The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
Labor Year Book
To Be Published
Progress of Organized Workers to
Be Reported by Expert Writ
ers-Economic Problems
Discussed

One of the most important contribu-
tons to the literature of the labor
movement is Labor Year Book pre-
pared by the department of labor re-
search of the Rand School of Social
Science of New York, in cooperation
with a number of noted economists
and statiticians and students of the
labor movement
One of the greatest needs which
persons participating in the labor
movement have felt for some time is
the periodical publication of a year
book recording the progress of the
labor movement in the United States
from year to year. The Statesman's
Year Book, the American Year Book,
the World Almanac and other similar
annual publications contain a great
deal of useful information and are
valuable guides for the student of the
worlds progress. These publications,
however, are not interested particu-
larly to present in detail the progress
of the labor movement. They treat
the great labor events of the wear.
if they do at all, the same as they
would exports and imports of commoG-
tiles, etc.
Millions Are Affected
The labor movement has grown
large enough. Millions of people are
affected every year by the different
events taking place inside and outside
of the labor movement. The growth
of labor organizations, the results of
labOrs struggles for better conditions
of life and work, the activities of the
legislatures and the courts in behalf
and against the workers, the general
trend of social progress-all these
should be recorded every year and
brought to the attention of those en-
gagged in active service in the labor
movement.
To meet this dire need for intelli-
gent information concerning the labor
movement, the department of labor
research of the Rand School of Social
Science-a school devoted to the edu-
cation of Workers-has undertaken
the publication of a Labor Year Book. |
the first of its kind in the United
States. The progress of the Socialist.
labor and cooperative movements
here and abroad will be revised by
prominent authorities and a series of
articles on important social and eco
nomic questions will be included.
Among the subjects treated in those
articles are; Arbitration in Labor
Disputes, Earnings in the United
States, Public Education, Labor Legis
lation, Decisions of Courts Affecting
Labor, Scientific Management Prison
Labor, Social Insurance, Concentra-
ton of Wealth, Woman and Child
Labor, etc. The contributors include
. Professor Scott Nearing, DR.. I. NJ.
Rubinow, Clifford Pinchot, Morris
Hillquit Florence Kelley, James H.
Maurer president Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor; John r. Lawson
of the United Mine Workers. John
p. Frey of the International Molders'
union, and other specialists in diff
ferent fields of social and economic
endeavor.
Attracted Wide Attention
The proposed publication has al
ready attracted wide attention in la
Dor circles, and some of the most
prominent officials of the various la
Dor organizations are cooperating to
make this new venture in The labor
movement a success.
The Labor Year Book will be pub
lshed during the month of August.
1t will contain 800 pages of written
and tabular matter, and will be at
tractively printed. That the volume
will prove Indispensable to every ac-
tive worker in the labor movement
is the belief of those who have given
time and thought to the undertaking.
The Labor Year Book will mark a
new epoch in the development of