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(5) To keep a bureau of general information and to this end all
offices and institutions of the State, including offices of the General
Assembly, are directed to transmit to the Commissioner of Labor and
Statistics, all reports as soon as possible.
(6) To classify and arrange the information and data so obtained,
and as soon as practicable after entering upon the duties of its office,
publish the same in substantial book form and annually thereafter re
vise and republish same.
It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to organize, establish and
conduct free employment agencies in such parts of the State as the said
Commissioner may deem advisable for the free use of citizens of the
State for the purpose of securing employment for the unemployed and
for the purpose of securing help or labor f or persons applying for such.

To arbitrate all disputes between employer and employee. To en
force the hours of labor for females; to enforce the Factory Inspection
and Child Labor Laws; the Steam Boiler Inspection and the State Mine
Inspection Laws.

The Child Labor Law applies to all children between the ages of
fourteen and sixteen years, who must pass an educational test and also
a physical examination made by the physicians connected with the
Bureau, before receiving employment certificates.




BOARD OF BOILER RULES.

This Board for 1924-27 consists of:

Chairman:
Dr. J. Knox Insley, Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, St. Paul
and Saratoga Streets, Baltimore.
Robert H. Oarr, Chairman of the State Industrial Accident Com
Thomas H. Robinson, Attorney-General, Title Building, Baltimore.

By the Act of 1920, Chapter 676, a Board of Boiler Rules was
created consisting of the Chairman of the State Bureau of Labor and
Statistics, who shall be Chairman; the Attorney-General and the Chair
man of the State Industrial Accident Commission.
This Board is created for and charged with the duty of formulating
rules and regulations governing the proper construction and installa
tion of boilers of over fifteen pounds to the square inch, for sale or
use in this State and to enforce such rules and regulations and the con
tinued maintenance of them on a basis of proper safety.


Inspections.

Number of inspections made in the different divisions coming under
the supervision of this department in 1926 were 7681. Of this number
1531 were Child Labor Inspections, 2214 Factory Inspections, 3781 Ten
Hour Law Inspections for Women and 155 Boiler Inspections. There
were also 13,537 General Inspections; these were establishments visited
where no women or children were found employed and canning and other,
establishments to which the Ten Hour Law does not apply. The total
number of people employed under the various inspections was 253,677.



Under the Child Labor Law our inspectors found 5,060 children
working. The permit department handled 19,049 cases.
During the canning season the Bureau concentrated its efforts to in
spections in the counties, with very satisfactory results.