112 >;OTICES RELATING TO AGRICUI.TURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



least 10 liras a year ; b) perpetual members who make one payment of at least 

 100 liras ; c) members of merit who make an annual grant to the agency of 

 at least 300 liras. The administration belongs to a directing council which 

 has fifteen members. 



4. A PROVINCIAL LABOUR OFFICE AT ROJME. 



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On 25 February 191 6 the provincial council of Rome resolved to insti- 

 tute a pro^dncial labour office, and charged a special commisssion to draw 

 up the necessary rules. These rules, which have been approved, define the 

 following as the aims of the new office : the study of the various manifesta- 

 tions of the economic, agricultural and industrial life of the province and the 

 compilation of relevant statistics ; the study and regulation of the deplace- 

 ment of the rural population with a view to facilitating the allocation of 

 labour ; the observation, in the interest of labour, of the phenomena of 

 labour and relative legislative measures, with a view to taking any action 

 which may be demanded ; tlie study of the conditions of hygiene enjoyed 

 by the labouring classes, both urban and rural, with a view to promoting 

 measures fitted to combat the diseases which attack them ; co-operation in 

 the progressive improvement of labour, technical and economic, and 

 encouragement of the adoption of contracts better fitted to the special con- 

 ditions of the different districts ; conciliatory action when controversies 

 arise between employers and labourers, especially where iisi civici are con- 

 cerned, and interv^ention by arbitration at the request of the conflicting par- 

 ties ; the promotion of direct grants of land for cultivation ; vigilance for the 

 observation and application of laws for improvements ; and finally vigilance 

 for the observation of labour legislation. 



In exercising its functions this office will co-ordinate its efforts with those 

 of the National Office and the Communal Office of Labour. 



RUSSIA. 



I. GOVERNMENT AID TO HOME INDUSTRY. npaBiiTe.ibCTBeHHMii B-fecTHiiKB 



(Gorernment Ma.'icna'^y) No. 231, 39 October-ii November 1916, Petrograd. 



Home industries, called in Russian Kustdrnoje proiswodstivo (KusT = 

 shrub, bush), have spread chiefly over the middle and northern districts 

 of the Russian kingdom, those governments namely of which the soil is 

 not black earth — Moscow, Tvjer, Tula, Nishni^Novgord, Vjatka etc : — 

 and are practised by the peasants either as accessories to farming 

 or as independent callings. They include a whole series of different 

 and numerous forms of production : woodwork and skilled woodcutting ; 



