Author: N. C. Department of Labor and Printing

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780243002740

Excerpt from Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Department of Labor and Printing of the State of North Carolina, 1908 The work of the department in its annual report is thus forced to take a broad survey of conditions that are in themselves widely divergent in interest, and that are yet one and all a part of the deeper foundations of industrial peace and achievement upon which the future progress of the State must rest. The report seeks, therefore, it is hoped, more adequately than before, to pre sent not only a comprehensive scheme of statistics relative to manufacture and industries, together with related information as to the conditions of operatives, their wages, hours of work, etc., but also a more general but none the less instructive mass of information and Opinion obtained from representative men of all sections - manufacturers, laborers and farmers. The results so obtained, re ecting, as they do, both facts accomplished and needs essential, cannot be underestimated in value, and serve the most vital and far-reaching end of the department itself. Retiring as I do, I can speak with the more freedom of the value of this work and the ability and zeal that have entered into its execu tion, by reason of the fact that it was performed in the main by the Assistant Commissioner, a gentleman whose years of unselfish and poorly paid labor have indeed been justly recognized by his promotion to the head of the depart ment, but to the value of whose work and the high quality of whose faithful ness in the public service it is at once a duty and a pleasure, for me to here bear testimony. The statistics compiled and the reports furnished show that the State is still experiencing a steady industrial growth; that wages have been maintained, and that the educational and moral advance and environment of employees are better than ever before. 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."