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Division VIII. — Labor Movement. 



Professor John R. Commons reports as follows: 



During the past two years Mr. Selig Perlman has been continuously 

 engaged on the work of the labor history, and the preparation of material 

 has l^een narrowed down to the worlv of five of my former students, namely, 

 John B. Andrews, Helen L. Sumner, H. E. Hoagland, Selig Perlman, and 

 David J. Saposs, who have been working with me, beginning in 1904, on this 

 subject. To each is assigned a certain period designated as follows: 

 Colonial Beginnings (to 1825); Citizenship (1826-1839); Humanitarianism 

 (1840-1857); Nationalization (1858-1877); Upheaval and Reorganization 

 (1876-1897). A concluding period, to be designated as Contemporary Con- 

 ditions (1898-1913), is to be prepared by me. 



By special arrangement these collaborators met with me during July 

 and August 1913, and by daily conference a satisfactory arrangement for 

 uniformity of treatment has been worked out on the basis of a two-volume 

 work of about 400,000 words. 



It was hoped that the manuscript could be completed and ready to be 

 copied for the printer by September 1 of this year, but this has been found 

 impossible. The revision of material will require additional time, and the 

 concluding part on Contemporary Conditions since 1898 remains to be 

 written. I have arranged to carry on this work during the coming year 

 in connection with my courses of university lectures and my seminar on 

 labor history. 



Within the year Professor Ira B. Cross has completed his study 

 of California Labor History down to 1883, parts of which had already 

 been published in monographs, and Mr. Louis Mayers has finished 

 his thesis on the Greenback-Labor Party of 1876 to 1884. 



Division IX. — Industuial Organization. 



Professor J. W. Jenks writes, as he has done for the past four 

 years, that his work is suspended until two or three of the other 

 departments have handed in their reports, in order that he may 

 utilize their material and thus avoid duplication of work and expense. 



Division X. — Social Legislation. 



No monographs have been published or received since the last 

 report and the writer does not count on getting many more special 

 studies of this kind, since the few that have been undertaken but 

 not completed have for one reason or another been abandoned. He 

 has continued during the past winter to fill up gaps in the history 

 and has during the summer practically completed the part dealing 

 with the Colonial period, which will amount to about 60,000 words. 

 He expects to devote the greater part of his time during the coming 

 winter to completing a few sections which require further study and 

 to revising the whole. The work will probably fill one volume and 

 should be finished in the spring of 1914. 



