of the State and in prosecuting employers under the Compensation Act for non-insurance, the collection of awards, the preparation of the records on appeal and the innumerable other legal matters which require the attention of counsel from day to day in the working of the Compensation Law. The Commission feels that the criticism made of its legal department growing out of the Diamond factory fire in Williamsburg is directly traceable to the fact that it had but a comparatively small portion of the legal force which it requires to attend to its legal affairs. SUGGESTIONS FOR REVISION OF ARTICLE 9 OF THE LABOR LAW BY GUSTAV WERNER, TUNNEL INSPECTOR Sec. 119. Sec. 123. Sec. 132. Add after the word "tunnels," and subways, and all work constructed under artificial air pressure. Substitute word explosives for the word "powder." Add after the words "in all mines" the words or tunnels. Add after the word "mine" in each sentence, quarry, tunnel or underground construction work in this state. Eliminate the word "trapdoors" and substitute openings shall be suitably protected. Sec. 134-a. Substitute twenty-two pounds for "twenty-one pounds." Substitute for the words "thirty-six pounds," wherever they appear in the compression tables, the words thirty-five pounds. Sec. 134-b. Add to subdivision (h) Such lock shall be at least five and onehalf feet in height, and shall have telephone connection with the outside. (1) REPORT OF THE FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER (IN CHARGE OF BUREAU OF INSPECTION) To the Industrial Commission: To the report herewith submitted are appended the reports of the chiefs of the several divisions of the Bureau of Inspection, together with statistical tables showing in detail the work accomplished by each division. It seems needless to review at length the reports of divisions, except to call attention to such features of their work as need to be emphasized, in order that the law may be strengthened and the highest standard reached in its enforcement. On assuming the duties of First Deputy Industrial Commissioner, July 16, 1915, I found we had reached that season of the year when the Department's employees were allowed their vacation period, namely, July and August, and we had a little over two months in which to complete the work of the fiscal year. It was very evident that any changes to be made in the method of performing or reporting the work of the inspection force, would of necessity have to be made effective October 1, 1915, the beginning of the fiscal year. Such changes as were deemed necessary were accordingly made to apply at the beginning of the 1916 fiscal year. FACTORY INSPECTION I feel that it is necessary to call the attention of the Commission to the difficulties encountered by the Division of Factory Inspection, relative to structural changes in factory buildings, in order to provide proper exits and other requirements for the protection of the factory workers in case of fire, as set forth in sections 79-a, 79-b, 79-c, 79-d, 79-e, and 79-f of Article 6. The enforcement of the provisions of these sections have imposed increased duties on the inspection force. The property owners are reluctant to comply, and they have, since the application of these provisions of the law to factories of the state, made numerous appeals from the orders |