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Serial No. R. 1070
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
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EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
DECEMBER 1939
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON • 1940
CONTENTS
Page
Summary of employment reports for December 1939:
Total nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
Detailed tables for December 1939:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
1
1
5
8
23
Tables
SUMMARY
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
December 1939
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, December 1939TABLE 3.—Value of material orders placed on projects financed wholly
or partially from Federal funds and number of man-months
of labor created in final fabrication of materials purchased,
fourth quarter of 1939, third quarter of 1939* and fourth
quarter of 1938
4
6
7
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT
TABLE 4.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, December 1939
TABLE 5.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, October through December 1939
TABLE 6.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of
employment and pay rolls, December 1938 through December 1939
TABLE 7.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in November and
December 1939
TABLE 8.—Principal metropolitan areas—comparison of employment and
pay rolls in identical establishments in November and December 1939
9
14
20
21
23
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
TABLE 9.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls in November and December 1939
TABLE 10.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
December 1939, by type of project
TABLE 11.—Housing projects of the U. S. Housing Authority—emplo}Tnient, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, December 1939,
by geographic division
(in)
24
24
20
IV
Page
12.—Federal agency projects financed by the Work Projects
Administration—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, December 1939, by type of project; projects financed
and operated by the Work Projects Administration, employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, December 1939-.
TABLE 13.—Projects operated by the Work Projects Administration—
employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, November
1939, by type of project
TABLE 14.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid—employment and pay rolls, November and December
1939
TABLE 15.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls,
November and December 1939
TABLE 16.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—emploj'ment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, December 1939, by type of project
TABLE 17.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
December 1939, by type of project
TABLE 18.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, December 1939, November
1939, and December 1938
TABLE
27
27
28
28
29
29
30
PURCHASES FROM PUBLIC FUNDS
TABLE 19.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, fourth quarter of 1939, by type
of project
TABLE 20.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, third quarter of 1939, by type
of project
TABLE 21.—Estimated value of materials, supplies, and equipment purchased for National Youth Administration work projects,
last half of 1939
TABLE 22.—Rentals and services on projects operated by the Work
Projects Administration, third quarter of 1939, second
quarter of 1939, and third quarter of 1938
TABLE 23.—Rentals and services on work projects of the National Youth
Administration, second half of 1939
TABLE 24.—Value of public contracts awarded for materials, fourth
quarter of 1939, third quarter of 1939, and fourth quarter
of 1938
31
33
35
35
36
36
Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR DECEMBER 1939
Total Nonagricultural Employment
NONAGRICULTURAL employment increased by nearly a quarter
of a million workers from mid-November to mid-December, due
primarily to an increase of 390,000 workers in retail stores to handle
increased volume of Christmas trade. This gain brought employment
in nonagricultural industries in December to the highest level recorded
since October 1937, the total being more than 1,200,000 greater than in
December 1938. The resumption of full activity by certain automobile plants which had been on strike resulted in factory employment
showing a slight contraseasonal increase.
These figures do not include emergency employment, which increased 144,000 in December. Increases of 136,000 on projects
operated by the Work Projects Administration and 34,000 on work
projects of the National Youth Administration were partly offset by a
decrease of 26,000 in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Industrial and Business Employment
Increases in employment were shown by 37 of the 90 manufacturing
industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and by 5 of the
16 nonmanufacturing industries covered. Pay-roll gains were reported by 46 of the manufacturing and 8 of the nonmanufacturing
industries.
The net gain from November of 0.3 percent, or 20,000 wage earners,
in factory employment was the seventh consecutive monthly increase
for this group and was in contrast to a seasonally expected decline of
1 percent, or 80,000 wage earners. Weekly factory pay rolls rose by
2.0 percent, or about $3,800,000, the average December change being
an increase of about 0.2 percent. The December factory employment
and pay-roll indexes were 10.7 and 18.9 percent, respectively, higher
than a year ago. They were also higher than any recorded since the
fall months of 1937, but were still substantially below the levels
reached in the earlier months of that year.
The durable-goods group of industries continued to rise, while the
nondurable-goods group showed a decline. The gains in the former
(1)
group were chiefly contraseasonal or larger than seasonal, while the
declines among the industries comprising the latter group were largely
of a seasonal nature. Among the more important increases in employment were: Automobiles (64,800 wage earners); foundries and machine
shops (7,200 wage earners); blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling
mills (6,100 wage earners); slaughtering and meat packing (5,300 wage
earners); electrical machinery (4,900 wage earners); book and job
printing (4,200 wage earners); aircraft (3,800 wage earners); boots
and shoes (3,800 wage earners); electric- and steam-railroad car building (3,600 wage earners); shipbuilding (3,500 wage earners); engines,
turbines, and water wheels (3,200 wage earners); and newspaper and
periodical printing (2,300 wage earners). Employment in the aircraft
industry has expanded each month since September 1938, when the
index stood at 774.2 percent of the 1923-25 level. In December it
stood at 1,886.0, which was more than three and a half times the
1929 average. Among the manufacturing industries reporting large
declines were canning and preserving (16,500 wage earners), sawmills
(10,500 wage earners), woolen and worsted goods (6,600 wage earners), hosiery (6,200 wage earners), radios and phonographs (5,100
wage earners), women's clothing (4,300 wage earners), and silk and
rayon goods (3,000 wage earners).
Retail stores reported a larger than seasonal employment gain of
12.3 percent for the Christmas trade. The general merchandising
group, which includes department, variety, and general merchandising
stores and mail-order houses, took on 37 percent more workers to
handle the holiday trade. The employment index for this group
climbed to 151.2 percent of the 1929 average, the highest point
recorded over an 11-year interval. Apparel stores took on 11.9 percent more workers, jewlery stores added 24.5 percent more employees
to their pay rolls, furniture stores showed an increase of 3.9 percent
in the number of workers employed by them, and hardware stores
showed a gain of 5.2 percent. The remaining lines of retail trade
also showed employment gains with the exception of "lumber and
building materials/' which showed a seasonal recession of 2.2 percent.
Wholesale trade as a whole showed virtually no change in employment since November. Among the more important lines showing
employment gains were farm products, electrical goods, and paper
and paper products. Among the lines showing declines were dry goods
and apparel, metals and minerals, furniture and house furnishings,
and lumber and building materials. Anthracite and bituminous coal
mines reported small decreases in employment, coupled with substantial losses in pay rolls, resulting from sharply decreased production
during the first half of December. Public utilities and other service
industries reported small employment changes. Winter weather conditions brought a seasonal curtailment of employment in quarries.
Employment in metal mines showed a gain of 1.2 percent, with the
index standing at the highest level recorded in any month since
January 1938.
Employment and pay rolls in private building construction decreased
6.9 and 7.0 percent, respectively, from November to December according to reports from 14,132 contractors employing 132,965 workers.
These declines were less than the average decrease in December of
the previous 7 years. Comparisons with December 1938 showed a
gain of 5.0 percent in employment and 12.0 percent in weekly pay rolls.
Seasonal reductions in employment from November to December
were general throughout all parts of the country, ranging from 2.6
percent to over 10 percent, with the exception of the East South
Central area, which showed a 3.5-percent gain. The reports on which
these figures are based do not cover construction projects financed by
the Work Projects Administration, the Public Works Administration,
and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or by regular appropriations of the Federal, State, or local governments.
Average pay rolls for the year 1939 were above those for 1938 for
all of the industrial groups surveyed monthly by the Bureau except
crude-petroleum producing, dyeing and cleaning, and brokerage.
Average employment was higher for 8 groups as follows: Manufacturing (7.9 percent), metalliferous mining (6.3 percent), quarrying and
nonmetallic mining (5.4 percent), private building construction (1.9
percent), retail trade (1.5 percent), insurance (1.1 percent), wholesale
trade (0.5 percent), and laundries (0.2 percent). Average employment was lower for the following industrial groups: Bituminous-coal
mining (9.2 percent), crude-petroleum producing (8.7 percent), brokerage (3.7 percent), anthracite mining (3.3 percent), dyeing and
cleaning (2.9 percent), electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance (1.0 percent), year-round hotels (0.8 percent), telephone
and telegraph (0.5 percent), and electric light and power and manufactured gas (0.4 percent).
A preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission
showed an employment decline by class I railroads from November to
December of 2.8 percent, the total number of workers in December
being 1,009,526. Corresponding pay rolls were not available when
this report was prepared. For November they were $163,721,972, a
decline of 4.8 percent over the October figure.
Hours and earnings.—The average hours worked per week by wage
earners in manufacturing industries were 38.6 in December, an increase
of 0.1 percent since November. The average hourly earnings of these
workers were 66.2 cents, an increase of 1.4 percent as compared with
the preceding month. Average weekly earnings of factory workers
were $26.27, a gain of 1.6 percent since November.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hours are
available 6 showed increases in average hours worked per week and
10 reported gains in average hourly earnings. Eight of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries surveyed reported higher average weekly
earnings.
Employment and pay-roll indexes and average weekly earnings in
December 1939 for all manufacturing industries combined, for selected
nonmanufacturing industries and for class I railroads, with percentage
changes over the month and year intervals, are presented in table 1.
TABLE 1.—Employment,
Pay
Rolls, and Earnings
in All Manufacturing
Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, December 1939
Employment
Index
Decem- Nober 1939 vember
1939
All manufacturing industries
combined *
Class I steam railroads 2
Coal mining: 4
Anthracite ___
Bituminous 4
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining
Crude-petroleum producing..._
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph..
Electric light and power
and manufactured gas_ _.
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance
Trade:
Wholesale. _
Retail
General merchandising.
Other than general
merchandising
47
Hotels (year-round)
_....
Laundries 4
Dyeing and cleaning 4
'___
Brokerage
Insurance
Building construction
1
2
3
4
Average
change from—
AverIndex
age in
Decem- NoDecent Nober
1939 vem- Decem- ber
1939 vem- Decem1 December ber 1938
ber ber 1938
ber 1938
1939
1939
Percentage
change from—
Industry
Percentage
change from—
{1923-25
{1923-25
I
= 100)
= 100)
104.1 +0.3 +10.7
103.0 +2.0
-2.8
+7.0
(1929 =
100)
51.0
93.2 - 1 . 8
07. 2 +1.2
-.0
50. 5
+4.3
+8.0
+0.2
44.0
03.8
-0.5
74.7
-.4
+.0
93.0
-.4
+ 1.7
09. 0
-.3
-5.9
92.2
+.1
101.0 + 12.3
151.2 +37.0
87.8 +3. 8
90.8 I - 1 . 1
95.5 ! - . 1
97.3
-.5
-.0
-(19
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
+.3
+2.4
+3.0
+4.9
+2.0
-1.3
+2.3
-.0
-1.2
+ 1.5
+5. 0
(1929=
100)
20. 6 -30.7
85.0 - 1 1 . 7
65.3 +2.2
+18.9
-37. 4
$20. 27
+7.3
+1.0
17.10 ! - 3 0 . 2
-37.0
+5.0 24.83 : - 1 0 . 1
+20. 0 30.43 ! +1.0
39.1 - 8 . 9 +10. 2 22.07 - 2 . 0
-5.3 33. 40 —.9
59.1
-. 8
0 31.29 + 1.1
+2.8
95. 0
+.0
6 34. 09 - . 1
+2.9
101.1
-.4
70.8
+.4
79.1
+.1
82.7 +10.7
129.7 +35.4
73.0
81.1
83.7
09. 7
(03
()
+1.0
+4. 5
+4.4
+5.0
+3.7
+4.0
+1.0
+4. 0
+2.0
-.9
-1.0
+1.8
+1.3
-7.0
0
-1.3
+.4
+ 12.0
«33.32
+.0
+11.7
+9.4
+.0
+2.2
+1.1
+1.2
+2.1
+1.5
+.6
+1.9
+ 1.3
+2.2
+2. 0
+.7
6 29. 85 +.1
6 20.19 - 1 . 5
6 17.05 - 1 . 2
6 24. 01 - . 1
0 15.59 +.2
18.07 +1.1
19.83 - 1 . 1
6 37.41 +2.5
6 35. 03 +1.2
30.91
-.1
-1.1
+0.0
!
Revised indexes—Adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures.
Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
Not available.
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938
issue
of this pamphlet.
6
Less than Mo of 1 percent.
6
Average weekly earnings not strictly comparable with figures published in issues of this pamphlet
dated earlier than January 1938 as they now exclude corporation officers, executives, and other employees
whose
duties are mainly supervisory.
7
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Public Employment
The completion of a number of projects brought employment on
construction projects financed from Public Works Administration
funds down to 167,000 in the month ending December 15, a decrease
of 37,000 from the preceding month. The $15,913,000 paid to workers
on these projects was $3,239,000 less than the amount paid in
November.
Approximately 3,000 more building trades workers found employment on low-rent housing projects of the United States Housing
Authority during the month ending December 15. Because of inclement weather that slowed work on some northern projects and the
fact that a considerable number of the new employees worked only
a small part of the month, wage payments to the 33,000 men employed were $68,000 less than in November. Pay rolls for December
totaled $3,547,000. These figures cover new construction and demolition and pertain only to those projects started under the United
States Housing Authority; those formerly under the Public Works
Administration are shown under the Public Works Administration
building construction projects in this report.
Seasonal curtailment of works on public-road projects was again
responsible for decreased employment on construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations. Increases were reported
on reclamation, ship construction, water and sewerage, and miscellaneous projects while all other types of projects showed decreases.
Employment on all types of projects for the month ending December
15 was 255,000, a decrease of 21,000 from November. Pay-roll disbursements for the month were $27,294,000.
Employment on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation showed a loss of 300, leaving 2,300 employed
in the month ending December 15. Wage payments for the month
amounted to $251,000.
The seasonal increase of activity on work-relief projects of the
WTork Projects Administration continued in December, when 136,000 more persons were given employment. During the month
2,076,000 persons were employed as compared with 1,940,000 in November. Pay rolls of $107,856,000 were $6,324,000 greater than in
November. Employment on Federal agency projects financed by the
Work Projects Administration rose from 88,000 in November to
98,000 in December. Pay rolls were $4,745,000.
Work projects of the National Youth Administration furnished
employment to 34,000 additional youths during December, and 11,000
more students were added to the rolls of the Student Aid program.
Pay-roll disbursements on the work projects amounted to $5,428,000
and on the Student Aid program to $2,967,000.
210478—10
2
The end of an enlistment period caused the number of persons
employed in camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps to drop 26,000
in December. Of the 309,000 on the pay roll, 272,000 were enrollees;
200, reserve officers; 1,600, educational advisers; 300, nurses; and
34,900, supervisory and technical employees. Pay-roll disbursements
for the whole group were $13,776,000.
In the regular services of the Federal Government increases were
reported in the executive, judicial, and military services, while a
decrease was reported in the legislative service. Of the 988,000
employees in the executive service 128,000 were working in the
District of Columbia and 860,000 outside the District. Force-account
employees (employees who are on the Federal pay roll and are engaged
on construction projects) were 9.4 percent of the total number of
employees in the executive service. Increased employment was
reported in the Post Office Department, the Department of the
Interior, and the War and Navy Departments, while a decrease was
reported in the Federal Works Agency.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment
and Pay Rolls, December and
November 1939
1
[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class
Federal services:
Executive 3
Judicial
...
Legislative
Military
Construction projects:
Financed by P. W. A.<
U. S. H. A. low-rent housing...
Financed by R. F. C.«
Financed by regular Federal
appropriations
Federal agency projects financed
by the Work Projects Administration
Projects operated by W. P. A
National Youth Administration:
Work projects
Student Aid
Civilian Conservation Corps
Pay rolls
Per»ntag
December November centage
change
3 932,641
2,359
5, 583
402, 513
+4.7
106,657
33,170
2,322
204. 036
29, 562
2, 638
-18.3
+12.2
-12.0
255,106
276, 073
295. 295
434, 350
308, 569
261,181
423,122
335,099
November
+5.9 $152,331,559 3 $141, 406, 641
-3.9
573, 308
550, 008
987. 538
2, 268
5, 535
421, 245
87,955
98,109
2, 076,089 31,939,586
December
-.9
+ 11.5
+7.0
+13.1
+2.7
-7.9
Percentage
change
+7.7
-4.1
—.3
1, 252, 503
29, 705, 737
1, 255,856
29, 686, 462
15, 9 J 2. 909
-16.9
— l.i)
250, 882
19,151,916
3,615,213
308,911
27,293,719
28, 688, 231
-4.9
3, 547,123
4,744,815 !
4,425,156
107,855,673 3 ]()j,532, 368 |
5,428,157
2,967, 327
13, 775,996
4,850,311
2,958,862
14,868,058
+.1
-18.8
+7.2
+6.2
+11.9
+.3
* Includes data on projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds.
2 Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to
the extent of 129,938 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $15,987,842 for December 1939, and 129,095
employees and pay-roll disbursements of $16,415,643 for November 1939.
34 Revised.
Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds, Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds, and Public Works Administration Appropriation
Act of 1938 funds are included. These data are not shown under projects financed by the Work Projects
Administration. Includes 12,093 wage earners and $1,172,452 pay roll for December 1939; 12,439 wage earners
and $1,213,687 pay roll for November 1939, covering Public Works Administration projects financed from
Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds. Includes 147,856 wage earners and
$14,038,629 pay roll for December 1939; 183,630 wage earners and $17,180,040 pay roll for November 1939,
covering Public Works Administration projects financed from funds provided by the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938.
•Includes 932 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $93,259 for December 1939; 973 employees and
pay-roll disbursements of $101,831 for November 1939 on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
Further seasonal curtailment of work on State-financed road projects resulted in a decrease of 15,000 in the month ending December 15.
Of the 122,900 at work, 19,100 were engaged in the construction of
new roads and 103,800 on maintenance. Pay rolls for both types of
road work were $9,030,000.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll data for December
is given in table 2.
The value of material orders placed on projects financed from regular
Federal appropriations during the fourth quarter of 1939 amounted
to $134,127,000. Approximately 256,000 man-months of labor were
involved in the final fabrication of these materials. On P. W. A.
projects orders were placed for $110,913,000 wT>rth of materials, for
which it is estimated 246,000 man-months of labor were required in
final fabrication processes.
The value of material orders placed on the various programs
financed by Federal funds during the fourth quarter of 1939, the third
quarter of 1939, and the fourth quarter of 1938, and the man-months
of employment created in the final fabrication of the materials used
are shown in table 3.
TABLE 3.—Value of Material
Orders Placed on Projects Financed Wholly or
Partially
From Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Program
Fourth
quarter
of 1989
Public Works Administration l . . . $110,913,497
10,891,497
U. S. H. A. low-rent housing
Reconstruction Finance Corpora1, 2S9, 220
tion 2
Regular Federal appropriations... 134,120,807
Federal agency projects3 financed
2,108,895
from W. P. A. funds
Projects operated by W. P. A
(0
Rentals and services on projects
operated by W. P . A
(4)
Man-months of labor created
in final fabrication
Third
quarter
of 1939
Fourth
quarter
of 1938
Fourth
quarter
of 1939
Third
quarter
of 1939
$125,182,989
10, 377,907
$98,308,311
777,340
240 JOG
39, 580
278, 558
23,818
225,427
1,810
1,333,094
130,010, 243
2,107,270
95, 778,000
2,028
255,933
2,711
253,012
4,899
179,002
2,153,037
81,042,080
4,535,813
91, 085, 578
4,329
(4)
4,270
178,018
9,332
201,381
58, 344, 111
07, 257, 539
(4)
(4)
Fourth
quarter
of 1938
(4)
1
Data covering projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935,1930,1937, and P . W. A. A. 1938 funds are included.
These data are not shown under projects financed from W. P . A. funds. Includes low-rent housing projects
financed from funds of N . I. R. A. and E. R. A. A. 1935.
2 IncludesJRFC Mortgage Co.
3
Includes projects financed by transfer of \Y\ P . A. funds to other Federal agencies under sec. 3, E. R. A. A.
1938, and sec. 11-A, E. R. A. A. 1939.
4
Data not available.
8
DETAILED TABLES FOR DECEMBER 1939
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are available for
the following groups: 90 manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including private building construction; and class I
steam railroads. The reports for the first two of these groups—
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures on class I steam
railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission and
are presented in the foregoing summary.
EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS, HOURS, AND EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in December
1939 are shown in table 4. Percentage changes from November 1939
and December 1938 are also given.
The employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly
earnings for October, November, and December 1939, where available,
are presented in table 5. The October and November figures, where
given, may differ in some instances from those previously published,
because of revisions necessitated primarily by the inclusion of late
reports.
The average weekly earnings shown in tables 4 and 5 are computed
by dividing the total weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments
by the total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As
not all reporting establishments supply man-hours, average hours
worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily based
on data furnished by a smaller number of reporting firms. The
size and composition of the reporting sample vary slightly from
month to month. Therefore, the average hours per week, average
hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings shown may not be
strictly comparable from month to month. The sample, however, is
believed to be sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances to indicate the general movements of earnings and hours over the period
shown. The changes from the preceding month, expressed as percentages, are based on identical lists of firms for the 2 months, but the
changes from December 1938 are computed from chain indexes based
on the month-to-month percentage changes.
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, December 1939
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes arc based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100. New scries—adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures for all industries except automobiles, and not comparable to indexes
published in the July 1939 and earlier issues of the pamphlet. Comparable series available upon request]
Employment
Index
Decem-
Industry
ber
1939
104.1
_.
_
100.1
107.9
Average hours
worked per
week i
Average hourly
earnings l
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from—
Decemi
ber
ber
ber
Decem- b e r Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem-
Percentage
change from—
Novem-
ber
1938
1939
+ 10.7
+ 19.5
+3.9
103.6
+23.5
+30.5
+23.6
+8.9
+20.8
-.5
+3. 6 +29.0
t ^ +16.2
+ • 9 +14.0
-.4
+12.7
- 1 . 3 +17.0
-7.0
+13.0
-.8
+22.9
-5.2
+8.8
+1.7 +16.0
+2.1 +8.8
115.4
129.2
143.4
71.7
+.6
+1.4
+.7
101.9
88.2
117.0
77.7
173. 7
+.1
+5.3
-1.3
+ (2)
+ 1.4
+.2
ber
1939
All manufacturing
Durable goods
Nondurable goods.
Average weekly
earnings i
Pay rolls
+0.3
+1.9
-1.2
ber
1939
104.4
102 8
ber
ber
1938
+2.0 +18.9
+3.5 +31.2
+.4 +7.R
$26. 27
30.08
22.32
ber
ber
1939
1938
+1.6
+1.6
+ 1.6
+7.3
+9.8
+3.7
+.5
+.2
+13.0
+15.5
+11.0
+11.2
+.4
+13.1
+8.3
+ 12.1
+ 1.7
+13.2
+3.6
+6.7
+3.5
+10.3
+ 11.2
ber
ber
1939
1938
38.6
+0.1
39.5
37.7
-.3
+.3
+3.1
+6.3
+.3
39.4
39. 0
42.7
37.9
—. 5
-.7
-3.7
1939
Cents
66.2
72.8
60.5
+1.4
+1.5
+1.0
ber
1938
+3.2
+2.4
+2.7
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery..
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills..
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
_..
Forgings, iron and steel
llardware
_
Plumbers' supplies
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings...
Stoves.
Structural and ornamental metalwork
_.
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws).
Wirework
See footnotes at end of table.
111.4
123. 3
119. 8
77.5
108.7
72.6
105. 6
83.9
165. 6
86.2
89.3
75. 3
96.1
97.0
176.4
+.2
+1.2
+ 1.2
+.1
-2.9
79. 9
78.5
67.7
100. 4
-11.3
102.2
204.4
+5.0
+2.4
+1.0
-4.7
+39.5
+50.8
+37.3
+21.1
+21.4
I +46.3
' +25.6
+27.6
! +14.6
+32.6
+16. 8
+31. 2
+12.5
+27. 7
+21.0
30.72
33.19
29. 20
22.43
24.46
33. 05
27.44
26. 96
25.01
28.38
25.24
29. 03
23. 63
26.60
28.81
—. 5
-3.0
+.7
+ 1.7
— 9
+ 1.8
+ 1.5
-4.6
+ 1.8
+.5
+3. 2
+.3
41.3
42.1
40.2
39.4
39.4
40.2
38.0
39.6
38.6
43.0
40.9
-. 1
+.8
+.1
—. 7
-.2
+.3
-3.5
+.7
-.8
+2.5
-.4
+10.2
+14.7
+ 12.3
+10.9
+2.8
+9.7
+6. 2
+10.1
+2.0
+12.4
+3.4
+5.1
+.8
+7.1
+6.6
77.2
85.1
68.4
58.7
60.2
78.6
68.0
68.4
63.4
70.5
66.9
73.4
61.9
62.2
70.5
-hi 9
+• 4
+• 1
+.8
+.4
+.9
-.7
-.2
+2.1
+1.1
+.9
-.8
+.2
-1.7
+3.4
+1.8
+1.8
-.1
+.7
-.6
-.1
+ 1.2
+.7
+.6
+.7
+1.4
+2.1
+2.9
+4.4
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, December 1939—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100. New series—adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures for all industries except automobiles and not comparable to indexes published in the July 1939 and earlier issues of the pamphlet. Comparable series available upon request]
Industry
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Employment
Average hours
worked per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Index change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from—
DecemDecember
ber
ber
ber Novem- Decem- ber Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem1939
1QQQ
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
1938
1938
1939
1939
1938
1939
1939
1938
1939
1938
Durable goods— Continued
+1.9
113.1
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Agricultural implements (including tractors).. 130.9
+5.1
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
+.8
128.1
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
102.6
+2.1
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and wind+9.1
mills
119.8
Foundry and machine-shop products
97.2
+1.9
Machine tools
192.2
+4.5
Radios and phonographs
162. 3
-9.6
Textile machinery and parts
85.7
+1.7
Typewriters and parts
-.5
127.3
Transportation equipment
__
116.7 + 13.4
Aircraft
1,886. 0 +7.8
Automobiles
118.4 +15. 7
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
52.1 +12.0
Locomotives
28.0
+7.4
Shipbuilding
139.4
+5.0
Konferrous metals and their products
-.5
112.9
Aluminum manufactures
170.4
-2.2
Brass, bronze, and copper products
137.7
+.3
Clocks and watches and time-recording
-.1
93.1
devices..
Jewelry
98.6
-7.9
Lighting equipment
___
98.0
+4.9
Silverware and plated ware
76.7
+.7
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
86.9
+1.1
+23.1
+18.7
-3.3
+21.2
+41.3
+22.6
+51.6
+24. 5
+24.5
-1.2
+20.4
+119.5
+10.8
+60.9
+07. 2
+34.2
+ 19.5
+30. 0
+30.1
+ 12.3
+5.7
+11.4
+10.8
+11.3
+4.3
+7.8
131. 6 +2.3
114. 2 +4.1
156. 8 +12.8
98.6
+4.6
256.2
+7.7
148.8 -12.6
85.7
+3.9
-3.3
121.5
122.5 +15.9
1,777.9
+3.5
125.8 +18.5
46.8 +16.3
27.5
+9.5
152.8
+8.4
118.5
+1.0
196.8
+.7
158.9
+ 1.2
122.1
151.5
96.9
86.5
84.7
76.2
87.8
-2.8
-4.9
+8.3
+1.4
+3.0
+38.0
+23.7
$30.25
31.07
+9.8
+32.6
32.48
29.89
+64.6
+39. 2
+97.5
+26.0
+31.8
-5.4
+25.4
+103.9
+17.1
+75.9
+99.3
+38.4
+33.8
+40.4
+54.3
34.56
30.35
37.03
22.71
27.48
23.41
34.03
29.39
35.13
28.12
30.12
32.90
28.67
28.22
31.63
+21.6
+6.7
+20.3
+13. 5
+19.1
23.09
24.63
27.88
28.72
28.36
+2.4
+2.6
+1.5
+2.0
+3.4
+2.6
+3.1
-3.3
+2.2
+12.1
+4.2
+13.6
+9. 2
+16.5
+ 13.5
+30.3
+1.2
+5.7
oR
-4.3
+2*. 2 +4.2
-4.0
-7.1
+2.4 +5.6
+3.9 +9.3
+2.0 +18.9
+3.3 +3.1
+1.5 +11.9
+3.0 +8.1
+1.0 +18.5
—2 7
+8.3
+3.2 +1.1
+3.2 +8.0
+.7
+2.3
+ 1.9 +6.9
41.3
39.3
39.4
40.4
43.0
41.7
48.2
38.6
41.5
36.6
38.1
42.3
37.6
38.6
38.6
38.2
40.9
40.3
41.8
39.1
40.1
39.9
41 2
39.6
+ 1.1
+1.7
+1.2
+.3
+2.2
+ 1.8
+2.2
-4.2
+1.0
-3.6
+1.3
+1.2
+1.2
+3.9
+1.6
+1.1
-.3
-.7
+.2
-3.2
-2.2
+.2
+.6
+1.3
+ 10.2
+5.2
Cents
73.2
79.3
+112.2
+S. G
82.8
74.2
+14.0
+11.6
+25.4
-1.0
80.7
72.7
77.0
59.0
66.3
64.0
89.6
73.5
93.3
72.9
78.1
85.8
70.3
70.0
75.8
+1.5
-4.0
+5.3
+.5
+4.6
+9.2
+17.2
+2.0
+5.8
+4.9
+10.6
+4.0
-1.9
+6.4
+2.0
+2.9
59.6
61.2
70.0
65.1
71.7
+ 1.1
+.7
+.3
+ 1.6
+1.0
+•7
+.8
+1.0
+1.1
+.8
+1.1
-1.8
+1.1
-.1
+.4
+1.5
+1.9
+3.6
+.8
+.5
+5.9
+3.1
-.3
+.6
+1.5
-1.1
+.6
+.6
+2.1
+1.8
+4.1
+2.1
+4.0
-.3
-.4
-3.7
+.9
-09
+1.4
+1.2
+5.0
+2.6
+7.2
+4.1
+1.6
+1.8
-.1
+4.0
Lumber and allied products—
__.
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork_
_.._
___
Sawmills
.
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Cement
___
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products ...
Pottery
71.1
94.8
63.6
63.3
83.7
62.6
66.4
108.5
48.7
95.0
+11.6
+12.3
— 8 +13.1
-i 3 +11.1
-2.1
+9.8
- 3 . 3 +13.5
-5. 5
+5.4
-.7
+9.7
-2.8
+1.9
-.3
+10.7
-2.6
-2.1
65.2
85.5
-5.2
52.0
55.4
76.4
51.6
63.2
118.9
35.0
90.2
-1.5
-9.0
-3.2
-5.0
-4.9
-1.7
-8.0
o
+1.1
+ 17.1
+19.4
+19.2
+14.5
+ 14.0
+20. 7
+12.7
+13. 9
+2. 5
+13. 2
20.18
21.87
22.88
18.11
25.01
21.18
27.33
26.78
25.18
24.04
-2.7
+4.9
+1.3 , +6.4
+5.5
-.7
-5.7
+2.8
-1.1
+3.9
-1.8
+6.3
+.6
+7.0
-1.0
+3.8
-6. 3
+.7
+1.4 +2.1
38.6
40.3
-2.7
-.7
41.9
37.0
37.5
37.9
39.0
36.4
36.0
39.0
-1.3
-4.1
-1.1
-1.4
+.5
-1.5
-5.1
+1.4
-.8
+ 1.4
+4. 5
-3.3
+ 1.6
+1.9
+5.5
+ 1.4
+ 1.3
+2.8
51.3
54.4
54.2
48.9
66.0
55.8
70.1
73.7
70.7
62.8
— .3
+ 1.5
+ .5
— 1.6
+.4
+.2
+.1
+.5
-.9
+ 1.1
+4.8
+4.0
+ 1.0
+6. 3
+2.4
+4.5
+1.5
+2.3
+2.0
+.8
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products.
_
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing andfinishingtextiles
Hats, fur-felt
Hosiery
Knitted outerwear
Knitted underwear
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
"Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments
Men's furnishings
Millinery.
Shirts and collars
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
Food and kindred products.
__
Baking
Beverages
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snutT
Cigars and cigarettes
See footnotes at end of table.
105.8
98.7
84.4
96.8
91.0
133. 2
91.4
148.2
64.8
78.9
144.2
65.2
91.3
116.9
105. 2
164.6
116.3
129.0
66.1
122.3
93.2
90.8
87.0
125.9
144. 8
200. 6
92.5
100.7
96.0
78.7
68.0
112.1
190.7
95.2
65.8
60.8
66.3
+3.8
+5.2
+11.2
+11.2
+10.3
+8.2
+3.3 +3.1
-1.9
-2.2
-.9
-.1
-2.1
-.7
-4.2
-16.6
-2.3
-6.4
-3.5
-3.9
-1.5
-3.1
-12.1
+11.3
+1.4
-.9
+1.0
+1.2
+5. 6
-1.5
+10.4
+.4
-2.0
-.ft
-5.6
-.6
-4.2
+ 1.4
+2.1
— 1.1
-2.9
-1.2
-.2
-1.6
— 16.4
-2.1
+1.0
-1.9
+3.8
-33. 5
+1.5
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-12.8
-2.3
1 +2.5
.
I
-1.2
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;
+.4
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+1.2
+.5
:
-.3
+1.3
+7.7
-22.5
+4.4
-1.2
-4.6
-1.0
91.8
89.5
75.8
91.5
87.3
116.4
89.0
] 59.0
49.9
72.4
116. 3
56. 8
78.4
90.3
80.3
117.6
120.4
126.0
46.5
110.8
75.4
70-2
86. 5
124.4
134.1
298.8
78.1
89.1
99.8
72.2
57.3
121.5
177.7
75.8
62.3
67.2
61.6
+7.4
+8.6
+20.0
+.7 +20.7
-3.4
+11.1
+1.0 +9.2
+21.7 +20.1
-1.2
-2.4
-.1
-6. 5
-21.5
-3. 5
-11.5
-5. 3
-4.2
+1.2
+5. 6
+1.2
-1.0
-9.2
-4.2
-5.8
+6.0
+8.8
-.9
-.8
-2.1
1
+ 1.8
-1.3
-11.8
1
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1 +7.9
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-2.1
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-5.6
-16.3
+ 17.6
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+4.9
+1.3
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+ 14.1
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-3.2
+8.3
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+.6
+1.6
+4.6
+ 1.9
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+3.2
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+8.0
+2.8
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-25.6
+.3
+1.0
-7.1
+2.3
17.74
17. 55
24.86
15. 44
18. 61
21. 33
26. 41
19. 52
16. 54
15. 48
18.22
16. 58
19. 83
18. 30
19. 72
19. 26
17.06
15.13
19.81
14.55
19.09
17.62
24.88
25.51
25. 83
33. 56
22. 51
17. 64
20.25
24.83
29.48
28.51
24.27
22.39
17.47
17. 90
17.37
+.8
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+.8
+.8
-1.3
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+ 17.8
-2.4
-5.8
-1.2
-5. 5
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-3. 5
-1.7
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0
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+8.6
+.6
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+ H..5
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+6.0
+.3
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+7.9
+ 1.2
-1.2
+3.4
-1. 1
+ 5.7
+2.0
4 2.1
+.9
+2.9
+ 1.6
+4.2
+ 1.8
+5.2
+7.6
+3.0
+.1
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-3.7
-3.9
+2.3
-2.7
+3.2
35.9
37.2
37.7
37.6
39.0
39.1
36.8
35.4
34.7
36.8
36. 9
36. 5
37.1
33.5
33.5
32. 6
35.7
35.2
32.5
35.3
35.7
34.9
38.8
40.5
41.0
38.4
45.8
35.6
41.4
40.8
45.2
42.1
45.3
36. 2
35.8
34.2
36.0
-.6
-.6
+.3
+.4
-1.8
+.8
+17.9
-1.7
-6.8
-1.7
-5.9
-2.6
-1.7
-.6
+3.2
-2.8
-1.8
-5.5
+.2
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+4.9
+6. 5
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+ 1.0
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+1.7
-.3
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+4.6
+.4
+1.9
+5.0
-9.8
-1.9 i
-2.1
-.4
-2.3
+.2
-.6
+2.0
+1.2
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+9.8
-4.8
-8.6
+4.4
-.8
-1.6
-1.8
+ 1.5
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—. 7
-4.0
-1.7
+9.1
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-3.4
-4.0
—. 7
-.3
-1.0
+2.6
+.8
-4.0
+3.2
+.6
-2.0
+2. 6
-5.3
-5.2
-1.5
-6.1
-1.1
49.7
47.9
66.0
41.0
48.3
54.0
72.8
55.4
47.1
42.2
48.4
45.2
53.4
53.3
59.1
53.3
46.5
41.3
61.6
41. .4
53.7
51.1
64.3
63.4
63.3
88.1
48.8
50.6
49.3
60.4
64.0
67.8
54.2
61.8
48.9
52.5
48.4
+ 1.0
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+.5
+.4
+.1
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+2.4
(2^1
+.8
+.4
+.9
+.7
+ 1.4
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+ 1.9
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-3.3
+.3
-.4
-.5
+.4
+ 1.3
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+.2
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-(2)
-.8
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-1.6
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+4.4
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+7.0
+2.1
+ 2 . :>
+2.3
+ 1.1
+2.1
+8.2
—4.1
+6.5
+2.3
+2.5
+1.8
+2.6
+2.7
+ 1.3
+.6
+5.4
+4.7
+ 1.9
+2.3
+.1
+2.1
+ 1.4
+4.3
+3.8
+4.4
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Karnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Industries, December
1939—Continued
MAN UFACTU RING—Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25 = 100. Xew series—adjusicd to 1937 Census of Manufactures for all industries except automobiles, and not comparable to indexes
published in the July 1939 and earlier issues of the pamphlet. Comparable series available upon requesi]
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Employment
Average hours
worked per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Index change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from- DecemDecember
ber
ber
ber
Kovem- Decem- ber
Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- Decem- 1939 Novem- December
ber
1939
ber
1939
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
1939
1938
1938
1939
1939
1938
1938
1938
1939
1939
Industry
Nondurable goods—C( ntinned
Paper and printing.._
Boxes, p a p e r . . .
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
Soap
Rubber products..
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes
Rubber goods, other
_.
118.5
124.9
115.1
+0.9
-3.1
+4.7
+10.6
+8.3
116.8
136.9
122.5
+2.3
-5.8
-1.7
+7.6
+ 12.3
+18.4
$29. 51
21.92
26.19
+1.4
-2.8
-1.6
+2.9
+1.4
+9.2
39.4
40.1
41.6
+00
-3.7
-1.9
104.1
118.6
+3.0
+ 1.7
+ 1.4
+1.7
+7.0
+2. 5
+8.0
+15. 5
94.1
115.0
133.3
137.6
132.0
162.1
110.2
132.2
128. 7
82.2
130.5
314.0
102.1
100.5
65. 7
89.9
155.4
+6. 2
+5.2
+.2
+3.0
+2.9
+11.7
+2.5
+15.1
+22.6
+4.1
+10.2
+29.1
+16.9
+10.9
+13. 5
+9.4
+15.8
+3.4
+16.8
+18.6
31. 63
39.04
29.63
35. 27
27. 37
32.45
15.64
25.22
32.74
14.65
28.75
25.82
28.09
29.50
23.90
35.11
24.19
+3.0
+3.4
+.4
+.9
+.4
+.6
+ 1.6
+1.0
+4.4
_ i
+6*. 5
+6.2
+18.6
+2.6
+3.3
+3.9
+3. 6
+8.5
+ 1.4
+3.9
+3.2
+4.2
+3.5
39.6
36.7
39.0
36.4
39.8
40.3
46.2
40.2
39.5
34.2
40.3
38.8
39.7
38.1
39.1
36.1
39.9
+2.5
+2.2
+.3
+1.1
+.1
+.1
+.5
-1.0
-1.1
+.6
+.2
+.6
+.3
+.2
-2.4
+3.0
-1.5
122.3
122.3
122.2
137.1
114.9
118.8
107.8
102.2
124.2
312.2
85.1
93.0
63. 1
74.7
15(5. 5
-.1
-.2
-1.1
0
-.1
-4.0
+.9
+1.6
+11.7
-.7
-.4
-3.9
-1.0
+ 1.2
+.2
-3.0
— 12.3
+7.5
+25.0
+10.8
+6.1
+4.6
+7.8
+11.4
+.3
+12.1
+14. 6
o
+!4
+.5
-4.0
+.8
+.9
+8.3
f
+1.2
-2. 3
+.7
-1.3
+4.6
-4.4
0
-.1
-.7
-3. 6
0
+1.6
+1.8
+ 1.7
-2.5
+4.4
-1.5
+2.1
+ (*)
+6.5
+1.0
-.5
+1.9
-.3
+2.8
+2.8
+4.1
+1.2
-.1
+.3
+1.9
+5.0
+2.0
+1.4
+.8
+2.7
+.5
Cents
78.2
55.0
63.1
80.9
102. 7
75.2
97.2
67.7
80.2
33.1
60.0
82.8
42.8
71.4
66.5
70.7
77.6
61.1
97.4
61.2
+.9
+ 1.2
+1.3
+2.6
+1.4
+2. 2
+2.7
+.1
+4.8
+3.1
+13.3
+1.6
+3. 3
+5.4
+1.7
+3.4
+ 1.4
+.1
+2.2
+2.4
+1. 5
+3.0
+0.9
+.8
+.3
+.4
+.8
-.1
-.1
+.1
+.4
-.1
+.7
+.3
-4.2
-.3
+1.5
+1.1
-.1
-.4
LO
NONM AN U FACT URIN G
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=101)]
s
I
I
?S Coal raining: 3
|
A nthracitc
o
Bituminous 3
T Metalliferous mining ...
.
I Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
00
Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 4
..
Electric
light and power and manufactured
gas 4
....
Electric-railroad4 and moforbus operation and
maintenance
Trade:
4
Wholesale
Ketail 4
.__. . General merchandising *
.
Other than 3general
merchandising 4
45
Hotels (year-round)
Laundries 3
Dyeing and4 cleanings
Brokerage 4
Insurance
Building construction
51.0
93. 2
07.2
44.0
03. 8
-0.7
-1.8
+1.2
-0. 5
74. 7
-30. 2
-10.1
+2. 2
-8.9
+5. 0
+20. 0
+ 10.2
-5. 3
$17. 10
24.83
30. 43
22. 07
33. 40
-30. 7
-11.7
-34. 0
-10.3
-30. 3
-2. 0
-1.0
-1.5
38.9
0
+1.1
39. 0
+1.2
91.2
89.0
73. 9
50.1
88. 5
-1.2
-.9
80.0
+.8
+1.5
40.1
+.7
71.7
+.2
+2.1
+1.5
+.0
+1.9
+1.3
+2.2
+2. 6
41.7
12.9
41.2
43.7
40.4
42.9
41.4
+.4
71.3
52. 8
43. 9
50.8
33. 4
42.2
49.5
-.3
-3.7
-7.5
-.9
+.9
+2.9
+1.2
+0.0
32.8
94. 3
+1.7
-5. 9
-.4
+.0
95.0
+.0
+2.8
31.29
+1.1
93.0
-.4
101.1
-.4
+2. 9
34.09
-.1
09. 0
-.3
+1.7
+.3
70.8
+.4
+1.6
33.32
+2.4
+3. 0
+4.9
+2.0
79. .1
82.7
129.7
73.0
81.1
83. 7
09. 7
+.1
+4. 5
+4.4
+5. 0
+4.0
29.85
20.19
17.05
24. 01
15. 59
18.07
19. 83
37.41
35. 03
30.91
+.7
+.1
92.2
101.0
151.2
87.8
90.8
95. 5
97.3
+
+J2.
+37.
+3.
-1.
-1.3
+2. 3
+.
-0.
—.0
-1.2
+1.5
+5.0
3
0)
(••')
+10. 7
+35. 4
+3.7
-.9
+1.0
-1.0
+1.8
+1.3
-7.0
1
Revised series for "all m a n u f a c t u r i n g , " for various groups u n d e r m a n u f a c t u r i n g ,
for sawmills, fertilizers, soap, a n d t e l e p h o n e a n d telegraph. M i m e o g r a p h e d sheets
giving averages for these, as well as for t h e r e m a i n i n g industries covered, by years, 1932
to 1938, inclusive, a n d b y m o n t h s , J a n u a r y 1938 to S e p t e m b e r 1939, inclusive, available
on r e q u e s t . Average w e e k l y earnings are c o m p u t e d from figures furnished b y all rep o r t i n g e s t a b l i s h m e n t s . Average h o u r s a n d average h o u r l y earnings are c o m p u t e d from
d a t a s u p p l i e d b y a smaller n u m b e r of e s t a b l i s h m e n t s , as not all reporting firms furnish
m a n - h o u r s . T h e figures are not s t r i c t l y c o m p a r a b l e from m o n t h to m o n t h because of
changes in t h e size a n d composition of t h e reporting s a m p l e .
18.9
28.3
41.4
39.5
38.0
+.0
+ 11.7
+9.4
+.0
+2.2
-.8
-37. 4
-37.0
+4.3
+8.0
+0.2
20.0
85. 0
05.3
39. 1
59.1
- 0 . (»
0
+4. 0
+2. 0
-1.3
+.4
+12.0
'• Not available.
+1.0
-2.0
—.9
-1.5
-1.2
-.1.
+.2
+M
-1.1
+2. 5
+1.2
-.1
-.1
-1.1
(0)
(6)
+ 1.3
+0.1
+.3
+1.5
+4.8
+4.1
-.3
-.5
2
+*3
-.3
-.3
+.8
+.5
(8)
+.4
+.5
+. 1
+.1
()
+3. 2
-0.7
-.3
+0.8
+5.2
+1.9
+2.7
+.2
+.2
— 1.1
-.1
+1.9
+1.2
+2.1
+3.5
(6)
CO
+3.0
TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries
MANUFACTURING
(Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100, and are adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures for all industries except automobiles and not comparable to indexes published in
pamphlets prior to August 1939. Comparable series available upon request]
Employment index
Industry
Decem- November
ber
1939
1939
All manufacturing
Durable goods
Nondurable goods
Durable goods
__.
_
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
_
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills—.
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
__
Forgings, iron and steel. _
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings
Stoves...
Structural and ornamental metal work
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)
Wirework
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Agricultural implements (including tractors)..
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills
October
1939
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings i
Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
1939
1939
1939
Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
1939
1939
1939
Average hours worked
per week i
Decem- November
ber
1939
1939
Decem- November
ber
1939
October
Cents
66.2
Cents
65.3
Cents
64.6
40.1
38.2
72.6
60.5
71.5
59.9
71.3
59.0
39:2
43.0
39.4
40.3
40.0
42.8
38.5
77.2
85.1
68.4
58.7
76.7
84.7
68.2
58.3
76.4
84.8
68.9
58.3
41.3
42.1
40.2
39.4
39.4
41.3
41.8
40.3
39.7
39.3
41.0
40.4
40.2
41.3
40.4
60.2
78.6
68.0
68.4
63.4
59.8
78.1
68.5
68.2
62.2
58.8
77.4
67.6
68.3
62.1
29.49
27. 68
28.87
23.86
40.2
38.0
39.6
38.6
40.1
39.3
39.3
38.6
41.8
41.2
39.9
39.1
70.5
66.9
73.4
61.9
69.9
67.4
72.5
61.4
70.6
67.4
72.5
61.0
104.1
103.8
103.6
103.6
101.6
101.6
$26.27
$25. 73
15.81
38.6
38.5
100.1
107.9
109.2
96.1
110.8
104.4
102.8
100.9
102.4
103.9
30.08
22.32
29.42
22.02
29.71
22.02
39.5
37.7
39.6
37.6
111.4
123. 3
119.8
77.5
111.2
121.8
118.3
77.4
106.8
115.1
113.4
76.6
115.4
129.2
143.4
71.7
114.7
127.3
142.4
73.9
112.1
123.6
137.5
71.4
30.72
33.19
29.20
22.43
30.54
33.08
29.32
23.12
31.09
33.91
29.56
22.60
39.4
39.0
42.7
37.9
108.7
72.6
105.6
83.9
165.6
109.3
70.1
106.4
83.2
166.3
103. 9
65.2
99.7
82.1
163.6
101.9
88.2
117.0
77.7
173.7
101.7
83.7
118.6
77.6
171.3
94.2
74.7
109.6
79.9
172. 7
24.46
33.05
27.44
26.96
25.01
24.22
32.59
27.58
27.07
24. 49
23.54
31.24
27.13
28.18
25.08
86.2
89.3
75.3
96.1
87.3
96.0
76.0
101.3
86.4
97.4
76.3
105.7
79.9
78.5
67.7
100.4
79.8
88.4
67.1
105.4
83.3
93.9
68.3
111.3
28.38
25.24
29.03
23.63
28.00
26. 51
28.52
23. 52
95.3
i
October
1939
Average hourly
earnings 1
91.1
165.9
102.2
204.4
97.3
199. 7
92.2
183. 3
26.60
28.81
25. 77
28. 73
25. 58
27.47
43.0
40.9
41.7
41.1
41.2
40.3
62.2
70.5
62.0
70.0
113.1
130.9
172.8
111.0
124.6
106.6
117.8
117.1 111.0
140.5 I 131.3
30.25
31.07
29.51
30.27
29.92
41.3
39.3
40.9
38.7
40.6
38.4
73.2
79.3
72.3
78.7
128.1
102.6
127.1
100.4
126.3
97.3
122.1
151.5 |
131.6 |
114.2 I
]28.6 I 126.1
109.6 I 105.7
32.48
29.89
31.93
29.34
31.50
29.24
39.4
40.4
38.9
40.2
38.4
40.0
82.8
74.2
82.3
73.1
62.2
68.2
72.1
78.2
82.2
73.3
119.8
109. S
105. 2
156. 8 i 139. 1 ! 129. 2
34.56
33.46
32.48
43.0
42.1
41.1
80.7
79.9
79.4
97.0
176.4
Foundry and machine-shop products
97.2
Machine tools
192.2
102. 3
Radios and phonographs
85.7
Textile machinery and parts
127.3
Typ'ewriters and parts
116.7
Transportation equipment
1, 880.0
Aircraft
118.4
Automobiles
52.1
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
28.0
Locomot i ves
130.4
Shipbuilding
112.9
Bonferrous metals and their products
170. 4
Aluminum manufactures
137.7
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices- 93.1
98. G
Jewelry
98.0
Lighting equipment
Silverware arid plated ware
76.7
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc. 8(5.9
Lumber and allied products
71.1
Furniture
94.8
Lumber:
Millwork
63, 6
Sawmills
63.3
Stone, clay, and glass products
83.7
62.6
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Cement
__ 66.4
108.5
Glass
48.7
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
95.0
Pottery
_._
95.4
91.2
98. C
94.3
89.5
183.9 | 170.fi
256. 2
237. 8
207. 6
179. 7
148. 8
170.3
169. 6
17(5. 5
84.3
85.7
82.4
75.7
79.7
128.0
125.7
125. 9
121.1
121.5
102.9
105.3
122.5
105.7
109.9
1,749.5 1.556.4 1, 777. 9 1,718.0 1, 512.1
102.3
125. 8
100.1
107.8
113.3
40.2
46. 5
40. 8
37. 5
40.7
26.1
25.1
24.6
25. 5
27. 5
132.9
133.6
152.8
141.0
143.0
113.5
110.4
116.5
115.4
113.6
168.1
190. 8
196. 8
195.5
174.3
137.4
154.1
131,1
158.9
157. 0
99. 8
98.6
96.9
93. 1
90.0
92. 0
107.0
100. 7
86. 5
90.9
78.2
82.4
93.4
98.4
84.7
76. 2
73.1
76.2
75.1
70.8
85. 3
87.8
81.3
86.0
83.8
73.0
72.4
65.2
68.8
68.7
85. 5
86.2
84.9
96. 8
94.6
30.35
37.03
22.71
27.48
23. 41.
34.03
29. 39
35. 13
28.12
30. 12
32. 90
28.67
28.22
31.63
23. 09
24. 03
27. 88
28. 72
28. 36
20.18
21.87
29.43
35. 9L
23. 47
27.01
24. 09
33.30
30. 65
34. 30
27.03
29. 51
31.85
28.26
27.37
31.39
23. S4
23. 94
27. 01
28. 52
27. 80
20.64
21.63
29.27
33. 80
23. 79
26.14
24. 88
33.82
30.30
34. 75
28. 85
29. 75
32. 26
28.58
27.70
32. 21
24. 39
24. 50
27.03
27.98
27. 20
20.80
21.72
41.7
48.2
38.6
41.5
36. 6
38.1
42. 3
37. 0
38. 6
38. 6
38.2
40.9
40. 3
41.8
39.1
40.1
39. 9
44.2
39. 0
38.6
40.3
40.9
47.0
40.3
41.2
37.9
37.6
41.8
37.2
37.1
38.0
37.9
41.0
40. 6
41.7
40. 1
41.0
39.9
44.0
39.1
39.7
40.5
40.8
44.9
41.0
40.2
30.2
38.1
41.8
37.7
37. 5
3S. 5
38. 3
41.4
41.2
42. C)
41.4
41.5
39. 5
43. 6
3S. 5
40.9
41.3
72.7
77.0
59.0
66.3
64.0
89.6
73.5
93.3
72.9
78.1
85. 8
70.3
70.0
75.8
59. 6
61.2
70. 0
05.1
71.7
51.3
c-1. 4
72.0
76. 5
58.3
65. 7
63. 5
88.7
74.8
92.4
72.8
77.8
84. 4
69.0
67.4
75.3
59.1.
57.7
67. 7
05. 2
71.2
51.5
53.6
71.8
75.4
57. 3
65. 0
63.5
89.1
74.8
92.2
76.8
77.3
84.2
69.1
67.0
75. 7
59.0
58.2
68.3
64.8
70.7
50.2
52.7
64.1
65.5
85.5
64.7
70.2
109.3
50.1
95.3
63.6
65. 5
84.8
64.8
71.6
106. 9
51.2
91.6
52.0
55.4
76.4
51.6
63.2
118.9
35.0
90.2
52.8
60.8
78.9
54.3
66. 5
121.0
38.5
89.2
52.0
61.6
80.3
56.6
71.3
121.2
39.2
87.0
22.88
18.11
25.01
21.18
27. 33
26. 78
25.18
24.04
23.04
19.20
25.23
21.58
27. 06
27.06
26. 76
23.75
22.91
19.45
25.98
22.51
28.48
27.71
26.71
24.15
41.9
37.0
37.5
37.9
39.0
36.4
36.0
39.0
42.6
38.6
37.9
38.5
38.8
36.9
38.0
38.5
43.0
40.3
39.2
40.5
40.4
38.0
38.2
38.8
54.2
48.9
66.0
55.8
70.1
73.7
70.7
62.8
54.2
49.7
65.7
55. 6
69. 8
73.4
71.4
62.1
53.2
48.3
65.4
55.1
70.5
73.0
70.0
61.8
107.9
100.9
85.1
96.9
92.9
134.2
88.4
154.6
77.7
80.8
154.1
67.6
95.0
118.7
104.7
168.0
116.9
136. 7
66.5
127.6
108.3
98.8
83.2
94.3
91.9
132.9
85.7
153.8
81.7
80.2
152.1
66. 7
90.9
124.7
109.4
178.2
117.6
143.7
82.0
126.9
91.8
89.5
75.8
91.5
87.3
116.4
89.0
159.0
49.9
72.4
116. 3
56.8
78.4
90. 3
80.3
117.6
120.4
126.0
46.5
110.8
92.9
91.7
75.8
90.9
90.3
115. 2
73.1
170.0
63.5
75.0
131.4
60.0
81.9
89.2
76.1
116.1
121.6
138.8
48.5
117.5
93.7
88.0
74.8
84.2
89.0
115.5
61.4
173.8
69.7
74.1
132.2
57.1
76.6
98.7
82.9
133.2
126.5
142.9
61.5
115.7
17.74
17.55
24. 86
15. 44
18.61
21.33
26.41
19. 52
16.54
15.48
18.22
16.58
19.83
18.30
19.72
19. 26
17.06
15.13
19.81
14.55
17.68
17.64
24. 66
15. 36
18.89
20.96
22.41
19.95
17.62
15.72
19.27
16. 90
19.89
17.81
18.84
18.64
17.14
15. 73
20.53
14.80
17.58
17.21
25.01
14.61
18.85
21.21
19. 34
20.40
35.9
37.2
37.7
37. 6
39.0
39.1
36.8
35.4
34.7
36.8
36.9
36.5
37.1
33.5
33.5
32.6
35.7
35.2
32.5
35.3
36.1
37.4
37.5
37.4
39.7
38.7
31.4
36.0
37.2
37.5
39.2
37.4
37.8
33.7
32.2
33.6
36.7
37.4
32.5
36.1
36.7
37.8
37.7
38.0
39.6
39.5
27.6
37.1
39.4
38.4
41.0
38.0
37.1
34.5
33.6
33.6
38.6
39.0
34.9
37.3
49.7
47.9
66.0
41.0
48.3
54.0
72.8
55.4
47.1
42.2
48.4
45.2
53.4
53.3
59.1
53.3
46.5
41.3
*61.6
41.4
49.3
47.7
65.7
41.0
48.3
53.7
71.2
55.4
46.8
42.1
48.0
44.9
52.7
52.5
58.4
51.8
46.0
41.1
*63.6
40.9
48.6
46.4
66.4
38.4
48.2
53.1
69.7
55.5
45.9
40.7
46.8
42.6
52.5
52.7
57.8
54.0
45.6
38.4
•60.8
39.3
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products..
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing andfinishingtextiles.
Hats, fur-felt
Hosiery
__.
Knitted outerwear _
Knitted underwear
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods.
._.
Woolen and worsted goods._.
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's...
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments..
Men's furnishings
Millinery
Shirts and collars
See footnote at end of table.
105.8
98.7
84.4
96.8
91.0
133.2
91.4
148.2
64.8
78.9
144.2
65.2
91.3
116.9
105. 2
164.6
116.3
129.0
66.1
122.3
18.31
15.60
19.74
16.31
19. 46
18.63
19.65
20.15
17.78
15. 33
21.11
14.64
TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nomnanufacturing Industries—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Industry
Nondurable
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly
earnings
Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
1939
1939
1939
Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
1939
1939
1939
Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
1939
1939
1939
Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
1939
1939
1939
Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
1939
1939
1939
goods—Continued
Leather and its manufactures
. _.
Boots and shoes
Leather ._ _
Food and kindred products
_
Baking _
Beverages
_ . _ . . _.
ButterCanning and preserving.. . . ._ _ __.
Confectionery
Flour
Ice cream _
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures
..
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuil"
Cigars and cigarettes..
..
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp.
.. _
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining _.
Chemicals
_..
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes __ _
Kavon and allied products
Soap
Employment index
93.2
90.8
87.0
125.9
144.8
260. 6
92.5
100.7
96.0
78.7
68. 0
112.1
190. 7
95. 2
65.8
60. 8
66. 3
118.5
124.9
115.1
91.9
89.0
87.9
129.7
146.5
261.2
94.1
120.4
98.0
77.9
69.3
107. 9
286. 8
93.8
66.4
61.0
66.9
117.5
128.9
115.2
96.2
94.1
88.4
137.7
148.0
270.9
95. 0
182.1
96. 8
82.3
73.0
102.7
286. 5
100. 9
66.7
62.4
67.2
116.5
128.;.
104 1
118.6
122.3
122. 3
122.2
137.4
114.9
118 8
107.8
102.2
124.2
312.2
85.1
101.0
116.6
122.5
123.7
122.2
137. 5
119.7
117.7
106.1
91.5
125.1
313.4
88.6
99.1
117.2
122.3
322.7
122.2
133. 6
138. 7
116.7
104.2
98.5
125.1
310.2
90.4
113.6
75.4
70.2
86.5
124.4
134.1
298.8
78.1
89.1
99.8
72.2
57.3
121. 5
177.7
7f.8
62.3
67.2
61.6
116.8
136.V
122.5
71.1
64. 6
87.2
125.4
136. 9
293. 7
79.1
101.0
96. 2
70.5
57.8
112.7
288.3
77.4
62.9
67.7
62.2
114.2
145.4
124.6
76.5 $19.09 $18.20 $18. 74
17.20
16.46
71.1
17.62
24.91
24.76
88.2
24.88
24.34
24.87
130.0
25.51
25. 97 25. 65
136. 6 25.83
309.0
33. 56 32. 89 33. 29
22. 51 22.49
22. 99
81.6
17.64
16.72
16.97
156.0
96. 0 20. 25 19. 06 19. 25
24.48
27.06
82.6
24.83
62.2
29.48 29.32 29.97
27.45
107.7
28.51
27.60
22.25
244. 9 24.27
26.16
22. 39 23.21
24.12
86.5
17.55
63.4
17.47
17.50
18.37
17.92
70.8
17.90
62.4
17. 36
17.37
17.40
113.8
29.51
29.22
29.40
22. 60 23. 46
150. 6 21.92
27.19
125.6
26.19
26.61
35.7
34.9
38.8
40.5
41.0
38.4
45. 8
35.6
41.4
40.8
45.2
42.1
45.3
36.2
35.8
34.2
36. 0
39.4
40.1
41.6
33.8
32.5
38.7
40.1
41.7
37.7
46.1
34.5
39. 5
40.5
44.1
40.1
50. 3
36.9
36.6
34.2
36. 9
39.5
41.7
42. 5
35.3
34.3
39.4
40.5
41.4
38.7
47.2
38.3
40.7
43.1
46.3
40.3
42.3
38.1
37.0
35.2
37. 2
39.7
43.4
43.2
Cents
53.7
51.1
64.3
63.4
63.3
88.1
48.8
50.6
49.3
60.4
64.0
67.8
54.2
61.8
48.9
52.5
48.4
78.2
55. 0
63.1
Cents
53.9
51.4
63.9
62.5
62.7
88.1
48.4
49.0
48.8
60.2
64.2
68.4
52.7
62.8
47.9
52.4
47.4
77.3
M. 5
62.7
Cents
53.2
50.8
63.3
60.8
62.3
87.1
48.7
45. 6
48.0
61.4
63. 9
68.5
52.6
63.3
47.4
52.1
46.9
77.3
54.6
62.0
94.1
115.0
133.3
137.6
132.0
162.1
110.2
132.2
128.7
82.2
130. 5
314. 0
102.1
88.7
109.3
133.0
137.9
131.5
161. 2
114.8
131.1
127.6
75.9
131.5
310.4
104.4
84.4
110.4
133.3
140.0
131.2
157.9
120.2
133.0
125.2
79.8
134.6
303.0
109.0
39. 6
36. 7
39.0
36. 4
39.8
40.3
46. 2
40.2
39. 5
34.2
40.3
38.8
39.7
38.7
36. 2
38.9
36.1
39.9
40.3
46 0
40.6
39.9
34.0
40.2
38.6
39.6
37.8
36. 2
39.8
36.9
40.8
41.2
48.5
41.5
39.9
35. 5
41.4
38.7
40.6
80.9
102. 7
75.2
97.2
67.7
80.2
33.1
60.0
82.8
42.8
71.4
66. 5
70.7
80.6
101.3
75.2
97.2
67.5
79.9
33.0
59. 5
82.6
45.1
71.5
65. 9
69.7
80.1
101.3
73.8
97.4
65.7
78.9
28. 6
59.5
83.0
42.0
71.2
04. 6
69. 6
31.63
39. 04
29.63
35. 27
27. 37
32.45
15.64
25. 22
32.74
14.65
28.75
25.82
28.09
30. 71
37. 83
29.43
34.94
27.16
32. 26
15.60
25. 24
32. 98
15. 32
28.72
25.42
27.60
29.76
37. 92
29.54
35. 77
26. 99
32. 51
14. 21
25. 82
33. 07
14. 91
29. 46
25.03
28.23
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes
Rubber goods, other. ....
Coal raining:
Anthracite 2
Bituminous 2 . . - . . - Metalliferous mining
Quarrying; and nonmetallic mining . . .
Crude-petroleum producing _. .
..
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 3 . . . . . . . . . .
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas 3 . . . .
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance 3
Trade:
Wholesale 3
..
Ketail 3
. . . ._.
General merchandising 3
Other than general merchandising ; i ..
Hotels (year-round)* 3 4 . . .
Laundries 2
Dyeing and cleaning 2
Brokerage 3 5
Insurance 3 5
Building construction 5
93.0
03.1
74.7
156. 5
93.9
02.3
74.5
101.3
92.4
02.2
73.6
157.5
100.5
05.7
89. 9
155.4
51.0
93. 2
67.2
44.0
63.8
51.3
94. 9
00. 5
47.1
03. 8
51.9
93.0
05.3
48.0
04.3
26.6
85.0
65. 3
39.1
59.1
99.8 :
00.0 !
85.9
162.C
i
42.0
96.3 !
63.9 I
42.9 :
59.6 i
74.7
75. 0
75.4
95. 0
94.4 j
93. 0
101.5
70.0
69.9
70.1
70.8
92.2
101.0
151.2 :
87.8
90.8 i
95.5 |
97.3 j
— .6
+.11
-6.9
92.1
89. 9
110.4
84. 5
91.8
95. 0
97.8
-.9
-.1
-3.1
92.4
88.4
103.2
S4.5
92. 9
90.0
105.1
-.6
-.2
-.0
79.1
82.7
129.7
73.0
81.1
83.7
79.0
74.8
95.8
70. 4
81.8
82.9
69. 7 [ 70.8
+1.8 ! - 1 . 2
+ 1.3 | + . 3
-7.0 , -3.0
1 Revised series for "all manufacturing,'' for various groups under manufacturing, for
sawmills, fertilizers, soap, and telephone and telegraph. Mimeographed sheets giving
averages for these, as well as for the remaining industries covered by years 1932 to 1938,
inclusive, and by months, January 1938 to September 1939, inclusive, available on request.
Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporiing establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments, as not all reporting firms furnish man-hours.
The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in
the size and composition of the reporting sample.
2
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
in January 1938 issue of this publication.
29.50 j 28.95 I 30.11
23.90 I 24.51 ! 23.45
'JK 1 I
35.11
24.19
'
33.04
24.55
35. 91
25.01
38.1 ! 38.0 '
39.1 | 40.1 ! i
35.1
30.1
39.9 I 40.4 !
39.2
38.4
37. 5
41.3
77.6
61.1
97.4
61.2
76.8
61.1
96.1
61.2
76.9
61.1
96.1
61.2
35. 6
32.0
42.4
42. 3
37. 5
91.2
89.0
73.9
56.1
92.3
88.8
73.6
54.8
87.8
93.0
88.2
72. 7
54.3
88.5
80.3
80.5
84.7
85. 6
52.2
97. 0
63. 4
45.0
58.8
17.10
24. 83
30. 43
22. 07
33. 40
20. 90
27. 59
30. 30
22.14
34. 31
33.03
28. 49
30.64
23. 23
33. 71
18.9 I
28. 3 '
41.4 I
39.5 I
38.0 i
28.8 !
31.4 j
41.5 ,
40. 1 !
38.3 |
95. 2
31. 29
31. 22
31.25
38.9 I
39.1 I 39.1
101.0
34. 09
33.93
33. 68
39.6
40. 1 j 39. 2
72.4
33.32 j 33.02
33. 75
46.1
45.7 i
80.3
74.1
91.7
70. 5
!
82.2
83.9
77. 3
!
!
-1.3
7
• ~( )
-1.0
29.85 I 30.18
20. 19 20.82
17.05 ! 17. 30
24.01 I 24. 10
15.59 j 15. 54
18.07 I 17. 08
19.83 j 19.89
37.41 I 36. 44
35.63 ! 36. 21
30.91 i 30.89
30.27
21.17
17.71
24.10
15.43
17.84
20. 32
36. 05
30.14
31.08
41.7 I
42.1
«..!
42.4 i 42.7
38.8 ! 39. 0
I
101. 1
69. 6
101.9
03. 5
90. 6
101.2
i
'
i
.
|
42.9 !
41.2 |
43.7 I 43.0 !
40.4 I 40.5 :
42.9 I 42.4 !
41.4 ! 41.2 |
(J) |
(•i)
32.8 ! 33.4
46.5
43. 9
46.4
42.7
42. 5
•
!
34.0
88.5
80.8
86.0
71.7
71.3
52.8
43. 9
56.8
33. 4
42.2
49. 5
(«)
94. 3
71.5
71.6
72.4
55.1
47.5
57. 6
33.2
41.7
50. 0
(6)
00
92. 6
71.8
55.1
48.4
57.2
33. 0
41.8
49.1
91.6
f Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not strictly comparable with
fipurcs published in pamphlets prior to January 1938 as they now exclude corporation
officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
* Cash pa\merits only; the additional value of board, room) and tips cannot be
computed.
s
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are not available, percentage changes from
preceding month substituted.
<> Not available.
7
Less than Mo of 1 percent.
*Xot comparable to previously published averages because of change in reporting
sample due to the addition of new firms. Comparable September figure is 66.0 cents.
18
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in table 6 for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and for each of 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade,
by months, from December 1938 to December 1939, inclusive. The
accompanying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and
pay rolls from January 1919 to December 1939.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are based on the
3-year average 1923-25 as 100. They relate to wage earners only
and are computed from reports supplied by representative manufacturing establishments in 90 manufacturing industries. These reports
cover more than 55 percent of the total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country and more than 65 percent of the wage
earners in the 90 industries included in the monthly survey of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The indexes for the nonmanufacturing industries arc based on the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
and dyeing and cleaning cover wage earners only, but the figures for
public utilities, trade, and hotels relate to all employees except corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are
mainly supervisory. For crude-petroleum production they cover
wage earners and the clerical field force. The coverage of the reporting samples for the various nonmanufacturing industries ranges from
approximately 25 percent for wholesale trade and dyeing and cleaning
to approximately 80 percent for quarrying and nonmetallic mining,
anthracite mining, and public utilities.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries
are based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay
rolls for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
INDEX
1923-25=100
140
120
100
J
140
K
120
f^
E:MPLOYME:NT
J
X
1
p
100
/
7
80
^
80
i t1
iAf
PAY ROLI-S
60
60
_
40
20
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
V
1932
40
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
20
ADJUSTED TO 1937 CENSUS
20
TABLE 6.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing
manufacturing
2
1
and ^on-
Industries, December 1938 to December 1939, Inclusive
Employment
Industry
1938
1939
Av.
1938
Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May-June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec
J\fanufacturing
AH industries
Durable goods 3
Nondurable goods *
89.7 94.0 92.2 93. fi 94.3 94.1 93.0 93.4 93.5 96.3 100.2 103.6 103. 8| 104.1
77.9 83.8 82.3 83.3 84.1 84.8: 84.0 84.6
1.0 83.9 89.8 96.1 98.21100.1
100.9 103.8 101.7 103. o 104. 0 103. 0 101.6 101.8 103.5 108.1 110.2 110.8 109.2 107.9
Nonmanujacluring
Anthracite mining
Bituminous-coal mining...
Metalliferous mining.. . . .
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining
Crude-petroleum producing
—
Telephone and telegraph .
Electric light and power,
and manufactured gas...
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
General merchandising
Other than general
merchandising
Year-round hotels
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
52. 3 51.3 50.0 52.2 51. 53. 0 52. 6 51. 2 44.7 48. 5 49.4 51.9 51.3 51.0
80.7 89.3
88.6 87.4 25.9 47.9 78.3 79.4 81.4 85.4 93.0 94.9 93.2
59.0 62.3
60.9 61.0 61. 5 61.9 01. 6 60. 4 60.4 62.9 65.3 66. 5 67.2
42. 3 41.4 38.3 37.9 40.1 43. 0 45.6 47.3 47. 5 48.1 47.9 48.0
72.1 67.8 67. 0 66.4 66. 2 65.8 66.1 67. 0 67.3 66.7 65. () 64.3
75.1 74.3 74.1 73.3 73.4 74.1 74.7 75.3 75.4 75.5 75.3 75.4 75. 0 74.7
92.3 91.4 90.0 89.6 89.5 90.3 91.0 92.3 93.2 93.8 93.7 93..
93. 4 93. 0
69.4 69.2 69.3 69.5 69. 1 69. 6 69.9 69.7 69.8 69.8 70.1
69. 6
88.8 90. 0 88.3 87.9 87.4 87.3 87.2 88.1 87.9 89.0 90.5 92.4 92.1 92. 2
85. 2 98.1 82.2 81.5 83.8 85. 5 85.7 86. 4 83.6 82.5 87.3 88.4 89.9 101.0
98. 0 144.1 90.7; 88.8 93. 2 96.9 96.8 97.4 91. 71 89.8100.1 103. 2 110. 4 151. 2
81.8
92.7
95.7
104.3
86.0
92.0
93.4
97.9
80.0J 79.6
91.8 92.6
93.3! 92.8
94. 21 92.1
81.3
92.'
92.9
95.4
82.5
93.2
93.5
102.2
82.8
81.5! 80.6 83.9 84.5
93.9 92.8 90.3 89.8 91.3 92.9
99.1 97.8 96.0
95. 51 98.7
107.0 110.1 106. 5 102. 7 105. 2 105.1
87.8
90.8
95. 5
97. 3
84.5
91.8
95. 6
97.8
P a y rolls
Manufacturing
77.9| 87.1 83.7, 86. 0| 87. 61 85.5 85. ol 86.5! 84.4 89.7 93. 8! 101. 6:101. 6' 103. 6
All industries
67.61 79.6 76.0 1 77.7 79.41 79.5 78.8i 80.7; 76. 0| 81.5 87.8 99. 6| 100.9,104. 4
Durable goods 3
Nondurable goods *.... 89.6 95.4 92.4' 95.3! 96.7. 92.2 91.9 93.0 93.7! 99. 0J100. 5!102. 9,102. 4.102. 8
Nonmanujact
uring
Anthracite mining
Bituminous-coal mining. _.
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
Telephone and telegraph..
Electric light and power,
and manufactured gas...
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Wholesale trade
Kctail trade
General merchandising
Other than general
merchandising
Year-round hotels
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
1
i
52.2 42.0 26.6
38.2 42. 5 38.0 45.2 34.2 43.4 57. 0 : 36.11 25.2 33.8
97.6 96.3! 85.0
67.9 80.9 78.2' 81.2 77. S' 17.6 20. 4 : 6(5.5' 64.5 74.6
55.3 53.4 53.6 52.6 54.1 53.81 48.5 53.0 55.1 63.4 63.9 65.3
50.4
35.1 33.7 30.2 29.7 33.1 35.9 39.7 41. 7| 40.'
42.9 42.7 45.6 42.9! 39.1
60.9 62.7 61. 3 60.8 61. 2 62.5 61.9 62.0 60.8 58.8 59. o! 59.1
66. 5
91.9 92.1 93.7 93.7 94.6, 94.3 94.9 95. 2i 94. 4 ! 95.0
92. II 92.5 92.0
98.5 98.2 95.9 96. 4 96.7 96.9 98.8 100.2.100.(1 101 1 101.0101.0101.5; 101.1
I
69.7 69.7 71.1 69. 9 70. ol 69.6 70.1 71.2! 70.6 71.1 70. 4 72.4 70.61 70.8
74.7 75.7! 75. 5 74.6 74.7i 74.8 74. 91 75.8| 75.8 76.21 78. 01 80.3 79. Oj 79.1
70.4 79.2 69.7i 68.4J 69. Oj 71.3 7..«| 72.51 70.9 69. 4 i 72. 3' 74.1 74.8' 82.7
I
87. 8 122.9 84.0 81. 0 83. 4 86.6 86.7! 88.1 83.8 81.1
66.8
80.3
80.
75.3
70.1
oi.ii
81.1
80.0 !
68.3|
66.7
80.2
ou.*,
79.6|
65.8!
65.81
82.8i
78.6!
63.21
66.8 68.1
81.1 81.9|
79.3' 79.9
67.7 73.3
68.3; 69.3, 68.2
82.4 1 82. o! 79. lj
83.9 86.9 88.0
13. ()! 84.2 77.11
67.0|
79. 2j
85.9i
73. 01
91.7 95.8j 129.7
69. Oj
80. 41
84.5!
78.3 j
70.5 70. 4j 73.0
82.2 81.8; 81.1
83.9 82.9 83.7
77.3
1 3-year average 1923-25=100—adjusted t o 1937 Census of M a n u f a c t u r e s .
212-month average for 1920=100. Comparable indexes are in November 1934 and subsequent issues of
Employment and Pay Rolls, or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of Monthly Labor Review, except
for anthracite and bituminous-coal mining, year-round hotels, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning. Indexes
for these industries from January 1929 forward have been adjusted to the 1935 census and are presented
in the January 1938 and subsequent issues of Employment and Pay Rolls.
3 Includes: Iron and steel, machinery, transportation equipment, nonferrous metals, lumber and allied
products,
and stone, clay, and glass products.
4
Includes: Textiles and their products, leather and its manufactures, food and kindred products, tobacco
manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and allied products, products of petroleum and coal, rubber
products, and a number of miscellaneous industries not included in other groups.
21
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographical divisions, in November and December 1939 is shown in table
7 for all groups combined and for all manufacturing industries combined based on data supplied by reporting establishments. The percentage changes shown, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted—
that is, the industries included in the manufacturing group and in the
total for all groups have not been weighted according to their relative
importance.
The totals for all manufacturing industries combined include figures
for miscellaneous manufacturing industries in addition to the 90 manufacturing industries presented in table 4. The totals for all groups
combined include all manufacturing industries, each of the nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 4 (except building construction), and seasonal hotels.
Similar comparisons showing only percentage changes are available
in mimeographed form for all groups combined, all manufacturing,
anthracite mining, bituminous-coal mining, metalliferous mining,
quarrying and nonmetallic mining, crude-petroleum production,
public utilities, wholesale trade, retail trade, hotels, laundries, dyeing
and cleaning, and brokerage and insurance.
TABLE 7.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
November and December 1939, by Geographic Divisions and by States
[Figures in italics arc not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but arc taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Total- all groups
Geographic
division and
State
Manufacturing
PerI Percent- A m o u n t centNum- i Numage
age
ber of I ber on change of pay change
estab-! pay roll from (1 roll
from
week) Nolish I Deccin- NoDecem- vemments ber 1939 vem- ber
1939 ber
ber
1939
1039
NumNumber of ber on
estab- pay roll
lish- Decemments ber 1939
Pcrcent| ago
change
from
November
1939
I
12,888; 941,365,
New England
815! 57. (598 i
Maine
..
590 j 41,493!
Now H a m p s h i r e .
4591 18, 82f>!
Vermont
M a s s a c h u s e t t s - . . -'7,67/! 502, 499
Rhode I s l a n d . . .
1, 118! 100,950
Connecticut
2, 295 219,893
Middle Atlantic,_.. 31,354 2, 307, 392
N e w York . . _ J9, 299 1,018,309
373,935
New Jersey
8, 239 915,148
Pennsylvania-.
East North Central.. 23, 540 2, 341,3111
Ohio
0,193; 578,4(58!
Indiana. .
2, 822', 297,0/f8
668, 772
Illinois. ... .
6,
Michigan
. 3,713 545, 33
232 261(58
Wisconsin
'i 4
4^ 2(32
2 6 1 , 68(51
See footnotes at end of table.
Dollars
+ 1 . 0^2, 721,188!
-f. 3' 1,222,043!
- ( i ) I 879, 215j
-.<ii 43(5, 008!
+1.6\12,038, 57i)\
- . 9 i 2.254,9731
+.1.2i 5,890,310
+1.5
+ 1.7
+.4
+ l'.8
+2". 0
651,501;
47,96(>j
207 • 35.7J5!
1451 12,039l,800\ §91,o74\
421
83,313
700 180,894
3, 5501
277i
PerA m o u n t centage
of pay change
roll
from
(1 week) NoDecember 1939 vember
1939
Dollars
- 0 . 8 15,507,640
- C : 986, 607
752, 659
-|.0
279, 548
-(i)
-1.1 6, 800,903
1,827,711
-2.5
+ . 3 4,860,212
+0.8
+1.8
2
-'. 1
+.0
-1.7
+1.7
-.2 i 37,987,696
+.8
+1.9:62,316,567
+.6 6,811 1, 375,171
+3.2128, 158.09(5 +2.8 3 2, 760 483,042
+. / IS, 608, 885 + 1.8
— .8 .1,609 317,159 - 1 . 3 8,642,034 4- 1 . 3
- . 8 10,233,787
+ 1.7 23,924,(584! - 1 . 3 2,44* 574,970 * -.3 to, 716, 777
+.4
+ 4 . 2 67, 888,963 +5.5 8, 201 1, 766,118 +3.4 53,494,734 +6.7
+.7'13, 420,9961 +2.9
+ 2 . 5 1(5,7(50,19(5 +3. 2 2,322. 442,971
+4. / 8, 265, 503 \ +5.2 l,055\ 240, S96 +1.9\ 7,002,059- -i +4.2
+.1\12,094,773 +1.7
+ 1.5\18,O5O. /,?.',- +2.6 2,334\ 435, 563
+ 11.3il7,887.
887. 260j + 13.6 I, 006 \ 464,983 4+ 11.2^6,018,089 +17.6
+9
+ 16I (5,
(5919870l
919,870l +.2 ' 1,4841 182,2051 + 1 . 2 | 4,958,817
22
TABLE 7.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
November and December 1939, by Geographic Divisions and by States—Continued
[Figures in italics arc not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued bycooperating State organizations]
PerAmount centage
of
pay
change
change
from (1 roll
from
week)
NoNoDecem- vemvem- ber
1939
ber
ber
1939
1939
Geographic
division and
State
West North Central.
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri.
North Dakota . .
South Dakota
Nebraska.
Kansas-
11,096
* 2,761
1,720
2, 531
402
389
897
»2, 396
South Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia...
North Carolina..
South Carolina _.
Georgia
Florida
East South Central...
Kentucky
Tennessee.-.-- .
Alabama
Mississippi
West South Central
Arkansas
Louisiana..
Oklahoma
Texas
Mountain
Montana
Idaho
.. Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico..
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Pacific.
Washington
Oregon
California
455,249
136, 018
65, 666
157, 597
4, 209
7, 209
26,853
57, 697
Dollars
,490,715
3,718,732
1,620,621
3,916,347
101,810
196.985
607, 906
1,328,31.',
917,682
16, 465
156,087
6 18,611,488
404, 857
3, 936,893
1 12, 316,288
289, 806
3, 296'
85, 463 j
55,423'
162,572
86, 899
100,467
1,010
1,823
1,031
1,571
77(1
1,303
843
39,780
121.826
131,808
182, 580
94, 632
126.269
4,231
1,22
1,154
1, 324
311,988
80, 6091
103,707;
104,501
23,171
+1.6 5,949,242: +0)
5,331
11 700
92>
1,130
*, 521
223,454
27,128
56, 766
36. 498
103,062
5,008, 752
,{51,613
1, 136,537
903, 429
2,517,173
119,134
17,891
9, 761
7,867
38, 948
5, 243
16,051
20,867
2, 506
3,138, 674
513,6OO1
248.303
221,766
986, 727
110,923
464,624
515.443
77, 288
495,821
92, 002
42,160
861,659
+1.9 14,226,850
+.6
2, 526, 554
1,078,799
-2. S
-3.1
10,138
2, 468
1,044
12 6, 626
24,380; +11.
+ 1.2 1,717,2611
+ . 9 1,910,783
+ 2 . 9 1,966.157
+.9
355,041
-5.:
3, 796,101
856, OS'i
1.435, 81 (
1.273, 607
230,59C
38,551,
77, 231 !
71.819!
16,361:
114,558!
18,902.
32,034;
11,693
51,929
-A)
-2.0
-2.0
612,078
268,378
1,302,41.5
+2.4
1 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
2 Includes banks and trust companies; construction, municipal, agricultural, and oflice employment;
amusement and recreation; professional services; and trucking and handling.
3 Includes laundering and cleaning; and water, light, and power.
*5 Weighted percentage change.
fi Includes automobile and miscellaneous services; restaurants; and building and contracting.
Includes construction but not public works.
78 Does not include logging.
Includes banks; real estate; pipe-line transportation; motor transportation (other than operation and
maintenance); water transportation; hospitals and clinics; and personal, business, mechanical repair, and
miscellaneous
services.
9
Includesfinancialinstitutions, miscellaneous services, and restaurants.
*°
Weighted
percentage change, including hired farm labor.
11
Includes automobile dealers and garages; and sand, gravel, and building stone.
«Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
23
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN AREAS
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in November and
December 1939 is made in table 8 for 13 metropolitan areas, each of
which had a population of 100,000 or over in 1930. Cities within these
areas, but having a population of 100,000 or over, are not included.
Footnotes to the table specify which cities are excluded. Data
concerning them have been prepared in a supplementary tabulation
which is available on request. The figures represent reports from
cooperating establishments and cover both full- and part-time workers
in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries presented in
table 4, with the exception of building construction, and include also
miscellaneous industries.
Revisions made in the figures after they have gone to press, chiefly
because of late reports by cooperating firms, are incorporated in the
supplementary tabulation mentioned above. This supplementary
tabulation covers these 13 metropolitan areas as well as other metropolitan areas and cities having a population of 100,000 or more
according to the 1930 Census of Population.
TABLE 8.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
November and December 1939, by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Metropolitan area
Number of Number on Percentage
pay roll
change
establishDecember from Noments
1939
vember
December
1939
1939
New York 1
Chicago 2
Philadelphia 3 ..
Detroit
Los Angeles 4 -..
Cleveland
St. Louis
Baltimore
Boston 5
Pittsburgh
13,611
4,194
2, 261
1, 566
2,810
672. 958
468, 520
235,180
355, 725
164,612
1,188
1,292
1,075
2, 610
1,152
120, 584
118,449
119, 843
199, 588
200,348
San Francisco 6.
Buffalo
Milwaukee
1, 605
777
951
81,374
77, 701
109,036
1
2
3
4
5
6
Does not include
Does not include
Does not include
Does not include
Does not include
Does not include
+3.0
+2.1
+1.4
+17.4
+6.0
+2.6
+3.2
+2.5
+2.6
+2.8
+2.7
+3.6
+3.9
Amount of
pav roll
(1 week)
December
1939
Percentage
change
from November
1939
$18,310,499
13, 328, 609
6,514,278
12, 314. 597
4, 734,067
+2.7
+4.0
+2.1
+19. 6
+5.1
3, 682, 602
3,081,888
3,020, 373
4,991,844
6,099, 334
+3.7
+5. 2
+.6
+2.4
+2.3
2,424,180
2, 215. 790
3,099,135
+1.3
+5.0
+2.6
Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, nor Paterson, N. J., nor Yonkers, N. Y.
Gary, Ind.
Camden, N. J.
Long Beach, Calif.
Cambridge, Lynn, or Somorville, Mass.
Oakland, Calif.
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment financed from both regular and emergency appropriations.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service
of the Federal Government in December and November 1939 are
given in table 9.
24
TABLE 9.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the United States
Government, December and November 1939 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Class
PerDecem- Novem- centage
ber 2
ber
change
Entire service:
Total
Regular appropriation. . .
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
Pay rolls
December
November 2
Percentage
change
987, 538
932,641
+5.9
$152,331,559
$141,406,641
+7.7
... . 836,446
782,728
57,474
92,439
+6.9
+.8
+.8
134,220,802
7,399,442
10,711,315
122,721,610
7,4d7, 583
11,277,448
+9.4
-.1
-5.0
57,918
93,174
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
127,597
126,277 1 +1.0
22,611,637
22,513,260
+.4
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
112.466
8,854
6, 277
110,862
8,874
6,541
+1.4
-.2
-4.0
20, 266, 885
1,381,159
963, 593
20,103, 286
1,380,604
1,029, 370
+.8
()
-6.4
859,941
806, 364
+6. 6
129, 719, 922
118,893,381
+9.1
723,980
Regular appropriation. _
Emergency appropriation . . . __ ... 49,064
Koree-aceouut
_
. . 86,897
671,866
48, 600
85, 898
+7.8
+1.0
+1.2
113,953,917
6, 018, 283
9,747,722
102, 618, 324
6,026,979
10, 248,078
+11.0
-. 1
-4.9
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total
..
3
1 Data include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
2
Revised.
3 Increase less than Mo of 1 percent.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS
ADMINISTRATION
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during December on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 10, by type of project.
TABLE ]().—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public
Administration Funds, December 1939 1
Works
I Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
All programs.
Maximum
number
employed 2
166,657
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Weekly
average
140,326 !$I5,912,9O9
Number of
man-hours Average
earnings
worked
per hour
during
month
17,046,006
i
$0,934
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
$31,785,616
'•
Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds
All projects.
774
$78. 453
104, 694
$0.749
$88,163
140
180
3
243
117
26, 674
154
21.423
17,601
21, 485
191
30,082
20, 991
1.242
. 806
.712
.839
12,677
87
42,900
10, 321
78
174
24
48
159
24
4,214
5,147
3,240
6,718
21,165
4,062
. 627
.243
.798
9, 514
11,910
754
3 884
Building construction . . .
Naval vessels
Public roads <
(5)
Reclamation..
River, harbor, and flood control
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
See footnotes at end of table.
222
3
zo
TABLE 10.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, December 1939—Continued
Wasre earners
'
'Typo of project
I
Maximum
number
employed
MOnthly
pay-roll
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Number of
man-hours Average
worked
earnings
during
per hour
month
I
Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration Appropriation Act 1938 funds
All projects.
Airport construction (exclusive of buildings)
Building construction
Electrification.
Reclamation
Kiver, harbor, and flood control
Ship construction
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
Professional, technical, and
clerical
-
17, 247
14,748
$1,758,871
1,819, 208
$0. 967
$2,030, 482
038
12,079
807
1,338
027
10,187
762
1,194
85,055
1,210,007
108, 017
143,010
138,100
1, 103, 070
107, 288
108,009
610
\.040
1.012
851
73,853
1,610, 283
63,9(51
78, 048
824
258
192
283
477
692
205
145
239
452
70.00L
23,538
12, 408
10,192
43, 445
87,130
22, 229
14, 593
21, 554
51,082
872
850
r.059
751
841
96, 119
37,132
12,009
34, 589
14,541
351
245
39, 932
44. 227
903
2, 087
IN on-Federal projects financed from TSational Industrial Recovery Act
funds
All projects...
Building construction 6 ..
Railroad construction—
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
Non-Federal projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act 1935, 1936. and 1937 funds
All projects.
Building construction...
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
12,093
1, 451
870
7,031
1,004
50
1,607
14
57
10,557
1. 202
731
0,281
789
29
1,457
8
$1, 172,452
1,494,102
138,815
59, 270
084, 958
110,930
2, 200
175,999
2(52
142,230
88,921
921,572
148,502
3, 240
189,096
481
$0.785
.976
. 067
.743
.747
. 081
.931
. 545
$1,448,116
"315,204
121,805
745,798
40, 374
5,873
212,834
228
Non-Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration
Appropriation Act 1938 funds
All projects.
Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
130, 609
108,881 l$12,279,758
12,931,538
$0.950
$26, 747,709
69, 387
1, 764
16,847
957
56,959
1,414
14, 569
814
6, 333, 304
120, 270
2,119.606
87,986
0, 207, 014
154,128
1,880,058
113,223
1.020
.780
1.124
.777
11,770,369
524, 798
4,960, 222
150,215
346
19, 805
21,315
188
298
16, 244
18,437
140
30, 139
1, 525, 598
2,053,301
9, 494
39, 534
2. 057, 850
2,401,810
11,309
. 702
.741
.834
.840
64,468
2,520,925
3,328,807
3, 421, 965
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public roads.
4
Under
the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
5
Not available: Weekly average included in total for all projects.
8
Includes data for workers engaged in construction of underground tunnel who, because of the additional
risk involved, were paid at rates higher than those usually paid for building construction.
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UNITED STATES HOUSING AUTHORITY
Table 11 shows data for December 1939 on projects of the United
States Housing Authority. These figures pertain only to new projects under the United States Housing Authority and not to those
formerly under the Public Works Administration.
TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Low-Rent Housing Projects Operated by the
United States Housing Authority, December 1939
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Geographic division
Nine divisions
- --
New England
Middle Atlantic
. . . .
East North Central _
West North Central
South Atlantic
East South Central
West South Central
Pacific
Outside Continental U. S
Maximum Weekly
number
employed > Average
33,170
28,269
1.072
10,812
3,539
756
7,748
5,357
3,156
455
275
776
8,976
3,092
677
6,648
4,702
2,784
379
235
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number
of manhours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
$3,547,123
3,607,494
$0.983
$6,821,787
96.992
99,093
1,388, .165 1,079, 771
471,147
406,108
80, 244
89,195
643,893
853,110
515,961
635, 854
279, 587
362,943
50, 337
48, 520
20, 797
32,900
.979
1.286
1.160
.900
.761
.811
.770
1.037
.632
51, 795
2,062, 001
603,180
102, 415
1,992,037
1,195,981
618,831
79, 724
55, 823
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
i Maximum employed during any 1 week of the month.
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM
A record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours, worked on
projects financed and operated by the Work Projects Administration
in December is shown in table 12, by type of project.
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TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed and on Projects Financed
and Operated by the Work Projects Administration, December 1939
[Subject to revision]
"Wage earners
Type of project
[ Maximum Weekly
| number
| employed average
Number of
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
arnings
per
hour
worked
during
month
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal agency projects
All projects
_
Airport construction (exclusive of
buildings)
Building construction
Electrification
.
Forestry
Grade-crossing elimination 23
Hydroelectric power plants
Plant, crop, and livestock conservation
Professional, 2technical, and clerical
Public roads
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control....
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
i 98,109
93,919
1, 374
41, 567
130
8,258
026
1,013
1,370
38,780
125
8,242
504
976
7,240
5,217
517
18, 681
939
3,412
607
8, 52S
7,149
5,118
410
18, 404
834
3,225
527
8, 255
$4, 744.815 '11,818,040
$0,401
$643, 286
78, 804
2,041,218
5, 648
410, 274
32, 755
42,112
198, 304
4,781,478
15,085
1,007,148
62, 722
169, 918
.397
.427
.374
.407
.522
.248
2,682
193, 800
9,107
53, 899
34,917
44, 580
391,080
364, 729
32, 414
903, 546
62,105
121,188
IS, 898
240, 014
881,173
632,449
49,339
2,391,050
98, 280
410,168
68,335
1,052,591
.444
.577
. 657
.378
.632
.295
.277
.228
53,115
29,429
10,875
75, 836
16.074
43.683
12,030
63, 259
Projects operated by Work Projects Administration 4
All projects..
_
«2,076,0S9
$107,855,673 246,450,061
1 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Governmcn
agency
doine force-account work.
2
These data are for projects under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
3
These
data are for projects under construction in Puerto Rico.
4
Data are for the calendar month. Not available by type of project.
5
Represents
number of names on pay roll as of Dec. 27, 1939.
6
Data on a monthly basis are not available.
A record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects operated by the Work Projects Administration in November is
shown in table 13, by type of project.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Operated by the Work Projects
Administration by Type of Project for Month of November 1939 l
[Subject to revision]
Number
employed
Type of project
All projects
1,939,586
Conservation
Highway, road, and street
Professional, technical, and clerical
Public buildings
Publicly owned or operated utilities..
Recreational facilities....
Sanitation and health
Sewing, canning, and gardening, e t c .
Transportation
Not elsewhere classified
i Revised.
J
2
I
i
I
56,703
843,901
310,011
158,334
189,103
119,399
32, 693
157, 323
23,185
48, 934
of
Pay-roll dis- Number
bursements man-hours
worked
$101, 532,368
3, 014, 488
40, 220, 777
18,917,016
9,109, 284
9, 794, 590
6, 699, 813
1, 629, 951
7,109, 052
1,731,207
3, 306,190
Data are as of Nov. 29, 1939.
Average
earnings
per hour
229,450,073
!0.443
6,950,637
98,955,073
37, 483, 419
18,620,721
21, 516, 737
14,172,496
4, 024, 760
18,397,607
3, 216, 355
6,112, 268
.434
. 406
. 505
.489
. 455
.473
.405
.386
. 538
.541
NATIONAL YOUTH
ADMINISTRATION
Employment and pay rolls on the National Youth Administration
projects for November and December 1939 are shown in table 14.
TABLE 11.—Employment
and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration
November and December 1939
Projects,
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Type of pioject
December
November
December
November
Total
729,645
684,303
$8,395,484
$7,809,173
Student Aid
"Work projects
434,350
295, 295
423,122
261,181
2,967, 327
5,428,157
2,958,862
4,850,311
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Employment and pay rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps in
November and December 1939 are presented in table 15.
T A B L E 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, November
and December 1939 *
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
December
All groups
Enrolled personnel 2
Reserve officers
Nurses 3
.__
Educational advisers 3
Supervisory and technical 3 ..
... .
...
November
December
November
308, 569
335,099
$13, 775, 996
$14,868,058
271, 584
221
293
1,591
34, 880
298,158
285
298
1,595
34, 763
8, 442, 646
56, 823
40,056
268,951
4,967, 520
9, 538, 539
191,324
39,815
266,108
4,832, 272
i Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amount of pay rolls are for
the entire month.
' December data include 4,672 cnrollees and pay roll of $102,425 outside continental United States; in
November
the corresponding figures were 4,577 enrollees and pay roll of $100,209.
3
Included in executive service, table 9.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY RECONSTRUCTION
FINANCE
CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in December are presented in table 16, by type of project.
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TABLE 16.—]employment
and Pay
Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, December 1939 1
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
All projects
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Maximum
number
of wage
earners 2
__-
Building construction 3
"Water and sewerage
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Average
earnings
per h o u r
2, 322
$250, 882
282. 349
$0. 889
$080, 922
2,145
177
224, 079
2(5, 803
253,205
29, 144
. 885
.920
057, 487
23,435
1 Data are for the month ending on the 35th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
Includes 932 employees, pay-roll disbursements of $93,259, 99,314 man-hours worked, and material
orders placed of $352,686, on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
2
3
CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS
FINANCED
FROM REGULAR
FEDERAL
APPROPRIATIONS
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations
during December are given in table 17, by type of project.
TAHI.K 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From Regular
Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, December 1939 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
Type of project
Maximum i
AVpoi.lv
employed'1
iUOra
number
All projects
Building construction
Electrification:
Rural Electrification
Administration projects 4
Other than R. E. A. projectsForestry
H eavy engineering
Public roads 5
.
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revetments,
etc . . .
Locks and dams
_.
Ship construction:
Naval vessels
Other than naval vessels
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous .
I
'
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
^
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
$0.757
$51,394,837
21,532 |
17, 757
2, 038. 584
2, .159,033
.944
3.004.000
13, 033
198
89
(6)
21, 978
10 953
124
7
81
57 253
23 217
707,090
10,914
545
10.485
5,914.929
3.342.417
1,492,004
15,004
1,203
8. 508
9, 293. 228
3,714,300
.515
. 099
. 432
]. 224
. 030
. 900
3,900,701
2,810
38
285
9. 858,215
7,010,913
30,847 •
] 0,071 |
32. 740
9,481
3, 200,820
1, 240, 750
5.099,075 ;
1,007,195
.011 •
.772
01,830
19,205
3,821
380 j
5,202 i
00, 554
17,074
3, 342
315
4.981
8,002, 090
1,993,447
250,977
30, 925
303,128
9.195,894 |
2.405.147 !
413,282
42,410 j
.877
. 829
. 007
.729
. 593
3 255, 100 i 238, 512 $27, 293, 719
30,000.130 I
012,401 !
3,821,347
1,804.907
10,099.335
9,402, 398
458.319
49, 372
1,801.471
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by ouch contractor, and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public-road projects.
4
Financed by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
8
Under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
• Not available, weekly average included in the total for all projects.
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STATE-ROADS PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of roads financed wholly from state or local
funds in December 1939, compared with November 1939 and December 1938, is presented in table 18.
TABLE 18.—Employment
and Pay
Rolls on Construction and Maintenance
Roads, December 1939, November 1939, and December 1938
of State
1
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Item
2
December 1939
November 1939
December 1938
Total
122,882
138,005
184,361
Now roads
Maintenance
19,066
103,816
23,588
114,417
21,223
163,138
1
2
..
Pay-roll disbursements
December
1939
November
1939
December
1938
$9,030,150 $10,409,450
$11,438,613
1,632,630
8,776,820
1,398,990
10,039,623
1,246,390
7, 783, 760
Data are for the month ending on the 15th and are for projects financed wholly from State or local funds.
Average number working during month.
PURCHASES FROM PUBLIC FUNDS1
The value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds in the fourth quarter of 1939 is presented
in table 19.
In the fourth quarter of 1939, on the Public Works Administration
program, orders were placed for materials valued at approximately
$110,913,000. Of this amount $36,292,000 was expended for iron
and steel products, $17,698,000 for forest products, $17,603,000 for
machinery, and $10,525,000 for cement and concrete products.
Previous sections of this report have shown the number of workers
employed at the site of construction projects financed from Federal
funds. The direct employment, however, is only a partial picture,
as the manufacture of the materials used on the projects also creates
a large amount of employment.
Estimates have been made of the man-months of labor created in
fabricating the materials used on the various programs (see table 3).
The estimates include only the labor required in the fabrication of
material in the form in which it is to be used. No estimate is made
of the labor required in producing the raw materials or in transporting
them to the point of manufacture. In manufacturing structural
steel, for example, the only labor included is that occurring in the
fabricating mills; no estimate is made for the labor created in mining,
smelting, and transporting the ore, nor for the labor in blast furnaces,
the open-hearth furnaces, and the blooming mills.
The information concerning man-months of labor created in fabricating materials is obtained by sending a questionnaire to each firm
receiving an award for materials to be financed from Federal or State
1
Unless otherwise specified, data presented in this section are as of the 15th of the month.
31
funds. The manufacturer is requested to make an estimate of the
number of man-hours created in his plant in manufacturing
the materials specified in the contract. For materials purchased directly by contractors the Bureau estimates the man-months of labor
created. This estimate is based upon the findings of the Census of
Manufactures, 1937.
TABLE 19.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the Fourth Quarter of 1939
f'Subject 1o re vision 1
Type of material
All materials
Textiles and their products..
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc
1
Carpets and rugs
Cordage and twine
Cotton products
Felt products
Jute products
Linoleum and asphalted-felt-base floor
covering
Racks and bags, other than paper
Upholstering, filling, batting, padding, and
wadding
Waste and related products
Textiles and their products, n. e. c.
Forest products.
Cork products
Furniture and related products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c
Planing-mill products
Window and door screens and weatherstrip
Forest products, n. e. c
Chemicals and allied products..
Compressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
Paints, pigments, and varnishes
Chemicals and allied i>roducts, n. e. c_
Stone, clay, and glass products.
Asbestos products, n. e. c
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products,
n. e. c
Cement
Concrete products.__
Crushed stone
Glass
Lime
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone, cut
and shaped
...
Minerals and earths, ground or otherwise
treated
Sand and gravel
.
...
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler
covering, and gaskets
Tiling, floor and wall, and terrazzo
Wall plaster, wallboard, and building insulation .
Stone, clay, and glass products, n. c. o
ReconPublic
S. H. A struction
Works Ad- U.low-rent
Finance
ministrahousing Corporation i
tion a
Regular
Federal
Federal
agency
projects
financed
from
W. P. A.
funds 3
$110, 913, 497 $16, 891, 497 $1, 289, 226 $134,126, 867 $2,108,895
522, 500
42, 451
4,3fi3
49,499
14, 570
3, 534
6, 297
3,155
481
102
11, 732
655
"446
721
1,061
29, 486
373
84'
1,154
1,330
31
246
81
253, 522
37,411
22, 577
172
4,902
110
1,367
666
184,906
209
2,122
2, 565
66, 728
203
2,767
17,697,575
17827,747
69,403
6,316, 463
227, 615
83,651
12,320, 284
2, 609,080
2,561,972
120,702
1, 826
468
98,197
1,013,341
703,037
12, 670
34
160
3, 368
48, 456
17, 419
8,126
514, 525
4, 566, 670
1,178, 334
7,792
41,016
647
6, 886
186, 275
33, 647
39
121
cir
135, 634
10,325
2,759,13,
150,299
6, 601
1,060,681
77,522
40,147
451,535
655,510
1,611,945
1,215
4, 641
132,314
12,129
1,288
931
4, 376
6
28,918
651,002
355,109
25, 652
2,190
14,334
41, 438
19,560
26, 356, 502
5, 220,107
138,369
28, 670,975
520,202
48,467
15,370
11,103
32
4, 422, 426 1,414,920
4, 70<). 184
484,062
5.816,105 2, 026, 330
1. 334, 374
58.090
577, 762
73.991
39, 297
49, 207
26, 942
57, 423
17,425
579
3,790
445, 573
11,826,653
1,131,881
4,643.769
143, 486
2,040
21,209
205, 779
29,045
133,262
6,884
1,882
3,150,871
143,724
1,292
1,324, 424
2,521
2, 52K
2, 803, 480!
1,516
237, 339
16, 350
157
8, 229,146
55,979
399,796J
1,248,001.
183.555
100, 264
150
627
259,982
215,845
2,954
46, 349
1,405,1661
399,0451
380,218
51,521
13,500
203
400, 209
36, 707
10,038
> 4, 268
1
Include material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed by the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, and P. W. A. A. 1938 funds. Data on'low-rent housing
projects financed from N. I. R. A. and E. R. A. A. 1935 funds are also included.
2 Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgago Co.
3 Includes projects financed by transfer of W. P. A. funds to other Federal agencies under sec. 3, E. R. A. A.
193S, and sec. 11-A, E. R. A. A*. 1939.
TABLE 19.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the Fourth Quarter of 1939—Continued
Type of material
ReconPublic
II. A struction
Works Ad- U.S.
low-rent
Finance
ministra- housing Corporation
tion
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
$30,291,(532! $5,090,450
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
3,93'
237,000
Doors, shutters, window sash and frames,
molding and trim, metal
814, 197
1, 400, 823
Forcings, iron and steel
334, 873
370,072
Hardware, miscellaneous
1, 500, 631
Heating and ventilating equipment, except
pipe
504,712
5, 220. 778
Xails and spikes
2, 004
103. 800
425. 930
Pipe and fittings, cast-iron
.._.._ . 3,143.099
447.999
Pipe and fittings, wrought-iron and steel _
2. 089. 893
805, 841
Plumbing fixtures and supplies, except pipe
2,175, 551
Rail fasten ings, except spikes
__
.
080
Kails, steel
....
21.009
Springs, steel
001
Steel, reinforcing
2.871.947 1, 394. 834
538, 501
Steel, structural
13, 053, 830
03.040
Stoves and ranges, other than electric
79,115
12,503
Tools, other than machine tools
254. 130
24, 203
"Wire and wire works products
403.421
101,903
Iron and steel and their products, n. e. c
2.133.2391
X on ferrous metals and their products
545. 83;
1.855,997
Aluminum products
"^575
80. 848
548
Copper products
324, 078
Lead products.. .
8, 7001
30.94'
191,1021
Sheet-metal products
1.345,845
Zinc products .
...
.
Xonferrous metals and their products, n.e.c.
342. 852J
73. 079
Machincry, not including transportation equipment
17.002.590 1.383.211
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and
supplies..
113.030
4. 000. 270
Electrical wiring and fixtures
703, 837
4.812.015
1.340.770
Elevators and elevator equipment
99, 501
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water
715,580
178
wheels .. .
327
505.313
Machine tools.. ..
. .
. .
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators.
75.518
893
Pumps and pumping equipment
._.
42. 372
783. 532
Radio apparatus and supplies
. . ..
35. 4,
Refrigerators and refrigerating and icc304. 452
mnking apparatus
.
138. 172
117.901
Machinery, n. e. c
4. 529. 902
Transportation equipment—air, land, and water.
Aircraft
Boats, steel and wooden.
Carriages and wagons ...
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, trucks
Transportation equipment, n. e. c
Miscellaneous.
Belting, miscellaneous
_. .__
Coal and coke. . . .
Creosote
..
. .....
.
Instruments, professional and scientific . __
Mat tresses and bed springs
Models and patterns
.
Paper products
.
Paving materials: asphalt, tar, crushed
slag, and mixtures
Petroleum products
Photographic apparatus and supplies
Roofing: built-up and roll, asphalt shingles
and roof coatings, except paint
Rubber products...
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment..
AVindow shades and fixtures..
...
Other materials.
.
. .
Regular
Federal
Federal
agency
projects
financed
from
W . P . A.
funds
$41.7,004 $27, 744. 540
$397.140
1,872
708,444
6, 581
9,738
9, 240
31, 252
1,115,734
1,912,792
756,055
40, 280
0,301
48, 363
34, 439
2, 105
14.583
107,084
49, 725
1,203,128
77, 013
905, 531
2, 430, 033
918,919
858
1,1
103
2, 09'}. 782
10, 070. 734
59
285, 340
1,090.387
2.900. 554
17,538
9,151
32,040
25,788
38, 216
809,003
85. 490
308.150
7.950
317,452
885
89,124
16,383
014, 358
57,199, 530
208, 224
77, 554
05,920
297, 053
12.953,230
0, 788, 453
823,035
33, 528
35,081
54
15,821,505
940.059
10,113
1,988,209
459, 849
10, 363
1,521
22, 301
40,100
"4.294
0.024
24,181
12.050
2,232
254
10,170
71,985
22,137
49, 453
68, 001
212
15, 357
15,615
17, 578
6, 720
235
8,621
807
"7,959
72
212.484
282. 84?
30,490
89,156
32, 376
5.114
2.214
21.250
141.172
42, 728
32, 649
13,169
326
107,642
44,963
84, 094
203
35
440
14, 009
10.909
7,015.074 2, 025, 389
3
131,250
2, 601
24S
120.879!
75, 832
38, 80!
17,370,089
79,109
30, 733
11,847,138
45, 603
418,282
2
500
1221
70,153
15, 372
105
293
534
12,535
13.231
18," 109
27, 858
1,008
1,231,809
l,608,474|
108,275|
2. 218
102, 781
103
8,722
24
1,500,359
4, 032. 295
22, 875
33, 051
92, 571
1,485
590, 068!
198,938
109, 6501
105,078
1,205
7,518
04
97,013
127,027
23, 534
2,905
67, no;
13,820
1.724,251
13,724
740
4,819,058
106
447, 473
3, 232. 800'
I
019,108
TABLE 20.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by Federal Funds for the Third Quarter of 1939
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material
Total
Public Works
Admiristration i
17. S. H . A .
low-rent
housing
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation 2
Regular
Federal
F e d e r a l agency
projects
financed from
W . P . A . funds3
Operated bv
W. P. A. *
All materials
Textiles and their products....
Forest products
Furniture and related products..
Lumber and timber products ..
Forest products, n. e. c
$356,099, 956
$125,182, 989
$10, 377,907
$1,333,694
$136,010, 243
$2,153,037
$81,042,086
5, 7S2, 271
316,087
43,452
317
117,253
9,378
5, 295, 784
27, 616, 780
13,440,880
1,002, 701
75,005
5, 549, 927
223, 576
7,324,691
5,820, 042
16,347,325
5,449, 413
5. 258, 704
4, 294, 502
3, 887,674
43,120
634,010
325, 571
5,123
58,148
11, 734
376,422
4,007,153
1,166,352
5,983
159,511
58, 082
130, 600
7,194,001
Chemicals and allied products..
Paints, pigments, and varnishes.
Other chemicals..
4,860, 673
1, 206,640
58,172
5,324
990, 723
73, 403
2,526,411
2, 290,878
2, 569, 795
778, 768
427,872
54,996
3,376
2,831
2,493
245,651
745, 072
49, 251
24,152
1,159,381
1, 367,030
103,556, 670
37, 240, 599
3,012, 557
199,255
33,043,431
564,004
29,496,824
11, 207, 592
31,453,084
13,809, 956
13, 394, 478
19, 582, 579
14,108, 981
6, 735, 506
7, 241,426
7, 550, 828
1, 752, 251
4,193, 678
9,766,910
851, 916
427,133
943, 691
44, 581
171,012
574, 224
21, 222
109,681
19. 207
2,290
25, 999
20, 856
429, 478
15,493. 303
852, 921
5, 785, 747
9, 233,424
1, 248, 558
31,401
213,465
60, 087
122, 662
93,036
43, 353
3,138, 069
7,968, 076
4,383, 222
5, 686, 947
5, 865. 430
2,455,080
83, 936, 860
40, 326, 359
3,403, 263
555, 901
24,834, 460
469,145
14,347, 732
8. 264, 014
6; 630, 286
4,917,695
34, 727, 203
1,423, 305
27. 974, 357
6, 567,183
2,826, 351
2, 899,936
16, 750.108
308,732
10, 974,049
344, 263
214, 602
378, 781
1, 273, 303
8,828
1,183. 486
41. 755
6,007
15, 023
339, 216
3,825
150, 075
852, 667
500, 997
422.161
13, 270, 985
238, 214
9, 549,436
10, 430
25,152
39,000
152,571
15, 674
226. 318
447, 716
3, 057,177
1,162,794
2,941,020
848,032
5.890.993
Stone, clay, and glass products.
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products..
Cement
Concrete products
Crushed stone
Sand and gravel
Other stone, clay, and glass products
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery
Heating and ventilating equipment
Pipe and fittings, cast-iron
Plumbing supplies, n. c. c
Structural and reinforcing steel
Tools, other than machine tools
Other products of iron and steel
.
.
1
Includes material orders placed on Public"W ork? Administration projects financed by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935,1936, and 1937, and P. "\V. A. A. 1938 funds.
Data on low-rent housing projects financed from N . j[. R. A. and E. R. A. A. 1935 funds arc also included.
funds to other Federal agencies under sec. 3, E. R. A. A. 1938, and sec. 11-A, E. R. A. A. 1939.
CO
TABLE 20.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by Federal Funds for the Third Quarter of 1939—Continued
Projects
Total
Type of material
Public Works
Administration
U. S. H. A.
low-rent
housing
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation
Regular
Federal
Federal agency
projects
financed from
W.P.A. funds
Operated by
W.P.A.
Nonferrous metals and their products
$3,927,971
$2, 332, 381
$251, 765
$8, 787
$866,030
$24, 115
$444,863
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels
Other machinery
__
Transportation equipment—air, land, and water
Motor vehicles, trucks
._
Other transportation equipment
Miscellaneous
Coal and coke.. . ... .
Paving materials and mixtures
Petroleum products. _ __
Rubber goods
Other materials. __ _ _ .
_..
85,231,031
21,510,818
1, 058, 002
359,906
57, 599, 557
219, 709
4,483,039
20,910, 376
18, 655,848
45 ; 664, 807
5, 075, 964
3, 555,118
12,879, 736
65, 905
992, 097
20, 476
2, 667
336, 763
13, 797, 405
15,063, 718
28, 738, 434
38, 679
13. 204
167,826
1,911,947
21,141
2, 519, 951
1, 702,078
277, 597
723
72, 460
895, 229
53, 379
401,690
921,043
781,035
22S, 934
48, 663
72, 460
22,241
31,138
401, 690
723
268,178
628,051
39,485, 622
8, 531, 628
1, 547, 272
56, 739
12,112, 633
516, 298
16,721,052
530,804
12,439,909
9, 764,151
529, 341
16,221,417
131, 755
1,921, 630
2,118,822
187,080
4,172, 341
1,397
4, 334
57, 351
713
1,483, 477
1, 390
2,792
7,734
1,429
43, 394
297, 444
1,950, 510
5,199, 961
121,371
4, 543, 347
1,489
52,184
87, 405
5. 375
369; 845
97,329
8, 508,459
2,292,878
213, 37?
5, 609,013
__
.
.
_
_..
CO
35
Table 20 shows the value of material orders placed on construction
projects financed by Federal funds during the third quarter of 1939,
by type of project.
Table 21 shows the estimated value of materials, supplies, and
equipment purchased for National Youth. Administration work
projects during the last half of 1939.
TABLE 21.—Estimated Value of Materials, Supplies, and Equipment Purchased for
National Youth Administration Work Projects July Through December, 1939
[Subject to revision]
Type of material
Type of material
Value
All materials
Value
Iron and steel and their products, not including mach inery—0 ontinued.
Pipe and fittings, cast-iron
Plumbing supplies, n. e. c
249,060
Structural and reinforcing steel
Tools,
other than machine tools
8,060 ! I
Other products of iron and steel
$2,107,100
Textile's and their products..
Forest products
Furniture and related products
|
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c j
Chemicals and allied products
240,400 ,
;
Taints, pigments, and varnishes
Other chemicals
Stone, clay, and glass products
$15,600
26,600
21, 000
211, 300
129,900
150,000
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
38,600 !
|
j
J
33,300 !
22, 200
17,600
85,100
3,900
2, 100
8, 500
43, 700
Transportation
trucks
equipment,
136,515
384, 540
Coal and coke
Paving materials and mixtures
Petroleum products
Rubber goods
Other materials
26,400 j
96,600
7,185
397,400
motor_.
Miscellaneous..
430,800 ,
ITeating and ventilating equipment.
501,185
Electrical machinery, apparatus,
and supplies
Engines, turbines, tractors, etc
Other machinery
160,900 j
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay
products
Cement
Concrete products
Crushed stone
Sand and gravel
Other stone, clay, and glass products.
Iron and steel and their products, not
including machinery
Nonferrous metals and their products.._
71,900 ;
23,900
24,300
69. 400
19,900
247,040
Eentals and services on projects operated by the Work Projects
Administration for the third quarter of 1939, the second quarter of
1939, and the third quarter of 1938 are shown in table 22, by type of
rental and service.
TABLE 22.—Rentals and Services on Projects Operated by Work Projects Administration
[Subject to revision]
1
Third
• quarter of
I
1939 i
Type of rental and service
All rentals and services
... . J
Motor vehicles
....
Teams and wagons
.
Paving, road building, and construction equipment
Other equipment, (including office equipment)
...
Space rentals and services
Other services (including utilities)
1
2
3
Quarterly period ending September 30, 1939.
Quarterly period ending June 30, 1939. Revised.
Quarterly period ending September 30, 1938. Revised.
.
.!
.:
I
;
Second
quarter of
1939 2
Third
quarter of
1938*
$58,344,111
$62,487,081
$57,609, 296
23,608,607
472.824
20,667,329
1,581, 404
4. 821, 596
7,192,351
27,796. 725
572, 982
19, 396, 61.2
1, 604, 535
5, 573,346
7,542,881
27, 685, 828
826, 577
19,681, 253
1,337,984
3, 800, 856
4, 276, 798
36
Table 23 shows rentals and services on work projects of the National
Youth Administration for the second half of 1939.
TABLE 23.—Estimated Value of Rentals and Services Supplied to National
Administration Work Projects, July Through December 1939
Youth
[Subject to revision]
Type of rental or service
Total
Motor vehicles
.
. Teams and wagons. . .
Paving, road building, and other constiuction equipment
Value
Type of rental or service
Value
$018,100
Other equipment, including office equipment
--.
Space rentals and services
.. _
Other services, including utilities . .._ .
$19,800
81,000
367,100
139,500
300
10,400
In connection with the administration of the Public Contracts Act
the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been collecting data on supply
contracts awarded by Federal agencies of the United States for the
manufacture or furnishing of materials, supplies, articles, and equipment in any amount exceeding $10,000. The first public contracts
were awarded under the act in September 1936.
Table 24 shows the value of public contracts awarded under the
act for supplies during the fourth quarter of 1939, the third quarter of
1939, and the fourth quarter of 1938.
TABLE 24.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material
[Subject to revision]
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
Fourth quar-! Third quar- Fourth quarter of 1939
ter of 1939 i
ter of 1938 i
All materials..
Food and kindred products.
$105, 046, 3f>9
$173,907,899
$239,694,17,i
~2, 070,177
2, 375, 334
2,118,058
884,219
06, 086
951,968
59,521
421,755
200, 989
155,458
124,399
146,395
143,615
118,971
211,424
102,494
170, 792
315,784
288, 492
231.719
384,830
379,518
08,378
10,373
243, 278
37,083
125,002
139,799
392, 238
123,851
283,411
314, 527
14,593,241
8,084,124
4,750,819
509,848
1,507,801
210.074
214,155
170,542
3,187, 638
147,994
3, 664, 375
18,403
1,435,269
727, 227
363, 689
12, 330
45, 591
85, 220
37, 360
1,747,143
Canned fruits and vegetables.
Canned sea foods.
Cereal preparations
Coffee and tea
Condensed and evaporated milk
.
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowls
Flour and other grain-mill products
Meat-packing products
Shortening and vegetable cooking oil. _...._.
Sugar
.
..... .
Miscellaneous subsistence stores and supplies
Textiles and their products
... .
Awnings, tents, sails, and canvas covers.
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers,
etc.)-.. . . .
Clothing, manufacture only 2
Cordage and twine, including thread
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.)....
Cotton shirts
Furnishing goods, men's, n. e. c
Housefurnishing goods (pillowcases, sheets, etc.).
Knit goods (hosiery, underwear, etc.)
Linoleum
..
Woolen goods (flannels, suiting, etc.)
Work clothing...
Miscellaneous textile products
_.
....
1,293,180
504,035
402,158
72,934
4, 644, 332
472, 277
1, 828, 490
1 Revised.
Labor only. Materials furnished by United States Government.
2
665,022
509, 673
722, 243
76,110
128,428
00, 778
75, 258
1,990,727
165,076
326,798
37
TABLE 24.— Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—Con.
!
Type or materials
Fourth quar- Third quar- Fourth quarter of 1930 ! ter of 1030
ter of 1038
Forest products . . . .
$1.4(>4.028
Cork and cork products.
Furniture
... .
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c
Planing-mill products . .
Treated lumber and timber...
Miscellaneous forest products
11,855
300.050
071, 843
305,130
Ammunition and related products.
Drugs and medicines...
Explosives. .
Linseed oil...
....
'Paints and varnishes
Soap and soap chips...
Miscellaneous chemicals.
Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum
Asphalt, oil, tar, and mixtures
Coal and c o k e . . . .
Fuel oil..
Gasoline _ . . _ _ . . . .
.....
Lubricating oils and greases
..
_. . .
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum products
Leather and its manufactures
...
Stone, clay, and glass products..
Brick
.....
. .
.....
Cement
..
Concrete pipe
Concrete, ready mixed .
Crushed stone .
_.
.
Glass
... .
..
._ ....
Granite and marble .
Riprap stone
Sand and gravel .
Soil, black earth
.. . .
Terra cotta
... .
Tile, clay, including drain
Vitrified clay and terra-cotta pipe
Miscellaneous stone, clay, and glass products..
12.450
506, 000
(531,801
039. 435
105.450
$052,520
283, 303
203, 517
89,854
75,852
Bolts, nuts, rivets, washers, etc.
....,
Cast-iron pipe and
fittings.
_. .....
Fencing materials
.
._
Forgings, iron and steel ...
.
Hardware, miscellaneous
.
Metal doors, sash, and frames
Metal furniture
.
Metal shingles and roofing.
Pipe and fittings, n. e. c
...
__. .
Plumbing fixtures and supplies
"Rails, steel..
Railway tie plates
._. . . . .
Reinforcing steel
Steel pipe and fit tines...
Steel sheets, plates, shapes, and strips...
Stoves and ranges, other than electric
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet-steel piling
Tools, other than machine tools
Wire products
.....
...
Miscellaneous iron and steel products
4,014, 880
5,880,117 |
3, 688,473
1.405,073
110,, 040
709. 822
154,802
147,180
1.420,907
3.501,738
118.024
584, (573 !
80,100 !
317.188
70,510
1.144,782
1. 180," 000
51,423
54,823
05, 307
2.148.050
7.810,401
0, 406, 731
8,778,008
450, 508
500, 005
3.375, 207
3,134,802
101,720
07,313
318,023
1.480.306
1.019 060
2, 059. 200
80. 832
213. 217
477, 288
314.366
1.096,163
5, 774,036
102,122
113,193
2, 508,795
1,098.540
1,085, 840
1,858,905
438,123
1,291,087
089, 931
211,707
1,506,679
3,273,001
3, 285, 532
12,241
097, 221
06, 773
1,361.417
204,867
518,842
125.958
14,995
116.420
228. 531
290,972
51,666
95~918
23. 940
24, 841
291.083
12.748
250, 706
376, 703
1,255,658
354, 731
244, 028
110,085
19. 000
45,377
84,035
307, 280
71,701
11,400
30, 721
40.423
242, 401
8.862, 939
33,751,921
5, 751,978
40.619
200. 836
69, 231
315,889
47,893
3, 378, 605
10, 650
93,114
74, 447
107,100
103,412
194,801"
12.143
86.864
654, 725
._
.....
182, 771
294,025
112,828
103.373"
10, 700
132,708
Tron and steel and their products, not including machinery.
$2,255,242 !
100,150
Chemicals and allied products...
Boots and shoes.
Gloves .
..
Shoe-upper leather. . . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous leather goods ..
Value of contracts awarded
12.115
375.062
88, 872
923. 831
314,463
947, 559
05.398
480,013
324,424
791,528
3,319.656
892.947
40, 450
21,271
48. 537
170.201
334,451
7,231,066
127,058
7.602, 230
117,120
259.199
12,956,027
1,243,030
31,830
127,939
19,178
157,064
14,614
15,990
244,853
106,308
1,317,984
43,031
1,052,575
24,430
151,577
1,033,996
38
TABLE 24.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—Con.
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
Nonferrous metals and their alloys..
Aluminum manufactures
Brass products
Bronze products
Copper products
Fixtures, gas and electric.
Lead products
Magnesium
Nickel
Plated ware
Sheet-metal work
_
Tin
Zinc
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys.
Machinery, not including transportation equipment and electrical equipment.__
-
Air-conditioning equipment
Business machines
Elevators and elevator equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and parts
Filter and purification equipment
Laundry machinery and equipment
Machine tools
Phonographs and accessories
Power shovels and draglines.
Printing and publishing machinery
Pumps and pumping equipment
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making machinery.
Road machinery
.
Windlasses, winches, and capstans
Miscellaneous machinery and parts
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies .
Batteries....
Circuit breakers and switches
.
Electric cable, wire, and other conductors..
Generators and spare parts
Heaters and ranges
Motors
Radio equipment and supplies
Spark plugs
_
_
Starters....
Switchboards, relay and control equipment...
...
Telephone and telegraph apparatus
Transformers
Welding equipment
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and sup-
Fourth quar- Third quar- Fourth quarter of 1939
ter of 1939
ter of 1938
$3,148, 758
$4, 433, 937
$2,989,930
305,359
612,579
310,273
315, 497
619,163
123,159
30,207
331,080
67,305
28,150
43, 822
540, 470
1,316,384
449, 874
346,045
64, 275
140,345
251,356
351,559
39,250
362,164
192,928
16, 597
33,000
1,334,019
1, 799,703
23, 276
15,385
131, 200
35,911
43,122
92,877
11,350
194,941
21, 450
3,199,392
11,751,680
62, 852
104,703
44,381
2,164,810
91,312
78, 591
3, 289,972
241,460
29,193
472,872
36, 586
18,501
79,493
1,597, 832
90,339
567,072
1, 366, 357
235, 562
54,151
202,346
3, 399,232
3, 270, 450
41,720
117,825
1,448.328
17,000
102.840
122, 390
1,118, 882
62,684
103,121
25,450
5,161, 309
6,096,307
11,066,961)
58, 747
1, 255, 834
1,297,083
1,463, 257
52, 337
12,586
5, 288,856
37, 250
4,174, 228
104,140
424, 268
181,396
1,040,969
33,000
53,558
794. 584
145,951
7,160, 861
168, 766
75,396
1,219,920
11,709
235, 553
1,625,441
252, 753
165, 716
87, 879
1, 699, 750
117,449
19,778
61,031
619,915
572, 281
35,366
249,906
314, 568
316,961
26, 840
11,675,918
64,141
19, 778
327,167
103,608
408,893
28, 290
591, 686
692, 735
528,401
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
_
Aircraft parts and equipment
Boats and boat equipment
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, trucks
Naval vessels
Miscellaneous transportation equipment..
41,793,522
16,062,757
2,594,451
475,465
387,057
13, 205, 224
1,122,400
7,946,168
77,301,145
66,982, 735
3,817,618
141,148
1,717,792
1,465,985
3,002,489
173,378
183,325,955
3, 258, 576
3,280,005
Miscellaneous
_
Brooms, brushes, bristles, etc
Dental goods and equipment
_
Instruments, professional and scientific...
Office equipment and supplies, n. e. c
Paper and allied products
Photographic apparatus and materials
Printing, publishing, and subscriptions...
Rubber products
4,006,762
132,487
198,622
1,515,045
78, 430
124,299
265,151
25,190
427,156
69,370
141,324
231,950
12, 563
540, 470
5,022, 264
18,455
Sag..^_
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering
Surgical and orthopedic supplies and appliances
....
Tobacco manufactures
Other materials.
_
Rentals, services, etc. (equipment rental, repairs, aerial
surveys, etc.)
244,705
2,496,135
109,460
685,213
259, 544
105,740
157, 897
45,450
19,089
210,911
16, 375
723, 762
174,233
82, 261
1, 228,074
175,345,000
132,039
7,416,839
57,162
34,176
572,244
927, 257
3,009,302
133, 870
20,815
245,947
178,301
7,815
195,868
187,766
1,550,511
295,805
39
The value of public contracts awarded for supplies by Federal
agencies totaled $105,646,000 during the fourth quarter of 1939. Of
the contracts awarded in the fourth quarter of 1939 $41,794,000 was
for transportation equipment; $14,593,000 for textiles and their
products; $8,863,000 for iron and steel and their products; and
$7,819,000 for products of asphalt, coal and petroleum.
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@FedFRASER