Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Wisconsin: 1883 and 1884
To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin.
Chapter 319, laws of 1883, creating the Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides that the Commissioner thereof shall transmit his report to your honorable body "on or before the first day of February once in every two years."
In accordance therewith the First Biennial Report of said Bureau is respectfully presented.
The printing of it was begun earlier than the law required, hence the volume is less elaborate and perfect than it otherwise would have been. But to have delayed the report until the last moment for the purpose of making it more satisfactory, would have thrown it upon a state printing office already choked with public documents, and perhaps deprived the people of the privilege of examining and pronouncing judgment upon it before the adjournment of your honorable body.
Then too, manufacturers" reports, which should have been all in by September 1, straggled along until past the middle of October. This deducted six weeks from the time necessary for intelligent tabulation, and rendered the purely statistical portion of the volume somewhat unsatisfactory.
But the initial reports of all new departments, traveling unknown paths without guide, compass or landmark, must, necessarily be lean and imperfect, and this one is sent out with little expectation that it will do more than awaken a general interest in what is destined to become a very important and valuable branch of the public service.
A few suggestions, in the nature of what are generally termed "recommendations," may as well be offered here as elsewhere.
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