Commerce and Labor Publications

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1911

Commerce and Labor Publications

THE varied activities of the Department of Commerce and Labor are reflected in the number and diversity of publications the department issues annually. These reach, through the mails and the freight trains, practically every class of people in the country, from the immigrant just landed to the captains of industry. In this respect the department occupies among the executive departments of the government a conspicuous position as a publisher of periodicals. According to a report for the fiscal year 1911, submitted to Secretary Nagel by George C. Havenner, chief of the division of publications, of the $375,000 available for printing and binding, $370,030 was expended. There was a total of 796 publications, of which 27 were printed in two or more editions, while a still larger number were reprints of issues of earlier years. These publications contained a total of 47,883 printed pages, and there were 5,242,762 copies distributed, as against 3,363,323 in the preceding fiscal year. There are thirteen publications issued at stated periods by the department, by which it keeps the commercial, financial, maritime, and labor worlds fully informed of national and international facts and figures in which they are vitally interested.