Excerpt from Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics: For the Year Ended September 30, 1912 These returns indicate less idleness at the end of every month, except July, of 1912 than in the corresponding month of 1911. The mean percentage of idleness for the first six months of 1912 was as against for the corresponding period in 1911. For the second half of the year, the mean percentage was in 1912 as against in 1911. The mean percentage for the entire year was in 1912 as against in 1911. 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.