Prevailing Time-Rates of Wages and Hours of Labor on October 1, 1910 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prevailing Time-Rates of Wages and Hours of Labor on October 1, 1910 The authority for the prevailing time-rates embodied in this report is thus in most cases derived from statements furnished by organiza tions of employees. Exceptions appear in the case of municipal laborers and steam and street railroad employees, the rates for the municipal laborers being obtained as the result of a special inquiry conducted during the Summer of 1910 by correspondence with the auditors of the cities and the clerks, boards of selectmen, or highway surveyors of. The towns, and the rates for the railroad employees being obtained from the railroad companies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.