thor of "Commercial Work and Training for
Girls."
"Department Store Occupations"--Iris P. O'Leary; head of manual
training department, First Pennsylvania Normal School; head of
vocational work for girls and women, New Bedford Industrial
School; head of girls' department, Boardman Apprentice Shops, New
Haven, Conn.; special investigator of department stores for New
York State Factory Investigating Commission; three years' trade
experience as employer and employee; author of books on household
arts and department stores; Special Assistant for Vocational
Education, State Department of Public Instruction, New Jersey.
"The Garment Trades" and "Dressmaking and Millinery"--Edna Bryner;
teacher in grades, high school, and state normal college; eugenic
research worker New Jersey State Hospital; statistical expert in
United States Bureau of Labor Investigation of women and child
labor; statistical agent United States Post Office Department;
Special Agent Russell Sage Foundation.
"The Building Trades," and "The Printing Trades"--Frank L. Shaw;
teacher in grades and high school; principal of high school;
assistant superintendent of schools; superintendent of schools;
special agent United States Immigration Commission; special agent
United States Census; industrial secretary North American Civic
League for Immigrants; author of reports on immigration
legislation.
"The Metal Trades"--R.R. Lutz; teacher in rural and graded
schools; superintendent of schools; secretary of Department of
Education of Porto Rico; took part in school surveys of Greenwich,
Conn., Bridgeport, Conn., Springfield, Ill., Richmond, Va.;
Special Agent Division of Education, Russell Sage Foundation.
"Railroad and Street Transportation"--Ralph D. Fleming; special
agent and investigator for United States Immigration Commission,
the Federal Census of Manufacturers, the United States Tariff
Board, the Minimum Wage Commission of Massachusetts, the National
Civic Federation, and the United States Commission on Industrial
Relations.
The work began in April, 1915, and ended in the same month of the
following year. Two members of the staff, with one stenographer and a
clerk, were employed during the entire period. One member of the staff
was employed 11 months, one nine months, one approximately five
months, and one two months.
The field investigations consisted largely of visits to indust
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