The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
LABOR YEARBOOK
:. WILL B|E.PUBI||sHED
Progress Of Organized Workers
Will Be Reported by Expert y
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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS DISCUSSED
49, x II,
Publication Will Contain 800
Pages and Will Be Issued
ILL., SometimerIn August.

One of the most important contri-
buttons to the literature of the labor
movement is a Labor Year Book pre-
pared by the Department of Labor
Research Of the Rand School of So
cial~ Science Of New York, in cooper
alton with number of noted econo-
mists, and statisticians 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 periodic 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
publications contain a great deal of
useful information and are valuable
guides for the students Of the worlds
progress. These publications, how
ever, are not interested particularly
to present in detail the progress of
the labor movement. They treat the
great labor events of the year, if they
do at all, the same as they would ex-
ports and imports of commodities, etc.
Millions Are Effected.
The labor movement has. grown
large enough. Millions of people are
affected every year by the different
events taking place inside and out
side of the labor movement. The
growth of labor organizations. the re-
suits Of labor's struggles for better
conditions of life and work, the ac-
tivities Of the legislatures and the
courts in behalf and against the
workers, the general trend of social
progress,-all these should be re-
corded every year and broug hit to the
attention of those engaged in active
service in the labor movement.
i To meet this dire need for intelli-
gent information concerning the labor
movement the Department Of Labor
Research of the Rand School of So
cial Science-a school devoted to the
education of workers, has undertaken
the pull bHcat tions eE hor year book,
the first of It's kind in the United
States. The progress of the Socialist,
labor and cooperative movements
here and abroad will be reviewed by
prominent authorities and series Of
articles on important social and eco
u
Among the subjects treated in those
articles are: Arbitration in Labor
Disputes" Earnings in the United
States," "Public Education" Labor
Legislation" Decisions Of Courts A.
fecting labor Scientific Manage
ment," "Prison Labor. Social In
surance," Concentration of Wealth, !"
Woman and Child, Labor" etc. The
contributors include Prof. Scott Near
ing, DR.. I. M. Rubinow; Clifford Pin
chot, Morris Hillquit, Florence Kelley,
James HI. Maurer, President Pennsyl-
vania State Federation of Labor, John
r. Lawson. of the United Mine Work.
ers, John P. Frey, Of the International
Molders~ Union, and other specialists
in different fields of social and eco
nomic endeavor:
Is Wide Interest Shown.
The proposed publication has al
ready attracted wide attention in
labor circles, and some Of the most
prominent officials of the various
labor organizations are cooperating
to make this new venture in the labor
movement a success.
The Labor Year Book will be pub
1ished during the month Of August.
It will contain $40 pages of written
and tabular matter, and will be at
tractively printed. That the volume
will prove indispensable to every act
i've 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
labor literature in the United States.