ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE MASSACHU

SETTS BUREAU OF STATISTICS

Rooms 250-258 State House, Boston

The Bureau is organized into five permanent divisions: 1. The Administration Division, charged with supervisory duties in relation to the several divisions; 2. The Labor Division, engaged in the collection and tabulation of statistical and other information relating to matters affecting labor and the condition of the working people, as well as questions of general economic and social interest; 3. The Manufactures Division, which collects and tabulates Statistics of Manufactures; 4. The Municipal Division, which collects and tabulates Statistics of Municipal Finances, audits municipal accounts and installs accounting systems in cities and towns, and supervises the issuance of town notes; 5. The Free Employment Offices Division, embracing the administration of the State Free Employment Offices, of which there are four, located respectively at 8 Kneeland Street, Boston; 47 Water Street, Springfield; 41 North Main Street, Fall River; and 48-52 Green Street, Worcester. During the period of taking and compiling the Census a sixth division, the Census Division, is organized. The functions of the Bureau and the duties of the Director are summarized in Section 1 of Chapter 371 of the Acts of 1909, entitled "An Act to Provide for a Bureau of Statistics," as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be a Bureau of Statistics, the duties of which shall be to collect, assort, arrange, and publish statistical information relative to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary condition of the people, the productive industries of the Commonwealth, and the financial affairs of the cities and towns; to establish and maintain free employment offices...; and to take the Decennial Census of the Commonwealth required by the Constitution and present the results thereof in such manner as the General Court may determine.

APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF PUBLICATION.

BUREAU OF STATISTICS

CHARLES F. GETTEMY, Director

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL

DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

IN

MASSACHUSETTS

1915

LABOR BULLETIN No. 106

(Being Part III of the Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor for 1915)

APRIL 1, 1915

BOSTON

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING COMPANY

STATE PRINTERS

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL

DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IN

MASSACHUSETTS, 1915.

INTRODUCTION.

The matter presented herewith constitutes the Fourteenth Annual Directory of Labor Organizations in Massachusetts, the first directory of this character having been published by this Bureau in August, 1902. The present edition consists of four divisions, as follows:

(I.) "National and International Organizations," having one or more affiliated local unions in the United States (page 5);

(II.) 'State, District, and Trades Councils," consisting of organizations composed of delegates from local organizations within a particular trade or group of trades, or within a definite district comprising more than a single city or town (page 9);

(III.) "Central Labor Unions and Local Councils," composed of delegates from local unions in the same locality (page 12);

(IV.) "Local Trade Unions," composed of wage-earners in a single locality directly associated in what may be called the "unit body" of organization (page 16).

Since issuing the Directory in 1914, careful records have been kept of all changes in meeting places, secretaries, and other information pertinent to the subject. Schedules were sent in December, 1914, to all of the National and International Unions in the United States requesting a list of their affiliated locals in Massachusetts, together with the names and addresses of the respective local secretaries, and similar schedules were sent to all State, District, and Trades Councils and Central Labor Unions and Councils. The Bureau has been able, by these means, and also by a careful consideration of newspaper clippings relative to labor organizations in the Commonwealth, to secure information with reference

1 Prior editions of the directory have been published in our Labor Bulletins as follows: No. 23 (August, 1902), No. 24 (November, 1902), No. 33 (September, 1904), No. 37 (September, 1905), No. 43 (September, 1906), No. 52 (September, 1907), No. 61 (September, 1908), No. 68 (October, 1909), No. 76 (September, 1910), No. 83 (September, 1911), No. 93 (August, 1912), No. 94 (March, 1913), No. 98 (March, 1914).

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to the organization of new unions, the disbanding of those formerly existing, and changes in the data relative to organizations previously listed.

A schedule of inquiries, among which were certain inquiries which had special reference to this edition of the directory, was mailed on December 31, 1914, to each local union in Massachusetts known to be in existence. Schedules were received by mail directly or were obtained by special agents of the Bureau from approximately 981 per cent of the organizations listed in this edition. In the remaining cases, the desired information has been obtained from the secretary of the National or International organization with which the local organization is affiliated, or from some other reliable source.

Owing to the fact that the collection of returns and the preparation and printing of the directory necessarily cover a period of several weeks, some changes have no doubt occurred since the information herein presented was obtained, consequently those who have occasion to consult this directory should bear this fact in mind. Local secretaries are urged to send notice of any change in the particulars published herein concerning the organizations with which they may be connected.

In the compilation of this edition of the directory the Bureau has been accorded a most encouraging response to its inquiries by the officials with whom it has had occasion to communicate.

ABBREVIATIONS.

Abbreviations for the union officials follow: B. A. for Business Agent; C. R., Corresponding Representative; C. S., Corresponding Secretary; Ch., Chairman; D. M. W., District Master Workman; F. A. E., First Assistant Engineer; F. S., Financial Secretary; Gen. S., General Secretary; Gr. S., Grand Secretary; Int. S., International Secretary; M. W., Master Workman; Nat. S., National Secretary; Org., Organizer; Pres., President; R. S., Recording Secretary; S., Secretary; S. T., Secretary-Treasurer; Treas., Treasurer; V. P., Vice President.

1 The number of schedules sent out was 1,799 of which number 165 were to national organizations, 81 to State, district and trades councils, 99 to central labor unions and councils, and 1,454 to local trade unions.