FRANCE. Bureau de la Statistique Générale. Rapport relatif aux échelles di traitements, remises et indemnités fixes des fonctionnaires, agents, sous-agent et ouvriers de l'État rémunérés au mois, 1921-1931. (Extrait du Journ Officiel, Paris, November 24, 1931, pp. 1231–1416.) Salaries of French civil servants, railroad employees, and State employees wh are on a monthly rate of pay, 1921 to 1931. GREAT BRITAIN.-Board of Trade. Final report on the third census of producin of the United Kingdom (1924): Mines and quarries; the timber trades; mar factures of clay, stone, etc.; the building and contracting trades; public utā! services; and government departments, and an appendix containing gener statistical tables. London, 1932. 473 pp. Exchequer and Audit Department. Unemployment fund account, 199 Gives the balance sheet of the unemployment-insurance fund for the year ending March 31, 1931, showing a deficit of £75,471,692. INTERNATIONAL LABOR OFFICE. Occupation and health: An encyclopedia hygiene, pathology, and social welfare. Volume 1, A-H. Geneva, 19% 999 pp. (World Peace Foundation, American agent.) In this volume the brochures relating to different occupational hazards an published in alphabetical order. They cover those substances and hazards liste under A to H. The second volume, following the same form, will conclude the work. Studies and Reports, Series F, No. 5: Safety in the manufacture and use agent.) Supplementary report on the age of admission of children to employment in nonindustrial occupations. (Third item on agenda of International Laber Conference, 16th session, Geneva, April, 1932, second discussion.) Genera 1932. 52 pp. (World Peace Foundation, American agent.) LEAGUE OF NATIONS.-Section of Economic Relations. General report on the economic aspects of international industrial agreements. Geneva, 1931. 39 pp (World Peace Foundation, American agent.) LITHUANIA. Finanșu Ministerija. Centralinis Statistikos Biuras. Lietura statistikos metraštis, 1929-1930. Kovno, 1931. 473 pp. Contains data on wages of agricultural workers, employment and wages in industrial establishments, operations of sick and retirement funds, prices, cost of living, and cooperation. Tables are in Lithuanian and French. NETHERLAND EAST INDIES.-Departement van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel Centraal Kantoor voor de Statistiek. Indisch verslag, 1931. II. Statistise jaaroverzicht van Nederlandsch-Indië over het jaar 1930. Batavia, 1931. J pp. (In Dutch and English.) Statistical abstract for the Netherland East Indies for 1931. Contains data on housing, people's cooperative banks, cooperative societies, wages, recruitment of native labor, placement work, prices and cost of living, etc. NETHERLANDS.-Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. De crisisinvloed op ir bedrijfsleven. The Hague, 1931. 176 pp. (Bijlage van de Novembe aflevering 1931 van het Maandschrift.) Contains the results of an investigation of the influence of the present depressier upon factory industries, shipbuilding, mining, merchant shipping, and harts? work on October 1, 1931, including reports on inspection of harbor work, mining. and shipbuilding. For each industry reviewed comparative data are given for the three years 1929, 1930, and 1931. Jaarverslag over het jaar 1930. The Hague, 1931. 27 pp. Annual report on the activities of the Central Statistical Bureau of the Netherlands during 1930. Netherlands.-Centrale Commissie voor de Statistiek. Jaarverslag over het jaar 1930. The Hague, 1931. 43 pp. Annual report on the activities of the Central Statistical Commission of the Netherlands during 1930 in various economic fields, including information on charity relief, trade agreements, incomes and wages, housing, accidents, productivity indexes, etc. NORWAY.-Rikstrygdeverket. Syketrygden for året 1930. Oslo, 1931. 76 pp. (Norges Offisielle Statistikk, VIII, 169.) Annual report on public insurance against sickness during 1930 in Norway, including statistics of financial operations, such as contributions and other income, benefits, expenses for preventive measures, etc. Has French table of contents. NOVA SCOTIA (CANADA). Royal Commission Respecting the Coal Mines of Nova Scotia, 1932. Report. Halifax, Minister of Public Works and Mines, 1932. 32 pp. and appendixes. Reviewed in this issue. OSLO (NORWAY). Trygdekasse. Årsberetning 1930. Oslo, 1931. 71 pp. Annual report on public insurance against various risks in the city of Oslo, Norway, for 1930, including sickness insurance and maternity insurance. SIAM.-Department of General Statistics. Statistical yearbook of the Kingdom of Siam, 1929–30. [Bangkok?], Ministry of Finance, 1931. 478 pp., charts. (In English.) This fifteenth number of the yearbook includes data on prices and Government employees and pensions. SWEDEN. [Socialdepartementet.] Riksförsäkringsanstalten. Riksförsäkringsanstalten, år 1930. Stockholm, 1932. 32 pp. Report on the activities of the public insurance offices in Sweden during 1930, including information on insurance against accidents, sickness, old age and death, marriage endowment, etc. Includes table of contents and résumé in French.. Socialstyrelsen. Kooperativ verksamhet i Sverige, år 1929. Stockholm, 57 pp. 1931. Report on cooperative societies in Sweden in 1929. Résumé in French. Lönestatistisk årsbok för Sverige, 1930. Stockholm, 1931. 104 PP., map, charts. Statistics of wages in Sweden in 1930, published in Swedish, with French table of contents and résumé. Reports on wages and labor conditions in Sweden, and also in the other Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Norway, during 1930 and 1931, prepared by American consular representatives in those countries, were given in the Labor Review for April, 1932. SWITZERLAND.-Bureau Fédéral de Statistique. Les exploitations industrielles et commerciales en Suisse. Berne, 1931. 352 pp. This is the third volume of the Swiss industrial census of 1929. The tables give the number of employees, classified according to the type of enterprise, the number and type of establishments operating with and without power equipment, the number and type of home industries, and a classification of large and small industries showing the number employed in these industries. Département Fédéral de l'Économie Publique. Commission d'Étude des Report on how coffee prices are formed in Switzerland. One section deals with retail prices and price margins in various types of enterprises, including consumers' cooperative stores. Unofficial ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. Proceedings, Vol. XIV, No. 4: Can prices, prin duction, and employment be effectively regulated? A series of addresses as papers presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Political Science, November 13, 1931. New York, January, 1932. 146 pp. ALLEN, CLIFFORD. Labor's future at stake. London, George Allen & Unwin (Líd., 1932. 77 pp. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. The Annals, Vol. 1 i A collection of articles under the following major headings: The heritage of i the modern family; the American family in transition; and efforts at family sta bilization. Among the contributions bearing more directly upon economie problems are those on statistical analysis of the modern family, gainfully employed women in the family, family members as consumers, the family society and the depression, and the reorganization of household work. AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR the Blind (Inc.). Directory of activities for the blind in the United States and Canada. Second edition, edited by Lotta Stetson Rand. New York, 125 East 46th Street, 1932. 375 pp. This volume also includes data on sight-saving classes and organizations carrying on work for the prevention of blindness. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION. Committee on Research and Standards. Occupational disease legislation. New York, 450 Seventh Avenue, 1931. 124 pp. This report is the result of a study by a committee on standard practices in the problem of compensation for occupational diseases, organized in 1927. The purpose of the committee was to study and establish standard practices for the arbitration of claims arising in occupational disease cases under the workmen's compensation laws. The report is divided into five chapters: History of the extension of the workmen's compensation laws to include occupational diseases; Laws of European countries; Laws of South and Central America and Mexico; Laws of the British Empire; and Laws of the United States. AMERICAN YEAR BOOK. A record of events and progress, year 1931. New York, American Year Book Corporation, 1932. 937 pp. BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM H. Causes and cures of unemployment. New York, Long mans, Green & Co., 1931. 70 pp., charts. References with BUREAU OF RAILWAY ECONOMICS. Pensions in railway service. notes. Washington, 1932. 42 pp. (Mimeographed.) Part I contains a list of books and articles dealing with railway retirement pensions, arranged in chronological order, and with summaries of the more important points covered. Part II, taking up each railroad separately, gives a list of the articles, books, and pamphlets dealing with the pension plan of each. CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin 280: Farm power utilization and costs, South Carolina, by B. A. Russeli. Clemson College, S. C., 1931. 43 pp., map, diagrams, illus. COLE, G. D. H. British trade and industry, past and future. London, Macmillan & Co. (Ltd.), 1932. 466 pp., charts. CONFÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DES TRAVAILLEURS INTELLECTUELS. Congrès de Bruxelles, 21 au 25 Septembre 1931. Paris, 2 Rue de Montpensier, [1981) 125 PP. The proceedings of the congress of the International Confederation of Intellectual Workers held in Brussels in September, 1931. CONFERENCE OF PROGRESSIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C., 1931. Committee on Unemployment and Industrial Stabilization. Long-range planning for the regularization of industry. Part 2, the New Republic, New York, January, 13, 1932. 23 pp. CONFERÈNCIA INTERNACIONAL DE PSICOTÈCNICA. VIa, 26-30 Abril 1930. Anals d'orientació professional. Barcelona, [1930?]. 362 pp. At the International Psychotechnical Conference held in Barcelona from April 26 to 30, 1930, papers were presented on industrial fatigue, fatigue tests, >ersonality factors in psychotechnique, and intelligence tests in different counries. CROWTHER, SAMUEL. A basis for stability. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1932. 360 pp. A collection of opinions obtained by the writer in personal interviews with ndividuals prominent in various fields, the industries and activities represented including the production of steel, motor vehicles, oil, food, textiles, power, and household equipment; mining; railroads; investments; and retail trade. CUMMINS, E. E. The labor problem in the United States. New York, D. Van Nostrand Co. (Inc.), 1932. 857 pp. DAHLBERG, ARTHUR. Jobs, machines, and capitalism. New York, Macmillan Co., 1932. 252 pp., diagrams. The thesis of this book is that the shortening of the hours of labor in industry to the point of creating a scarcity of labor will not only eliminate unemployment but will stimulate production along intelligent lines and will raise the whole level of economic well being. DELVIGNE, ISI. La crise mondiale. Brussels, L'Églantine, 1931. 108 pp. (Les Cahiers de l'Eglantine, VII.) A discussion of the causes of the present world depression. FARBMAN, MICHAEL. Piatiletka: Russia's 5-year plan. New York, New Republic (Inc.), 1931. 220 pp., map, illus. The substance of this book appeared as a special supplement to "The Economist" (London), dated November 1, 1930. FIELD, ALICE WITHROW. Protection of women and children in Soviet Russia. New York, Columbia University Press, 1932. 268 pp. (Columbia University, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 361.) Schriften, Heft 84/85: Der wirtschaftliche GESELLSCHAFT FÜR SOZIALE REFORM. Contains a series of articles on various problems of social policy, including conciliation in industrial disputes, the industrial efficiency movement, housing, etc. GUPTA, RAJ BAHADUR. Labor and housing in India. New York, Longmans Green & Co. (Ltd.), 1930. 264 pp. HALL, JOHN R. To-morrow's route: A critical and constructive analysis pointing out the real significance of the Swope plan. New York, John R. Hall Corporation, 1932. 98 pp. This plan, which aims at the stabilization of industry through the coordination of production and consumption, was published in the Labor Review for November, 1931 (pp. 45–53). HANSEN, ALVIN HARVEY. Economic stabilization in an unbalanced world. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1932. 384 pp. HARDING, ALFRED. The revolt of the actors. 1929. 575 pp., illus. New York, William Morrow & Co., A history of the Actors' Equity Association from its organization in 1913 through 1929. HAYEK, FRIEDRICH A. Prices and production. London, George Routledge & Sons (Ltd.), 1931. 112 pp., charts. (Monograph No. 107, Studies in Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science.) HUDSON COAL CO. 425 pp., illus. The story of anthracite. New York, 26 Liberty St., 18. The geologic history, discovery, uses, early marketing methods, and mining of anthracite are discussed. A section is devoted to the acquisition of anthracit lands and development of transportation facilities. The facts of the industry are brought down to date, with sections devoted to such subjects as wage rates, cust of production, prices, and competition. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COUNSELORS (INC.). Library Bulletin No. 9: Surte the current literature of industrial relations-1932 semiannual review. N. York, 165 Broadway, 1932. 35 pp. (Mimeographed.) INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL D'AGRICULTURE. Annuaire internationale de légisietion agricole, 1930. Rome, 1931. lxxxvi, 1151 pp. A review of the legislation passed in various countries of the world, in 193. relating to agriculture. Part VIII deals with laws relating to agricultural e operative credit and insurance. INSTITUTE OF MAKERS OF EXPLOSIVES. Pamphlet No. 17: Safety in the handing and use of explosives. New York, 103 Park Avenue, 1932. 63 pp., illus. INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF HATTERS. Record of the discussions of the 15 congress, held from August 23 to 26, 1931, in Copenhagen. Altenburg, 1931 107 pp. (Mimeographed.) INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF TEXTILE WORKERS. Thirteenth congress, Berlis August 17-21, 1931. Watford (England), Watford Printers (Ltd.), [1931, [Various paging.] INTERNATIONAL METALWORKERS' FEDERATION. tional Metalworkers' Congress, August 27, 104 pp. Proceedings of the XII Interna28, and 29, 1930. Berne, 192. Bericht des Sekretärs über du Mai 1931; Niederschrift von d 100 pp. INTERNATIONALE LANDARBEITER-FÖDERATION. Tätigkeit in der Zeit vom Oktober 1928 bis Kongress, Stockholm, vom 7. bis 11. Juli 1931. Contains a report of the secretary of the International Landworkers' Federation on the activities of the federation during the period from October, 1928, to May, 1931, and minutes and proceedings of the sixth congress of the federation, heid July 7-11, 1931. IRISH AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION SOCIETY (Ltd.). Report for the year ending March 31, 1931. Dublin, 1931. 107 pp., illus. Contains statistical data for each of the cooperative creameries and credit and miscellaneous agricultural organizations affiliated to the Irish Agricultural Organi ization Society, for the years 1929 and 1930. KESSLER, HENRY H. Accidental injuries: The medico-legal aspects of workmen's compensation and public liability. Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1931. 718 Pp., illus. This discussion of accidental injuries and diseases arising out of the occupation, in addition to consideration of the legal aspects of industrial accidents deals with the results of different types of injury affecting the various portions of the body and the rehabilitation of physically handicapped workers. A chapter is devoted to occupational diseases resulting from exposure to the principal industrial poisons. MINNESOTA, UNIVERSITY of. Employment Stabilization Research Institute Bulletins, Vol. I, No. 3: The Duluth casual labor group, by Alvin H. Hanser, Marion R. Trabue, and Harold S. Diehl. Minneapolis, 1932. 54 PP charts. Reviewed in this issue. MOLOTOV, V. M. The success of the five-year plan. New York, International Publishers, [19317]. 77 pp. Report on the activities of the Government of the Soviet Union, presented by V. M. Molotov, chairman, Council of People's Commissars, at the Sixth All-Union Soviet Congress, held at Moscow in March, 1931. |