EXECUTIVE BUREAU

The departmental service was approved as an
Executive Bureau, July 21, 1927, and administers
general departmental procedure. It prepares bills
to be presented to the General Assembly for enactment,
 and studies legislation introduced.
The files and records section has charge of all
filing of general correspondence of the Department,
which now totals more than 300,000 names and is
increasing at the rate of 500 each month.
The duplicating section includes all photographing, mimeographing,
and multigraphing, and has charge of a general mailing list of 23,725
names; and a special mailing list of 27,185 to whom are sent depart
mental documents of interest to particular groups.
This section prints registration numbers on the adhesive
 stamps for the Bureau of Bedding and Upholstery,
 totaling more than 4,000,000 per annum.
The editorial section issues a regular monthly
bulletin, ‘‘Labor and Industry; and special bulletins
 from time to time; edits the decisions of the
Workmen’s Compensation Board and the decisions
of the courts in workmen’s compensation cases,
annually, as well as all industrial standards pubtished
 by the Department. This section furnishes
to newspapers throughout the
Commonwealth information concerning
 the Department’s activities which is considered
 of interest and importance to the public;
and also examines and distributes all newspaper
olippings pertaining to the Department.
The Executive Bureau has jurisdiction over the
Department library ; keeps the personnel records of
about 750 employes, and has charge of the requisitioning
 of all supplies and equipment for the entire
Department and its branch offices.

Lincoin C. Carson
Director of Publleity