Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Labor and Industries: For the Year Ending November 30, 1937 Minimum Wage - Under the provisions Of chapter 401, acts of 1937, the jurisdiction of the minimum wage law was returned to this department and the responsibility for its enforcement placed on the commissioner. Since the enact ment of the act ten directory orders have been made mandatory and directory orders have been established for three additional industries. Legislation - It has come to the attention Of this department that some con tracting parties receiving awards from the commonwealth, or counties, cities or towns, have failed to insure their employees under the provisions of chapter 152 Of the General Laws. AS a result there is no protection if an employee is injured or killed. Inasmuch as chapter 152 is an expression of the will of the General Court, although not requiring insurance by employers generally, it would seem advisable in all public works contracts that this be made a condi tion before the contract is awarded. We suggest the addition Of a section re quiring this protection. 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.