Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of North Carolina: For the Year 1896 Dear Sir: - Pursuant to the law creating the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I hereby transmit to Your Excellency the tenth annual report of this Bureau. As the law also requires that the Commissioner shall recommend to the Legislature what "he may deem calculated to promote the efficiency of the Bureau," I respectfully submit the following: First. - That a law be passed limiting the length of a working day to eleven hours. Second. - That no child under twelve years of age be allowed to work in any building, and those between twelve and fourteen only when they have a certificate showing that they have been of school at least three months during the preceding year. A penalty should be attached to the violation of these laws, and the Commissioner should be empowered to see that the law is lived up to. Third. - As this is the only tangible connection the laboring man has with the Government, and as it is peculiarly his own, his representative should be treated as the heads of other Departments are; therefore his salary should be increased to $2,000, on a par with the Railroad Commission, and $5,000 should be appropriated to prosecute this most needed work. I am glad to say that the influence of the Bureau is being felt for good, and that the ministers and educators are taking a great interest in its success. 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.