World, Jan. 10, 1920. Skeptical of advantage of "Federal home loan banks" or simple plans to increase amount of mortgage funds.

Preventing fraudulent issue of securities. Comm. & Finan. Chron., Jan. 17, 1920. An interesting review of Blue Sky legislation, together with comment on applicability to New York.

I. B. A. of A. Bulletins, 1919. A series of bulletins giving reports of committee chairmen on railroad, public utility, government and foreign securities. One of the most interesting features of these now common laws is an attempt in Section 1 of the Wyoming law to define "speculative securities," and it appears to be quite successful.

I. B. A. of A. Bulletins. July 19, 1919. Amendments to Blue Sky laws. Also new laws of Maine, Wyoming, and Utah.

Corporations

(Abstracts by A. S. Dewing)

NoTZ, W. Cartels during the war. Journ. Pol. Econ., Jan., 1919. Very valuable summary of conditions during war, particularly in Great Britain and Germany.

WADE, C. G. Australian anti-trust legislation. Journ. Comp. Legis., Oct., 1919. Very brief but instructive account. Evidently Australian law of 1906 modeled on Sherman act of 1890. Emphasizes, and to limited extent defines, intent to monopolize.

Labor and Labor Organizations

(Abstracts by George E. Barnett)

BARNETT, G. E. American trade unionism and the standardization of wages during the war. Journ. Pol. Econ., Oct., 1919. Pp. 24. Analyzes the policy of standardization adopted by government agencies and discusses the attitude of the trade unions.

BOOKER, J. M. Industrial partnership. Yale Rev., Jan., 1919. Pp. 11. Believes that the root of industrial unrest is the choking of the building instinct in the individual workman, and that the correction of the evil is not profit sharing nor betterment of living conditions nor industrial education but partnership. This means profit sharing plus a voice in the control of the business.

BRISSENDEN, P. F. Employment policy and labor stability in a Pacific coast department store. Mo. Lab. Rev., Nov., 1919. Pp. 39.

CHENERY, W. L. The coal strike. Survey, Nov. 22, 1919. Pp. 6. Stresses chiefly the need for regularization of employment.

COLE, G. D. H. The British railway strike. New Repub., Nov., 1919. Pp. 31. The railway strike was significant as the first battle in the struggle to reduce war wages.

CROWTHER, S. A. B. C.'s for capital and labor. World's Wk., Jan., 1920. Pp. 5. Argues that increased production alone will benefit workers.

EDWARDS, G. W. The employment service in Canada. Mo. Lab. Rev., Aug., 1919. Pp. 11.

EMMET, B.
Pp. 19.

Disability among wage earners. Mo. Lab. Rev., Nov., 1919.

FITCH, J. A. The closed shop. Survey, Nov. 8, 1919. Pp. 10. The issues in the steel strike are hours and the right to organize.

FRANKEL, E. Labor turnover in Chicago. Mo. Lab. Rev., Sept., 1919. Pp. 15. FRASCHETTI, V. Inchiesta sulle condizioni igienico-sociali nella industria della pasticceria e dei biscotti. L'Ufficio Municipale del Lavoro di Romo, Oct., 1919. Pp. 3. A survey of conditions in some 275 bakeries as affected by the war.

GREGG, R. B. The National War Labor Board. Harvard Law Rev., Nov., 1919. Pp. 25. Reviews the principles established in the leading cases decided by the board.

HALEVY, E. La politique de paix sociale en Angleterre: les "Whitley councils." Rev. d'Econ. Pol., July-Aug., 1919. Pp. 47. Critical analyses of the councils' plan.

HENDERSON, H. D.

The railway strike. Econ. Journ., Dec., 1919. Pp. 8.

Analysis of the issues. KELLEY, F. Wage earning women in war time: the textile industry. With special reference in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to woolen and worsted yarn. Journ. Indust. Hygiene, Oct., 1919. Pp. 22. Hours, sanitation, rest periods, wages, etc., are discussed.

KENNEDY, D. R. Earnings versus wages. Indus. Manag., Dec., 1919. Pp. 5. Advocates payment by price and the giving of full information to workmen as to the margin of profit.

MACASSEY, L. Women in industry. Quart. Rev., July, 1919. Describes the industrial position of women before and during the war.

MCGILLICUDDY, O. E. Causes and cure of labor unrest. Current Hist., Sept., 1919. Summarizes the report of the Canadian Commission on Industrial Relations.

MCMAHON, T. S. Centralia and the I. W. W. Survey, Nov. 29, 1919. Pp. 2. MAYLANDER, A. German workers' councils-their organization and functions. Mo. Lab. Rev., Sept., 1919. Pp. 8.

MERZ, C. The labor party. New Repub., Dec. 10, 1919. Pp. 4. Analysis of the platform.

PAYEN, E. La contagion syndicaliste et le cégétisme. L'Econ. Franç., Oct. 4, 1919. Pp. 4. Discusses the significance of the formation of unions among public officials, teachers, actors, etc., and their application with the C. G. T. PICARD, R. La durée du travail féminin et son rendement. L'Europe Nouvelle, Oct. 4, 1919. Pp. 2. A summary of the results of an unpublished inquiry by the French government as to the relation between hours and output.

POLAKOV, W. N. Fatigue and industrial efficiency. Indus. Manag., Dec., 1919. Pp. 6.

REYNARD, H. The industrial situation.

Econ. Journ., Sept., 1919. Pp. 11. Outlines a program of reform which includes nationalization of transport and coal.

SANTACROCE, D. Individuazione giuridica degli Uffici di Lavoro. Diritto e Politica, Oct., 1919. Pp. 5.

SAPOSS, D. J. How the steel strike was organized. Survey, Nov. 8, 1919. Pp. 3. SHAW, S. A. Closed towns. Survey, Nov. 8, 1919. Pp. 7. Criticism of the activities of public officials in the steel strike.

SHOTWELL, J. T. Labor provisions in the peace treaty. Mo. Lab. Rev., Aug., 1919. Pp. 12.

SLICHTER, S. H. The management of labor. Journ. Pol. Econ., Dec., 1919. Pp. 27. Argues that the labor administrator should have full authority as to labor policies.

SPARKES, M. The building trades parliament of Great Britain. Bull. Assoc. Gen. Contractors, Oct., Nov., 1919. Pp. 3, 4. The work of the industrial council for the building industry.

SQUIRES, B. M. British labor exchanges and United States employment offices. Mo. Lab. Rev., Aug., 1919. Pp. 15.

SQUIRES, B. M. Reabsorption of labor, and unemployment in the United Kingdom. Mo. Lab. Rev., Sept., 1919. Pp. 36.

SQUIRES, B. M. Readjustment of wages and working conditions of New York harbor employees. Mo. Lab. Rev., Aug., 1919. Pp. 12.

SQUIRES, B. M. The marine workers' affiliation of the port of New York. Journ. Pol. Econ., Dec., 1919. Pp. 35. History of the component unions and of the affiliation.

STODDARD, W. L. Just where does the shop committee movement stand to-day? Factory, Dec., 1919. Analysis of existing plans.

STODDARD, W. L. Labor and the shop committee. Indus. Manag., Sept., 1919. Pp. 4. Argues that antagonism of the trade unions to the shop committee movements is avoidable.

STONE, N. I. Wages, hours and individual output. Ann. Am. Acad., Sept., 1919. Pp. 26. A critical review of the various forms of industrial remuneration.

TAWNEY, R. H. The report of the Coal Industry Commission. Contemp. Rev., Aug., 1919. If the workers' demand is rejected, an increase in output will be prevented.

TYSON, F. The standard of living of steel workers. The Review, Oct. 25, 1919.
Pp. 3. The primary problems are length of working day and housing.
WEBB, S. The facts of the strike. New Statesman, Oct. 4, 1919. Pp. 3. The
action of the government in the railway negotiations was provocative.

WISLER, W. Wages and some industrial fallacies. Am. Fed., Nov., 1919. WILSON, T. Notes on labour unrest. Econ. Journ., Sept., 1919. Pp. 5. The growing centralization of the unions is given as the chief cause.

WOLFE, A. B. Intensive industrial training under governmental auspices in war time. Journ. Pol. Econ., Nov., 1919. Pp. 33. Primarily historical but includes some appraisal of results.

WOLFE, A. B. and OLSON, H. War-time industrial employment of women in the United States. Journ. Pol. Econ., Oct., 1919. Pp. 21. Deals with number, efficiency, wages, etc., of women war workers.

Has organized labor estranged the nation's farmers? Annalist, Nov. 24, 1919. Pp. 2. Gives reasons for an affirmative answer.

Profit sharing. Business Digest, Nov. 11, 1919. P. 1. The Larkin Company's stock distribution plan.

Report of the American Federation of Labor delegates to the International Federation of Trade Unions Congress at Amsterdam. Am. Fed., Oct., 1919. Pp. 82.

Review of labor legislation. Am. Lab. Legis. Rev., Dec., 1919. Pp. 125.

The railway strike. Labour Gaz., Oct., 1919. Pp. 3.

Wages and hours of hotel and restaurant employees. Mo. Lab. Rev., Sept., 1919. Pp. 37.

Why industrial democracy failed. 100% Mag., Oct., 1919. Pp. 6. The history of an experiment.

Money, Prices, Credit, and Banking
(Abstracts by C. A. Phillips)

AGGER, E. E. Must restore gold standard to restore old exchanges. Annalist, Nov. 10, 1919. Pp. 2. Parties in the exchange rates now have to be calculated on a general commodity basis rather than on a single gold basis. ALLAN, F. H. The one pound note. Bank. Mag. (London), Aug., 1919. Pp. 4. The utility of the one pound Scotch bank note was never more in evidence than during the opening days of the war.

CASSEL, G. The depreciation of the German mark. Econ. Journ., Dec., 1919. Pp. 5.

CLARK, W. C. The foreign exchange situation and its solution. Trust Companies, Nov., 1919. Pp. 3. Holds that long-term credit extended to Europe would correct the exchanges.

DAMIRIS, C. J. Le problème des changes; les causes de la fixité du change grec. L'Econ. Franç., Oct. 18, 1919. Pp. 6. An account of the legislation and practices that have controlled Greek exchange.

ESCHER, H. Die Rechnungsabschlusse von acht grossern schweizerischen Handelsbanken für das Jahr 1918. Zeitschr. f. Schweiz. Stat. u. Volkswirts., Heft 2, Jahrgang, 1919. Pp. 4. A record of marked expansion.

ESTCOURT, R. Would discard gold standard as the basis of trade. Annalist, Dec. 15, 1919. Pp. 5. Recommends an experiment with a "wheat" standard of value.

FISHER, I. A monetary remedy for the high cost of living. Comm. & Finan. Chron., Sec. 2., Dec. 18, 1919. Pp. 3. A restatement of the author's plan for a compensated dollar.

GARINO-CANINA, A. Gli indici dei prezzi “Necco" per il 1915 ed il 1916 ed il rincaro durante la guerra europea. Rif. Soc., July-Aug., 1919. Pp. 32. A critical and comparative examination of the Necco price-indices.

GOURVICH, P. P. The illusion of gold in our financial system. Annalist, Oct. 20, 1919. P. 1.

GUPTA, J. Indian currency and exchange, the relation of German banks to industry. Journ. Indian Econ. Soc., June, 1919. Pp. 5.

HAWTREY, R. G. The gold standard. Econ. Journ., Dec., 1919. Pp. 14. Advocates the use of index numbers in the administrative control of uncovered paper money.

HOWELL, E. B. Would regulate production to stablize prices. Annalist, Nov. 17, 1919. P. 1.

HUBER, M. M. Le mouvement des prix et du coût de la vie en divers pays pendant la guerre. Journ. de la Soc. de Stat. de Paris., Oct., 1919. Pp. 33. A detailed comparative record of wholesale and retail price changes since 1913 with special reference to France, England, Italy, and United States. KALE, V. G. Prices and exchange. Journ. Indian Econ. Soc., June, 1919. Pp. 7. The establishment of the gold standard in India would bring relief from high prices.

KIDDY, A. W. The cost of the war to Great Britain as measured by its effect upon trade and the foreign exchanges. Bank. Mag. (London), Dec., 1919. Pp. 5. Shortage of raw materials and foodstuffs require heavy English importations despite high prices and unfavorable exchanges. LIESSE, A. La question des changes étrangers: remèdes empiriques et remèdes normaux. L'Econ. Franç., Oct. 11, 1919. Pp. 3. Urges that the government adopt a definite program looking toward increased production, reduced imports, and the payment of the debt of the state to the bank of France.

MCCALEB, W. F. People's banks a new era in American economic history. Rev. Rev., Jan., 1920. Pp. 4. Outlines the plan for a type of bank to function in the field of personal credits, summarizes results of such banks in the states where they have been established, and expresses the belief that they will free agricultural communities from the grip of the merchant. MILLER, H. F. R. An examination of the bank charter act of 1844 with a view to its amendment. Journ. Inst. Bankers, Nov., 1919. Pp. 12. No radical alteration is desirable.