Chapter 873. To amend section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to create a Department of Labor,” approved March 4, 1913
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CHAP. 873.— An Act To amend section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to create a Department of Labor,” approved March 4, 1913. July 7, 1930.[[S. 3061](/us/bill/71/s/3061).][[Public, No. 537](/us/pl/71/537).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 4Department of Labor.Vol. 37, p. 736, amended.[U. S. C., p. 61](/us/usc/p61). of the Act entitled “An Act to create a Department of Labor,” approved March 4, 1913, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
" “The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate,Bureau of Labor Statistics.Statistics of employment, wages paid, etc., in the Federal Government, States and specified industries to be published by. report, and publish at least once each month full and complete statistics of the volume of and changes in employment, as indicated by the number of persons employed, the total wages paid, and the total hours of employment, in the service of the Federal Government, the States and political subdivisons thereof, and in the following industries and their principal branches:
(1)Manufacturing;
(2)mining, quarrying, and crude petroleum production;
(3)building construction;
(4)agriculture and lumbering;
(5)transportation, communication, and other public utilities;
(6)the retail and wholesale trades; and such other industries as the Secretary of Labor may deem it in the public interest to include. Such statisticsReport of statistics. shall be reported for all such industries and their principal branches throughout the United States and also by States and/or Federal reserve districts and by such smaller geographical subdivisions as the said Secretary may from time to time prescribe. The saidCollection of. Secretary is authorized to arrange with any Federal, State, or municipal bureau or other governmental agency for the collection of such statistics in such manner as he may deem satisfactory, and may assign special agents of the Department of Labor to any such bureau or agency to assist in such collection.” " Approved, July 7, 1930.