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Ref, Serial No. R. 604
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
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
JUNE 1937
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON • 1937
CONTENTS
Pag*
Summary of employment reports for June 1937:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
Detailed reports for June 1937:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
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Tables
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
June 1937
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, May and June
1937
TABLE 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,
second quarter of 1937, first quarter of 1937, and second
quarter of 1936
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TABLE 4.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, June 1937
TABLE 5.—All manufacturing industries combined and the durable- and
nondurable-goods groups—indexes of employment and pay
rolls, January 1936 to June 1937
TABLE 6.—Selected nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of employment and pay rolls, January 1936 to June 1937
TABLE 7.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in May and June
1937
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TABLE 8.—Principal cities—comparison of employment and pay rolls in
identical establishments in May and June 1937
TABLE 9.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
in June 1937, May 1937, and June 1936
TABLE 10.—Executive service of the Federal Government—monthly record
of employment from June 1936 to June 1937, inclusive
TABLE 11.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
June 1937, by type of project
TABLE 12.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from July 1933 to June 1937, inclusive
TABLE 13.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, June 1937, by type of projectTABLE 14.—National Youth Administration work projects and student-aid
projects financed by The Works Program—employment,
pay rolls, and man-hours worked, June 1937
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TABLE 15.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the program in July 1935 to June 1937, inclusive
TABLE 16.—National Youth Administration work projects and student-aid
projects financed by The Works Program—employment,
pay rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
projects to June 1937, inclusive
TABLE 17.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, May
and June 1937
TABLE 18.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls from
June 1936 to June 1937, inclusive
TABLE 19.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, June 1937, by type of project
TABLE 20.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from June 1936 to June 1937, inclusive
TABLE 21.—Construction projects financed from regular governmental
appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, June 1937, by type of project
TABLE 22.—Construction projects financed from regular governmental
appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, from June 1936 to June 1937, inclusive
TABLE 23.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, from June 1936 to June 1937,
inclusive
TABLE 24.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects financed by Federal funds, second quarter of 1937, by type of
material
TABLE 25.—Value of material orders placed on Federal professional, technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works Program,
second quarter of 1937, first quarter of 1937, and second
quarter of 1936
TABLE 26.—Rentals and services on projects operated by the Works Progress Administration from July 1935 to December 1936, first
quarter of 1937, and second quarter of 1937
TABLE 27.—Value of public contracts awarded for materials from September 28, 1936, through December 1936, first quarter of 1937,
and second quarter of 1937
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Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR JUNE 1937
ON THE basis of reports supplied by approximately 135,000 establishments, it is estimated that 56,000 fewer workers were employed in
June than in May and weekly pay rolls decreased $2,000,000 in the
combined manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries surveyed
monthly by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Between June 1936 and June 1937, however, it is estimated that
nearly 1,400,000 workers have been returned to employment in these
industries and that weekly pay rolls have increased more than
$67,000,000.
Class I railroads again reported an increase in employment over
the month interval. According to a preliminary tabulation by the
Interstate Commerce Commission, they had 1,158,918 employees
(exclusive of executives, officials, and staff assistants) on their pay
rolls in June as compared with 1,141,361 in May.
Employment in the executive, judicial, legislative, and military
services of the Federal Government in June was somewhat higher
than in the preceding month. An increase was reported in the number
of workers employed on construction projects financed from regular
governmental appropriations, due largely to a seasonal increase in
employment on road projects. Employment gains were also reported
on Federal projects under The Works Program. Employment
declined from May to June on projects operated by the Works Progress
Administration, Public Works Administration projects, and construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Employment on emergency conservation work decreased substantially,
as is usual at the end of an enrollment period.
Industrial and Business
Employment
Factory employment declined 1.2 percent from May to June and
pay rolls fell 2.2 percent. Labor disputes in the blast furnace, steel
works, and rolling mill industry accounted partially for these decreases.
These percentages indicate that there were 102,000 fewer workers on
factory pay rolls in June than in May and that their weekly wage
disbursements had been reduced nearly $4,600,000. Despite the
adverse influence of strikes, the June 1937 factory figures compare
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favorably with the June figures of other years, as employment decreases between May and June have been shown in 9 of the preceding
18 years for which data are available and pay-roll decreases have been
reported in 10 of these years.
With the exception of the 3 preceding months, the June factory
employment and pay-roll indexes (101.1 and 102.9, respectively)
stand above the levels recorded in any month since November 1929.
A comparison with June of last year shows a gain of 12.2 percent,
or nearly 920,000 workers, over the year interval and an increase of
26.9 percent, or $44,300,000, in weekly wages.
Of the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed, 39 reported gains in
employment over the month interval and the same number showed
increases in pay rolls. A tabulation of wage-rate increases reported
by cooperating establishments showed 197,000 factory wage earners
receiving wage-rate increases between May 15 and June 15, the
cumulative total since October of last year amounting to nearly
4,250,000. This number includes some duplication of workers, as
more than one wage-rate increase has been reported by some firms
over this interval.
Among the industries showing seasonal gains in employment were
radios and phonographs (30.4 percent), canning and preserving (23.2
percent), ice cream (10.4 percent), beverages (8.2 percent), butter
(7.3 percent), and beet sugar (5.7 percent). Employment in plants
manufacturing explosives rose 4.5 percent, and gains ranging from
2.0 to 4.1 percent were reported in the aluminum, tin-can and other
tinware, structural metalwork, machine-tool, and sawmill industries.
Gains of 1.9 percent each were shown in the rayon and allied products,
and furniture industries; gains of 1.8 percent each were reported in
the cash-register and stove industries; and increases of 1.7 percent
each were shown in the electrical-machinery and cement industries.
Employment in petroleum refining rose 1.6 percent; in baking, 1.5
percent; in smelting and refining, 1.5 percent; in locomotives, 1.2 percent; and in fur-felt hats, 1.2 percent. Among the remaining industries reporting increases were steam railroad repair shops (0.9 percent),
foundries and machine shops (0.8 percent), chemicals (0.7 percent),
silk and rayon goods (0.5 percent), and paper and pulp (0.3 percent).
The seasonal decrease of 27.7 percent in employment in the fertilizer industry was the most pronounced decline shown. Other
industries reporting seasonal recessions were women's clothing (10.0
percent), millinery (8.5 percent), cottonseed oil-cake-meal (8.0 percent), dyeing and finishing textiles (7.6 percent), men's furnishings
(3.8 percent), and confectionery (3.3 percent). Largely because of
labor disputes, employment in the bolt, nut, washer, and rivet industry
decreased 12.7 percent, and in the blast furnace, steel works, and
rolling mill industry, 12.9 percent. The latter figure is partially
estimated and will be revised when June employment reports, which
could not be supplied for a number of steel plants affected by the
strikes, have been received.
Rubber boot and shoe and men's clothing plants reported declines
of 5.0 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively, in number of workers;
and sugar refining, shipbuilding, cutlery, knit goods, and rubber
goods other than footwear and tire establishments reported decreases
ranging from 4.3 percent to 3.0 percent. Industries of major importance in which smaller decreases in employment were shown were
cotton goods (2.4 percent), woolen and worsted goods (2.2 percent),
book and job printing (1.9 percent), automobiles (1.5 percent), and
boots and shoes (1.4 percent).
The combined 16 nonmanufacturing industries showed a net gain
of approximately 46,000 workers over the month interval. The
largest gain in number of employees (22,000) was in retail-trade
establishments, increases being general in the various groups of retail
businesses surveyed. The important group of general merchandising
establishments (department, variety, and general merchandising
stores and mail-order houses) showed a gain of 0.7 percent in employment over the month interval. A seasonal expansion of 2.4
percent in employment was reported by coal-wood-ice dealers, and
drug stores reported a gain of 1.9 percent. Other lines of retail
trade reporting employment gains from May to June were jewelry
(1.1 percent), automotive (1.0 percent), apparel (0.7 percent) and
food (0.3 percent). Furniture stores reported a decline of 0.1 percent, and dealers in lumber and building materials also reported 0.1
percent fewer employees.
Seasonal gains in the laundry and dyeing and cleaning industries
resulted in an increase of more than 9,000 workers, and the net gain
in the 5 industries comprising the mining group exceeded 5,000.
Employment in the private building construction industry showed a
further gain in June (3.1 percent), and electric light and power and
manufactured gas companies reported a gain of 1.8 percent. The
decreases in the nonmanufacturing industries for which declines
were reported over the month interval were 3.0 percent in brokerage,
0.8 percent in year-round hotels, and 0.6 percent in wholesale trade.
Twenty of the thirty-three lines of wholesale trade surveyed reported
employment gains, among them being automotive products, food
products, general merchandise, groceries and food specialties, hardware, and machinery, equipment, and supplies. The farm-products
group and the assemblers and country-buyers group showed sharp
seasonal recessions (18.5 and 19.1 percent, respectively).
The increases in employment in a number of the nonmanufacturing
industries raised the June levels to the maximum registered in recent
years. Employment in the metalliferous-mining industry reached the
highest level since August 1930. In the electric light and power and
manufactured gas industry, employment was above that of any
month since July 1931. Employment in dyeing and cleaning establishments was higher than that of any month over the preceding 6
years for which records are available. In the general merchandising
group of retail stores (department, variety, and general merchandising
stores and mail-order houses) the June 1937 level was above the June
levels of 1929 and succeeding years.
Employment on class I railroads increased again, according to preliminary reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The
number of railroad workers exclusive of executives, officials, and staff
assistants was 1,158,918 in June as against 1,141,361 in May, a gain
of 17,557 or 1.5 percent. Pay-roll figures for June were not available
at the time this report was prepared. In May, however, total wage
disbursements to this group of workers were $160,285,126, in comparison with $158,087,384 in April, a gain of 1.4 percent over the
month interval.
Hours and earnings.—Based on data supplied by cooperating manufacturing establishments for full- and part-time workers combined,
average hours worked per week by factory wage earners were 39.2 in
June and 39.8 in May, a decrease of 1.4 percent over the month
interval. Hourly earnings, however, were 0.5 percent higher in June
than in May, the average earnings in June being 65.3 cents as against
64.9 in May. These changes were reflected in the average weekly
wages, which were $26 in June or 1.0 percent lower than in the
preceding month.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour data
are available 10 reported increases in average hours worked per week
and a like number showed higher average hourly earnings. Average
weekly earnings were higher for 13 of the 16 nonmanufacturing
industries surveyed.
Table 1 presents a summary of employment and pay-roll indexes
and average weekly earnings in June 1937 for all manufacturing
industries combined, for selected nonmanufacturing industries, and
for class I railroads, with percentage changes over the month and year
intervals except in the few industries for which certain items cannot
be computed. The indexes of employment and pay rolls for the
manufacturing industries are based on the 3-year average, 1923-25,
as 100, and for the nonmanufacturing industries on the 12-month
average of 1929 as 100. The information for the manufacturing
industries, mining, laundries, dyeing and cleaning, and building
construction covers wage earners only. For crude-petroleum producing it covers wage earners and clerical field force. The figures for
public utilities, trade, hotels, brokerage, and insurance cover all
employees, including executives.
T A B L E 1.—Employment,
Pay
Rolls, and Earnings
in All
Manufacturing
Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1937
Employment
Industry
Index
June
1937
All manufacturing
combined i
industries
Class I steam railroads a
Coal mining:
Anthracite
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleuin producing
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Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and power and
in anufactured gas
Electric-railroad and motorbus
operation and maintenance..
Trade:
Wholesale
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Ketail
General merchandising
Other than general merchandising
Hotels (year-round)1
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Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
Brokerage
Insurance
Building construction
Percentage
change from—
May
1937
June
1930
=100)
101.1
-1.2
+12.2
65.6
+1.5
+8.8
(1929=
100)
51.1
77.9
78.9
55.4
79.1
78.5
96.0
73.3
90.3
90.5
102.9
87.2
86.9
93.5
92.1
(
Index
Juno
1937
1936
(1923-25
= 100)
102.9 - 2 . 2
-1.0
+13.1
28. S9
23.19
31.18
+14.5
+4.9
-3.9
+21.6
+12.5
+25.6
+2.5
+ 3.8
+19.6
+19.7
23.84
33.57
+1.6
+.6
+15.4
+11.4
88.6
-1.0
+14.5
29. 95
-2.0
+5.1
100.1
+2.6
+1.5
+.2
+ 1.1
+1.1
+1.1
+.5
+5.0
+7.2
+13.6
33.57
+6.9
+6.5
31.85
+.8
+1.4
+.8
+.5
+.4
+.5
76.3
74.4
92.5
70.6
74.0
85.5
79.2
- . 8 +3.6
+3.6 +7.2
+3.9 +5.3
-3.0 +3.9
+.4 +1.5
+3.1 +10.5
$2G.OO
+21.4
+15.7
+60.1
71.1
+6.7
1936
(1929 =
100)
50.9 +14.7
71.2 +5.0
77.2 - 3 . 1
52.6
70.5
+.6 +5.8
+.7 +6.7
+.6 +5.5
i Revised indexes—Adjusted to 1933 Census of
Manufactures.
* Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Percentage
Percentage
change from— Aver- change from—
age in
June
1937
June
May
June
May
1937
+.2 - . 2
+.2 +2.9
+.9 +27.5
+.9 +3.6
+3.2
+7.4
+1.0
+9.0
+1.8
+6.2
+.1 +2.2
-.6
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
-3.2
+1.1
+3.5
+11.6
+12.0
+13.7
30. 56
22.06
18.74
+.11.4
+ 1L.0
+ 12.7
+ 14.4
+8.1
+5.9
+26.6
24.73
14.83
17.18
21.32
39. 28
39. 78
31.25
+1.4
+1.4
+3.1
-.2
+.7
+.3
+4.2
+4.5
+5.8
+6.6
+5. 6
+7.2
+5.1
+8.6
+4.1
+4.4
+14.6
3
Not available.
* Cash payments only; the additional value of
board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Public Employment
There were more than 204,000 workers engaged on construction
projects financed from Public Works Administration funds in June,
a decrease of 2,000 compared with the 206,000 workers employed in
May. An increase in employment on projects financed from funds
provided by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935 and
1936 was offset by decreases in employment on Federal and nonFederal projects financed from funds provided by the National
Industrial Recovery Act. Pay-roll disbursements for June on all
projects financed by the Public Works Administration totaled
$16,431,000,
During the month more than 177,000 employees were working on
construction projects financed from regular governmental appropriations, an increase of 17,000 compared with the number employed in
May. Increases in employment occurred on all types of projects
with the exception of building construction; river, harbor, and flood
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control; streets and roads; and miscellaneous projects. Total pay
rolls on all projects financed from regular governmental appropriations
amounted to $16,980,000.
Employment on projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation decreased 16.2 percent in June to 5,000. Construction
activity was curtailed on all types of projects. Pay-roll disbursements
totaled $691,000. This was a decrease of $99,000 compared with the
preceding month.
The number of wage earners employed on projects financed by
The Works Program during June was 2,716,000. Compared with the
number working in May this was a decrease of 286,000. Of the total,
285,000 were working on Federal projects, 2,020,000 on projects
operated by the Works Progress Administration, and 411,000 on work
projects of the National Youth Administration and student aid.
Disbursements for pay rolls totaled $126,556,000.Small increases in employment occurred in the executive, legislative,
judicial, and military services of the Federal Government. Employment in the executive service showed a slight increase (0.2 percent) in
June. Compared with a year ago the June level of employment increased
2.4 percent. Of the 842,000 employees in the executive service, 116,000 were working in the District of Columbia and 726,000 were
employed outside the District. Pronounced increases in employment
in the executive service occurred in the Post Office Department, the
War Department, and in the Department of Agriculture. Appreciable decreases occurred in the Puerto Rican Reconstruction Administration, the Treasury Department, and in the Resettlement
Administration.
In the Civilian Conservation Corps employment decreased in June.
Employment for all groups of workers totaled 324,000, a decrease of
25,000 compared with May. The decrease was due almost entirely
to the usual decline in the number of enrolled workers at the end of
the 3-month enrollment period. Virtually no change occurred in the
number of reserve officers and educational advisers. An increase,
however, was reported in the number of supervisory and technical
employees. Pay rolls for the month for all groups of workers were
$16,086,000, a decrease of $633,000.
In June 168,000 workers were employed on the construction of new
roads and the maintenance and repair of old roads financed from State
funds. This was a decrease of 9,000 compared with May. Although
there was a gain in the number of employees engaged on new construction, the drop in employment on maintenance work was sufficiently
large to cause a decrease in total employment on State roads. Of
the total number employed 19,000 were working on new construction
and 149,000 on maintenance work. Pay-roll disbursements totaling*
in excess of $11,069,000 during the month, were $219,000 greater
than in the preceding month.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll statistics for May
and June is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, June 1937 1
[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class
June
1937
May
1937
Federal services:
3 842,003 840, 521
Executive 2
2,040
2,010
Judicial
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5,133
5,117
legislative
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319,223 317, 520
Military
Construction projects:
204,098 206,019
Financed by P. W. A.»«
4,898
Financed by R. F. C.7
5,847
Financed by regular govern177,265 160,346
mental appropriations
Federal projects under The Works
284,893 2G6, 686
Program
2,020, 273 2,133, 340
Projects operated by W. P. A
National Youth Administration:
170,472
184,173
Works projects
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240,460 418,362
Student a i d . . .
Relief work:
Civilian
Conservation
323, 626
348,905
Corps 8
includes data on projects financed wholly or
partially
from Federal funds.
2
Includes employees of Columbia Institution
for3 the Deaf and Howard University.
Includes 247 employees by transfer previously
reported as separations, not actual additions for
June.
4
Revised.
5
Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from
E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936funds are included. These
data are not shown under The Works Program.
Percentage
change
Pay rolls
June
1937
May
1937
+0.2
+1.5
+.3
+.5
$127, 306,469
500,801
1,203,582
23,135, 605
$127,610,269
496,663
1,197;, 996
23, 813, 274
-.9
-16.2
16,430,649
690,822
15, 850, 554
790,018
+10.6
16,980,060
15, 278, 529
+6.8
-5.3
14,794,640
107,046, 653
-7.4
-42.5
-7.3
Percentage
change
-0.2
+.8
+.5.
-2.9-
+3.7
-12.6
+11.1
14,154,856
112,262,434
+4.5
2,862,654
1,852,006
3,093, 750
3, 591,961
16,085, 832
16, 719,019
-7.5
-48.4
-3.8
-4.6
6
Includes 141,708 wage earners and $10,960,950
pay roll for June; 139,561 wage earners and $10,339,137 pay roll for May covering P. W. A. projects
financed
from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds.
7
Includes 59 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $3,325 for June and 80 employees and payroll disbursements of $4,420 for May on projects
financed
by the RFC Mortgage Co.
8
Includes 43,246 employees and pay roll of $5,603,833 for June and 41,930 employees and pay roll
of $5,370,053 for May included in executive service.
The value of material orders placed on projects financed wholly or
partially from Federal funds during the second quarter of 1937
amounted to $259,313,000. It is estimated that approximately
744,000 man-months of labor were created in the final fabrication of
these materials. In the corresponding quarter of 1936 the value of
material orders placed amounted to $252,956,000, and 885,000 manmonths of labor were created in final fabrication. During the first
quarter of 1937 material orders valued at $243,618,000 were placed
and 688,000 man-months of labor were created in final fabrication.
Table 3 shows the value of material orders placed on the various
programs financed by Federal funds during the second quarter of
1937, the first quarter of 1937, and the second quarter of 1936 and the
man-months of employment created in the final fabrication of the
materials used.
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TABLE 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
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Program
Second
quarter
of 1937
First
quarter
of 1937
Second
quarter
of 1936
Total
$259,313, 311 $243,618, 296 $252, 956, 263
Public Works Administration l
83,764,660
66,965, 476 110, 041, 383
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 2... _
2, 761, 743
4, 486,462
6, 588,505
Regular governmental appropriations 3
53,654,981
38,163, 221
31,941,659
Federal projects under The Works
Program:
Construction.
22,793, 575 21, 535, 585 39, 584,256
Professional, technical, and
clerical
_
_.
279,893
290,884
419, 501
Projects operated by W. P. A
_ 56,266,574
65,665,275
64,091,732
Rentals and services on projects
operated by W. P. A
39,128,795
46,150,914
National Youth Administration:
Work projects
663,090
360,479
289, 227
1
Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from
E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936funds are included. These
data
are not shown under The Works Program.
2
Includes R F C Mortgage Co. Does not include
projects for which contracts were awarded before
Mar. 15, 1934.
Man-months of labor
created in final fabrication
Second
quarter
of 1937
Second
First
quarter quarter
of 1937 of 1936
743,884
288,447
687,979
234,063
884,691
393,169
7,944
12,458
19,905
171, 554
123,130
100, 254
72, 359
72,068
126, 208
782
200,149
1,021
243,900
1,727
242,334
2,649
1,339
0)
1,094
3
Does not include projects for which contracts
were awarded before July 1, 1934.
* Data not available.
DETAILED REPORTS FOR JUNE 1937
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls in industrial and
business industries are now available for the following groups: 89
manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including
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, and in
virtually all industries the samples are large enough to be entirely
representative. 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 IN JUNE 1937
The indexes of employment and pay rolls, average hours worked per
week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in June 1937 are
shown in table 4. Percentage changes from May 1937 and June 1936
are also given.
TABLE 4.—-Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1937
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes arc based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures]
Pay rolls
Employment
Industry
Index
June
1937
All manufacturing industries..
Durable goods
Nondurable goods
Percentage
change from—
May
1937
June
1936
Index
June
1937
Average weekly earnings i
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly earnings i
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
May
1937
June
1936
June
1937
May
1937
June
1936
June
1937
June
1937
May
1937
June
1936
102.9
104. 6
100.8
2.2
2.7
1.5
+26.9
+32. 4
+20.1
$26. 00
29. 36
22.14
-1.0
-1.6
-.2
+13.1
+13.5
+11.3
39.2
40.7
37.6
-1.4
-1.4
-1.3
+10.9
+6.5
+10.0
+ 10.1
110.4
123.4
93.3
59. 7
-11.5
-15.3
-17.7
-4.3
+30. 5
+30. 5
+24.9
+30.3
31.06
34. 48
25.96
22.73
-3.9
-2.7
-5.7
-3.1
+17.6
+22. 5
+ 13.6
+18. 3
40.2
40.2
39.9
39.6
-2.4
-1.9
-4.2
-3. 9
-3.1
-2.0
-1.9
-2.8
+13.1
+23.8
+25. 2
+9.3
86.2
71.5
96.5
76.3
-.7
—3. 5
-17.8
-1.0
+28. 6
+48.2
+24.1
+20.7
25. 22
30. 25
22. 53
25.71
+2.4
+13.7
+19.8
-.9
+10. 6
42.9
42.0
36.1
40.7
+.6
-2.3
+22.3
+14.2
+15.0
+8.3
76.4
106. 2
82.4
116.6
-7.4
-.5
+38.3
+22.1
+36. 3
+18.8
27. 67
26. 24
29. 36
23.77
+13. 0
+6.8
+ 18.6
+9.7
40.5
40.5
42.3
40.1
+27.2
+22.7
+24.7
+13.8
114.9
188.5
137.2
182.7
+.9
+43.8
+40.5
+43.2
+39.0
26.36
26.33
29.41
29.10
+13.0
+15.7
+14.8
+22.1
43.5
39.6
41.8
40.5
+1.7
-1.2
-1.5
-.7
+.5
+1.9
+36. 6
+51.4
+39. 6
33.24
28.95
32. 53
+12.0
+13. 5
+19. 3
41.6
39.9
40.1
-2.9
-.7
-1.6
-2.3
-2.4
101.1
98.8
103.5
-1.2
-1.1
-1.2
101.4
106.2
81.9
70.6
-7.9
-12.9
-12.7
-1.3
86.2
72.6
96.7
93.2
79.8
119.0
78.7
109. 2
()
-1.4
+ 1.3
Cents
65.3
71.4
58.6
May
1937
June
1936
+0.5
+.2
+ 1.0
+13.4
+ 15.3
+10.2
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills 'K.
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
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)
Wircwork
_.
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Agricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
_
_.
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels..
See footnotes at end of table.
101.6
181.2
129.2
140.6
135. 9
119.9
149. 9
+1.8
+2.4
+4.1
-1.7
-.9
+2.5
+.6
+1.8
+ 1.7
+.7
146. 7
+21.8
126.1
+33. 5
+ 18. 1 I 156.4
+4.9
+4.4
-.4
+1.7
-.6
-1.5
+2.1
-.1
-1.6
-16.2
+1.8
-5.2
-2.2
+2.4
+.3
+2.6
+.6
-.7
-1.3
-3.3
+.5
Q
-2.3
-13.3
-4.1
-5.3
-1.1
+ 1.4
+3.2
+5.8
+.8
-11.5
-1.4
-5. 9
-2.7
-3.9
-1.4
+1.4
+.2
-1.1
+.8
-4.1
+.7
76.0
85.4
65.1
57.0
-1.6
-1.2
-1.6
+1.0
+21.7
+28.0
+13.9
+ 15.1
60.1
72.3
62.4
63.2
+1.6
+.8
-3.4
+1.0
+9.7
+13. 5
+11.4
+12.3
68.3
65.1
69.5
59.8
+.7
+.8
+1.0
60.5
66.5
70.4
72.7
+.9
+1.8
+1.0
(
-.6
+1.1
+17.7
+8.3
+18.4
+11.3
+12.2
+20.5
+15.1
+20.9
81.0
72.5
81.3
+.8
+13. 5
+ 16.6
+ 18.7
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1937—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment
Industry
Index
June
1937
Average weekly earn- Average hours worked
ings
per week
Pay rolls
Percentage
change from—
May
1937
June
+0.8
+2.0
+30.4
+25.1
+31.5
Index
June
1937
1936
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
June
May
1937
June
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
May
1937
1936
June
Average hourljr earnings
1937
1936
May
1937
June
-1.7
-2.4
+0.8
+3.0
-.3
+9.4
+5.8
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
1936
May
1937
June
1936
Durable goods— Continued
Machinery—Continued.
Foundry and machine-shop products
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
._
Textile machinery and parts
Typewriters and parts
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
Automobiles
..
_
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
Locomotives
.
_.
Shipbuilding
Railroad repair shops
lOlectric railroad
Steam railroad
Nonferrous metals and their products
Aluminum manufactures
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices
Jewelry
Lighting equipment
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, Jead, and zinc.
Stamped and enameled ware
l u m b e r and allied products
_
.
Furniture
Lumber:
MillworkSawmills
_
_
112.7
152.7
182.3
87.3
153.8
126.4
834. 0
137.8
76.5
59.5
103 3
64.0
62 7
61 1
113.9
129.5
122.3
121.6
89.1
96.1
74.4
88.8
159. 2
72.9
89.1
57.5
55.7
-.2
-9.0
+24.1
+.1 +82.4
+20.0
+40.7
- 1 . 5 +19. 0
— 1.6 +33.8
+1.2 +69.1
—3.2
+5.4
+.6 +9.4
-1.1
+1.2
+ 10.2
- +.9
1 . 4 +19.3
+3.0 +20.9
-2.7 +22.4
- 1 . 5 +17.2
+.6 +21.4
- 3 . 7 +26.8
+( 2 ) +19.3
+1.5 +14.5
-2.2 +14.9
+1.8 +12.5
+1.9 +21.0
+.4 +15.6
+2.0 +7.3
-1.5
+1.3
119.5
164.6
156. 2
93.6
151.1
127.8
751.3
135.2
91.4
51.4
114.5
68.7
67.1
69.0
111.5
135.6
125.3
118. 5
70.3
95.3
69.1
85.2
162.4
72.3
78.7
57.5
57.4
+0.1
+1.9
+44.0
-- 21 .. 68
-4.7
+1.6
-6.0
+ 1.6
+8.6
-3. 6
+2.4
+1.0
+2.3
-1.4
+.6
-.9
-3.1
+1.7
-6.2
-.8
+.5
-2.2
+6.0
+2.7
+4.7
+8.5
+42.7 $29.58 - 0 . 8
-.2
+50.2 33.21
+.8 22.47 +10.4
+50.0 28.83 - 1 . 5
+108. 4 26. 22 - 2 . 7
+29.5 32.00 - 3 . 3
+.3
+47.7 28.48
+26. 2 32.46 - 4 . 5
29.10
+69. 2
+3.2
+129.1 33. 49 +7.4
+16. 6 30.75
+14.3 30.80 +1.7
+8.4 30.19 +2.1
+14.8 30. 89 +1 4
0
+39.5 26.38
+43.8 26. 36 - 2 . 3
28.91
+49. 5
+29.3 22.42 +1.8
-1.6
+35.7 24.17 +1.1
+38.5 24.91 -2.7
-.8
+49.9 25.83
+35.0 28.61 - 12 . 0
+30. 3 23.84
()
+29.6 22.10 +4.1
+34.3 20.80
+.7
+30.6
+26.6
23.12
22.78
+14.1
+14.2
+10.7
+21.0
+14.2
+7.9
+.9
+6.1
+27.4
+35.5
+10.6
+4.5
+7.2
+4.1
+17.0
+18.8
+22.0
+10.3
+11.8
+9.2
+25.5
+17.9
+13. 4
+15.2
+11.0
+4.3 +12.9
+6.3
+18.0
43.2
46.3
38.4
43.8
41.6
37.0
44.4
36.1
40.0
46.5
37.6
44.8
44.5
44.8
40.2
40.4
40.6
40.3
38.9
38.5
40.0
41.9
39.6
42.8
41.0
+1.2
+1.4
+1.2
-1.9
44.1
43.5
+.7
+1.9
-2.2
-2.5
-3.9
+1.0
-5.1
+.1
+6.4
0
-1.9
—1.7
-2.3
+.9
-3.0
-3.0
-.9
-1.7
+1.3
-.5
+2.4
-6.8
-.1
-9.9
+8.5
+23.2
+1.3
+4.0
+1.5
+4.2
-.3
+1.2
-.8
+2.0
+4.1
-5.6
+19.1
-1.5
-3.6
+1.7
-1.2
—.1
+3.5
Cents
68.5
71.8
58.9
66.0
63.0
86.8
64.2
90.0
72.7
72.0
80.3
69.0
66.4
69.2
65.1
65.4
71.4
55.5
60.9
64.8
64.6
68.3
60.4
52.5
51.0
52.6
53.3
+1.1
+2.2
+8.5
+.7
-.3
+.6
+13.8
+10.7
+11.8
+10.8
+11.3
+16.2
+.6
+3.1
+1.0
+18.2
+16.3
+9.9
+6.6
+.3
+5.7
_(2)
+17.3
+17.9
+23.2
+9.1
+5.7
+15.9
+3.7
+19.6
+18.8
+12.8
+12.7
+13.1
+13.5
-.7
— 1.0
+.2
+.8
+.1
+1.7
-.4
+3.7
+.7
+.8
+.3
+1.5
+l'.8
+3.1
+.9
+3.8
+4.2
+.5
Stone, clay, and glass products.
Brick, tile, and terra coita.
-Cement.-_
_
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
_
Nondurable goods
74.0
54.5
69. 7
112. 4
44.1
80.0
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
_
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares. _
Dyeing and finishing textiles.
Hats, fur-folt
---Knit goods
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 snuff
Cigars and cigarettes..
_
Paper and printing
__
Boxes, paper
_
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals._
See footnotes at end of table.
-3.6
103.4
99.7
-2.4
101. 6
-.6
103.0
-2.4
97.4
-.8
109. 7 - 7 . 6
83.9
+1.2
118.1
-3.0
79.1
+.5
86.0
-2.2
109. 3 - 6 . 2
106.6
-4.4
137.3 - ] 0 . 0
89. 6 - 2 . 0
136. 5 - 3 . 8
51.2
-8.5
]18.0
-1.8
93.8
-1.4
94.0
-1.4
-hi
98.0
112.6
+4.4
136. 6 +1.5
224. 4 +8.2
95. 6 +7.3
122. 7 +23.2
68.9
-3.3
73. 6
-.3
90.6 +10.4
-.5
88.9
49.3
+5.7
74.9
-4.3
60.1
+.3
56. 4
+.9
60.5
+.3
106.9
103.0
-!o
120.5
+.3
95.4
105.4
-.5
-.9
+1.7
+.1
-2.0
-2.1
-1.9
-.7
-.8
-.1
+11.4
+10.2
+12.6
+13.3
+3.4
+12.0
71.4
49.1
75.0
119.4
37.6
70.3
+7.5
+10.4
+22.0
+15.7
+7.3
91.3
-5.1
-4.3
93.8
-.5
100.2
-5.0
101.2
-4.2
91.6
-9.7
95, 8
73.8
+6.5
119. 0 -4.8
68.4
+- 3(2.)6
78.5
-7.2
82.5
-3. 6
86.7
91.6 -13.5
-7.2
85. 2
-2.2
103.7
-3.3
37.4
101.7
+- 1(*). 2
80.6
-1.1
73.3
-.1.4
108.4
115.8
+3.8
133.8
+2.7
260.5 + 10.0
76.6
+7. 5
123. 5 +13. 9
68.0
-1.7
74.2
+ 1.2
81.5
+7.5
+.2
99.2
55.2
+8.0
-4.5
68.4
55.7
+3.9
69. 4 +4.5
54.0
+3.9
-.9
104.9
104. 4 - 1 . 7
124.3
+2.1
-1.5
-3.3
+5.1
+9.7
+9.0
+1.6
+2.1
-1.9
+3.8
+8.2
+ 1.1
+6.5
+8.1
+8.9
+5.5
+4.4
+6.3
+12.7
+4.9
-2.8
+.5
+1.8
+7.4
+3.6
+1.5
-6.3
-.2
+2. 5
-.5
+8.2
+12.8
+10.7
+8.7
+2.7
91.3
103.6
+5.0
+.4
-9.0
-6.3
-3.4
-1.1
+28.0
+25.0
+33. 3
+31.9
+3.0
+35.5
24.53
21.89
26.90
25. 61
24.88
23.28
+18.9
+24. 7
+52.3
+33. 5
+11.9
+9.2
-1.7
+14.4
+22.0
+27.7
+7.7
+9.2
+6.5
+4.0
+7.4
+0. 6
+7.5
+24.8
+26.7
+20.8
+17.1
+16.3
+18.0
+8.0
+20. 3
+13.9
+10.8
+12.4
+22.1
+10. 2
+2.7
+11.2
+24. 0
+9.3
+17.6
+21.5
+30.7
+16. 9
+7.4
17.73
17.74
23.14
15.55
17.49
21. 07
24.26
17.51
16.70
21.08
17.70
19.19
18.32
15.50
13. 43
21.17
12.90
20.01
18. 80
24. 54
24.86
25.48
34.32
22.29
16.17
17.74
25. 68
27.34
27.97
25. 65
25.40
17.15
18. 39
16.89
28.61
20. 70
25.90
30.26
37.18
-.3
+.8
+3.3
+.3
-7.2
-4.2
-1.6
-1.9
+.1
-2.6
-3.5
-2.3
+5.2
-1.9
-.5
-1.4
-1.0
+.8
-3.9
-5. 3
+1-7
+5.6
+1.9
+.1
+.4
-.4
-.6
+1.2
+1.7
+.2
-7.6
+1.7
+1.5
-2.6
+.8
+2.2
-.2
+3.6
+3.5
+3.6
-.2
-1.1
+1.8
—1.6
-.3
+14.9
+13.5
+18.3
+16.3
-.3
+21.0
39.9
41.9
40.6
38.2
38.5
40.5
+10.7
+13.0
+24.7
+15.4
+4.4
+10. 8
+1.8
+8.9
+11.1
+17.1
+6.0
+7.0
+8.5
+.1
-.7
+5.3
+.8
+15.5
+16.4
+14. 5
+12.1
+9.4
+4.8
+2.9
+23.7
+13.4
+9.0
+4.7
+17.8
+8.6
+9.7
+11.4
+21.0
+10.1
+8.6
+7.7
+18.0
+7.5
+4.5
35.1
36.4
36.7
36.9
36.8
36.3
34.2
35.7
36.6
36.1
32.2
32.5
30.9
32.9
33.2
31.5
33.9
38.1
37.7
39.3
41.4
43.3
41.7
48.9
35.9
37.7
44.1
49.2
40.8
40.6
39.4
38.0
37.1
38.1
39.7
40.3
42.2
39.5
36.8
j
-.3
+1.6
+2.9
+1.1
+2.6
+3.9
+.2
+5.3
-5.6
-1.5
-2.5
-2.4
—.6
-2.5
-4.0
-4.0
+5.0
-3.2
-.8
-2.3
-2.9
-4.5
-2.3
-6.1
-6.4
-2.3
+1.6
+2.0
+2.9
-1.1
-1.0
-.2
+1.0
+.6
-6.6
-1.2
-.2
+1.2
+.8
+5.0
-2.6
+2.2
+2.2
+2.2
-1.5
-2.0
-1.4
-1.8
— 1.1
-2.3
+.6
+7.7
-.1
— 1.2
-.3
-7.7
+1.4
+4.1
+.4
-2.3
+1.8
-5.6
-5.6
-17.4
+18.1
—3. 6
+9.6
+11.8
+3.8
+1.8
+6.1
-1.4
-1.6
+5.8
+5.8
+.1
+2.4
-3.2
—.2
+.4
+2.9
+8.4
+2.0
+2.7
+.9
+3.5
+4.4
+.5
62.0
52.4
66.2
67.5
64.5
60.2
+.1
+1.3
+.4
-.6
-1.8
+1.1
+12.3
+16.5
+15.4
+12.4
-1.6
+11.0
50.2
48.6
63.1
42.1
48. 2
57.4
72.0
50.1
45.4
58.6
53.5
58.1
55.8
46.6
35.5
68.7
39. 3
53.5
51.0
62.6
60.0
59. 3
83.3
45. 7
46.6
47.1
57.5
56.0
68.7
64.8
64.3
45.1
50.1
44.5
74.5
51.9
61.4
+1.3
+.7
+.7
2
+(+.6
)
+1.8
+2.3
+1-7
+.3
+.9
+2.6
+5.1
+.4
2
+(
)
+4.2
+9.1
+.9
+9.9
+11.9
+ 14.3
+15.8
+7.9
+11.3
+9.1
+7.9
+6.7
+16.2
+7.5
+6.7
+12.7
+5.3
+6.7
-8.2
+6.4
+4.8
+3.0
+10.9
+12.4
+5.8
+5.8
+6.2
+17.5
+7.7
+7.7
77.8
97.1
-1.8
-2.7
+.7
+.2
+1.5
+.8
-.5
-.6
+2.1
+1.6
-3.4
+.1
-3.5
+3.1
+1.4
+1.5
+1.4
+.9
+.8
+3.3
-( 2 )
+.3
+2.9
+22.3
+9.3
+7.7
+9.7
+ 12.2
+9.3
+5.2
+6.8
+13.9
+3.2
+3.4
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1937—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Pay rolls
Employment
Industry
Index
June
1937
Nondurable
Percentage
change from—
May
1937
June
1936
123.9
123.4
138.5
43. 9
108.8
94.8
75.7
138.9
391.4
102.5
126.0
101.2
72 5
-0.5
-1.0
+.7
-8.0
+.4
+4.5
—27.7
-.9
+1.9
-.8
+ 1.6
-2.3
—5 0
+12.3
+13. 7
+ 16.8
+ 15.9
+8.4
+ 14.6
+28. 1
+7.8
+ 16.4
+6.4
+6.9
+ 12.7
+5.2
142. 1
92.7
-3.0
-1.1
+16.9
+12.0
Index
June
1937
Average weekly earnings
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly earnings
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from-
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
May
1937
June
1936
137.4
135. 7
153. 5
38. 6
121.3
103.0
79.2
142.7
391.8
115.1
143.0
103.8
69.7
+0.5
-.4
+.7
-8.7
+2.8
- .2
-31.9
-1.6
+2.6
+ 1.1
+3. 4
-4.9
-4.1
+30.4
+31.4
+35. 5
+35. 8
+22. 1
+23. 3
+44. 3
+18.1
+41.5
+21.3
+27.3
+ 16.8
+23.2
$28. 89
26. 52
30.81
12.15
24.40
30. 99
17.06
28. 54
24. 69
27. 26
34. 36
27.51
24.18
144.9
97.9
-5. 6
-4.7
+31.2
+9.4
23.54
30.77
May
1937
June
1936
June
1937
June
1937
May
1937
June
1936
39.6
40.6
40. 5
48.7
40.0
39.0
40.2
42,5
39.8
39.3
36. 5
35.7
39. 6
-0.7
-1.3
-.5
-1.2
+ 1.7
-4.2
-9.4
-2.3
+.5
+.1
+ 1.8
-3.1
+1.1
+1.0
+1.0
+12. 6
+3. 8
-1.8
+5.2
-1.5
+2.4
-1.1
+.2
-4.0
+.1
Cents
73.7
66. 1
76.2
25.1
58. 1
79.4
42.5
67.4
62.0
69.7
95. 2
78.8
61.0
39.4
32.1
-4.1
-3.4
+2. 5
-10.2
59.8
96. 3
May
1937
June
1936
+1.5
+ 1.9
+.5
-.3
+ 1.7
-.3
+3.9
+1.6
+.1
+ 21.8
+15.5
+ 14.4
+ 16.5
+4. 2
+3.9
+9.8
+7.4
+11.2
+ 18.6
+15.3
+ 19.6
+9.9
+ 16.5
goods—Continued
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes. _
. .
Rayon and allied products
Soap
Petroleum refining
_
Rubber products
_
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes
Rubber tires and inner tubes..
+1.0
+.6
-. 1
+16. 0
+ 15.5
+16.0
+ 17.1
+2^4 + 12. 6
-4.5
+7.6
- 5 . 8 + 12.7
—. 7 +9. 6
+.7 +21.4
+ 1.9 + 14.1
+ 1.8 + 19.0
-2.7
+3.5
+ 1.0 +17.1
-2.6
-3.6
+ 12.2
-2.4
-.4
+( )
+.5
2
+ 1.0
_(2)
+10. 7
+8.8
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929=100]
Coal mining:
AnthraciteBituminous
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:
\V holesale
Ketail«
(Jcneral merchandising 7
Other than general merchandising
.
ITolels (year-round) 8
Laundries
...
...
Dyeing and cleaning
Brokerage
Insurance.
Building construction..
+0.2
+.2
+.9
+.9
+3.2
-0.2
+2. 9
+27. 5
+3. 6
+7.4
50.9
71.2
77.2
52.6
70.5
+11.7
+5. 0
-3. 1
+2.5
+3.8
78.5
90. 0
+1.0
+1.8
+9.0
+6.2
88.6
100.1
-1.0
+2.0
73.3
+.1
+2.2
71.1
+1.5
90. 3
90. 5
102.9
87.2
K(>. 9
93. 5
92. 1
-.6
+.6
+.7
+.6
-.8
+3. 6
+3. 9
-3. 0
+.4
+3. 1
+ 6p . 7
+. ). 8
+6. 7
76. 3
74. 1
+.2
+ 1.1
+ 1. I
+ 1. I
+• 5
+5. 0
+7. 2
-3. 2
+ 1. 1
+3. 5
+£ 6
+7.2
+o. 3
+3. 9
+ 1.5
+ 10.5
92. 5
70.6
74.0
85. :>
79.2
1
Average weekly earirings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting esuiblishmcnts. Average hours and average hourly earnings
are computed from d;.ta
supplied by a smaller number of establishments', au all reporting firms do not furnish
man-hours. Percentage changes over year are computed from indexes. Percentage
changes over month in average weekly earnings for the manufacturing groups, for all
manufacl uring industries combined, and for rei ail Trade are also computed from indexes.
2 Less Mian Ho of 1 percent.
3 Preliminary.
4
May data for crude-petroleum producing revised as follows:
Pay roll.—May index, 67.9, percentage change from April, +.7, from May 1936, +17.1.
Average weekly earninqs.—Percentage change from Anril to May. —.5, from April 1936
to May 1936,+11.1. '
Average weekly hours.—May average, 39.1, percentage change from April, —2.3.
Average hourly earnings.—May average, 83.8, percentage change from April +1.8,
from May 1936, +8.9.
• Data for telephone and telegraph industries revised as follows:
7'J7ttp/o;///?rftf.—Percentage change from December 1936 to January 1937, +1.0; from
January 1937 to February 1937, +0.5; from February to March, +0.7; from January
1936 to January 1937, +6.2.
Pay roll.—January index, 83.6, percen'uge change from December 1936, +1.5;'from
January 1936, +11.5; February index, 82.2, percentage change from January, —1.6;
from February 1936, +7.9; March index, 87.2, percentage change from February, +6.0,
from March 1936, +12.9; April index 86.3, percentage change.from April 11:36, -j-j3.t).
+21.4 Ii $28.99
•15.7 I 23. J9
+60. 1 31. 18
+ 19.6
23. 84
+ 19.7
33. 57
51.1
77.9
78.9
55. 4
79.1
+14. 5
+4.9
-3. 9
+ 1.6
+.6
+21.6
+ 12.5
+25. 6
+15.4
+11.4
+5.1
+6.9
91.7
88.6
71.7
53. 8
82.8
+0.5
-1.5
-1.3
+1.3
-1.0
+10.3
+10.7
+19.9
+13.0
+8.0
81.7
82.6
+1.8
+• 9
+6.4
+7.6
+.6
+.5
+.7
+.5
40.0
+ 12.3
+4. 6
- 2. 7
+.8
+ 1.6
+5. 7
4-1.6
+3.2
37.9
40.6
-3. 6
+1.4
31.2
25.9 j
43.5 !
44. 4
+6. 5
-.2
+14,5
+ 13.0
29. 95
33.57
-2.0
+6. 5
31.85
+ 1.4
+4.2
46.7
+1.1
+.1
67.3
+ 11.6
+ 12.0
+ 13.7
+ 11.-I
+ 11.0
+ 12.7
+ 14.4
+8. 1
+5. 9
+2(5. 6
30. 56
22. 06
18.74
21. 73
14.83
17. 18
21.32
39. 2S
:'»(). 78
31. 25
+.8
+.5
+.4
+.5
+ 1.4
+ 1.4
+3. 1
+4.5
+5.8
+ 6.6
+5. 6
+7.2
+5. 1
+8.6
+4. 1
+4.4
+11.0
43.3
43.4
39. 7
44.5
47.7
43. 6
45. 4
+. 3
-( 2 )
+.2
-1.3
-3.0
^
+. 9
+.15
+2. 1
(")
70.7
55. 5
50. 6
57. 0
30. 7
39. 1
47.1
00
33. 8
-.1.4
+.8
+'. 3
- no
+.i
+.i
+. 9
( • ' )
('•)
-.9
('•')
+ 1.8
(°)
92. 5
0
+.7
+ 1.2
+.8
+ fl 1.5
()
(«)
+1.9
+3.9
+4.4
+6. 6
+9.8
+5.8
+6.5
+4.2
+4. 3
(»)
e1)
+12.8
Average tceekly earninys.—Jmunry jjvornge, $30.18, percentage change from December
1936, +0.1, from January 1936, +5.0: February average $29.57, percentage change from
January, —2.2, from February 1936, +0.9; March average $31.10, percentage change from
February, +5.2, from March 1936, +5.2; April average £30.18, percentage change from
April 1936, +5.1.
Avenvjc meekly Aof/r*.--January average 39.6, percentage change from December J936,
+2.3, from January 1930, +2.9; percentage change from January to February, -1.5;
from February 1930 to February 1937, —4.2; March average 39.3, percentage change
from February, +3.7, from March 1936, +1.5; percentage change from March to April,
+ 1.7.
Average hourly ear/?.?'?m.--January average 79.4 cents, percentage change from December 1936, —1.8! from January 1936, +2.3; February average, 80.0 cents, percentage
chanpe from Januarv, +2.1; March average, 82.0 cents, percentage change from February, +1.4, from March 1936, +3.7; April average 79.6 cents, percentage change from
April 1930, +3.6.
•7 Average weekly earnings from April 1937 in retail trade revised to $21.73.
Data for general merchandising revised as follows: April pay-roll index, 8G.1; percentage change from March. +1.7; percentage change from April 1936, +10.0. April
average weekly earnings. *l'vO3; percentage change from March 1937, +2.4; percentage
change from April 1936, +7.6.
* Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
« Not available.
14
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS, JANUARY 1936 TO
JUNE ]937
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in tables 5 and 6 for
all manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups of manufacturing industries, and for 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade, by
months from January 1936 to June 1937, inclusive. The accompanying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and pay rolls
from January 1919 to June 1937.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are computed
from returns supplied by representative establishments in 89 manufacturing industries and cover wage earners only. The base used in
computing these indexes is the 3-year average, 1923-25, as 100. In
June 1937 reports were received from 25,402 manufacturing establishments employing 4,940,790 workers, whose weekly earnings were
$128,446,160. The empk\yment reports received from these establishments 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 89 industries included in the monthly survey
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
TABLE 5.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in All Manufacturing Industries
Combined and in the Durable- and JSondurable-Coods Croups, January 1936 to June
1937 1
1 Adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures—3-year average 1923-25=100]
Manufacturing
Durable goods -'
Total
Month
Employment
January
February
March
April.
May
June
Julv .
-._
-_ .
_. .
\llglist
September
October . .- .- _
November
December
Pay rolls
Employment
Nondurable goods
Pay rolls
Employment
3
P a y rolls
1930
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1936
1936
1937
86.8
86. 9
87.9
89. I
89.8
90. 1
96. 5
99. 0
101.1
102.1
102. 3
101. 1
73.8
73.7
77.6
79. 3
80.8
81.1
90.7
95.8
101.1
104.9
105. 2
102.9
78.7
78.6
80.2
82.3
84.0
84.7
90. 4
93. 2
96. 4
98. 6
99. 9
98.8
66. 9
66. 6
71.8
76. 0
78.5
79.0
80. 6
92. 5
100.0
106.4
107.5
104.6
95. 4
95. 8
96.1
96. 3
96. 0
95. 9
103.0
105. 2
106. 1
105. 9
104.8
103.5
82. 5
82. 7
84. 9
83.5
83.8
83.9
96. 0
99. 9
102.6
102. 9
102. 3
100.8
91.2
93 5
95. 5
96. 7
96. 9
98. 1
Average
91. 9
80.2
83.5
83. 6
89. 0
90.7
95. 2
— -
82.4
84. 6
84.7
85.7
89. 2
91.0
92. 7
— -
1
Comparable indexes for earlier years will be
found in The February io:>7 issue of this report, or
in the April 1937 issue of the Monthly Labor
Review.
2
Includes the following groups of manufacturing
industries: Iron and steel; machinery; transportation equipment; railroad repair shops; nonferrous
metals; lumber and allied products; and stone, clay,
and glass products.
84.7
75. 9
77 0
77. 2
88 9
93. 4
98.2
102.8
105.9
104 7
103 3
104.0
78. 0
99 5
i 85. 3
—
---
-
85 6
91.8
91.6
93 7
92 l>
97. 5
- - 87 9
3
Includes the following groups of manufacturing
industries: 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.
EMPLOYMENT & P \ Y BOLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
192325=100
foc/eytfumben
tndexNumbers
n
"
IAD
120
100
SO
Jj V
J
60
4
1
40
20
Q
V
a
Roh
120
WO
rmeiit
/v
rv/ ^ r
vl/
f
80
60
40
20
A
" 1919 /920 1921 /922 1923 J924 1925 1926 1927 J928 /929 /930 193/ /932 1933 /934 1935 1936 /937 1938 U
VwTfo STATES BUREAU OF LABOR smnsnes
16
The indexes of nonmanufacturing industries are also computed
from data supplied by reporting establishments, but the base is the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
(fyeing and cleaning, and building construction cover wage earners
only, but the figures for public utilities, trade, hotels, brokerage, and
insurance relate to all employees, including executives. For crudepetroleum producing they cover wage earners and clerical field force.
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 loth of the month.
TABLE 6.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1936 to June 1937 1
[12-month average 1929 = 100]
Anthracite mining
Month
Employment
Pay rolls
Bituminous-coal
mining
Employment
Pay rolls
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Employment
Employment
P a y rolls
Pay rolls
1936 .1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February _. .
March
_ __.
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December.
59.1 54 1
61.21 52.7
52.5! 48.9
49. 8 54.0
54. 9 51.0
51.2 51.1
48.4
41.1
47.6
49. 9
51. 5 .......
54. 8
Average.. 51.8|
37. 2
31.4
34. 9
48. 5
40. 3
55. 4
79.8
80.2
80. 4
77. 5
76.2
75.7
75. 5
70. 9
78.2
81.1
82. 3
83. 9
45.7
79.0 . . . . . 70.8 -- — 60.3 -- — 48.4 . . . . . 49. 5 —
54.4
76.7
42.6
28. 6
56. 3
42.0
42.7
41.0
37.8
63. 9
44.4
50.9
Crude-petroleum
producing
84.6
84.8
85. {
72.6
77.8
77.9
...
70.6
78.4
70.2
62. 6
62.2
61. 5
62. 6
65. 4
71 0
79.2
80.7
85.0
79.9
82.4
88.4
54.4
67.8
71.2
54.2
55. 5
55. 9
57. 5
60.8
61.9
61.3
61. 6
63 1
64.2
62. 9
64.4
66. 8
69.6
73.1J
76.2
78.2
78.9
41 7
42.8
45.1
45.5
47.7
48.2
58. 4
63. 4
70. 6
76. 9
79. 6
77.2
39.4
36.9
42.2
48.4
52.0
53.5
45. 7
46.7
49.1
53.1
54.9
55.4
54.4
55. 3
54. 9
54. 6
52. 6
49. 4
46.1
48.2
50 0
53. 7
54. 6
57.7
25. 5
23.9
30. 9
36.1
42.1
44.0
34 6
37.8
41 3
48.1
51.4
52 6
43.9
46.2
44 8
46. 2
43. 5
39. 4
38.9
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and
power, and manufactured gas
Electric-railroad and
motorbus
operation and maintenance 2
Employment
Employment
Employment
Month
Employment
P a y rolls
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February
March
April
Mav
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
71.1
70.8
70.9
71.3
72 7
73.7
75.4
75.0
74.5
73.6
73. 2
72.4
72.7
73.5
74.2
75. 8
70. 7
79.1
-----
Average- 72.9 . . . . .
55. 7
55.7
56.0
57. 1
58.0
58.9
C0.4
59. 7
(50. 4
,"9. 0
60.1
61. 3
58. 6|
86.1
86.1
86.8
88.0
89.0
90.4
73.1.
73. 5
73.7!
73. 8:
73. 7
73.6
75.0 3 83. 6
76.2 3 82.2
77.2 3 87.2
76.0 3 86.3
78.5 89. 5
77.4 88.6
79.9
81.2
78.8
83 1
81.61
82.4j
72.2
78.9 - - - - -
61.0
03.8
63. 7
67.4
67.9
70.1
69.9
70.2
70.8
71.6
70.5 72.1
74.4
74.8
75.4
76. 6
77.7
78.5
1
Comparable indexes for earlier years for all of
these industries, except year-round hotels, will bo
found in the November 1934 and subsequent issues
of this pamphlet, or the February 1935 and subsequent issues of the Monthly Labor Review.
Comparable indexes for year-round hotels will be
found in the June 1935 issue of this pamphlet, or
92.1
92.0
92.2
92.9
94.4
96.0
84.8
84.7
85.9
86.2
87.0
88.1
92.3
93. 3
94.5
95.2
97.6
100.1
91.7
93 1
93. 5
91 0
93.5 . . . . .
93.2
89.8
89 8
91.4
02 7
91. 8
93.8
70.7
71.7
71.2
71.3
71.5
71.7
72.4
72 4
72.8
73 1
73.0
72.5
90.5
88.8 . . . . .
72.0 . . . . .
72.5
72.5
72.6
72.9
73. 3
73. 3
—
6o. 0
68.3
67.8
65.9
6(5.1
66. 8
68.0
68.7
69.2
69.4
70.1
71.1
66. 5
66 5
66. 4
67 7
- 69. 7
69.3 : : : : :
67.2
the September 1935 issue of the Monthly Labor
Review.
2
N'qt including electric-railroad car building and
repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 3.
»Revised.
17
TABLE 6.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1936 to June 1937—Conlinued
Wholesale trade
Month
Employment
Pay rolls
Total retail trade
Employment
Pay rolls
Retail trade—general merchandising
Retail trade—other
t h a n general merchandising
Employment
Employment
P a y rolls
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 ! 1937 1936 ! 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936! 1937
Januarv
February
March
April
May
June
Julv .
. .
August,
September
October
Xo vem her
December
Average
85.6
85.0
85. 6
85.7;
84.6
84.6
85.4
86. 3
88.0
89.0
89 7
91.0
90.7
92.0
92.1
91.9
90. 8
90. 3
86.7
72.6
74.1
75.0
75.4
76.1
76.3
72. Si
80.4
79. 7
81.9
85. 2
85.0
85. 5
83. 2
82.4
86. 6
88. 7
90 1
99. 6
69.4
85.7
66. 6
66. 6
69.0
67.9
68. 2
68.4
69.0
69. 7
70. 5
71. 5
73 1
E
85.4
85. 2
88. 5
88.8
89. 9
90. 5
62.1
61.6
63. 5
65.3
65. 8
66.4
65.1
61.4
66. 6
68.3
70.1
75.9
68. 0
67. 9
70. 5
71.9
73. 5
74.4
66.3
88.2 95.11 76.4 83. 8
85.1 93.9 73.9 82.9
90. 9 100.31 77.3 87.6
97.4 99. 6 81.0 3 89.1
95. 5 102.1 80.8 91.5
96.4 102.9 81.3 92. 5
77.3
90. 7
76.4
89.4
82.8
98. 5
87.2
103.9
91.4
109.3
;116.2
143.4
Year-round hotels
Employment
Month
83.5
99.11
Pay rolls
82.2
82. 9
82.9
85.4
86.0
86. 7
87.2
59.1
59.1
60.7
62.1
62. 7
63.3
62. 6
61.9
63. 3
64. 4
(n 7
67. 6
(54.7
64.8
67.0
68.3
69.8
70.6
-_- 62.7
Dyeing and cleaning
Laundries
Employment
78. 4
78.3
79. 5
82.0
82.3
82.6
81.2
80. 5
83. 5
84.7
85. 1
88.1
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
_
Average
81.9
82.8
82.8
83.2
84.1
83.9
83.3
83.2
84 2
85.4
84.6
84 0
85. 5
86.4
86.9
88.4
87.7
86.9
64.9
66. 5
66.0
66.3
67.0
66. 6
66.0
06.1
67. 5
69. 6
69.6
(59. 8
83. 6 - — 67.2
70.4
72.5
72.7
74.5
73.6
74.0
81.5
81.2
82.1
83.2
85.5
87.2
90.5
89. 6
89 6
87.6
87.0
87.6
86.1
88.5
88.6
88.7
88.5
90.3
93. 5
68.3
67.8
69.9
70.9
75.6
75.8
79.0
76.7
76.6
75.3
74.5
70.1
76.4
76. 3
77.5
78.5
81.4
85.5
71.5
70.3
74.7
81.8
87.3
87.5
85.5
83. 5
86 7
86. 5
SI. 3
77.7
76.8
76.2
81.1
84.9
88.6
92.1
51.6
49.0
56.4
64.1
72.2
69.2
64.8
63.2
66.1
66. 7
60.2
57.3
55.6
54.6
61.7
68.8
73.9
79.2
73.9 . . . . . 81.2 . . . . . 61.7
3 Revised.
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A^comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic divisions, in May and June 1937, 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 grand total
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
89 manufacturing industries presented in table 4. The totals for all
groups combined include all manufacturing industries and each of the
nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 4 except building
construction.
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TABLE 7.—Comparison of Employment
and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments
in
May and June 1937, by Geographic Divisions and by States
IFigures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued bycooperating State organizations]
I
Total—all groups
PerNumcent- Amount
Geographic division ber of Number age
on pay ihange of payroll
and State
estab- roll
June from (1 week)
lish1937
ments
May June 1937
1937
Percentage
change
from
May
1937
Manufacturing
PerNumcentber of Number age ofAmount
roll
estab- on pay change (1pay
week)
lish- roll June from June
1937
ments
1937
May
1937
Dollars
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts .
Rhode Island. _
Connecticut
Middle Atlantic.
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania. _
East North Central
14,074
821
944,164
60,599
40, 458
619
20,061
491
2 8,381 506, 745
98, 767
1,251
2,511 217, 534
35, 428 2, 339,>, 035
23,410 •1, 053,910
™
4,283 356, 533
7, 735 928, 592
815 2,
!, 381, 771
21,"""
8,195 640,130
2, 465 269, 849
Indiana
e 6,304 654, 251
Illinois
3,833 617, 652
Michigan
7 1,018 199,889
Wisconsin
West North Central 11,933 442,696
91, 794
2,190
Minnesota
66, 803
1,847
Iowa
3,080 177, 874
Missouri
5, 302
536
North Dakota7,889
477
South Dakota..
34, 234
1, 573
Nebraska
58,800
« 2,230
Kansas.
South Atlantic
11, 206 881, 571
18,463
Delaware
217
Maryland
1,568 138, 454
District of Co1,121
lumbia
2,159
Virginia
West Virginia.. 1,288
North Carolina 1,454
772
South Carolina.
1,543
Georgia
1,084
Florida—
East South Central.. 4,138
1,303
Kentucky
1,324
Tennessee956
Alabama.
55;
Mississippi
West South Central- 4,638
">426
Arkansas
1,032
Louisiana
1,394
Oklahoma
11,786
Texas
4,371
Mountain
699
Montana
489
Idaho
Wyoming
335
1,243
Colorado
314
New Mexico
477
Arizona.
597
Utah...
Nevada
217
Pacific
9,427
Washington...
3,101
Oregon
1,356
California
12 4,970
1
2
Dollars
777,905
-1. 2 22,1, 307,
456
+1.1
-1.3
0)
866, 775 -2.5
457,918j - 2 . 6
-.5
-1.99 12,287,453 -1.7
-.9
-.7 2,291,690
—. 7 5,566,613
(0 m 64, 601, 719 +'.4
29, 874, 503 -.6
+'.3 9, 504,045 -.2
», 223,171 +1.
7 25,:
-2. 4 67,',J587, 369 -4.3
', 646, 439 -9.2
-6. 5 17,
-2.7 7,292, 225 -4-5
2 18,031,109
+.8
l" 19,263,855 -5. 3
+.7 5,353, 741 +1.0
0, 873, 877 +2.0
+1. 4 10,1
+.8 2, 435, 262 +2.3
+1.8 1,643,917 +2.0
+ 1.7 4, 268, 575 +2.5
130,164 +1.6
+.9
+1.4 203, 837 +.6
+1.7 822, 827 +.6
s+2.2 1,369,295
-1.0 18,061, 296 - L 0
+3.0
466, 512 +.2
-.1 3,424,451
42, 322 +1.4 1,089, 208 +1.6
118,796 -1.2 2, 395, 321 +.7
163, 262 + 1.3 4,159,151 +1.1
161, 975 -1.2 2,544,114 -3.3
1,198,962 - 2 . 7
77,
-1.
120,188 -1.8 2,014, 734 -2.9
768, 843 -6.7
40,308 -10.1
5, 751, 380 +.5
302, 910
0)
89,305 -1.0 1,891,052 -1.0
2,007, 863 -1.2
108, 539 - 1 .
1,567,123 +4.5
88,124 +2.
285, 342 +1.0
16,94
+1.6
210. 479 +1.0 4,815,863 + 1.0
88,456
404, 445 +.9
+.7
+.6
49,855
977,788
(0
45,857
+.4 1,156,698 +1.1
92,311 +1,9 2,276,932 +1.1
+.1
138, 315 +1.2 3, 747,019
21, 892 +2.8
638, 642 -4.2
10, 655 -3.0
283,549 -2.0
9,006
261,310 +14. 6
+.4
45, 534 +1.7 1,191, 269
7,318
163, 048
+.2
549,812 -1.8
18,959
552,517 +2.4
21,491 +2.2
106, 872 +4.0
3, 460 +2.8
461, 510 +1.1 13, 082, 575 +2.8
105, 809 +2.8 3,000, 258 +6.3
57,089 +3.8 1,549, 710 +9.7
298, 612
8, 532, 607 +.4
+
+
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
Includes banks and trust companies, construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment, amusement and recreation, professional
services,
and trucking and handling.
3
Includes laundering and cleaning, water, light,
and
power.
4
Includes laundries.
5
Weighted percentage change.
6
Includes automobile and miscellaneous services, restaurants, and building and contracting.
Percentage
change
from
May
1937
7
s
8
3,509 662, 439
49,472
296
210
33, 159
140
12, 674
1,690 SOS, 705
423
79,41
744 184,012
5, 309 1> 323, 396
3
2, 144 470, 290
* 846 269,047
2,319 584,059
7,580 , 843, 099
2, 571 472,001
887 221,718
2, 44'2 462, 441
955 525, 864
s 725 161,075
2,460 227,088
44, 750
428
40,049
430
895 103, 209
781
58
1,944
40
12,092
161
24, 263
44*
2,774 593,121
14, 220
88
95,084
568
35
46,
260
573
205
379
201
1,000
292
387
232
89
1,125
177
229
143
576
582
87
55
39
192
32
38
111
28
2,531
57"
308
1,651
83,' 662
65,129
149,417
69,184
92,964
19, 91f
189,763
36,477
80, 875
62, 821
9, 590
105, 503
16,933
26,857
12, 86
48,84
40, 868
5, 430
3,303
1,727
17, 751
923
3, 393
7,272
1,069
271,155
60,688
34, 300
176,167
-2. 0 15, 640,029
+.8 1,038,721
694, 810
-2.0
288, 763
-3.1
-3.S 7,174,185
- . 8 1,774,755
- 1 . 0 4, 668, 795
+ . 4 36,140, 206
-.2 13,170,054
+.2\ 7,045,052
*-.l\15,925,100
-3.1 53,354,132
- 8 . 8< 13, 410,462
-3.7\ 6,171,907
-.2\12,907,127
-.7116,432,473
" 4,432,163
4,4,
+2.0
+.9
+.5
tu
+1.8
+3.5
+.1
-1.2
*-1.4\
+3.1
+2.0;
-1.0'
+.9
5,565,501
1, 179, 572|
1,026,4981
2,360,491/
22, 798 j
51,233
310, 642
614,267
11,358,520
353,046
2,360,947
-2.2
-.4
-3.4
-5.7
-3.1
-1.4
-1.0
-.1
+.1
-1.0
=-.6
-6.1
-12.3
-5.8
+.1
-6.9
1-1.5
+3.1
+4.4
+ 1.5
+4.0
+2.9
+2.7
+1.6
+.5
-2.2
-.3
s-2.7
+1.3
122,976
1,668,990
+.6
1, 762, 514 - 1 . 3
- 1 . 2 2, 301, 342 - 3 . 6
- 2 . 3 1,037,119 - 3 . 4
- 2 . 1 1 1, 416, 564 - 3 . 8
- 6 . 2'
335,022 - 3 . 5
- . 5 3,474, 450
-.2
-.3
764,528 +2.1
-1.
1, 462, 223 - 2 . 1
+.9 1,098, 540 +.6
+1.7
149, 159 +2.3
+.4 2, 303, 291 +1.1
+.3 292,216 +2.9
471,338
+.1
310,717 +1.1
-.5
+1.1 1,229,020 +1.0
+1.8 1,130, 566 - . 3
164,891 +2.6
+2.8
90,178 +9.6
+1.5
56, 800 +6.2
+.9
493, 729 - 5 . 3
+1.5
18,035
.0
-.8
88,617 +3.1
+3.2
184,996 +2.2
+2.3
+.5
33, 320 +6.5
+1.5 7, 834,184 +4.1
+3.4 1, 744, 793 +9.2
+6.0
930,042 +16. 5
+.6
+ • / 5,159,3491
Includes construction, but not public works.
Docs not include logging.
Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous
services,
and restaurants.
10
Includes automobile dealers and garages, and
sand,
gravel,
and building stone.
11
Includes business and personal service.
12
Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
19
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS IN
PRINCIPAL CITIES
A comparison of June 1937 employment and pay rolls with the May
totals in 13 cities of the United States having a population of 500,000
or over is made in table 8. The changes are computed from reports
received from identical establishments in both months.
In addition to reports included inthe several industrial groups regularly covered in the survey by the Bureau, reports have also been secured from establishments in other industries for inclusion in these city
totals. As information concerning employment in building construction is not available for all cities at this time, figures for this industry
have not been included in these city totals.
TABLE 8.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
May and June 1937, by Principal Cities
City
Xiim ber
of establishments
of Percentage
Xumber Percentage Amount
pay roll (1 change
from
on pay roll, change from week),
June
May 1937
June 1937 May 1937
1937
Xew York, X. Y___
Chicago, 111
Philadelphia, Pa
Detroit, Mich
Los Angeles, Calif. _
17, 435
4,473
2, 380
1,(558
2, 9(59
724, 286
482, 160
222, 240
409, 517
160, 681
-1.6
-3.7
+2.0
-1.7
Cleveland, Ohio.—
St. Louis, Mo
Baltimore, Md
Boston, Mass
1, 769
1,578
1. 232
3,888
145, 103
143.124
107, 178
190r 563
-5.1
+2.5
Pittsburgh, Pa
San Francisco, Calif
Buffalo, X. Y
Milwaukee, Wis
1, 250
I, 047
' 899
725
231,134
90. 483
74, 667
87, 540
+.4
Public
+.3
-1.0
-1.2
—. 5
+ 1.2
+.2
$20,054,416
14. 052, 826
6. 025, 956
13, 301, 308
4, 518, 709
-2.0
-3.2
+2.5
-6.1
+ 1.4
4, 040, 405
3, 623. 344
2, 746. 296
4, 814, 449
-7.0
+3.7
6,987,413
2,717,048
2. 215, 739
2, 494, 586
+1.8
+1.3
+1.0
+ 1.8
-'.7
Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment in the regular agencies of the Government, employment on the
various construction programs wholly or partially financed by Federal
funds, and employment on relief-work projects.
Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administration
are those projects authorized by title II of the National Industrial
Eecovery Act of June 16, 1933. This program of public works was
extended to June 30, 1937, by the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935 and title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of
1936. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, reappropriated unobligated funds originally made available under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935 and authorized the use of $300,000,000
from funds on hand or received from the sale of securities.
By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President, in a series of Executive orders
20
inaugurated a broad program of works to be carried out by 61 units
of the Federal Government. The Works Program has been continued
by title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936. Employment
created by this program includes employment on Federal projects and
employment on projects operated by the Works Progress Administration. Federal projects are those conducted by Federal agencies which
have received allotments from The Works Program fund. Projects
operated by the Works Progress Administration are those projects
conducted under the supervision of the Works Progress Administration with the cooperation of States, cities, or counties.
The Civilian Conservation Corps created in April 1933 was further
extended under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935. Since July 1, 1936, the Civilian Conservation Corps
has been continued from appropriations authorized by the First
Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936.
With the following exceptions, statistics on public employment refer
to the month ending on the 15th. Employment statistics for the
Federal service and for the Civilian Conservation Corps refer to the
number employed on the last day of the month; pay-roll data are for
the entire month. Monthly employment and pay-roll data for projects operated by the Works Progress Administration from the
beginning of the program to April 1937, inclusive, are for the month
ending on the 15th. Beginning with May 1937, however, these data
are presented on a calendar monthly basis. The value of material
orders placed for projects operated by the Works Progress Administration is a cumulative total from the beginning of the program to the
end of the current calendar month and is not available on a monthly
basis. Employment and pay-roll statistics on National Youth
Administration work projects and student aid are for the calendar
month. Data on the value of material orders placed on work projects
of the National Youth Administration are cumulative through the
current calendar month.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment in the executive service of the Federal
Government in June 1937, May 1937, and June 1936 are given in
table 9.
21
T A B L E 9.—Employees in the Executive Service of the U. S. Government, June 1937, May
1937, and June 1936 *
[Subject to revision]
Outside District of
Columbia
District of Columbia 2
Entire service 2
,
Item
PerTemmanent porary
i
1
i
Number of employees:
June 1937...
_
Alav 1937
June 1936
Percentage change:
Mav 1937 to June 1937..
June 1936 to June 1937.
Labor turn-over June 1937:
Number of— 3
Separations5
Accessions _-_
Turn-over rate per 100:
Separation nite
Accession rate
...
108,934
108, 664
107,902
PerTemmanent porary 3 Total
PerTemmanent porary 3 Total
Total
6,814 115,748 625,041 101,214 726,255
7,610 116, 274 '619,572 104. 675 724, 247
9,557 117,459 !602, 540 102, 653 705,193
j
733,975 108,028
728,236 112, 2S5
710,442 112,210
4
842.003
840. 521
822, 652
+0.25
+.96
-10.46
-28.70
-0.45
-1.46
+0.88
+3.73
-3.31
-1.40
+0.28
+2.99
+0.79
+3.31
- 3 . 79
-3.73
+0.18
+2.35
1, 538
1,023
822
931
2, 360
1,954
10,610
9, 763
19, 645
22,133
30,255
31, 896
12,148
10, 786
20.467
23, 064
32, 615
33,850
1.41
.94
11.40
12.91
1.70
1.57
19.08
2L.50
4.17
4.40
1.66
1.48
18. 58
20. 94
3.88
4.02
i
2.03
1.68 ]
1 Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month.
2
Includes employees of Columbia Institution for
Deaf and Howard University.
3 Not including field employees of Post Office
Department, or 30,557 employees hired under
letters of authorization by the Department of
Agriculture, with a pay roll of $1,345,451.
* Includes 217 employees b y transfer, previously
reported as separations, not actual additions for
June.
* Not including employees transferred within the
Government service, as such transfers should not
be regarded as labor turn-over.
The monthly record of employment in the executive service of the
United States Government from June 1936 to June 1937, inclusive, is
shown in table 10.
TABLE 10.—Employment in the Executive Service of the U. S. Government, by Months,
June 1936 through June 1937 1
[Subject to revision!
Month
District
of Columbia
Outside
District
of Columbia
Total
1936
June
...
July
August
September..
October
November..
December...
1
Month
District
of Columbia
Outside
District
of Columbia
Total
1937
117,459
116, 250
115,796
115,050
114,783
115,174
116, 345
705,193
712, 557
716, 579
718,990
724,361.
722, 098
712, 962
822, 652
828. 807
832,375
834,040
839,144
837, 272
829, 307
January
February...
March
April
May
June
116,259
116,259
116,535
116,755
116,274
115,748
713, 924
710,462
713,047
718,884
724,247
726, 255
830,183
82(5, 721
829, 582
835, 039
840, 521
842,003
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month.
CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS FINANCED BY
THE PUBLIC WORKS
ADMINISTRATION
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during June on construction projects financed by Public "Works Administration funds are given in table 11, by type of project.
22
TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, June 1937 l
[Subject, to revision]
"Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disburse-
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
A ver- Value of
age
material
earnorders
ings placed
durper
ing
month
hour
Federal projects financed from X. I. K. A. funds
All projects
3 30, 983
Building construction
Naval vessels4
Public roads
Reclamation
River, harbor, and Hood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
229
829
223
903
70
300
712
34, 753 $3, 393, 399
4,354
8, 472
11,051
2,078
7,200
50
247
095
445,
1, 107,
591,
239,
804,
5,
13,
04,
4.591,987
493, 830
1,437,040
1,184,350
314,754
1,045,515
7,057
25, 802
83, 039
$0. 739
. 903
.812
. 500
. 702
.827
.842
. 511
.773
$3, 822, 209
745, 475
423, 873
700, 000
557. 389
1,329,490
8
7, 047
58, 381
Non-Federal projects financed from N. I. It. A. funds
All projects
|
25.407 |
Building construction
R ailroad const met ion
Streets and roads.
Water and sewerage.
Miscellaneous
j
11, 501
327
2, 707
8, 500
2, 30(5
20.908 j $2,070,300
9,481
324
2,140
7, 014
1,913
931.339
7,428
213,099
805, 902
118,472
2. 203. 079 $0,917
937, 084
11,013
252. 787
837,709
223,880
. 994
. 040
. 843
. 902
. 529
$3,510,047
1,597,712
0
312,453
1,301,841
304, 041
Projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds 6
All projects
r
Building construction "
Electrif icat ion
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and ilood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
1
2
141,708
118. 527
80, 348
537
4,304
1,854
270
25,017
27,490
1,822
00 840
401
3 710
1,712
212
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
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
Estimated by the Bureau of .Public roads.
5
Not available; weekly average included in total
for6 all projects.
These data are also included in separate tables
covering projects financed by The Works Program.
20,512
23.524
1,010
13,055,399
0, 770, 000
38, 145
394,040
181,721
18, 182
1,312,490
2,091,974
153,720
7i 470,
535
50,849
454.991
253, 850
27, 807
2,352, 842
2,859, 944
178, 575
SO. 803 $18,813,454
. 900
750
. 800
710
054
558
731
801
10,780,910
104,443
1, 370,459
273,430
7, 911.
2, 570, 888
3, 357, 420
341,981
7
Includes a maximum of 10,732 and an average
of 14,384 employees working on low-cost housing
projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 funds who
were paid $1,887,143 for 1,903,342 man-hours of
labor. Material orders in the amount of $2,193,199
were placed for these projects. These data are also
included in separate tables covering projects
financed from The Works Program.
Federal construction projects for which data are included in tables
11 and 12 are financed by allotments made by the Public Works
Administration to the various agencies and departments of the
Federal Government from funds provided under the National Industrial Recovery Act. The major portion of the low-cost housing program now under wa}r, however, is financed by funds provided under
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 19*35. The work is performed either by commercial firms which have been awarded contracts,
or by day labor hired directly by the Federal agencies.
23
Non-Federal projects are financed by allotments made by the
Public Works Administration from funds available under either the
National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936.
Most of the allotments have been made to the States and their political
subdivisions, but occasionally allotments have been made to commercial firms. In financing projects for the States or their political subdivisions from funds appropriated under the National Industrial
Recovery Act, the Public Works Administration makes a direct grant
of not more than 30 percent of the total labor and material cost.
When funds provided under the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935 or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936 are
used to finance a non-Federal project, as much as 45 percent of the
total cost may be furnished in the form of a grant. The remaining
55 percent or more of the cost is financed by the recipient. When
circumstances justify such action, the Public Works Administration
may provide the grantee with the additional funds by means of a
loan. Allotments to commercial enterprises are made only as loans.
All loans made by the Public Works Administration carry interest
charges and have a definite date of maturity. Collateral posted with
the Public Works Administration to secure loans may be offered for
sale to the public. In this way a revolving fund is provided which
enlarges the scope of the activities of the Public Works Administration.
Commercial loans have been made, for the most part, to railroads.
Railroad work financed by loans made by the Public Works Administration falls under three headings: First, construction work in the
form of electrification, the laying of rails and ties, repairs to buildings,
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and
third, locomotive and passenger- and freight-car building in commercial shops.
MONTHLY TREND
A summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed from Public Works Administration funds from July
1933 to June 1937, inclusive, is given in table 12.
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TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1933 to June 1937, Inclusive, on Projects
Financed From Public Works Administration Funds x
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number
of wage2
earners
Year and month
July 1933 to June 1937, inclusive 3 *_
Pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
$944? 943. 582
1,405.757,992
July to December 1933. inclusive
January to December 1931. inclusive. 3
January to December 1935, inclusive 3 *
January to December 1936, inclusive .
33. 244. 066
308. 311.143
270. 505. 555
242, 768, 950
62. 209. 479
523. 561. 666
392. 066. 554
316. 666.182
15, 439.981
13. 796. 390
13.353.904
15. 242. 390
15. 850. 554
16. 430, 649
15. 768. 676
16. 580. 393
16.341.250
19. 068. 352
19. 984. 975
20. 510, 465
Average Value of mateearnings
rial orders
per hour
I>laccd
$0. 672
$1. 677, 582, 241
.534
. 589
. 690
. 767
75. 524. 702
SOU. 051.090
5 439.210.679
i 401.065. 634
1937
202.175
174. 990
173. 574
192. 201
206, 019
204, 098
January 3 *
February 3
March 3 •_.
April s
Mays
June 3
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 wrok. Includes
weekly
average for public-roads projects.
3
Includes employees working on non-Federal
projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936
. 823
.832
.817
. 799
.793
.801
26. 922, 308
19, 390,733
20, 652,435
25. 885,173
31.727,717
26.151, 770
funds and low-cost housing projects financed from
E. K. A. A. 1935 funds. These data are also included in separate tables covering projects financed
by The Works Program.
*5 Revised.
Includes orders placed by railroads for new
equipment.
THE WORKS PROGRAM
A detailed record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on projects financed by The Works Program in June is shown in table
13, by type of project.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Program,
June 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
Value of
man-hours Average material
earnings
orders
worked
per hour placed durduring
ing month
month
I
Federal projects
All projects
_
Building construction
_.
Electrification
_
Forestry
__
Grade-crossing elimination..3
Hydroelectric power plants
Plant, crop, and livestock conservation
Professional, technical, and clerical.
Public roads
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
St reets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
28. 754, 978
$0. 515
8. 608, 759
44, 437
2. 524
28,164
29, 290
1,832
40,154
2,289
26.007
24, 960
1,832
3,000, 709
116,990
1,049, 577
1,809,654
24,532
4,385,843
245, 576
2, 561,540
2,825, 854
92,124
.684
.476
.410
.640
.266
588,356
203, 983
488, 270
2,102,131
14, 224
30, 508
11,225
29,110
64,397
7, 512
12,808
1, 590
21,490
23, 280
11,220
23, 461
62,421
6,812
11, 739
1, 536
18,128
1,045,046
948,948
1,443,771.
3,633,436
665,303
364, 742
53,926
638,006
3,033,920
1,360,865
2,734,631
7,321, 246
917,852
1,212,232
145, 456
1,917,839
.344
. 697
.528
. 496
.725
. 301
.371
. 333
43,157
104,112
1, 704, 688
2, 787, 586
235, 357
39, 325
44, 267
253, 297
284,893
253,839 |$14, 794, 640
1
Unless otherwise noted 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.
• These data are for projects under construction
in Puerto Rico.
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TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Program,
June 1937—Continued
"Wage earners
Maximum
number
employed
Type of project
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Weekly
average
Number of
Value of
man-hours Average material
worked
orders
earnings
during
per hour placed during month
month
P. W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds «
All projects
41, 708
118, 527
Building construction
Electrification
_
Heavy engineering
_
._
Reclamation..
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
SO, 348
537
4,364
1,854
,. 276
25,017
27,490
1,822
66,840
401
3,710
1,712
212
20, 512
23,524
1,616
_
6, 770, 666
38,145
394,040
181,721
18,182
1,312,496
2,091,974
153, 726
.906
.750
. 866
.716
.654
.558
.731
.861
10, 780,916
104, 443
1,376,459
273,430
7,911
2, 570,888
3,357,426
341,981
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration •
All projects.
$107,046,653 205, 699,566
2,020,273
$0. 520
•
Conservation
_
Highway, road, and street
Housing
Professional, technical, and clerical..
Public building
Publicly owned or operated
utilities.
Recreational facilities7
_
Sanitation and health
_
Sewing, canning, gardening, etc
Transportation
__.
Not elsewhere classified
4,027,922
33,361, 636
229,189
17,176, 277
11,704,114
10,223, 554
10,305, 992
83,101
721,331
3,514
233,550
189, 274
186,304
176, 747
55, 704
260,418
40,131
70,199
2, 477,986
11,542, 966
2,171,154
3,825,863
4
Includes data for 124,976 employees working on
non-Federal projects and 16,732 employees working
on low-cost housing projects. These data are
included in separate tables covering projects
under the jurisdiction of P. W. A.
8
8
7
8,210, 536
71, 786,539
371,129
25,544,018
17,756,907
18,931,517
17,314,952
5, 736,167
28,494,842
3,919,894
7,633,065
•
•
—
.491
.465
.618
.672
.659
.540
.595
.432
.405
.554
.501
Data are for the calendar month.
Data on a monthly basis are not available.
Exclusive of buildings.
Statistics on employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
National Youth Administration work projects and student aid in
June are shown in table 14, by type of project.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration and StudentAid Projects Financed by The Works Program, June 1937 x
[Subject to revision]
Number Monthly
pay-roll
of persons disburseemployed
ments
Type of program
Total
Work projects
Student aid
1
8
_
.
These data are for a calendar month.
Data are not available on a monthly basis.
Number of
man-hours Average
worked
earnings
during
per hour
month
410,932
$4,714,660
13,642,607
$0.346
170, 472
240,460
2,862.654
1,852,006
7,664.197
5,978,410
.374
.310
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
3
No expenditures for materials on this type of
project.
26
MONTHLY TREND
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects financed
by The Works Program from the beginning of the program in July
1935 to June 1937, inclusive, are given in table 15.
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls July 1935 to June 1937, Inclusive, on Projects
Financed by The Works Program 1
[Subject to revision]
Month and year
Maximum
number
employed 2
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Federal projects
July 1935 to June 1937, inclusiveJuly to December 1935 3
January to December 1936..
$346,401,968
746.656,830
$0.464
$221,813,471
34,813,554
228,024,201
77,558, 683
501,501,344
.449
.455
33, 975,806
142,937, 728
32,064,351
27, 2(50, 313
25, 666, 281
26, 680, 307
27,170,573
28, 754,978
.488
.478
.487
.503
.521
.515
7,595,246
6,874,851
7,356, 372
6,901,508
7, 563,201
8,608,759
1937
January. _.
February..
328,867
267, 525
249,690
254, 524
266,686
284,893
March
April
May
June
15, 652,964
13,024,133
12, 504,895
13,432, 725
14,154,856
14, 794, 640
P. W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds *
July 1935 to June 1937, inclusive.
July to December 1935
January to December 1936..
January...
$164,478,727
214,223,381
$0.768
$317,679, 814
1,089, 510
106,441,300
1,657, 968
142,082,051
.657
.749
2, 061, 700
212,853, 501
9,346, 663
8, 428,606
8, 254, 306
9, 618,255
10, 339,137
10,960,950
11.390,883
10, 212, 726
10,147,405
12,027,623
13,049,326
13,655, 399
.821
.825
.813
.800
.792
.803
16,361, 268
13, 543,480
14,486,389
18,563,586
20,996,436
18,813,454
1937
131,153
115,214
113,930
129, 887
139, 561
141, 708
February..
March
April
May_
June
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration *
August 1935 to June 1937, inclusive.
$2,497,828, 777 5, 308,202,678
August to December 1935...
January to December 1936..
January...
February..
March
174,699,862
414.672,261
1,583,352,239 3, 449, 241,880
1937
April
May 3
June
2,132,861
2,125, 742
2,104.938
2.100,965
2,133,340
2, 020, 273
1
Unless otherwise noted data are for 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 Revised.
4
These data are included in tables covering
projects under the jurisdiction of the Public Works
Administration. The data for June include
124,976 employees working on non-Federal projects
and 16,732 employees working on low-cost housing
projects.
118,612,830
115,544,451
114,688,415
115,802,897
112,262,434
107,046,653
231, 218,557
225, 300,018
226,101,290
227,991.069
217,590;559
205,699,566
6
$0.471 $744,017, 372
.421
.459
.513
.513
.507
.508
.516
.520
s These data exclude both work projects and
student-aid projects of the National Youth Administration which appear in a separate table.
Monthly data from the beginning of the program
through Apr. 15, 1937, are for the month ending
on the loth, and commencing with Afay 1937,
for the calendar month. Data for the period Apr.
16 through Apr. 30, 1937, showing $55,818,996 in
pay-roll disbursements and 110,387,478 man-hours
are included only in the grand total.
o Data on a monthly basis are not available. Includes rentals and services.
27
Table 16 shows the employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on work projects of the National Youth Administration from January
1936 to June 1937, inclusive. Similar data for student-aid projects
are shown from September 1935 to June 1937, inclusive.
TABLE 16.—Employment and Pay Rolls From Beginning of Program Through June 1937,
Inclusive, on National Youth Administration and Student-Aid Projects Financed by
The Works Program 1
[Subject to revision]
Month and year
Number of
persons
employed
Pay-roll
disbursements
Number of Average
man-hours earnings
worked
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Work projects
January 1936 to June 1937, inclusive.
January to December 1936
January. _.
February..
March
April
May
June
$47,509,426
125,996,942
$0. 377
28, 822,196
75, 659, 914
.381
3, 084, 561
3, 239,694
3, 224,944
3,181,627
3, 093, 750
2,862,654
8, 212,091
8, 731, 727
8, 724,840
8,662,278
8,341,895
7,664,197
.376
.371
.370
.367
.371
.374
2 $2,876, 615
1937
184, 686
189,228
191,569
191,982
184, ] 73
170,472
S t u d e n t aid
September 1935 to June 1937, inclusiveSeptember to December 1935.
January to December 1936
January...
February..
March
April.
May
June
$50, 228, 575 166, 661, 526
$0. 301
6,363, 503
25, 722, 951
19,612,976
84,897,469
.324
.303
2, 943, 731
3,161, 600
3, 290, 723
3,302,100
3,591,961
1,852,006
] 0,142,349
10,948,189
11,384,181
11,443,240
12, 254,712
5, 978,410
.290
.289
.289
.289
. 293
.310
1937
412,316
417, 470
435,619
434, 744
418,362
240,460
1 Those data are for a calendar month.
2 These data are not available on a monthly
basis.
8
No expenditures for materials on this type of
project.
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Statistics concerning employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps in May and June 1937 are presented in table 17.
Emergency conservation work is usually regarded as a part of The
Works Program, although it is now financed by a separate appropriation.
Employment and pay-roll data for the Civilian Conservation Corps
are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce,
the Treasury Department, and the Department of the Interior. The
monthly pay of the enrolled personnel is distributed as follows:
5.0 percent are paid $45; 8.0 percent, $36; and the remaining 87.0 percent, $30. The enrolled men, in addition to their pay, are provided
with board, clothing, and medical services.
28
TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, May and
June 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
May
June
June
May
All groups
323,626
348,905
$16,085,832
$16,719,019
Enrolled personnel 2
Reserve officers
Educational advisers 3 Supervisory and technical *
270, 635
7,333
1,917
8
43, 741
297,442
7,365
2,011
• 42,087
8,422,730
1,819,998
322,815
«5,520,289
9,248,261
1,891,477
322,845
« 5,256,436
_
1 Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amounts of pay rolls
are for the entire month.
2 June data include 2,937 enrollees and pay roll of
$62,519 outside continental United States; May,
3,435 enrollees and pay roll of $66,425.
3 Included in executive service, tables 9 and 10.
* Includes carpenters, electricians, and laborers.
•41,329 employees and pay roll of $5,281,018 also
included in executive service, tables 9 and 10.
«39,919 employees and pay roll of $5,047,208 also
included in executive service, tables 9 and 10.
Monthly statistics of employment and pay rolls on the Civilian
Conservation Corps from June 1936 to June 1937, inclusive, are
given in table 18.
TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, by Months,
June 1936 Through June 1937 1
[Subject to revision!
Month
Monthly
Number of! pay-roll
disemployees
bursements
1936
June
July
August.
September
October.
November
December
Month
Number of
employees
Monthly
pay-roll disbursements
1937
381,305
402,368
381,425
318, 707
402,669
389,122
374,744
$17,633,925
18,064,882
17,475, 592
16,005,247
17, 292,812
18,232,391
17,738,965
January
February
March
April...
May
June
1
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month.
entire month.
407,723
394,521
307,337
369, 309
348,905
323,626
$18,650,537
18,314,594
15, 770,090
17,502,905
16,719,019
16,085,832
Amounts of pay rolls are for
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 June are presented in table 19, by type of project.
A monthly summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation from June 1936 to June 1937, inclusive, is
given in table 20.
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TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, June 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
Number
of wage
earners 2
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
All projects
4,898
$690,822
823,541
$0.839
$835,382
Building construction 3
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
265
4,499
134
17,573
657,494
15, 755
40,023
762, 787
20, 731
.439
.862
.760
22,412
810, 550
2,420
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any
week of the month by each contractor.
* Includes 59 employees; pay-roll disbursements
of $3,325: 8,171 man-hours worked; and material
orders placed during the month amounting to
$3,-133 on projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.
TABLE 20.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, June 1936 Through June 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Month
June
July
August
September
_
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
8,501
9,845
9,658
10, 290
063, 728
065, 744
085,642
1,252,193
1,436, 201
1,441,791
1,510,109
$0. 752
.741
.739
.719
$2,527,262
2,050,370
1,314, 692
1,420,444
8,864
9,611
9,189
002, 648
108, 258
106,816
1,347,317
1,502,460
1,514,355
.744
.738
.731
1,298,643
3,008,077
1,433,075
8,232
7,299
7, 696
8,226
5,847
4,898
968,077
864,776
929,032
1,041.280
790', 018
690,822
1,300,989
1,150,721
1,191,977
1, 295.053
967, 273
823, 541
.744
.752
.779
.804
.817
.839
2, 3l><>, 044
1, 018, 058
1,138, 460
1,023,599
902, 762
835,382
Number
of wage
earners 2
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
Average
earnings
per hour
1936
October
November
December
1937
January
February.._
March...
April
May
June
_
_
i Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage
Co. Data are for month ending on the loth.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1
week of the month.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR
MENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
GOVERN-
Whenever a construction contract is awarded or force-account work
is started by a department or agency of the Federal Government, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is immediately notified, on forms supplied
by the Bureau, of the name and address of the contractor, the amount
of the contract, and the type of work to be performed. Blanks are
then mailed by the Bureau to the contractor or Government agency
doing the work. These reports are returned to the Bureau and show
the number of men on pay rolls, the amounts disbursed for pay, the
number of man-hours worked on the project, and the value of the
different types of materials for which orders were placed during the
month.
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The following tables present data concerning construction projects
for which contracts have been awarded since July 1, 1934. The
Bureau does not have statistics covering projects financed from regular governmental appropriations for which contracts were awarded
previous to that date.
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed from regular governmental appropriations during June are given in table 21, by type of project.
TABLE 21.—Employment on Construction Projects Financed From Regular Governmental
Appropriations, by Type of Project, June 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
Type of project
All projects..
Maximum
number em- Weekly
average
ployed
3177, 265
Buildins construction..
Electrification
Forestry..
Naval vessels
Public roads *
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous.
Monthly J N u m b o r o f
Average
Mont.ni>
pay-nx111 man-hours earnings
disburse- I worked
per hour
during
ments
month
169,172 $16,980,060
15,362
1, 267
83
39,511
(5)
10,943
31,360
1,950
79
2,829
12, 386
1,104
73
38,859
73,881
10, 545
27,995
1,841
61
2,427
12 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1
week of the month by each contractor and Government agency doing force-account work.
1, 310,996
72,006
6,086
5,481,332
5, 323, 981
1,308, 314
3,152,818
111,546
5,217
207,764
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
24,532,459
$0. 692
$19, 574, 535
1, 528,131
130,157
11,337
6,318,381
9, 665, 742
1,711,944
4, 644, 076
237, 783
8,284
276,624
.858
. 553
.537
.868
.551
.764
.679
.470
.630
.751
1,858,933
703,938
3,278
5,988,440
6,298,333
831, 462
2,869,809
127,260
49,182
843,900
3
Includes weekly average for public roads.
*5 Estimated by the Bureau of Public Roads.
Not a vnliable; weekly average included in total
for all projects.
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on construction
projects financed from regular governmental appropriations from June
1936 to June 1937, inclusive, are show^n by months in table 22.
TABLE 22.—Employment on Construction Projects Financed From Regular Governmental
Appropriations, June 1936 Through June 1937 *
[Subject to revision]
Month
June
July
August..
1936
SeptemberOctober
November..
December..
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
Number
of wage
earners 2
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
109,056
146,265
165,870
$9, 438,391
14,286,923
15,341,364
14, 658, 624
21, 624,176
23,151,796
$0. 644
.661
.663
$13,285,515
27,631,349
19, 288,486
166,902
175,071
152,513
144, 274
14,846,961
16,931,017
13, 766, 630
13,491,223
22.475, 820
25; 505,296
20,375,741
19.164, 694
.661
. 664
.676
.704
22,164,997
20,357, 778
16,370, 640
16,009,255
119,8 ")3
112, 770
120,17;")
132, 639
160, 346
177, 265
11,857,007
10.901. 648
11,817,783
13,855,633
15, 278, 529
16, 980, 060
16, 506, 278
14, 735,028
16,280,905
19,545,518
21,858,124
24, 532, 459
.718
.740
.728
.709
.699
.692
11,
13.
12;
15,
18,
19,
1931
729, 532
613. 251
820,438
572.168
508, 278
574, 535
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.
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STATE-ROADS PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of State roads from June 1936 to June
1937, inclusive, is presented in table 23.
TABLE 23.—Employment on Construction and Maintenance of State Roads, June 1936
Through June 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
working
on 2—
Total pay
roll
Month
New roads
June.
July
August
September
October
November
December..
_
__
__
January
_
February
March . . _
April
_.
May
_._
June
_
1937
__
Maintenance
Total
20,773
21, 744
26,810
165,363
164,956
158,882
186,136
186,700
185,692
$11, 488, 253
11, 839, 215
11,937,585
34,459
34.13(5
27, 988
21,394
151, 772
149,717
153,688
138, 540
186,231
183,853
181, 676
159,934
11,806,481
11,566,892
11,330,509
10,000,371
15, 622
11,706
11.802
13,164
17,241
19,382
117,576
120, 786
119,046
124, 761
159,167
148, 392
133,198
132,492
130,848
137,925
176, 408
167, 774
8,387,864
8, 560,561
8,333, 600
9,108,030
10,850,394
11,069, 510
I
i Excluding employment furnished by projects
financed from Public Works Administration and
Works Progress Administration funds. Data are
for the month ending on the loth.
2 Monthly average.
MATERIAL ORDERS PLACED
The value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds in the second quarter of 1937 1 is presented
in table 24.
In the second quarter of 1937 on the Public Works Administration
program, orders have been placed for materials valued at approximately $83,765,000. Of this amount, $25,643,000 has been expended
for iron and steel products, $6,402,000 for cement, $5,719,000 for
forest products, and $12,305,000 for machinery.
On projects operated by the Works Progress Administration,
material orders placed in the second quarter of 1937 amounted to
$56,267,000. 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.
It is estimated that in fabricating the materials listed in table 24
approximately 744,000 man-months of labor have been, or will be
1 Unless otherwise specified, data presented In this section are of the 15th of the month.
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created. This includes 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 material or in transporting
it 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 the blast
furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces, and the blooming mills.
TABLE 24.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects
Federal Funds for Second Quarter, 1937 l
Financed by
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material
All materials
Textiles and their products.
Total
Chemicals and allied products
Ammunition
and
related
products
_
Chemicals, miscellaneous
Compressed and liquified gases.
Explosives
_
_..
Paints and varnishes.
Federal
construction under Operated
by
The
Works W. P. A.«
Program
±
$219,904,623 $83,764,660 $2,761,743j$53, 654,981 $22, 793,575 $56,929,664
352^
79,543
25,909 6 3,091,200
19,573
7,415
25,987
6,868
7,532
6,765
301,288
70,873
6,189
5,114
3,641
7,404
5,248
2,485
6,046
4,030
286,828
31,754
4,507
209
12,617
3,315
11
5, 570
232
1,288
1,361
12,129
441
52
1,510
16,400,551
5,718,936
81,990
2,173,456
54,331
45,783
76
5,685
2,787
7,465,455
2,484,769
3,873,013
1,769,428
69,514
12,400
1,729, 589
426,546
1,793,339
276,395
772,703
55,631
393,615
558,079 •1,872,241
6,476
18,261
21,903
279,731
446,332
87
7,692
46,191
1,661
12,448
16,632
200,324
164,211
36,214
36,852 .._
216,0371
268,976! 1,079,057
3,548,804
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc
Carpets and rugs
Cordage and twine
Cotton goods
Felt goods
Jute goods
Linoleum
Sacks and bags
_
Upholstering materials, n. e. c..
Waste
Forest products...
Cork products
_
Lumber and timber products,
n. e. c
_._
Planing-mill products
Window and door screens and
weatherstrip
ReconPublic
Regular
Works struction
Finance
govern-4
Adminis- Corpora- mental
tration 2 tions
8
42,484
•3,652,269
6,476
67,010
83,079
742, 283
1, 960,237
15,169
4,151
198
1,374
2,331
38,678
1,630
3,395
30,712
11,636
2,072,657 a 6,353, 512
136
5,910, 741 a 18, 617,127
6 61,800,259 23,220,960 1,110,179 12,941,252
Stone, clay, and glass products
9,287
Asbestos products, n. e. c
_.
31, 567
18,911
Brick, hollow tile, and other
433,092
1,723
243,776
2,453,362
clay products
_.
7,713,403 4,581,450
943,590
5,394,733 2, 757,584 4,865, 790
6,402,394
Cement.
_
20,364,091
649,424 2,661,025
1,213
290, 725
Concrete products
7,868,339 4,265,352
619,546 2,950,327
935,535
378 1,923,511
Crushed stone
6,429,297
58,369
36,1721
415,714
74
Glass
510,329
3,971
2,7921
51,855
40
Lime
58,662
4
Does not include material orders placed on
HThis table includes certain items which are not
projects for which contracts were awarded before
actually construction materials, i. e., fuel, transJuly 1, 1934.
portation equipment, tools, furniture, etc.
«Includes material orders placed to June 30,1937.
2 Includes material orders placed on P. W. A.
Includes
National Youth Administration projects.
projectsfinancedby the Emergency Relief Appro6
Includes material orders placed for projects
priation
Acts
of
1935
and
1936.
3
operated by W. P. A. which are not classified in
Does not include material orders palced on projdetail.
ects for which contracts were awarded before
Mar. 15,1934. Includes projectsfinancedby RFC
Mortgage Co.
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TABLE 24.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed byFederal Funds for Second Quarter, 1937—Continued
I
Type of material
Stone, clay, and glass products—Con.
Marble, granite, slate, and other
stone products
Minerals and earths, ground or
otherwise treated
Sand and gravel
Tiling, floor and wall, and
terrazzo
Wall plaster, wall board, insulating board, andfloorcomposition
Iron and steel and their products,
not including machinery
Bolts, nuts, washers, etc
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Doors, shutters and window
sash and frames, molding, and
trim (metal)
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware, miscellaneous
_
Heating and ventilating equipment
Nails and spikes
_
Rail fastenings, excluding spikes.
Rails, steel
Springs, steel
___
Steel-works and rolling-mill
products, n. e. c
Stoves and ranges, other than
electric
_
_
Structural and reinforcing steel.
Tools, other than machine tools.
Wire products, n. e. c
Wrought pipe
Nonferrous metals and their products.
Aluminum manufactures
Copper products
_
Lead products
Nonferrous-metal alloys and
products, n. e. c
Sheet-metal work..
__
Zinc products
___
Machinery, not including transportation equipment...
_._
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Elevators and elevator equipment
_
___
Engines, turbines, tractors, and
watcrwheels
Foundry and machine-shop
products, n. e. c
Machine tools
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and
gas generators
Pumps and pumping equipment. _
_..
Refrigerators and refrigerating
and ice-making apparatus
Transportation equipment, air, land
and water
___
Aircraft (new)
Boats, steel and wooden (small).
Carriages and wagons
Locomotives, other than steam.
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, trucks._
Total
Projects
ReconPublic
Works struction
Finance
Adminis- Corporatration
tion
$3,118,732 $1, 666,255
9,429
11,286,198
732,112
1,299,070
8,049
3,327,755
522,178
1, 025, 512
« 52,830,601 25,643,287
222,189
498,333
7,578,788 3,467,823
Regular
governmental
$1,282,427
Federal
construction under Operated
by
The
Works W. P. A.
Program
$169,690
4
1,290,364 $3,306,993
158,599
1,376
3,202,487
2,230
148,889
58,815
1,972
192,381
79, 205
760,104
3, 691
16,897
9,236,810
185,368
322,053
100,124
606,223
543,994
391,777
57,102
89,471
390,927
105,974
100,080
177
6, 513,374 «10, 677, 026
87,085
279, 545 3,492,470
% 282,370
862,853
2,060, 844
1,619,045
229,388
1,178,016
5,019,184
271,860
20,822
193, 204
242
3,819,637
133,869
15,318
151,469
216
3,281
1,081
765
497,815
36,830
5,327
40,970
7,092,994
3,837, 661
157,781
1,880,006
1,217,546
383,664
20,569,212
1,130, 750
1,176, 083
613,393
383, 544
9, 573, 045
71,637
410,555
529,875
100
468,000
2:
7, 529
830
4, 057,838
136,804
457,347
74,458
20
3,709,637
166,302
301,252
8,230
• 1,981,218
127,017
143,731
78,970
944,707
23,073
110,007
43,949
320
511,123
103,897
30,468
34, 530
196,116
47
3,134
491
408,869
833,224
455
174,381
593,297
288,400
53,402
426
186,321
29
«35,340,739 12,304,759
26
122
198
516,237 17,470,229
4,035,861
235,471
4,259,346
629,175
913,014
495,496
32
361,761
55,725
4,975,712
301,085
6,505,215
262,113
1,265,057
48,612
6,468,219
1,180,932
10,490
13,217,497
502,327
4,099, 668
190,006
268,099
1,596
91,144
89,807
775
840,541
i
549:
562
2,050,950
1,072,973
136,887
1,407,045
1,372,448
._._'
32,547
2,050
500
749, 566 j
709, 852
463
352
270,594
4,153
34, 746
16,307
252,400
832, 793
6, 716
2,140
11,800
21,178 i
384, 515 i
210,239
122,941
5,400
754
11,800
7181.
68,626 j
500
2, 760,692
755,982
• 328,952
2,439,366 • 2, 610,148
10, 625,020
1,259,142 j
592,477
1,465,167
1,079,458
28,243
1,034
28,243
• Includes material orders placed for proj ects operated by W. P. A. which are not classified in detail.
TABLE 24.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for Second Quarter, 1937—Continued
Projects
Type of material
Miscellaneous.
Belting, miscellaneous
Coal
Creosote
_
FJectric wiring and fixtures
Furniture, including store and
office fixtures
Instruments, professional and
scientific
_
_
Mattresses and bedsprings
Models and patterns
Paper products
Paving materials and mixtures,
n. e. c
Petroleum products
Photographic apparatus and
materials
Plumbing supplies, n. e. c
Radio apparatus and supplies—
Roofing materials, n. e. c
Rubber goods
Steam and other packing, pipe
and boiler covering, and gaskets
_.
Theatrical scenery and stage
equipment—
Window shades and fixtures
Other materials
Total
ReconPublic
Works struction
Finance
Adminis- Corporatration
tion
$43,091,040 $14,596,917
Regular
governmental
Federal
construction under Operated
by
The
V. P . A.
Works W.
Program
$236,782 $10,099, 387 $4,806,739 $13,351,215
33
102,171
297
46,241
918
466
378,556
1,243
5,416,486
136
25,588
325
3,167,332
2,839,141
1,963,836
116,924
105,529
7,075
2,144
10,287
13,617
6,811
2,052
7,727
73
91, 678
264
92
1,515
7,976,927
6,404,084
980, 544
1,447,497
109,100
755,055
2,303,947
512,927
1,163,053
5,728,401
1,380,487
28,394
4,098,314
26,522
869,681
261, 513
13,527
2,580,612
3,600
667,591
34,406
1,021
391,065
674,956
951
33,882
13,846
448,239
22,922
73, 568
12,050
127, 571
46,250
" 134," 925
204,273
180
97, 787
64,131
3,315, 525
78, 553
265,552
97,787
68,723
14,232,610]
10,601
3,442
1,675,161
58,421
595
4,422,906
204, 556
563,392
5,488
752,893
234
972
2,678
3,997
1,940,635
4,474,997
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
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 for 1933.
The value of material orders placed on Federal professional, technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works Program, by type
of material, for the second quarter of 1937, the first quarter of 1937,
and the second quarter of 1936 is shown in table 25.
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TABLE 25.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Federal Professional, Technical, and
Clerical Projects Financed by The Works Program
[Subject to revision]
Type of material
Total
Computing machines
Furniture—
Office supplies
_
Stationery
_
Typewriters
_
Other office machines.._
_
Other materials
llental of machinery and equipment
Second
quarter
of 1936
Second
quarter
of 1937
First
quarter
of 1937
$279,893
$290,884
$419,501
8.000
14, 641
49, 984
11,064
2,450
6,502
53,158
7,938
14,219
20,035
5L,364
8,580
1,289
4,695
119,614
70, 606
7, 553
17, 651
103,612
92, 020
6, 260
6,090
201,134
111,819
A cumulative total for rentals and services on projects operated
by the Works Progress Administration from July 1935 to December
1936, inclusive, for the first quarter of 1937, and for the second quarter
of 1937 is shown in table 26, by type of rental and service.
TABLE 26.—Rentals and Services on Projects Operated by the Works Progress
A dm in istration
[Subject to revision]
Type of rental and service
All rentals and services
Buses and autos
_
Teams and wagons.
_
Trucks and vans__
_
Paving, road building, and construction equipmentOther equipment (including office equipment)
_.
Space rentals and services-_
_
Other services (including utilities)
i Q u a r t e r l y period e n d i n g M a r . 31, 1937.
July 1935
through
December
1936
First quarter of
Second quarter of
19371
1937 3
$212,105,768
$46,150,914
$39,128,795
2, 660, 632
15, 660,403
115,957,483
54, 855,178
5,844,836
5,812, 968
11,314,268
742, 342
2, 202,463
22, 734,107
13,532,815
685, 243
2,043,446
4, 210,498
o65,237
1,313,122
18,160,926
11, 723, 627
836, 416
2, 359, 897
4,169, 570
2 Q u a r t e r l y period e n d i n g J u n e 30, 1937.
In connection with the administration of the Walsh-Healy 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.
Table 27 shows the cumulative total value of public contracts
awarded under the act for materials from September 28, 1936, to
December 1936, inclusive, for the first quarter of 1937, and for the
second quarter of 1937. The first public contracts were awarded
under the act in September 1936.
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TABLE 27.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by Federal Government Which Contain
Agreements to Comply With Public Contracts Act, by Industrial Groups and Type of
Material
[Subject to revision]
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
All materials
Food and kindred products.
Canned fruits and vegetables
Cereal preparations
Coffee
_
Condensed and evaporated milk
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowls..
Flour and other grain-mill products
Meat-packing products Shortenings and vegetable cooking oil—
Sugar
Tea..
Miscellaneous subsistence stores and supplies..
Textiles and their products
Canvas bags and covers
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers, etc.)
Cordage and twine, including thread
Cotton gloves..
_
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.)
Cotton shirts
_
Furnishing goods, men's, n. e. c
Housefurnishing goods (pillow cases, sheets, etc).
Knit goods (hosiery, underwear, etc.)
Oilcloth...
Woolen goods (flannels, suiting, etc.)
Work clothing
___
Miscellaneous textile products
Sept. 28,
1930,
through
Dec. 31,
1936 i
First
quarter of
1937 1
Second
quarter of
1937
$39,975,952 $76,377,704 $81,133,508
1,425,903
4,066,107
2,876,354
74,377
12,860
92,103
60,313
178, 897
238,930
331,905
205,364
130,514
16.421
84,219
265, 654
26, 826
298,549
11,682
383,056
619,898
181,161
291, 746
167,541
329, 639
392,322
197,533
367,443
98, 855
426, 790
385,122
1,327,242
537,599
6, 501, 319 34,127,602
10,999,856
195,576
335,040
493,858
267,403
3,951,835
236,045
404,297
369,572
2,678,756
68,811
47,500
30,940
9,999
4,205, 292
312,758
1,007,447
301,435
34,350
10,350
330,544
95,345
46,548
286, 697
1,188, 794
182,853
243,516
4,503, 608
420, 241
367,584
1,031,418
1,942,308
809, 202
822,271
2,156,581
47, 378
462,912
165,638
130, 297
16,046
30,658
1,122,601
525,192
161,226
228,186
88, 718
745,299
745,562
576,613
•
Forest products..
Cork and cork products
Furniture
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c~
Planing-mill products
Treated lumber and timber
Miscellaneous forest products
15, 873
36,460
392,096
181,729
183,044
-
Paper and allied products.
2, 312, 464
410,195
5,637,666
Blueprint paper.
Ledger paper
Paper towels..
Miscellaneous paper productsChemicals and allied products.
11,209
62, 321
18, 872
2,220,062
410,195
5,637,666
992,535
1,196,072
2,536,943
60,971
37,044
32, 080
114,105
590,857
234,503
413,529
122,134
205,427
327, 215
358,067
88,226
172,128
23,683
1,014,017
Ammunition and related productsCompressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
Fertilizer
Linseed oil
Paints and varnishes
Soap and soap chips
Miscellaneous chemicals
Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum..
Asphalt, oil. tar, and mixtures
Coal.
Coke
Fuel oil
Gasoline.
Lubricating oils and greases
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum products.
i Revised.
498,585
57, 567
52, 663
67,135
74, 644
180,970
11,396,619
,1,545, 98'
29, 746
11,335
5,123, 845
4,660,206
25,500
5,096,152 , 19,835,108
i
517,909
24, 659
2, 247,464
530,686
1, 701,792
2, 816, 825
13, 967
21,000
8,841,740
6,098, 708
1, 735, 211
381, 299
37
TABLE 27.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by Federal Government Which Contain
Agreements to Comply With Public Contracts Act, by Industrial Groups and Type of
Material—Continued
Value of contracts awarded
Sept. 28,
1936.
through
Dec. 31,
1936
First
Second
quarter of quarter of
1937
1937
Leather and its manufactures.
Belting, leather
Boots and shoes
Boot and shoe cut stock
Boot and shoe findings
Gloves
Shoe upper-leather
Miscellaneous leather goods..
$1,237,698
$3,105,231
$1, 640, 989
2,939,380
15,077
1,267,538
Stone, clay, and glass products-
3,205,890
2,284,895
4,199,907
115,883
855, 820
517, 767
220,697
444, 669
40,000
45,500
1,034,984
231,921
240,093
149,628
72,315
56,001
13,662
75,900
173,759
448,900
103,490
16,155
11,711
39,161
16,397
101,189
2,184,417
113,865
296,630
518,384
75,425
79,346
51,557
61, 546
Type of materials
15,203
1,026,156
"""26," 106"
90,325
41,026
Brick
Cement
Concrete pipe
Concrete, ready mixedCrushed stone
Dirt fill
Fire-clay products
Glass.
Granite and marble
Minerals and earths
Kiprap stone
Sand and gravel
Soil, black earth
Terracotta
Tile, clay
Tile, drain
_
Vitrified clay and terra cotta pipe
Miscellaneous stone, clay, and glass products.
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery..
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Fencing materials
Firearms and parts
Forcings, iron and steel
Hardware, miscellaneous
Metal doors, sash, and frames
Metal furniture
Metal shingles and roofing.
Ornamental metalwork
Pipe and fittings...
Plumbing fixtures...
Rails, steel
Railway tie plates
Reinforcing bars
Safes...
Steel pipe
Steel sheets, plates, shapes, and strips
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet-steel piling.
Tools, other than machine tools
Wire rope
Miscellaneous iron and steel products
Nonferrous metals and their alloys..
Aluminum manufactures
Brass products
Bronze products
Copper products
Lead, sheet
Magnesium
Nickel
Plated ware
Sheet-metal work
Tin
Zinc
26,106
185,798
161,547
15,119
59,480
124, 731
63,384
19, 010
85,366
139,386
:,
362,305
441,344
75,783
16,866
10, 801
22, 778
149,976
1,965,305
179,712
60,879
220,453
10,472
114, 209
11, 701
11,270
153,430
29,750
17,600
73, 668
35,325
114, 564
20,690
164,069
809,125
72, 769
44,559
115,156
290,096
180,935
536,301
148,191
111, 436
545,914
35,670
1,089,124
734,695
42,986
339,978
737,195
62,178
77,478
10,320
654,065
96,124
78,744
170, 519
593,413
26,868
154,285
1,046,238
370,063
1,720,297
1,329,510
90,773
87,700
191,887
15,270
577, 239
12,874
23,892
611,983
167,052
17,027
211,215
28,130
54,978
311,558
12,348
404,421
28, 047
104,222
94, 204
80,250
61,320
110,123
65,720
38,382
114,525
69,740
23,494
591,396
91,816
50,250
" 12," 803"
---
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys.
2,799,740
38,319
112,455
74,667
95,760
38
TABLE 27.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by Federal Government Which Contain
Agreements to Comply With Public Contracts Act, by Industrial Groups and Type of
Material—Continued
Value of contracts awarded •
Type of materials
Machinery not including transportation. equipment, and electrical
equipment
Air-conditioning equipment •.
Engines, turbines, tractors, and parts
Filter-room equipment
,
Laundry machinery and equipment
Machine tools
_
Phonographs and accessories
Power shovels and draglines
Printing machinery
Pumps and pumping equipment
Refrigerators
_
__
Road machinery
Windlasses, hawsers, etc
_
Miscellaneous machinery and parts
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Batteries_
Cable and insulated wire
Circuit breakers
Electric dynamometer
Electric motors
Electric heaters and ranges
_
Electric starters
_
Electric valves
Electric welding equipment
Generators and spare parts
Lighting equipment.
Radio equipment and supplies
_
_
Sparkplugs...
1
:
Switchboards
_
Transformers
_
Transmitters, shaft, master indicators
_
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
Aircraft parts and equipment..
Boats (life boats)
_
Dump wagons
Motor vehicles, passenger
_
_
Motor vehicles, trucks
_.
Miscellaneous transportation equipment
Miscellaneous
Brooms, brushes, bristles, etc.Cafeteria equipmentDental goods and equipment...«
Instruments, professional and scientific.
Laboratory equipment
Linoleum..
Oyster shell
Photographic apparatus and materials
Printing and publishing and subscriptions.
Rubber products.
Slag
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering.
Tobacco manufactures
Other materials
_^^...^
Sept. 28,
1936,
through
Dec. 31,
1930
First
Second
quarter of quarter of
1937
1937
$1,572,719
$6,199,174
18,800
607,085
39,331
37,977
145,839
57,500
792,741
54,055
_.
_
~397,~577
130, 615
108,800
61, 265
472,348
16,000
476,045
849,662
35,355
57, 324
43,708
3, 268,145
$6,616,197
1,729,740
23,492
15,358
360,151
277,216
304,847
81,071
87,809
219,685
3, 516,828
5, 463,134
2,358, 605
39, 933
607,040
41,336
13,105
25, 020
39,078
40,998
11, 585
115,102
1,009, 473
182,063
82, 287
12,000
11,407
96, 727
18,895
12,496
5,026, 626
1,043,031
1,885,982
3,399,060
785, 519
2,388,813
5,966, 334
88,018
3, 457, 059
39, 359
14,450
100, 242
97,411
12, 025
575,673
1, 806, 225
369,053
1, 511,403
67,329
220,155
102,919
52, 082
417,893
39, 214
1, 655, 272
11,694
108,021
299,684
372,116
852,197
99;336
41, 550
41, 206
271,809
1, 339, 825
54,486
57,813
65,705
56,289
35, 594
274, 521
1,155,377
1, 048, 467
165> 630
187,907
131,827
889,693
10,128, 868
4,857,913
3,323,170
1, 594,135
127, 530
18,633
726, 726
16, 263
31,150
33,000
396,825
41, 529
87, 675
184,192
273, 741
364,046
114,798
482, 334
67,236
24,165
305,567
335, 294
22,623
400, 458
134, 756
The value of public contracts awarded for materials by Federal
agencies totaled $81,134,000 during the second quarter of 1937. Of
the contracts awarded in the second quarter of 1937, $19,835,000 was
for products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum; $11,000,000, for textiles
and textile products; $6,616,000, for machinery, not including transportation and electrical equipment; and $10,129,000, for transportation equipment.
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