Places Having Desirable Factory Buildings Available for Im- Table II.-Establishments Inspected-Summary by Cities. Miscellaneous tables, relating to employees, buildings, fire Table I.-Bakeries and Confectioneries Inspected..... Table II.-Establishments Inspected-Summary by Cities INTRODUCTION. The twelfth biennial report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics consists of seven parts. Part I presents the results of a study of the principle of Cooperation as represented in the co-operative store. It emphasizes the extent to which the principle is now recognized as a factor in social and industrial progress; details the history of the co-operative movement in the United States; enumerates the kinds of co-operative stores, the causes of the establishment of such stores and the causes of their failure when failure has resulted; and presents statistics pertaining to those stores now in existence in the United States, with conclusions deduced therefrom relative to the present status of these institutions in this country. The statistics and other information contained in this part of the report were collected by the Bureau and complied by Mr. Ira B. Cross, then a Scholar in Economics in the University of Wisconsin. Part II, The Statistical Aspect of the Strike, contains the results of an investigation, through the medium of statistics of the development or growth of strikes. Statistics showing the increase or decrease of strikes in the United States and in foreign countries are presented. There is a discussion of the causes of strikes. particular attention being given to the movements from time to time which the variations in the causes indicate. The effect of trade-unionism upon the frequency, the duration, and the success or failure of strikes. is studied. Finally conclusions are presented relative to the function of the strike as an element of industrial life, and to the evolution of the strike as indicated by the statistics for a period of twenty years. Part II was prepared for the Bureau |