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Excerpt from The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Statistics of Labor for the Year 1908 The report on Strikes and Lockouts is the ninth annual presenta tion of the subject by this Bureau, and a careful comparison of it with that Of Similar documents issued by other official authorities will, we believe, justify the statement that it will rank with the best of such reports issued by foreign bureaus Of labor statistics, while it is undoubtedly more complete than any yet issued on the subject in the United States. The report on Labor Organizations represents the Bureau's first attempt to gather comprehensive data on this subject. The report on Changes in Rates of Wages and Hours of Labor is the second regular presentation of this character. 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.