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The article presents information about various documents and reports related to labor. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has published A Uniform Classification of Accounts for Electric Utilities, Effective January 1, 1915. The Boston City, Massachusetts, Planning Board has made a report on the Larger Aspects of Passenger Transportation in Metropolitan Boston. This treats of Boston's transportation problem from three points of view, physical, corporate, and financial. The Fourth Annual Report of the United States Bureau of Mines summarizes the statistics of accidents in this industry. During the past year more than 8500 men were killed and more than 100,000 injured in the mining and metallurgical industries of the country. One half of the fatalities and one quarter of the injuries are regarded as easily preventable. The director makes a plea for more extended investigations on the part of the federal government in order to prevent accidents. The First Annual Report of the Commission on Industrial Relations contains a brief analysis of the testimony, which has been taken by this commission, arranged under topical headings. Part of this evidence was secured at public hearings and a part through research investigation.

This article presents information on documents and reports on labor. The third annual report of the Bureau of Statistic of Massachusetts on changes in rates of wage and hour of labor, 1909, and the tenth annual report on strikes and lockouts, 1909, arc of special interest as showing an effort to inform the reader in regard to the meaning of terms used in the statistical tables, and also in giving publicity as to the methods of deriving the tables. An indorsement of free public employment bureaus is given in the twenty-forth report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Connecticut for the two year ending November 80, 1910. It is stated that these offices have passed the experimental stage and are recognized as a necessity, taking precedence over private agencies. There are now five in operation. This same report has a section devoted to tenement houses and publishes a directory of labor organizations. The National Civic Federation has published a pamphlet, "Views of Legal Committee Department" on compensation for industrial accidents and their prevention.