Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-04

The work which the census takers of the manufactures, mines and quar- ries will have to do is of much inter est here inaslnuch as Tyler D. Guy, who has charsse of it for this county, is a resident; Of this city
 J. Olin Howe, formerly of this city. chief special agent in charge of the manufacturing census for Connecticut. with Special Agent l.. E. Pangburn, commenced work Tuesday morning in room in the federal building on Church street. New Haven.
 The United States census bureau has
 sgun to take the federal census of Manufactures. mines, uuarries, petrole- um and natural gas for the year 1909, which comprises two of the principal Inquiries embraced in the thirteenth decennial census, the others being pop ulatfon and agriculture.
 The canvass is being made under the supervision of William M. Steuart, chief statistician for manufactures, and about 1.S00 special agents will be employed eventually in the work, and they are from day to day being ap- pointed by Director Durand from the eligible registers established as re- suit of the November examination O. candidates for these positions
 Director Durand has taken extraor- dfnary precautions to assure the man. ufacturers that all answers will b. held strictly confidential. This state ment is conspicuousiy displayed on the front pages of the various schedules. and 1t is also emphatical1y declared that no publication will be made in the census reports disclosing the name or operations of individual establish Inents in any particular The act of congress provides that the bureau of the census shall not permit any other than it's sworn employees to examine the individual reports. It provides also that any empIoye who shall without the authority of the director of the census. publish or communicate any mfr m ffnF fznr int n hi sion shall be guilty of misdeme anor, and upon conviction shall be f1nsd not to exceed $1,0o0 or be imprisoned not te exceed two years, or both, ;n the discretion of the court.
 There is but a limited time in which to complete this york; said Director Durand. sIt is essential that all the field employees exert themselves work will be reassigned to other dis frfcts and retained in the service until the work is finished.
 If manufacturers or others furnish ing data object to a supposed disclos- ure of the secrets of their business. the special agents will assure them that the results of their individual business will not be made public. They are required also to explain that the information will not be used for the purposes of taxation, nor in any man ner to identify the operations of the individual establishments. and will not uS OlSClOSeQ to any OLHeT OI federal government. The intent of the law, which will be strictly carried out, is to prevent the disclosure of infoc nation which might operate to the der- riment in any way of the person or establishment supplying it.
 The period covered will be, wher- ever possible. that of the year ending December 51. 1909. In the majority of cases the data can be secured for is. as the business year of most estab- lishments will correspond to the cal- endar year 1910. For establishments beginning operations for the first time during the year it will not be possib 2 to make the report cover more than the period actually embraced.
 "A manufacturing establishment which is the unit of enumeration for the census, is deemed to be one or more factories, mills or plants owned or controlled by one individual, part