porting them is between fifteen and twenty million dollars a year. It is presumed that there are 50,000 orphans taken care of by other charitable agencies of various kinds. How these 140,000 or 150,000 children are being cared for, and how they turn out after leaving these institutions or the homes of their adoption is a matter of profound interest to the nation.

The subject of child labor, embracing the question of accidents to children, is another subject of concern in which there is a wide difference of opinion, and at present no method of securing facts which is not open to criticism. If the census of 1910 shows that there are 1,000,000 children in America under 16 years of age employed in winning bread aside from children on farms, whose labor is generally healthful and helpful, then the country ought to know how the labor of these children is being regulated; what occupations are especially dangerous or injurious physically or morally; at what ages children should be allowed to enter the army of breadwinners, and what restrictions should be thrown around them; in what occupations and at what ages the labor of children should be prohibited, and what is the general effect of premature toil.

Still another problem demanding solution is the question of juvenile delinquency. Only in recent years has this question 'been studied at all in this country, and many states and communities are still without the knowledge which they would act upon if given to them. What the best methods are of treating delinquent children, the various problems arising in the juvenile court, and the best method of meeting these problems-all these questions need to be investigated and the information, secured by experts, given to the people of the country in the form of government bulletins, speaking with authority.

(4) It is evident from a former hearing on this bill that the work of the children's bureau would be closely related to that of the Census Bureau and to the Bureau of Labor, both under the Department of Commerce and Labor, and also to the Bureau of Education. It was stated by the heads of these bureaus that there would be little or no danger of the duplication of work already being done by these other bureaus, and that there was need for the establishment of the new bureau.

The committee believes the need for such a bureau has been proved, and that the scientific investigation and publication in popular form of the facts concerning the unfortunate children of the country will be of great value; that it will tend to the saving of human life and suffering. For these reasons we recommend the passage of this bill.

TENEMENT HOUSES.

A description of buildings designed for the occupancy of three families or more, permits for the erection of which have been issued in the six cities of the state to which the "Tenement House Act" applies, is made Part IV. of the report.

This material, including a copy of a proposed law, which provides for the establishment of a State Board of Tenement House Supervision, will be found on pages 201-214.

DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.

Part V. is made up of as complete a Directory of Labor Organizations as the bureau has been enabled to secure. To the secretaries and other officers of the various trade unions which have supplied the department with data for the purpose indicated as well as for other courtesies received, the thanks of the compilers of this chapter are due and are hereby tendered. The list of labor organizations will be found on pages 215-236.

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.

The usual material relating to industrial disturbances known to have taken place within the state is made Part VI. of the report. It is most gratifying to note that these disputes were in no instance of any great seriousness. Adjustments were, in most cases, made without the aid of outside influences and were for the most part of a nature having an effect of bringing the employer and employed in closer and pleasanter relations each with the other.

The material relating to this subject, including a tabulated statement will be found on pages 237-269.

EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.

On pages 270-366 of the report the subject of Workmen's. Compensation and Liability of Employers for injuries to employes in the course of employment is exhaustively treated. The nature of the various systems of the adjustment and distribution of the burden of the results of industrial accidents is most. ably explained in the paper by Lindley D. Clark, A.M., LL.M.,. which is reproduced, and which explains in detail the operation of Compensation and Liability laws in the various states wherein they have been enacted. Following this and dealing with the same subject are explanatory statements and notes by P. Tecumseh Sherman, of New York, and others equally distinguished, concerning a proposed Workmen's Compensation Bill for Uniform State Legislation. The final draft as afterwards presented to the National Civic Federation is printed in full on pages 347-366 of the report. The bureau is informed that there are several bills bearing upon this subject which have been framed and will be introduced into the Connecticut General Assembly at its January Session of 1911. It is also informed that the bill as drafted by the legal Committee of the National Civic Federation will be presented in committee as a substitute

measure.

PROPOSED LEGISLATION.

The closing chapter of the report is devoted to abstracts of laws which, the bureau is informed, will be introduced into the coming session of the Legislature. Duplication has been avoided as far as possible and measures of practically the same intent omitted.