§ 2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics

• (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.