A

Aberdeen, Wash., municipal em-
ployment office, 270.
Accident prevention, in relation to
workmen's compensation, 433.
Accident reporting, need for system
in, 297, 298; laws, 298, 299;
statistics, 300, 301.

Action of debt, used in enforcing
labor laws, 456.
Administration, in relation to in-
vestigation, 20, 23, 24, 415, 416;
improvements, 47; of minimum
wage laws, 185-190; of restric-
tions on hours of labor, 205, 216-
220; of child labor laws, 205, 313-
317; of workmen's compensation
laws, 366, 381, 382; of social in-
surance, 387-393, 399-404; of un-
employment insurance, 412; in
relation to legislation, 415, 430;
unified and decentralized, charts,
434, 435; cooperative pressure in,
462-464.
Aeronauts, examination and regis-
tration of, 323, 342; minimum
age limit, 342.

Agricultural holdings act (England),
66.

Agriculture, workers, 62-65; credit
agencies, 67; no contract labor
law needed for, 72; proposed
minimum wage, 176; excluded
from hour legislation, 212; in
relation to employment offices,
271, 274, 275, 279; accidents, 300,
301; child labor, 308; excluded
from workmen's compensation
legislation, 379. See also Land.
Alabama, contract labor law, 43;
payment of benefits by employers,
58; wage preference, 61; agri-
cultural tenancy law, 64, 67;

conciliation and arbitration, 131-
133; no limitation of women's
hours, 211, 216; child labor, 307,
309, 313, 314; women forbidden
to work in mines, 318; safety
regulations for mines, 324.
Alameda, Cal., tax to provide work
for the unemployed, 288.
Alaska, conciliation and arbitra-
tion, 131-133; mining regula-
tions, 341; workmen's compensa-
tion, 369; old age pensions, 403.
Alberta, strike in mines, 159.
Alien contract labor. See Induced
immigration.

Allegheny City, Pa., ten - hour
strikes, 210.

Allen, A. J., on employment offices,

266.

Alsace-Lorraine, industrial courts,
86.
Amalgamated Society of Carpen-
ters, out-of-work- benefits, 409.
Amalgamated Society of Engineers,
out-of-work benefits, 409.
Amalgamated Window Glass Mak-
ers of America, 102.
American Association for Labor
Legislation, investigates one day
of rest in seven laws, 255; work
on accident reporting, 299, 300;
on occupational diseases, 303,
304; on workmen's compensation,
374, 381; on standards for health
insurance, 395; on administration
of labor laws, 418; organization,
420.

American Association of Public Em-

ployment Offices, 266, 269, 275.
American Federation of Labor, ef-
fect of Danbury hatters' case on,
108; opposes compulsory arbi-
tration, 159; opposes eight-hour
laws, 229; opposes child labor,

Apprenticeship, as unfree status, 3,
36; characteristics, 41, 42, 54;
in relation to minimum wage,
184-186, 189, 193; in colonial
times, 305; Wisconsin regula-
tions for, 437.
Arbitration, voluntary, 126-139;
compulsory, 127, 140-160; among
public employees, 164, 165.
Argentina, mediation and arbitra-
tion, 131; night work of wom-
en, 249; one day of rest in seven,
254; restrictions on women's
work, 318.

Arizona, payment of benefits to in-
jured employees, 58; wage pref-
erence, 61; convict labor, 79;
hours of labor for women, 216,
256; child labor, 206, 308, 309;
hours of labor in laundries
and electric plants, 236; restric-
tions on women's work, 318;
seats for women, 334; workmen's
compensation, 369; old age pen-
sions, 403.
See also Phoenix.
Arkansas, coal screening law, 33;
contract labor laws, 44; payment
of benefits to injured employees,
58; fines from employees, 59;
wage preference, 61; minimum
wage, 185-187, 199; child labor,
206, 308; hours of labor for wom-
en, 215; hours of labor in saw
and planing mills, 236; women for-
bidden to work in mines, 318;
seats for women, 334-

Assignment of wages. See Wages.
Associated Employers of Indianap-
olis, 266.

Assumption of risk, 13, 14, 361,
372; in relation to child labor,
309; in relation to safety, 328.
Australasia, eight-hour day, 144;
public employment, 161, 165;
See also Australia, Melbourne,
New Zealand, South Australia,
Tasmania, Victoria, Western Aus-
tralia.

Australia, state loans to farmers, 67;
contract labor law, 73; literacy
test against Chinese, 76; arbi-
tration legislation, 140-145, 150-
156; parliamentary debates, 143;
labor situation, 143-145; mari-
time strike, 145, 150; sheep-
shearers' strike, 145; parties, 150,
151, 155, 156; constitution, 154;
federal court of arbitration, 154-
156; minimum wage, 179, 181-
183, 185, 186, 195;
old age
pensions, 403, 405. See also Aus-
tralasia, Melbourne, New Zea-
land, South Australia, Tasmania,
Victoria, Western Australia.
Austria, wage payment laws, 52-
54; fines from employees, 59;
agricultural credit, 67; emigra-
tion from, 72; legal aid, 83; in-
dustrial courts, 86; statistics of
strikes and lockouts, 125; media-
tion and arbitration, 131; coal
mine accidents, 234, 339; night
work of women, 248; one day of
rest in seven, 254; private em-
ployment offices, 269; health re-
quirements for industry, 321, 323,
326, 336; workmen's compensa-
tion, 367; health insurance, 387-
389; maternity insurance, 393;
widows' and orphans' insurance,
408; International Association
for Labor Legislation, 420; rep-
resentation of interests, 444,
445; social insurance, 445.

B

Bakeries, workers in, 54; minimum
wage, 173; hours of labor, 236,
242, 243, 424; Sunday employ-

Beggars, professional, forbidden to

enter United States, 69.
Belgium, wage payment law, 53;
fines from employees, 59; legal
aid, 83; industrial courts, 86,
445; statistics of strikes and lock-
outs, 125; mediation and arbi-
tration, 131; coal mine accidents,
234, 235, 339; rest periods for
women, 247; night work for
women, 248, 249; employment
offices, 279; lead poisoning, 321,
326; anthrax, 336; workmen's
compensation, 367; health in-
surance, 387; old age insurance,
399, 403; International Associa-
tion for Labor Legislation, 420;
representation of interests, 444,
445; superior council of labor,
444. See also Ghent.

Berlin, industrial courts, 87; im-
perial insurance office, 366. See
also Germany, Prussia.
Berne, wage payment laws, 53, 54;
; in-
dustrial courts, 87; conference on
night work of women, 248; vaca-
tions for women, 259; conference
on poisonous phosphorus, 325.
Beveridge, W. H., on employment
offices, 281.

Bill drafting, methods of, 430, 431,
440, 452-454.
Bill of rights, 22.

Bills of attainder, prohibited by
constitution, 6.
Bismarck, in relation to social in-
surance, 387.

Blacklist, in relation to industrial
courts, 88; virtually legal, 113,
114; in relation to boycott, 114,
115; legal in England, 123.
Blast furnaces, hours of labor,

200.

Blue laws, for Sunday observance,
253.

Bōdeker, Dr., on German accident
insurance system, 364.

Boiler explosions, measures against,
329, 330.

Bootmaking, minimum wage, 172.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, one day of
rest in seven, 254.

Boston, Trades' Union National
Convention, 209; association of
employment managers, 291.
Bowley, A. L., on regularization of
public employment, 287, 288.
Box industry, minimum wage, 174,

182.

Boycott, as used against intangible
property, 96; aim of, 98; legal in
California, 100, 107; uncertainty
of term, 101, 102; attitude of
judiciary towards, 107, 108; pri-
mary and secondary, 107; legality
of, 111, 115; in Clayton anti-
trust act, 112; in relation to
blacklist, 114, 115; union re-
sponsibility for, 120, 122; legal
in England, 123.

Brandeis, L. D., briefs supporting
labor legislation, 223, 251, 426.
Brazil, abolishes slavery, 37.
Briesen, Arthur von, president of
New York Legal Aid Society,
82.

British colonies, tool exemption
laws, 49; wage preference, 61.
See also Australia, Canada, India,
South Africa, West Indies.
Broken Hill, Australia, strike at,
145.

Brush industry, minimum wage,
181, 183, 191-195.

Building trades, hours of labor, 204;
unemployment insurance, 411.
Bureaucracy, in administration of
labor laws, 443, 444.
Burlingame treaty, 75.
Butte, Mont., municipal employ-
ment office, 270.