THIRTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR AND FOR THE STATE OF NEBRASKA Um 1911-1912 LOUIS V. GUYE, CHIEF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ELIZABETH HEEP, CHIEF CLERK LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 1912 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL To the Honorable Chester H. Aldrich, Sir: Governor of Nebraska. In compliance with the provisions of the statutes, I herewith present for your consideration the Thirteenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, covering the biennium, in part, from January 15, 1911, to December 1, 1912. Very respectfully, LOUIS V. GUYE, Lincoln, Nebraska, December 1, 1912. The Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics was established in the year 1887. The purpose of this bureau was intended to protect the lives, health, limb and safety of the wage earning class, to collect, collate and publish statistics and acts relative to the manufacturing, industrial classes and material resources of the state. Since the establishment of this bureau, many additional duties have been added to the already overtaxed physical ability of the two persons charged with the maintenance of the Bureau of Labor. Summarizing the duties of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics we have the following: That it shall collect, collate and publish annually one bulletin upon the manufacturing statistics of the state. To collect, collate and publish annually, bulletin giving all statistical information upon the agricultural resources and crop production, including the census of farms, acreage of crops, orchard statistics, live stock, poultry, together with the number having died from disease, and a complete record of all farm, city and chattel mortgages. To collect, collate and publish, annually, all statistical information upon industrial accidents and occupational diseases of the wage earners of the state. To collect, collate and publish, annually, bulletin giving the statistical information upon all surplus shipments and products raised or manufactured within the state. To collect, collate and publish information concerning the state's resources and opportunities, including homestead lands, laws, etc. To inspect all buildings within the state, over three stories in height, as the means of determining whether or not they are properly equipped with fire escapes, both outside iron stairways and automatic metallic fire escapes to be fastened on the inside thereof. The inspection of all theatres and moving picture houses within the state, as the means of determining proper exits in case of fire as well as the construction of the operating booths, etc. |