Excerpt from Seventh Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of West Virginia: 1901-1902 The presentation under this title will show that organized labor has kept pace with the industrial growth and progress or the State. A work of this kind has never before been undertaken in West Virginia and its value will be apparent inasmuch as it contains a directory of the labor bodies in the State as well as tables that will show number of organiza tions, location, date of organization, membership, daily hours of labor, and minimum and maximum rate of wages in different occupations. 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.