to take charge of the administration of the minimum wage law enacted in that } 7 ear, this department has made 1 investiga- tions of the hours of labor, working conditions and wages of women 58 II. STATK AXD MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. in hotels and restaurants, retail stores, laundries, telephone exchanges, and factories in the State. A summary of the results of these inves- tigations :.nd the recommendations of the conferences, including rates of pay, terms of apprenticeship, work time, etc., are given in its first annual report for the year ending June 30, 1920 (48 p.). OHIO. STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Columbus, Ohio. DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE. Dr. Emery R. Hayhurst. Ohio State University, consultant. Organized in 1915 following the sur- vey of occupational diseases made by the State Board of Health in pursuance of a joint resolution adopted by the State legislature in February, 1913 (Laws, 1913, v. 103, p. 975), and the results of which were published in a report entitled: A survey of industrial health hazards and occupational diseases in Ohio, by E. li. Hayhurst. 1915. 438 p. Most of the research work of the division has consisted of investi- gations in industrial plants similar to those made in the original survey. One of the principal studies undertaken concerned the healthfulness of the coal-mining industry of the State, the results of which are published in the following articles: Hayhurst, E. R. Health of Ohio coal miners. (Ohio Public Health .Tour., y. 10/Nos. 2-5, Feb.-May, 1919.) The health hazards and mortality statistics of soft-coal mining in Illinois and Ohio. (Jour. Indust, Hyg., v. 1, No. 7, Nov., 1919, p. 360-367.) Starr, E. B. Excessive mortality from Influenza-pneumonia amon^ bituminous coal miners of Ohio in 1918. (Amer. Jour. Pub. Health, v. i<>, No. 4, Apr., 1920, p. 348-351.) In 1918 a survey of the munitions industry was begun and labora- tory studies of the infections from oil-cutting compounds and lubri- cants were made and published as follows : Albaugh, R. P. Cause and prevention of furunoulosis and wound infections among machinists. (Ohio Pub. Health Jour., v. 9, No. 4-, Apr., 1918, p. 145-152.) A number of different trade processes involving dangers to health have been investigated from time to time ; clinical studies of occupa- tional diseases have usually been concerned with individual < in w r hich disease or death was alleged to be due to occupational causes. The following is a partial list of miscellaneous contributions since 1915: Hayhurst, E. R. The prevalence of occupational factors in disease and sug- gestions for their elimination. (Amer. Jour. Pub. Health, v. 5, No. G, June, 1915, p. 538-550.) The classification of hazardous occupations. (Amor. Jour. Pub. Health, v. 6, No. 5, May, 1916, p. 460-469. ) Albaugh, R. P. The dangers connected with the spray method of finishing jmtl decorating. (Jour. Amer. Met I. Axsoc., July 14, 1917, v. 69, p. 142; Ohio Pub. Health Jour., v. 6, No. 5, Nov.. 1915, p. 512-514.) Gasoline engine exhaust gas poisoning. (Amer. Jour. Pub. Health, V. 7, No. 8, Aug., 1917, p. 664-666.) Starr, E. B. Lead poisoning as a factor in 'chronic disability. (Ohio Pub. Health Jour., v. 10, No. 10, Oct., 1919, p. 384-386.) Close cooperation exists between this division and the Department of Public Health and Sanitation of Ohio State University. (See p. 189.) STATE AGENCIES. 59 OHIO. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. Columbus, Ohio. Established in 1913, \vhen sev; I departments were merged and placed under it, namely, ti . rtments of commissioner of labor statistics, chief inspector of mines, chief inspector of work- shops and factories, chief ex.-r;, ' steam eng : d of r rules. State board of art and conciliation, and State liability board of awards. Since 1915 its annual report 1. pub- I in u Ohio d by th< ry of State. Drip.MJTMKXT OF INVKSI . ; . lies, chief statistician. This department has prepared and is- cries Minhered as Bulletins of the Industrial ('ommi-?.ij?j. titties of wages and employment, a ; : ion, mines and quar- 011 ii :'.- 'd factories and the free labor ( ;ides the folio -vial inv. nt : No. II. Cost or ii\ g women in Ohio. 1915. 255 p. 1914. 1915. 29 p. iN. Jo!. sHMi . .Ohio. 191G. 38 p. (Bulle- ._ iii'lust rial arc-idonts in Ohio. 1917. 12 p. (Bulle- tin. camps i Oi . u. (Bulletin, v. 4, No. 11.) During '' 1916-17 this department made an .nto tlio, industrial futures of i>( ; , ( J workmen awarded < .lion for perma- 'partial injury during the period January 1, 1914, to June 30, lire their handi- .i>s to rate of wages, f time. ch;i aiployer and cause of unemployment nnd not at ;<>rt of tisis study has not yet been publish' OREGON. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE COMMISSION. Portland, O- L. Brt- .uin. Tin d i-'l-i ( iiinimuni wages and ' women and minors published in 1914 -)f an invesi in Portland (T>'2 p.). Its latest biennial report for 1910-20 contains (p. 1)>-19) a summary of sr Apprenticeship period in mercantile, facto laundry industries. PENNSYLVANIA. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY. Harrisburg. Pa. CliiTord P>. (/onnolley, commissioner. Created by act of the legislature approved June 2, 1913 (P. L. 396), the department organization now includes: Industrial P>oard, Work- men's Compensation Hoard? Bureau of Inspection, Division of iene and Engineering, T'un'au of Mediation and Arbitration,. au of Employment, liureau of Workmen's Compensation, and an oi' rvehal)ilitation, The recent report:, of these boards and bureaus have been published as Bulletins of the department. 60 II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. The department held four annual welfare and efficiency confer- ences up to November, 1916 (proceedings of the fourth in Monthly Bulletin, v. 4, Nos. 2-3, February-March, 1917). These were dis- continued during the war and resumed as the annual safety congress in March, 1920 (proceedings issued as Bulletin, v. 7. No. 4). In February, 1920, a conference of superintendents and employ- ment managers was held at Harrisburg to discuss employment prob- lems, and an " Employment Advisory Group " of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry was organized. A digest of the proceedings forms Bulletin, volume 7 (series of 1920), No. 3. An Industrial Eelations Conference is to be held at Harrisburg, October 24^-27, 1921. The subjects for the different sessions are: Industrial waste, Women and children in industry, Industrial co- operation, Industrial education, Present industrial situation, In- dustrial publicity, and Medical supervision in industry. INDUSTRIAL BOARD. Fred J. Hartman, secretary. This board con- sists of the commissioner, who is chairman, and four additional mem- bers appointed by the governor, viz : An employer of labor, a wage earner, a woman, and a representative of the public, for a term of four years, retiring in rotation. Its functions are (1) to investigate matters relating to employment and effect of labor laws; (2) to make rules and regulations under the various labor laws, e. g., safety standards, dangerous or injurious occupations in which minors may not be employed, modifications of provisions of the act relating to employment of women. The work is organized in four divisions, one being assigned to each associate member, viz: (1) Women and children in industry the rulings of the board 'pertaining to these workers have been published in two pamphlets. (2) Industrial relations the activities under this division include the establishment of the Bureau of Employment, investigation of various strikes, campaigns in behalf of organizing for safety and Americanization ; in the fall of 1920 studies of immigrant prob- lems, preparatory to an investigation of labor camps, and of systems of apprenticeship in various States were begun. (3) Industrial surveys, industrial education, publications, etc. Under this division are the surveys of working conditions, health hazards, etc., made by the Division of Hygiene and Engineering and cooperative surveys, such as the study of fire prevention in indus- trial plants provided for by Bryn Mawr College alumnse in 1916 (in second annual report, 1915-16, p. 29-74), and the survey of industrial home work in Pennsylvania, made with the Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania (see p. 97) and the Carola Woeris- hoffer Department at Bryn Mawr College (see p. 166) in 1917-18. A supplementary survey was made in October, 1920, to check up the latter for publication. (4) Safety standards and safety appliances. The safety standards committee initiates the formulation of safety standards by repre- sentative committees, submits tentative drafts for public hearings, and prepares final drafts for adoption by the board; the approvals committee, consisting of a member of the board, the chief of the Bureau of Inspection, the chief of the Division of Hygiene and Engineering, and the secretary of the board is concerned with offi- cial approval of satisfactory safety devices. . STATE AGENCIES. 61 The following completed " Safety standards of the Industrial Board " have been published and a revision of them is in progress : Power transmission; railings, toe-boards, platforms, and runways (rev. ed.) ; stationary engines (rev. ed.) ; machine tools (rev. ed. ) ; forging and stamp- ing; polishing and grinding; compressed air; woodworking machinery; bakeries (rev. ed.) ; rire prevention; canneries (rev. ed) ; boilers; foundries; ladders; cereal mills; lighting: elevators; explosives; cranes ; electric code; lead corrod- ing and oxidizing; paint grinding: dry colors; nitro and amido compounds; brewing and bottling: motion-picture machine operation: scaffolding; plant rail- ways; shop clothing for women; printing and allied industries. New standards recently completed and not yet published include industrial sanitation, industrial ladders, and head and eye pro- tection. Data are being gathered on quarries, the galvanizing indus- try, tunnels, and mines, other than coal mines. A report of the activities of the Industrial Board to December 31, 1919, have been issued as Bulletin (series of 1920), volume 7, No. 6; " What Pennsylvania is doing for safety and safety work," as volume 7. No. 7. A monthly Bulletin of Information is issued by the board giving its current activities. DIVISION OF HYGIENE AND ENGINEERING. Dr. Francis D. Patterson, chief. This division consists of the chief medical inspector and engi- neering experts in the Bureau of Inspection, under the immediate charge of the commissioner. It makes special inspection of factories and mercantile establishments and conducts special investigations relative to industrial processes and conditions, e. g. : Physical standards and (pi.-ililicat ions applied to children requesting employ- ment certificates, 1915. (Based on physical examination of children between 14 and 1<> applying for such < ertificat< i s in Philadelphia. June-August, 1914.) Reports on the physical condition of :i gr..np of textile mill operatives in Pennsylvania and of individuals livhm under th same conditions as textile mill operatives but no. in that work. (In aim. rep., 1915, pt. 2, p. 116-241.) Report on the methods employed in the white lead and lead oxide industries in Pennsylvania to safe-nard the health of the workmen. (Bulletin, v. 2, No. 11, Nov.. 10ir>.) Investigation of health of 400 tobacco workers. (Bulletin, v. 4, No. 6, June, 1917). This division has held a number of conferences of industrial physi- cians and surgeons. The first four formed part of the annual welfare and efficiency conferences of the department; the fifth to ninth in- clusive were held separately and the proceedings were printed in the Pennsylvania Medical Journal (March, 19 18- January, 1920) and issued as separates; the tenth constituted a section of the annual safety congress of 1920. BUREAU OF REHABILITATION. S. S. Riddle, chief. Established by act of the legislature approved July 18, 1919, for the rendering of physically handicapped persons fit to engage in a remunerative occu- pation. By section 5 (k) the chief is empowered To conduct investigations and surveys of the several industries located in the Commonwealth to ascertain the occupations within each industry in which physically handicapped persons can enter upon remunerative employment under favorable conditions, and work with normal effectiveness, and to determine what practicable changes and adjustments in industrial operations and practices may facilitate such employment. The report of activities to January 1, 1921, published as the depart- ment's Bulletin, volume 8 (series of 1921). No. 2, does not show any surveys of the kind contemplated in this provision. But prior to 62 II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENt'IKS. the establishment of this bureau the Department of Labor and Indus- try, in January. 1918, sent out a questionnaire to Pennsylvania em- ployers to ascertain opportunities in their establishments for employ- ment of persons handicapped by various types of disability and to obtain data on crippled workers actually employed. The returns, showing more than 50.000 employment opportunities, were analyzed and tabulated by the Bureau of Employment and the results pub- lished as Bulletin, volume 5 (series of 1918), No. 2. TEXAS. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. Austin, Tex. YvV.\rvx"s Divisrox. Mrs. Lena Gardner, chief. In 1920 this division made a survey of woman workers in Fort Worth. Tex., and issued a mimeographed report containing* the results (summarized in Monthly Labor Review of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, January. 1921, p. 157-158). A child labor survey in Austin Corpus Christi and an industrial survey of El Paso are in progress. WASHINGTON. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES. Olympia, Wash. Created by act of February 9, 1921. which reorganized the adminis- trative departments of the State and brought together under a single director various offices, boards, and commissions dealing with labor. It comprises three divisions, (1) industrial insurance, (2) safety, (3) industrial relations. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE COMMITTEE. This committee, consisting of the director of labor and industries, the supervisor of industrial insurance, the supervisor of industrial relations, and the supervisor of women in industry, exercises the powers and performs the duties formerly devolving upon the Industrial Welfare Commission. Created by act of March 24, 1913, and authorized to fix minimum wages and standard conditions of labor for women and minors, this commission made a preliminary investigation and published a " Ee- port on the wages, Conditions of work, and cost and standards of living of women wage earners in Washington" (111 p.) in March, 1914 (reprinted as Appendix A in first biennial report, 1913-1914). Its first and second biennial reports contain other data on cost of living, summaries of occupational surveys and of the proceedings of wage conferences, a survey made to ascertain the effects of mini- mum wage, fruit cannery investigations, etc. WISCONSIN. INDUSTRIAL COMMMISSION. State Capitol, Madison, Wis. Fred M. Wilcox, chairman. This commission, created in 1911, is organized in seven depart- ments, viz : Safety and sanitation, Workmen's compensation, Woman and child labor.* Employment offices, Mediation and arbitration, Apprenticeship. Statistics. It undertakes investigations only for the purpose of obtaining data on which to base rules and regula- tions or for other administrative purposes, 9 e. g., during 191.4-15, In 1915 the commission, to obtain data upon which the hours of employment for women might he fixed under the State ]nw providing that such working hours " shull not be prejudicial to their health, safety, or welfare." requested the cooperation of the T. S. Public Health Service, which detailed Dr. Robert Oleson t*o direct a survey of the v. employing- industries of the State. The investigation was carried on from November, "tin."), to Of-roiM-:. 1910, and included special intensive studies of fatigue and hourly production in its relation to the length of the work-day and to shop equipment. Brief reports were published in the annual reports of the U. S. Piiblic Health Service for 1916 (p. 44-46) arid 19-17 (p. 36-37). STATE AGENCIES. 63 sanitation and safety for women and children in paper mills, health hazards in the rubber industry. As a rule, the results of these investigations are not published. SAFETY AND SALTATION DEPARTMENT. Shortly after its estab- lishment the commission organized a committee on safety and sani- tation to formulate for it a series of general orders on safety and san i I r approval were promulgated as Bulletins of the Industrial Commission (v. 1. 2, 1912-13). 'The series of bulletins includes shop bulletins on accident prevention, designed for the use of superintendents and foremen; also "Results of investigations on permanent partial disabilities " (v. 2, No. 6) . In 1915 the commission published "General orders on zinc mines," drafted with the assist- ance of a committee of mining engineers appointed at a conference of the xinc mining companies. This is now in process of revision. Thi t lias prepared and published three safety codes, of ii the latest editions are as follows: of boiler re '. ">-' p. :ior c(Mit>. IDL'U. 'J2 p. Industrial liirlitM-. les mills, offices. .m-l oHier work ]>IIIMV. 3(1 (Ml. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT KM Manufacturers' Home Bnilding, Mil- s'. This Milwaukee office of the Woman and Child Lal-or Depart. as organized in April, a study of metal trade.- establishments in Milwaukee to ascertain the new operation women rforming and the proc- esses which they might perform. In UU's it conducted an investiga- tion on the employment of \vome:i on street-car lines and m;.-. study of the proper length of the meal period for women emplo During the past few months it has been making surveys in several -nsiu cities to furnish data on eo-t of living of working women for the use of the ad\ isory board in connection with minimum- wage determinations, but this material has not been published. A study of the employment of women and girls on power sewing machines is in p. and an investigation on the question of prohibiting worn-. i working at buffing and polishing machines arid at plating is to be undertaken shortly. EMCLOYVKXT OFFICES DEPARTMENT. In January, 1918, the com- mission undertook a survey of the large manufacturing industries of the Stall' to determine what trades or processes were open to men certain permanent handicaps, and in the following August a division for handicapped persons was organized within the employ- ment service as part of the Milwaukee public employment office. An analysis of placements of the first five months is given in "Indus- trial experience of handicapped workmen in Wisconsin,'' by George P. Hambrecht. (Amer. Labor Legisl. Rev., v. 9, No. 1, Mar., 1919, p. 117-125.) API-KEN TTfEsiiip DEPARTMENT. W. J. Simon, supervisor of ap- prenticeship. This department is charged with the enforcement of the apprenticeship law (Statutes, sec. 2377), which regulates the con- tent of indentures and the instruction to be provided. 64 II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. In 1915 a State committee representing the interests of the em- ployers, the employees, and the continuation schools, was called to- gether in Milwaukee by the Industrial Commission. From this com- mittee was created a State Apprenticeship Board to consider some of the important details of administration and to advise the super- visor of apprenticeship. Upon its advice a standard form of appren- ticeship indenture was prepared. The details of the processes to be iu nght and the length of time to be devoted to each have been worked out by other advisory committees composed of practical men actually engaged in that particular trade, employers and employees being represented equally. To date the following trades have been classified and advisory com- mittees organized to standardize the terms of apprenticeship inden- tures: All the metal trades, bakers, bricklayers, engravers, plasterers, printers, painters and decorators, tailors, electricians, carpenters, and plumbers. Definite schedules have been determined for the following trades: Blacksmith, draftsman, electrician, baker, shoe- maker, custom tailor, milliner, jeweler, watchmaker, printer, com- positor, lithographing transferer, sheet metal worker, auto mechanic, boiler maker, wire weaver, ship, fitter, photo-engraver, commercial artist, tinsmith, wood engraver, photographer, stone metal artist, knitting machine adjuster, dressmaker, templet maker, copper etcher, paper ruler, painter, meat cutter, and artificial-limb maker. These are printed in "Apprenticeship in Wisconsin third report, 1919." The department cooperates with the State Board of Vocational Education in planning courses of study for apprentices and issues pamphlets describing the subject matter of various trades with which an apprentice should be familiar (e. g. Standard requirements for bricklayers, 1918; Apprenticeship for plumbing in Wisconsin, 1919) and a periodical entitled " The Wisconsin Apprentice " (v. 1-4, 1918-21). MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS Vocation Bureau. Denton Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Helen T. Woolley, , director. The Psychological Laboratory of this Vocation Bureau has estab- lished norms of mental and physical measurements which are ap- plicable to industrial workers between the ages of 14 and 18 years. A brief account of the first two years of the tests and a statement as to what tests were included, is given in an article entitled "A new scale of mental and physical measurements for adolescents, and some of its uses," by Helen T. Woolley in Journal of Educational Psy- chology (November, 1915). The later results are not yet ready for publication. STATE-CITY FREE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. City Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. WOMEN'S DIVISION. Miss Margaretta Williamson, director. This division is the successor of the Cooperative Employment Bureau for Girls which published in 1915 the volume entitled " Commercial work and training for girls," by Jeannette Eaton and Bertha M. Stevens. MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. 65 Since that time it has made a number of studies of vocational opportunities for women in Cleveland, viz : Report on women em- ployed in iron and steel industries in Cleveland, by Elizabeth Arnold (published in Appendix A of "A report on the problem of the sub- stitution of woman for man power in industry " issued by the Cleve- land Chamber of Commerce in 1918) ; Opportunities for women in the printing trades (December, 1917) ; and Negro women in indus- try (June, 1918), unpublished studies by Elizabeth Arnold; "Op- portunities in Cleveland for women trained in domestic science and home economics " by Margaret Church, and " Opportunities for trained women in Cleveland factories," studies made for the Bureau of Occupations for Trained Women (108 City Hall, Cleveland) ; articles on opportunities for women by Elizabeth Arnold, published in newspapers September, 1920, and January, 1921. DBS MOINES (IOWA). INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of Directors. Garfield School, Des Moines, Iowa. Raymond Franzen, direc- tor of research. An investigation is in progress in the high schools to determine which of the various group intelligence tests will give the best pre- diction of success in academic studies and also to discover some tests among them with prognostic value in vocational pursuits. NEW YORK (CITY). BOARD OF EDUCATION. Jh'HKAt- OF REFERENCE* KKSI..\K< H. AND STATISTICS. 500 Park Ave- nue, New York, X. V. E. A. Xii'enecker, director. Investigations of intelligence tests are being made by Mr. John L. Stenquist of this bureau. One such investigation was made during 1920, in which the comparative results obtained in using five or six well-known intelligence tests were shown. Studies of tests of mechanical ability and some tests of educational achievement are in progress. NEW YORK (CITY). DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. New. York, N. Y. DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE. S. Dana Hubbard, M. D., su- perintendent. Established in 1915 under the Bureau of Preventable Diseases; reorganized in 1918 and transferred to the Bureau of Pub- lic Health Education. In addition to carrying on the inspection of industrial establish- ments and enforcement of the sanitary code and its educational pro- gram by means of lectures and group talks on industrial hygiene, distribution of posters on sanitation, hazards, etc., the division has made several industrial hygiene surveys, the results of which have been published as follows: A clinical and sanitary study of the fur and hatters' fur trade, by L. I. Harris. 1915. 55 p. (Monograph series, No. 12; also in Monthly Bulletin, v. r>, NO. 10, p. -jdT-L'Ds, Oct., iDir,.) The health of food handlers; a cooperative study by the Department of Health, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and American Museum of Safety. By L. I. Harris and L. I. Dublin. 1917. '24 p. (Monograph series. No. 17.) Cost of clean clothes in terms of health; a study of laundries and laundry workers in Ne\v York City. By L. I. Harris and Nellie Swarvz. 1916. 96 p. (Investigation made jointly by the division and the Consumers' League of the City of New York.) 7072:} Bull. 29021 5 66 II. STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES. Clinical study of the frequency of lead, turpentine, and benzine poisoning in 400 painters, by L. I. Harris. ( Re[.mit X>. 71. Aim M 11)1. S,) Health of workers in garages; a preliminary study, by L. I. Harris. (Monthly Bulletin, v. 8, No. 11, Nov., 191*. ) Conditions all'ectiiitf health in the millinery industry, by S. D. Hubbard and Christine R. Kefauvt-r. 10:20. ->0 j>. (Monograph series. No. 22; also eon- doused in Monthly bulletin, v. 10, No. 4, p. 81-97, Apr., 1920.) investigation of .'54 c;iscs of bnman anthrax occurring in New York (Mly during 1919 and 1920. by S. D. Hubbard and W. Jacobsohn. (Monthly Bulle- tin, v. 10. No. 11, p. 249-266, Nov., 1920; see also Jour. Ainer. Med. Assoc., Dec. 18, 1920, v. 75, No. 25, p. 1687.) A paper on "Mercurial poisoning in the manufacture of clinical thermometers," by W. Jacobsohn, was published in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, September, 1920 (v. 2, No. 5, p. 193-196). The research work in progress is concerned with poisoning in the dye and other chemical industries and by illuminating gas and car- bon monoxide, and with the detection of lead fumes in printing and linotype establishments. An effort of the division to associate labor unions with it for im- proving general health conditions in the factories of the city by means of the Labor Sanitation Conference is described in the Monthly Bulletin of the department for June, 1917. Physical examinations of industrial workers, which are voluntary and strictly confidential, are performed by the staff of industrial medical inspectors. In addition to the above publications, Nos. 62, 75, 83, 86, and 91 of the reprint series of the department (consisting of papers by members of the staff reprinted from various journals) deal with industrial hygiene subjects; also Keep-well leaflet, No. 19 First aid to the industrial worker (43 p.). OAKLAND (CALIF.) PUBLIC SCHOOLS. BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND GUIDANCE, Room 1106, City Hall, Oak- land, Calif. Virgil E. Dickinson, director. This bureau includes de- partments of research, vocational guidance, placement, industrial welfare, and mental testing. It is engaged in a constant study of all of the factors pertaining to individuals in the public schools who need either adjustment in school, placement in industry, or vocational guidance. A vocational counselor is provided in every elemental v school of any considerable size and in every high school. A pro- gram of work is outlined in a mimeographed "Bulletin for vocational counselors," issued April, 1921. The reports of the bureau are pub- lished in .the superintendent's annual reports and also issued as re- prints. III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. (a) ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, RESEARCH BUREAUS, AND INSTITUTIONS. AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS OF AMERICA. Suite TO 1-71 r>. )1 Union Square, New York, X. Y. RJ: uiTMr.Nr. Established July, li^?>, partly as an out- growth of tli . rch work don*- < tion with an in- junction suit against the union at Rochester. X. Y., April-May, 1920 (Mi< h:\el Stern v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America). The departrner; economic cpnditvons with particular reference to (1) the men's clolhing and related in- dustries, (2) the cost of living, (rt) wages and employment condi- tions: digests th( de by the impartial chairmen pro- vided for under the agreements between the manufacturers and the union in the sai 'hing manurV.cturing centers in the United States and CftHttdRj prepares tin* economic briefs submitted by the union in wage arbitration cases and ni;$ y iuvestiga- tions upon which the union briefs and arguments are based. It is ently called upon by the officers oil the union and the other departments (e. g.. the organization, editorial and publicity depart- ments) to fir formation in connection with their activities and to make investigations on wage-, production standards, week- work jind piecework systems, and other similar problems relating to work- ing conditions in the indust AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. Thirty-ninth Street and Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Clyde L. Kin8) : The present labor situation; compulsory investi- gation and arbitration. 302 p. v. 71. May, 1917 ( Xo. 1(50) : Stabilizing industrial employment. 2-46 p. v. 80, Nov., 1918 (No. 169) : Rehabilitation of the wounded. 164 p. (Indus- trial opportunities for disabled, p. 62-110.) v. 81, Jan., 1919 (Xo. 170) : A reconstruction labor policy. 211 p. (Industrial placement, p. 19-79; Standards for replaced labor, p. 86-186.) V. s.~, Sept., 1919 (Xo. 174) : Modern manufacturing; partnership of idealism and common sense. 324 p. (The personnel, p. 110-219.) v. IK). July, 1920 (Xo. 179) : Industrial stability. 177 p. v. 91, Sept., 1920 (Xo. 180) : Labor, management, and production. 17:5 p. Other articles can be found by consulting the " Twenty-fifth anni- versary index" (July, 1890, to January, 1916) and the "Thirtieth anniversary index (March, 1916, to July, 1921), issued as supple- ments to The Annals. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR LABOR LEGISLATION. 131 East Twenty-third Street, New York, N. Y. John B. An- drews, secretary. Organized in 1906 to serve as the American branch of the Inter- national Association for Labor Legislation, the object of the asso- ciation is to investigate conditions underlying labor legislation and to collect and disseminate information leading to the enactment and efficient enforcement of laws for the promotion of the comfort, health, and safety of employees. In 1920 there were 3,124 members (mini- mum annual dues, $3). The annual meeting is held in the last week of December in conjunction with one or more of the American Economic, Sociological, Statistical, and Political Science Associa- tions. Investigations and studies have been made and conferences held by the association for the purpose of determining standards for legis- lation and furnishing data for the drafting of bills introduced in Congress and the State legislatures and for briefs in support of them on the following subjects: Workmen's compensation (including Federal employees, longshoremen, and seamen), vocational rehabili- tation for industrial cripples, occupational diseases, health insur- ance, maternity protection, hours of labor in continuous industries, one day rest in seven, women in industry, national public employ- ment service, unemployment insurance, administration of labor laws. Publications Nos. 1-11 (1908-1910) and the American Labor Leg- islation Review, issued quarterly since 1911, contain the proceedings of the annual meetings, annual reviews of labor legislation, com- parative digests, results of investigations and othor papers, and also the proceedings of special conferences called by the association, viz : First national conference on industrial diseases, Chicago, June, 1910 (Publication No. 10) ; Chicago conference on prevention and report- ing of industrial accidents, September, 1911 (v. 1, No. 4) ; second national conference on industrial diseases (jointly with American Medical Association), Atlantic City, June, 1912 (v. 2, No. 2); first national conference on social insurance, Washington, June, 1913 (v. 3, No. 2) ; first and second national conferences on unemploy- ment, February and December, 1914 (v. 4, No. 2, and v. 5, No. 2) ; second national conference of health insurance commissioners, 1918 (v. 8, No. 2). A summary of association activities, 1906-1914, forms volume 4. No. 4. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 69 The American section of the International Association on Unem- ployment was first organized in 1911 as a special committee of this association, and has since worked in close affiliation with it. Under its auspices a report on " The relation of irregular employment to the living wage for women " (in v. 5, No. 2, p. 287-418), was prepared for the New York State Factory Investigating Commission, and an unemployment survey was made* 1914-15, (v. 5, No. 3). The results of an unemployment survey, 1920-21, made by the association are published in the September, 1921, issue of the Ameri- can Labor Legislation Review (v. 11, No. 3, p. 189-219). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS. ()3 East Adams Street, Chicago, 111. C. E. Drayer, Secretary-. Incorporated under the laws of Illinois in 1915, this association now lias about 25,000 members (entrance fee, $10; annual dues, $15), with 1SS chapters and 75 clubs. It is devoted to the nontechnical in- terests of engineers, such as the standards of professional ethics, en- actment of engineers' license laws, participation of engineers in public affairs, engineering education, adequate professional remuneration, employment opportunities. It conducts the Engineering Service IJureau. a cooperative employment service for its members. On November 12, 1920, the Employment Council of the association held at Chicago a conference on employment and education, at- tended by educators, engineers, and employment managers, at which personnel work was one of the principal subjects of discussion. A partial report of its proceedings has been published in pamphlet form. The Federal Department of the association in 1921 prepared a report on engineers' salaries in the Government service, which was presented at the hearing before the Senate Committee on Civil Serv- ice on the pending reclassilication bills. A progress report of the Committee on Fees and Services of Practicing Engineers was sub- mitted to the association in March, 1921, and published. Other con- tributions to the study of the remuneration of engineers have ap- peared in Professional Engineer, published monthly as the official organ of the association. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. .Post office box 4061, West Philadelphia' Station, Philadelphia, Pa. Francis D. Patterson, M. D., secretary-treasurer. Organized at Detroit, Mich., in 1915 to foster the study and dis- cussion of the problems peculiar to the practice of industrial medi- cine and surgery; to develop methods adapted to the conservation of health among workers in the industries; to promote a more gen- eral understanding of the purposes and results of the medical care of employees; and to unite into one organization members of the medical profession specializing in industrial medicine and surgery for their mutual advancement in the practice of their profession. There are 565 members (annual dues, $5). Meetings are held an- nually. The official organ of the association, in which its proceedings are published, is The Nation? s Health (prior to May, 1921, called Modern 70 III. NONOT-TICIAL Af}K.\ , issued monthly since May, 1919 (Modern Hospital Pub- lishing Co.. L'2 East Ontario Street, Chicago, 111.. $3 a year). This 'ounwl has a department "Medicine and industry" (edited by Otto \ (ieier, M. D.) in each issue. i AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. COMMITTEE ON OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES IN THE CHEMICAL TRAD: Prof. Charles Baskerville, College of the City of New York, chair- man. The original committee was appointed by the New York sec- tion of the American Chemical Society in February. 1912. and in the following year the parent society appointed the present com- mittee to better conditions of labor in chemical industry thi-o:igh (1) developing the interest of the manufacturers, (2) cooperation on obtaining uniform legislation in the different States and munici- palities, and (3) bringing about a limited degree of publicity mainly among chemists. The committee has cooperated with boards of health and bureaus of labor in their investigations and has aided in formulating uniform legislation* especially in connection with the use of wood alcohol. A symposium on occupational diseases in the chemical trades by the committee was published in the Journal of Industrial and Engi- neering Chemistry (v. 8, No. 11, November, 1916. p. 1054-10(57). Its annual reports for 1920 and 1921 have appeared in the same journal (v. 12, No. 5, May, 1920, p. 439-440; v. 13, No. 6, June. 1921, p. 568-569). Papers by the chairman of the committee describing its activities have been published in Medicine and Surgery (Sept., 1917), a-m Modern Medicine (v. 2, No. 5, May, 1920, p. 363-364). EUBBER CHEMISTRY DIVISION, COMMITTF.K ox ORGANIC /> ATORS. A report of this committee calling the attention of manu- facturers to the poisonous properties of certain organic accelerators used in the vulcanizing of rubber goods and recommending precau- tions to be taken for the protection of workers was printed in Jour- nal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for October. 1D1S (v. 10, No. 10, p. 865). COMMITTEE ON COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE INDUSTRIES. Prof. W. A. Noyes, University of Illinois, chairman. A report of this committee relating to the training of chemists for in- dustrial work, cooperative investigations, and fellowships for re- search bearing on the problems of chemical industry was published in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for May, 1919 (v. 11, No. 5, p. 417). A brief report was recently submitted to the president of the society and will probably be published in the same journal during 1921. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. 818 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. Samuel P. *Capen, director. Organized in 1918 to take action on matters which are of common interest to the educational associations and institutions represented in it. The constituent or voting membership consists of 14 educa- tional associations which are national in scope (annual dues, $100). ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIKTIKS. R >l r XI>ATlOXS, ETC. 71 In addition, it has as associate members 12 other learned societies having- educational relations (annual dues, $10). There is also a class of institutional members, which consists of 133 universities and col- leges, contributing from $100 to $500 a year, according to the size of nstitution. The council has a standing Committee on Cooperation with Indus- tries (Dean F. L. Bishop, University of Pittsburgh, chairman) , which is to undertake, in conjunction with the Council of Management Edu- cation (see p. 09), to specify methods of training for college students who later intend to enter industrial enterprises. IN -: .mding Committee on Training of Women for Professional Service recently sent out a questionnaire to employment and voca- tional bureaus tor women, requesting in formation as to scope of work, standards required, classification used, relation to organized per- sonnel departments in industry, commerce, etc.. personnel specifica- tions prepared, use of general intelligence and special vocational tests, and other data. A preliminary report on the returns has been pre- pared by Miss Elizabeth Kern per Adams for publication in the January, I'.^ii, is Record (published quarterly by the council since .January. i ( .W). AMERICAN DYES INSTITUTE. 130 West Forty-second Street, New York, N. Y. W. R. Corwine, secretary. This hi-tiliilioii is the a^oriat'ion of du-siiiil maiiui'acinrers in the l"n i ted Co.MMrriKF. ox SA v AND SAFETY. This committee was formed to \y, rode on nitro .'iiid amido compounds at the re 1912, p. 331-364; 1915, p. 285-301). Standard employment, reference, and physical examination blanks adopted at the 1909 convention are furnished at cost by the American Electric Railway Association to member companies. A pamphlet containing samples of all of these forms may be obtained from the office. AMERICAN ENGINEERING COUNCIL. See Federated American Engineering Societies (p. 102). AMERICAN ENGINEERING STANDARDS COMMITTEE. 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, X. Y. P. G. Agnew, secretary. Organized as the result of the work of a joint committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and American So- ciety for Testing Materials, appointed December, 1916, to consider the formation of a central national body to serve as a clearing house for standards, the American Engineering Standards Committee held its first meeting in October, 1918. Originally it consisted of three representatives of each of the five societies above named ; but in 1919 representatives of three Government departments Navy, War, and Commerce were added, and the constitution was revised to make provision for representation of other bodies of national scope in- terested in standardization, which may be either single organizations or groups of organizations. During 1920 the following bodies be- came represented upon it : United States Department of Agricul- ture ; United States Department of the Interior ; American Electrical Railway Association; National Safety Council; Society of Auto- motive Engineers; Electrical Manufacturers Council (representing Associated Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies. Electrical Manu- facturers Club, Electric Power Club) ; electric light and power group (including Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, National Electric Light Association) ; fire-protection group (including Asso- ciated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies, National Board of Fire Underwriters, National Fire Protection Association, Under- writers' Laboratories) ; gas group (including American Gas Associa- tion, Compressed Gas Manufacturers Association, International Acetylene Association). The American Engineering Standards Committee itself, usually referred to as the main committee, is thus composed at present of 47 members, representing 17 bodies or groups of bodies, including 6 na- tional engineering societies, 5 Government departments, and 13 na- tional industrial associations. Its work is supported at present by the dues of the member bodies. $500 for each representative on the main committee (except in the case of Government departments, pending the enactment of legislation by Congress to enable them to contribute their share of the expenses). The main committee is solely an administrative and policy-forming committee, and does not concern itself with technical details of any particular standard. It has formulated rules of procedure for the ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS . ETC. 73 development of standards to be approved by it, which, briefly sum- marized, are as follows: (a) A standard (or code) is assigned by the main committee to a " sponsor " which is any organization, whether represented on the main committee or not, considered capable of carrying out the work; (&) the sponsor organizes a thoroughly rep- resentative ifc sectional committee," subject to approval by the main committee; (r) the sectional committee prepares the standard (or code) and submits it to the sponsor, which after approving the final draft submits the standard to the main committee; (d) it is then pub- lished by the sponsor and, on approval by the main committee, is labeled "American standard," " Tentative American standard," or " Recommended American practice," according to circumstances and the nature of the standard. Provision is also made for the approval of standards adopted or in process prior to 1920, if they have been developed substantially in the same way or have, in actual practice, pi-oven their right to become standards. r>e.-i.) Approved Jan. 20, 1921, as "Recommended Amc-ri. an practice." National Tire Protection Association. National electrical [fire] code. Regu- lations of the National Board of Fire rndenvrih-rs for electric wiring and apparatus. Edition of 1920. Approved Apr. 19, 1921. as "American standard." Twenty-three other safety codes have been definitely assigned to sponsors, and the majority of these have reached (July, 1921) fur- ther stages in the process as indicated in the following table. 74. III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Code. Sponsor. Sectional committee. JK'afls prepared. A vial ion Compressed air mach- inery- Cons true! ion safoty KUviiic power- con- trol. Floor openings, rail- ings, and toe-boards Formed. Foundries . Gas. Grinding wheels Ladders. Lighting. Lightning Logging Machine tools.. Power transmission. . . Paper and pulp. Power presses. . Refrigeration . . . Stairways. . Sanitation.. Textiles Ventilation. [Bureau of Standards. . . {Society of Automotive Engin [ eers. American Society of Safety Engineers. National Safety Council Formed and approved Bureau of Standards Electrical Safety Conference National Association of Mu Casualty Companies. (National Founders Associa- I tion. j American Foundrymen's As- ( soeiation. I Bureau of Standards \Ainerican Gas Association ("rinding Wheel Manufactur- ers Association. International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. American Society of Safety Engineers. Illuminating Engineering So- ciety. (Bureau of Standards ^American Institute of Electri- ( cal Engineers. Bureau of Standards National Machine Tool Build- ers Association. National Workmen's Compen- sation Service Bureau. American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers. International Associalion of fn dustrial Accident Boards and Commissions. National Workmen's Compen- sation Service Bureau. National Safety Council. [Formed and approved. \Formed and submit- / ted. > Formed and approved. Formed and submit- ted. Formed and approved. Formed and approved. .do. Woodworking. American Society of Ref rifc-era- i Engineers'. National Fire Protection As- sociation . IT. S. Public Health Service. . [Nal ional Association of Mutual I Casualty Companies. [National Safety Council American Society of and Ventilating Engineers. (International Association of In dust-rial Accident Boards { and Commissions. National Workmen's Compen- I sation Service Bureau. Formed and submitted aad approved. do Formed and submit- ted. Formed. Formed and submit- ted. FlrU draft. Filial draft (submitted). 'ft (prepared). First draft. Do. Do. Do. Do, DO. DO. Do, Sponsors for the following codes have been recommended by the National Safety Codes Committee and approved by the main com- mittee but definite assignments have not yet been made for the reasons indicated : () Not yet accepted by proposed sponsors: Steam boilers (American So- ciety of Mechanical Engineers) ; explosives (Institute of Makers of Explo- sives) ; nonlired pressure vessels (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) ; tanneries (Tanners' Council); blast furnaces (National Safety Council, con- ditional on mining) ; blooming and rolling mills (National Safety Council, con- ditional on mining). (b) Accepted by sponsors but manufacturers objected: A combined electric fire and safety code under the joint sponsorship of National Fire Protection Association and Bureau of Standards. (c) Declined by proposed sponsor: Industrial power control (Electrical Safety Conference). ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 75 The main committee has not yet approved the fallowing recom- mendations for sponsorships made by the National Safety Codes Committee : Cranes (Association of Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers) ; elevators nncl fsonlators, locomotive boilers (Anierk-tin Society of Mechanical Engineers) ; boiler-room equipment ami operation, conveyors and conveying machinery, inbusTiiHi engines, engine-room equipment and operation, steam engines and turbines (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, condition- any) ; nilro and amido compounds (American Dyes Institute) ; electricity in mines, storage-battery locomotives for use in gaseous mines, portable electric mine lamps lU. S. Bureau of Mines). A four-page circular of "Suggestions on form and arrangement of safety codes," issued by the main committee, shows also the method of selecting the personnel of the sectional committees which formulate the codes. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR Railway Employees' Department. !r>o Broadway, Chicago, 111. BUREAU OF Tii>i AHCEI. Lei and Olds, director. Established in the spring of 19*jO to carry on the research necessary to supply informa- tion to officers of the department and to the locals, and to furnish data for hearings before the Railroad Labor Board, Interstate Com- merce Commission, legislative committees, etc., on matters in which the railway shop employees' unions affiliated with the American Federation* of Labor are* interested. The bureau has made job analyses of the work of car men to show the amount of skill required :md has prepared material for other exhibits presented to the Railroad Labor Board in the hearings during the spring of 19*21, o. g.. those dealing with punitive over- time, seniority rules of the national agreement, the sanction of the eight-hour day, the recognition of human standards in industry, occupation hazard of railway shopmen, history of collective bar- gaining, and a st-idy of cost of living and actual quantity food and rent budgets of a considerable number of railroad shop employees. It is also making a study of labor turnover and unemployment on a number of railroad systems. A weekly digest of labor news is issued by the bureau to union officials of affiliated unions and to railroad lodges. AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION. i:i( i:ast Fifteenth Street, New York, N. Y. Formed June 6, 1918, by the union of the American Gas Institute (founded 190(>) and the National Commercial Gas Association (founded 1905) ; incorporated 1919. The association is joint sponsor with the United States Bureau of Standards for the gas safety code in preparation under the auspices and rules of procedure of the American Engineering Standards Committee. (See p. 74.) The first draft has been made. ACCIDENT PREVENTION COMMITTEE. Charles B. Scott, Bureau of Safety, 72 West Adams Street, Chicago, 111,, chairman. The func- tions of the committee are: To investigate preventable causes of accidental casualties and damage in the gas industry and to recom- mend methods, safe practices, and safety appliances for avoidance; to devise and promulgate plans for interesting and educating em- ployees and the public in accident prevention; to be helpful to the 76 III. NONOFFIC1AL AGENCIES. members of the association in their individual accident problems. The reports of the committee (1914-1920), containing analyses of accidents reported to it, and rules and precautionary measures rec- ommended, are included in the Proceedings of the association (and of the American Gas Institute) and also issued separately. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL ENGI- NEERS. 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Organized in 1871 as the American Institute of Mining Engineers and incorporated 1905. The American Institute of Metals became the Institute of Metals Division of this organization July, 1918, and the name was changed to the present form February, 1919. The number of members (1921) is 9,345. The annual meeting is held in New York on the third Tuesday in February. COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL, RELATIONS. T. T. Read, United States Bureau of Mines. Washington, D. C., secretary. This committee, created for the purpose of keeping the institute in touch with de- velopments in the field of industrial relations, has organized eight subcommittees dealing with, the following subjects: Americaniza- tion, cripples in industry, prevention of illness, safety, education, mental factors in industry, housing, employment. Reports are pre- sented at the annual meetings and have been printed for 1919-1921 in the Transactions (v. 60, p. 810-814), and in the institute's monthly publication. Mining and Metallurgy for August, 1920 (p. 8-11) and April, 1921 (p. 11-17). The subcommittee on mental factors in in- dustry is the only one which has promoted any original research, viz, the investigation in its field provided for by Engineering Foundation (see p. 102). Sessions devoted to personnel problems have been held at each annual meeting, 1918 to date. The papers and discussions at these sessions in 1918 and 1919 appear in the Transactions (v. 59, p. 590- 662, and v, 60, p. 748-818). AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 535 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. Alexander R. Craig, secretary. The Scientific Assembly of the American Medical Association does not provide a special section on industrial medicine and sur- gery, but papers on subjects in this field are presented at each annual meeting in the different sections of the Scientific Assembly, e. g., medical topics in the Section on Practice of Medicine, surgical topics in the various sections dealing w r ith surgery, public health, and medico-sociological questions in the Section on Preventive Medi- cine and Public Health. Occasionally special sessions have been devoted to industrial medi- cine and surgery, e. g., the second national conference on industrial diseases Avas held jointly with the American Association for Labor Legislation at Atlantic City, June, 1912; in the annual meeting of 1915 the Section on Preventive Medicine and Public Health had a symposium on industrial sanitation; in 1918 the Orthopedic Section held a symposium on industrial surgery; two meetings of the Sec- tion on Miscellaneous Topics for the 1919 annual session were de- voted to the presentation of a program on industrial medicine and surgery. Scientific contributions in this field are published from ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 77 time to time in the Journal of the American Medical Association (weekly). In 1913-14 a Committee on Conservation of Vision appointed by the association prepared and published " Conservation of vision series. Pamphlets 120," of which No. 14 is " Visual requirements of transportation employees," by J. J. Carroll (14 p.). The report of the Committee on the Ultraviolet and Visible Trans- mission of Eye-Protective Glasses, appointed by the Section on Opthalmology, was presented in 1920 and printed in the section's transactions. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAFETY. See Safety Institute of America (p. 149). AMERICAN POSTURE LEAGUE. I Madison Avenue (Metropolitan Tower), New York, N. V. Henry Ling Taylor, M. D., secretary. A national health organization organized in 1913 and incorporated the following year to do scientific and educational work in the standardization and improvement of conditions affecting the posture of the human body. While the principal activities of this organization have been in the field of personal, public, and school hygiene, its technical com- mittee on seating has made anatomical studies for the improvement of the design of chairs, stools, etc., for industrial establishments and offices, so as to promote correct posture and help to eliminate fatigue. An article by the secretary on "Seating of industrial employees" in a recent issue of Modern Medicine (v. 3, No. 3, Mar., 1921, p. 164) gives the results of the league's studies on this subject. An account of its other activities appears in the December, 1920, number of the same periodical (p. 777-779). Lists of reprints of articles on posture, wall charts, lantern slides, and other educational material issued by the league may be ob- tained on application. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. Edwin G. Boring, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., secretary. Organized in 1892 for the advancement of the interests of psy- chology as a science. Meetings are held annually in the last week of December. The proceedings, with abstracts of papers read, are pub- lished in an association number of the Psychological Bulletin every yea r. At each annual meeting recently a considerable number of papers have been presented relating to intelligence tests and other subjects in the field of personnel research, e. g., at the Chicago meeting 1920 a joint session with the Section of Psychology and Section of Edu- cation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, devoted to intelligence tests, was held December 29 (Psychol. Bull., v. 18, No. 2, February, 1921). In 1906 a Committee on the Standardizing of Procedure in Ex- perimental Tests, under the chairmanship of Prof. James E. Angell, was appointed to act as a general control committee on the subject of measurements. Its work is represented by the following reports : Report of the committee ... on the standardizing of procedure in ex- perimental tests. 1910. 107 p. (Psychol. Monographs, v. 13, No. 1, whole Ko. 53.) 78 III. iMKNOi fiC'IAL A(JKNCIES. Association lests, by R. S. WOCK! worth find F. 1,. Wells. 1911. 85 p. (Psy- chol. Monographs, v. 13, No. 5, whole No. 57.) In December, 1910, a Committee on the Academic Status of Psy- chology published us its report: Baldwin, F>. T. A. survey of psychological investitrations with ivlVivnce to differentiation between psychological experiments and mental tests. Swartli- n :ore, 1916. The work of the association and its committees during 1 the war, ID connection with the establishment of the Army psychological serv- ice for intelligence testing; and the study of special psychologic:;! problems relating 1 to various military activities, is described in Robert M. Yerkes' presidential address, December, 1917, " Psychol- ogy in relation to the war" (Psychol. Rev., v. 25, No. 2, March. 1918, p. 85-115) and in his "Report of the Psychology Committee of the National Research Council" (its Reprint and circular series. No. 2; from Psychol. Rev., v. 26, No. 2, March, 1919, p. 83-149). The re- port of the Committee on Reeducation Research (S. I. Franz, Gov- ernment Hospital for Insane, chairman) was published in December, 1917 (Psychol. Bull., v. 14, No. 12, p. 416 ff.). At the December, 1920, meeting a standing Committee on Certifi- cation of Consulting Psychologists was created, following the presen- tation of a printed report of a special committee previously ap- pointed to investigate the question. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION. Penn Terminal Building, Seventh Avenue and Thirty-first Street, New York, N. Y. A. W. Hedrich, secretary. Organized in 1872, for the advancement of sanitary science and promotion of organizations and measures for the practical applica- tion of public hygiene. There are now seven sections : Laboratory, Vital statistics, tublic health administration. Sociological, Sanitary engineering, Industrial hygiene, Food and drugs. Meetings are held annually at time and place determined by the board of directors. The fiftieth annual meeting will be held in New York City, Novem- ber 14-18, 1921, and it is proposed to have a health institute in con- nection with it. The American Journal of Public Health is the official monthly publication of the association, in which its proceedings and papers presented before its sections are published. This periodical has n department on industrial hygiene and occupational diseases, consist- ing of 'abstracts of current literature, conducted by E. R. Hayhiirst, and E. B. Starr. The A. P. H. A. News Letter,' issued the 8th of each month, contains personal notes, public health news, etc. The issue for May, 1921, contains a complete list of the committees of the association, giving their personnel, scope, activities, and plans. SECTION ox INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE. Dr. W. A. Sawyer, 343 State Street, Rochester, N. Y., secretary. This section was organized in 1914 and now has about 100 members. A sketch of the develop- ment of industrial hygiene and protective legislation is being pre- pared by Dr. George M. Kober to form part of a special volume of papers to commemorate the fiftieth aniversary of the foundation of the association. SECTION ON VITAL STATISTICS. At the 1917 meeting this section appointed a special Committee on Industrial Morbidity Statistics, ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 79 consisting: of representatives of the United States Public Health Service, statisticians interested in industrial morbidity, employment and welfare managers in industry, and organized labor, which formu- ln ted a standard plan for recording and reporting sickness among employees and recommendations for tabulation and analysis by the United States Public Health Service. Its reports at the annual meet- ings in 191S and 1919 were published as Reprints No. 484 and 564 from the Public Health Reports ( v. 33, No. 35, p. 1429-1434 ; v. 34, No. 42, }). 22M9-2294), and the details of the plan were presented to in- dustrial establishments and sick benefit associations by the United States Public Health Service in Reprint No. 573 from the Public Health Reports (v. 34, No. 46, November 14, 1919, p. 2593-2604), entitled " Sickness records for industrial establishments." The com- mittee has been continued bv the section as the standing Committee Morbidity Reports and Mortality Statistics in Industry (Louis I. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, chairman, to ith the Tinted State^ Public Health Service. LABORATORY SECTION. The Committee on Standard Methods for the Examination of Air, appointed by this section, made four re- hods for use in ventilation studies, which have been pub- d as follows: First (preliminary), 1JH)1, Amer. Jour. Pub. Hyg. . p. 34(': second (preliminary), 11)12, Amer. Jour. Pub. Health, v. 3, p. 78: third (final) fern, v. 7, p. 54; fourth (supplemen- tary), 1919, idem* v. in. p. 4.jo. It is i.o\v merged in the Committee on Standard Method^ ( ttogrr (i. iVrkins, Western Reserve Medical ool, Cleveland, chairman), which has been substituted for the separate committee- on particular standard-. AMERICAN RAILWAY ASSOCIATION. 30 kreet, Xe\v York. X. Y. J. E. Fairbanks, secretary. The object of this association is the discussion and recommenda- tion of methods for the management and oj>eration of American rail- . Its membership consists of common carriers which operate American steam railways. COMMITTKK ox TRANSPORTATION. This standing committee ex- amines into and reports upon questions affecting transportation, such as train rules, rules for the operation of interlocking and block ,us. etc. M.MITTKK ON THE SAFE TRANSIT >RTATION OF EXPLOSIVES AND ':u I)AXc;i:i{or- ARTICLES. This committee has formulated rules on the subject indicated in its title. The Bureau of Explosives, maintained by the association at its headquarters, receives reports i dents due to explosives and investigates them. The rules above noted are printed in the "Rule book" of the asso- ciation, which includes also u Code of rules governing the determina- tion of physical and educational qualifications for employees Oper- ating department/" adopted April, 1906 (edition of March. 1917, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS. 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Organized in 1894 for the promotion of the arts and sciences connected with heating und ventilating in all branches, the society now has local chapters in Illinois, Kansas City, Massachusetts, 80 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Michigan, Minnesota, Xew York, Western Xew York, Ohio, Eastern Penns} 7 ]vania, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. The annual meeting is held in New York, beginning the fourth Tuesday in January ; semi- annual professional sessions are held at time and place determined by the council. Annual dues, $10 ; initiation fee, for members and associates, $15; for junior members, $10. The society is sponsor for the ventilation code to be prepared under the auspices and rules of procedure of the American Engineering Standards Committee (see p. 72). RESEARCH LABORATORY at United States Bureau of Mines Experi- ment Station, Pittsburgh, Pa. L. A. Scipio, director of research. Established under an agreement for cooperation in certain investi- gations between the United States Bureau of Mines and the society, executed in July, 1919, by which the bureau furnishes at its Pitts- burgh plant the necessary office and laboratory space, light, power, heat, water, and other general facilities, and the services of certain engineering assistants, and the society provides the salaries of the director of research, assistant director, and such other assistants as may be required, expending not less than $15,000 in each year. The work is under the supervision of a standing Research Committee with a subcommittee of five, the Subjects Committee, to determine the subjects on which research shall be undertaken. Official reports of the Research Laboratory are published in the Journal of the society (monthly, except February, June, and August) and papers containing the results of the investigations are presented at research sessions of the society's meetings. The program of work in progress includes two series of investiga- tions in the field of industrial hygiene: (1) Standardization of dust measurements, and (2) temperature, humidity, and air motion ef- fects on health. In the first-mentioned series three papers have been published in the Journal, viz : Theory of dust action, by O. W. Arms- pach (in v. 26, No. 9, December, 1920, p. 819-829) ; Efficiency of the Palmer apparatus (in v. 26, No. 8, November, 1920, p. 687). and of the sugar tube (v. 27, No. 2, March, 1921, p. 119-123) for deter- mining dust in air. In the second group, a study of the relation of wet-bulb temperature to health, by O. W. Armspach, was pub- lished in the Journal for May, 1920. An investigation of the effect of humidity and temperature on the human system undertaken by Prof. F. B. Rowley at the University of Minnesota, forms part of a program of cooperative research between universities and colleges and the Research Laboratory, which is an important feature of the plan of the Research Committee. Similarly a study of certain ven- tilation problems is being made in cooperation with the Minneapolis school board. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Calvin W. Rice, secretary. Organized in April, 1880, for the promotion of the arts and sciences connected with engineering and mechanical construction. There are now local sections in 42 cities and 11 professional sections, viz, Aero- nautics. Cement, Fuel, Gas power, Machine shop, Materials han- dling, Management, Ordnance, Power, Railroads, Textiles. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 81 i A session on industrial relations was held at the Detroit meeting, June, 1919; the papers (Xos. 1692, 1693) and discussion thereon are found in the Transactions of the society (v. 41, p. 145-208). A num- ber of other papers on personnel matters have been presented before the society from time to time and published in its Transactions or in Mechanical Engineering. Some of these are available in pamphlet form, e. g., on labor turnover (Xos. 1624-1648), woman workers, Xos. 1627, 1628), labor dilution (Xo. 1671), industrial organization (No. 1672), industrial unrest (Xo. I721a), mutual control of industry (Xo. lT21b), profit sharing (Xo. I721c), wage pa3^ment (Xo. I721d). A session at the annual meeting in 1918 was devoted to discussion of the crippled soldier problem (Jour. Amer. Soc. Mech. Eng., v. 40, p. 51-61). A number of papers on industrial safety and accident prevention have been published in the Transactions, some of which are available in pamphlet form (e. g., Xos. 1510-1513, 1523, 1572, 1597, 1598, 1625, 1631). On the invitation of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, delegates of a number of engineering societies met in Xew York. May (>. 1921, to discuss plans for a congress of engineers allied to the mechanical engineer* to consider education in industry, em- ]>r;>'-ing (1) education of engineers and higher executives, (2) educa- tion of foremen and department heads, (3) education of workers, (4) the modification of college courses to cover the requirements of industry, and (5) revision of textbooks. It was decided to hold an engineers' congress on industrial education along the lines suggested, the program and arrangements being left to an executive committee (}V. Herman Greul. Engineers' Club, 32 West Fortieth Street, Xew Yor! ii \ ). The meeting will probably take place in the spring of 1922. MAN.UJKMKXT DIVISION. Organized as the Management Section October 1.'). HHO. this division now has an enrollment of approxi- mately 1.000 members and holds sessions at the spring and annual meetings of tl",- -oi-iety devoted to management topics. It has taken the initiative in the establishment of a joint Committee on Manage- ment Terminology, including, besides its own, representatives from the Society of Industrial Engineers, Industrial Relations Associa- tion of America, Xational Association of Cost Accountants, Taylor Society, and American Institute of Accountants. SAFETY CODE COMMITTEE. C. B. LePage, secretary. For some time the society has been engaged in the development of safety codes : epreeentative committees. An elevator safety code has recently : completed and is to be issued shortly. The society is joint sponsor for the safety code for mechanical transmission of power being prepared under the auspices of the American Engineering Standards Committee (see p. 72) and is represented on the follow- ing sectional committees which are drafting safety codes : Floor open- ings, railings, and toe boards; Grinding machinery; Industrial light- ing code; Ladders; Logging and sawmill machinery; Machine tools; Paper and pulp mills: Power presses. It has also been nominated as ,sor for vnrious other codes but has not yet accepted these spon- sorships. 70723 Bull. 29921 6 82 III. NONOFFICIAL, AGENCIES. This committee, now being organized to take the place of the Com- mittee on Protection of Industrial Workers, is to be a standing com- mittee, of five men who will direct the safety-code activity of the so- ciety in the future, acting- in an advisory capacity to the council on such matters and taking charge of the organization of all new sec- tional committees on safety codes for which the society may accept sponsorship or joint sponsorship. BOILER CODE COMMITTEE. C. W. Obert, secretary. In 1914 the committee prepared and issued the A. S. M. E. boiler code and a re- vised edition was published in 1918 (147 p.). It contains standard specifications for the construction, equipment, and use of steam boil- ers and has been adopted officially by many States as well as by many boiler-insurance companies, boiler manufacturers, and consulting en- gineers. The committee meets monthly and formulates " Interpreta- tions of the boiler code, 1918 edition," which are published sheet form with index. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF REFRIGERATING ENGINEERS. 154 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y. REFRIGERATION REGULATION COMMITTEE. William H. Ross, chair- man. This committee, charged with the preparation of the mechani- cal refrigeration code for which the society is sponsor under the aus- pices of the American Engineering Standards Committee, has re- cently sent out to members of the society and others interested an advance proof of the proposed safety code for suggestions for its improvement. The code is not to be published until it has been approved by the council and members of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers and by the American Engineering Stand- ards Committee. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SAFETY ENGINEERS. 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Organized in May, 1911, as the United Association of Casualty Inspectors; reorganized and incorporated under present name in 1915, so as to admit to membership any person actively engaged in safety work, whether in manufacturing plants, insurance companies, State labor departments or rating boards. The constitution of the society provides for a Research Committee, a Standards Committee, and a Codes and Legislative Committee. Of these the Research Committee has not been appointed for the current year. The Standards Committee, which is concerned with the for- mulation and revision of safety standards, is at present investigating certain rules for safety in building construction referred to the society by the New York State Department of Labor. The Codes and Legislative Committee seeks to have the results of the Standards Committee's work incorporated in codes and legislation to which they are pertinent. These two committees jointly are interested in a national safety code on ladders now being prepared by a sectional committee formed by the society which is sponsor for it under the auspices of the American Engineering Standards Committee. (See p. 74.) In September, 1921, the society was also designated as sponsor for the safety code on compressed-air machinery. In 1919 Safety cngmeerino (published monthly by the Safety Press, 80 Maiden Lane, New York City) was adopted as the official ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES,, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 83 organ of the society, and papers and proceedings of the meetings are pub! i shod in this magazine. ASSEMBLY OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONS. lv. P. Van Hook, city civil service commission, Colorado Springs, secretary. Organized 1906 to promote acquaintance among administrators of civil-service laws, to exchange information and views concerning the principles and methods of public employment, and to increase public knowledge of procedure tending to improve and perfect the merit system. The assembly met biennially 1906 to 1910; since then it has held annual meetings in June of each year at various places. The published volumes of the reports of proceedings include in recent years papers and discussions on the following subjects: (1915) Elimination of applicants on preliminary requirements; (1917) efficiency records, standard forms of examinations; (1918) promotion examinations, psychological tests, methods of removal, oral tests, physical examination, service record systems; (1919) examination for occupation of clerk, trade tests, examinations for probation officer, weight given to experience, methods of rating mil qualifications, training and experience, appeals of candi- dates from ratings, preference to veterans, woman's place in civil service: (K^o) classification of public employment. Many of these are comparative studies of the methods and practices of the various civil-service commissions throughout the country. Various problems have been studied by special committees whose reports appear in the proceedings of the annual meetings. In 1916 the following committee reports were published separately: Draft of ;i standard rivil-sorvi'-o !;i\v embodying the essential principles of a practical merit system of public employment. 18 p. lieport of cnmmincc on cooperation among commissions n examination ;;mls. 31 p. Fii on elliciency record systems. 56 p. The final report of the last-named committee is printed in the volume of proceedings, which contains also the report of the iniltee on Advancement in the Public Service. In 1919 the report of a Committee on Cooperation of Appointing Officers was submitted. At the 10^0 meeting a plan for a new personnel research agency was outlined in the report of the Committee on the Establishment of a National Service Bureau of Civil Service Standards. The functions of this proposed bureau would be: To conduct i Ions in order to determine the true essentials of exam- ination tests; to determine how best to discover, through appropriate tests, the abilities, rapacities, and aptitude requisite for the performance of specific public service; \*>- have > ; .-.!'-rviso; > y direction over research work in special problems relating to civil service, which may be curried on by universities, organizations, or individuals interested in such problems of governmental activities; in short, to act as a clearing house for civil-service examination practice and \, ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1034 Kimball Building, 18 Tremont Street, Boston 9, Mass, A manufacturers' association embracing in its membership 1,045 manufacturers in all lines of industry having plants in Massachu- setts organized to solve their common problems. 84 III. STO^OFFICIAL AGENCIES. INDUSTRIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. H. O. Stetson, secretary. Staff experts in industrial relations, employment management and safety are employed for full-time service to members. Two secretaries are devoting full time to the promotion of Americanization activities within the factories. In cooperation with the Bureau of Vocational Guidance at Harvard University the preparation of a series of special texts for teaching English to aliens employed in industries was under- taken in 1919-20. Each text consists of loose-leaf lessons dealing with the processes of a particular industry, into which safety pre- cautions are also introduced. An account of this investigation is given in an article entitled, " Preparing industrial English lessons," by George F. Quimby and Charles H. Paull, in Industrial Manage- ment, March, 1920. The following have been completed and pub- lished : Quimby, George F., and Paull, Charles H. English of leather making; in- dustrial lessons for adult English classes of tannery workers. 1019. 24 p. Paull, Charles H. English of paper making; lessons for adult English classes. 1920. 28 p. The first Massachusetts accident prevention congress was held at Worcester in 1920 under the joint auspices of this organization and locals of the National Safety Council. Its proceedings have been published. ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF HEART DISEASE. 325 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York. N. Y. Miss M. L. Woughter, executive secretary. Incorporated December 18, 1915, to coordinate the agencies already dealing separately with the various phases of relief for patients suffering from heart disease, and to provide an organization to initiate measures of prevention. The association considers that the vocational training of children in suitable trades, and the adjustment of the adult heart cripple to some form of labor which is within his physical limitations are among the most important of relief measures, from both a medical and an economic standpoint. It has accordingly made a study of the kinds of work which are suited to the limited capacities of those suffering from heart disease and has published a folder on " Occupa- tions for cardiacs" for popular distribution. The placement work which it started is now continued through the special bureau for cardiacs established by the Bureau for the Handicapped of the Hos- pital Social Service Association of New York City. A fund has recently been given for the purpose of making a survey of all the cardiacs for whom occupations have been secured. The following questions are to be investigated: (1) Ability of the in- dividual to continue at work in the job secured; (2) whether the work presents features unexpectedly taxing; (3) whether the cardiac keeps in touch with his own physician or one of the cardiac clinics; (4) present state of health; (5) the need for occasional rest, either at home or in an institution, to prevent a breakdown. A Committee on Research and Scientific Work and a Committee on Vocational Guidance and Occupation are included among those recently organized. Further information as to the association's ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 85 activities is given in its first report for the period December 18, 1915, to January 1, 1921. The work has been supported by annual dues of members and dona- tions, particularly from the Burke foundation. In the spring of 1920, when the Trade School for Cardiac Convalescents (founded 1912) was dissolved, its endowment fund of $7,000 was transferred to the association. ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS. Dean L. C. Marshall, School of Commerce, University of Chi- cago, president. Organized in 1918 for the promotion and improvement of higher business education in North America, this association is composed of institutions giving collegiate business training of a certain grade and type. It has at present 19 members (annual dues, $25). Institutions may be admitted, on recommendation of the executive committee, by a two-thirds vote of the members represented and voting. at an annual ling (generally held in May). end of the papers presented at the meetings have been pub- ii>iicd in the Journal of Political Economy issued by the University of Chicago. At the third general meeting, held May 5 to 7, 1921, at the University of Pittsburgh, a separate session was devoted to k * Courses in the labor field." Of the two papers presented at this session, "The problem of graduate training in personnel administra- tion." by Ordwny Tead, appeal's in the Journal of Political Economy for May, 1921 (p. .'15:5-367), and "Undergraduate instruction in labor problems," by Joseph H. Willits, is announced among forth- coming articles. The association has a Committee on Coordination with Corpora- tion Training Schools. ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTAL LABOR OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Miss Linna K. Biv.-cttc. Industrial Welfare Commission, Topeka, Kansas, secretary-treasurer. Formed at Xashville, Tenn., in June, 1914, by amalgamation of the International Association of Factory Inspectors (organized 1887) and the Association of Chiefs and Officials of Bureaus of Labor (or- ganized 1883), which had held joint conventions from 1910. The membership of this association consists of employees of Federal, State, provincial, county, or municipal departments having to do with the enforcement and supervision of labor laws. The annual dues of de- partments are determined upon the following basis: When the de- partment staff consists of 1 to 5 persons, $5; 6 to 25 persons, $10; 26 to 75 persons, $15 ; and where the staff exceeds 75 persons, $20. Meet- ings are held annually, the place being decided upon at the preceding convention and the time fixed by the executive committee. The Proceed ings of the annual conventions contain papers and dis- cussions on labor topics (e. g., in 1920, apprenticeship, child labor and vocational education, women in industry, safety, and compensation). Since 1918 they have been published by the United States Depart- ment of Labor; the Proceedings of the seventh annual convention, July 12-15, 1920, were issued as Bulletin No. 266 of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. 86 III. NOXOFFICIAL, AGENCIES. BALTIMORE FEDERATION OF CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS. "Room 503, 5 Hopkins Place, Baltimore, Md. The principal aim of this federation is unified action on questions of wages, hours of labor, and general working conditions. The labor managers, comprising the Board of Labor Managers of the Balti- more Market, meet regularly three times a week for the purpose of interchanging information on labor problems confronting them, to work out common labor policies, and to secure unified action in labor matters. The federation also aims to establish standards of production and is studying the factors contributing to efficient pro- duction, among which are: (1) Industrial relations, (2) planning of work, (3) proper lay-out of factories, (4) suitable appliances for the workers in their various tasks, etc. It is also studying the general situation in the men's clothing industry with a view to obviating as far as practicable the seasonal character of the industry and periodical unemployment. RESEARCH BUREAU. This bureau, formerly known as the Clothiers' Research Bureau, is now a part of the federation and is under the direction of the secretary. It conducts such investigations; and compiles such information as may be necessary for the general im- provement and standardization of working conditions in the Balti- more Market. It keeps on file a complete list of current piece and week rates, with a description of each operation as performed in each house, which is used constantly by members in setting piece rates and in settling disputes over prices. It collects regularly records of the earnings of the workers, which serve as a basis for discussions by the employers and the union; they show actual earn- ings by occupation groups for given pay-roll weeks, and are com- parable with earning figures from other markets, earnings in other industries, and cost-of-living figures. Several extensive wage studies were prepared for presentation before boards of arbitration during the past year. A manual or handbook of tailoring, containing a detailed analysis of the operations and processes used in the manufacture of clothing, has been completed recently. The purpose of this work is to lay the basis for standardized manufacturing processes for the industry as a whole, to afford a framework upon which any factory can base its own system of standardization, to train nontechnical men to be cloth- ing executives, to furnish a standard nomenclature and basis for fixing piece rates and to set up a standard by which industrial dis- putes of a technical nature may be settled. This office prepares and sends out regularly to members L News Bulletins containing digests of important decisions, piece rates, and labor news from other markets, etc. It also maintains a library and classified files of clippings on subjects of interest to the clothing industry. BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Retail Trade Board. 177 Milk Street, Boston 9, Mass. Arthur James Kelly, secretary. The Retail Trade Board, which is the merchants' section of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, has a Personnel Group composed of the personnel managers of some of the larger stores in the city. A subcommittee of this group recently made an investigation of ab- senteeism and tardiness by questionnaire to its members and sub- mitted a brief report December 3, 1920. ASSOCIATIONS,, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 87 BUREAU OF APPLIED ECONOMICS. Southern Building, Washington, D. C. Hugh S. Hanna, director. Organized 1914 by W. Jett Lauck and incorporated 1919 under the laws of Virginia, this bureau is a private organization estab- lished for the purpose of doing research and statistical work in the ii- (si of industrial, commercial and general economic activities. Its labor research work has included compilations of data regarding prices, cost of living, wages, and other statistical information (e. g., for use in labor cases before wage boards, etc.), original investiga- tions of industrial and commercial conditions, plant and industrial surveys, memoranda on industrial and labor legislation. The following bulletins are the latest issues of its printed com- pilations: rimnats in cost of living and prices, 1914 to 1020. 24 p. W:iuvs in various industries and occupations: a summary [' \vago moves incuts. 11)14 to 1JHIO. 6;"i p. S'andards of living: a compilation of budgetary studies. lirv. ed. 1920. 156 p. The bureau has prepared a limited number of mimeographed copies of a "Handbook of industrial relations and conditions" p.), containing digests of the more important laws, programs, and experiences in the field of industrial relations. It has also brought together all of the awards, actions, and pronouncements of National War Labor Hoard, using printed copies where avail- able and reproducing the others in typewritten form from the orig- inal docket of the board, in a compilation v ' National War Labor Board Docket" (5 vols.). A price list may be obtained on appli- cation. BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS. 10 \\esf Eighth Street, New York. N. Y. Jean Lee Hunt, in charge of depart .meat of in format urn. The only work done by this bureau related to the field of personnel roll is th" testing of undernourished children with a view to discovering whether any correlation could be established between the condition of malnutrition and mental ability. An interim report on the investigation appeared in the Pedagogical Seminary for March, 19*2<>, in an article by David Mitchell and Harriet Forbes entitled, " Malnutrition and health education." A more extensive report on the later work is to appear in " The nutrition class and health educa- tion," a publication of the bureau now in press. The results of this study are quite negative. The bureau has issued the following reference list as its Bulletin 9: Mitchell, David, and Ruger, G. J. Psychological tests: revised and classified bibliography. I'.HS. 1 16 p. BUREAU OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. L'x> Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Robert W. Bruere, di- rector. An incorporated voluntary association without profit organized in February, 1918, to promote sound human relationships in industry by consultation, fact studies, education, and publicity. It is main- tained by fees received for professional services and by private con- tributions in support of its research program. The policy of the 88 in. bureau at the present time is in- limit to work desijT!-- 'he ^ The following .studies have lfcri JD of tfx published by the bureau : How the Government liai, onraiiixations a>>oHat-d with UK- notes on their j- uii'-iion-. :.ml j-oijr-i<--. ]<. American company shop committee : representation. 10U Workers' education: American and foreign experiment 1921. 62 p. Building guild- iu Great Britain, By Ordway Te?.< study published In Journal of American ional councils in the printing trades. V, 30 p. (Reprinted from Monthly L > eau of 1^ Feb., 1921.) The open-shop drive. Who is behind it and where ; Zimand. 1921. 61 p. A study of production standards in their relati' fco istration and wage payment plans is in preparation. The bureau has made a labor survey of the tanning- ing 70 plants, for the Tanners' Council of the T America (see p. 155), personnel surveys of t< ness Problems Group of the Social Order Commiti yearly meeting of Friends, and other similar studies, ar operated on a professional basis with industr opment of their personnel organizations. In 1919, members of the bureau's staff were r< church World Movement to organize the research t Industrial Relations Department and to give techrr the Commission of Inquiry into the steel strike. T ports of this commission were prepared : The Interchurch World Movement report on the steel strike < York, Harconrt, Brace & Howe. 1920. Public opinion and the steel strike : supplementary report* Commission of Inquiry of the Interchurch World Movern^r 1 court, Brace & Co. 192L 346 p. the present time the bureau is conducting an extei. into the economics and administrative dustry and has projected similar studies of other basic During 1918-1920 the bureau conducted courses in administration in cooperation with th* ' Re- search and the Training School for Public Service of the Bure; Municipal Research. Owing to the growth of these course- ing costs in excess of the bureau's resources, they have beer tinued as bureau activities, but members of the burea tinned educational work in the field of personnel administr under other auspices. 11 The industrial research library of the bureau is freely pi service of the public. " Mr, Leonard Ontfcwafte &t Color/ - 5tj (see p. 17Z). Jtr. Ordway '. ,....,,. ... . v,-. ,. ; . -,-.- ,., ,-.., Nl ...-,:;, ....... }-,.'-;]; w-e p. 187) : Mr. II. C. M^U-aJf at tite Borwii of l'er*jnt*l AOmtutotf' ' xi^-A Tad aad MetaUf poUUbed fa 192 (Mciiraw-HUJ Book r . ,'..--. . ,- ( .; ;., -,,.- T:J( .-,. \>.-. -,-.;,. ;,- -'"^;t' L909. ' iitinir i' equipped to in- od sol' i technical probl lovenmuMit." An -eat act . Held invt - :' Hvini; 1 livinL in all the more. ' durinir the perinl froVii Auru>t, U>17. to M;'.y. \ u-port ha Inles \va< York. Macmillan Co.) under the title "AY- .ulanl of living i". Philade 1 p.). Supplen: livipr ii^ure^ down to nber. 1- ly, were \ (issued weekly by the bui BUREAU OF PERSi UXMINISTRATION. 17 ^"e>t l-'ony-seventii Street, New \ '. Henry C. Metealf. director. The Educational I mi types of trainifitr: An eirht- - trial, commercial, ai ; cmalified college graduates; a ^ix v. iek>" sur.Miu For teachers of indiisti'ial and eoiuim-- subjects, placement rvcretarie-. and vocational a- --ries iid discussions for [>rol' '. women. IVtii in its Bulletin of Information, 1921 The Division of Labo; is makes lalu)r audits of industrial and mercantile establishments: and studies the problems involved in the employment <-f labor, health, safety, and working conditions, instruction and training. ware> and otiu-i- incentives, employees' relati(ns. administrative policy, and executive organization. It has 90 in. NONorric'iAL, AGENCIES. carried on research resulting in articles 011 the following subjects which have appeared in various issues of the Industrial Information Service (Boston, Mass.) : Personnel work and vacation policies in retail stores; joint councils on industrial relations; personnel admin- istration in the National Cit}^ Bank (New York) ; employees' training in a large corporation; safety 24 hours in the day; real wages the cost of living; "family week"; strike insurance, etc. A paper on " Control of absenteeism," by P. S. Florence, was published in Ad- ministration (v. 1, No. 5, May, 1921, p. 634-646). The bureau also conducts a placement service for supplying per- sonnel directors, employment managers, industrial physicians and nurses, safety engineers, training directors, editors of employee maga- zines, job analysts and recreation directors to industrial and mercan- tile establishments. BUREAU OF PERSONNEL RESEARCH. See Carnegie Institute of Technology (p. 169). BUREAU OF SAFETY.^ Edison Building, 72 West Adams Street, Chicago, 111. Charles B. Scott, director. This bureau was incorporated March 2, 1915, and is supported by contracts which it has with its several public-utility company clients, particularly the Inter-Company Insurance Trusteeship of the Middle West Utilities Co. These contracts provide that the Bureau of Safety shall direct and supervise the accident prevention work of the several clients, which include light and power, street car, gas, ice and water companies. Its service includes inspection (survey, analysis, and report of operating conditions, recommendations regarding operating hazards and accident hazards caused by physical condition of the plant, regular reinspection) ; organization of safety committees; statistics of accidents (compilation, analysis, charts) ; instructional and edu- cational work (to committees and to employees, by lectures, shop bul- letins for posting, safety bulletins for each employee). The bureau makes studies of the effect of safety rules tentatively adopted and of contrivances devised by men working in the plants for their individual protection. It is also engaged in an investiga- tion of psychological tests for motormen. Its director is chairman of the accident prevention committees of the National Electric Light Association and the American Gas Asso- ciation. BUREAU OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE. See Harvard University (p. ITS). BUREAU OF VOCATIONAL INFORMATION. 2 West Forty-third Street, New York, N. Y. Miss Emma P. Hirth, director. An educational and research organization established in April, 1919, to serve as a definite connecting link between the education of women and their vocational activities and to bring about, wherever possible, a closer correlation of the two. It is the successor to the Department of Information of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occu- pations in New York, whose information files it inherited when the ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 91 United States Employment Service first took over and then aban- doned the Intercollegiate Bureau. The bureau is making investigations of vocations and professions for women so as to secure for each field of work definite and authori- tative information regarding (a) training necessary and desirable schools and institutions where it may be taken, with specific facts about each ; (b) personal qualifications required; (c) best methods of entering the field; (d) kinds of positions and duties involved; (e) conditions of work; (/') salary ranges; (#) ultimate opportunities to which definite beginning positions may lead. The following studies in occupations have been published by the bureau : No. 1. Vocations f>r iiusiness and professional women. 1919. 48 p. 20 c. Published in cooperation with rl;< , i Board of the Youm? Women's Chris- tian Assoi-i i! ion. No. 2. Women in statistical work. 1921. No. 3. Women in the law: an analysis of training, practice, and salaried positions. 19'.!0. 138 p. No. 4. The woman chemisi. 19J1. No. f>. I'osiiions of responsibility in department stores nii;l other retail selling organizations: a study of opportunities for women. 1921. 126 p. In addition to furnishing vocational information to inquirers and cooperating with college appointment bureaus, it has acted as or rind publisher of the Bulletin of the National Committee of Bureaus of Occupations. BUSINESS STANDARDS ASSOCIATION. Is!) West Madison Street. Chicago, 111. 299 Broadway, New York. X. Y. Sherwin Cody, managing director. Founded and incorporated under the laws of Illinois in 1913 as the National Associated Schools of Scientific Business. Its object is the improvement of commercial education and especially the relation between employers of office help and the schools which train ap- plicants. The special \\ork of this organization has been the development of the national business ability tests, a full account of which is given in: Tody. Sherwin. Coinmereial tests and how to use them. Yonkers, N. Y., World Book Co., l!)1t. vii, 4 JKJ p. BUSINESS TRAINING CORPORATION. Mjidison Avenue. Xew York, N. Y. 440 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. This corporation conducts a course in modern production methods, planned by Mr. John Calder, in charge of industrial relations for Swift & Co., Chicago, for the training of foremen. An outline of the subject matter and method of procedure is given in a pamphlet entitled "A plan for group training for making better foremen, adopted by 300 leading concerns," which may be obtained on ap- plication. CABOT FUND. Philip Cabot, 111 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass., trustee. A trust fund of $50,000 under the will of the late Charles M. Cabot of Boston, to be applied to such charitable uses as a board of three managers may determine. As illustrating the objects to which the fund may be devoted the testator suggested " the investigation and 92 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. study of industrial conditions in this country and the publication of the results of such investigation and study to the end that in- dustrial abuses and hardships of industrial laborers may be known and remedied." The whole fund is to be expended and the trust terminated within 40 years after the death of the testator or within 20 years after the death of his last surviving child, whichever date shall fall first. Paul U. Kellogg, Edward T. Devine, and Philip Cabot are designated as the first members of the board of managers. Appropriations were made in 1920 for an investigation of indus- trial espionage under the Department of Social Ethics of Harvard University, which was made by Sidney Howard and Robert Dunn, and the results published in The New Republic, February 16-March 30, 1921, in seven articles on "The labor spy" (also reprinted as a booklet) ; investigations of the present condition of the steel and iron industry with reference to the 8-hour day in Great Britain by Whit- ing Williams and the 12-hour day and the 7- day week in the United States, by John A. Fitch, the reports of which were published in a special number of The Survey, March 5, 1921, " Three shifts in steel: the long day and the way out " ; the preparation of a report on the experience of 20 plants in the United States which have introduced the three-shift system, by Horace B. Drury, presented at a joint meeting of the Taylor Society, the Metropolitan and Management Sections of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the New York Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, December 3, 1920, and published, with discussion thereon, in Bulletin of the Taylor Society (v. 6, No. 1, Feb., 1921). CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK Americanizaton Study. 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Allen T. Burns, director. Early in 1918 the Carnegie Corporation of New York provided for a study of methods of Americanization and the survey was or- ganized in 10 divisions, each in charge of a specialist in the field assigned to it. The results of the investigation are -now in course of publication by Harper & Bros., New York, in a series of " Americani- zation studies " in 11 volumes, one from each division, with a sum- mary by the director. DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC AMALGAMATION. W. M. Leiserson, chief. The work of this division included personnel studies of immigrant employees in industrial establishments. Two sched- ules were used by interviewers: (a) For securing data about indi- vidual immigrants such as their personal and occupational histories, earnings, training, conditions of employment, knowledge of English, membership in labor unions and benefit societies, experience in strikes and with employment agencies, attitude toward employers, etc.; (Z>) applicable to industrial concerns, for obtaining information with re- gard to the methods and policies of employers in dealing with immi- grants, and including inquiries as to labor turnover, hiring and firing, transfers, promotions and lay-offs, wages and earnings, system of Avage payment, hours of labor, overtime, vacations, safety and com- pensation, health, hygiene and sanitation, training and education, and other industrial service work, with special reference to foreign- born workers in each case. The report of this division is announced for publication under the title. "Adjusting immigrant and industry." ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 93 DIVISION OF HEALTH STANDARDS AND CARE. Michael M. Davis, jr., chief. A study of the special medical, sanitary, and health problems due to immigrant emplo} 7 ees and the organization of industrial medi- cal services has been made by this division by questionnaires to indus- trial physicians, nurses, and employment managers and by field in- vestigations made in 1918 and 1919. The results are published in Journal of Industrial Hygiene (v. 2, No. 11, March, 1921, p. 397- 422), in an article entitled "Industrial medicine and the immigrant," by M. M. Davis and Linda James, and form a chapter in the volume containing the report of this division's finding, issued 1921 under the title " Immigrant health and the community." Other volumes of the series deal incidentally with problems of the immigrant in industry (e. g., immigrant classes in factories, in "School of the immigrant." by F, V. Thompson, p. 55, 99). CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING. r>> Fifth Avenue. New York, X. Y. Henry S. Pritchett, presi- dent. In 1918 this foundation published as its Bulletin No. 11, "A study of engineering education," by Charles Riborg Mann. This publi- cation contained the results of a comprehensive investigation under- taken at the request of and in close cooperation with the Joint Committee on Engineering Education of the National Engineering Societies, which consisted of delegates from the Society for the Pro- motion of Engineering Education, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Insti- of Mining Engineers. The report includes a description of present conditions, analysis of the problems of engineering educa- tion and suggested solutions. An appendix on objective tests de- scribes investigations mad* 1 by Prof. E. L. Thorndike, of Columbia University, as an integral part of the study. Their bearings on the problems of admission, elimination, and grading are discussed here and there throughout the report, but especially in Chapters VIII and XL CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. See Nutrition Laboratory, Boston (p. 141). CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Mills Building. Washington, D. C. Elliot H. Goodwin, resi- dent vice president. This body is a national organization of chambers of commerce, trade, ami civic associations. Its activities are threefold : (1) To serve American business in the study and solution of its national problems; (2) to interpret to the American business public those acts of the National Government -which affect business; (3) to present to the various branches and departments of the National Govern- ment the opinion of American business on -business and economic questions. In the formulation of this opinion on any subject it pro- ceeds by the method of referendum, submitting to a vote of its constituent organizations a series of propositions, prepared by a committee of the chamber, which are printed on a ballot and ac- companied by the report of the committee and arguments in the negative. Propositions approved by a two-thirds vote are adopted 94 III. NONOFFICIAL AGEXC'IKS. by the chamber. Three such reports for referenda submitted by com- mittees after investigations have dealt with personnel problems in industry and public employment: Referendum No. 27 on the report of the Committee , 1919. Refeivndum No. 31 on the report of the Committee on Industrial Relations regarding employment relations, June 9, 1920. Referendum No. P>f> on the report of the Committee on Budget and KlUciency (ling Government employees. Apr. 22, 1921. The Raw Materials Production, Fabricated Production, and Rail- road Departments are also concerned with the study of labor prob- lems encountered by the employers' organizations in their respective fields. CLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Cleveland, Ohio. The Committee on Industrial Welfare, which issued reports on " Safety devices and factory organizations for the prevention of in- dustrial accidents" (1913), "Industrial profit-sharing and welfare work " (1916), and " Substitution of woman for man power in indus- try " (1918), and the Committee on Labor Disputes, which issued three reports on "Violence in labor disputes" (1915, 1916, 1917), were succeeded in 1918 by the following : COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS.- W. B. McAllister, chairman. In addition to a fourth report on " Violence in labor disputes" (1920) and two other pamphlets (1919), this committee prepared "Labor relations in Cleveland, a declaration of principles establishing a proper basis therefor," which was adopted by the Cleveland Cham- ber of Commerce, April, 1920. It has recently completed and pub- lished (1921) a report on "Employees' incentive plans in Cleveland industries" (95 p.), which includes detailed information regarding types of (a) individual incentive plans (wage-payment methods offering incentives to individual employees based on their accom- plishment measured by predetermined standards of production), and (b) group incentive plans (employees' profit sharing, bonuses, and stock ownership), which were found in a survey of nearly 600 firms. CLEVELAND HOSPITAL COUNCIL. 308 Anisfield Building, Cleveland, Ohio. HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SURVEY OF CLEVELAND. Haven Emerson, M. D., director. This survey, completed September, 1920, was con- ducted under the supervision of a committee appointed by the Hos- pital Council, October 1, 1919 (Malcolm L. McBride, chairman ; Ilowell Wright, secretary). The expenses were met by appropria- tions received from the community chest, through the Welfare Fed- eration, of which the Hospital Council is a member. The complete report is in 11 parts, sold by the council at 50 cents per part. The results of the industrial investigations are contained in part 8 (p. 517-639), viz: Industrial medical service, by Wade Wright, M. D., director of the industrial hygiene survey; Women and industry, by Marie Wright; Children and industry, by Florence V. Ball, for the Consumers' League of Ohio. The method of survey is described in part 11, which contains also a bibliography of indus- trial hygiene surveys (p, 1054-1056), ASSOCTATi. :\S, SOCIETIES,, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 95 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. lf> South Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia, Pa. William S. Higbee, M. D., 1703 South Broad Street, clerk. SECTION ON I.XIJUSTIHAL, MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH. This sec- tion of the College of Physicians was organized in 1917. Forty-six fellows of the college have signed the roll of the section; meetings are held in February, April, October, and December, on the third Friday. Its proceedings are published in the Transactions of the College of Physicians, beginning with third series, v. 39, p. 421-489, 11)17. The scope and aims of the section are described in a paper by J. M. Anders in third series, v. 39, p. 461. COMMISSION ON RESUSCITATION FROM ELECTRIC SHOCK. See National Electric Light Association (p. 125). CONFERENCE BOARD OF PHYSICIANS IN INDUSTRY. 10 Kast Thirty-ninth Street. New York, N. Y. Dr. F. L. Rector, retary. Organized in April. HH4, for cooperative effort in introducing into industrial establishments the most effective measures for the treat- ment of injuries or ailments of employees; for promoting sanitary conditions in workshops; and for prevention -of industrial diseases. If also arts a.s adviser on medical problems in industry to the National Industrial Conference Hoard. Member-hip is limited to :>H. and is confined to the medical di- rectors of industrial establishments who are on a full-time basis. It is financed by contributions from the firms represented by the mem' The board meets bimonthly, five times a year, the midsummer meeting being omitted. Qur-.-tion- of administration of industrial medical departments, th" s< <;[>( and value of medical records, methods of treating industrial accidents and illness occurring within the plant, and related subjects arc discussed at these meetings. $u<>;- d methods are tried out by different board members, under 11 conditions, and their experiences discussed at subsequent meet- ings. Methods of first-aid treatment of industrial injuries, the con- tents of first-aid outfits, the minimum size and equipment of first- aid rooms, methods of physical examination and classification of physical findings, and medical terminology used in industrial work have been promulgated and standardized by this board. These stand- ardized methods and classifications have been published in Research Keport No. 34 of the National Industrial Conference Board, which contains also a list of members. During the past year the board made a study of physical examinations among industrial workers, the results being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association of December 18, 19'2(). CONFERENCE BOARD ON SAFETY AND SANITATION. 10 Kast Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Magnus W. Alexander, executive secretary. Organized in March, 1914, with the National Founders Associa- tion, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Metal Trades Association, and the National Electric Light Association as charter members. Its purpose is organized cooperation between em- ployers for the prevention of work accidents and the promotion of 96 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. sanitary conditions in workshops. At present the Conference Board is composed of the first three of the above-named associations. The board has developed a number of protective devices for use in industrial plants which it recommends to employers for adop- tion in their plants. Among these devices are safety goggles, arc welders' helmets, leggings, shoes, respirators, knuckle guards, lad- der feet, chip guards, danger signs, first-aid jars, and stretchers. These devices have been made available for all employers, whether or not members of the cooperating associations. The board author- izes its trade-mark, N. A. S. O., which stands for National Affiliated Safety Organizations, to be imprinted on all literature and devices which it has approved. In 1916 it issued a number of popular safety bulletins under the general title of "The spirit of caution." Other information about its activities is given in a pamphlet entitled, " Conference boards and their value in industrial cooperation," by Magnus W. Alexander (1915, p. 8-11). CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF CINCINNATI. 25 East Ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Miss Annette Mann, executive secretary. In November, 1916, three investigators of the league were ap- pointed an advisory board by the Ohio Industrial Commission and given the necessary credentials for making a systematic study of the working conditions of women in Cincinnati factories. The re- port of this investigation was published by the league in August, 1918, viz : Women workers in factories: a study of working conditions in 275 industrial estMhlislimeiits in Cincinnati and adjoining towns. By Annette Mann. 1D1S. 45 p. In 1920 a study of wages and cost of living was made, covering the incomes and expenditures of 216 working women in several cities, and printed (7 p.) for use in the recent minimum wage campaign. Minor studies are outlined briefly in the reports for 1917-18 and 1919-20. CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF CONNECTICUT. 36 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn. Mary C. Welles, general secretary. Recent investigations made by the league to furnish data for its legislative activities include a study of " Child laborers in the shade- grown tobacco industry in Connecticut," made in 1916 and published as Pamphlet No. 11 ; an investigation of 164 " Women night workers in Connecticut," made in four cities in 1918 (summary of results printed as Leaflet No. 20) ; and investigations of tenement-house workers on factory products in five cities (1918), toilet facilities for employees in stores (1918) and seats for sales girls (1919) in several cities, the results of which have not been published. In 1919-20, in cooperation with the State Board of Education, a study was made of the earnings of children who go to work at 14 years of age as compared with those who leave school at 18 years, and of the turnover of child workers of 14 to 15 years. For 1921 a study of the health of children from 14 to 18 years of age employed in factories and stores is planned. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 97 CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 814-815 Otis Building, Sixteenth and Sansom Streets, Phila- delphia, Pa. Miss A. Estelle Lander, executive secretary. This organization has recently published a report of an investiga- tion of ''Colored women as industrial workers in Philadelphia" (40 p.), made in 1919-20. Its earlier work includes an investigation of retail selling carried on in 1913-14 with the cooperation of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, which published the results in its monthly bulletin (v. 2, No. 1, January, 1915, p. 15-1)8) under the. title u Condition of women in mercantile estab- lishments in Philadelphia "; a study of home work in 1916-17 made by investigators of the league, students of Bryn Mawr College, and the Department of Labor and Industry, which is to appear shortly as a State publication entitled u Industrial home work in Pennsyl- vania.'' In 1918 it initiated, and assisted the National Consumers' league in carrying out, the shoddy study published as "Wage- earning women in war time: the textile industry" (Jour. Indust. Hyg.. October. 1919). Surveys were made by the league in 1913-14 to gather material for three vocational guides issued as Pamphlets Nos. 1-3, "Occupa- tions for Philadelphia girls'' Xo. 1. Paper-box making (20 p.); No. 2, Telephone operating (40 p.) ; No. 3, Bookbinding (88 p.). It has recently done the research work on the industrial section of a revised pamphlet on "Vocational opportunities in Philadelphia and vicinity." which is about to go to press. An unpublished study of girls in public messenger service, made by the league with the assistance of other interested organizations, was the basis of a ruling by the Industrial Board of the Depart- ment of Labor and Industry in 1919 prohibiting such employment of girls under 18 years of age. A recent study of the application of civil service to the labor departments of the several States, under- taken for a civil-service campaign iix Pennsylvania, has been circu- late! in typewritten form. Data on the cost of living of working girls in the State and the wages paid to them are collected currently. CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF NEW JERSEY. 13 Out nil Avenue, Newark, X. J. In December, 19*20, this organization published a report on " Night- working mothers in textile mills, Passaic, N. J.," by Agnes de Lima, research secretary (20 p.), containing the results of a study made during the preceding spring and early summer. CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF NEW YORK. ii.si) Fourth Avenue, New York. N. Y. Miss Helen Bryan, execu- tive secretary. Formed by the consolidation of the Consumers' League of the City of New York and the Consumers' League of New Y T ork State, effected June U. 1921. In 19 16 the New York City organization completed and published the results of an investigation of the working conditions of woman employees -in New York restaurants, viz : Behind the scenes in a restaurant, a study of 1,017 women restaurant em- ployees. 1910. 47 p. 70723 Bull. 29921 7 98 III. XONOFFICIAL, AGENCIES. In 1916 the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the Xew York City Department of Health undertook an investigation of power laundries and laundry workers in the city. The Consumers' League of the City pf New York cooperated in the study by furnishing additional investigators to portray the social background and relate the work- ing life to home conditions. The results of this survey were pub- lished jointly by the league and the Department of Health under the title': The cost of clean clothes in terms of health : a study of laundries and laundry workers in New York City. By Louis I. Harris and Nelle Swartz. 1918. 96 p. During 1919 the league made a study of conditions of work in steam and hand laundries, and reported its findings to the State Industrial Commission. Early in 1919 a joint committee, consisting of representatives of the Consumers' League of New York City, Women's Trade Union League, Y. W. C. A., New York Urban League, the Division of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Com- mittee on Colored Workers of the Manhattan Trade School, was formed to study the employment of colored women in the industries of New York City. The report of the investigation w r as issued under the following title : A new day for the colored woman worker: a study of colored women in industry in New York City. 1919. 39 p. A study of hours, wages, and conditions of work of telephone of the results is given in the Consumers' League Bulletin, July, 1920. COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT ACTIVITIES IN NEW YORK CITY. W. E. Mosher, Bureau of Municipal Research, New York, chair- man ; G. E. Scott, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn, secretary. Organized early in 1921 at a conference consisting of representa- tives of the vocational educational activities and the public employ- ment and other noncommercial employment interests, together with those representing employers' and employees' organizations as fol- lows: Employers' associations : New York State Chamber of Commerce. Merchants Association. Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Queensboro Chamber of Commerce. Retail Dry Goods Association. Executives' Club. Central Trades and Labor Council. New York State Department of Labor: Public Employment Bureau. Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration. Bureau of Women in Industry. Bureau of Statistics. United States Employment Service.' Noncommercial employment agencies : Knights of Columbus. Young Women's Christian Association. Young Men's Christian Association. Social Workers' Exchange. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 99 Vocational and continuation school teachers. Vocational Guidance and Employment Service for Juniors. Bureau of Vocational Information. State Department of Education (Vocational Division). The purpose of the committee is to coordinate activities of these various groups so as to secure better training, more discriminating placement, better organization of the employment market and of production processes as means of reducing unemployment, and to formulate and develop a community employment policy. Three working committees have been appointed to deal with three of the most pressing problems : 1. Unemployment, Chjiinnsm. \V. K. Moshor ; subcommittees on (1) Uneni- ployiju'iir and tlie schools; C2) Unemployment and relief; (3) Means of re- ducing present unemployment; (4) A constructive program for reducing un- employment as an industrial waste. 2. Vocational opportunities, riuiinnan, Charles M. Smith; subcommittees on (1) opportunities for juveniles: < ii) Opportunities in the skilled trades; (3) Opportunities for high-school students: (4) Opportunities in professional and teehuieal <-.-il]in.us. 3. Ccinlinu.-ition schools. Chairman. A. I-;. Kidd, Executives' Club. The committee is issuing a monthly bulletin (mimeographed) which is distributed by the Bureau of Women in Industry of the New York State Department of Labor and the New York City Hoard of Education. It is to include reports of progress from the above committees and also the material formerly published in the u NV\rs Sii.-et" of the Bureau of Women in Industry and the Vo- cational Guidance and Employment Service for Juniors. COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION. Drexr-i Building, Philadelphia, IV Hollis Godfrey, chairman. Organized as the outcome of a conference on cooperation between the colleges and industries held in connection with the annual meet- ing of the Technology Clubs Associated at Philadelphia, March 26-27, IDi^O, it serves as a clearing house which provides immediate contact between the supply of college-trained management men and the de- mands of in ior these men; "management" being defined "to include all mind workers in industry from president to foreman, whether concerned with the technical' or the nontechnical branches of management." 5 The council is organized in two divisions : the Industrial Division, composed of representatives of different American industries, viz, textiles, rubber, cotton and silk finishing, paper, shoes and leather, machinery and metals, railrouds, public utilities, oil and mining; the Industrial Collegiate Division, composed of men who are or have been administrative officers in American colleges and have had indus- trial as well as academic experience. These two cooperate with the Committee on Cooperation with Industries of the American Council of Education. (See p. 71.) The work of the council is confined to the field of collegiate edu- cation for management and is not concerned with the solution of technical problems of industrial processes and supplies. It consists at present mainly in the preparation of " joint specifications," sup- ported by an " inventory of joint resources," kept constantly up to date. The specification shows what the management man needs to fit him for industry and how much of this the facilities of the college 100 III. ISTONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. permit being given ; and thus it provides a sound basis for effective education for industrial management. The purpose of the inventory is to promote the use by the industries and the colleges of each other's resources reciprocally and to improve their coordination. DETROIT BOARD OF COMMERCE. Detroit, Mich. Harry B. Warner, secretary. The Detroit Board of Commerce proposes to revive, in the fall of 1921, the work of the Executives' Club, which disbanded when its staff went into war services in 191T. 12 DOUBLE DUTY FINGER GUILD. Crocker-Wheeler Co.. Ampere, N. J. Ida Hirst-Gifford, super- intendent. This department for the blind was founded in 1917 in conjunction with the plant of the Crocker-Wheeler Co., by Dr. S. S. Wheeler, for the purpose of ascertaining by trial what operations in the manufac- ture of electrical apparatus and machinery could be done as efficiently by blind workers as by their sight competitors, and of providing em- ployment for them accordingly. It undertakes to cooperate with institutions, commissions, associations, etc.. for the blind by training blind men and women to become efficient operatives in the electrical business. An account of the work done is given in a pamphlet en- titled " Information about profitable industrial occupations for the blind " (Finger Industry News, No. 3, June, 1919) published by the guild. ELECTRICAL SAFETY CONFERENCE. 25 City Hall Place, New York, N. Y. Dana Pierce, secretary. An association of representatives of national organizations inter- ested in questions affecting accident hazards arising from the design, construction, installation and use of electrical appliances. The co- operating organizations are as follows : Associated Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies ; Bureau of Standards ; The Electric Power Club ; National Workmen's Compensation Service Bureau: Underwriters' Laboratories. The objects of the conference are to promote b}^ cooperative effort the orderly, consistent and proper development of practice in elec- trical manufactures and installations with regard to accident haz- ards; to promote the development and adoption of safety standards for the construction and test of electrical appliances and for their application and installation: to promote and make uniform the ap- plication of electrical safety codes both" in regard to general prin- ciples and in regard to particular classes of appliances and systems. 12 At that time the Executives' Club was advising 40 manufacturing concerns in Detroit, and included in its various study groups about 500 functional executives. Personnel re- search was one of the seven divisions of its work and the staff included specialists in employment management, employees' welfare work, production methods, and time study. Its library of industrial relations literature at the Detroit Board of Commerce has been continued by the assignment of a librarian from Detroit Public library. Two papers by Boyd Fisher, its vice president, " How to reduce labor turnover " and " Determining cost of turnover of labor," were published in T T . S. Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics Bulletin No. 227 (p. 20-47. 60-66) and in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May, 1017 (v. 71, p. 10^-32, 44-50). The report of a com- mittee of physicians and welfare workers to the welfare managers' group of the club en- titled " 'Recommended standard practice on medical supervision in Detroit plants " ap- peared in the same issue of the Annals (p. 96106). A study of 87 mutual benefit or- ganizations, made by one of the staff, is- out of print. In addition to the above, confi- dential reports on special phases of management, including personnel, were sent out in multigraphed form to members of the club. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS/ EVc. V l6l A committee of the conference has prepared 'f lie tion, which has been approved and accepted by its cooperating organi- zations : Safety standard for industrial control equipment 1921. 22 p. (Intended to be used in conjunction with part 3 of the national electrical safety code, to* which it is supplementary.) An additional section of this standard containing detailed rules for special application to elevators, cranes, printing presses, etc., is in course of preparation. The conference is also the sponsor under the American Engineer- ing Standards Committee of a code on electric power control, but the results of this work are not yet published. EMPLOYMENT MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION, BOSTON. Room 327, 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Ralph G. Wells, secretary. This association, the first of its kind in tlie country, was organized in the fall of 1912. informal meetings having been held for some time previously. It is affiliated with the Industrial Relations Asso- ciation of America. The object of the organization is to study and promote the various phases of industrial relations activities, and problems of relations with employees their selection, training, and management. Sus- taining memberships (annual dues, $50) are held by firms, which JUT entitled to designate a.s many of their executives as they desire to participate in the association's activities. In addition there are a few associate members (annual dues, $25), individuals connected with educational institutions. Regular moot ings are held once a month, except during July and August: special meetings as interest in some special subject warrants. In recent years groups interested in particular phases of industrial relations work (e. ,\ year). Annual conventions are held at time and place determined by the board of directors (first at Cleveland, Ohio, May 21-23, 1919; second at Chicago, 111.. May 19-21, 1920; third to be held at New York, Nov. 1-4, 1921). The attendance at the 1920 convention was about 2,500. In addition to the general sessions, there are round-table discussions of special topics and sectional meetings of those belonging to particu- lar groups of industrial or commercial concerns. Sections have been organized as follows : Banks, Chemical industries, Department stores, Lumber. Metal trades. Packing industries, Public utilities, Railroads, Steel industries. At the 1920 convention subject meetings were held on Americanization, apprentice training, benefit, thrift and budget, cooperative stores, coordination with educational institutions, de- veloping the industrial relations staff, developing understudies, de- velopment of plant spirit, employment office methods, group in- surance, housing, industrial relations department costs, introducing 14 Proceedings of these four conferences were published as Bulletins 100, 202, 227, 247, of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 16 A proposal to raise the dues to $10 a year per member is under consideration. 106 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. the new worker, job specifications and job analysis, mental tests, periodic rating, personal aid to workers, plant papers, problems of industries employing under 500, radicalism, recreation, relations of employment office and foremen, restaurants, shop and works com- mittees, shortage of labor, stock purchase, vacations, wage levels and women. The Proceedings of the 1919 and 1920 conventions have been published (two volumes, $5 each). In October and December, 1919, and February, 1920, three one-day conferences on special subjects were held, two in New York and one in Chicago. The minutes of the first two of these bimonthly con- ferences have been published under the titles " Training the super- visory force" and "Relationships and adjustments between employ- ers and employed" respectively ($2 per volume). District confer- ences were started early in 1921, the first being held at Springfield, Mass., on January 7. Since January, 1919, the association has issued a monthly periodi- cal. Personnel, devoted entirely to subjects in the various branches of industrial relations and containing news notes of the local asso- ciations, etc. It is sent to all members. A number of special investigations have been made by question- naires sent out by the association to its members. A digest of the material received has been furnished to members either in pam- phlet form, or in the columns of Personnel. The subjects covered (and the issues* of Personnel containing brief summaries of the re- sults) are as follows: National employment service (questionnaire with v. 1, No. 3, March, 1919; results in v. 1, No. 8, August, 1919) ; Americanization effects of illiteracy and inability to understand English on turnover, earnings, industrial unrest, production, and accidents (questionnaire with v. 1, No. 7, July, 1919; results in v. 1, No. 10, October, 1919) ; Training the supervisory force (v. 2, No. 1, January. 1920) ; Extent and cost of personnel activities (v. 2, No. 3, March/ 1920) ; Vacations (v. 2, No. 6, June, 1920) ; Supervisory force salaries ; Introducing the new worker ; How successful employ- ment offices are started. A digest of information regarding person- nel work in public utility corporations in the United States and Canada obtained by questionnaire sent out by the Public Utility Section is published in v. 2, No. 10, October, 1920. The administrative office staff conducts an information service for members and reports that it has received and answered nearly 10,000 inquiries on subjects connected with industrial relations dur- ing the past two years. Affiliated firoup* and their secretaries. Employment Managers' Branch, Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders Association, Phila- delphia, Pa. Clarence Samuel King, Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders Association, 1701 Wal- nut Street. Baltimore Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Baltimore, Md. J. Allison Muir, General Electric Co. Employment Managers' Association, Boston, Mass, (see p. 101). Ralph G. Wells, room 327, 6 Beacon Street. Bridgeport Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Bridgeport, Conn. C. S. Smith, Manning, Maxwell & Moore (Inc.). Buffalo Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Buffalo, N. Y. E. Earle Axtell, Masonic Service Bureau. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 107 Stark County Employment Managers' School, Canton, Ohio. J. Howard Renshaw, 17 Ervin Block. Chicago Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Chicago, III. F. C. W. Parker, Central Y. M. C, A., 19 South LaSalle Street. Cincinnati Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mabel B. Wallace, George G. Strietmann's Sons Co. Employment Managers Group, Manufacturers and Wholesale Merchants Board, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. S. It. Mason, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Employment Managers' Association, Dayton, Ohio. J. D. I>ouglas, Dayton Malleable Iron Co. Detroit Employment Man,-:gers' Club, Detroit, Mich. irge W. Grant, Employers' Association, 1319 Book Building. East Side Employment Managers' Association, East St. Louis, 111. Ross Bowles. East Side Employers' Association, Murphy Building. Employment Managers' Club. Hamilton, Ohio. Joseph M. Butcher. Y. M. C. A. Indianapolis Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Indian- apolis, Ind. Isabel N. Drnmmond, Indianapolis Glove Co. .Jersey City Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Jersey City, N. J. E. George Schaefer, Jersey City Chamber of Commerce. Lansing Employment Managers' Association, Lansing. Mich. An bur N. A very, New-Way Motor { 1 <. Employment Mamr. iat:on, Los Angeles, Calif. c. Benjamin Bemis. Southern California Telephone Co. Employment Mai: -ociation, Meriden, Conn. G. l\ Croasdale, Cm"!-. . f i<-ut Telephone & Electric Co. Employment Mann, ion, .Manufacturing Club of Minneapolis, Minne- apolis, Minn. \i> Caswell, A'.'iiiifacturers' Club. Empio\ nient Managers' Club, Tri-City Manufacturers' Association, Moline, 111. Edgar R. Bhnlel, Tri-City Manufacturers' Association. Newark Council. Industrial Relations ' n of America. Newark, N. J. M. A. Clark. K. ! uu Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.), Arlington, N. J. Tiv Executives' ciub of New Y<.< fork City. Oscar M. Miller, Siandard Oil Co., 20 Broadway. Employment Managers' Croup. Chamber of Commerce. Niagara Falls, N. V. R. i i Falls Chamber of Commerce. Philadelphia Association for the Di.-cussion of Employment Problems, Philadel- phia. Pa. Joseph II. \ViMits. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Employment Managers' Association of the Employers 1 Association of Pitts- burgh. Pittsburgh. Pa. ' . Moivland, Employers' Association. Employment Managers' Club, Pontiac, Mich. K. McVittie. Standard Paris Co Oregon Council, Industrial Relations Association of America, Portland, Oreg. Raymond Van Valin, Y. M. C. A. Industrial Relations Association of Berks Comity, Heading, Pa. P. B. Weidner, Manufacturers' Association. Employment and Service Group, Industrial Management Council, Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Eliott Frost, Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Industrial Relations Association of California, San Francisco. Calif. Address: 4.11 Flood Building. Since August, 1921, this association has published a mimeographed monthly, Industrial Relations; Exchange (Vining T. Fisher, editor). St. Louis District Council. Industrial Relations Association of America, St. Louis, Mo. C. n. Weiser, Southwestern Bell Telephone System. Employment Managers' Council, St. Paul Association, St. Paul, Minn. Theodore Sander, jr., Athletic Club Building. Seattle Council. Industrial Relations Association of America, Seattle, Wash. Nina F. Winn, Bemis Bros. Bag Co. 108 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Employment Managers' Association of St. Joseph County, South Bend, Incl. A. M. Taylor, Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Employment Managers' Association, Springfield, Mass. Charles V. 1 >crrick, American Bosch Magneto Co. Industrial Relations Association of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. Allan M. Kurotlf, 501 Nasby Building. L' >KI fill nil monographs, forming Publications, Series I, Nos. 1-16; Series II, Xos. !-!>. Of these. 1*J are descriptive of the work done- in foreign countries for the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers; the rest are inn inly studies of the vocational possibilities for the handi- capped in this country. Preliminary to starting the work of the institute, an investigation was made in the summer of 1917 into the experiences of cripples in civil life in readjusting themselves to industry after injury. The re- sults are given in : Series I, No. '2. The economic consequences of physical disability; a case study of civilian cripples in New York City. By J. C. Faries. 1918. 11 p. In the early part of 1918 the Department of Industrial Survey of the institute undertook n survey of the chief industries of New York City to locate the jobs in which the work could be performed by < ripples. The first report was issued as: Series I. No. HI. opportunities lor the employment of disabled men; pre- liminary survey of the piano, leather, rubber, paper goods, shoe, sheet-metal uocxls. candy, drug and <-heinieal. cigar, silk, celluloid, optical goods, and motion- j.i.-nuv industries. 1918. 33 p. A study supplementary to this was prepared for publication in the American Journal of Care for Cripples, but owing to the suspension of that magazine was never printed. A set of page proofs is on file in the institute library, which also has typewritten manuscripts of studies of the toy industry, woodworking, knit goods, machine trades, fur industry, photo-engraving, and banjo and drum trades, not in- cluded in the two foregoing compilations. In Series II the institute has published five studies made by the Bureau of Vocational Guidance. Harvard University, viz: No. 4. Employment opportunities for handicapped men in the coppersmithing trade. By Bert .7. M orris. 1918. No. 6. Employment opportunities for handicapped men in the optical-goods industry. By Bert J. Morris. 1919. No. 7. Opportunities for handicapped men in the brush industry. By Charles H. Panll. 1919. No. 8. Opportunities for handicapped men in the shoe industry. By Fred- erick J. Allen. 1919. No. 9. Opportunities for handicapped men in the rubber industry. By B. J. Morris and C. H. Paull. 1919. Placement technique in the employment work of the institute is the subject of Series I, No. 9, by Miss Gertrude Stein; and the results 110 III. NONWr'K'IAL, AGENiMKS. of experimental work on prosthetic appliances are given in Series 1I ? No. 2, entitled, " Principles of design and construction of arti- ficial legs," by Philip Wilson. The institute 'has also issued miscellaneous special publications and. reprints and translations of addresses of delegates at the Inter- national Conference on Rehabilitation of the Disabled, held March, 1919, in New York City. INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH. 818 Connecticut Avenue, XW., Washington, D. C. W. F. Wil- loughby, director. The purpose of this institute, incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia March 16, 1916, is to conduct scientific investi- gations into the theory and practice of governmental administration, including the conditions affecting the efficiency and welfare of gov- ernmental officers and employees, and perform such services as may tend to the development and application of the principles of efficiency in governmental administration. It is publishing the results of its researches in two series of volumes under the general titles " Principles of administration " and " Studies in administration," respectively. The former series attempts to de- termine and make known the most approved principles of adminis- tration ; the latter consists of detailed and critical studies of existing systems in the United States or foreign countries. Personnel admin- istration is the subject of two contributions, one in each series, which have been completed and are now in press : Principles of public personnel administration. By Arthur W. Procter. The Federal service: A study of the system of personnel administration of the United States Government. By Lewis Mayers. The following studies of special personnel problems have already been published for the institute by D. Appleton & Co., New York: Principles governing the retirement of public employees. By Lewis Merriam. 1918. 462 p. Teachers' pension systems in the United States. By Paul Studensky. 1920. 460 p. Information about the work of the institute in other lines of gov- ernmental research is given in a pamphlet entitled "The Institute for Government Research; its organization, work arid publications," issued June, 1920. INSTITUTE OF MAKERS OF EXPLOSIVES. 103 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y. C. Stewart Comeaux, sec- retary. A safety code for the manufacture and plant handling of explosives is in course of preparation by a special committee. The institute has been approved as sponsor for the explosives code in the program of the American Engineering Standards Committee. (See p. 72.) Members make reports to the institute on explosions occurring in their plants and on any unusual occurrence or condition which might have resulted in an explosion or fire. The causes are investigated and recommendations made with a view to preventing similar oc- currences. The Committee on Standardization (C. A. Patterson, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del., chairman) is concerned with safety problems in the industry, other than those indicated above. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. Ill INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARMENT MANUFACTURERS. &>0 Broadway, New York, N. Y. An association of 450 firms in the United States and Canada engaged in the manufacture of men's or women's clothing by power machines. BUREAU OF FACTOIIY PRACTICE AND INDUSTRIAL, RELATIONS. Arthur Schwab, director. Established in June, 1919, and maintained by a group of about 80 members, each contributing $100 a year, for em- ploying cooperatively the services of an industrial engineer (at present on part time) to conduct research and furnish information regarding manufacturing experience. Membership is not limited to the association. To date, the bureau has made ITT special inquiries by questionnaire and has reported the results in mimeographed form to its members. These Iwvo mainly dealt with matters of factory practice, cost accounting, etc., but the list includes also the following personnel topics: No. 103, Foreladies; No. 128, Overtime; No. 135, Method of paying learners; No. 149, Vacations to factory workers; No. 152, Bonus systems for executives; No. 155, "Wage reductions; No. 158, Kmployee representation plan; No. 166, Average daily output for cutters men's shirts; No. 168, Average daily output for joiners men's shirts; No. ITT (in preparation), Reduction in welfare and service work. A more extensive study of " Learners in the garment trades," deal- ing with the methods of obtaining, instructing, and retaining learners in the li'arment trades, was printed as Special Report No. 1, Novem- ber, 1919 (49 p.). A series of charts designated as " Executive's control charts," with mimeographed text to accompany them, was issued June 1, 1921, as -is of educational plans for foremen. A standardized application blank devised by the bureau for use in the employment offices of garment factories was issued in blue- print form February, 1921. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. Ethelbert Stewart, Tnited States Commissioner of Labor Sta- tistics, secretary- treasurer. Organized as the 'National Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions at the first national conference of industrial accident boards and commissions held at Lansing, Mich., in 1914; present name adopted in 1916. This association holds meetings once a year (now usually in Sep- tember), or oftener, for the purpose of bringing together the officials charged with the duty of administering the workmen's compensa- tion laws of the United States and Canada to consider, and, so far as possible, to agree on standardizing (a) ways of cutting down accidents; (b) medical, surgical, and hospital treatment for injured workers; (c) means for the reeducation of injured workmen and their restoration to industry; (d) methods of computing: industrial accident and sickness insurance costs; (e) practices in administering compensation laws; (f) extensions and improvements in workmen's compensation legislation; and (g) reports and tabulations of in- dustrial accidents and illnesses. 112 III. NONOFFICIAI. AGENCIES. Each State of the United States and each Province of Canada having a workmen's compensation law, United States Employees' Compensation Commission, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Department of Labor of Canada, are entitled to active mem- bership (annual dues, $50, with certain exceptions). Organizations and individuals actively interested in any phase of workmen's com- pensation or social insurance may be admitted to associate member- ship (annual clues, $10). The proceedings of the 1914 conference at which the association was organized were printed in National Compensation Journal (v. 1, No. 5), May, 1914; those of a special meeting at Chicago, January, 1915, and the second annual conference at Seattle, October, 1915, were published by the association. Since then the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics has issued the proceedings of the annual meetings in its Bulletin series, viz : Third, Columbus, 1916, Bulletin No. 210 ; fourth, Boston, 1917, Bulletin No. 248; fifth, Madison, 1918, Bulletin No. 264 ; sixth, Toronto, 1919, Bulletin No. 273 ; seventh, San Fran- cisco, Bulletin No. 281. Papers and discussions on all of the sub- jects indicated in the above statement of the association's purpose are contained in these publications, The Proceedings of the conference on social insurance called by this association and held at Washington, D. C., December 5-9, 1916, were published as Bulletin No. 212 of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition to papers and discussions on work- men's compensation and industrial insurance legislation this volume contains material on physical examination and medical supervision of employees, permanently disabled workers, employees' benefit as- sociations, and pension funds. The association is joint sponsor for the safety codes on grinding wheels, power transmission, and woodworking, in preparation under the auspices and rules of procedure of the American Engineering Standards Committee. (See p. 74.) COMMITTEE ON STATISTICS AND COMPENSATION INSURANCE COST. Appointed at the Chicago meeting of the association in January, 1915, this committee has presented reports annually since that time. Bulletin No. 276 of the United States Bureau of ^Labor Statistics, entitled "Standardization of industrial accident statistics" (103 p.), consists of a revision and consolidation of the reports of this com- mittee, 1915-1919. The sixth report, devoted to methods of com- paring compensation cost, is printed in the 1920 proceedings of the association. MEDICAL COMMITTEE. The first report of this committee, on eye injuries, was presented and discussed at the 1920 annual meeting and is published in its proceedings. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERV- ICES. R. A. Flinn. 112 West Fifty-sixth Street, New York, N. Y., secretary-treasurer. Organized in Chicago in December, 1913, as the American Associa- tion of Public Employment Offices; present name adopted in 1920. The objects of the association are (a) to promote a system or systems of employment exchanges in the United States and Canada, (b) to advance the study of employment problems, and (c) to bring into ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES,, FOUNDATIONS,, ETC. 113 closer association and to coordinate the efforts of Government officials and others engaged or interested in questions relating to employ- ment, unemployment, and the organization of the labor market. Persons connected with Federal, State, provincial, or municipal de- partments operating public employment offices are eligible to mem- bership: others may become associate members. Proceedings of the first to third, and fourth annual meetings (1913-1916) were issued by United States Bureau of Labor Statis- ts its Bulletins Nos. 192 and 220. The report of the Committee on Standardization, presented and adopted at the fifth annual meet- ing. September, 1917, was published in Monthly Labor Review, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (v. 5, p. 950-961), Novem- '917. and a brief account of the seventh annual meeting appeared -in the De, ember, 1919, issue (v. 9, p. 1941-1943). In 1921 the' Canadian Dep;riment (if Labor published Proceedings of the eighth a-inii:)! Ottawa. September, 1920 (230 p.), which contains papers , "Unemployment and organization of Tinployii!' "ssiploynient and education," "The placement of the phy^ie;:llv handicapped," and "Employment office administra- tion and technique 91 (including job analysis- and psychological ..-). Bui!'j . !o. X. Y . has been chosen as the place of the 1921 meeting. INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION. Fnion Sqr. Vork/X. Y. DKPAUTMI-.NT OF RKCOKDS AND RESEARCH. Alexander Trachtenberg, director. This dej. :,rtii>en{ has made a study of cost of living in Cleveland in connection with an arbitration iii the garment industry there and is at present collecting data concerning earnings of its mem- bers preparatory to a study of seasonal fluctuations of employment and annual earnings. INTER-RACIAL COUNCIL. Broadway, New York, X'. Y. Miss Frances A, Kellor, vice chairman. This org;mi/:Uioiu which now includes in its membership about 1.100 industrial, mercantile, and banking corporations, and commit- i v presenting oii racial groups, was formed in March, 1919. Its aims and purposes are: To promote Anu'rii -:mism : to improve the relationships among races in America; to stabilize industrial conditions; to develop policies, standards, and legislation upon immigration and emigration; to apply American business methods to the foreign language* press by building an American advertising base under it and securing supplies and credit for it. As part of its service to industrial members it makes analyses of racial relations in plants where foreign-born workers are employed, with special reference to their reactions to methods of personnel administration, welfare activities, and community conditions, and makes recommendations based thereon to the management. IOWA STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR. Cedar Rapids,, Iowa. Fred A. Canfield, president. In February, 1921. this organization conducted a survey of wages, co^-t of living, and costs of building in Cedar Rapids to secure data 70723 Bull. 29921 8 114 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. for use in connection with cases then pending between the council and the Master Builders' Association in Cedar Kapids and other cities on the question of wage scales for 1921. The report, which includes a detailed family budget, has been published under the title " Eco- nomic survey as applying to the building trades industry in Cedar Rapids, Iowa" (26 p.). JOINT BOARD OF SANITARY CONTROL IN THE CLOAK, SUIT AND SKIRT AND DRESS AND WAIST INDUSTRIES. 131 East Seventeenth Street, New York, N. Y. George M. Price, M. D., director. Organized October 31, 1910, pursuant to the protocol entered into after the strike in the summer of that year between the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association, and the Cloak, Suit and Skirt locals of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union to establish standards of sanitary conditions, to which the manufacturers and the unions shall be committed. In 1913 a pro- tocol was also established in the dress and waist industry, which then joined in the work of the board, and has since been under its juris- diction. The semiannual inspection in October-November, 1920, covered 3,866 factories with 63,162 workers. The board consists of three representatives of the public, two representatives of each of the two labor unions, viz : the joint board of the Cloak, Skirt and Reefer Makers' Unions, and the joint board of the Ladies' Waist and Dress- makers' Union, and two representatives from each of the employers' organizations. The budget in 1920 was $83,000 contributed by the unions, employers' associations and independent manufacturers. The first annual report includes the results of a special study of the ventilation of cloak and suit shops made for the State Depart- ment of Labor in 1911 by Dr. C. T. Graham Rogers, with the aid of an assistant appointed by the board. In 1914 the board cooperated with the United States Public Health Service in its investigations of the health of garment workers, hygienic conditions of illumination in the workshops, and the effect of gas-heated appliances upon the air of workshops, which were reported in Public Health Bulletin Nos. 71 and 81. For the purpose of its educational work among both employers and employees a number of special bulletins have been prepared and published, among which are "Manufacturers' bulletin on fire pro- tection" (1915, No. 2), "Fire hazards in factory buildings" (1915, No. 8), and "Light and illumination in garment shops" (1918, No. 2). A summary of the activities of the board in supervising fire drills, first-aid work, sanitation and general health education, and a list of its publications, together with an account of the Union Health Center which has taken over and carries on as a cooperative enter- prise the health, medical and dental services initiated by the board, are given in " Ten years of industrial sanitary self control : tenth an- nual report of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control," 1921. JUDGE BAKER FOUNDATION. 40 Court Street (Scollay Square), Boston, Mass. William Healy, M. D., Augusta F. Bronner, Ph. D., directors. Established in 1917, this foundation exists primarily for the study of the problems of delinquency, and in that connection has to do Avith ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 115 better educational and vocational adjustments. Other more general problems are also studied in continuation of the work on psycho- logical tests previously published by the directors. 16 A paper on "Individual variations in mental equipment," by Augusta F. Bron- published in Mental Hygiene (v. 4, No. 3, p. 521-536), July, 1920, is distributed as Reprint Xo. 90 of the National Committee on Mental Hygiene. LABOR BUREAU (INC.). Rooms 51:*. 514, 1 Union Square, New York, N. Y. George Sonic. Evans Clark, David J. Saposs, and Alfred L. Bernheim, directors. This bureau, established in 1920, furnishes professional services, solely to labor organizations, in statistics, economic and social re- search. drafting of legislation, preparation of arbitration cases, etc. vpril. i '.>!. branch oilifos were opened at 14 West Washington Street, Chicago, and 1700 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Tl" rk of the bureau included five original investi- o determine what is a living wage. The basis of each of the " Minimum health and decency quantity . the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. They were made in New York (East Harlem), November, 1920 (re- lonthlv Labor Review, February, 1921, pp. 61 ; Philadelphia, March 1921: New York (South i-rlyn). April, 1921; Chicago, April, 1921. During the year an ext( made of wages, cost of living, profits of working conditions in the Philadel- stry, Studies have also been made of wages of fancy 'ins groups of city employees in New ork book and job printing trade, paint- .'V hangers in New York and Philadelphia, o;i,' sneirial classification, liy W. llo,-i!y and (inn-f M. Fprnald. 101:1. 53 p. (Psychological Monograph No. r>4. ) Psychology of special abilities and (lisa bilities, by .nner. Boston, lit 17. - 116 111. XOXm-TtriAL AOKNriK<. LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE. 25 West Forty-fifth Street, New York, N. Y. Harold A. Ley, president ; Eugene Lyman Fisk, M. D., medical director. Organized and- incorporated in 1914 as a self-sustaining public service institution with a hygiene reference board of 100 advisers to control its educational and scientific policy (Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale University, chairman). Its purpose is to conserve health and prolong life and to this end it has organized health services for individual subscribers, for groups of employees, and for institutions such as insurance companies which are interested in prolonging the lives of their members or policy- holders. These services include a standard physical examination, laboratory tests, monthly journals and other educational health literature. It maintains a pathological laboratory at the head office in NeAV York and has in its service over 7,000 examining physicians located in the principal cities and towns throughout the country. In its industrial service the institute examines 1,500 to 2,000 employees a month. Analyses of the examinations of typical industrial and commercial groups have been made, disclosing the extent of prevalence of various physical impairments. These results are available in reprints of papers by the medical director. Recently the institute has developed a plan for a special form of mutual benefit association combining the health services of the insti- tute with group health and accident insurance and group life insur- ance by an insurance company and has organized such associations in a considerable number of industrial concerns. Pamphlets describing the details of the scheme may be obtained on application. An ac- count was also published in the Survey, October 16, 1920 (p. 90-91.) McLEAN HOSPITAL. Waverley, Mass. PSYCHOLOGICAL, LABORATORY. The results of the studies in voca- tional psychology made while Dr. Frederic Lyman Wells 17 was psy- chologist* in this institution (until January 1/1921) are published in the following: Wells. F. L. The analysis of a. successful agent. (Life Association News, v. 11, No. 3.) An address on the scientific selection of life insurance salesmen at the first annual meeting of the Association of Life Agency Officers. Chicago, Oct. 16, 1916. Alternative methods for mental examiners. (Jour. App. Psychol.. June, 1017, v. 1, p. 134-143.) On the psychomotor nrechanisms of typewriting ( Amer. Jour. Psyrhol.. Jan., 1916, v. 27, p. 47-70.) Kelley, C. M., find Wells, F. L. Briefer studios from the psychological labora- tory of McLean Hospital. (Jour. App. Psychol., June, 1919. v. 3. p. 172-193.) Includes the " coach proof " test, a filing test, and a brief test for mental accuracy. MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. Boston, Mass. INDUSTRIAL CLINIC. Wade Wright, M. D., secretary, industrial hygiene. This clinic was opened in the out-patient department of 17 Now chief of the psychological laboratory of Boston Psychopathic Hospital. (See ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 117 the hospital in March, 191G. A report of its activities was published in the Monthly Review of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, De- cember, 1017. in two articles, "The study of occupational diseases in hospitals." by David L. Edsall (p. -169-185) and "An industrial clinic," by Wade Wright (p. 185-193). During the war it was temporarily suspended. The scope of. the activities of the Industrial Clinic is now being extended and it is closely affiliated with the Division of Industrial Hygiene of Harvard Medical School. (See p. 180.) It is undertak- ing certain studies' of industrial morbidity, based on the records of the out-patient department of the hospital and analyses of the sick ntee reports of a large public service corporation, of the effects of early employment upon the health of adolescents, and of specific industrial -Jour, Ijulust. Hyg., v, 1, No. 7, p. 343-347, Nov., 1919.) In the future the society's efforts will be more specialized and runong the- selects I fields of activity under special committees is a he scope of which is "the application of knowledge of per- iiperament, as well as the prevention of disease, in the Industrie conference on the subject of "The human element in industry" was held April 7, 1921. MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK. Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York, N. Y. S. C. , secretary. INDUSTRIAL BUREAU. In 1917 this bureau made an investigation into the extent to which women were being substituted for men, the t\ pes of work on which they were found satisfactory, and special unected with such employment. The results were pub- lished in a pamphlet entitled "Increased employment of women in indusi ry : a report on the problems of substituting female workers for male to meet the present labor scarcity," November, 1917 (23 p.). It has recently made a study of the turnover of factory labor in X-w York City,' the results of which were published in the organ of the association, C reciter JYv York for October 4, 1920 (also in Month! v Labor Review, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, November, 1920, pfir.- (.VMMITTKE ox INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. This committee has pre- pared two reports on "Industrial relations,'' which were adopted and approved by the board of directors and published in pamphlet form niber 13, 1919, and March 9, 1921, respectively. 118 III. XOXOFFICIAL AGENCIES. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. 1 Madison Avenue, New York, X. Y. This company has financed the Framingham Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration conducted by the National Tubercu- losis Association (see p. 136). PERSONNEL DIVISION. The system and methods followed by this division are described in an article by Lawrence Washington in Industrial Management, July 1, 1921 (p. 27-32). POLICYHOLDERS' SERVICE BUREAU. Alexander Fleisher, assistant secretary. This bureau sends out to group policy holders a monthly " Industrial Service Bulletin : Digest of current literature on per- sonnel problems" (mimeographed) ; semimonthly letters on special topics in this field; and occasional special short studies (e. g., on methods of wage payment, training of foremen, employees' thrift and savings plans, employees' incentive or bonus plans), and bibliographies. STATISTICAL BUREAU. Louis I. Dublin, statistician. The results of an analysis of the occupational mortality experience of the Metro- politan Life Insurance Co., 1911-1913, prepared by this bureau, were published in 1917 under the title, " Causes of death, by occupation," as Bulletin No. 207 of United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among other studies by this bureau available for distribution are the following pamphlets bearing on occupational hazards and morbidity : The effect of life conservation on the mortality of the Metropolitan Life In- surance Co. : a summary of the experience, industrial department, 1914, for superintendents, medical examiners, and visiting nurses. By Louis I. Dublin, 1916. 11 p. The health of food-handlers : a cooperative study by the Department of Health, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and the American Museum of Safety. Report prepared by Louis I. Harris and Louis I. Dublin. 1917. 2ii p. (Also issued in Monograph series, I\ T o. 17, of New York City Departnu Health.) Sickness among coal miners and their families. By Lee K. Frankel and : I. Dublin. 1917. 14 p. Occupation hazards and diagnostic signs: a guide for medical examine- garding impairments to be looked for in hazardous occupations. 1918. 15 p. Occupational ratings [rate book, insert]. 27 p. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATION TRAINING. 130 East Fifteenth Street, New York, N. Y. F. C. Henderschott, managing director. Organized at New York University, January 24, 1913, as the Xa- tional Association of Corporation Schools: name changed to present form August, 1920, and association incorporated under the laws of Delaware. The object of the association is to aid corporations in the educa- tion of their employees: (1) By providing a forum for the inter- change of ideas; (2) by collecting, and making available, data as to the successful and unsuccessful plans of developing the efficiency of the individual employee. There are three classes of members: Class A, commercial, indus- trial, transportation, or governmental organizations (admission fee, $100; annual dues, $100); class B, employees of class A members (annual dues, $5) ; class C, interested persons not eligible for mem- bership in A or B (annual dues, $10). Five local chapters have been organized, viz, Chicago, southern Xew England, Pittsburgh, western ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 119 New York, New York City. The annual conventions (four days) are held in different cities, usually in June. Committees of the association study and investigate various phases of training and other personnel developments. Their reports are printed in advance of the annual convention and are included with discussions thereon in the annual volume of proceedings. For the current year (1921) there are committees on the following subjects: Application of psychological tests and rating scales in industry (1919). Employment O!)l~>). Executive training (1918). Foremen training. Healtfc education < UH.4). Job analysis (1919). Labor turnover. Mark ctin ir iV.rm. Oiiu-'-Avork training (1914). Profit -.sharing and allied iiirift plans. Public ediH-Mtion (II 1 ; Skills- bor ( UH8). oical training Tra (1013). 'm II Su-rl and iron and plant maintenance. Ill Railroads. Train in.v for ; 1'ii^kilUMl l.-ibor Miid ainericaiiizaiinn ilUUM. Visualized training. A list of (lie chairmen and outline of the scope of work of these Miittees is printed in a special circular and at the back of each number of the ;;sso--i:u illetin. The da to given after the i':um> of any of the above committees indicates the first volume of proceedings in which a report of that committee or its equivalent ,-irs. In addition to the above a Committee on Vocational Guidance mai' |>er>oinu! administration. Reports of committees on "Methods of instruction" ami "Corporation continuation schools" are printed in the proceedings 1917-1919. A s| K .,.j:l {Slid confidential report service is available to class A members only. Two confidential reports and two special reports are ! annually. I reports. No. 1, An initial survey of the problem of labor turnover. No. 2, The present status of business correspond- ence: development of the business letter. No. 3, A survey of some of the industrial-educational problems of reconstruction. No. 4, A preliminary survey of the problem of representation in management. No. 5, Bonus plans and other schemes for insuring satisfactory punctuality and attendance records. No. 6, Transfers and pro- motions. Xo. 7 (in preparation). Industrial training costs. No. 8 (in preparation), Personnel organizations. A/ jiortx. No. 1. Trade apprenticeship schools. No. 2, Office- work schools. No. 3, Educational methods. No. 4, Hygiene and sanitation for the worker. No. 5, Housing plans. No. 6, Group insurance. Xo. 7 (in preparation) , Employee stock' ownership plans. No. 8 (in preparation), Industrial athletics. 120 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF EDUCATIONAL RE- SEARCH. E. J. Ashbaugh, University of Iowa, Iowa City, secretary. The objects of this association are (1) the formation of inde- pendent departments of educational research in all systems of public instruction, and (2) the promotion of the practical use of educational measurements in all educational research having for its object tlie improvement of the efficiency of the educational administration, supervision, or teaching. In 1918 a committee of this association prepared for the annual meeting in that year a report on " The measurement of educational products" (194 p.), which was published by the National Society for the Study of Education, as its Seventeenth Yearbook (pt. 2). This includes chapters on bureaus of research in city school systems, existing tests and standards, statistical methods, and a bibliography. The official organ of the association is the Journal of Educational Research (published for the Bureau of Educational Research, Uni- versity of Illinois, by the Public School Publishing Co., Blooming- ton, III.) in which it conducts a department recording research in progress. NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE. 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York. N. Y. Owen R. Love joy, general secretary. Organized April 15, 1904, and incorporated by act of Congress February 21, 1907, to safeguard American childhood as affected by industrial and agricultural conditions. The enactment and enforce- ment of progressive legislation and the development of enlightened public opinion are essential features of the committee's policy. Its legislative program is chiefly concerned with child labor laws, com- pulsory education laws, mothers' pension laws, and so-called chil- dren's codes. The committee has a staff of trained investigators whose services are placed at the disposal of local agencies desirous of procuring data for revision and standardization of child welfare laws in their re- spective States. Child- welfare surveys have been completed and the results published for Oklahoma (1918), Alabama (I 918 ). North Carolina (1918), Kentucky (1919), and Tennessee (1921), and one in West Virginia is in progress. Each of these reports contains a chap- ter on the operation of the State child-labor laws. A study of health defects of working children in Newark, N. J., under the direction of the committee is in progress. A discussion of the health needs of working children by Dr. H. H. Mitchell, in charge of the investigation, entitled "At what age should children enter in- dustry?" was published in the May, 1921, issue of The American The 300 pamphlets and the child-labor bulletin (y. 1-7. 1912-1919), continued since May, 1919, by the quarterly periodical Thf>. Ann ; Child, which the committee has published, contain occasional reports of investigations of the employment of children in various occupa- tions. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 121 NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION. Thirty-third Floor, Metropolitan Tower, New York, N. Y. Mrs. Gertrude Beeks Easier, secretary, executive council. An organization of representatives of capital, labor, and the gen- eral public formed as an outgrowth of conventions held in Chicago and New York, 1900-1901. Its purpose is "to organize the best brains of the nation in an educational movement seeking the solu- tion of some of the great problems related to sacial and industrial progress ; to provide for study and discussion of questions of national import ; to aid thus in the crystallization of the most enlightened public opinion : and when desirable, to promote legislation in accord- ance therewith." The federation is organized in the following departments: Food and drugs. Immigration, Industrial accident prevention, Industrial economics, Industrial mediation, Industrial training. Pensions, Profit- sharing, Public health education. Regulation of industrial corpora- tions, Regulation of public utilities. Social insurance, Study of revo- lutionary movements. Welfare, Workmen's compensation, Woman's department. Minimum wage commission, and Committee on national (iolVnsc, Their activities arc reorted in the National Civic reported in the National Civic Feeler- ti< view, annual meeting addresses, and special publications. Only those related to the field of personnel research are noted here, as follows : Industrial Economics Diepartment has made a study of the divi- sion of people's income, and its conclusions will soon be made public. Industrial Training Department is interesting employers in fac- tory industrial training through establishment of vestibule schools. This is an enlargement of the work conducted by the federation's Welfare Department for the Committee on Labor of the Council of National Defense, during the war, when there was given a practical demonstration of the possibility of utilizing such schools, to place new employees through proper tests in jobs which they could suc- cessfully perform, to train new unskilled workers and improve 'the efficiency of the skilled, including foremen. Reports on this sub- ject are' published in the National Civic Federation Review for April 10, 1919, and May 10, 1920. Pensions Department published in 1916 "The problem of pen- sions: Federal, State, municipal, and industrial " (15 p.), to which is appended a tabular summary of data on "Industrial pensions or re- tirement systems in operation throughout the United States." Profit-sharing Department has issued two editions of a report on " Profit sharing by American employers ; examples from England, types in France " (2d ed.. 1920, 423 p.). Welfare Department, organized to induce employers through edu- cational means to improve voluntarily working and living conditions of employees, is collecting data on welfare work in stores, factories, mines, on railroads and in public institutions. The scope of the inquiry is shown in a printed " Outline for report on welfare work " under the following main headings: Type of work place, sanitation, recreation, education, housing, additions to wages, provident funds, supervision of welfare work. The National Civic Federation Review for July 15, 1913. was devoted to " Working conditions in New York stores ; "a report upon welfare activities in 22 retail concerns." A 122 III. NONOFFK'IAL AGENCIES. housing committee is organized under this department to evolve ways and means to meet the national housing problem. Social Insurance Department has been active in opposition to pro- posed compulsory health insurance legislation. It has issued two reports of the committee on foreign inquiry (1914 and 1920), pam- phlets by its committee on constructive plan, and addresses at annual meetings. The 1917 annual meeting addresses on compulsory health insurance include data on existing voluntary agencies instituted by trade unions and industrial concerns. Committee upon dangerous and unhealthy industries of the New York and New Jersey section (Women's Welfare Department) pub- lished in 1912 a report of an investigation on " Mercury poisoning in the industries of New York City and vicinity," by Mrs. Lindoii W. Bates, its chairman. NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE. Penn Terminal Building, Seventh Avenue and Thirty-first Street, New York, N. Y. Thomas W. Salmon, M. D., medical director. Founded in 1909 and incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in 1916 to work for the conservation of mental health : to help prevent nervous and mental disorders and mental defect: to help raise the standards of care and treatment for those suffering from any of these disorders or mental defect; to secure and dis- seminate reliable information on these subjects and also on mental factors involved in problems related to industry, education, delin- quency, dependency, and the like; to aid ex-service men disabled in the war; to cooperate with Federal, State, and local agencies. Affili- ated societies or committees for mental hygiene have been organized in 17 States and the District of Columbia. The necessary funds to support the work of the committee have been largely provided by the Eockefeller Foundation. Since January, 1917, the committee has published a quarterly magazine entitled Mental Hygiene, in which "nontechnical articles on the practical management of mental problems in all relations of life" appear (subscription $2 a year). A list of publications con- sisting of reprints from this magazine and other medical journals, special publications, and leaflets available for distribution may be obtained on application. Among these are included the following pamphlets dealing with the mental hygiene of industry : Adler, Herman M. Unemployment and personality; a study of psychopathic cases. (Reprint 2 from Mental Hygiene, v. 1, p. 16-24, Jan., 1937.) Bailey, Poarce. Efficiency and inefficiency a problem in medicine. (Re- print 12 from Mental Hygiene, v. 1, p. 19<>-210, Apr., 1917.) Jarrett, Mary C. The psychopathic employee: a problem of industry. (lie- print from Medicine and Surgery, v. 1, p. 727-741, Sept., 1917.) ROPSV. C\ R. Feeble-mindedness and industrial relations. (Reprint 19 from Mental Hygiene, v. 2, p. 34-52, Jan., 1918.) Southard. E. E. The movement for a mental hygiene of industry. ( Reprint 74 from Mental Hygiene, v. 4, p. 43-64, Jan., ITrjo.) Southard, E. E. Trade-unionism and temperament : nott s upon the psy- chiatric point of view in industry. (Reprint from Mental Hygiene, v. 4, p. 231-300, Apr., 1920.) Southard, E. E. The modern specialist in unrest: a place for the psychia- trist in industry. (Reprint 92 from Mental Hygiene, v. 4, p. 550-563, July, 1920.) ASSOCIATIONS,, SOCIETIES,, FOUNDATIONS, ETC 123 Jarrett, Mary C. The mental hygiene of industry : report of progress of work undertaken under the Engineering Foundation of New York. (Reprint 88 from Mental Hygiene, v. 4, No. 4. Oct., 1920.) NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS. 130 East Twenty-second Street, New York, N. Y. Mrs. Wini- fred Hathaway, secretary. Organized January 1, 1915, by the consolidation of the Committee for the Prevention of Blindness and the American Association for the Conservation of Vision. In 1916 this committee made a survey of TO representative indus- trial plants in Buffalo, X. Y., to ascertain the local working condi- tions and the industrial accident hazards which might be productive of eye injuries. With this study as a basis, the investigation was extended to cover the entire field of such hazards in American indus- tries. The results were issued as No. 12 of the committee's publi- cations : Kye hazards in industrial occupations: a report of typical cases and con- ditions, with recommendations for safe practice. By Gordon L. Berry and Thomas P. Bradshaw. Nov., 1917. 145 p. A model plan for saving sight in industry was prepared by the committee for the hospital and health survey made by the Cleveland Hospital Council in 1920. (See p. 94.) The committee has cooperated with the United States Bureau of Standards in preparation of the " National safety code for the pro- tec; ion of the heads and eyes of industrial workers." It has also prepared a set of posters on industrial eye accidents for use in safety and health exhibits, factories, etc.; and miniature reproductions for general distribution (e. g., in pay envelopes). Recently its publicity material has included several articles on the dangers of wood alcohol. NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON PRISONS AND PRISON LABOR. Broadway and One hundred and sixteenth Street, New York, N. Y. E. Stagg Whitin, chairman, executive committee. Established in August, 1909, for the purpose of studying the problem of labor in prison and with a view to causing the abolition of the contract system of convict labor, this committee has recently endeavored to secure the introduction of modern methods of per- sonnel administration into prison industries. Its program for mak- ing thfc prisons training schools for life after release and for increas- ing production in the prison industries, so that penal communities may become self-sustaining, includes classification of prisoners by psychiatric examination to determine appropriate treatment, indus- trial training, placement by trade tests, payment of wages based on individual efficiency and other incentives, and a system of after care and industrial parole. Investigations on these subjects were made by the New York (State) Prison Survey Committee, of which Mr. Adolph Lewisohn, president of the national committee, was chairman, and the results and recommendations thereon published in its report, 1920 (412 p.), particularly in Chapters III, IX, and XII. The national committee is at present engaged in a reorganization of the shoe shop at Sing Sing Prison according to the plan recommended to demonstrate its practical application/ It has already secured the establishment of a psychiatric bureau in that institution. 124 III. XOXOFFICIAL AGENCIES. In 1920 the committee published a report on " The penal system of the District of Columbia" (32 p., illus., charts), based on a study which it made at the invitation of the Penal Commission of the District of Columbia, submitting recommendations along the lines above indicated. The committee is at present cooperating with State authorities in similar prison surveys in Virginia and Texas. NATIONAL CONSUMERS' LEAGUE. 44 East Twenty-third Street, New York, X. Y. Mrs. Florence Kelley, general secretary; Miss Mary "W. Dewson, research secretary. Organized May, 1899, to awaken responsibility for conditions under which goods are made and distributed, through investigation, educa- tion, and legislation, to mobilize public opinion in behalf of en- lightened standards for workers and honest products for all. The principal research work done by the league has been in the prepara- tion of briefs in defense of the constitutionality of labor laws, limit- ing the hours of labor, prohibiting night work of women, and pro- viding for the fixing of minimum wages. In addition to these it has published results of the following surveys made under its auspices : Wagre-ea ruins' women and girls in Baltimore a study of the cost of living in 1918. By Josephine A. Koche. 1918. 36 p. Survey of wage-earning girls below sixteen years of age in Wilkes-Barre. P;t. By Sarah H. Atherton. 1915. 65 p. Wage-earning women in war time the textile industry. (With special refer- ence in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to woolen and worsted yarn, and in Rhode Island to work of women at night.) By Florence Kelley. (Repr. from Journal of Industrial Hygiene for October, 1919.) 24 p. See also Consumers' Leagues of Cincinnati, Connecticut, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York (p. 96-97), Toledo (p. 158). NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION. 2 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. M. H. Ayles- worth, executive manager. This association was organized at Chicago in 1885 and its object is to advance the art and science of production, distribution and use of electricity for light, heat, and power for public service, in further- ance of which its activities are largely educational. The association has four national sections Accounting, Commercial, Public relations, Technical and 13 geographic divisions, under which are grouped State associations and sections; also company sections and local clubs. The functions and personnel of its numerous committees, subcom- mittees, etc., are given in a pamphlet, " Organization personnel of the National Electric Light Association," published annually. Their re- ports are printed as advance copies for presentation at the annual conventions of the association, held in May, and subsequently pub- lished in the volumes of proceedings. Among the subjects which have been studied through committees are accident prevention, resus- citation from electric shock, education of employees in the industry, and wage incentives. ACCIDENT PREVENTION COMMITTEE. Charles B. Scott, Bureau of Safety, Chicago, TIL, chairman. This committee has presented re- ports since 1914. It was at first concerned with preparation of ac- cident-prevention rules relating to operating methods of companies ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 125 and workmen, later with the details of operating methods and safety specifications for tools and appliances, such as safety belts, rubber gloves, ladders, first-aid kits, etc. In 1920 its scope was extended to include also health promotion and morbidity statistics, and fire pre- vention and extinguishment; and its report presented in 1921 in- cludes detail reports on these subjects in addition to material on operating methods, organization methods, and apparatus. As recently reorganized this committee consists of geographic divi- sion representatives, who are the chairmen of the accident preven- tion committees of these divisions, and some members at large. Its work is now carried on in seven subcommittees Apparatus, Devices and appliances. Fire prevention, Health promotion, Operating meth- ods. Organization, Publicity. During the period 1918-19 it was a subcommittee of the Safety Rules and Accident Prevention Committee of the association, and co- operated with the Bureau of Standards in formulating the operating in part 4 of the National Electrical Safety Code. The main committee (later a separate Safety Rules Committee) was chiefly concerned with assisting the Bureau of Standards and various State iiissions in the preparation or revision of safety rules for con- struction of o^, emend and underground lines, electrical equipment of stations, and electrical equipment for utilization of electrical energy, covered by parts 1 to 3 of the National Electrical Safety Code, and subcommittees were formed to assist in special researches connected therewith. C<; . auspices. A list of the standard regulations for fire protection and the safe- gua; - 3, reoommeaded by the association and adopted as the official standard of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, publications available for free distribution or for sale, is contained in a pamphlet entitled "The story of the National Fire "Pro-' iation, and list of its publications," obtainable on application at the executive office. NATIONAL FOUNDERS* ASSOCIATION. South La Salle Til J. M. Taylor, secretary. the so-called New York agreement, which was in force until > hen it was abrogated. Since that time the association .'pi-rated independently of the union and has adopted the open- shop policy. In conjunction with the National Metal Trades Asso- ciation it ' publishes The Open-Shop Kcrieir in advocacy of this policy. It is a member association of the National Industrial Con- ference Board. COMMITTEE ox SAFETY AND SANITATION. Appointed in 1912 under the chairmanship of Magnus W. Alexander, this committee investi- gated each specific hazard in the foundry industry and appropriate means for effective safeguard against it, and issued a bulletin on the subject. These were combined in 1915 to form a handbook entitled "Safety in the foundry," by M. W. Alexander (202 p.). It has Kl The following- associations, formerly members of the National Conference, are repre- sented on this committee : American Electric Railway Association. American Institute of Kifctrical Engineer*, Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies, National Association of Electrical Inspectors. National Board of Fire Underwriters, National Elec- tric Light Association, National Electrical Contractors' Association, 128 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. developed a number of safety appliances, such as goggles, foundry shoes and leggings, ladder feet, respirators, etc. In 1914 this com- mittee invited similar committees of other associations to meet with it and as a result of these meetings the Conference Board on Safety and Sanitation was formed. (See p. 95.) In 1917 the National Founders' Association, in conjunction with the American Foundry-men's Association, established a foundry code .on safety and sanitation and several States have since used it as the basis for framing their foundry safety rules and regulations. These two associations are joint sponsors for future revisions of the code under the auspices of the American Engineering Standards Com- mittee. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD. 10 East Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Magnus W. Alexander, managing director. (Branch office. Southern Building, Washington, D. C.) A cooperative body composed of representatives of national and State industrial associations, and of closely allied engineering socie- ties of a national character, organized in May, 1916, to provide a clearing house of information, a forum for discussion, and machin- ery for cooperative action on matters that vitally affect the industrial development of the Nation. The stated objects of the board are: (1) To make impartial investigations in the field of industrial economies, and to cooperate to this end with individuals, institutions, associations, and agencies of Government. (2) To aid in securing, on the basis of established economic facts underly- ing and affecting industrial conditions, joint deliberation of manufacturers and associations of manufacturers in the United States. (3) To secure, analyze, and disseminate information concerning industrial problems and experience in the United States and other countries. (4) To promote good understanding and friendly relations between em- ployees and employers for the benefit of both, and between those engaged in industry and the public for the general good of the community. (o) To make the results of its research and collective experiences available to Governmental agencies when industrial and economic legislation and poli- cies are being formulated, in an endeavor to secure sympathetic consideration of its views and opinions, and (6) In general, to encourage and promote the sound development of Ameri- can industry by all proper and legitimate means. The affiliated organizations (1921) are: American Cotton Manufacturers' Association. American Electric Railway Association. American Hardware Manufacturers' Association. American Malleable Castings Association. American Paper and Pulp Association. American Pig Iron Association. Electrical Manufacturers' Club. Institute of Makers of Explosives. Manufacturing Chemists' Association of tbe United States., National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. National Association of Finishers of Cotton Fabrics. National Association of Manufacturers. National Association of Wool Manufacturers. National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Association. National Electric Light Association. National Erectors' Association, National Founders' Association. National Implement and Vehicle Association. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 129 National Industrial Council. Railway Car Manufacturers' Association. Rubber Association of America (Inc.). Silk Association of America.. Tobacco Merchants' Association of the United States. United Typothetae of America. Associated Industries of Massachusetts. Associated Industries of New York State (Inc.). Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Manufacturers' Association of Connecticut (Inc.). The Conference Board of Physicians in Industry (see p. 95) acts as advisor on medical problems in industry to the National Industrial Conference Board. The publications of the board consist of Research Reports, Nos. 1-38 ; Special Reports, Nos. 1-18 ; and Industrial News Survey, issued weekly. These include: A series of Research Reports on " Hours of work as related to out- put and health of workers " in various industries, viz : cotton manu- facturing (No. 4), boot and shoe industry (No. 7), wool manufac- turing (No. 12), silk manufacturing (No. 16), and metal manufactur- ing industries (No. 18) ; " The hours of work problem in five major in- dustries" (No. 27); "Practical experience with the work week of 48 hours or less" (No. 32) ; also "Analysis of British war-time re- ports on hours of work as related to output and fatigue" (No. 2). A series of Research Reports on "Changes in the cost of living" since July, 1914, now issued every four months, i. e., to March, July, and November (Nos. 9, 14, 17, 19,25, 28, 30, 33, and 36). A series of local studies of " The cost of living among wage-earn- ers": Fall River, Mass., October, 1919 (Research Report No. 22); Lawrence, Mass., November, 1919 (Research Report No. 24) ; North Hudson County, N. J., Januar}^ 1920 (Special Report No. 7) ; Green- ville and Pelzer, S. C.. and Charlotte, N. C., January-February, 1920 (Special Report No. 8); Cincinnati, Ohio, May, 1920 (Special Re- port No. 13) ; Worcester, Mass., June, 1920 (Special Report No. 16). Research reports on the following special subjects : " War-time employment of women in the metal trades " (No. 8) ; " Rest periods for industrial workers" (No. 13); "Works' councils in the United States" (No. 21). and supplement, "A works' council in the United States" (No. 26); "Practical experience with profit-sharing in in- dustrial establishments" (No. 29); "Health service in industry" (No. 34) : " Wage changes in industr}^, September, 1914, to Decem- ber. 1920 " (No. 35) ; " Cost of health service in industry " (No. 37) ; " Experience with trade-union agreements, clothing industries " (No. 38). A complete list, with prices, is printed at the end of the latest re- search report. The activities of the Conference Board on Training of Appren- tices 20 were merged with those of the National Industrial Conference Board in 1920. 20 Organized March, 1915 (Magnus W. Alexander, secretary) ; composed of represen- tatives of National Association of Manufacturers, National Founders' Association, National Metal Trades Association, National Machine Tool Builder*' Association, United Typothetae and Franklin Clubs of America, American Foundrymen's Association. Publi- cations: Practical apprenticeship, a bulletin of information on the training of industrial workers: Bulletin No. 1, Necessity of apprenticeship (1916, 18 p.); Bulletin No. 2, Fundamentals of apprenticeship (1917, 30 p.). (Prepared by Henry P. Porter.) 70723 Bull. 29921 9 130 111. ^OXOFFICIAL AUKN011 NATIONAL MACHINE TOOL BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION. ' 818 Provident Bank Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Ernest F. DuBrul, general manager. This association is joint sponsor for the safety code on power drive of machine tools which is being prepared wider the inspires and rules of procedure of the American Engineering Standards Commit- tee. A special committee appointed by the association made the pre- liminary study on which was based the a Safety code for the use and care of 'abrasive wheels" issued by the Grinding Wheel Manufac- turers' Association of the United States and Canada, (See p. 103.) The Safety Committee of the association has continued its coopera- tion in conducting the tests and compiling the tables for later edi- tions. NATIONAL METAL TRADES ASSOCIATION. People's Gas Building, Chicago, 111. Homer D. Sayre, secretary. An employers' association organized in 1899 " for national, united action in handling unjust collective demands of organized labor and in treating with the labor question generally." Its annual convention is held in April, generally in New York, and a synopsis of proceedings is published. There are about 1,000 members and 28 local branches. The association is active in the open-shop campaign, and in conjunc- tion with the National Founders' Association publishes the OJH'H. Shop Review. Industrial education has been a matter of special concern to the association for many years. One of its early efforts in this field con- sisted in securing contributions from its members for equipment and scholarships at Winona Technical Institute, Indianapolis, and in giv- ing financial support arid other assistance to the institute for the maintenance and management of a metal trades department. In 1906 the first steps towards the inauguration of the cooperative course in engineering at the University of Cincinnati, under Dean Herman Schneider, were taken at a conference of the authorities of the Engi- neering College with the local branch of the association, whose mem- bers agreed to open their shops to students ; and as a result of Dean Schneider's address on the subject at the 1908 convention the cooper- ative plan was introduced into the public schools of Fitchburg, Mass. In the same year the Chicago branch developed a plan of cooperation with Lewis Institute. Appropriations were made in 1911, 1914, and 1915 for advancing the work undertaken by the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. (See p. 185.) Reports of committees on industrial education and apprenticeship were pub- lished annually in the synopsis of proceedings up to and including 1917, in which year the Smith-Hughes Act was passed. COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. Harold C. Smith, Illinois Tool Works, Chicago, 111., chairman. The present committee, which has reported annually since 1919, has established at the national office of the association a ^Department of Industrial Education (Philip C. Molter, superintendent) and has had an individual survey made of the plants of the members of the associationabout 1,000 in number (located east of the Mississippi River) for the purpose of ascertain- ing what particular system of training was adaptable to a particular plant. ASSOCIATION'S, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 131 A session on April 21 at the 1921 convention was devoted to reports and papers on industrial education. COMMITTKF OF AYouKs' COUNCILS IN 1'HE METAL TiiADKs made an in- vestigation into the question of employee representation and a session was devoted to discussion of the subject at the 1920 convention. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 1701 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. Vernon Kel- logg, permanent secretary. Established in 1916 under the congressional charter of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences and organ ized with the cooperation of the national scientific and technical societies of the United States. During the war the National Research Council acted, in a cooperative capacity, as the Department of Science and Research of the Council of Xational Defense; also, as the Science and Research Division of the United States Signal Corps. In this connection, during the war, it received a considerable part of its support from the Government, but since its reorganization after the war it derives its support wholly from private sources. As now orgaimed, the technical work of the council is (iistrii)uted among its ]:> divisions. 6 of which deal with the more general aspects arid contacts of research (the divisions of Federal Relations, Foreign Relation-. Sink's Relations, Educational Relations, Research Extension, and the Research Information Serv- ice) and 7 with particular fields of science and technology (viz, Physical sciences, Engineering, Chemistry and chemical technology, Geology and geogTMphy, Medical sciences, Ui<>!o-y a nd agriculture, Anthropology and pny- hology ). The personnel of these divisions and numerous commit tees is given in a pamphlet, "National Research Council: organization and members, 11)20-21" (45 p.). DIVISION OF AxTiiKotHm.MH;Y. C. F. Seashore, chairman (1921-22). This is the successor of the Psychology Com- mittee formed in April, 1917, to organize and supervise psychological research and service in the war emergency and of which various committees on military personnel problems appointed by the Ameri- can Psychological Association became, subcommittees. Among these were (1) the committee on the psychological examination of recruits which developed the plan of mental testing subsequently applied to the Army by a division of psychology created in the Office of the Surgeon General, 21 (2) the committee on the selection of men for requiring special aptitude, from which developed through tivity o\ (wo of its members F, L. Thorndike and Walter Dill Scott-^the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army. 22 Other committees studied problems of vision, reeducation, incapacity, emotional stability, etc.; and psychological service was rendered to the Committee on Education and Special Training of the War De- partment and other military agencies. The report of the Psychology Committee, by Robert M. Yerkes, chairman, was published in the Psychological' Review, March, 1919 (v. 26, p. 83-149), and issued 21 Tho tests usori are given in "Army mental tests," by C. S. Yoakum and R. M. Yerkes f NY'.v York, II. Holt. & Co., 1920); the. oineial report, '' Psychological examining in the United Stales Army," consisting of (1) history, organizations, and materials, (2) methods, ;nul (H) results, was published as Memoir of the National Academy of Sciences (V. . 22 An official account of the work of this committee was published by the War Depart- ment under the title, "The personnel system of the United States Army " (1919, 2 vols.). 132 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. also as No. 2 of the reprint and circular series of the National Re- search Council. This division acts in an advisory capacity on research projects in its field. Committees on the following subjects organized under it deal with various phases of perbonnel research: (a) Anthropological and psychological study of the people of the United States, with a subcommittee dealing with standardization of procedures for determining race characters. (b) Superior attainment of college students. This committee is conducting an organized search for research talent among college students, through committees organized for the purpose in the various universities and colleges. For the use of these committees it has prepared a printed blank for "Analyzed rating of fitness for graduate study." It proposes to issue shortly a series of bulletins on " Re- search opportunities" (including those in industrial establishments), eight of which are now ready for the printer. (c) Prediction of success of students entering higher institutions. This committee is concerned with the development of tests of fitness, e. g., advising in the investigation of the use of tests for engineering students being made under the Society for the Promotion of Engi- neering Education. (See p. 153.) It has prepared and published two " comprehension tests." (d) National intelligence tests. This committee, under a grant from the General Education Board, prepared an adaptation for school purposes of the group intelligence tests used in the examina- tion of recruits in the Army. These tests, with a manual of direc- tions, are published by the World Book Co., Yonkers, N. Y. An account of this work is given in a paper entitled, " The national intel- ligence tests," by Guy M. Whipple, in Journal of Educational Re- search (v. 4, No. 1, p". 16-31), June, 1921 (issued as a reprint by the committee). (e) Child welfare research. (f) Problems of military psychology, including methods of rating in the Army. RESEARCH INFORMATION SERVICE. Robert M. Yerkes, chairman and resident director. A clearing house for information about scien- tific methods and results and their practical applications in engineer- ing, industry, and education. This service maintains a biographical file of scientists who are qualified by training and experience to con- duct research in the physical or biological sciences or their respective technologies. Approximately 13,000 persons in the United States are already listed, and the data about them are being arranged by means of the Findex system for ready reference and mechanical sort- ing to meet the informational demands of scientific and industrial agencies. COMMITTEE ON FOOD AND NUTRITION. J. R. Murlin, University of Rochester, chairman. This committee under the Division of Biology and Agriculture has formulated an extensive and detailed program of research for which it is endeavoring to secure support. Among the projects outlined by the subcommittee on human nutrition are (1) the food requirements of children of different ages, including the effects of muscular work upon children; (2) nutrition in relation to the health and efficiency of industrial workers. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. COMMITTEE ox INDUSTRIAL PERSONNEL RESEARCH. Alfred Flinn, Engineering Foundation, New York, secretary. This com- mittee represented the council in planning and conducting the con- ferences held in November, 1920, and March, 1921, which resulted in the formation of the Personnel Research Federation. (See p. 143.) NATIONAL RETAIL DRY GOODS ASSOCIATION. 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Organized in 1911 to promote and protect the interests of retail dry goods merchants throughout the United States. Annual con- ventions are held in New York City; there are also spring and fall meetings which may be held elsewhere. At the present time (March, 1921) the association has 2,234 members. In addition to subsidiary groups devoted to financial and account- ing problems, advertising, and transportation and shipping ques- tions, there is a department of education under the direction of Mrs. Lucinda W. Prince, director of the Prince School of Education for Store Service, Boston, which conducts an information service on matters relating to training for retail selling, and holds special sessions on educational, employment, and research work in stores at the annual conventions. A Committee for the Study of Wage Problems appointed by the board of directors in October, 1919, published a " Preliminary re- port of commission and bonus methods" (51 p.) in May, 1920. BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND INFORMATION. W. A. Fitzgerald, man- ager. This bureau, maintained at the New York office to collect data on the various problems of the retail dry goods trade, including personnel administration, issued to members in February, 1921, a confidential report on " Bonus methods for delivery department employees.'- containing a description of methods used in 15 different stores. NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL. 1C>S North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111. C. W. Price, general manager ; Sidney J. Williams, secretary and chief engineer. The first cooperative safety congress was held under the auspices of the Association of Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers at Mil- waukee, Wis., September 30 to October 5, 1912, and a committee appointed at that congress was authorized to prepare plans for a national society, which was officially organized as the National Coun- cil for Industrial Safety in September, 1913. As the scope of its activities broadened, the name was changed to National Safety Coun- cil in the following year. This council is an association of companies and individuals interested in promoting safety in industrial establish- ments and also on the streets and in the home. Its field is the pre- vention of accidents, with related activities affecting the health, com- fort, and welfare of industrial workers. The present membership includes about 4,000 industrial concerns, operating more than 7,500 plants and employing more than 6,000,000 workers. To these it renders a safety service, consisting of posters for the bulletin board, a monthly magazine entitled National Safety /\>/r,s', "Safe practices" pamphlets, and consultation. Membership dues are based on the nature and extent of the service rendered and the number of employees on the pay roll of the concern. 134 III. NONOFFIOIAL AGKNCH' The council also organizes schools for foremen and safety super- visors and has published in loose-leaf form outlines of lectures for such schools. For Greater Mew York and the adjacent manufacturing district of New Jersey, the Metropolitan Safety Council has l>een formed, by the National Safety Council and the Safety Institute of America (see p. 149) jointly; and in order to unify the work of the two organiza- tions and prevent duplication they have entered into an agreement that all industrial plants in this district, which are members of either, shall be entitled to the joint service of both. This local council con ducted lecture courses for foremen during 1920-21 at various phi res in its territory. Safety- congresses have been held annually since 1912 in different cities and the proceedings published. The present organization of the congress consists of Engineering, Public Safety, Education, Health Service, and Women in Industry sections, and the follow- ing sections devoted to safety in particular industries, viz : Auto- motive, Cement, Chemical, Construction, Electric Railway, Mr Mining, Packers and Tanners, Paper and Pulp, Public Utilities, Rubber, Steam Railroad, Textile, Woodworking. Meetings on spe- cial topics are also held, . 17. Yards: No. 18, Power presses: No. 10, Exits, fire alarms and fire drills; No. 20, Woodworking machinery and equipment; No. 21, Accident records; No. 22. Shop lighting; No. 2H. Gas and Heotric welding; No. 24, Fire extinguishment; No. 25, Acids and caustics (industrial plants); No. 26, Ma- nila and wire rope; No. 27, Drinking water, wash and locker rooms, and toilet facilities; No. 28, Commercial explosives; No. 20, Electrical equipment in in- ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 135 dust-rial plants; No. 30, Trucks and wheelbarrows; No. 31, Fire causes ami prevention: No. 32, Exhaust systems: No. 33, Hoisting apparatus ; No. 34, Indus- trial explosion hazards: gases, vapors, flammable liquids and dusts; No. 35, Conveyers; No. 36, Fire brigades; No. 37, Industrial ventilation; No. 38, Safety bulletins and bulletin boards; No. 39, Machine shop machinery; No. 40, Sng- j?f-xtiot{ s\ -stems; No. 41. Hand tools; No. 42, Industrial safety organisation; No. 43. Passenger elevators; No. 44, The prevention of skin troubles from cutting oils and emulsions: No. 45, Industrial housekeeping. Sectional: P. and P. 1, Paper and pulp mills; Me. 1, Cleaning and finishing rooms in foundries; Me. 2, Blast furnaces; M. 1, Underground mine cars and Imulage. HEALTH SERVICE SECTION. This section originated at an indus- trial hygiene session at the annual safety conference in 1914 and has held meetings at each subsequent congress. At the 1919 congress it appointed a committee to investigate and report on the best modes of preventing and controlling skin diseases in industry and the best methods of treatment. The questionnaire sent out by this committee is given in Modern Medicine (v. 2, No. 2, Feb., 1920, p. 150). NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 140 West Forty-second Street, New York, N. Y. Miss Clotilde Ware, oflu-o secretary. Organized in 1006 as the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education : present name adopted in 1918. The objects of this society fire (1) to afford all those who are interested, opportuni- ties for the presentation and discussion of the various problems of Ao'Yilional education; (2) to make available the results of the ex- perience of those working in the various fields of vocational educa- tion, both in this country and abroad. At the present time (1921) there are 2.200 members, including educators, industrial managers, manufacturers, labor leaders, social workers, etc. Annual conventions have been held in various cities, latterly in February. The pro* -cod ings are issued in the -society's series of Bul- letins. The 19*20 convention at Chicago was a joint convention with the Vocational Education Association of the Middle West. A special feature of the conventions at Richmond, Va. (1914), Minneapolis (1016), and Indianapolis (1917) was the holding of ses- sions devoted to the results of a vocational education survey of the city made in advance of the convention. In the case of the first two cities, the survey was made under the direction of a general survey committee of the society with funds provided locally and in coopera- tion with a local survey committee. The report of the Richmond (Va.), survey was published as Bulletin No. 162 of United States Bureau of Labor Statistics; the Minneapolis survey as Bulletin No. 21 of the society (also in revised form as Bulletin No. 199 of United States Bureau of Labor Statistics). The Indianapolis survey for vocational education was the sixth of a series of seven vocational surveys in Indiana undertaken by the State Board of Education, Indiana University, and local education authorities jointly, with the cooperation of this society, the reports of which were published by State Board of Education as the Survey Series of its Educational Bulletins. An industrial art survey was undertaken by the society in 1920-21, The work has been completed but is not yet published. 136 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Employment managers' conferences were held in connection with the annual conventions at Minneapolis (January, 1916) and Indian- apolis (February, 1917). The proceedings of the first of these, pub- lished as Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics No. 196, are appended to the society's Bulletin No. 22 ; the proceed- ings of the second are included in its Bulletin No. 24 (p. 225-291). A conference on training for salesmanship in retail stores was the first session of the 1914 convention; and beginning with the St. Louis convention of 1919, section meetings have been held on commercial education, devoted largely to the same subject, and on agricultural education, in addition to those on industrial education, to which the papers and discussions at the conventions had mainly been confined in previous years. The following bulletins are studies made by special committees of the society appointed for the purposes indicated by the titles : No. 4. Industrial training for women. By Florence M. Marshall, October, 1907. 59 p. No. 8. Education of workers in the shoe industry. By Arthur D. Dean. Dec., 1908. 110 p. No. 19. Selection and training of teachers for State-aided industrial schools. By C. A. Prosser and W. A. O'Leary. Feb.. 1914 ; -rev. ed. Feb.. 1917. <>4 p. No. 23. Evening vocational courses for girls and women. Feb., 1917. 73 p The proceedings of the 1920 convention (Bulletin No. 32) contain reports of special committees on the following subjects: Vestibule and upgrading schools (p. 86-97) ; Vocational education in the con- tinuation schools (p. 136-150) ; Vocational training for women in industry (p. 151-158) ; Vocational education in high schools (p. 159-183). NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION. 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Charles T. Hatfield, M. D., managing director. Originally organized as the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; present name adopted in 1918 and asso- ciation incorporated under the laws of Maine. The following para- graphs summarize only the special activities of this association in the industrial field. In December, 1916, the Framingham Community Health and Tu- berculosis Demonstration was initiated by the association with a special fund of $100,000 provided by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which continues to finance it, as an intensive experiment to determine whether it is possible to reduce substantially the mortality and morbidity of tuberculosis, particularly in industrial communities. Its executive officer is Donald B. Armstrong, M. D., Community Health Station, Framingham, Mass. The results of the experiment are set forth in Framingham Mono- graphs, Nos. 1-8, subdivided into three series, viz : General series, Medical series, Sanitary series, of which No. 6 (Sanitary series II) published September, 1919, is devoted to schools and factories. The section of this monograph on the factories includes besides a general sanitary study of the great majority of the Framingham industries, (1) a special study of ventilation in certain typical plants, where ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 137 the questions of dust, fumes, chemicals, and general ventilation were touched upon, carried out with the cooperation of the New York State Commission on Ventilation (see p. 54), and (2) a special stud} T of safety in a number of the Framingham plants, conducted by the American Museum of Safety. (See p. 149, Safety Institute of America.) In 1918 the association detailed its field secretary, Dr. H. A. Patti- son. to the Federal Board of Vocational Education to study the prob- lem of vocational rehabilitation in the case of tuberculous soldiers and sailors, and appointed a committee to direct and assist him. The results of this work were published as : V. S. Federal Board of Vocational Education. Bulletin No. 29 (Reeducation series No. 5). Treatment and training for the tuberculous, with standards by which t<> del ermine proper training and occupations for the tuberculous sol- dier, sailor, or marine. Mar., 1919, 22 p. In August, 1921, the association began an investigation of the standards of employment for tuberculous persons, which will take about three years to complete. The study will involve an analysis of the operations or processes of the leading industries to determine what, if any, are their peculiar health hazards to tuberculous persons, or persons likely to become tuberculous, and also to ascertain in what particular departments persons who have had tuberculosis can be employed. COMMITTEE ON MORTALITY FROM TUBERCULOSIS IN DUSTY TRADES. Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, Saranac Lake, X. Y., chairman. Appointed in 1917, this committee has concentrated its efforts upon an investi- gation of the marble and granite industries of Vermont and the lime- stone industry of Indiana. Two preliminary reports were published in 1911) the first ('27 p.) by the Working Conditions Service of the Tni ted States Department of Labor, the second (24 p.) by the Na- tional Tuberculosis Association which are largely correspondence relating to the plan of the investigation and preliminary data. Since then the following parts of the Vermont investigation have been completed: (1) A statistical survey, by Mr. Sylvester Schatt- schneider. of the Prudential Life Insurance Co., of the various fea- tures of the industry, and house-to-house visitation of the granite cutters, to obtain data on family and personal histories, housing con- ditions, etc.; (2) a study of the mortality records of the State of Vermont, which was summarized in an informal report to the asso- c i at ion in 1920, by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffmann, former chairman of the committee. The results of the medical examinations, about 500 in number, were reported to the executive committee at the meeting of the association in June, 1921, and the report is being prepared for publication as a separate pamphlet. In conjunction with this investigation some experimental work has been carried on at the Saranac Laboratory under a Trudeau Foundation fellowship (see p. 159) by Dr. L. U. Gardner. His first results were published in the American Review of Tuberculosis (v. 4, Xo. 10, Dec., 1920, p. 734-755) under the title " Studies on the relation of mineral dusts to tuberculosis, I. The relatively early lesions in experimental pneumokoniosis produced by granite inhala- tion and their influence on pulmonary tuberculosis." 138 111. NONOFFICTAL, AC.KNX'TKS. NATIONAL VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE ASSOCIATION. Anne S. Davis, Vocational guidance department, city schools, Chicago, secretary. The organization of this association was completed during a series or meetings held at (mind Rapids, Mich., October 21-24, 1 '.)!.">. (Papers presented were published by United States Bureau of Edu- cation as Bulletin 1914, No. 14.) This was the third national con- ference on vocational guidance, previous meetings having been held at Boston in 1910 and Xew York City in 19 ! There are now about 300 members and eight branch associations, viz: (Juidaiico Association of New York City. Mrs. Mario Hoi!, 112 \Vcxt Forty-sixth Street, secretary. Chirac Vocational (Uiidance Association. Mary F. Stono, (507 Plymouth Court, secretary. Vocational (Guidance Association of Minneapolis. Hermiono Dealey, Depart- ment of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, se- ir-iarv. Cincinnati Vocational )>, Percy W. The influence of illumination of the eye on visual acuity. (Anier. Jour. Physio!., v. 29, 1911, p. 76; Abstract No. 8.) Cobb, Percy W.. and Geissler, 'L. R. The effect on fovpsil vision of bright bmmrtaitfings. (Psychol. Rev., v. 20, 1913, p. 425-447.) Cobb, Percy W. The effect on foveal vision of bright surroundings II, III, IV ( Psycho'l. Rev., v. 21, 1914, p. 23-32; .Tour. Exper. Psychol., v. 1, No. 5, Oct., 1916, p. 419-425; v . 1, No. 6, Dec., 1916, p. 540-566.) The infiiuMici' of pupillary di:H>iett>r on visual acuity. (Amer. Jour. Physiol., v. 36, 1915, p. 335; Abstract No. 53.) - Eye-function and light. (Cleveland Med. Jour., v. 15, Mar., 1916, 'Liiciiesh, M. Monochromatic light and visual acuity. (Elec. World, v. 58, 1911. p. 450; Abstract No. 9.) The dependence ( i,00() by Mrs. Kli/abeth Milbank Anderson to enable it to carry out an important part of the original program of the de- partment as outlined in the letter of gift, i. e., to establish by research and experimental work adequate scientific and practical standard methods of ventilation for home, school, and workshop. DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY WELFARE. This department has under its direction the work of the association which deals more particu- larly with individual families. The Bureau of Family Rehabilita- tion and Relief has accumulated considerable data on family budgets through the requirement that such a record shall be kept by prac- tically all of the families receiving allowances sufficient for their maintenance, which are based on estimates made by the bureau's dietitians. NUTRITION LABORATORY. Vila Street, Boston, Mass. Francis G. Benedict, director. This laboratory, erected 1907-8, is one of the research depart- ments of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The investiga- tions in nutrition, to which it is devoted, originated with the late Prof. W. O. Atwater, of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and during the years 1903 to 1907 grants were made to him and to the present director. The equipment comprises a variety of apparatus for observations on metabolism and for related investi- gations, including respiration calorimeters, appartus for recording muscular activity and other physiological phenomena, bicycle ergom- eters and treadmills for muscular work, etc. A psychological laboratory provides for observations on physical and mental effici- ency particularly as influenced by various foods, drugs, and fatigue. The researches undertaken, which are of interest in the field of industrial physiology and psychology, include observations on the influence of various factors upon metabolism, as the ingestion of foods, breathing of oxygen-rich atmospheres, variations in tempera- ture environment, muscular activity; observations on the effect of undernutrition on physical and mental well-being; the ingestion of 142 HI. N0NOFFIC1AL AGENCIES. alcohol as influencing psychological processes in general and also skilled muscular performance; (in progress) respiratory exchange during muscular work and influence of alcohol on fatigue and re- cuperation. The results of these investigations published thu are contained in the following Publications of the Carnegie Institu- tion of Washington : No. 3 ST. P.onodicl, Franc-is O., ami Cathcart, E. P. Muscular work: A meta- bolic study with special reference to the efficiency of the human body iM.-jchiiie. 1913. 17 p. No. 232. Dodge-, llnvinond, and Benedict, F. G. Psychological effects of alcohol AII oxiKM-iniontal investigation of the effects of moderate ethyl alcohol on a related group of iieuro-niuscular oroccss-'s in num. 1915. L'SI i,. No. 266. Miles, Walter R. Effect of alcohol on psycho-physioloKica! func- tions. 1919. 144 p. No. 280. Benedict, Francis G., and others. Human vitality and efficiency under prolonged restricted diet. 1919. xi, 702 p. OHIO COUNCIL ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN INDUSTRY. 305 Bank of Commerce Building, Toledo. Miss Amy (T. Malier, chairman. This council was formed in December, 1919, and consists of rep- resentatives of 25 organizations concerned with industrial problems, besides a number of interested individuals. Its object is to make unbiased investigation into, conditions calling for proposed legis- lation, and studies of its results in places where it is already in operation, and probable effects, if passed, on various industries and localities in Ohio; and on this basis to develop a legislative program in the interest of women and children in industry which can be sup- ported by the united strength of its constituent organizations and a State- wide public opinion. It has recently published interim reports of an investigation under- taken with a view to securing data bearing on a minimum wage law for the State of Ohio. The second section is devoted to a study of the cost of living in the case of women in various occupations all over the State. A summary of the reports is given in Monthly Labor Review, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, February, 1921 (p. 97-100). The results of an unemployment survey made by the council in 1921 have been published under the title " Ohio and unemployment in 1920-21" (40 p.). PACIFIC COAST BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH. 4r55 Flood Building, San Francisco, Calif. Wilford E. Talbert, director. Organized in the fall of 1919 (1) to render "community service " and (2) to serve individual corporations in matters affecting the relations between employer and employee. By " community serv- ice " was meant those activities which would make for better indus- trial relations in the community as a whole. In June, 1920, its sub- scribers were organized to form the Personnel Club, which issued the proceedings of monthly meetings in its official organ, Person- nel Club Exchange (mimeographed) to July, 1921. This publica- tion superseded Employment Problems (v. 1, No. 1, Sept., 1919), information service bulletins, and the monthly news letters pre- viously sent to subscribers. In July, 1921, the Personnel Club merged with the Industrial Relations Association of California. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOTJiNDATlONS, ETC. 143 j The bureau has made a study for one of the street 'railways to determine whether or not it is possible to select in advance those ^.^ motormen who w r ill be least liable to accidents. It is also making, at the request of the Chamber of Commerce, a preliminary survey of the building industry in 'San Francisco, with particular reference to the elements of personnel administration which are involved. Other research work done by the bureau applies only to individual corpora- tions and the results have been considered confidential. A general intelligence test for business institutions, designed by Arthur S. Otis, of its staff, has recently been published by the World Book Co., Yonkers, N. Y. PENNSYLVANIA STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Telegraph Building, Harrisburg, Pa. RESEARCH BUREAI. Leonard P. Fax, director. As part of its health insurance investigation in 1919 this bureau made a study of sickness absenteeism in Pennsylvania from reports furnished by its members with regard to their establishments. The results are pub- lished in its ''Special report on health insurance," 1919 (p. 41-91). PERSONNEL RESEARCH FEDERATION. 2!) West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Leonard Outh- waite, acting director; Alfred 1). Flinn, secretary. Organized March 15, 1921, at a conference on personnel research held under the auspices of the National Research Council and Engi- neering Foundation, following a preliminary conference held No- vember VI, 11^0, under the same auspices to consider the practicability of bringing about cooperation amon^ the many bodies conducting research relating to men and women in industry and commerce, from management to unskilled labor. The object of the federation is defined to be "the correlation of 'ch activities pertaining to personnel in industry, commerce, education, and government, wherever such researches are conducted in the spirit and with the methods of science." To this end the federation will (tn (Yea re . : No. 2, Woodworking industry, 4 p.; No. 3, Clothing industry for girls, 7 p. ; No. 4, Collar factories, 4 p. RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION. Kast Twenty-second Street, New York, N. Y. John M. Glenn, secretary and general director. Incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in April, 1907, with an endowment of $10,000,000 given in memory of her hus- band by Mrs, Russell Sage, to which she added $5,000,000 in 1918, the purpose of the foundation, as stated in its charter, is " the improve- ment of social and living conditions in the United States of Amer- ica." Research and publication are the means to this end which have been employed. Its research work has been organized under the following depart- ments: Charity organization, Child helping, Education, Industrial studies, LiKi'uiy, Recreation, Remedial loans, Surveys and exhibits. The publications of the foundation contain the results of original researches carried on under it by members of its staff or by experts commissioned for special studies, and also of special investigations such as the Pittsburgh Survey, 23 which the foundation financed but did not direct, and the Cleveland Survey, 21 directed by a member of its staff for another foundation. A printed price-list may be obtained from the Publication Department. The following industrial studies in the list deal with child labor, cost of living, fatigue und efficiency, hours of work, industrial acci- 23 This was planned and conducted by Paul U. Kellogg, editor, and his associates in the irioii of The Survov. 34 A survey of the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, undertaken by the Survey Com- mittee of the Cleveland Foundation and carried out under the direction of Dr. Ixonard P. AvreB (then director, division of education, ftusseU Sage Foundation), who edited tie findings, published as The Cleveland Survey Monographs, in 23 volumes. Among tbeac are 9 vocational mttiographg, descriptive of occupations and the training required for them, viz: Boys and girls in commercial work, 1>y Bertha M. Stevens; Department store occupations,, by Iris P. O'Leary; Dressmaking and millinery, by Edna Bryner ; Railroad and street transportation, by B. D. Fleming; The building trades, by F. L. Shaw; The garment trades, by Edna Bryner ; The metal trades, by U. R. Lute ; The printing trades, by P. L. Shaw; Wage earning and education, by R. R. Lmtz, 148 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. dents, industrial education, seasonal employment, trade unionism, unemployment, wages, or women's work: Anthony, Katheriue S. Mothers who must earn. 1914. 223 p. (Issued with Cartwright, Otho G. The middle West Side. 67 p.) Barnes, Charles B. The longshoremen. 1915. 287 p. Butler, Elizabeth B. Saleswomen in mercantile stores. 1912. 217 p. Goldmark, Josephine. Fatigue and efficiency : a study in industry. 1912. 302 p. Hewes, Amy, and Walter, Henriette R. Munition makers. 1917. 158 p. (Part I is a study of women as munition makers in Bridgeport, Conn.; Part II is a summary of British reports.) Odencrantz, Louise C. Italian women in industry : a study of conditions in New York City. 1919. 345 p. Van Kleeck, Mary. Artificial-flower makers. 1913. 261 p. A seasonal industry : a study of the milinery trade in Now York. 1917. 276 p. Women in the bookbinding trade. 1913. 270 p. Working girls in evening schools: a statistical study. 1914. 252 p. The Pittsburgh Survey (findings in 6 vols. ed. by Paul U. Kellogg) : Women and the trades, by Elizabeth B. Butler, 1909, 440 p.; Work accidents and the law, by Crystal Eastman, 1910, 335 p. ; Homestead : the households of a mill town, by Margaret F. Byington, 1910, 292 p.; The steel workers, by John A. Fitch, 1910, 380 p. ; Wage-earning Pittsburgh, by Paul U. Kellogg and others, 1914, 582 p.; The Pittsburgh district civic frontage (by various investigators), 1914, 554 p. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL STUDIES. Mary Van Kleeck, director. This department originated as the Committee on Women's Work, organized in 1908 by the Alliance Employment Bureau with sup- port from the Foundation, becoming one of its departments in the following year. In 1916 the present name was adopted and it is now engaged in the study of industrial conditions affecting both men and women. The purpose of its present series of investigations is to make an accurate and impartial record of typical experiences in industry in the United States in securing for the workers participation in deter- mining the conditions of employment, in the belief that an analysis of experience will afford a basis for constructive action by employers and workers in improving industrial relations. Studies of the indus- trial representation plan of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. and the contract of the United Mine Workers, the works' council at Rock Island Arsenal, and the partnership plan at Dutchess Bleachery, Wappinger's Falls, N. Y., have recently been completed or are still in progress. DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYS AND EXHIBITS. Shelby M. Harrison, director. Industrial investigations have been included as integral parts of the city surveys made and directed by this department at Springfield, 111., Topeka, Kans., and Newburgh, N. Y. In 1919 this department began a study of public employment service its organization and administration, the technique of the local service, and its place and function in industrial life. The field work has been completed and a report of progress was made in a paper read at the Ottawa meeting of the Internationl Association of JPublic Employment Services, October, 1920. The complete report is to be sent to the printer about October, 1921, ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES,, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 149 SAFETY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA. 261 Madison Avenue, New York, X. Y. Eiley M. Little, director. Organized in 1909 as the Museum of Safety and Sanitation; in- corporated in 1911 by special charter from the New York State Legislature (Laws, 1911, c. 152) under the name, American Museum of Safety ; present name adopted January 1, 1919. The objects of the institution are the prevention of accidents, the elimination or lessen- ing of occupational diseases, and the promotion of industrial wel- fare through health, efficiency, and cooperation. There are three classes of members individual (annual dues, $10), commercial (annual dues, $25), and industrial (annual dues $100). The dues for commercial members include the special report service on any phase of accident prevention or industrial hygiene upon which the member desires information; and in addition to this, in- dustrial members are entitled to an illustrated lecture on safety and industrial hygiene and the free inspection service. The institute has entered into an agreement with the National Safety Council (see p. 133) to unify the work of the two organiza- tions in the Metropolitan District in order to prevent duplication. All industrial plants in this district which are members of either, become entitled to the joint service of both. The two bodies have organized the Metropolitan Safety Council for carrying on an active safety campaign. The institute maintains at its headquarters a permanent exhibit of approved safety and sanitary appliances and a special free refer- ence library. Its research work is represented by the consultation service re- ports, prepared in response to inquiries from members, which are filed and indexed in the library, and by articles prepared by its staff for publication in its bulletin Safety, published monthly, December, 1913, to December, 1920 (now temporarily suspended). The results of an investigation made by the institute jointly with the New York State Commission on Ventilation (see p. 54) on " Determination of standards for the atmospheric dust content in factories and work- shops," by H. C. Ward, were published in Safety (v. 4, No. 7, July- Aug.. 1916. p. 166-171). In 1917 in connection with the Framing- ham Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration under- taken by the National Tuberculosis Association (see p. 136) a survey of the various industrial establishments was conducted by Mr. A. S. Kegula of the technical staff of the institute, with a view to indicat- ing the most important features of the problem of safeguards for mechanical equipment and developing monthly foremen's meetings to educate them in the elementary essentials of safety devices and safety practices. A volume of lectures given by the institute on alternate Saturday mornings, February to June, 1919, for the benefit of factory in- spectors employed by the city of New York, the States of New York and New Jersey, and insurance companies was published in 1920 under the title " Safety fundamentals " (228 p.). The institute awards two gold medals for the encouragement of research and invention in its special field, viz : 150 III. NONOFFICIAL. AGENCIES. The Scientific American gold medal, for the most efficient s" device invented within a .certain number of years and exhibit* 1 the museum. The Louis ^Livingston Seaman gold medal, for j-> and achievement in the promotion of hygiene and the mitigu; pational disease. SCOTT CO. LABORATORY. Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. L. B. Hopkins in cha> Established in 1919 by the Scott Co. for the purpose of carrying on both specific and general research in the field of industrial sonnel. The Scott Co. is an outgrowth of the Committee on Classifi- cation of Personnel in the Army, in the work of which its nine active members were associated during the war. In June, 1919, they or- ganized this firm of consultants and engineers in industrial per- sonnel, which was incorporated as a, personal service corporation under the laws of Pennsylvania (Walter Dill Scott, president; Beardsley Ruml, secretary). As consultants, its service is available at a consultant's fee, including a .specific research of long duration in a particular plant or company. Out of its earnings the genera,! research work of the laboratory is supported and the results are made available for the advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of industrial personnel, in the form, of mimeographed bulletins, as follows : Apprentice Manual, A Plan of Apprentice Training. Departmental Interview Bulletins, Nos. 1, 2; D. T. 1, Pepnrfnieir views; D. I. 2, Measuring the importance of merchandise knowledge : retail sales people. Labor Turnover Bulletins, Nos. 1-5: L. 1. The labor turnover daybook ; L. 2, Turnover and mental alertness test scores; L. 3, General intelligen' stability; L. 4, Relation between age and length of service in common labor; L. 5, Labor turnover in relation to length of service. Mental Alertness Bulletins, Nos. 1-11: M. A. 1, Description of the Scot' mental alertness tests (series I) ; M. A. 2, Mental alertness I of the general value of office employees; M. A. 3, Comparison of meailni aJfrt- ness scores of men and women office employees ; M. A. 4, Differences in laentat alertness scores in different office departments ; M. A. 5, Mentnl alertness stand- ards for various occupation groups; M. A. 6, Mental jr for classification in factory schools: M. A. 7, Significance of relation of mental alertness scores of applicants to mental alertness scores of tvuvloyeex; M. A. 8, Significance of the mental alertness scores of the women four companies; M. A. 9, Differences between men and worn-Mi of!i-p e M. A. 10, Mental ! of messenger and office hoys; M. A. 11, training and mental alertness. Qualification Card Bulletins, Nos. 1, 2 : Q. C. 1, The employee's qunlili-- card ; Q. C. 2, Construction of qualification cards. Hating Scale Guide. Rating Scale Bulletins, Nos. 1-3: U. S. 1, The graphic riding or, R. S. 2, A method of efficiency rating for foremen; K. S. 3, Th<- eaqneriw development of the graphic rating method. Service Bulletin No. 1 : S. 1, The development of a factory library. Trade Test Guide, Army type. Trade Test Bulletins, Nos. 1-4: T. T. 1, What is a Irjule test? T. T. 2, Th making of the Army type of trade test; T. T. 3, File clerk tost sbmrtjirds; T. T. 4, The file clerk's test. Wage Bulletins, Nos. 1, 2: W. 1, A procedure in wage adjustment; W. 2, Ratings and wage adjustments. Single copies of the above are available to anyone whose standing is a guarantee that these instruments for research will not be mis- ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 151 used. Tests, rating scales, and various forms for recording and ac- cumulating information about personnel have been devised and are sold in quantities at cost under the same conditions. The following contributions b}^ members of the staff have ap- peared in psychological journals: Ituml. B. The need for an examination of certain hypotheses in mental tests. (Jour. Philos. Psycliol. & Sci. Methods, v. 17, No. 3, Jan. 29, 1920, p. 57-61.) Kornhauser, A., and Ruml, B. Recent developments in trade test theory. (Psychol. Bull., v. 17, No. 2, Feb., 1920, p. 79-80.) Pntersoii, D. G., and Rninl, B. The extension of rating scale theory ami technique. (Psychol. Bull., v. 17, No. 2, Feb., 1920, p. 80-81.) Hayes* Mary H. S., and Paterson, D. G. Experimental development of the graphic rating method. (Psycho!. Bull., v. 18, No. 2, Feb., 1921, p. 98-99.) Tables to facilitate the computation of coefficients of correlation by the rank difference method. (Jour. App. Psychol., r. 4, Nos. 2-3, June-Sept., 1920, p. 115-12."); also issued as a reprint by the Journal.) SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO. Waterbury, Conn. DEPAKTMKXT OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE. A. H, Ryan, M. D., direc- tor. Established in November, 1919, to conduct research and to npply present knowledge to the improvement of working conditions and the increase of human efficiency in industry; in the performance of these functions the initiative regarding the particular problems to be undertaken may come from the department itself or the man- ageroprtt. The company agreed to allow academic freedom in the , ivh undcHni-on and the use of the results. The departmental staff consists of the director, two full-time research assistants and secretary; and the director is one of the advisory staff of the general superintendent. The equipment of the department includes physio- logical, psychological, and chemical laboratories, an experimental shop room in which operations are brought near to the laboratories for the purpose of closer study, and a research library. The services and equipment of other departments, including tool and machine and photographic departments, chemical and electrical research labora- tories, hospital, etc., may be obtained when required. Among the problems upon which the advice of the department has been sought are the following: Sanitation and ventilation of tho it and buildings; standards for selection of workers for opera- tions, and methods of application; physical standards for occupa- tions: fatigue in connection with the planning of operations and piece-rate setting; accident and illness in relation to occupations their determination, causation, and prevention; occupational place- ment of handicapped; functional specialization in group work; methods of increasing efficiency in the employment of the special senses; occupational classification; personnel statistics; absenteeism and turnover with reference to occupation ; first-aid methods and in- struction. In view of the fact that cooperation of the worker is required in achieving improvement through hygienic measures, a regular course in industrial hygiene is given by the department to the apprentices. During the past year a similar course was also given to foremen. A paper entitled " Discussion of Public Health Bulletin No. 106, Comparison of an eight-hour plant and a ten-hour plant," by A. H. Ryan, was published in Journal of Industrial Hygiene (v. 2, p. 466- 152 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. 478), April, 1921. An investigation of "Spoiled work in relation to hours of labor and other industrial conditions," made by A. H. Ryan and P. S. Florence, in conjunction with the United States Public Health Service, is in press. Researches on the following subjects are in progress (September, 1921) : Physiological analysis of occupation and its practical appli- cations ; the respiratory exchange in fatigue and work ; eyestrain ; fatigue; the absorption and elimination of zinc, cadmium, lead, and copper in brass foundry workers ; the effect of long exposure to small quantities of carbon monoxide. Graduate research is provided for in the plan as formulated, in order to develop properly trained research workers in industrial physiology, psychology, medicine, etc.; to stimulate interest in the industrial aspects of the biological sciences and to encourage re- search in these lines in the universities ; and to keep the department staff in touch with the scientific spirit and viewpoint of the uni- versity laboratories. According to the plan contemplated, a gradu- ate student in physiology, or psychology, for example, could spend one year in the factory in research upon his thesis, for which the university would give him credit. The factory would provide a fel- lowship stipend for such a student. The plan has been made effective at Yale University by the appointment of the director of this depart- ment as lecturer in industrial physiology; and at Tufts College, where the director of this department is head of the department of physiology in the medical school, through the establishment by the trustees or a research fellowship of $600 for this purpose. WILLIAM H. SINGER MEMORIAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. Sandusky and Parkway, N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Samuel R. Hay- thorn, M. D., director. Founded by Mrs. William H. Singer and construction of the build- ing commenced April, 1915. On completion the entire property was turned over to the board of trustees of the Allegheny General Hos- pital to be used both as a research laboratory for the study of gen- eral medical and surgical problems and as a means of furnishing the hospital with a high grade of routine laboratory work. The following studies by the director having a bearing on indus- trial hygiene have been published from this laboratory : " The preven- tion or epidemic influenza, with special reference to vaccine prophy- laxis" (containing an analysis of the results on about 50,000 steel workers and railroad employees), which is included in the studies on epidemic influenza, published by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1919 ; " Unresolved pneumonia associated with severe anthracosis " (in International Association of Medical Museums Bul- letin No. 7, May, 1918) ; "The pathology of trinitrotoluene poison- ing" (ibid.) ; "Experimental trinitrotoluene poisoning" (Journal of Industrial Hygiene, December, 1920, v. 2, No. 8, p. 298-318). A description of the equipment of the laboratory is available in pamphlet form. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. Dean F. L. Bishop, University of Pittsburgh, secretary. Organized at the close of the engineering congress held at Chicago in 1893, as an outgrowth of section E (engineering education) of ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES,, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 153 that congress. There are now over 1,500 members (annual dues, $4).' Annual meetings are held in the last week of June at a center of engi- neering education and at the invitation of a college or university. Three local sections have been organized since their authorization in 1919, viz: Pittsburgh, Georgia-Tech., Kansas-Nebraska. t The society publishes a bulletin, Etigineering Education, monthly September to June, and tiie Proceedings of the annual meeting (v. 1-28, 1893-1920). In 1907 the society formed with the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the American Chemical Society, a " Joint Committee on Engineering Education " which cooperated in a comprehensive investigation of the subject undertaken by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at its request. (See p. 93.) A large part of the work of the society is conducted by 24 com- mittees, half of this number being devoted to the separate subjects in the engineering curriculum. Their reports are presented at the annual meetings and printed in the proceedings. COMMITTEE Xo. 22 ON INTELLIGENCE TESTS. L. L. Thurstone, Carnegie Institute of Technology, chairman. Appointed June, 1919, to determine the possible usefulness of intelligence tests and other objective tests for engineering students, as the result of papers and discussion on the subject at the Baltimore meeting in that year (Pro- ceedings, v. 27, p. 113-158). The investigation is being carried on with the cooperation of 47 colleges, at which 10,000 freshmen were given six tests in 1920. The first report was published in the Pro- ceedings of 1920 (v. 28, p. 349-361) and the committee has been con- tinued so that the results of sophomore, junior, and senior scholar- ships may be used as criteria for determining the predictive value of the tests. SOCIETY OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS. 327 South La Salle Street, Chicago, 111. George C. Dent, busi- ness manager. Organized May, 1917, in Chicago at a conference of executives and engineers called by the Western Efficiency Society to discuss "the human factor in industrial preparedness." The activities of the society include stimulating original research, both in industrial plants and at universities; exchanging and coordinating knowledge of scientific methods of management. It has 345 members consisting of : Class 2, professional industrial engineers, whether consultants or executives ; class 3, technical engineers and accountants, retained or resident; class 4, managing executives of commercial and industrial activities; class 5, investigators, teachers, writers and lecturers in engineering, economics, psychology and other subjects associated with management ; class 6, juniors and students. Conventions are held semiannually, in the spring and fall at various places. Sectional meetings of industrial relations, educational, finance and accounting, Eroduction, and sales groups have been held at recent conventions, ocal chapters in New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, and in Texas hold monthly meetings. 154 jn.l^ONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Complete reports of the proceedings of conventions have been pub- lished as follows : 1918 (Chicago) : Labor problems under war conditions. (Jointly with Went- erii Efficiency Society.) 222 p. 1919, spring (New York) : Industrial reconstruction problems. 200 p. 1919, fall (Cleveland) : American and international labor conditions. 160 p. 1920, spring (Philadelphia) : The practical applications of the principles of industrial engineering. 300 p. 1920, fall (Pittsburgh) : Industrial education. 245 p. (Includes education of tho professional industrial engineer, training the working force, education of tl^ Hi/on in industry.) 1021, spring (Milwaukee) : Industrial leadership. 1921. 875 p. The main subject of the fall convention, October, 1921, at Spring- field, Mass., was Industrial stability. The series of Publications includes also addresses at local chapters, yearbooks and "A list of bibliographies of industrial engineering and management," prepared by the Committee on Research. The busi- ness manager's office issues a monthly bulletin, mainly chapter news. RESEARCH COMMITTEE. Edward J. Kunze, Pennsylvania State College, vice president in charge of research. Among the projects of this committee (organized 1919) is the promotion of original re- search, both in the industrial plant and in the university, to establish elemental standards of basic industrial exertion, such as shoveling, mixing, grinding, sawing, etc., and arrive if possible at a closer determination of what is a " fair day's work," and to make, arrange, and collect elemental time studies. EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE. D wight T. Farnham, St. Louis, Mo,, vice president in charge of education. This committee was organized in March, 1920, and has been working on a standard course in indus- trial engineering and management for colleges, COMMITTEE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF UNNECESSARY FATIGUE.- Frank B. Gilbreth, Montclair, N. J.. chairman. The organization of this committee by the vice president in charge of research was authorized at the fall meeting, 1919. There are- now about 85 mem- bers not restricted to the society. It has prepared exhibitions of devices and equipment designed to eliminate fatigue, and held sions at the spring and fall conventions of 1921 on " Practical methods of fatigue elimination " and " White paint as a reducer of unnecessary fatigue," respectively. SOUTHERN PINE ASSOCIATION. New Orleans, La. SAFETY DEPARTMENT. W. Graham Cole, director of safety. This department was organized March 15, 1919, to assist the members of the association in the reduction of accidents among their employees and to collect and distribute information of value in this work. It has prepared and published a series of safety bulletins designed for posting and a booklet entitled, " Safety in the mill and woods " for distribution among workmen; also two safeguarding bulletins, safety suggestions on cards, and the annual report of its activities entitled, " Safeguarding the workman " have been published for the use of superintendents and foremen. The last named contains statistical charts of accidents in the Southern lumber industry. The association is represented on the cooperating committee or- ganized by the United States Bureau of Standards in formulating a National Safety Code for Logging and Sawmilling Operations. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. SPRAGUE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE. Vr I T niversity of Chicago (p. 173). STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK. 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York, If. Y. COMMITTEE ON MENTAL HYGIENE. Mrs. Margaret J. Powers, social service director. Organized in 1910 for the twofold purpose of con- serving mental health and of securing high standards of care . i-l treatment for those sunVHi;a from mental disorders and del this committee furnishes the ps-. ie social service for the De- partment of Psychiatry, of Cornell Clinic, dealing with about 500 mental cases a year. A large number of these are referred to the .d Service Department for adjustment in all of their social relationships, and it is found that, witli many of them employment is for in their difficulty. The case records which have ac- cumulated contain valuable data for research on difficulties in voca- tional adjustment. Illustrative material is given in a paper on " The industrial cost of the psycopathic employee," foy Mrs. Powers, the Mental Hygiene Division of the National Confer- ence of Social Work, April, ii^O, and published in Mental Hygiene (v. 4, No. 4, October, 1920, p. 932-339). STRUCTURAL SERVICE BUREAU. Estey Building, Philadelphia, Pa. This bureau lias worked out the average number of days' employ- ment which the Philadelphia bricklayer could normally expect iu a year, and the number of days he would probably lose through unem- ployment, illness, and other causes beyond his control. The results published in the Monthly Labor Keview of the U. 8. Bureau of >r Statistics, v. 12, No. 5,'May, 1921, p. 107-110. Similar figures* which it has worked out for all tlio building trades in Philadelphia are given in the October, 1921, issue of the" Monthly Labor Review (p. 98-100). TANNERS* COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 41 Park Row, New York, N. Y. Edward A. Brand, secretary. INDUSTRIAL BUREAU. This bureau was maintained by the coun- cil until the early part of 1921 when it was discontinued (Roy S. Bonsib, director). During 1919-20 it prepared and issued the fol- lowing: What tanners should know about anthrax; a compilation of general in- formation on anthrax, its treatment, prevention, and elimination. By R. S. -ih. 1020. 24 p. 'Jis'iilthgrams, Nos. 1-4, July-Nov., 1020 (a series of circulars upon tlte iin- ment of the health of tannery worker>). Safetygram?, Nos. 1-?>G, Aug., 1919-Nov., 1920 {a series of circulars on the prevention of accidents in tanneries). A labor survey of the tanning industry, covering TO plants, was b by the Bureau of Industrial Research (see p. 88) for the Tan- ners' Council, but the report has not been published. TAYLOR SOCIETY. 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. I 7 . H. S. Person, managing director. Organized in 1911 as the Society to Promote the Science of Man- agement ; name changed in 1916 to honor the memory of Frederick W, 156 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Taylor, pioneer in the development of science in management, who had died in 1915. The activities of the society were suspended dur- ing the war; it was reorganized in 1919, when permanent head- quarters were established in New York and a managing director elected. The object of the society is to promote the science and the art of administration and of management, for the mutual benefit of the community, labor, the manager, and the employer, and, among other things, to secure the gradual elimination of unnecessary effort and of unduly burdensome toil in the accomplishment of the work of the world. There are now about 450 members, mainly management engineers and industrial executives, classified in five grades: Honorary, senior (initiation fee $15, annual dues $15) ; associate (initiation fee $15, annual dues $15) ; junior, 21 to 30 years of age (initiation fee $5, annual dues $5); sustaining (annual dues $100 to $500). A Sales Executives' Section was established in 1920. Not less than two regular meetings are held each year, the annual meeting in November or December. The New York Section, organized in 1920, meets monthly on the third or fourth Thursday. Papers and discussions at the meetings of the society and other contributions are published in the society's Bulletin, as follows: Cost of living in relation to wage adjustments, a research made at the Holt Manufacturing Co., Peoria, 111. (in v. 4, No. 5, p. 29-46). Industrial relations symposium, Cambridge meeting October 4, 1919 (in v. i, No. 6, p. 12-48). Proceedings of the New York meeting, December 5, 6, 1919, on managerial problems (in v. 5, Nos. 1, 2), viz " Standards," by W. K. Hathaway (p. 12-42) ; "The foreman," by S. E. Thompson (p. 43^18) ; "Labor turnover, a mathe- matical discussion/' by C. G. Barth (p. 52-58); "Mutual rating, a contribu- tion to the technique of participation," by H. W. Shelton (p. 59-67); "The heed of better management in mining operations," by H. Archbald (p. 68-78). Proceedings of the Rochester meeting, May 6-8, 1920 (in v. 5, Nos. 3, 4), which included papers on " The necessity for standards in the relation between illumination and output," by Ward Harrison (p. 113-119); "Can industrial democracy be efficient? The Rochester plan," by Meyer Jacobstein (p. 153- 159) ; " The worker's reaction to scientific management," by W. R. Leiserson (p. 160-177). "The three-shift system in the steel industry," by Horace B. Drury (in v. 6, No. 1 ) , the results of an investigation under the Cabot fund ( see p. 91 ) pre- sented at the New York meeting December 3, 1920. with discussion thereon. A symposium on " Stop-watch time study" (v. 6, No. 3), consisting of papers and discussion by F. B. and L. M. Gilbreth and others, before the New York and Philadelphia sections, December, 1920, and April, 1921. The Cleveland meeting, May 19-21, 1921, included a sales executives' session devoted to methods of compensation of salesmen; a personnel administration session, consisting of papers and discussions on (a) performance ratings and bonuses for salaried employees, (b) unemployment scores; an industrial rela- tions session, at which there was a symposium on joint action of employer and management in establishing standards, tasks, rates, and other standard con- ditions. RESEARCH COMMITTEE. Morris L. Cooke, 1109 Finance Building, Philadelphia, Pa., chairman. This committee was appointed Octo- ber, 1919, to plan, arrange for, and supervise research in the field of administration and management carried on by subcommittees, indi- viduals, and institutions, and to deliver the results of such research to the managing director as material for discussion at meetings, for publication in the Bulletin or as pamphlets or books, or to be filed ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 157 in the library of the society and thereby made available to the mem- bers; and also to coordinate experiments and investigations under- taken in this field by members and others. The committee has persuaded the International Labor Office at Geneva to send out a questionnaire on the three-shift day in the steel industry; and it has done some work toward developing a method for measuring or establishing a quantitative method for studying unemployment. COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS RELATING TO SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT. H. K. Hathaway, 1109 Finance Building, Philadelphia, Pa., chair- man. The purpose of this committee, appointed at the Rochester meeting May, 1920, is to formulate standards relating to scientific management for promulgation by the Taylor Society. The pro- gram of work to be undertaken was set forth in a paper by W. O. Lichtner, read at that meeting and published with discussion thereon in the Bulletin of the Taylor Society (v. 5, No. 4, August, 1920, p. 140-152). It includes promulgation of standards as to policy on bonus payments and policy on base rates and total earnings. COMMITTEE ON SELECTION AND TRAINING OF SALESMEN. Appointed at the request of a conference of sales executives, held under the auspices of the society June 25, 1920, has not yet published a report. TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY., iV'te Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Thomas J. Keenari, sec- retary. An association organized for the encouragement of original investi- gations and research work in mill engineering and the chemistry of paper, cellulose, and paper-making fibers generally; affiliated with the American Paper and Pulp Association. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE. R. S. Kellogg, News Print Service Bureau, New York, secretary. This committee and the corre- sponding committee of the Technical Section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association have, through their joint executive committee, raised about $30,000 in the United States and Canada which is being used in the preparation and publication of a course of instruction for employees of pulp and paper mills. A survey of several different typical plants, including an analysis of the principal pay-roll jobs, lias been made for the joint executive committee by Mr. J. C. Wright, of the Federal Board of Vocational Education, for the purpose of determining the jobs or occupations for which specific vocational training can and should be given, the specific character of the in- struction appropriate to each, the line of promotion, etc. The fol- lowing pamphlet (reprinted from Paper Trade Journal) contains the results of this survey : Vocational education in the pulp and paper industry : scope of vocational edu- cation, analyses of pay-roll jobs and synopsis of the textbooks. By J. C. Wright. New York, 1921. 71 p. A series of textbooks for the course on the manufacture of pulp and paper is in preparation (J. N. Stephenson, editor) to be pub- lished by the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. in five volumes and also in pamphlet form in sets corresponding to each volume. The first two volumes, containing preliminary subjects essential to a study of the technical matter in volumes 3-5, have been completed, 158 311. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. TOLEDO CONSUMERS' LEAGUE. #05 Bank of Commerce Building, Toledo, Ohio. The results of a survey of " Toledo children who leave school for work," undertaken by the league in cooperation with the Toledo woman's committee of the Council of National Defense, was pub- lished in 1D21 as No. 31 of its series of pamphlets (31 p.). TRAINING SCHOOL AT VINELAND, N. J. Vineland, N. J. E. R. Johnston, director. An institution devoted to the interests of those whose minds have not developed normally (not a State institution, but the State of New Jersey sends some of its pupils here). DEPARTMENT or KESEABOH. S. D. Porteus, director. Established in 19(X>, the general scope of the work of this department has research on the problems of (1) the recognition, (2) the causation, and (3) the prevention of mental defect. The results of its studies are published as monographs in its Publications, Nos. 1-23, or a;s papers in The Training School Bulletin-, issued monthly by the in- stitution. The work on the recognition of mental defect has involved the standardization of new tests and the modification and revision of ex- isting series. The following publications contain material bearing on industrial competency and stability: No. 16. Porteus tests Vineland revision. By S. D. Porteus. 1910. 44 p. (These tests have a hi#h correlation with industrial ability of individuals either just above or below the social efficiency level.) No. 20. Intelligence iunl .social valuations : a practical method for tlie diagnosis of mental deficiency and other forms of social inefficiency. By R. J. A. Berry and S. D. Porteus. 1920. 100 p. No. 23. A study of personality of defectives with a social ratings scale. By S. D. Porteus. 1921. 24 p. The department has also published translations of the writings of Binet and Simon (Publications, Nos. 11, 12) and a " Condensed guide to the Binet tests" (Publication No. 19; Training School Bulletin, v. 17, Nos. 1-2, March-April, 1920) . An industrial capacity scale, briefly noted in Publication No. IT U A standardized information record" (p. 5), is being tried out and the results will shortly be published. This scale represents an attempt to give comparative numerical ratings to children engaged in ferent industrial occupations, which have been classified according to manual skill involved, judgment required, special knowledge sue the handling of machinery, and responsibility placed upon worker to work without supervision and then each has been analyzed into ten steps of increasing difficulty, the basis of arrangement taking into consideration such factors as importance of the work, value of the material dealt with, personal risk to the worker, judgment and skill. TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO. Hartford, Conn. ENGINEERING AND INSPECTION DIVISION. John L. Thompson, superintendent. One of the primary duties of this division is to make recommendations on safety and accident prevention for all such risks as are insured by the company under compensation and ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 159 liability policies. It has a; -y prepared and issued the fol- lowing publications dealing with safety matters : Industrial standards, Elevators. Accident prevention in paper mill*, The emu.'oyee uiul accident prevention, Safety in moving-picture fcbeaterSj Accident prevention on the farm, Accident prevention in brick-making, .Safety in build- ing construction, Safety in the machine, shop, Reciprocating engines and steam turbines, Grinding wli--"K Boiler economy, Illumination in paper mills, Fore- jiid accident prevention, Organization of safety work in industrial phmte, >; vehides and safety, Coal mining hazards, Boil, , Safe foundry practice, A treatise on safety ongineeJ'iug us applied to scaffolds. TRAVELING ENGINEERS' ASSOCIATION. AY. O. Thompson (General offices. New York Central Railroad, Cleveland, Ohio), secretary. This association has prepared the " Standard form for examination for firemen," (revised edition 1919), which is revised from time to time by its Committee on Revision of Progressive Examination for Firemen for Promotion and New Men. lor Employment. EDWARD L. TRUDEAU FOUNDATION. Saraiiuc Luke, N. Y. Edward K. Baldwin, M. D., director. iugurated in Deceinl>er, 1916, as a memorial to .American pioneer in tuberculosis research whose name it bears and to continue the to which he had devoted his life. The fund now amounts to $4^0,000 aud the income is devoted to the following purposes : 1. To mnhitnin l.'iboi; srry on research into th* imtur< j , and treatment of tub'' 1 2. To maintain r ruction for pliysicmus and others in osi advanced knowledge of tlic above subject, imder the name of The Trudi'HU Scliool of Tuber- -ulosis. 3. To offer younu ".d others the opportunities for research work, while undergoing r for the disease, through the establishment of fellowsli ; In addition to researches of more general application, such as those on infection ( Etiological studies in tut>erculosis, by K Brown, S. A. l^i^tj^off mid (i. Pesquera, in Am. Rev. Tuberculosis, v. 3, No. 10, December, 1919), which have a direct taafiag on industrial hygiene, experimental work in conjunction with the investigations of the Committee on Mortality from Tuberculosis in Dusty Trades of the National Tuberculosis Association has been carried on in the Saranac Laboratory under a Trudeau Foundation fellowship. The follow- ing is the first publication of results of these experiments : Gardner, Leroy U. Studies on the relation of mineral dusts to tuberculosis. I. The relatively early lesions in experi mental pneiunokoniosis produced by granite inhalation and their inl!in'iM-e oa pulmonary tuberculosis. (Am. Rev. Tul>erculosis, v. 4, No. 10, Dec,, 1920.) UNDERWRITERS' LABORATORIES. yOT East Ohio Street, Chicago, 111. W. H. Merrill, president. Established and maintained by the National Board of Fire Un- derwriters, for service riot profit: incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois in November, 1901. The object of Underwriters' laboratories is to bring to the user the best obtainable opinion on tne merits of appliances, devices, machines, and materials in respect to life and fire hazards and accident prevention. Branch offices are located throughout the United States and Canada and in England. 160 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. The New York office (25 City Hall Place) is equipped for the con- duct of examinations and tests of all electrical devices under the same conditions as those afforded at the principal office and testing station at Chicago. Summaries of the Laboratories' reports are issued on printed cards filed according to classifications, and cabinets containing these cards are maintained at the offices of the principal boards of underwriters and inspection bureaus in the United States, at many of the general offices of insurance companies, by some insurance firms, certain Fed- eral, State and municipal departments, and at the local offices of the Laboratories in large cities. Much of the information is also freely distributed by many of the following lists which are, as a rule, re- vised semiannually : List of inspected mechanical appliances. July, 1920. 101 p. List of inspected electrical appliances. Apr., 1920. 204 p. - Supplement. Oct., 1920. 16 p. List of appliances inspected for accident hazard. Oct., 1920. 24 p. List of inspected automotive appliances. Apr., 1920. 20 p. The results of the work in many classes of appliances are fur- nished directly to building owners," architects, users and other per- sons interested, by means of the Laboratories' label service, under which goods are inspected at factories by Laboratories' engineers and stamps or labels attached to such portion of the output as is found constructed in accordance w T ith standard requirements. Schedules of fees for examinations and tests and of charges for labels, as well as information regarding the three forms of super- vision over goods marketed under the approvals, namely, the reex- amination, inspection, and label services, and a list of the addresses of branch offices, are given in the following pamphlet, obtainable on application : The organization, purposo. and methods of Underwriters' Laboratories. 1917. 45 p. Underwriters' Laboratories is one of the cooperating organizations which constitute the Electrical Safety Conference (see p. 100) and is represented in the Fire Protection Group of the American Engineer- ing Standards Committee (see p. 72). UNITED ENGINEERING SOCIETY. See Engineering Foundation (p. 102). UNITED TYPOTHETJE OF AMERICA. 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. An international association of master printers organized in two divisions, viz : The Closed Shop Branch and the Open Shop Branch, each having complete autonomy in labor matters and full control of its own finances. Each branch appoints three members of its board of governors to the Industrial Relations Committee of the association, created to enable the Open Shop and Closed Shop branches to co- operate, if they so desire, in labor matters of mutual interest. The Closed Shop Branch joined with two other employers' organi- zations, namely, the Printers' League of America and the Interna- tional Association of Employing Stereotypers and Electrotypers, and the four international unions to establish in April, 1919, " The Inter- ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 161 national Joint Conference Council " 25 to investigate and legislate upon matters of labor policy in the commercial and periodical branches of the printing industry. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. F. A. Silcox, director. Established in 1919 " to provide within the printing industry cen- tralized investigation, coordination, analysis, interpretation, and dis- tribution of information on the problem of industrial relations be- tween employer and employee which will eventually lay the founda- tion for the formulation of broad, constructive policies leading to greater uniformity in wages and existing conditions, and to the elimi- nation of strikes through voluntary conciliation and arbitration." Its annual reports are published in the convention numbers of the Ty- pothetse Bulletin (e. g., December, 1919, October, 1920). Expendi- tures of the department during the year 1919-20 amounted to ap- proximately $30,000. Labor statistics questionnaires sent by this department to all mem- bers of the United Typothetse of America have enabled it to make an analysis of the labor policy followed in the shop of each member, the number of employees at work in the mechanical department, and the number of apprentices employed in relation to total employees. Data regarding plans for training apprentices, which are being tried out in different parts of the country, have been collected and published in a series of four articles by Francis H. Bird, assistant director, in Typothetse Bulletin, April- July, 1920. A survey of profit-sharing and bonuses in Chicago printing plants has recently been made by F. E. Wolfe, of the research staff of the department, and the results wore published in the Journal of Politi- cal Economy, July, 19'2L (p. 521~542) ; two reports from this investi- gation, which covered 138 establishments, have appeared in Ty- pothetse Bulletin, December, 1920 (p. 18-23), and February, 1921 (p. 5-7). A brief report on "group life insurance in Chicago printing plants," by F. E. Wolfe, was published in Typothetse Bulletin, Jan- uary, 1921 (p. 6-7). In cooperation with the National Industrial Conference Board a contractual relations survey has been undertaken by questionnaires sent out to 1,000 members seeking information on their experience with agreements with labor organizations. Contracts with different unions in various cities have been analyzed and arranged in compara- tive form for use of scale committees. Other material prepared by the department includes articles and charts on changes in cost of 'living and printers' wages (in various numbers of Typothetse Bulletin); wage scales (with emergency bonuses) compiled from reports of local Typotheta? secretaries (pub- lished monthly as supplements to Typothetae Bulletin) ; a pamphlet entitled " Helpful hints for dealing with the wage problem ; " memo- randa on shop committees and other special topics. COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. Henry P. Porter, chairman; Fred- erick W. Hamilton, education director (office at 2 Park Square, Boston, Mass.). This committee has made a study of the teaching of 25 An account of the formation and subsequent activities of this council is given in an article by C. R. Walker, jr., Monthly Labor Review of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statis- tics, v. 12, No. 1, January, 1021, p. 23-44; also reprinted separately by the Bureau of Industrial Research, New York. 70723 Bull. 29921 11 162 III. NONOFFICIAL, AGENCIi printing which has been introduced widely in public schools, and has embodied its findings and recommendations in a pamphlet published in 1919 under the title "Instruction in printing in public schools" (34 p.). This contains also a list of 64 textbooks in the "Typo- graphic technical series for apprentices" (or U. T. A. Typographic Library) prepared under the supervision of the committee for use in ,:rade classes in courses of printing instruction, and by individuals; about half of these have been published to date. Standard cost finding, accounting, estimating and salesmanship courses, for printers, have been in operation by correspondence lor several years. The United Typothetae of America School of Printing, 1500 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Ind., was established by the associa- tion in 1904. ^ Further information regarding educational activities is given in reports made to the 1920 convention (Typothetse Bulletin, v. 14, No. 2, Oct., 1920, p. 47-91). VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE WEST. L. W. Wahlstrom, 1711 Estes Avenue, Chicago, secretary. Organized in 1914 "to study problems relating to vocational edu- cation and to bring the results of this study to public attention for the purpose of fostering types of education that will meet the voca- tional needs of youth and the reasonable demands of industry for efficient workers, while preserving those elements of general educa- tion necessary for good citizenship in a democracy." Its present membership is about 650 (annual dues, $1 a year). Meetings are held annually, in January or February. The association has published the Proceedings of the second and third annual conventions (1916, 1917). In 1916 separate sessions were devoted to " Work for women " and " School and employ- ment;" in 1917, to "Work for women" and "Vocational education from the standpoint of organized labor." In 1920 a joint convention was held at Chicago with the- National Society for Vocational Edu- cation (see p. 135) and the proceedings published in its Bulletin No. 32. At the Minneapolis convention, February, 1921, the following special committees presented reports at sectional meetings: Indus- trial education (on standards in part-time education) ; Commercial education; Vocational guidance (on the applications of psychology to problems of vocational guidance). The vocational guidance pro- grams were carried out in cooperation with -the Vocational Guid- ance Association of Minneapolis. VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE FOE JUNIORS. 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. Mrs, Alice K. Pollitzer, director. In connection with the work of this service psychological tests are being applied to classes and groups of students in the New York City schools. Results of application of the Otis intelligence test and the correlations between Regents' marks, as well as teachers' ratings, and I. Q, are available for certain dressmaking and industrial art classes. ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, FOUNDATIONS, ETC. 163 In the fall of 1920 psychological tests were given by Dr. Ruth Clark, of this service, in the West Side Continuation School, which provides instruction for employed children for four hours a week, and the results have been used as an aid in arranging their classwork to fit their individual needs and for the guidance of the placement secretaries when interviewing applicants for employment. WESTERN EFFICIENCY SOCIETY. 327 South La Salle Street, Chicago, 111. Organized December, 1912, and incorporated under the laws of Illinois February, 1913, for the promotion of efficiency in commer- cial, financial, public service, and industrial enterprises.* In May, 1917, under the auspices of this society was held a national conference on " The human factor in industrial preparedness," at which the Society of Industrial Engineers was organized. The re- port of its proceedings (212 p.) consists of papers on personnel questions. In March, 1918, a national conference on " Labor problems under war conditions " was held under the joint auspices of the Society of Industrial Engineers and the Western Efficiency Society. The pro- ceedings of this conference (222 p.) include "Women in industry ," by C. E. Knoeppel, based on answers to 1,000 questionnaires (p. 28-72; also issued by the author's firm with additional material as a monograph, 123 p.) The society is organized in functional management sections, each of which meets twice a month or oftener. Papers read at the meet- ings have been published up to August 30, 1920, in the society's Bul- letin (v. 1-4, Nos. 1-76), which has been superseded by Business Crucible, published monthly from November, 1920. PERSONNEL AND EMPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT SECTION. This group published in July, 1918, " A questionnaire digest on methods of wage payment " (52 p.). WOMAN'S OCCUPATIONAL BUREAU. 216 Meyers Arcade, Minneapolis, Minn. Margaret A. Smith, manager. In 1919 the Vocational Informational Service of this bureau pub- lished Occupational Bulletins Nos. 1, 2, viz : No. 1. Womt'n in banking in the city of Minneapolis. 23 p. No. 2. War-time replacement in the city of Minneapolis. 19 p. The tables in the latter were compiled from data collected in the Industrial Survey of Women employed outside the home made by the Women in Industry Committee of the Women's Division, Minne- sota Commission of Public Safety and the Bureau of Women an ^ Children, State Department of Labor and Industries with the co- operation of this bureau. The bureau has also published the results of three short studies on " Home economics positions in Minneapolis," " The field of social service," and " Opportunities for women in journalism." WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. 264 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Organized 1877 and incorporated 1880, to promote the educational, industrial, and social advancement of women. 164 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH. Miss Lucile Eaves, director. The re- sults of investigations made by this department and published 1910- 1921, mainly by other agencies, have been issued in a series entitled " Studies in economic relations of women" (v. 1-11). They include studies of dressmaking (v. 4), millinery (v. 5), and the boot and shoe Industry (v. 6) as trades for women ; industrial home work in Massa- chusetts (v. 7) ; the public schools and women in office service (v. 8) ; industrial experience of trade-school girls in Massachusetts (v. 9) ; the food of working women in Boston (v. 10) ; old-age support of women teachers (v. 11). Of these, volumes 4, 6, 9, were published by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics as its Bulletins Nos. 193, 180, 215; volume 7 by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics as Labor Bulletin 101; volume 8 by Boston School Committee; and volume 10 by Massachusetts Department of Health. " Women pro- fessional workers," a study made for the Union by Elizabeth Kemper Adams, and published in 1921 by the Macmillan Co., New York, largely supersedes volume 1 of the above series, " Vocations for the trained woman." During 1917-18 a study of the vocational experience of juvenile employees in Boston was made. A report of the investigations in re- tail departments, dry goods and clothing stores was published in 1920 under the title "Training for store service" (143 p.). A list of the unpublished statistical material tabulated by the department while making this study in retail stores is given on pages 127-132 of the report. Investigators wishing to compare this unpublished data with similar data collected in other cities may obtain any of the tables in the list by paying the cost of copying and mailing. Simi- lar studies of the experiences of young persons in confectionery works, printing offices, grocery stores, and hotels have been com- pleted, but are not yet published. Another unpublished study re- lates to 1.000 cases of illiterate foreign born (how employed, rela- tive earnings, and chance of promotion). Investigations in progress during the current year deal with the subject "Methods by which self-supporting women may provide for their old age." The report is to form volume 12 of the above series. Three fellowships in social-economic research carrying a stipend of $500 are awarded annually to women who are college graduates trained in economics or sociology. They are given a year's training in the department on schedules, field work, construction and interpre- tation of statistical tables, and the literary presentation of results and carry out a cooperative investigation of the subject selected for the years work. This fulfills the requirements for the degree of M. S. in research at iSimmons College (see p. 193), with which the department is affiliated. WORKERS' HEALTH BUREAU. Saint Denis Offices, Broadway and Eleventh Street, New York, N. Y. Grace M. Burnham, Harriet Silverman, directors. Incorporated in 1921, this organization is devoted to planning, in- stalling, and supervising health service for trade-unions. The work which it is organized to do is defined as follows: 1. To conduct a scientific industrial study of the health needs of any trade- union. 2. To recommend a complete health program for that trade-union based on such a study. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 165 3. To recommend an educational program completely covering the subject of workers' health. 4. To establish health departments within trade-union locals, such depart- ments to specialize in preventive work, including thorough medical and dental examinations. 5. To train workers' health committees to carry out the health program in the workshop. ('.. To select with scrupulous care, trained doctors, nurses, and teachers re- quired in conducting the union health work. WORKMEN'S CIRCLE. 175 East Broadway, New York, N. Y. George Rubin, statistician. A fraternal organization with about 82,000 members and 642 branches distributed throughout the United States and Canada. A statistical review of disability based upon an analysis of its records has been completed recently and published in Modern Medi- cine (v. 2, No. 11, November, 1920,' p. 730-733). YOUNG WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, NEW YORK CITY, CENTRAL BRANCH. OK) Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. In 1919-20 the Employment Department of this branch and the Industrial Department of the War Work Council of the National Board, Young Woman's Christian Association made a factory sur- vey of opportunities for executive and technical women, covering 250 shops in the Greater New York industrial district and the New Jersey factory belt which employed 200 or more women. The re- port prepared by Janet R. Huntington, in charge of survey, was published in 1920 under the title "Executive and technical women in factories " (19 p.). (b) UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. MUNICIPAL UNIVERSITY OF AKRON. Akron, Ohio. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. Fred E. Ayer, dean. Established in 1914, this college has a five-year cooperative engineering course, patterned after the " Cincinnati plan," in which the students are grouped in two sections, one of which is at work in local engineering shops (at a minimum wage of 30 cents per hour) and the other in attendance at the university, and these sections change places every two weeks. The shop work and the university work are coordinated by technically trained men experienced in engineering practice. A cooperative course in municipal engineering has been arranged in which the students work half time in the different engineering departments of the city of Akron. Three of the large rubber companies in Akron have united in establishing about 30 industrial scholarships for the purpose of training men by the cooperative plan in manufacturing production. The company pays the university tuition and fees of the student and employs him at the rate of $75 per month during his alternate two- week periods in the production department of the factory, the work being carefully arranged so that he will spend some time in every department of the plant. The length of this course is four years of eleven months each. 166 III. NONOFFICIAL, AGENCIES. BOSTON UNIVERSITY. 525 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Vocational guidance 3, one of the late afternoon courses for teach- ers and other special students, is a rersearch course in this field con- ducted by Frederick J. Allen, of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance, Harvard University. Each member of the class carries on individual research into a special problem, such as the study of methods in establishing a vocational bureau in a community or school system, an occupational, educational or social survey, or the extended study of a particular business or industry. COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. A course on employment management practice (B-55, 50), two hours each week throughout the year, is given in the evening division by Mr. Ralph G. Wells, and special lecturers. It was inaugurated by the Employment IV'l gers' Association, Boston. BROWN UNIVERSITY. Providence, R. I. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. Stephen S. Colvin, director. A series of group intelligence tests, designated the Brown University tests, has been compiled by the director. It includes two completion tests, two vocabulary tests, two opposite tests, two analogies tests, one facts- and-conclusions test, and one arithmetic test. The results obtained in the administration of these tests are given in the following articles by Prof. Colvin: Psychological tests at Brown University. (School and Society, v. 10, No. 236, July 5, 1919, p. 27-30.) The validity of psychological tests for college entrance. (Educational Rev, v. 60, No. 1, June, 1920, p. 7-17.) Educational guidance and tests in college. (Shortly to appear in Journal of Applied Psychology.) The use of intelligence tests in Brown University. (Shortly to appear in Educational Review.) BRYN MAWR COLLEGE. Bryn Mawr, Pa. CAROLA WOERISHOFFER GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ECONOMY AND SOCIAL, RESEARCH. Dr. Susan M. Kingsbury, director. Estab- lished in 1915 as a graduate school to prepare students for profes- sional service dealing with industrial and social relations. In 1918, with the support and cooperation of the National War Council of the Young Women's Christian Association, courses in industrial supervision and employment management were introduced to meet the demands of industry for trained women to fill positions as super- visors of women's work, employment managers, etc. This division has now been made permanent, as the Grace H. Dodge Foundation, through a fund of $100,000 recently given to Bryn Mawr College by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jr., for the endowment of instruction in industrial relations in this department, and additional endowment is being raised to provide scholarships and fellowships. The instruction in industrial supervision and personnel administra- tion is given by Miss Gladys Boone and includes a graduate course dealing with the problems and technique of personnel administration and three seminars in labor organization, research in labor prob- lems, and social economy applied to industrial supervision and per- sonnel administration, respectively (each two hours a week through- UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 167 out the year). The last-named seminar includes a practicum of V or 12 hours' field work per week in industrial experience in or near Philadelphia during the college year, and two months of nonresident work in an industrial or mercantile establishment during the follow- ing summer, under the supervision of the instructor. The firms which have cooperated in giving experience to students either in the employment office or in the factory are listed in the announcements of the department and the college calendar of graduate courses 1921 > which also give information regarding scholarships and fellowships available for students in this group. The seminar in social and industrial research, offered by the di- rector, is devoted to training in field investigations and the analysis and interpretation of data secured. Among the subjects of seminar researches recently made are the following: Analysis of labor turnover for some large industrial con- cerns ; substitution of women for men on the Pennsylvania railroad ; mothers in industry in Philadelphia; women who manufacture in their homes for industry (in cooperation with the State Department of Labor and Industry). PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. Prof. C. E. Ferree, director. The principal researches of this laboratory in the field of industrial hology have been in special physiological and sensory tests for vocational selection and in the study of hygienic conditions of work, particularly as regards the question of illumination. Studies have been made by Prof. Ferree and Dr. Gertrude Rand on the effect of intensity, distribution, and color of light on ocular functions, individual differences in speed of discrimination of the eye, power to sustain clear seeing, and power to see at low illuminations. The light- ing studies were made under the auspices of the American Medical Association's Subcommittee on the Hygiene of the Eye. The work on the speed of changes in accommodation of the eye for different distances was used in the selection of aviators and in checking up their daily condition both at Mineola and in France; the in- vestigation on acuity at low illuminations was made in conjunction with the Navy Medical Service primarily for the use of the Navy in the selection of men for lookout service. The results of these researches have been published in the following papers : Ferree, C. E. Tests for the efficiency of the eye under different systems of illumination and a preliminary study of the causes of discomfort. (Transi, Ilium. Eng. Soc., 1913, v. 8, p. 40-60.) The efficiency of the eye under different systems of lighting". (Internal;. Cong, on School Hygiene, 4th, Buffalo, 1913, v. 5, p. 351-364; Ophthalmology, July, 1914, p. 1-16; Mind and Body, 1913, v. 20, p. 280-286, 345-353.) The problem of lighting in relation to the efficiency of the eye. (Science, July 17, 1914, N. S., v. 15, p. 84-91.) Ferree, C. E. and Rand, Gr. The efficiency of the eye under different condi- tions of lighting: the effect of varying distribution and intensity. (Trans. Ilium. Eng. Soc., July, 1915, v. 10, p. 407-447.) Further experiments on the efficiency of the eye under different con- ditions of lighting. (Trans. Ilium. Eng. Soc., July, 1915, v. 10, p. 449-501.) Some experiments on the eye with inverted reflectors of different densities. (Trans. Ilium. Eng. Soc., 1915, v. 10, p. 1097-1138.) A resume of experiments on the problem of lighting in its relation to the eye. (Jour. PMlos. Psychol. and Sci. Methods, 1915, v. 12, p. 657-663.) Some experiments on the eye with pendant reflectors of different densities. (Trans. Ilium. Eng. Soc., 1916, v. 11, p. 1111-1137.) Miscellaneous experiments on the efficiency of the eye under different conditions of lighting. (Ophthalmology, July, 1916, p. 1-25.) 168 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Ferree, C. K., and Rand, (J. A resume of experiments on the effect of differ- ent conditions of lighting on the eye. (Annals of Ophthalmology, July, 1916, p. 1-10.) The power of the eye to sustain clear seeing under different conditions of lighting. (Jour. Educ. Psyehol., 1917, v. 8, p. 451-468.) Some experiments on the eye with pendant opaque reflectors differing in lining, dimensions, and design. (Trans. Ilium. Eng. Soe., 1917, v. 12, p. 464-487.) Some experiments on the eye with different illuminants, parts I-II. (Trans. Ilium. Eng. Soc., 1918, v. 13, p. 50-60 ; 1919, v. 14, p. 107-132.) Lighting in its relation to the eye. (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1918, T. 57, No. 5, p. 440-478.) The inertia of adjustment of the eye for clear seeing at different dis- tances; a study of ocular functions with special reference to aviation. (Trans. Amer. Ophthalmological Soc., 1918, v. 16, p. 142-166; Amer. Jour, of Ophthal- mology, 1918, v. 1, p. 764-776.) The speed of adjustment of the eye for clear seeing at different dis- tances. (Amer. Jour. Psyehol. , 1919, v. 30, p. 40-61.) Lantern and apparatus for testing the light sense and for determining acuity at low illuminations. (Amer. Jour, of Ophthalmology, v. 3, No. 5, May. 1920.) Visual acuity at low illumination and the use of the illumination scale for the detection of small errors in refraction. (Arner. Jour, of Ophthalmology, v. 3, No. 6, June, 1920.) An apparatus for testing the light and the color sense. (Amer. Jour, of Ophthalmology, v. 3, No. 11, Nov., 1920.) The effect of variations in intensity of illumination on functions of im- portance to the working eye. (Trans. Ilium. Eng. Soc., Dec., 1920, v. 15, No. 9, p. 769-801.) A study of the ideal reading page as to coloration, finish and type is being made with the American Writing Paper Co., of Holyoke. In the seminar and laboratory course in applied psychology in- telligence testing is taught from the point of view of the application of tests in employment and placement and the procedure in devising tests for such purposes, and research work is done in connection with vocational guidance bureaus. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Berkeley, Calif. DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE. Robert T. Legge, M. D., professor of hygiene. In this department an investigation is being made by Dr. John Force into the cause of " packer's itch," a dermatitis found among packers using infested straw. Another type of occupational dermatosis, which is being investigated by Dr. Legge, is that of a peculiar infection of the fingers of dried fig packers. Problems of in- dustrial nursing are being studied by Miss Edith S. Bryan, professor of public health nursing. A syllabus of the lecture course in industrial hygiene given in this department for the past six years is published in United States Pub- lic Health Eeports (v. 35, No. 15, April 9, 1920, p. 891-893). DIVISION or VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. R. J. Leonard, director. Es- tablished in 1919 for the purpose of unifying the various activities in this field carried on in connection with the University at Berkeley and its southern branch at Los Angeles. Among the special research projects recently completed or in progress by graduate students in seminary are the following : Studies in occupational extension ; Atti- tude of organized labor toward vocational education ; Analysis of the chemical industries of the East Bay Region for purposes of voca- tional education; Study of the garment-making industries in San Francisco; Mathematical and scientific work related to the machine UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 169 shop trades ; How large employers select personnel ; The function of vocational guidance and placement in part-time and evening schools; Study of juvenile employment in Long Beach ; Industrial education in the junior high school ; Vocational opportunities for girls of high school age in Oakland. RESEARCH AND SERVICE CENTER FOR PART-TIME EDUCATION. Miss Emily G. Palmer, director. Established in 1920 under the above division, it is confining its efforts at present to the analysis of occupa- tions as a means of assisting continuation school teachers. It will take up from time to time those matters which are of greatest im- portance in furthering the scheme of State aid in vocational educa- tion. It has issued the following : Bulletin No. 1. Syllabus of ;;n introductory course on part-time education. (Out of print.) Leaflet No. 1. Part-time education series No. 1. A first reading list for ad- ministrators and teachers in part-time schools. Leaflet No. 2. Part-time education series No. 2. The work of coordination in part-time education. (Out of print.) Bulletin No. 2. Part-time education series No. 3. An analysis of department- store occupations for juniors. Bulletin .No. 3. Part-time education series No. 4. Coordination in part-time education. Bulletin No. 4. Part-time education series No. 5. An analysis of the work of juniors in banks. Part-time news notes: No. 1, Three months of coordination in the Oakland No. 2. Pro.'JTess in part-time education in Los Angeles; No. 3, The work of the director of part-time education; No. 4, The application blank for enroll-. nu-Mt. in part-time schools: a statistical study, by E. G. Palmer; No. 5, Junior employees in the retail drug business, by H. A. Campion. CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa. DIVISION OF COOPERATIVE EESEARCH. W. V. Bingham, director. This division was organized in 1921 to encourage research in both pure and applied science, including the scientific aspects of human relations in industry, and particularly to place the facilities of the institute at the disposal of large industrial and commercial concerns, or associations, desiring to have systematic research carried out on specific problems. It includes the Bureau of Personnel Research and the Research Bureau for Retail Training, which were previously departments of the Division of Applied Psychology (superseded by this new division). Additional departments are now in process of organization, viz: Bureau of Educational Research, under the im- mediate supervision of Dr. E. K. Strong, jr. ; Bureau of Science and Engineering Research, headed by Prof. A. J. Wurts. BUREAU or PERSONNEL RESEARCH. C. S. Yoakum, director. This bureau was organized in May, 1916, as the Bureau of Salesmanship Research. During the war its officers and research assistants were taken over by the General Staff to develop and administer the personnel system of the army. 26 After the return of the staff from Avar, the scope of the bureau was enlarged to include selection and development of clerical workers and executives, as well as salesmen, and the present name was adopted in June, 1919. The bureau is a joint enterprise maintained by groups of cooperat- ing manufacturing and commercial concerns, through which they 26 The Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army was headed by Walter Dill Scott and W. V. Bingham of the bureau staff. 170 III. NONOFFICIAL, AGKNOl!.- pool their experience, exchange information, and initiate inve;- tions of problems of common interest relating to employment, s tion, training, organization, and supervision of personnel. The in- stitute maintains the general research staff and laboratories; and subscriptions are received from cooperating firms in aid of pure research in personnel problems. An important portion of the sup- port of the bureau comes from its applied research on personnel problems arising in the office, sales, or executive organization of in- dividual firms, for which a minimum annual fee of $500 is asked. In addition to this annual retainer, a firm may arrange for special research, fellowships, or the assignment of an assistant to work on its problems. Groups of firms may be organized for special research, in which case the fees are determined by group agreement. Service work to business concerns through the bureau's staff is supported as a separate function under agreements with the firms for which it is performed, those now in force ranging in payments from $100 to |l,000 monthly. The researches carried on by the Bureau of Salesmanship Research during the three years 1916 to 1919 fall into two groups: (a) Methods of selecting salesmen, including preparation and issu- ance of the volume, " Aids in selecting salesmen, series of 1916," con- taining application, interviewer's and test blanks (28 p.) ; develop- ment of norms and standards of comparison for use in evaluating a salesman's performance in the tests; statistical studies of sources of successful salesmen. (?>) Methods of developing salesmen, including studies of types 01 sales schools; studies of sales conventions, summarized in its Bulle- tin No. 21, issued in 1919, entitled "Sales conventions" (26 p.); studies, of methods of supervision, stimulation through house organs and bulletins, and compensation as affecting the salesman's pro- ductivity. A summary of the available results of the previous work of the bureau was published in 1920 under the title " Research in sales per- sonnel" (60 p.) ; and the work done during 1919-20 on job specifica- tions relating to clerical personnel was issued as "Aids for selection and placement of clerical personnel" (130 p.). In February, 1920, the bureau began sending out a series of mimeo- graphed reports covering the topics being studied, as follows : Report A, 1920. First-year production as a measure of future suoces in selling. Report B, 1920. A preliminary study of cleric:)! workers. Report C, 1920. Methods of measuring sales possibilities. Report D, 1920. Outlines of personnel administration: (1) Personnel de- partment organization and employment i>rom?s; (2) Cost of living in rela- tion to wage adjustment; (3) Use and development of sources of supply; (4) Labor turnover; (5) Education jind training; (6) Foreman training; (7) Health supervision; (8) Methods of compensation; (9) Organization studies; (10) Follow-up work; (11) Recreation, welfare, and social work; (12) Employees' associations and organization. Report E, 1920. Building a marketing organization. Report ;<', "lt>2O. Questions and answers on supervision of salesmen. Report H, 1920. Some uses? of job analyses: Pt. 1, The zoning of jobs au effective solution of some personnel problems; Pt. 2, The zoning of jobs and determining a fair wage. Also special reports, based on data from cooperating firms, dealing with special topics in selection, training, measures oi' success, supervision, and organization. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 171 Other papers, and the discussion thereon, are printed in the pro- ceedings of the first full meeting (November 1.4, 1919) and the fourth annual meeting (May 27, 1920) of the board of cooperating mem- bers of the bureau. RESEARCH BUREAU FOR RETAIL TRAINING.- W. W. Charters, direc- tor. Established in 1917, because certain of the firms in the origi- nal Bureau of Salesmanship Research (v. supra) wished to develop the training and educational work more rapidly, this bureau aims (1) to provide a limited group of able people with technical train- ing for leadership in the employment and educational departments of general stores: (2) to train teachers for high-school courses in selling; (3) to conduct research bearing on the human factor in stores: the selection, placement, and individual development of employees; (4) to cooperate with the public schools in ( arranging part-time courses which combine schooling with experience in stores. The institute contributes the services of its faculty and provides rooms, office force and overhead expenses in addition to substantial support of the training course. Seven Pittsburgh stores in 1918 un- derwrote $32,000 a year for five years for the support of the bureau. The bureau has successfully solved many problems in retail selling and has developed a technique in training that can be applied gener- ally. Some of the results of its studies are issued in three series of bulletins, as follows: Tnllotin (goneral scries) : No. 1. Merchandise manual for shoe departments, liy Kli/al.-j'th Dyer. 3021. No. 2. The retail-selling course in Pittsburgh high schools. By J. 15. Miner. 1921. Element}! ry sorie.s : No. 1. Shoes merchandise information for salespeople. By Elizabeth Dyer. 1020. Instruction series : X<. 1. Shoos teaching instructions for training new sales- people. By Elizabeth I>yer. 1020. The training course for personnel work in the retail field, covering department-store administration, training, employment management, applied psychology (including mental-test technique), and research, and fellowships offered, are described in a special bulletin of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. BUREAU or EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. E. K. Strong, jr., director. This bureau, established in 1921, will concern itself chiefly with edu- cational problems arising within the institute, but also has an interest in problems of education in industry. Research work in this field was previously carried on under the direction of Dr. Strong in connectipn with the Vocational Education Department. During 1920-21 job analyses of the duties of executives in the three fields of commercial printing, building construction, and the metal-working industries were made. The information obtained in this survey has thus far been utilized only for the reorganization of the courses of instruction in the College 'of Industries of the institute intended for training men to become executives in these industries. Certain as- pects of the work were dealt with in two papers by the director, namely : Analyzing industrial requirements. (Proceedings of the Society of Industrial Engineers, Nov., 1920, p. 75-32.) .[oh analysis of the manager in industry. (School and Society, v. 13, p. 45G-462, Apr. 16, 1921.) DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. L. L. Thurstone, professor of psychology. This department of the former Division of Applied 172 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. Psychology has been transferred to the Division of General Studies, but it remains in close affiliation with the Division of Cooperative Research. It gives instruction in pure and applied psychology, sta- tistical methods, personnel administration, etc., and conducts the group tests given to all students entering the institute. Tests developed and published by this department include: Pro- ficiency test for typists; clerical examination; a series of six tests for college freshmen and high-school seniors prepared for the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (see p. 153) ; personnel aids (series of 1918). The following articles on tests have been published in psychological journals: Mental tests for prospective telegraphers, a study of the diagnostic value of mental tests for predicting ability to learn telegraphy, by L. L. Thurstone. (Jour. App. PsychoL, v. 3, No. 2, June, 1919, p. 110-117.) A standardized test for office clerks, by L. L. Thurstone. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 3, No. 3, Sept., 1919. p. 248-251.) UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. Chicago, 111. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AND ADMINISTRATION. L. C. Marshall, dean. In addition to courses of a more general character, the program or work in preparation for personnel administration includes the fol- lowing dealing specifically with personnel problems : Political economy 43 : The business manager's administration of labor (Asst. Prof. Paul II. Douglas), dealing with (1) the factors making for ineffective work, such as labor turnover, absenteeism, withheld effort, personal incapacities of health and training, dis- harmonies of relationship between management and the workers; (2) methods of securing effective effort, such as the proper administration of the labor supply and the selection of workers, promotion, demo- tion, transfer, and discharge, regularizatkm of employment, education and training, safety and health, welfare work, hours of labor, wages and rewards, joint relations with employees, whether through shop committees, unions, or industrial councils; (3) the organization and functions of a personnel department and its place in a business organization. Investigations are assigned on special topics and the student is expected to do field work upon some phase of employment problems. Political economy 44: The education and training of the worker; a study of the various kinds of ability needed in modern industry and a consideration of the training agencies set up (1) outside the industrial establishment, such as trade schools, supplementary train- ing courses, cooperative schools and continuation schools; (2) inside the establishment, such as the training department, vestibule schools, apprentice schools, " f ormanizing " classes, etc. Provision will be made for those who wish definite training in trade teaching by means of supervised field work, etc. An article by Dean Marshall on " Incentive and output : a statement of the place of the personnel manager in modern industry " appeared in Journal of Political Economy (v. 28, No. 9, November, 1920, p. 713-734). A guide and bibliography for labor managers, by Prof. L. S. Lyon, was published in Industrial Management for November, 1920. Prof. Douglas published in 1921 a monograph on "American apprenticeship and industrial education" (348 p.), in Columbia University, Studies in history, economics, and public law (v. 95, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 173 No. 2; whole No. 216) ; and an article on " Shop committees: a sub- stitute for or supplement to trade-unions" (Jour. Pol. Econ., Feb., 1921, p. 89-107). He has in preparation a study of " The relationship between turnover and absenteeism." OTHO S. A. SPRAGUE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE. University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. H. Gideon Wells, M. D., director of medical research. Organized January, 1911, under a bequest from Otho S. A. Sprague for the purpose of the relief of human suffering (present fund, $1,500,000; annually available, $80,000) and incorporated under the laws of the JState of Illinois; affiliated with the Medical School of the University of Chicago by vote of its trustees on November 17, 1916. The chief emphasis of the work of the institute has been upon the chemical side of medical problems (e. g., in the study of tuberculosis, diabetes, etc.), children's diseases, and the influence of heredity on cancer. While at the present time it is doing no work in industrial diseases, in the past it has supported a few special investigations in this field, viz., by Dr. Peter Bassoe on " The late manifestations of compressed-air disease" (American Journal Medical Science, April, 1913) ; by Dr. Emery R. Hayhurst on "Occupational brass poison- ing" (American Journal Medical Science, May, 1913), "A study of lead poisoning in painters" (American Journal Medical Science, June, 1914) . and " The prevalence of occupational features in disease " (Journal American Medical Association, December 12, 1914). During the war several problems concerning the toxicity of various explosives or chemicals used in munitions plants were referred to the institute for investigation. The sudden cessation of munitions work terminated these investigations, most of them while incomplete. A synopsis of some of the results was published in the Journal of Indus- trial Hygiene (v. 2. No. 7, November. 1920, p. 247-252), UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SETTLEMENT. 4630 Gross Avenue, Chicago, 111. Miss Mary McDowell, head resident. In 1910-1912 a survey of the stockyards district was undertaken by the Board of the University of Chicago Settlement (John C. Ken- nedy, in charge) to secure accurate and detailed information regard- ing the living and working conditions of the people in that neigh- borhood. The results of these investigations were published in three parts entitled: A study of Ohiojigo's stockyards community: (1) Opportunities in school and industry 'for children of the stockyards district. By Ernest L. Talbert. 1912. G4 p. (2) The American girl in the stockyards district. By Louise Montgomery. 1913. 70 p. (3) Wages and family budgets in the Chicago stockyards district, with wage statistics from other industries employing unskilled labor. By J. C. Kennedy and others. 1914. 80 p. A study of night-working mothers in the packing houses, who had children under school age, has recently been made at the settlement, under the supervision of the head resident, by Miss Annie Konticke. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI. Cincinnati, Ohio. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMMERCE. Herman Schneider, dean. This college operates on what is known as the cooperative 174 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. system. Under this plan the practice of engineering is taught in a shop or on a railroad under actual commercial conditions, and the science underlying the practice is taught in the university. The stu- dents are divided into two sections, which alternate every two weeks, i. e., during each biweekly period one-half of the students are at the university and one-half are in the factories, and at the end of the period the sections are interchanged. The students are paid for their work in the shops at the same rate as other employees. The coopera- tive course is of five years' duration, eleven months in the year. For the year 1920-21 there was an enrollment of 950 students, and the number of cooperating firms is now 150, covering a great variety of industries not only in Cincinnati but also in other cities in Ohio and Indiana. An account of the evolution of the plan since its inception in 1906 and a description of the courses of instruction in chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, and metallurgical engineering and in commerce for 1921-22 are published as University of Cincinnati Eecord, January, 1921 (ser. 1, v. 17, No. 1). ^ Direct correlation of the work of the shop with the instruction given in the university is made by the department of coordination, which studies each cooperating firm, devises organization charts showing the various kinds of work which a student can most p ably follow and keeps a graphical record for every student, which shows the various kinds of work he has done during the five years of his course. The selection of men for the work for which they are to be trained being of special importance under this system, nearly all of the tests proposed for this purpose have been tried and the results have been largely negative. In a paper entitled " Selecting men for jobs" (re- printed from the Engineering Magazine, New York, June, 1916) Dean Schneider has discussed the methods tried and discarded and outlined the plan adopted, which is based on the study of the apti- tude for different jobs of about 1,000 men who came under close ob- servation in 10 years. CLARK UNIVERSITY. Worcester, Mass. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. A report on work done in this department in testing the intelligence of office and shop workers, using Otis group intelligence scale, Forms A and B, and Otis general intelligence examination, was made at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in December, 1920, by Dean James P. Porter, and a brief summary of some of the results was pub- lished in its proceedings (Psychol. Bull., v. 18, No. 2, February, 1921). An attempt is to be made to ascertain the relation between scores obtained by various kinds of tests and to work out correlations between intelligence scores and (1) tenure of service, (2) scores in mechanical skill and trade tests, (3) measures of honesty, reliability, loj^alty and possibly some other moral traits, and also the by- products of tests in * industry. Dr. Porter spent the summer vaca- tions of 1919 and 1920 AS an unskilled laborer and as an office em- ployee in a shipyard and a loom works to come into first-hand con- tact with personnel problems. A brief account of his observations is given in Industry, a bulletin issued by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, for November 20, 1920, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, 175 A psychological practicum on mental and physical tests arid the application of general intelligence scales (one hour a week) and a course on systematic applied psychology dealing, among other topics, with personnel analysis and the human element in business and industry (two hours a week) are given in this department by Dr. Iv. R. Geissler. The Journal of Applied Psychology is published quarterly by Florence Chandler, Clark University. CLEVELAND SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. Cleveland, Ohio. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. Garry C. Myers, head of depart- ment. The " Myers mental measure, by Caroline E. Myers and Garry C. Myers, a group intelligence test consisting wholly of pic- tures (published by The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa.) which has been used in several school surveys, has been adapted by the authors to unskilled workmen, especially those of foreign speech. A study of " Problems in skill " reported before Ohio Academy of Sciences. March 26, 1921. is still in progress. COLORADO STATE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Greeley, Colo. DEPART MKNT OF PSYCHOLOGY. J. D. Heilman, in charge. A series of tests intended to determine a person's capacity to learn type- writing lias been developed recently in this department. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Broadway and One hundred and sixteenth Street, New York, X. Y. * DEPARTMENT OF KXTF.XSION TEACHING. Four courses on personnel administration were given in this department in 1920-21 by Mr. I/. Outhwaite: Business the .study ol r occupations. Cambridge. Harvard University I'resx, 19L'l. l'n'\vor, .lolni M. The vocational-guidance movement. NV\v York. Mao- iniilsii! Co., 1!1S. Ii ewer, John M.. and Kelly, Hoy W. A selected critical bibliography o i-jilioiml gn;l:ii);-'. < 1 ;uibrMlge. Uurvunl rr.iv.'i-sity, 11)1.7. Keliy, Uoy \V. Hiring the worker. New York. Industrial Management Library, n.ns. Training indusrrial. workers. New York. Ronald Pies;-;, 1920. My, Uoy \V.. and Allen. Frederick J. The shipbuilding industry. Boston. Jiton Mifllin Co., 1 ( .H8. aoiit. T. S. S Tin op biiii..-i - ! ng the i nities for industrial cripples and disabled soldiers and sailors, which were prepared by this bureau. l'-;;\v been published by the Keil Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, New York. (See p. 109.) They cover .'litlmig, shoe, ri!bber r optical goods, and brush indus- 1 The bureau oil'ers a research course in vocational education and vocatiotj-'u guidance: and, ii ->nd half-year, courses on educa- ionul gttidaiice in the occupa- tions (IvJ). (i\: iSTRXTioN. W. B. Dojiham, i. Tlie study group in industru'-! inanageuient begins with a >a! intiMxhictory course (first yeav ? first half), part of which is kd to management problems 'arising from personal or human relations. This is followed im the second half of the first year by a tfi labor technique which primarily covers the functions and ig technique oV ornployineiit management arid its eoordina.- 1 1 'other depiirtme-nt business, particularly with the, utive. It deals with the technical and administrative problem! - out of the relation of employer and employee in industry, such :is selection and placement of the* workman, w.ige set- ting, adjustment and follow-up, training and education, safety, sani- tation and health, housing and transportation, benefit associations. In the second year a course on labor problems is given, in which point of view taken is that of the executive responsible for labor policies and the work consists largely of research by the indi- vidual student on selected problems approved by the instructor where data may be obtained in the field.' During the academic year 21 'four studies on labor turnover were made for graduate theses. PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. Herbert S. Langfeld, director. The work of the lute Prof. Miinsterberg in vocational psychology is, 180 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. covered by his own treatise and an article containing additional re- sults of his researches edited and published after his death, viz : Minister] >ei', Jlujro. Psychology ami industrial efficiency. Boston, Hoiighton, Midlin & Co., 1913. ;?21 p. Burn. Harold K. Prof. Mttnsterberg*J8 vocational tests, (.lour. App. Psy- cijol.. v. 1, No. 3, Sept., 1917, p. 201-213.) At the present time a research to devise tests for the selection of the clerical force is being conducted at a manufacturing establishment, by II. L. Harley. In the laboratory the following work is in prog- ress: Experiments on the social factors in industrial work, by I. C. Whittemore; methods of testing personality, by Gordon Allport; a problem of the selection of telegraphers, by Crawford Goldthwaite; a series of tests upon monotony and fatigue in industrial work, by II. L. Harley. HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Mass. David L. Edsall, M. D., dean. DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE. In 1918 Harvard University received funds with which to establish facilities for the training of industrial medical personnel and for laboratory, clinical, and field research in matters relating to the health of industrial workers. The funds were largely contributed by New England manufacturing es- tablishments and interested individuals. They are under the ad- ministration of the Governing Committee on Industrial Hygiene (Wade Wright, M. D., secretary). The courses offered in 1921-22 include applied physiology, in- dustrial toxicology, industrial operation, nutrition, industrial psy- chiatry, health administration, legal aspects of industrial medical practice, and methods of air analysis, given at Harvard Medical School; industrial surgery and rontgenology, given at Boston City Hospital; vital statistics and industrial sanitation, given at the School of Engineering, Harvard University (except the ventilation portion of the latter course which is given at Harvard Medical School) ; industrial medicine, given at the Industrial Clinic, Massa- chusetts General Hospital (see p. 117) and the office of the Harvard Mercantile Health Work (v. infra). They lead to the certificate in public health in industrial hygiene (C. P. H.) of the School of Public Health of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology and to the doctorate in public health in industrial hygiene (Dr. P. H.) or the Ph. D. in hygiene, conferred by Harvard University. Detailed description of the courses, requirements for admission, etc., are given in a catalogue obtainable from the registrar of the division. The laboratory research work conducted by the division includes special investigations in industrial poisoning (viz, by manganese, lead, ether, tetrachlorethane, and trinitrotoluene), effects of mineral dusts and development of new apparatus for dust measurement in the atmosphere, etc. The occurrence, course, and prevention of chronic manganese poisoning were described by Drs. D. L. Edsall, F. P. Wilbur, and C. K. Drinker in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene (v. 1, No. 4, August, 1919) ; experimental studies on manganese were published by C. K. Rieman and Annie S. Minot in Journal of Biological UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 181 Chemistry (v. 42, No. 2, June, 1920, and v. 45, No. 1, December, 1920) , and by C. K. Drinker, L. A. Shaw, and C. C. Lund in Journal of Experimental Medicine (v. 33, Nos. 1 and 2, January-February, J-i/^ J. ) . Dr. Alice Hamilton has published in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene a series of articles on industrial poisoning, viz : By lead (v. 1, No. 1, May, 1919), inorganic poisons other than lead (v. 1, No. 2, June, 1919), compounds of the aromatic series (v. 1, No. 4, August, 1919), ether in the manufacture of smokeless powder (v. 2, No. 2, June, 1920), trinitrotoluene (v. 3, No. 3, July, 1921) ; and a discus- sion of the etiology of so-called anilin tumors of the bladder (v. 3, No. 1, May, 1921). Other contributions in this field by Dr. Hamil- ton have been published by the United States Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics (see p. 20). Other papers on industrial poisoning from the division, published in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, are : A study of 50 workers in trinitrotoluene, by T. J. Putnam and W. Herman (v. 1, No. 5, Sep- tember, 1919) ; Blood examinations of trinitrotoluene workers, by G. K. Minot (v. 1, No. 6, October, 1919) ; Tetrachlore thane poisoning and its prevention, by D. C. Parmenter (v. 2, No. 12, April, 1921) ; A survey of carbon monoxide poisoning in American steel works, metal mines, and coal mines, by H. S. Forbes (v. 3, No. 1, May, 1921). Two papers on the phagocytosis of solid particles (quartz and carbon) by A\ T . O. Fenn appeared in the Journal of General Physi- ology (v. 3, No. 4, March 20, 1921) and a third on the same subject is in press. The results of the study of the question " Does the mag- netic field constitute an industrial hazard?" by C. K. Drinker and R. M. Thomson, are published in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene (v. 3, No. 4, August, 1921). An article on headache as an occupa- tional complaint, by S. Cobb and D. C. Parmenter, appeared in the October, 1921, issue of the same periodical. A study of oil folliculitis has been made in the bacteriological labo- ratories bv C. G. Page and L. D. Bushnell (Jour. Indust. Hyg., v. 3, No. 2, June, 1921, p. 6275). In December, 1919, under a cooperative arrangement between this division and a group of 25 merchants (19 in Boston, 6 in other cities), an investigation of health conditions and the problems of health con- servation in stores was begun. It is known as the HARVARD MERCAN- TILE HEALTH WORK (Arthur B. Emmons, 2d, M. D., director; office at 3 Joy Street, Boston, Mass.). Three reports by the director have been published to date in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene under the title of "Health in mercantile establishments": I. The general principles of store medical service (v. 2, No. 7, November, 1920) ; II. Medical records (v. 2, No. 8, December, 1920) ; III. Common sanitary defects in stores (v. 3, No. 1, May, 1921). A paper on "A work chair," by A. B. Emmons and J. E. Goldthwait, arising out of this investigation, was published in the September, 1921, number of the same journal. A printed list of the publications of the staff of the division, indi- cating reprints available for distribution, may be obtained from the secretary. It includes, in addition to the above, a number of articles dealing with industrial clinics and the study of occupational diseases in hospitals and various other general topics in the field of industrial hygiene. 3.82 IH. NONOFFICIAL A(1KN. I'sycliol., Dec., 1919, p. 310-31 G.) , uB^irQ ^ gnia o9 ( ' e unCt the theoi> y of Probability. (School Rev., v. 28, No. 2, Economic implications in the psychological doctrine of interest (Jour Pol K<-.>n., v. 28, No. 4, p. 332-338, Apr., 1920.) How to make employees interested in their jobs, (Arner. Machinist v 52 -485, May, 1920.) Intelligence tests for college students. (Chicago Schools Jour, v 3 D 167- 170. Feb.. 1921.) Employment managers as vocational counselors. (Indust Mana ' v 61 D Mar. 1, : "iirific method in job analysis. (Jour. Pol. Econ., v. 29, No. 6, p. 508-514 . 1921.) [An investigation of certain psychological phases of proof reading including measnrements of eye movements of good and poor proofreaders.] Researches in progress include: The measurements of the output of hand compositors as affected by a particular form of bonus; the cor- relation between turnover and age. Psychologic! I research in mental and social measurements, under Dr. S. L. Pressey, is mainly directed to public-school uses. Some of the tests devised may also be useful in employment psychology, e. g., Pressey X-O tests, discussed in the following papers: Cross-out tests, with sugg- 5 to a group scale of the emotions, by S. L. id I.. W. Pressey. (Jour. Ai>p. Ps.vc.UoL, v. 3, p. 138-150, 1919.) First revisi- . ; :mp so> <,<-signen years the School of Education has held annual conferences on ational measurements (proceedings published as university bul- let i us). It maintains a Bureau of Cooperative Research in this field, the purposes of which are (a) research, and (b) service, by making :-ible educational tests considered valuable to teachers. Dni'ARTMi NT (;!' VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Edwin A. Lee, professor of vocational education. This department offers, as a part of its been published as Indiana University Bulletin (v. 18) No. 12, De- cember, 19*20. In addition to general topics in the economics of in- dustry and labor legislation, the course covers also factors in indus- trial efficiency; wages methods of payment; problems of employ- ment hiring, discharging, promoting. STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. Iowa City, Iowa. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY. This department is at work on the following tests: (1) A test for the selection of eighth-grade students possessing stenographic predispositions; (2) a group test for the selection of clerical workers adapted to the em- ployment departments which would maintain waiting lists and ex- amine a large number of applicants at one time; (3) a group test for determining relative merit in elementary school teachers for city, county, and State examinations; (4) preliminary work has been started on a technique of measuring significant interests and tempera- 184 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. mental and emotional aspects of successful business executives in con- trast to unsuccessful business executives. Prof. C. E. Seashore has published a number of papers dealing with measures of musical talent and vocational and avocational guidance in music. Volume 8 of the " University of Iowa studies in psychology," now in press (Psychological Monograph series), contains papers "dealing with standard procedures in rating and directing musical talent, typewriting, and stenography tests, and special measures of fitness. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. A study of " Health hazards in the pearl button industry," by E. G. Birge and L. C. Havens, made in the Division of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Epidemiology, was published in Journal of Industrial Hygiene (v. 2, No. 3, July', 1920, p. 81-89). Certain studies in heating, lighting, and ventilating, with special reference to school buildings, are in progress at the present time. An elective course on industrial hygiene (two hours a week) is given in the second semester. The students are expected to make an investigation and report on an assigned industrial condition. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. Homewood, Baltimore, Md. PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. Knight Dunlap, professor of experi- mental psychology. Two courses on the methods and technique of mental measurements and a course on their commercial and indus- trial applications are given in this department by Prof. Buford J. Johnson. During 1919-20 research on problems of the psychological effects of tobacco smoking was conducted by Prof. Dunlap and others at the request of the American Committee for the Study of the Tobacco Problem. In furtherance of this investigation it was necessary to devise new apparatus and new forms of test material, which are available for research on many other problems. These include the " omitted letter test," 12 forms of which, of equal difficulty, have been completed; and new apparatus for the graphic recording of attention changes. Dr, L. W. Kline completed an investigation on the effects of inhibitions in the learning process. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY School of Hygiene and Public Health. 310-312 West Monument Street, Baltimore, Md. William H. Welch, M. D., director. Established June, 1916, with the aid of the Rockefeller Foundation of New York; opened for instruction October, 1918. The main objects of the school are to establish courses for the training of qualified persons for public-health work, to promote investigative work in hygiene and preventive medicine and provide opportunities for the training of investigators in these subjects, and to develop adequate means for the dissemination of sound hygienic knowledge. Occupational diseases and vocational hygiene are included in the scope of its work. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY. The courses of instruction in this department include : 1. The physiology of work and fatigue in industry (Dr. R. A. Spaeth), dealing with the theoretical and experimental aspects of UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 185 muscular and mental work and fatigue and practical problems, such, as the limitation of scientific management, length of the industrial workday, night work, industrial accidents and fatigue, monotony and incentives, the emotionally unstable, civilian shell-shock ana- logues, standardization of industrial working conditions, physical examination of ^workers, and the physical, physiological, and psy- chological standardization of industrial workers by trades and proc- esses (including laboratory training in tests and class visits and surveys of local industries, with reports and seminar discussion). 2. The physiological action of light and other radiations (Dr. Janet H. Clark), including the subject of illumination in relation to hygienic conditions of lighting in factories, with investigation of lighting conditions in local factories. 3. Respiration, ventilation, and climatology (Dr. A. L. Meyer), including a study of the various types of ventilation employed in factories, etc.. and laboratory work on methods of air analysis and use of instruments applicable to the study of air conditions. Some researches regarding the relation between susceptibility to toxins and fatigue are in progress. The following contributions to industrial hygiene have recently been published : The problem of fatigue, by R. A. Spaeth. (Journal of Industrial Hygiene, v. 1, No. 1, May, 11)19, p. 22-53.) Bibliography, p.- 42-53. The prevention of fatigue in manufacturing industries, by R. A. Spaeth. (Journal of Industrial Hygiene, v. 1, No. 9, Jan., 1920, p. 435-447.) A method for determining the finer dust particles in air, by A. L. Meyer. (Journal of Jndiisii-ial Hygiene, v. 3, No. 2, June, 1921, p. 51-56.) LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY. Stanford University, Calif. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Lewis M. Terman, professor. The principal contribution from this department is the " Stanford re- vision " of the Binet-Simon scale. A guide to its use and a compan- ion volume of source material have been issued, viz : Teriiftin. L. M. The measurement of intelligence. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, Terman. L. M., and others. The Stanford revision and extension of the Bluet-Simon scale for measuring intelligence. Baltimore, Warwick and York, 1917. 170 p. (Educ. Psychol. Monog. No. 18.) .< The following articles on intelligence tests have been published in psychological journals : Terman, L. M. A trial of mental and pedagogical tests in a civil-service ex- amination for policemen and firemen. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 1, No. 1, Mar., 1917 p 1729 ) * Terman, L. M., and Chamberlain, Mary B. Twenty-three serial tests of in-' telligem-e and their intercorrelation. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 2, No. 4, Dec., Proctor, WM. The use of psychological tests in the vocational guidance of high-school pupils. (Jour. Educ. Research, v. 2, No. 2, Sept., 1920, p. 533- Prof. Terman conducts courses on intelligence tests and psychol- ogv of endowment and a seminar on intelligence problems. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY. E. G. Martin, professor ot phy- siology. The following investigations in industrial physiology have recently been completed in this laboratory : ~4 Strength tests in industry, by E. G. Martin. (U. S. Pub. Health Rep., Aug. 13, m lieprint No. 606.) 186 TIE. iSTOls OFFICIAL AGENr ;nul eiUcionry of smokers iu a strenuous mental oc-cup. J. P. and K (J. Martin. (.lour. Indust. Hyg., Get, 1920, v. 2, No. 6, p. 207-121.4. ) Output shuly of users and nonusors of tobacco in a strenuous physical pation, by liaumbtM-.ucr, Perry, ami Martin. (.lour. Indtist. llyu., May. 1'.)21, v. 3, No. 1. p. 1-10- ) F.itiiHie an, p ; Researches are in progress on the following subjects : Fatigue and working capacity as affected by alternating operations, rest periods, and pride of craftsmanship; tolerances in the glass-bottle trade in relation to Weber's law and visual judgments of sixe; output studies of shipyard riveters. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Cambridge, Mass. A cooperative course (YI-A) in electrical engineering has been arranged between the institute and the General Electric Co. at West Lynn, Mass. The course covers a total of five years, the first two be- ing identical with the regular course in electrical engineering (course VI) at the institute, the last three being divided between instruction in theory at the institute and instruction in practice at the Lynn works. The latter is supervised by a joint committee representing both the institute and the company. The class is divided into two sections which exchange places at the end of each period of approxi- mately three months, into which the time occupied by the cooperative training is divided. Further details are given in a special bulletin of the institute. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Ann Arbor, Mich. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS. Course 34 on employment manage- ment and an advanced course Ma following it are given by Asst. Prof. C. C. Edmonds. The following subjects are being developed by sev- eral students in seminar during the academic year 1920-21: Sources of supply of labor; selecting unskilled labor; illiterate and non- English speaking labor; the personnel department and the wage ques- tion. DEPARTMENT or EDUCATION. Under the direction of the professor of industrial education (Geo. E. Myers) courses have been conducted in Grand Rapids for training of foremen. A brief outline of the course is given in the report of Committee on Foremanship Training j)f the National Association of Corporation Training. (See p. 118.) BUREAU OF MENTAL TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS. Guy M. Whipple, director. The work of this bureau in the department of education has consisted of studies of the intelligence of students who are failing in their university work. The director is the author of "Manual of mental and physical tests" (2d eel., Baltimore, 1911-15, 2 vols.). UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Minneapolis, Minn. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (COLLEGE OF EDUCA- TION). M. E. Haggerty, head of department and dean of the college of education. A study on the relation of intelligence to the learning of telegraphy by Miss Margaretta Weber is in progress. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 187 DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY (( 'OKLEGE OF SCIENCE, LITESATURB, AND TIII-: A UTS i. Richard M. Elliott, professor. Tins department has just been reorganized and now includes for the first time a part-time nctor in industrial psychology. SCHOOL, OF BITMXESS. A program of two years' work offering basic training to (L) prospective heads of personnel in business establish- ments, and ('2) to persons who expect to participate as trained experts in the adjustment of matters pertaining to the employment of labor, is outlined in the bulletin of the university containing the announce- ment of the School of Business. This includes two quarter courses on industrial relations in the department of economics, by Dr. Z, C. Dickinson, and a course on employment psychology in the department of psychology, by Dr. J. J. B. Morgan. The first quarter's work in industrial relations, intended also for students of the liberal arts col- lege, covers the broader problems of labor policy, from the standpoint of management : the second course deals specifically with employment and personnel management; both include study of practice in repre- sentative establishments and written reports thereon. The course in employment psychology includes standardization of the personal interview, the principles and development of tests, and personnel ifieation: and independent investigations are required of each student. NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH. 4(>:> \Ye-i Twenty-third Street, New York, N. Y. Courses' in empiovisienl administration were, given, during 191ft- 1920 by the Bureau of Industrial Research (see p. 87) in affiliation with the New School of Social Research. These were designed to pro\'>de professional training in this field, but were discontinued in 1920. Din-ing the session 1920-21 a course in "problems of industrial rela- tions" was given at the New School by Mr. Ordway Tead, devoted to reh and critical analysis into the methods of administering the relations between management and men in industry. An advanced course on problems of American labor, intended to meet the needs of persons engaged in labor work or carrying on research in the field, is among those announced to be given by Dr. Leo Wolman in 1921-22, Wage adjustment, systems of industrial ^. workers' control, and trade-union policy are among the topics to be dealt with. In April, 1921, the first national conference on workers 9 education in the United States was held at the school by labor representatives and teachers in that field ; and as a result of this conference, the Work- ers' Educational Bureau of America was organized, with headquarters at the school. NEW YORK SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK. 105 East Twenty-second Street, New lorK> N. I. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY. The objectives of this department are (1) to provide vocational training for direct service in this field, (2) to make available such facts and sources of information concerning it as should be a part of the equipment of every intelligent social worker. The courses are conducted by John A. Fitch and Ordway Tead and include (27) psychology in industry; (121-122) principles 188 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. and practice of personnel administration. The latter includes field work in the employment departments of factories and stores in the vicinity. A study of one of the building trades-unions in New York City and a study of the place where personnel policy is decided upon in a selected group of corporations have recently been made. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. Washington Square, New York, N. Y. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, ACCOUNTS, AND FINANCE. In the Depart- ment of Business Management a course on labor and employment management (37-38) is given by J. D. Hackett, Thursday evenings, first and second terms, designed especially for the employees of pro- gressive concerns who wish to learn the methods which have proved successful in the most advanced plants of the country. In the seminar on management (101-102) by Prof. Galloway and others, special investigations by students and faculty on various manage- ment problems are discussed. During 1920-21 these included (1) working out of a bonus system in a large office, (2) lowering of labor turnover in factories. Courses are also given in the principles and methods of training employees (35-3G), industrial lunchroom management (39) and pre- vention and first aid for the industrial worker (40). TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS OF RETAIL SELLING. Norris A. Brisco, director. This school, recently established, prepares college graduates and others with equivalent general ability, who have passed satisfactorily a. personality test, for positions as teachers of salesman- ship in high schools or directors of training for department stores and for other managerial positions in retail stores. The general policy is determined by a committee of six merchants, three university and two public-school representatives. The so-called New York plan adopted is a two-year course, one-half the day being given to study and lectures, the other half to practical training in the stores. Work- ing fellowships from $700 to $1,000 are provided; and a. special coordinator devotes his time to investigation of store work for the guidance of the students. Instruction is given in retail salesmanship, methods of training, store organization, employment management, tests, ratings, and personnel problems, and in textiles, nontextiles, color and design. Each student prepares a written thesis from his observations and a study of some particular activity during his prac- tical training period. . NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. Evanston, 111. Walter Dill Scott, president. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, 31 Lake Street., Chicago, 111. Courses of instruction for employment managers, educational directors, labor managers, safety engineers, welfare directors, and others interested in employment and personnel problems are given in the evenings and on Saturday afternoons. They include : Employment management (second semester, Tuesday evenings), by Prof . Dutton and special lec- turers, dealing with methods and technique ; Personnel management (each semester, Saturday afternoons), by Mrs. Mary H. S. Hayes, in which the selection and 'handling of men is discussed from the basis of fundamental theory and emphasis is placed on aims and principles rather than on technique; Vocational and employment psychology (each semester, Monday evenings), by Prof. Webb. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 189 The Bureau of Business Research, which is an integral part of the school, conducts investigations regarding business principles and practice and provides research opportunities for graduate students. It has recently completed a survey of industrial and personnel prob- lems connected with the book and job printing industry in Chicago: Babcock, F. M. Apprenticeship and labor recruiting, book and job printing industry, Chicago, 111. 1921. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. Columbus, Ohio. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. Rudolph Pintner, professor of psy- chology. The following studies in the field of personnel research have been published by members of this department : Pintner, K., and Toops. H. A. Mental tests of unemployed men. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 1, No. 4, Dec., 1917, p. 325-341 ; v. 2, No. 1, Mar., 1918, p. 15-25.) Toops. H. A., and Pintner, R. Variability of the education of unemployed men. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 2, No. 3, Sept., 1918, p. 207-218.) Kducational differences among tradesmen. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 3, No. 1, Mar., UHl). p. :;M-H>.) IJurtt, Harold E. Employment psychology in the rubber industry. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 4, No. 1, Mar., 1920, p. 1-17.) The above studies of unemployed were made among persons regis- tering in the Ohio free employment offices. An investigation of vocational tests for agricultural engineers, by Dr. H. E. Burtt, is in progress. Dr. Burtt is giving courses in industrial psychology and is plan- ning to start a laboratory course in 1921-22 which will take the students out into the factories and business houses in Columbus in order to get practical experience in the field. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION. Dr. Emery R. Hayhurst, professor of hygiene and head of department. Beginning w it'll the academic year 1921-22, a special course in industrial medi- cine is offered under the administration of this department, to pre- pare recent graduates in medicine, both men and women, to become medical directors and supervisors in industrial and mercantile estab- lishments, and providing an interneship on a part-time basis in in- dustrial work. For the first year the number of students is limited to five, to assure their satisfactory placements for practical experi- ence in the industries of Columbus. In addition to hygiene and sani- tation as applied to industry, the economic placement of physically or mentally handicapped workers and the industrial rehabilitation of those suffering from all forms of temporary disablements are spe- cial features of this course. PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE. State College, Pa. ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION. Grain-dust explosion experi- ments have been conducted here in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture. (See p. 25.) UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia, Pa. SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HYGIENE. A. C. Abbott, M. D., director. The Industrial Hygiene Department of this school has conducted or collaborated in the following investigations : (a) Completed and results published: 190 III. NONOFFIClAXi AGKNCIES. A survey of the cigar-making industry in Philadelphia, made in collaboration with the Clinic for Diseases of Occupation, University in University Hospital, for the Pennsylvania State Department of Labor; results published in Smyili. II. I'\. ami Miller. T. Grier. A hygienic survey of ci:,'.ir manufacturing in Philadelphia. (Medicine and Surgery. Sept.. 1917, p. 69S-7.18.) Miller, T. (J., and Smyth, H. F. The health hazards of clear manufacturing. (Penna. Med. Jour., Mar., 1918, v. 21, p. 360-364.) Field and laboratory studies of dust conditions in various indus- tries, in collaboration with the Clinic for Diseases of Occupation, University Hospital, published in Smyth, H. F., and Miller, T. (J. A preliminary report on dust studio-; in various industries. (Penna. Med. Jour.. Alar., 1018, v. 21, p. 364-367.) Miller, T. G., and Smyth. H. F. The dust hazard in certain industries. (Jour. Amer. MV-d. Assoc., Mar. 2, 1918, v. 70, p. ~>i9-G04.) Smyth. H. F. Su^vsted modifications of the standard method for the study of the dust content of air. (Amer. Jour. Pub. Health, Oct., 1918, v. S, p. 7G9- 771.) Smyth, H. F., and Iszard, Miriam S. The practical hygienic efficiency of the Palmer apparatus for determining dust in air. (Jour. Indu&t. Hyg., v. 3, Mo. 5, Sept., 1921, p. 159-167.) Field and laboratory investigations on the detection and estima- tion of anilin fume in the air of departments of an anilin and inter- mediate products plant, published in Iszard, Miriam S. Determination of aniliu vapors in the air. (Jour. Indus!. Hyg., v. 2, No. 7, Nov., 1920, p. 259-266.) Estimation of toxic water soluble dust with the Palmer apparatus. (Idem, v. 2, No. 9, Jan., 1921. p. 344-347.) A survey and study of the anthrax problem in the horsehair- dress- ing industry in Philadelphia, in collaboration with the Division of Hygiene and Engineering, Pennsylvania State Department of Labor; results published in Smyth. H. F. The anthrax problem in horsehair. (Jour. Indus}. Hv^., v. 2, No. 11. Mar., 1021, p. 423-182.) (b) Completed but results not as yet published: Investigations of CO 2 and CO content of air in various depart- ments of a felt-hat factory; survey of women in industry in Phila- delphia after the war (master's thesis) ; inspection of an organic color mixing plant for the Philadelphia Department of Health. In collaboration with the Clinic for Diseases of Occupation, Uni- versity Hospital : Investigation of the cause of and prevention of out- breaks of oil grinder's furunculosis in a steel ball-hearing factory; physical examinations, sputum examinations, and X-rays of the lungs of workers in stove foundries, (c) In progress: Study of the Schattenfroh and other methods of disinfecting hides for anthrax; laboratory studies on the fate and effects of various industrial dusts inhaled by animals. (d) Planned for the immediate future: Studies on the relative resistance to tubercular and other affec- tions of animals exposed to various industrial dusts. In collaboration with the Henry Phipps Institute, Philadelphia: Surveys of industrial hygiene conditions in various industries in conjunction with physical examinations of employees. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 191 In addition to the alx>ve research work, the public health students make weekly inspection trips during: the second semester to various industrial establishments, during which trips advice and criticism is often asked for by plant officials and gladly given by the department representatives. HENRY PHIPPS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS. Seventh and Lombard Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. H. R. M. Landis, M. D., director of Clinical and Sociological Depart- ments. This institute, established in 1903 and supported up to May, 1919, entirely by funds donated by Mr. Henry Jrhipps, is said to be the first organization brought into existence for the express purpose of eradicating tuberculosis through intensive and scientific research. Since July 1, 1910, it has been under the supervision of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Three industrial hygiene studies made under its auspices have been published, viz : Factors aftVctiiig the health of garment makers. By H. R. M. Landis and Janice S. Reed. (8th report of the Henry Phipps Institute. Philadelphia, 1915. 104 p.) A llontgpnologiral study of the effects of dust inhalation upon the lungs. By H. K. Pain -oast. T. <;. Miller, and H. R. M. Landis. (Am. Jour, of Roent- genol'-.gy. v. ",, No. 3, Mar., 1918, p. 12^-138.) The pathological mid clinical manifestations following the inhalation of dust. P.y II. U. M. Landis. (Jour. Indust. Hyg., v. 1, No. 3, July, 1919, p. U7-131U A survey of policemen and firemen in Philadelphia has recently been completed, but the data obtained is not yet ready for publica- tion. WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND COMMERCE. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. One of the three-year courses of study in this school covers the field of labor management (Prof. J. EC Willits, adviser). In the senior year this includes the following courses (each two hours, t>oth terms) in the department of geography and industry : 9, Field work in industry (inspection of management problems in manufac- turing establishments) ; 10, Industrial relations and employment management: 11, Research in management (an intensive study of a management problem of a specific industrial plant in the Philadel- phia district) ; 12, Industrial policy. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. Joseph H. Willits, di- rector. Established at the Wharton School of Finance and Com- merce early in 1921, the purpose of this department is to " apply the methods of thorough scientific research to various fundamental prob- lems in industry, such as industrial relations, so that human well- being, and especially the more general distribution of human well- being, may be increased, and to provide a bureau to which the various elements of the industrial community may turn for scientific research on industrial problems." The University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Philadelphia Association for the Discussion of Employment Problems, and 15 firms representing the machine, 192 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. textile, transportation, and publishing industries have agreed to co- operate in its establishment and support. The Carnegie Corporation of New York has granted $50,000 per annum for five years on the condition, which has been met, that $10,000 is contributed locally. The funds will be administered by the trustees of the university. Research conducted will follow the cooperative method, the per- sonnel of the firms cooperating being available for laboratory pur- poses. The tentative program of subjects to be studied covers (a) industrial education and training (including foremen's courses, job analyses from standpoint of teachable content) ; (b) selection and guidance (including psychological and trade tests) ; (c) stabiliza- tion of work and workers (steadying of production, unemployment funds, studies of turnover and absenteeism) ; (<7) physiological prob- lems (fatigue, results of medical and health work in terms of sta- bility and productivity) ; (e) wages, standards, and cost of living; (/) plant relations with the community (public emplo3^ment bu- reaus, public schools, State labor department). The installation of uniform records to secure comparable information from the cooperat- ing concerns is to be undertaken immediately and a special evening training course in personnel work is to be given for employees se- lected by the cooperating firmfe. Three investigations are in progress: (1)A study in foreman training, undertaken at the request of the Philadelphia Association for the Discussion of Employment Problems, to evaluate the results of the 20-week course for foremen given by that association, by in- terviews with a considerable number of the TOO foremen who took the course; (2) a study of plant publications; (3) a study of the causes of leaving, being made cooperatively with a group of con- cerns which regularly report their " leaves " to the department. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. Bigelow Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Pa. SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. A course on personnel administration, two hours each week throughout the year, is given by Mr. B. F. Ashe, employment manager for the American Zinc & Chemical Co., Langeloth, Pa. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING. F. L. Bishop, dean. The cooperative plan of engineering education, which has been in operation in this school since 1911, is described in a special issue of the university bul- letin. The freshman year, the summer term following, the sophomore year, and the senior year are spent entirely in school ; the intervening terms of the sophomore and junior years are spent alternately in the school and in the cooperative work in engineering industries of the Pittsburgh district, each class being divided into two sections for this purpose. PRINCE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FOR STORE SERVICE. 66 Beacon Street, Boston. Mass. Mrs. Lucinda Wyrnan Prince, director. Established in 1905 as the School of Salesmanship at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston (see p. 163) ; in 1918 the school moved into quarters of its own and the present name was adopted. Its original object was to provide training for saleswomen in department stores. The chief purpose of the school now is to train UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 193 personnel executives educational directors, employment managers, superintendents for stores and, to an increasing extent, for fac- tories. It is affiliated with Simmons College, and the National Re- tail Dry Goods Association (see p. 133) and the Boston merchants have cooperated in its support. A history of this school, together with an account of the training methods developed, under the title " Department store education," by Helen Rich Norton has been pub- lished by United States Bureau of Education as its Bulletin (1917) No. 9. The director of the school is the author of Bulletin No. 22 (Com- mercial Education Series No. 1), " Retail selling" (103 p.), issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education in 1919. PRINCE ALUMNA ASSOCIATION holds its annual meeting at the same time as the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Sessions are de- voted to the presentation and discussion of educational, employment and research work in stores and to the work of teachers of retail selling in the public schools. Its publication The Prince Alumnae A'ctt-x contains papers on department store personnel work. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Princeton, N. J. PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. H. C. McComas, director. The con- tributions from this laboratory include the following monographs on mental tests : Briglmm, C. C. Two studies in mental tests: I. Variable factors in the I'.iiuM tests. II. The diagnostic value of some mental tests. 1917. 254 p. (Tsycliol. Monographs, v. iM, No. 1, whole No. 102.) Doll. E. A. The .urowth of intelligence. 1921. 130 p. (Psychol. Mono- graphs, v. 29, No. 'J. whole No. 131.) A study in tests of mechanical ingenuity, by S. W. Prince, has been completed recently but is not yet published. PURDUE UNIVERSITY. Lafayette, Ind. SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. George H. Shepard, pro- fessor of industrial engineering and management, is conducting tests to obtain quantitative data on the relation between rest periods dur- ing working hours in industry and production or output. A pre- liminary report on this year's tests was presented at the spring meet- ing, 1921, of the Society of Industrial Engineers; a final report is to be published in Industrial Management in the fall of 1921. It is expected that these tests will be continued from year to year as a regular feature of the work in industrial management at Purdue University. SIMMONS COLLEGE. Boston, Mass. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. In 1920 Dr. A. A. Roback, special instructor in psychology, prepared a 1 set of 12 tests for a general intelligence examination of the students of the college, which has been printed under the title "Roback mentality tests for superior adults." A report on this examination is published in The Simmons College Review (v. 3, No. 8, June, 1921, p. 313-318). SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK. During the past year the class in social inquiry, under the direction of Miss Lucile Eaves, made a study 70723 Bull. 29921 13 194 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. dealing with the employment of handicapped women. One thousand case records from the Bureau for the Handicapped, maintained by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, were tabulated. The results of the investigation have been published by the Union, with five other studies made by students in this school under the title " Gainful employment for handicapped women " (32 p.). In the previous year students in this class copied and tabulated the records of one thousand industrial accidents to wage-earning chil- dren 14 and 15 years of age reported to the Massachusetts Industrial Accident Board, 1918-19. The results of this study were published in The American Child (v. 2, No. 3, November, 1920, p. 222-232) and also as a separate pamphlet by the Women's Educational and Indus- trial Union. SMITH COLLEGE. Northampton, Mass. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL WORK. Prof. F. Stuart Chapin, director. A graduate professional school offering training courses in psychiatric social work, medical social work, and community serv- ice. It originated as an emergency training course in psychiatric social work established in 1918 by the authorities of Smith College and the Boston Psychopathic Hospital under the auspices of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene 28 (see p. 122) primarily to provide a supply of specially trained social workers to deal with mental and nervous cases among returned soldiers. The duration of the course is now 14 months, in three divisions a summer session of eight weeks of theoretical instruction, combined with clinical observation, at Smith College; a training period of nine months' practical instruction carried on in cooperation with hospitals and settlements (during 1920-21 in Boston, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, New York, and Philadelphia), and a concluding sum- mer session of eight weeks of advanced study. In the belief that the social worker with psychiatric experience will be of particular value in industrial personnel work, a beginning has been made in adapting the course to provide special preparation for the industrial field. It includes courses on social psychology, mental tests, case work, in- dustrial problems, and social psychiatry. Details are given in Bulle- tin of Smith College Training School for Social Work, 1921-22. The second session's work includes the preparation and writing of a thesis. The following are among the thesis subjects of the students completing the course in August, 1921 : Two studies of the results of vocational training under the Federal Board for Vocational Edu- cation (1) in 25 cases of dementia prsecox (or epilepsy), (2) in 25 cases of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; the epileptic in industry a study of 25 cases from Monson State Hospital and Boston Psychopathic Hospital out-patient department; a compari- son of employment of neuro-circulatory asthenia patients before and after military service; investigation of all cases in training in Minne- apolis and St. Paul, classified according to type of mental disorder, vocational training, previous training, etc.; the social and economic problems of 25 cases of epilepsy. 28 See also this committee's Reprints Xos. 35 and 46 from Mental Hygiene, v. 2, No. 4, p. 582-593, Oct. 1918; v. 3, No. 1, p. 59-64, Jan. 1010. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 195 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Thirty-fifth and University Avenues, Los Angeles, Calif. COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. A course of lectures and discussions on employment management is given by Prof. H. J. Stonier with the cooperation of the Employment Man- agers' Association of Los Angeles, by which a supervisor of employ- ment in some large business firm in the city lectures each week before the class (two units, throughout the year). A mimeographed outline of the course is available for distribution. A course on industrial management (including the efficiency movement, selecting and train- ing help, and training of future executives) is given by Mr. Clayton Rogers in the second semester (two units). SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. Syracuse, N. Y. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. J. Herman Wharton, dean. The courses of instruction in this school dealing with personnel mat- ters are : Psychology of personnel management and Applied psy- chology : mental and social measurements, by Prof. M. A. May (Busi- ness psychology 4 and 5, each three hours, first semester) ; Employ- ment and personnel management, by Dr. H. H. S. Aimes (three hours, second semester) ; Industrial hygiene, by Dr. F. W. Sears (Business administration 7, two hours, first semester). UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. Austin, Tex. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. Thomas R. Garth, professor; Spe- cial studies have been made in this department on mental fatigue and racial differences: Garth, Thomas U. Racial differences in mental fatigue. (Jour. App. Psychol., v. 4, Nos. 2-3, June-Sept., 1920, p. 235-244.) The results of some tests on full and mixed blood Indians. (Psychol. Bull., v. 18. No. 2. Feb., 1921, p. 94-95.) UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Seattle, Wash. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. Stevenson Smith, head of depart- ment. This department has standardized two sets of general intel- ligence tests and is at present engaged in testing students of the university with a new form of group test. This material has not yet been published. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. St. Louis, Mo. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE. Course 60, Employment problems, given by Prof. G. W. Stephens (three hours a week, second semester) , deals principally with the various wage systems, selection of employees, records of employees, welfare and betterment work. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. Madison, Wis. BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Willis Wis- ler, chief. This bureau, established 1920 in the University Extension Division, aims to furnish three types of service : 1. A central library and research laboratory to serve as a practical clearing house for the best practices in the field of industrial and commercial relations. 196 T II. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. 2. A monthly bulletin service on timely and fundamental topics, mechanically arranged to admit of convenient filing and indexing. 3. A consulting service where other professional services are not available. From time to time special bulletins will be prepared along lines indicated by the interest and inquiries of employers and employees. This service is intended for the entire public affected by industrial and commercial relations and of necessity must confine itself to legitimately informational and educational treatments of problems presented to it for aid or solution. In conjunction with several de- partments of the university a plan is being worked out for detailing, by special arrangement, advanced students to special projects in industrial units, working under the close supervision of their depart- ments and of this bureau. A series of circulars (mimeographed) has been issued. 1920-21. as follows : No. 1, Explanation of plan (2 p.). No. 2, A labor policy and the labor audit (13 p.). Special No. 2-A, A labor audit specimen report (14 p.). No. 3, The cycle of employment (10 p.). Nos. 3-A, 3-B, Employment forms and routine (13, 6 p.). No. 3-C, Employment forms and routine for the small plant (5 p.). No. 4, Job analysis (15 p.). No. 5, Absenteeism (7 p.). No. 5-A, Absentee; forms and routine ( 11 p. ) . No. 6, Plant organs (7 p. ) . No. 7, Practical methods for selecting employees (9 p.). No. 8, Wages, earnings, and incentives (13 p.). No. 8-A, Audit of a gain-sharing wage plan (7 p.). No. 10-A, Industrial rep- resentation plans in open-shop plants (13 p.).. No. 9, Industrial housing, is in preparation. DEPARTMENT or ECONOMICS. John R. Commons, professor of eco- nomics. A two-semester course of instruction in labor management (Economics 149) is given in this department by Mr. Wisler, in which the actual problems coming into the above bureau are used as labora- tory material. As far as possible, the theses are prepared for use by the Bureau of Commercial and Industrial Relations in its services to employers or labor unions; and each student is looked to for expert advice on the topics within the range of his thesis subject. In the second semester the employment practices of a variety of firms are analyzed and reported on by members of the class; and each par- ticular system is tried out in class, the student to whom it is assigned acting as labor manager, with others impersonating various types of applicants. A prerequisite course on employment management (Eco- nomics 171) is given by Mr. D. D. Lescohier. The research course, conducted by Prof. Commons with other in- structors in the department, is divided into four sections: (a) Labor legislation, (b) Labor history and industrial government, (c) Un- employment, causes and remedies, (d) Labor management. Doctoral dissertations in 1921 included Government in industry (O. F. Carpen- ter), Collective bargaining in the men's ready-made clothing indus- try (Jean Davis), Collective bargaining in the book and job printing industry (Ethel B. Dietrich), Wage measurement and the manage- ment of labor (A. P. Haake) ; for 1922, Employee participation in management of industry (H. H. Smith) and The labor union and production (Mrs. Glenn Turner) are announced. In 1921 the Mac- millan Co., New York, published a volume entitled "Industrial government" (425 p.), by Prof. Commons and others in the depart- ment, containing the results of field investigations of 18 experiments studied July-September, 1919. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. V. A. C. Henmon, director. A study on testing vocational aptitude for typesetting (compositors) by Prof. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 197 M. Y. O'Shea is in progress. Prof. Henmon is cooperating with Mr. Ruggles of the Wisconsin Civil Service Commission in devising a set of tests for aptitude as junior clerks. He is also completing the statistical work on his set of aptitude tests for aviators (published in Jour. App. Psychol., v. 3, No. 2, June, 1919, p. 103-109). Work on the problem of a team of tests for measuring physical efficiency is also in progress. PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. Clark L. Hull, director. Work on the following problems in personnel research is in progress is this laboratory: (1) To determine aptitude for learning lathe work (steel) in cooperation with the course in engineering shop prac- tice; (2) to determine aptitude for learning to operate knitting ma- chines in cooperation with a large hosiery company (this will- prob- ably be published in the Journal of Applied Psychology when com- pleted) ; (3) to determine aptitude for becoming "maters" of hose, that is, choosing from stock pairs of hose which match in size and shade; (4) standardization of a set of tests for vocational aptitude in journalism in cooperation with Max Freyd of Carnegie Institute of Technology; (5) weighting a team of tests to determine skill in mechanical drawing. UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING. La ramie, Wyo. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY. Dr. June E. Dow- ney. An extensive report on the Will-Temperament, including di- rections for giving and scoring both the individual and the group form of the test is in preparation. The following papers on this subject have already appeared: The will-profile. (Univ. of Wyoming Bull., Dept. of Psychol., No. 3, 1919.) The adolescent will-profile. (Jour. Educ. Psychol., Mar., 1920.) Some volitional patterns revealed by the will-profile. (Jour. Exp. Psychol., Aug., 1920.) YALE UNIVERSITY. New Haven, Conn. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (GRADUATE SCHOOL). Dr. J. Crosby Chapman, associate professor of educational psychology, has recently issued the following work dealing with the trade tests used in the United States Army during the war period : Chapman, James Crosby. Trade tests; the scientific measurement of trade proficiency. New York. H. Holt & Co., 1921. ix, 435 p. The Psycho-Clinic (Dr. Arnold Gesell, director) is constantly deal- ing with personnel problems as represented by adolescents seeking employment, particularly those with subnormal or unstable constitu- tions. (See also p. 45.) PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. A contribution on "Psychological tests for stenographers and typewriters," by H. W. Rogers, was pub- lished in Journal of Applied Psychology (1917, v. 1, p. 268-274). The results of two years' research with empirical vocational tests to detect typing ability, and to predict ultimate physiological capa- city in typing are to be published in the fall of 1921 in the Archives of Psychology, Columbia University. A paper on " The analysis of trade ability," by E. S. Robinson, appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology (v. 3, No. 4, p. 352-357, Dec., 1919). 198 III. NONOFFICIAL AGENCIES. LABORATORY or APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY. Park and Oak Streets. Yandell Henderson, professor of applied physiology. The researches conducted in this laboratory have been mainly studies in the physi- ology and toxicology of gases, and the treatment of asphyxia, etc., particularly in connection with the United IjStates Bureau of Mines, to which Prof. Henderson is consulting physiologist, and, during the war, with the Chemical Warfare Service and the Medical Research Board of the Air Service. They include experimental studies of the various forms of mine-rescue oxygen helmets and their adaptation to the physiological needs of the wearer (Bureau of Mines Technical Paper Xo. 62) ; investigations of resuscitation apparatus, in connec- tion with the work of the commissions on resuscitation (see p. 125) of which Prof. Henderson was a member; the development of effi- cient gas masks for the military service and apparatus and methods of testing aviators in respect to their ability to withstand altitude, and of any oxygen inhaler to be used in the treatment of carbon monoxide asphyxiation. Dr. Henderson's studies for the Bureau of Mines on carbon monoxide poisoning and on resuscitation and arti- ficial respiration were published in the Journal of the American Medi- cal Association, 1916 (v. 67, p. 1-5, 580-583). In 1919-20 the staff of the laboratory investigated the physiological effects of automobile exhaust gas for the commissions of the States of Xew York and New Jersey in charge of the proposed vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River to establish standards for ventilation. The results, which are applicable to any tunnel, garage, or factory where the air is contaminated with the products of combustion and similar gases and vapors, have appeared in abbreviated form in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, July and August, 1921. The full report is in press as a bulletin of the Bureau of Mines and as part of the report of the chief engineer of the commissions. Other papers in this field have been published or completed for publication in various journals, as follows : The elimination of carbon monoxide from the blood after a dan serous degree of asphyxiation, and a therapy for accelerating the elimination, by Y. Henderson and H. W. Haggard. (J. Pharm. and Exp. Therap., 1920, v. 16, p. 11-20.) The anesthetic and convulsant effects of gasoline vapor, by H. W. Haggard. (J. Pharm. and Exp. Therap., 1920, v. 16, p. 401-404.) Respiration and blood alkali during carbon monoxide asphyxia, by II. W. Haggard and Y. Henderson. ( J. Biol. Chem., 1921, v. 47, p. 421-433.) The treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning, by Y. Henderson. (.T. Amer. Med. Assn., 1921, in press.) Studies in carbon monoxide asphyxia. I. The behavior of the heart. P.y H. W. Haggard. (Amer. J. Physiol,, 1921, v. 56, p. 390-403.) Two other studies in this series are ready for publication. Studies in hydrogen sulphide poisoning, I-III. By H. W. Haggard. (Ready for publication ; I to appear shortly in J. BioL Chem. ) The series of investigations is beinor continued for the Bureau of Mines and several researches are still incomplete. YALE UNIVERSITY School of Medicine. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. C.-E. A, Winslow, professor of public health. This department carries on research in indus- trial hygiene, particularly in conjunction with the Office of Indus- trial Hygiene and Sanitation of the United States Public Health Service. The latter has employed one or more sanitary experts and UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. 199 the Yale Medical School has provided the laboratory for carrying on the work. Special attention has been given to the dust hazard in industry. In addition, extensive factory surveys have been made and studies of illumination, ventilation, and general sanitary con- ditions have been conducted in many of the plants in the neighbor- hood of New Haven. The published results of these researches are as follows: Winslow, C.-E. A., Greenburg, L., and Angermyer, H. C. Standards for measuring the efficiency of exhaust systems in polishing shops. (U. S. Pub. Health Rep., Mar. 7, 1919, Reprint No. 509.) Winslow, C.-E. A., Greenburg, L. and D. The dust hazard in the abrasive industry. (U. S. Pub. Health Rep., May 30, 1919, Reprint No. 530.) Winslow, C.-E. A., Greenlmrg, L., and Reeves, E. H. The efficiency of cer- tain devices used for the protection of sand blasters against the dust hazard. (U. S. Pub. Health Rep., Mar. 5, 1920, Reprint No. 585.) Winslow, C.-E. A., and Greenburg, L. A study of the dust hazard in the wet and dry grinding shops of an ax factory. (U. S. Pub. Health Rep., Oct. 8, 1920, Reprint No. 616.) Winslow C.-E. A., and Greenburg, L. Industrial tuberculosis and the control of the factory dust problem. (Jour. Indust., Hyg., Jan.-Feb., 1921, v. 2, Nos. 9-10, p. 333-343, 378-395. ) Drury, W. H. The incidence of tuberculosis among polishers and grinders in an a'x factory. (U. S. Pub. Health Rep., Feb. 4, 1921, p. 159-178.) The following studies have been completed and are in press or unpublished : Winslow, C.-E. A., and Hewitt, E. L. The relation between katathermom- c>hT and temperature readings under ordinary indoor conditions. (In press.) Greonburg, L. Carbonated water as a source of five cases of lead poison- ing. ( Unpublished.) Winslow, C.-E. A., and Greenburg, L. A health survey of a small-arms manufacturing plant. (Unpublished.) Group of miscellaneous factory inspection studies. (Unpublished.) Extensive studies on the katathermometer (of Prof. Leonard Hill) are now in course of preparation. Since 1916 the university has offered courses in industrial hygiene to students in public health in the graduate school, and students have been given the opportunity of obtaining their final degrees on the basis of thesis work undertaken in industrial hazards. INDEX. A. Page. Abrasive plants, health hazards 38, 199 (See also Grinding wheels, safety codes.) Absenteeism _____________________ 22, 39, 86, 90, 117, 143, 173, 192, 196 Accident prevention ______________ 33, 57, 63, 81, 84, 90, 94, 95, 103, 111, 127, 133-135, 137, 139, 149, 158, 159 (.S'fie also under particular in- dustries.) Accident statistics, industrial, stan- dardization of __________________ 112 Accidents, industrial ______________ 19, 20, 21, 57, 59, 68, 145 To children _________________ 23,194 To women ___________________ 57 (Nrr ulno under particular in- dustries and occupations. Accounting education ___________ 126, 162 Acetylene ezploaibility of _________ 30 Acids. siiV handling ______________ 134 Aeronautics, safety code ---------- 31,74 Air conditioning _________________ 38,79 (,svr , ill IffiX* ' ^Kli'AlUet Wages and ^""-^-^-go.-gf 786, 118 Coal dust explosion tests 30 Coal mining industry : (See also Explosions; Mine safety ; Mine-rescue meth- ods.) > qn Accidents _ Health hazards 58, 118 Industrial relations 08, 14 Output |2 Training Wages and hours of labor 19, ^ Coke-oven accidents ^- ---/.- Collective bargaining 75, 161, 19b (See also Labor agreements.) Color blindness - --- <&, 77 Colored workers 24, 46, 97, 9, Comfortimeter 201 5(1 202 INDEX. Page. Commercial education 34, 85, 136, 147, 102 Compressed air, safety 45, 49, 61, 74, S2 Compressed-air disease 1T3 Conciliation and arbitration 19, 68 Confectionery manufacture, women's wages 50, 56 Construction industries : Industrial relations 144 Safety 74, 134, 159 Continuous industries 22, 68 Conveying and hoisting, safety 75, 135, 139 Cooperative plan of industrial edu- cation , 27 70, 71, 99, 130, 165, 173-174, 186, 192 Corporation schools 27, 85, 118-119 Corset industry, women's wages and home work 23, 50 Cost of living 19 21, 35, 45, 48, 56, 59, 62, 63, 75, 87,' 89, 96, 97, 113, 115, 124, 129, 147, 156. Cotton-gin fires 26 Cotton manufacturing : Accident prevention 21, 134 Hours of work as related to output and health _ 129 Training 25, 34 Wares and hours of labor 19 Cranes, safety 45, 61, 75, 134 Cutting oil dermatoses 38, 58, 135 Defectives, employment 45 Department stores. (See Retail stores.) Dermatoses _ 38, 58 (See also Skin diseases.) Dietaries 141 104 Disability among wage earners 22, 165 Disabled in industry, rehabilitation. 32, 35 47, 48, 59, 61, 63, 68, 108-110, 151, 189 Discharges and lay-offs 103, 155 Dress and waist industry. (See Clothing industries.) Dressmaking 20, 147, 164 Dust explosions 25 (See also Coal dust explosion tests.) Dust hazards 20, 30, 38, 137, 180, 181, 190, 191, 199 (See also Air conditions, Alumi- num dust ; Granite industry ; Metal mines.) Dust measurements 55, 80, 149, 185, 190 Dust phthisis 21, 30, 38, 144, 159 Dust removal , 53, 56, 199 Dye industry, health hazards-- 21, 38, 66, 71, 190 E. Efficiency of human body as a ma- chine 142, 176 Efficiency rating 27, 83, 106, 150, 156 Electrical equipment in mines, safety.: 30, 75 Electrical industries : Accident prevention 90, 100, 124 Training 33, 126, 186 Electrical power control safety codes 74, 101 Electrical safety codes 31, 45, 73, 74, 101, 125 Electrochemical plants, health hazards 38 Elevator safety codes 31, 45, 61, 63, 75, 81, 134 Emotions, psychological tests 183 Employee representation 105, 111, 119, 148, 196 (/See also Shop committees ; Works' councils.) Employment 19, 20, 21, 57- 98 Regularity of_ 20, 21, 24, 67, 68, 80. 115 Stabilization of 103, 154, 192 Employment certificates 22 Page. Employment management 20,21,33,41, 60, 67, 68, 71, 85, 100, 101, 103, 105 118, 119, 156, 170, 172, 177, 179, 196 Courses of instruction- 88, 89, 166, 171, 175, 177, 178, 179, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 191, 192, 193, 195, 196 Employment managers' associations and conferences 19, 102, 105-108, 136, 14L>, 103 Employment offices : Private 44, 71 Public 20, 24, 59, 106, 112-113, 148 Engineering education 81, !>::, 152, 165, 174, 177, ISO. l!i> Engineers' salaries 69, 103 English teaching in industries 84, 178 Epileptics, employment of 194 Ether poisoning 181 Examinations : Civil service 32. 83 Clerical workers 32, 83, 177 Firemen 1 r>!> Street railway employees 71 (See alxt, Mental tests.) Executive ability tests 183 Executives, training of- 81,99, 119, 154, 111 Explosibility of: Acetylene 30 Coal dust 30 Grain dust L'O Mine gases 30 Explosions, prevention of : Grain elevators 20 Industrial plants 135 Mines 30 Explosives, manufacture, etc. : Health hazards 20 Safety codes and rules 49, 53, 61, 74, 110, 127 (See also Ether poisoning ; Mu- nition plants ; Trinitrotoluene poisoning.) Explosives, permissible in mines 29, 30 Explosives, transportation of 79 Export trade, training for 29 Eye injury and strain 104,112,152 Eye protection 31, 49, 61, 77, 123, 139 P. Factory schools 21, 150 Family budgets 21, 35, 46, 75, 87, 89, 114, 141, 173 Fatigue 38, 39, 62, 129, 148, 152, 154, 176, 180, 182, 184, 185, 186, 192. 195 Feeble-minded, employment of 46, 52, 122 Felt-hat industry, health hazards and sanitation 53, 56, 190 File clerks, tests 116, 150 Fire protection 53,56,60,61,73, 114, 125, 126-127, 134, 135 First-aid 29, 30, 49, 54, 95, 188 Five-and-ten-cent stores 57 Food products manufacture : Health of workers 65, 118 Women's wages 50 Foreign commerce, training for_ 29, 34, 119 Foreman training- 25, 33, 34, 48, 55, 91, 1 01, 106, 111, 119, 134, 149, 150, 186, 192 Foundries : Health hazards and workhag conditions 38, 49, 54, 127, 190 Safety codes and rules 61, 74, 128, 135, 159 Training 25 Fur trade, Health hazards 65 Fumes : Health hazards 20, 40 Removal 53, 56 Furniture manufacture, Wages and hours 19 Furunculosis__ 58, 190 G. Galvanizing industry, safety stand- ards __ 01 INDEX. 203 Page. Garages, health hazards 56, 66 (Garment trades. (See Clothing in- dustries.) Gas and electric welding, safety 134 Gas manufacture : Accident statistics 76 Accident prevention 31, 75 Health hazards 38,66 Gas masks 30, 198 Gas safety code. 31, 74, 75 Gasoline engine exhaust gas, effects of 58, 198 Gasoline hazards 30, 198 Glare from reflecting surfaces 104 Glass industry, health hazards 38, 145 Government employees : Classification 28, 36, 69, 83, 94, 103 Personnel administration.. 22, 27, 110 Retirement 110 Training 28 AVelfare work 37 (,svf also Civil Service.) Grain-dust explosions 25, 26 Granite industry, health hazards. 21, Graphic rating 150', 151 Grinding and polishing, employment of women 57, 63 Grinding wheels, safety codes 53. 61, 74, 103, 112, 130, 134, 159 Group insurance 116, 119, 161 H. Handicapped, opportunities for 35, 41, 47, 48, r,2. .V.I. r,i. r,3. 68, 84, 109, 179 Handicapped women, gainful employ- ment for 194 Head and eye protection, safety code 31, 61, 73 Headache, as occupational com- plaint 181 Health education 66, 114, 116, 118, 119, 129, 151, 164-H55 Health hazards 37-39, 40, 58, 118 (See nlxo Industrial hygiene; and under particular indus- tries and occupations.) Health in mercantile establishments. 181 Health insurance 68,122,143 Heart disease. employees handi- capped by I lout dissipation from human body Heat hazard in industries Hollerith machine operatives, tests 1<6 Home work 23,60,96,97,167 Hookworm infection in mines H<>rsr-hair industry, health hazards- 190 (Nrc also Anthrax.) Hosiery and knit-goods manufacture : Aptitude tests 197 lloursi of labor Wages 19, 50 Hotels, women's wages 46, 50, 58 ^SSftSSSi (See also under particular in- dustries and occupations.) Hours of work for women 23, 62, 124 Housing 21, 44, 105, 119, 140 Humidity, effects of 40,55,80 Hydrogen sulphide poisoning 198 I. Immigrants in industry : Education 26, 47, 48, 84, 93 Personnel problems 44. 47, 56, 60, 92, 106, 113, 164, 186 Incentives 94, 146, 172/196 (,svr also Bonus system ; Profit sharing; Stock ownership; Wage payment plans.) Industrial capacity scale_ T 158 Industrial education 26, 27, 34, 81, 102, 130, 154 Industrial espionage 27, 92 20, 21. 74, 148 30, 38, 39 Page. Industrial hygiene 19 20, 21, 37-40, 53, 56, 61, 65, 69, 76, 78, 93, 94, 95, 151, 180-182, 190 Study and teaching 22, 152, 168, 180, 184, 185, 189, 199 Industrial medical departments 95, 129 (See also Medical care of indus- trial workers.) Industrial physiology 23, 38, 40, 152, 176, 184 (See also Fatigue; Nutrition; Strength tests.) Industrial relations 60 67, 68, 76, 81, 86, 88, 90, 94, 103, 105-106, 117, 128, 140, 148, 153, 156, 161, 183, 187 Industrial surveys 20, 23, 60, 145 Infections following industrial ac- cidents 59 Inflammable liquids 127 Influenza epidemic 39, 152 Information services _ 104, 132 Ink dermatosis 33 Intelligence tests. (See Mental tests.) Interest in the job 183 Internal-combustion engines, safety, 75 Interviews 150 Introducing the new worker 106 Iron and steel industry : Accidents and accident preven- tion Health hazards Personnel management ( 105 Three-shift day 92, 156, 157, 176 Wages and hours 19, 148 J. Job analysis 106, 119, 145, 170, 183, 196 Chemical industry 168 Clothing industry 86 Commercial occupations 34 Executives 171 Machinist's trade 34 Mining occupations 34 Paper and pulp industry 157 Pottery industry 34 Railway car men 75 Railway boilermaker's trade 34 Shipyard occupations 33 Textile trades 34 (See also Occupations, descrip- tions of.) Job selling 59 Job specification's 33, 42, 106, 170 Joint relations - 156, 161, 187 (See also Employee representation ; Labor agreements.) Jute industry, English lessons 178 Juvenile placement 22, 24, 66, 99, 162 K. Katathermometer 55, 199 Labor adjustment 21, 48, 87, 106, 187 Labor agreements, awards and de- cisions 21, 129, 161 (See also Collective bargaining.) Labor audits 33, 89, 196 Labor camps 44, 47, 59, 60 Labor laws 19, 21, 57, 68 (See also Hours of labor for women ; Minimum wage; Workmen's compensation.) Labor organizations : Current information about 21, 57 Records 115 Research bureaus for 67, 75, 113, 114, 115, 164 (See also Trade-union policy.) Labor spy i 27, 92 204 INDEX. Page. Labor turnover 22, 25, a: 1 ., 75, 100, 101, 103, 117, 119, 150, 156, 167, 170, 173, 179, 188, 192 Women employers 2:; Ladders, safety codes 61, 74, 82, 134 Lake Carriers' Association 20 Laundries : Health hazards 49, 55, r.5 Safety and sanitation 45, 54 Women's wages and working conditions-- 20, 45, 46, 50, 58, 5'.', IKS Lead corroding and oxidizing, safety standards 53, 01 Lead poisoning 20, 21, 38, 53, 56, 58, 66, 117, 173, 181, 199 Learners 45, 46, 11 1 Lighting 38, 104, 114, 139, 156, 167, 1S5 Lighting codes 4f>, 53, 61, 63, 74, 104, 134, 151) Lightning protection 31, 74 Literacy tests 42 Lithography, training 25 Locomotive boilers, safety 36, 75 Locomotive firemen 15i) Logging, safety code 31, 45, 74, 155 Longshoremen 148 Lumber industry : Accident prevention 31, 45, 74, 155 Wages and hours of labor 19 Lunch rooms, employees' 54, 106, 188 M. Machine building : Accident prevention 21, 61 Training 34 Machine tools, safety code 61,74, 130, 139 Machinists, oil dermatoses 38, 58, 104 Magnetic field as industrial hazard 181 Malnutrition 87, 141 Management terminology 81 Manganese poisoning 180 Meal period 63 Meat-packing industry : Personnel management 105 Safety 134 Wages and hours 19, 173 Mechanical aptitude tests 43, 65, 174, 177, 193 Medical care of industrial workers. 3S, 49, 54, 94, 95, 100, 112, 129 Men's clothing industry. (See Cloth- ing industry.) Mental alertness standards 150 Mental hygiene of industry 51, 76, 102, 117, 122, 123, 155 Mental tests 32, 42, 44, 51, 52, 53, 64, 65, 77-78, 83, 87, 91, 93. 106, 115, 116, 119, 120, 131, 132, 143, 150, 151, 153, 158, 166, 172, 174, 175, 177, 178, 180, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 193, 195 (See also Aptitude tests ; Me- chanical aptitude tests ; Sten- ography ; Telegraphers ; Tele- phone operators ; Trade tests ; Typewriting, etc.) Mental work : Effect of air conditions on Effect of fatigue on 186 Effect of smoking on 136 Mercury fulminate, action on the skin 40 Mercury poisoning 66, 122 Metal mines : Accidents and accident preven- tion 30, 45, 61 Health hazards 30, 38, 63 Metal trades : Aptitude tests 197 Classification 50 Employment of women 63, 65, 129 Hours of work in relation to out- put and health 129 Personnel management 105 Training 33, 34, 130, 147, 169 Safety 134, 159 Wages and hours 50 Page. Metallurgical works, accident statis- tics 30 Migratory labor 44 Military personnel problems 131,132 Milinery industry.. 50,56,6(5,147,148,164 Mine gases, explosibility 30 Mine-rescue methods and appa- ratus 29, 30, 198 Mine safety 29, 30, 45, i::4, i:;r> Aimer's consumption .'!8, 143 Miner's nystagmus 30 Minimum wage 20 21, 45, 46, 50, 56, 57, 59, 62, 124 Morbidity statistics, industrial,. 39 78-79, 117, 125 Mortality statistics, industrial 20, 39, 118, 144 Mothers in industry 97, 107 173 Motormen, psychological tests for.. .io, 143 Municipal employees 89, 140 Munition plants : Employment of women 148 Health hazards 38, 54, 58, 173 Muscular work : Effect of air conditions on 55 Effect of food on 141 Musical talent, tests 184 Mutual relief associations, Govern- ment employees 21 IV. National electrical fire code... 73, 127 National electrical safety code National War Labor P,oaW__ Navy education system 36 Negro workers 24,46-47.178 Negro women in industry 24 05 5>7 <)S Night work for womon. 56, 96, 97, 124, 173 Nitro and amido compounds, safetv codes, 54,61,71,75 Nursing, industrial 108 Nutrition 132, 141 Nystagmus, miner's ' 30 O. Occupation neuroses 51 Occupational diseases __ 20, 21, 22, 30, 37-40, 56, 57, 58, 68, 69, 70, 76, 117, .144, 145, 150. 173, 181, 190 (See also Headache ; Poisons ; Skin diseases ; Tuberculosis, etc.) Occupations : Descriptions of 21, 35, 41, 50, 179 For minors 22, 99, 147, 164, 169, 173 For women 20, 23, 64- 65, 71, 90-91, 97, 162, 163, 164, 165 Office employees, mental alertness tests and scores 150 (See also Clerical workers ; ex- aminations.) Office-work training 119 Oil folliculitis 181 Old age, provision for 164 Open shop 88, 127, 130, 141, 160, 196 Organic accelerators, poisoning by 70 Output 129, 156, 1S6 Overall industry, training 25 Overtime, railroad shops 41, 75 P. 1 Os Packer's itch Paint and dry color trades, health hazards and safety standards 54, 61 Painters, health hazards 20,66,173 (See ateo Lead poisoning.) tine 115 Painting and decorating industry Paper and pulp industry: Employment of women 63 Safety 74, 134, 135, 1 .">!) Training . 157, 17S Welfare work 177 INDEX. 205 Paper box industry : Page. Training , 25, 97 Women's wages and working conditions 50, 56, 57 Para/ol, poisonous properties 40 Part-time education 162, 169 Pearl-button manufacture, health hazards 54, 56, 184 Pellagra, cotton mill villages 40 Pensions : Industrial 121, 140 Policemen's and firemen's 140 Teachers' 110, 140 Personnel management. (See Em- ployment management.) Personnel research 21, ::r,. 133, 143, 150. 154, 169, 191 Petroleum industry, wages and hours 20 Phosphorus, white or yellow 40 Photolithography, training 25 Physical examination 41, r><>. 06, 83, 89, 95, 112, 116 Physical standards for working children 22,61,64 Piano making, training 25 Plant disability funds 57 Plant publications 192,196 Plumbism. (See Lead poisoning.) Pneumatic hammers, effect of 21, 38 Poisons, industrial 20, 21, 22, 37, 40, 180, 181 i X( f f/7.so Arsenic ; Carbon mo- noxide ; Ether; Hydrogen sulphide : Lead ; Manganese ; Mercury ; Organic acceler- ators ; ' Tellurium ; Tetra- chlorethane ; Trinitrotoluene, etc.) Postal employees, working condi- tions 37 Posture 57, 77 Pottery industry, health hazards 20,38, 54, 50 Power press, safety codes 49,74. 134 Power transmission, safety codes 61, 74, PrieesJ. ' 19,21 Printing trades: Aptitude tests 196 Collective bargaining 101 Prison industries 53, 123 Production standards ~ _-- 8S, 15 g 4j (Nrr alxft Clothing industries; Production standards.) Promotion examinations 3 Promotion lines 1' Profit-sharing _ 2 l'??A 119, 121, 129. 161, 196 Prone pressure method of resuscita- tion Proof renders Psychiatric examination 51,122,123 Psychiatric social work 51, 155, 194 Psychological tests. (See Mental Psephologists 78, 132 Psychopathic employees.- 51, 122, 123, Io5 i x< r alxo Defectives; Feeble- minded.) Public utilities, personal manage- ment_- 90, 105, 106, 124, 134 a. Qualification cards 150 Quantity budgets 21, 89 Quarrying : Accidents and accident preven- tion 30, 45, 61 Quarry rying Continued. ^ealth hazards 20, 137 (See also Granite industry, Stone cutters.) R. Race characters 132, 178, 195 Radio mechanics and operators, training 32, 33 Railings, toe-boards, etc., safety codes 61, 74 Railroad employees : Classification 41 Labor adjustment 40 Personnel management 79, 105 Training 27, 119, 147 Turnover and unemployment 75 Wages and working conditions. 41, 75 Rating scales 83, 119, 132, 146, 150, 151, 158 Refrigeration safety code 74, 82 Rehabilitation of disabled 32, 35, 47, 48, 61, 63, 68,. 108-110 Research talent 132 Respiratory diseases in industry 20, 144, 145 Rest day M - 21,68 Rest periods 129, 186, 193 Restaurants, women's wages and working conditions 46, 50, 58, 97 Resuscitation : From electric shock 125, 198 From mine gases 30, 198 Retail stores : Health and medical service 181 Hours and working conditions-- 20, 97 Opportunities for women 91 Personnel management 90, 105, 146, 148, 150, 176, 177 Training 27, 34, 133, 136, 146, 147, 164, 169, 171, 188, 192 Unemployment 20 Wages 20, 46, 50, 57, 58, 133 Welfare work 121 Riveters, output of 186 Rubber industry : Employment psychology in 189 Health hazards 20, 63, 70 Safety 134 Training 25, 165 S. Safe clothing 61,134 Safety codes and rules 44-45, 49, 53, 56, 60, 61, 63, 72-75, 81, 82, 139 Safety devices 96, 125, 128, 134,149, 150, 159, 160 Safety lamps 30, 34, 75 Safety organization 20, 50, 57, 60, 61, 85, 90, 94, 133-135, 149 Salesmen : Incentives 126, 170 Selecting and developing 170, 176 (See also Retail stores.) Sanitation, Industrial ~ll~~134'l51 (See also Industrial hygiene.)' Sawmills, safety code 31, 45, 155 Scaffolding, safety codes 61, 134, 159 Scientific management 156, 157 Seaman 68, 115 Seasonal employment .48, 148 Seats for workers 57,77,96,181 Selection and placement of em- ~~8ri5iri69ri76ri86ri88, 196 (See also Employment manage- ment; Mental tests.) Shipbuilding : Accident prevention 45 Labor adjusment 21, 41 Navy-yard wages of 6 7?Z Occupations - 33, 179 Training * Shirt makers : Production standards Training 25 Wages o(h 57 206 ! NDKX. Pnge. Shop committees 22, 88, 101, 106, 140. 161, 173 Sickness frequency among industrial employees ?9, 51, 57 Silk manufacturing : Hours of work as related to output and health 129 Wages and hours of labor 19 Skin diseases, occupational 25, 38, 40, 104, 135, 108 Smelting and refining, health haz- ards 20, 38 Smokeless powder manufacture, health hazards 181 Spoiled work 152 Spray method of finishing and deco- rating, health hazards 58 Stabilization of employment.. 103, 154, 192 Stairways, safety code 74, 127, 134 State labor bureaus 21, 44-64 Stationery manufacture, Women's wages ; 50 Steam engines and turbines, safety codes 61, 75, 134, 159 Steamship business, training for 29, 34 St-el strike of 1919 88 Sled workers. (See Iron and steel industry.) Stenography tests 43, 176, 183, 184, 197 Stock ownership by employees 94, 106, 119 Stone cutters, health hazards.. 20, 38, 137 Stop-watch time study 156 Storage battery manufacture, health hazards 20, 38 Street and interurban railways : Employment of women 23, 57, 63 Wages and hours 20, 48 Safety 50, 134 Training 71, 147 Strength tests in industry 185 Strikes and lockouts 21 Suggestion systems 135 T. T. N. T. poisoning 40, 152, 181 Tactile discrimination, influence of illumination on 140 Tanning industry : Health hazards and safety 25, 54, 74, 134, 155 Labor survey 88, 155 (See also Anthrax.) Tardiness 86 Teachers : Pensions 110, 140 Tests 177, 183 Teachers for Americanization, train- ing 20 Teachers of trades, training 27, 33, 34, 136, 172 Teachers of retail selling, train- ing 188, 193 Telegraphers, tests 172, 180, 186 Telephone exchanges, women's wages, hours, and working condi- tions 57, 58, 97, 98 Telephone operators, selection 176 Tellurium poisoning 39 Tetrachlorethane poisoning 181 Textile industries : Health of workers 38, 61 Safety 74, 134 (See also Cotton manu- facturing ; Silk manu- facturing ; Wool manu- facturing.) Three-shift system 92, 156, 157 Tile works, health hazards 20 Time study 156 Tobacco, effect on working ca- pacity 184, 186 Tobacco industry : Health hazards 49, 56, 61 Wages 57 Page. Trade ability, analysis of 1H7 Trade schools for girls 20,26,34, 130 Trade tests 24, 27, 43, 83, 150, 151, 174, l'.7 Trade-union policy 1ST, liMJ Trade unionism and temperament.. H'2 Training ur,, :;:j-34, 41- 42, 81, 90, 118-119, 121, 172, 179, 188 (See also under particular in- dustries and Vocational edu- cation ; Promotion lines.) Transfers and promotions 119 (See also Promotion examina- tions; Promotion lines.) Transportation employees, visual re- quirements 77 Trinitrotoluene poisoning _ 40, 151', 1 si Tuberculosis 20, 30, 38, 136-137, 159, 190, lit!) Tuberculous persons, employment and vocational rehabilitation 35, 137 Turpentine poisoning 66 Typewriting tests 43, 116, 172, 175, 176, 184, 197 U. Ultra-violet radiation, effect of 77,140 Unemployment 19, 20, 21, 51, 57, 67, 68, 69, 75, !>!>, 113, 122, 142, 156, 157, IS!) Unskilled labor 119, 186 V. Vacations 90, 106, 111 Ventilation 40, 53, 54-55, 56, 79, 80, 114, 130. 177. ls5 Ventilation codes 74, so. l:;r Vestibule schools 121,136 Visual acuity 38, 139, 167, Kis Visual judgments of size Vocational education 19 21, 26, 32-35, 64, 135, 147, 102, IfiS Vocational guidance 24, 26, 65, 66, 97, 138, 147. 16'J. 163, 166, 169, 178-179, 182, 1 sr, Vocational psychology 175, 179, 187, 188, 189, 19f> (See also Aptitude tests ; Men- tal tests; Trade tests.) W. Wage levels 106, 170 Wage payment plans 94, 101, 105, 123, 146, 163 (Sec also Incentives.) Wages 19, 21, 33, 36-37, 57, 59, 103, 129, 150, 170 (See alxo under particular in- dustries and occupations.) Waste in industry 103 Welfare work 21, 37, 94, 103, 121, 177 Will profile 197 White-lead works, health hazards.. : j ,s, ill Women as street-car conductors and ticket agents 23, 57, 63 Women in executive and technical positions 165 Women in industry 19, 20, 21, 23, 39, 45, 46, 49, 52, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 65, 68, 85, 94, 96, 117, 124, 129, 142, 148, 163, 164, 167, 190 Dependency on 23, 148 Health hazards 21,39,49 Shop clothing 61 Training 23, 34 Women in retail stores. (Sec Re- tail stores.) Women in the Government service 23, 83 Women's garment industries. ( vrr Clothing industries.) Wood alcohol, health hazards 56, 70 INDEX. 207 Page. Woodworking, safety codes 45, 61, 74, 112, 134, 139, 155 Wool manufacturing: Hours of work as related to out- put and health 129 Wages and hours 20, 115 Women workers. Workers' education 88, 187 Page. Workmen's compensation 19, 20, 21, 22, 57, 59, 68, 111-112, 138 Works' councils 129, 131, 148 Z. Zinc mines, health hazards and safety 38, 63 SERIES OF BULLETINS PUBLISHED BY THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. \ The publication of the annual and special reports and of the bimonthly bulletin was discontinued in July, 1912, and since that time a bulletin has been published at irregular intervals. Each number contains matter devoted to one of a series of general subjects. These bulletins are numbered consecutively, beginning with No. 101, and up to No. 236 they also carry consecutive numbers under each series. Beginning with No. 237 the serial numbering has been discontinued. A list of the series is given below. Under each is grouped all the bulletins which contain material relating to the subject matter of that series. A list of the reports and bulletin of the Bureau issued prior to July 1, 1912, will be furnished on applica- tion. The bulletins marked thus * are out of print.] Wholesale Prices. * Bui. 114. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1912. Bui. 149. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 191-,. * Bui. 173. Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States and foreign countries. Bui. 181. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1914. * Bui. 200. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 19ir>. Bui. 226. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1916. Bui. 269. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1919. Bui. 284. Index numbers of wholesale prices in the United States and foreign coun- tries. [Revision of Bulletin No. 173.] Bui. 296. Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1920. [In press.] Retail Prices and Cost of Living. * Bui. 105. Retail prices, 1890 to 1911 : Part I. Retail prices, 1890 to 1911 : Part II General tables. * Bui. 106. Retail prices, 1890 to June, 1912 : Part I. Retail prices, 1890 to Juno. 1911': Part II General tables. Bui. 108. Retail prices, 1890 to August, 1912. Bui. 110. Retail prices, 1890 to October, 1912. Bui. 113. Retail prices, 1890 to December, 1912. Bui. 11.",. Retail prices, 1890 to February, 1913. * Bui. 121. Sugar prices, from refiner to consumer. Bui. 125. Retail prices, 1890 to April, 1913. * Bui. 130. Wheat and flour prices, from farmer to consumer. Bui. 132. Retail prices, 1890 to June, 1913. Bui. 13(5. Retail prices, 1890 to August, 1913. Bui. 138. Retail prices, 1890 to October, 1913. * Bui. 140. Retail prkvs, 1890 to December, 1913. Bui. !"><;. Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1914.. Bui. 164. Butter prices, from producer- to consumer. Bui. 170. Foreign food prices as affected by the war. Bui. 184. Retail prices, 1907 to June, 1915. Bui. 197. Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1915. Bui. 228. Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1916. Bui. 270. Retail prices, 1913 to 1919. Wages and Hours of Labor. Bui. 116. Hours, earnings, and duration of employment of wage-earning women in selected industries in the District of Columbia. * Bui. 118. Ten-hour maximum working-day for women and young persons. Bui. 119. Working hours of women in the pea canneries of Wisconsin. * Bui. 128. Wages and hours of labor in the cotton, woolen, and silk industries, 1890 to 1912. * Bui. 129. Wages and hours of labor in the lumber, millwork, and furniture industries, 1890 to 1912. (I) 70723 Bull. 20921 14 Wages and Hours of Labor Concluded. * Bui. 131. Union scale of wages and hours of labor, 1907 to 1912. * Bui. 134. Wages ;nii-ex snaking as a trade for women in Massachusetts. ^ Bui. 215. Industrial experience of trade-school girls in Massachusetts. Bui. 217. Effect of workmen's compensation laws in diminishing the necessity of industrial employment of women and children. Bui. 223. Employment of women and juveniles in Great Britain during the war. Bui. 253. Women in the lead industry. Workmen's Insurance and Compensation (including laws relating thereto). Bnl. 101. Tare of tuberculosis wage earners in Germany. Bui. 102. British National Insurance Act, 1911. Bui. 103. Sickness and accident insurance law of Switzerland. Bui. 107. Law relating to insurance of salaried employees in Germany. * Bui. 126. Workmen's compensation laws of the United States and foreign countries. * Bui. 155. Compensation for accidents to employees of the United States. * Bui. 185. Compensation legislation of 1914 and 1915. Bull. 203. Workmen's compensation laws of the United States and foreign countries. Bui. 210. Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. Bui. 212. Proceedings of the conference on social insurance called by the Inter- ' national Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. Bui. 217. Effect of workmen's compensation laws in diminishing the necessity of industrial employment of women and children. Bui. 240. Comparison of workmen's compensation laws of the United States. Bui. 243. Workmen's compensation legislation in, the United States and foreign countries. Bui. 248. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. (HI) Workmen's Insurance and Compensation Concluded. 3ul. 264. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Me?ting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. Bui. 272. Workmen's compensation legislation of the United States and Canadk, 1919. Bui. 273. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions. Bui. 275. Comparison of workmen's compensation laws of the United State* ;i n