The
general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall
be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States
useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most
general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon
its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of
laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material,
social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
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The
Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary
of Labor, shall collect, collate, and report at least once each
year, or oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics of the
conditions of labor and the products and distribution of the
products of the same, and to this end said Secretary shall have
power to employ any or either of the bureaus provided for his
department and to rearrange such statistical work, and to
distribute or consolidate the same as may be deemed desirable in
the public interests; and said Secretary shall also have authority
to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical
data and results obtained by them; and said Secretary of Labor may
collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so
obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.
The
Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate, 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 subdivisions 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 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 said 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.
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