Report ..., Volume 6, Parts 1919-1920

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Page 5 - Statistics shall collect, assort, systematize and present in biennial reports to the governor, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in Texas, and especially as affecting or bearing upon the commercial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the employees and their families, the means of escape from dangers incident to their employment, the protection of life and health in factories and other places of employment, the labor of...
Page 5 - ... shall as fully as practicable, collect such information and reliable reports from each county In the state, the amount and condition of the mechanical and manufacturing interests, the value and location of the various manufacturing and coal productions of the state...
Page 28 - In 1919 the working age of minors in canneries was limited to fourteen ye'ars by the Federal Child Labor Tax Law, which imposed a tax of 10 per cent upon the net profits of any cannery employing minors under the age of fourteen years. Furthermore, a number of canneries voluntarily imposed a limitation of 16 years in their own plants, feeling that the exclusion of the younger workers definitely added to the efficiency of the plant. The number of minors in the industry was...
Page 6 - ... and a statement as to the progress made in schools in operation for the instruction of students in mechanic arts, and what systems have been found most practical, but such reports shall not contain more than six hundred printed pages, and the same shall be printed and distributed in such manner as is or may be provided by law.
Page 5 - Commissioner shall give a full statement of the business of the bureau since the last preceding report. and such information as may be of value to the industrial interests and to persons employed therein, showing, among other things, the number of laborers and mechanics employed, the number of apprentices in each trade, with the nativity of such laborers, mechanics and apprentices, the wages earned, the savings from the same, the age and sex of the persons employed, the number...
Page 5 - ... mechanical, mining and manufacturing interests therein, and all sites offering natural or acquired advantages for the location and operation of any of the different branches of industry, and he shall, by correspondence with interested parties in other parts of the United States, or in foreign countries, impart to them such information as may tend to induce the location of manufacturing and producing plants within the State, together with such information as may tend to increase the employment...
Page 3 - SIR: — In compliance with the requirement of law I have the honor to submit herewith the sixth biennial report of the Department of Public Instruction, covering the years commencing July 1, 1892, and ending June 30, 3894.

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