Excellent report upon the alleged excessive claims on the sickness benefit funds, with an analysis of causes and suggestions for readjustment. ...... National health insurance joint committee. Reports on the administration of the national insurance act, part I, health insurance. London, Darling, 1912-1913, 1913-1914, Detailed descriptive and statistical reports on numbers insured, methods of operation, finances, and administrative problems. Progressive service. national Sickness insurance. New York, Progressive natl. serv., 1915. 64 p. Suggestions as to adequate provisions in America, and citations from European laws. Warren, B. S. Sickness insurance: its relation to public health and the common welfare. (Reprint no. 250 from the Public health reports.) Washington, Govt. print. off., 1915. 16 p. Brief, pointed study of economic needs, contributions, and relations to the medical profession. See also under General works: Dawson, Henderson, Kennedy, Rubinow, Seager, U. S. Bureau of labor statistics. 3. OLD AGE AND INVALIDITY INSURANCE Alden, Percy. Democratic England. New York, Macmillan, 1912. xii, 271 p. Accounts of insurance against sickness and old age in England, together with references to insurance legislation in Australia, p. 122-165. Coman, Katharine. Sweden and old age pensions. (Survey, Dec. 14, 1913, v. 31:318-321.) Massachusetts. Commission on old age pensions, annuities, and insurance. Report. Boston, 1910. 409 p. The report covers the origin of old age pensions, foreign systems, proposed plans and their estimated costs. The commission concludes that it would be inexpedient for an individual state to adopt a system of old age pensions, and that only national legislation can prove effective. .Commission on pon sions. Report. House doc. no. 2450. Boston, 1914. 345 p. Describes pension systems in effect in Massachusetts and other states, with an investigation of probable costs. Recommends a compulsory contributory pension system for employees in the public service. Nassau, Mabel. Old age poverty in Greenwich village: a neighborhood study. New York, Revell, 1915. 105 p. Description of 100 individuals over 60 years of age, a study of the effects of dependency where it exists, and arguments in favor of an old age pension system, contributed to by the state, employers, and some employees. Squier, Lee Welling. Old age dependency in the United States. New York, Macmillan, 1912. xii, 361 p. The author treats of the causes of old age dependency, the efforts at relief, and plans for prevention, and concludes that old age pensions are the best solution for the problem in the United States. Wisconsin. Industrial commission. Report on old age relief. Madison, 1915. 76 p. Study of the condition of the aged in Wisconsin, with suggestions for voluntary state insurance. Contains a description of foreign systems of old age relief. See also under General works: Dawson, Kennedy, Rubinow, U. S. Bureau of labor statistics. 4. WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' Carstens, C. C. Public pensions to widows with children; a study of their administration in several American cities. New York, Russell Sage foundation, 1913. 36 p. An adverse analysis of the workings of widows' pensions in several states and cities, with suggestions for other methods of meeting the problem. An advance report by Mr. Carstens appeared in the Survey, Jan. 4, 1913, v. 29:459-466. Devine, Edward T. Report of an investigation of matters relating to the care, treatment, and relief of dependent widows with dependent children in the city of New York. New York, The committee, 1914. 58 p. Recommends social insurance to prevent commitment of children. New York. State commission on relief for widowed mothers. Report. Albany, Lyon, 1914. 584 p. A careful study of the provisions for the support of dependent widows and children in New York state and in European countries. Recommendations for county boards of child welfare with power to grant allowances to deserving widows with children. New Zealand. Government in surance department. A brief survey of New Zealand's state life insurance. Wellington, 1906. 36_p. Description of regulations and management of the department, with tables. United States. Children's bureau. Report of laws relating to mothers' pensions in the United States, Denmark, and New Zealand, 1914. (Its pub., no. 7.) Washington, Govt. print. off., 1914. 102 p. History and texts of laws, with concise report of their operation. Wisconsin. Insurance InvestiReport. gation committee. Madison, 1907. Majority report of the senate committee on the practicability of government and state insurance. iv, 52 p. Minority report of the senate committee on the practicability of government and state insurance. ii, 18 p. (Printed separately but bound in back of joint committee report.) Majority report gives arguments for and against state life insurance, and recommends postponement. Minority report makes a vigorous argument for immediate steps toward establishing state life insurance. See also under General works: Dawson, Rubinow. 5. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE American association for labor legislation. Present status of unemployment insurance: prepared by the German imperial statistical bureau. (American labor legislation review, May, 1914, V. 4: 373–387.) Tabular summary of European laws, number of persons covered, and amount of benefits paid. Ballward, W. A. Some impressions of the first six months' working of compulsory insurance against unemployment in England. (Quarterly bulletin of the International association on unemployment, April, 1914, v. 4: 480-499.) Interesting study of operation of English act and of problems arising under it. Beveridge, William H., and Rey, C. F. State unemployment insurance in the United Kingdom. (Quarterly bulletin of the International association on ployment, Jan., 1914, v. 4: 129187.) unem Detailed statistical study of operations under the act. Coman, Katharine. Unemployment insurance: a summary of European systems. New York, Progressive natl. serv., 1915. 21 p. (Also Survey, 1913-1914.) Discusses briefly the Ghent system. Norway, Denmark, France, and Great Britain. Gibbon, I. G. Unemployment insurance. London, King, 1911. xvi, 354 P. A study of the various schemes of unemployment insurance in continental Europe, with the author's conclusion of the necessity of state voluntary unemployment insurance. The advisability of encouraging the formation of private voluntary insurance associations, and of labor exchanges to cooperate with the state system, is discussed. Great Britain. Board of trade. Unemployment insurance. First report on the proceedings of the Board of trade under part II of the National insurance act, 1911. London, Darling, 1913. 82 p. A complete descriptive and statistical statement of the operation of national unemployment insurance in Great Britain during the year ending July, 1913. ...Sixteenth abstract of labour statistics of the United Kingdom. London, 1913. "Unemployment insurance,' P. 1221; Seventeenth abstract, p. 169– 175. . National 1911, part II. insurance act, Unemployment pire respecting claims to benefit. London, Darling, 1914. V. I, 327 p. Halsey, Olga S. Compulsory unemployment insurance in Great Britain. (American labor legislation review, June, 1915, v. 5: 265-278.) Workings of English act. Pigou, Arthur Cecil. Unemployment. New York, Holt, 1913. 256 p. "Unemployment insurance," p. 203-228. Popular statement of subject. Schloss, David F. Insurance against unemployment. London, King, 1909. X, 132 p. Suggestions for organizing a national system of unemployment insurance, by trades, in cooperation with labor regis tries. See also under General works: Frankel and Dawson, Kennedy, Rubinow, U. S. Bureau of labor statistics. IX. ADMINISTRATION and American association for labor legislation. American labor legislation review. Quarterly, 1911Issues which have dealt especially with administration are v. 2, no. 4, Dec., 1912, "Immediate legislative program," v. 3, no. 4, Dec. 1913, "Administration of labor laws." American bar association. Special committee on legislative drafting. Report. (Senate doc. 262, 63d Cong., 2d sess.) Washington, Govt. print. off., 1913. Andrews, Irene Osgood. The new spirit in factory inspection. (Survey, Dec. 21, 1912, v. 29: 355-359.) Handicaps of policing method, and principles for reorganization. Andrews, John B., and Andrews, Irene Osgood. Scientific standards in labor legislation. (American labor legislation review, June, 1911, v. 1, no. 2: 123-134.) Defects of early legislation and advantages of advisory board method. Bourgeois, Leon. The international organization of social policies. (American labor legislation review, March, 1914, v. 4:186202.) Necessity for international cooperation in labor legislation. Brown, Edward F. The efficiency of present factory inspection machinery in the United States. (American labor legislation review, Feb., 1913, v. 3:24-28.) Inadequacy of then existing administrative agencies. Calder, John. Scientific accident prevention. (American labor legislation review, Dec., 1911, V. I, no. 4: 14-24.) Emphasizes need for cooperation between employer, employee, and engineering expert. Commons, John R. Labor and administration. New York, Macmillan, 1913. vii, 431 p. Essays on various labor questions, the last in the book taking up the subject of administration in connection with the Wisconsin workmen's compensation act. .The industrial commission of Wisconsin. (American labor legislation review, Dec., 1911, v. I, no. 4:61-69.) Principles of commission plan, .How the Wisconsin industrial commission works. (American labor legislation review, Feb., 1913, V. 3:9-14.) Operation of commission plan. Gettemy, Charles F. The Massachusetts bureau of statistics, 1869-1915; a sketch of its history, organization, and functions, together with a list of its publications and illustrative charts. Boston, 1915. 115 p. Written by the director in connection with the exhibit of the bureau of statistics at the Panama-Pacific exposition. Goodnow, Frank J. Comparative administrative law; an analysis of the administrative systems, national and local, of the United States, England, France, and Germany. New York, Putnam, 1897. 2 v. Detailed comparative account of the organization and working of the administration in these countries, describing also the relations between the administrative, judicial, and legislative branches of government. International McNeill, Joseph H. The Massachusetts board of boiler rules. (American labor legislation review, Dec., 1911, v. 1, no. 4: 7080.) Description of the joint board plan and its operation. United States. Report on condition of woman and child wageearners in the United States. (Senate doc. 645, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) V. 19, "Labor laws and factory conditions." Washington, Govt. print. off., 1912. 1125 p. Summary of laws on child labor, safety, health, and comfort, and study of their enforcement. .Senate hearings on a legislative drafting bureau and legislative reference division of the library of Congress. (Senate rept. no. 1271, 62d Cong., 3d sess.) Washington, Govt. print. off., 1911. Testimony of experts from all parts of the country. 44 tics. association for labor legislation. Publications. In addition to the Bulletin of the international labor office, published monthly in English, in French, and in German, the fifteen national sections, including that in America, issue periodically reports on labor legislation and its administration. Kaiser, John Boynton. Law, legislative, and municipal reference libraries. Boston, Boston book CO., 1914. Comprehensive exposition of the legislative drafting research movement. Kingsbury, Susan M. (ed.). Labor laws and their enforcement, with special reference to Massachusetts. New York, Longmans, Green, 1911. xxii, 419 p. Historical and critical studies on the administration of labor laws in Massachusetts, special chapters being devoted to woman and child labor and employment offices. ...Bureau of labor statis'Administration of labor laws and factory inspection in certain European countries," George M. Price. (Its Bulletin, no. 142.) Washington, Govt. print. off., 1914. 310 p. Deals mainly with factory inspection. The countries included are: Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland. Commission on indus 'Re trial relations. Final report. Breakdown of existing labor laws and proposals for securing more thorough Wisconsin. Industrial commisenforcement. sion. Report on allied functions. Madison, Wis., 1914. 102 p. Summary of work done 1912-1914, together with a statement of expenditures. TABLE OF CASES CITED In the following table of cases, wherever possible, the reference to the official (state, circuit court, or United States) reporter is given first; for the convenience of those to whom the official reporters are inaccessible, references to the unofficial (sectional, federal, supreme court, etc.) reporters are added. .165 Adair v. United States, 208 U. S. 161, 28 Sup. Ct. 277 (1908)...113, 245 Allis-Chalmers Co. v. Iron Molders, 150 Fed. 155 (1906). American Steel & Wire Co. v. Wire Drawers, 90 Fed. 608 (1898). 97 104 .III .64, 65 .... III 51 45, 106 ..109 197, 237 ..166 Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. v. Gee, 139 Fed. 582 (1905). Bailey v. Alabama., 219 U. S. 219, 31 Sup. Ct. 145 (1910). . U. S. 612, 31 Sup. Ct. 621 (1911) .43, 44 221 Barnes v. Berry, 157 Fed. 883 (1908). Barnes v. Typographical Union, 232 Ill. 402, 424, 83 N. E. 932, 940 (1908).. .238 .106, 117 Barr v. Trades' Council, 53 N. J. Eq. 101, 30 Atl. 881 (1894) 99 ..105 Beattie v. Callanan, 73 N. Y. Supp. 518, 81 N. Y. Supp. 413 (1901-3). 105 Beck v. Railway Teamsters, 118 Mich. 497, 77 N. W. 13 (1898)....110 . 109 .99, 104 22, 214 Fed. 716 (1914)....... Bixby v. Dunlap, 56 N. H. 456 (1876) .113 109 |