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Serial No. R. 786
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 1938
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON • 1938




CONTENTS
Summary of employment reports for June 1938:
Total nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
Detailed tables for June 1938:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment

Tage
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Tables
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
June 1938
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, June 1938
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 1938, first quarter of 1938, and second
quarter of 1937
TABLE 4.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, June 1938
TABLE 5.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, April through June
1938
TABLE 6.—Selected manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—•
indexes of employment and pay rolls, June 1937 to June 1938
TABLE 7.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in May and June
1938
TABLE 8.—Principal metropolitan areas—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in Ma\r and June
1938
*_
TABLE 9.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls in May and June 1938
TABLE 10.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
June 1938, by type of project
TABLE 11.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, June 1938, by type of project,
TABLE 12.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
programs to June 1938, inclusive
TABLE 13.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls,
May and June 1938




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TABLE 14.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, June 1938, by type of project
TABLE 15.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
June 1938, by type of project
TABLE 16.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, June 1938, May 1938, nd
June 1937
TABLE 17.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, second quarter of 1938, by type
of proj ect
TABLE 18.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, first-quarter of 1938, by type of
project
TABLE 19.—Value of material orders placed on Federal professional,
technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works
Program, second quarter of 1938, first quarter of 1938, and
second quarter of 1937
TABLE 20.—Rentals and services on projects operated by the Works
Progress Administration, first quarter of 1938, fourth quarter of 1937, and first quarter of 1937
TABLE 21.—Rentals and services on work projects of the National Youth
Administration, fourth quarter of 1937, and first quarter of
1938
TABLE 22.—Value of public contracts awarded for materials, second quarter of 1938, first quarter of 1938, and second quarter of 1937.




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Employment and Pay Rolls

SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR JUNE 1938
Total Nonagricultural Employment
THERE was a further decline of about 60,000 in nonagricultural
employment in June, due primarily to reductions in factory working
forces. In other major lines of activity employment was relatively
stable except for seasonal changes. The figures do not take account
of workers in agriculture or on Works Progress Administration and
other Federal emergency projects.
Most of the larger industrial States of the East and North reported
employment declines in June, including Michigan, Massachusetts,
New York, and Pennsylvania. Among the industries contributing
to the decline were automobiles, steel, machinery, shoes, textiles, and
clothing.
There was an increase during June in the number of workers engaged
on most of the wrorks programs financed from Federal funds, as industrial employment continued to decline. The most marked gains
occurred on work projects of the National Youth Administration,
Federal projects under The Works Program, and on construction
projects financed from regular Federal appropriations. In the regular
services of the Federal Government increases occurred in the executive
and legislative services and decreases occurred in the judicial and
military services.
Industrial and Business

Employment

In manufacturing industries, it is estimated that about 132,000
wage earners were laid off between mid-May and mid-June, a reduction of 1.9 percent. Factory pay rolls were reduced by 2.9 percent
or approximately $4,100,000 a week. Ordinarily factory employment and pay rolls decline from May to June, as indicated by the
fact that during the period 1919 to 1937, inclusive, June employment
has shown declines 10 times and June pay rolls 11 times. Since June
1937, when factories were operating near recovery peak levels, the
number of wage earners in factories had been reduced by one-fourth,
or 2,110,000, and weekly pay rolls by 35 percent, or $72,600,000.




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As in earlier months, the principal declines in manufacturing employment were reported by the heavy industries, in particular, machinery, steel products, automobiles, and railroad repair shops. The
durable-goods industries as a group reduced employment by 3.5
percent from May, while the nondurable-goods industries reported a
decline of 0.8 percent. Seasonal curtailments reduced forces in factories manufacturing women's clothing, shoes, and silk, while labor
disputes affected carpet mills and rayon factories.
Most of the manufacturing employment gains were seasonal, such
as those in canning, ice cream, and other food industries. Increases
in woolen mills, shirt factories, and millwork were either greater than
seasonal or contraseasonal.
In the nonmanufacturing industries employment changes, for the
most part, were small. Mining employment was generally curtailed
except for anthracite mines, which added 4,600 men, a gain of 6.0
percent. About 10,000 bituminous-coal miners and 3,000 metal
miners were laid off as business slackened, and year-round hotels
had 5,000 fewer workers. Retail and wholesale firms reduced their
staffs by 7,000 and 1,600 employees, respectively, largely because of
seasonal declines in sales. The principal reductions in retail trade
employment were reported by firms dealing in general merchandise
(0.5 percent), automobiles and accessories (1.2 percent), furniture
(1.6 percent), farmers' supplies (6.5 percent), and jewelry (1.4 percent).
Small seasonal increases were reported by retail stores dealing in food,
apparel, lumber and building materials, and coal, wood, and ice.
Wholesale firms selling dry goods and apparel had 1.8 percent fewer
employees, and wholesale dealers in furniture and housefurnishings
reported a reduction of 0.7 percent in their forces. A seasonal expansion in employment was reported by wholesale firms selling lumber
and building materials, farm products, groceries and other food products, tobacco, and petroleum and petroleum products.
Public utility companies as a group reported virtually no change in
employment, as the declines reported by telephone and telegraph companies and firms operating electric railroads and motorbusses were
offset by the gain in light and power companies.
Employment in the private building construction industry (which
does not include construction projects financed by the Public Works
Administration or the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or by
regular appropriations of the Federal, State, and local governments)
showed an increase of 0.2 percent as against June gains ranging from
3 to 6 percent in recent years.




Laundries and dyeing and cleaning establishments reported seasonal
increases of 0.5 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively; insurance firms
had 0.4 percent more employees than in May, and brokerage firms
reduced their forces 1.4 percent, a continuation of the monthly declines
which began in May 1937.
Class I railroads employed 914,765 workers in June, including
11,943 executives, officials, and staff assistants, according to a preliminary tabulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission. This
was 9,192 workers more than were reported for May, a gain of 1.1
percent. June pay rolls for railroads were not available when this
report was prepared. For May they were $138,698,266 and for April
$139,631,127, a decrease of 0.7 percent. The compensation of
executives, officials, and staff assistants has been included in these
figures and amounts to $5,769,995 for May and $5,810,000 for April.
Hours and earnings.—Factory wage earners averaged 34.4 hours of
work per week in June, a decline of 0.2 percent since May. Their
average hourly earnings were 64.8 cents, or 0.3 percent lower than in
the preceding month, and their average weekly earnings ($22.30)
were 1.0 percent lower.
More hours worked per week were reported by 9 of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour data are available. The
outstanding increase was 20.7 percent in anthracite mining. Average
hourly earnings were slightly larger for 6 of the nonmanufacturing
industries and average weekly earnings were higher for 9 of the 16
nonmanufacturing industries covered.
Prior to January 1938 the wording of the definition on the schedules
for public utilities, wholesale and retail trade, hotels, and brokerage
and insurance firms called for the inclusion of higher-salaried employees
such as corporation officers, executives, and others whose duties are
mainly supervisory. These employees have, for the most part, always
been excluded from employment reports for other industries, and
beginning with January it wTas requested that they be omitted also
for the industries named above. For this reason the average hours
worked per wreek, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings for these industries are not comparable with the figures appearing
in issues of this pamphlet dated earlier than January 1938.
Employment and pay-roll indexes and average weekly earnings in
June 1938 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 data are not available, are presented in table 1.




TABLE 1.—Employment, Pay Rolls, and Earnings in All Manufacturing
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1938
Employment

Industries

Average weekly
earnings

Pay roll

Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Index change from— Average change from—
June
June
in June
1938
1938
1938
June
May
Juno
May
May June

Industry

1938

1937

1938

1937

(1923-25
= 100)
75.9 - 1 . 9

-24.9

(1923-25
= 100)
67.2 - 2 . 9

-34.7

+1.1

-21.9

(1929=
100)
_ 56.0 +6.0
80.1 - 2 . 6
55.8 - 5 . 1

-9.2
-16.8
-29.8

(1929=
100)
49.7 +29.9
57.1 +2.8
46.0 -10.2

-10.1
-31.5
-40.9

All manufacturing
industries
combined l
Class I steam railroads 2

51.2

Coal mining: 4
Anthracite 4
Bituminous
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
Trader
Wholesale
Retail
General merchandising
Other than general
merchandising
6
Hotels (year-round)*
Laundries4 ._ . _. 4
Dveing and cleaning
Brokerage
_
Insurance
Building construction

43.6
72.9
74.8
92.2

-.3
-.5
-.3

+.6

-13.1

28.94 +22.6
18. 93 +5.5
25.49 -5.4

-1.0
-17.7
-15.8

-2.3
+1.8
+2.6 « 31.08 - . 1

+3.4

90.9
98.7

+1.3

-1.7

5

+.7

+7.8
+2.6

-2.2
-2.1
-.7
-.2
-.8
-1.3
+1.1
+3.2
-1.6

-2.1

5 32. 39 - 1 . 8

+2.0

-3.6
-6.6
-8.9

5 29. 58 - 1 . 9
5 21.46 - . 5
5 18. 22 +.3

-.2

-4.8
-4.2

-.4

-4.0

69.6

-.2
-.2
-.5

-3.4
-7.6
-10.6

73.6
69.5
84.3

81.4
92.1
96.6

-.1
-1.7

-6.6
-2.4
-7.0
-6.4
-18.8

66.4
79.4
81.8
83.3

+.4 +2.1
+.2 -30.4

-1.0

$22.30

-29.1
-4.0

37.3
67.6

87.2
83.6
91.9

+.5

1937

-2.6
+1.3
-.4

-21.3
-7.2

70.4

no. 9 - +.9
1.4

1938

+.9
+1.1

21.61
34.48

33. 72

- 5 . 9 5 24.11
- . 9 514. 89
17.26
-6.5
20.98
-9.7
-26. 4 5 33. 87
- 2 . 8 s 36. 30
29.43
-30.7

-.7

+.3
+.7
+2.3
-.2
+.5
+1.0

-9.9

+1.9
+.8
+1.6
+.5
-3.5
-9.3
-4.8
-.3

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Revised indexes—Adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures.
Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
Not available.
* Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938
issue
of this pamphlet.
8
Average weekly earnings not strictly comparable withfigurespublished in issues of this pamphlet dated
earlier than January 193S (except for the Januaryfigures),as they now exclude corporation officers, executives,
and
6 other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
a*

Public Employment
During June more workers were employed on Public Works Administration construction projects than in any month since November
1937. Of the 117,000 at work 24,000 were engaged on Federal and
non-Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act
funds and 93,000 on projects financed from funds provided by the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937. Payroll disbursements totaling $9,774,000 were $569,000 larger than in
the preceding month.
A marked seasonal expansion in road construction during the month
accounted in large part for substantially increased employment on
projects financed by regular Federal appropriations. Employment



in June on these projects totaled 222,000—19,000 more than in May
and 35,000 more than in June 1937. Gains in employment were
registered on all types of projects with the exception of building construction, electrification, naval vessels, and water and sewerage
projects. Total pay-roll disbursements in June amounted to
$21,363,000.
In June nearly 3,000 workers were employed on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, fewer than
in any month since the Bureau first began collecting data on the
program in April 1934. The June employment figure was virtually
the same as for May. Pay-roll disbursements, on the other hand,
were somewhat higher in June ($493,000 compared with $460,000 in
May), because of the increase in the number of man-hours worked
during the month.
Employment on projects operated by the Works Progress Administration continued to increase. The number at work in June
amounted to 2,767,000, a gain of 88,000 from May and of 747,000
from June 1937. Pay rolls in June were $145,943,000, an increase
of $38,968,000 compared with June of last year. The upward trend
in employment on Federal projects under The Works Program continued during the month, the 37,000 added to the pay rolls increasing the total number working to 288,000. Pay-roll disbursements
on these projects amounted to $15,163,000. Employment on work
projects of the National Youth Administration increased sharply.
Data on employment and pay rolls for Student Aid projects in June
will not be available until next month.
In the regular services of the Federal Government increases in the
number working were reported for the executive and legislative services and decreases were reported for the judicial and military services.
Of the 858,000 employees in the executive service in June, 116,000
w^ere working in the District of Columbia and 742,000 outside the
District. Force-account employees (employees who are on the Federal pay roll and are engaged on construction projects) w^ere 7 percent
of the total number of employees in the executive service. The Post
Office Department, the Department of Agriculture, and the Works
Progress Administration were among the agencies reporting increases
in employment and the War Department and the Treasury Department reported decreases.
Employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps continued to
decrease, dropping to the lowest point since September 1937. In
June 294,000 workers were in camps, a decline of 12,000 compared
with May and of 30,000 from June 1937. Of the total number in
camps in June 251,000 were enrollees, 5,000 Reserve officers, 300
nurses, 1,500 educational advisers, and 36,000 supervisory and tech88080—38

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nical employees. Monthly pay-roll disbursements for all groups of
workers amounted to $13,506,000.
The number of workers on roads financed wholly from State or
local funds increased 6,000 in June. Of the 180,000 working, 160,000
were engaged on maintenance projects and 20,000 on new road construction. Pay rolls for both types of road work amounted to
$12,060,000 in June, an increase of $673,000 from May.
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 1938

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[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class

June

May

Percentage
change

Pay rolls

June

May

Federal services:
Executive 2
857,520
3 841,176 +1.9 $128,071,062 3$124,983,174
2,083
2,143
-2.8
Judicial
_
515,428
516,115
5,251
+.6
Legislative
_
5,220
1,211,535
1, 206, 474
-.2
Military
328,744
329,256
25, 524,486
25,059,048
Construction projects:
Financed by Public Works Administration *
9,204,258
116,874
9, 773, 522
115, 710
+1.0
Financed by Reconstruction
Finance Corporation 5
493,122
459, 501
2,984
3,032
-1.6
Financed by regular Federal
19,
763,004
appropriations
__
202,845
21,362,
606
222,096
+9.5
Federal projects under The Works
12,608,884
251,115 +14.7
Program
15,163,038
288,010
Projects operated by Works Progress
Administration
_
_. 2, 767,125 2, 678, 702
+3.3 145,943,462 137,876,630
National Youth Administration:
2,967,134
172,134 +17.5
3,437,299
Work projects
_
202,184
2, 393,532
326,644
Student Aid.
_
14, 237,636
306,141
13, 506,062
Civilian Conservation Corps
-4.0
293,859

Percentage
change

+2.5
+'.4
+1.9
+6.2
+7.3
+8.1
+20.3
+5.9
+15.8
"-5~1

1
Includes data on projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds.
*Includes forco-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to
the extent, of 103,114 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $13,381,719 for June and 102,716 employees
and pay-roll disbursements of $12,803,923 for May.
3 Revised.
* Data covering Public Works Administration projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation
Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds are included. These data are not shown under The Works Program.
Includes 93,141 wage earners and $7,630,319 pay roll for June; 91,206 wage earners and $7,131,788 pay roll for
May, covering Public Works Administration projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts
of 81935, 1936, and 1937 funds.
Includes 97 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $8,345 for June and 80 employees and pay-roll
disbursements of $0,759 for May on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
6 Not available.

The value of material orders placed on projects financed from
regular Federal appropriations during the second quarter of 1938
amounted to $85,309,000. Approximately 219,000 man-months of
labor were involved in the final fabrication of these materials. On
Public Works Administration projects orders were placed for $51,218,000 worth of materials, for which it is estimated 145,000 manmonths of labor were required in final fabrication processes.
The value of material orders placed on the various programs
financed by Federal funds during the second quarter of 1938, the first
quarter of 1938, and the second quarter of 1937, and the man-months



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of employment created in the final fabrication of the materials used
are shown in table 3.
TABLE 3.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Projects Financed Wholly or Partially
From Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Program

Second
quarter
of 1938

First
quarter
of 1938

Second
quarter
of 1937

Public Works Administration 1
$51,217,783 $41,728,099 $90, 775, 701
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 2__ 2,204,430 2, 786,893
2,956.408
Regular Federal appropriations
85, 308, 721 62,827, 761 56,728,102
Federal Projects under The Works Program:
C onstruction
13,086,761 10, 343, 751 26,238, 218
Professional, technical, and clerical..
115,300
180,126
297,805
Projects operated by Works Progress
Administration...
81,088, 651 56, 266, 574
Rentals and services on projects operated by Works Progress Administration
_
53,147, 699 39,128, 795
National Youth Administration:
663,090
Work projects
1,036,868
Rentals and services on work
730,346
projects

Man-months of labor created in final fabrication
Second
quarter
of 1938

First Second
quarter quarter
of 1938 of 1937

145, 220
5,193
218, 604

118. 234
6, 698
152, 364

252. 660
7, 056
132,704

34, 575
323

25, 652
599

70, 245
1,008

252,411

170,767

3,324

2,074

1
Data covering projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937
funds are included. These data are not shown under The Works Program.
23 Includes RFC Mortgage Co.
Data not available.

DETAILED TABLES FOR JUNE 1938
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are available for
the following groups: 89 manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including private building construction; and class I
steam railroads. The reports for the first two of these groups—
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing —are based on sample surveys
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 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

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 1938 are
shown in table 4. Percentage changes from May 1938 and June 1937
are also given.




Indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings for April, May, and June 1938, are presented in table 5. The
April and May figures may differ in some instances from those previously published because of revisions necessitated by the inclusion of
late reports and other causes.
Average weekly earnings shown in tables 4 and 5 are computed by
dividing the total weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments
by the total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As
all reporting establishments do not supply man-hour data, average
hours worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily
based on data supplied by a smaller number of reporting firms. The
size and composition of the reporting sample vary slightly from
month to month and therefore the average hours per week, average
hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings shown in tables 4 and 5
are not strictly comparable from month to month. The sample,
however, is believed to be sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances to indicate the general movements of earnings and hours
over the period shown. The changes from the preceding month,
expressed as percentages, are based on identical lists of firms for the
2 months.




TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1938
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923 2t>=100, and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures.
Employment

Industry
Index,
J une
1938

Average weekly
earnings i

Pay rolls

Percentage
change from—
May
1938

June
1937

Index,
June
1938

Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1939]

Percentage
change from—
May
1938

June
1937

Average hours worked
per week *

May
1938

June
1937

Percentage
change from—

Percentage
change from—

Percentage
change from—
June
1938

Average hourly
earnings »

June
1938

June
1938

May
1938

June
1937

-0.S

-12.7

Cents
64.8

+.1

- 16.9
-8.1

71.8
53.7

-.3
-.1

~+.8
+.5
+1.0

May
1938

June
1937

All manufacturing industries

75.9

-1.9

-24.9

67.2

-2.9

-34.7

$22.30

-1.0

-13.1

34.4

Durable goods
Nondurable goods
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills...
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets.
._
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
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)
"\Yirewrork
Machinery, not including transportation equipment.
Agricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.

65.8
86.7

-3.5

-33.4
-16.2

58.1
78.8

-4.0
-1.9

-44.5
-21.8

24.22
20.52

-.5
-1.1

-16.6
-6.7

34.0
34.7

73.1
78.8
58.8
57.3

-3.2
-4.0
-4.2

-27.9
-25. 8
-28.2
-18.8

57.4
59.0
52.3
41.0

-5.7
-7.7
-6.0

+.9

-48.0
-52.2
-44.0
-31.3

22.17
22.21
20.16
19.11

-2.7
-3.8
-1.9

-27.9
-35.5
-22.0
-15.2

29.6
26. 5
28.3
32.7

-2.1
-4.1
-2.6

-26.7
-34.3
-28.3
-18.0

76.3
84.1
71.1
57.0

+.2
+.6
+.8

70.7
40.7
57. 7
80.4

-1.5
-6.2
-3.5

-18.0
-43.9
-40.3
-13.6

58.0
28.4
53.1
57.4

-.3
-8.2
-1.6
-2.2

-32.7
-60. 2
-45. 0
-21. 8

20.51
21. 30
20.77
22.55

+2.0

-2. I

-18.0
-29.1
-7.9
-12.9

33.6
28. 9
31.8
34.1

+1.4

-1.2
-2.2

-20.7
-31.7
-12.7
-16.0

62.8
73.8
65. 3
6(5. 0

+1.5
2
+'•6
-1.5

46.4
58.3
50.4
95.1

+7.5

+7.8
-2.6
-2.2

-14.7
-12.3
-14.2
-1. i

34.1
34.9
31.7
37.8

+9.9

+1.6

23. 79
22. 95
25. 2fi
22.71

-17.0
-14.5
-17.6
-6.1

69.8
66. 4
72. S
60.1

-1. 5

-5.2
-4.4

-39. 3
-41.1
-3S.8
-IS. 4

-23. 6
-20. 5
-1J.7
-9.3

61.7
65. 8
72.7
73.4

+.1

-15.0

81.8
74.7

See footnotes at end of table.




+.3

+.6
+1.2
-3.1

+1.0

-1.6

56.8
74.5
55.2
90.1

-2.6
-2.3

+1.6

-28.8
-37.4
-28.7
-17.5

73.2
103.5
86.0
117.2

-2.3
-10.8
-4.0
-9.5

-27.9
-42.9
-33.4
-16.7

65.2
85.8
76.9
141.0

-4.8
-12.8
-5.4
-13.2

-43.2
-54. 5
-44.0
-22.8

20.71
20. 59
24.63
26. 84

-2.5
-2.3
-1.4
-4.1

-21.3
-21.3
-15.8
-7.4

33.4
31.3
33.8
36.7

-2.3
-1.6

121.9
75,2

-2.0
-3.6

-10.3
-37.2

115.8
07.3

-.5
-2.6

-21.1
-40.7

28.56
24.4Q

+1.5
+1.0

-12.1
-15. Q

35. 2

+1.2
+1.3

32.7 '

-2.1
-2.8
-.3

-0.5

-0.3

—.3

+.6
-.6

-.6

q

-2.8

+.9
-.2

-1.0

+8.7
+2.7
+4.1
+3.4
+5.5
+3.6
+2.4
+2.5
+4.0
+5. 4
+2.3
-. 1
+3.9
+2.1
+3.6
+3.4

TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing

and Nonmanufacturing

Industries, June

1938—Continued

MANUFACTURING—Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100, and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures.

Industry
Index,
June
1938

Percentage
change from—
May
1938

June

104.4
75.7
108.8
92.2
56.1
112.3
62.3
715.2
61.6
28. 6
30. 5
92.9
39.9
59.8
38.4
79.6
91.5
82.0
86.8
75.8
59. 6
67.7
(58. 4
96.6
54.2
64.5

-3.8
-4.4
-6.5
+6.9
-6.4
-.5
-8.7
-4.0
-10.3
-10.8
-7.6
-.2
-2.7
-1.1
-3.0
-3.5
-3.6
-1.9
-4.4
+3.0
-6. 3
-1.5
-3.8
-8.2
-.4
+1.1

-30.3
-32.8
-28.7
-49.4
-35.7
-27.0
-50.7
-14.2
-55. 3
-62.6
-48.7
-10.1
-37.7
-4.7
-40.1
-30.1
-29.4
-33.0
-28.6
-15.0
-37.9
-9.0
-23. 0
-39.3
-25.7
-27.6

45. 1
41.6

+2.0
-1.9

-21.6
-25.4

Average weekly
earnings

Pay rolls

Employment

Index,
June
1938

Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936]

Percentage
change from—

Average hours worked
per week

Percentage
change from—
June
1938

May
1938

June
1937

95.0
65.8
86.1
75,1
46.8
80.2
57.7
655.7
53.7
31.1
19.6
108.9
41.0
66.2
39.2
65.5
84.8
67.2
63.4
53.7
49.6
52.0
61.0
84.8
48.1
49.7

-6.5
-6.1
-11.0
+7.2
-3.5
+1.4
-8.7
-4.1
-4.3
-9.4
-12.2
+2.1
-3.5
-1.6
-3.8
-4.7
-8.1
-4.6
-7.0
+6.3
-2.2
-3.8
-4.8
-8.6
+1.5
+4.0

-39.3
-44. 9
-47.7
-51.9
-50.0
-46.9
-54.9
-12.7
-60.3
-65. 9
-61.8
-4.8
-40.3
-1.4
-43.1
-41.3
-37.4
-46. 3
-46. 5
-23.6
-47.9
-24.8
-28. 5
-47.8
-33.5
-36. 9

$27. 50
24.30
24.31
22.07
23.00
19. 56
29.64
29. 11
29.60
26.14
25.08
31.61
29.70
31.19
29.35
22.20
22.75
23.14
16. 85
21.82
22.10
20. 85
20.14
21.35
19.52
18.42

42.4
38.1

+2.0
-.1

-26. 2

21.36
19.76

Average hourly
earnings

Percentage
change from—
June
1938

May
1938

June
1937

-2.8
-1.8
-4.8

-12.8
-18.9
-26.6
-4.8
-22.3
-27.3
-8.4
+1.8
-11.1
-8.8
-25. 6
+5.8
-4.2
+3.5
-5.1
-15.9
-11.3
-20.0
-25.2
-10.2
-16.0
-17.4
-7.2
-14.0
-10.6
-12.8

33.9
33.9
33.4
36.9
34.0
30.0
33.4
39.7
32.0
35.0
32.7
37.3
41.1
43.8
40.7
33.5
33.4
32.6
29.3
35.2
32.1
32.6
38.4
33.8
37.5
35.0

-6.0
-11.0

39.0
38.6

Percentage
change from—
June
1938

May
1938

June
1937

-2.6
-2.0
-4.3
+2.0
+1.8
+1.7
+4.6
-1.8
+6.3
+1.0
-3.4
-.2
-.5
-.2
-1.2
-4.3
-2.4
-1.6
+4.0
+1.9
-4.0
-1.9
-.3
+2.0
+4.9

-15.2
-22.4
-27.6
-3.6
-22.5
-29.6
-11.2
-11.9
-13.4
-12.3
-29.9
-.4
-6.8
-1.5
-8.6
-17.0
-15.4
-20.6
-30.1
-9.8
-19.9
-16.3
-8.2
-13.7
-12.1
-16.0

Cents
81.5
71.4
72.7
59.9
67.9
65.1
88.9
73.8
92.7
74.6
76.8
83. 3
71.9
69.8
72.2
66.0
68.2
70.9
58.6
60.9
68.8
63.4
68.2
62.7
53.1
53.1

+.4
+1.2

-10.7
-10.4

54.9
52.7

May
1938

June
1937

Durable goods— Continued
Machinery—Continued.
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels.
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
Electric 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, lead, and zinc. _
Stainped and enameled ware.__
Lumber and allied products
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork
Sawmills




+.4

+3.1
+1.9
+5.5
-. 1
+6.7
+1.6
-4.9
+2.3
-.9
-.5
-.8
-1.2
-4.7
-2.8
-2.7
+3.2
+4.3
-2.3
-1.1
-.4
+1.8
+2.8

+()

+1.8

+.4

-0.2
-.1
-.5
-1.5

+1.5
+.3
+.5
+1.2
+.6
+.6

-1.6
+1.2
-.3

+• 1
-.4
+.1
-!4

+.1

-.6
+2.4
+1.2
+.9
-.3
-.1
-1.9
-.1

+.8

+2.1
+5.0
+1.4
2

+( )
+.5

+3.1
+2.3
+15.5
+2.6
+3.9
+6.1
+4.5
3.1
+5.3
+3.9
+1.2
+5.0
+.7
+8.5
-2.7
+4.9
-1.5
+1.2
-1.1
+1.3
+3.4
+5.2
-.6

Stone, clay, and glass products

Brick, tile, and terra cotta_
_
__.
Cement
Glass
_
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
_

57.2
39.8
63. 5
79.5
37.5
68.3

-.3
-.2
+2.1
-1.8

+.6

-22.7
-27.0
-8.8
-29. 3
-14.8

-n. 6

51.3
32.5
65.9
77.1
32. 7
54. 0

-23. 2
-33 7
-12. 2
-35 4
-12.9
-23. 1

22.77

15. X)S
!5 29
is) -9
12. 52
1.6 82
18 97
20 Oo
16. 68
15 04
18 02
14 31
14. 00
16 2o
14 91
12 74
18. 35
11 22
16.30
14 71
23 11
24. 98
25 76
33 51
23 18
15 98
18. 21
26. 66
28. 42
2S. 19
°7 89
21.'22
16. 91
18. 62
16. 57
27. 04
19. 89
22. 89

-2.8
—7
4-11.4
-2.3

-2.6
— 1.4
-2.4

-34.0
-33. 9
-f>3.4
-36. 7
-21. 6
-19.9
-44. 7
-19. 2
-39. 8
-42. 2
-33. 8
-50. 2
-21. 3
-10.2
-20. 8
-25. 0
-21. 1
-31. 6
-32. 4
-29. 8
-4. 1
2 5
~C>.0
-2.0
-13. 3
i
2
2
-4.7
-3. 6
—9. 9
+5. 4
3
— j. 7
—_ 8
-12. 9
-17. 1
-22. 5

-4.1
-1.6

-12.1
-3. 7

29. 02
36. 81

-1.5
-.8

-2.5
+.8

-.8
-1.8
-4. 8
-6.7

19.43
26 62
23. 48
25.19
20 93

-2.1
+ 1.0

-2.9
— (2)
-5.4
-6.3

-7.0
-9.2
-3.8
-8.7

+2.1

-10.1

35.7
37.7
38.9
33. 4
37.1
34.0

64.1
51.8
68.4
70.5
67.8
63. 6

+.2
+( 2 )
+.2
+.9
-.6
-.4

+3.5
+.5
+2.8
+3.4
+5.0
+7.4

-.3
—.5
-.3
7

-4.1
-2.8
+ 1.9
-3. 3

-1. 5
8
-l! 7

-2.7
—. 5
-3.8
-1.3
-3.5
-1.8
-3.7
-8.4
-10.2
-12.4

47.9
47. 3
64.2
40.1
48. 4
54. 7
72.0
51. 4
41. 2
53. 7
4S.9
51. 8
49. 3
46. 5
35.1
63. 0
37. 8
51. 4
48.6
63. 0
61.4
61.3
84.1
48.0
46.7
49. 0
59.6
60.1
69. 0
70.8
61.0
45.7
50.9
45.1
77.4
55. 3
62.5

-2. 4
—_ 7

-7.8
-2.7

80.6
99. 4

-1 2

+2.1
-3.1
— 9
-5 6
-2 7

-10.7
-9. 5
-7.0
-12,0
-3.2
-18.3

Nondurable goods

Textiles and their products..
FabricsCarpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
Hats, fur-felt_
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 leather 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.




80.2
7(3.5
57.1
SO. 4
75. 4

-22.4
-23.3
—13.8
-22.0
-22. 6
-10.9
-34. 0
-15.6
-32. o
-32.2
-20.5
-32.3
-13.6
-4.5
-17.7
-16.3
-9.4
-16.8
-14.1
-24.6
-4.7
-3.2
-5.2
-5.6
-9.9
-2.0
— 1.1
-8.1
-4.6
-14.8

-.9

-9.1
-11.0
-13.3

60.3
62.0
46.7
61. 0
69. 0
70. 7
40.8
96.1
41.2
45.4
54.6
43.2
72. 0
76.5
82. 1
28.0
80.2
55.1
49.6
76. I
111.1
130.4
245. 0
75.1
107.1
67.2
74.4
77.6
95. 6
49.8
72.1
55.2
68. 2
53. 6
91.4
86. 3
9(5. 4

-2.6
-.9

-7.9
-3.0

80.3
99.8

-.4
-10.3
-.6
-3.0
-3.8
-17.5

+.7

-9. 6
+12.7
-6.8
-5.3
-10.6
-1.3
-1.7
-17.7

+ 1.2
-4.8
-5.8
-.1

+5.4
+1.7
+4.1
+3.2
+33.4
+.8
+1.8
+4.8
+1.8
+9.0
+1.5
-1.0
+1.7
-1.3

+ 1.3
+.3
-2.1
+.7

-5.3
-J. 1
--. 1
-2.8
-3.4
— 7. 7
-14.1
-1.6
— 11.0

+21.7
-13.3
—9.9
-1S. 5
-9.7

+3. 3

-19. S
-4.0
-5.5
-8.3

+1.9
+3.8
+1.8
+5.1
+2 2
+25. 4
+5.6
+4.3
+4.9
+J.0
+6.6
-J.4
+5.1
+6. 9
+4.8

+'.

-14.8
-13.9
-17.2
-19.0
[,
-2. 8
-4^0
-JO. 2
1
6.3
+4.2
-2.3
—4. 3
-2.0
— 10.9
+S. 0 - 1 4 . 7
— 7. 1 - 1 6 . 8
-5.0
-26. 6
-8.8
-9. 0
- 8 . f>
5_ 7
—3
7
+5.1
- 2 . 5 — 10! 4
1
2
.
7
-5.2

y
-2! 6

-18.3
-21.4

+2.0

— <">. 9

-1.5
2

+( )

+.9
-.9

-5. 9

+4.7
+2.4
+.1
-.7
-2.2
-.8

+3.5
+7.9
+3.0
-1.3
-.9

— 1.5

+. 7
—. 9

+3. 8
-3.8
+.8
+1.4
+3. 8
+1.0
+5.7
+4.0
-1.3
+.4

-1.4
-4.2
-3. 9
-10.6

-4. 6
-.8 '

31.4
32.4
30.1
31.3
34.7
34. 5
29.6
33. 1
33. ii
33. 7
2i>. 2
2K. 2
30. 2
31.7
34.3
2S.4
30.8
31.7
30. 4
3(>. 8
40.7
42.3
40. 3
48.1
31. 9
37.4
44. 5
47.6
40.7
40.8
39. 7
36.9
36. 6
37.0
36.4
36. 7
36.7
36. 5
35.8

-s!
-«.

-11.3
-11.5
-18.6
-15.9
-4.4
-">. 2
-15.4
-S. 0
-9. 2
-7.0
-10.9
-21.0
-4. 3
-5.2

+.
+.

—1. «
-10. 7
-16.8
-19.0

-1. 9
— 1

+11 8

-1. 3
4
4 0
+5 C
— 2. 0
— ] f>
+0. ^
—i). 0
jj 0
9
2
+4. 6
- 9 . •")
-4. 3
9
2
+2. 7
1
_L* 2
4
7
+1'. 3

+v.

+4.0
+2. 9
6
—.
1

5
+3." 6
3
+4.' 9

+6. 9
+4. 7

+.1

79
0 3

-3! 8
-3. 3
-1.7
-9.0
-2. 5
-.8

+.4

-.1
— 1.3
-.1
-.8
-1.6

+.3
+.1
+.2
+.6

+2. 5
+8.2
+1.0
+.4
+.4
-.8
-1.6
-.2
-.2
-.3
-8.1

+.7
-.1

+1.2
+.4
-5.8
-.6
-.9

+ 1.0
-1.1
+.2
—.1
+.1
+.8
-.1

+.3

-4.8

+.9
+3. 9

-1.9
-8.2
-7. I
-6.6
-6.3

+1.0
-1.0
-12.6
-3.0
-3.2
-3.6

+.2
+2.1
+4.6
+2.4
+5.8
+3.4
+3.7
+1.8
+4.3
+ 1.1
+10.7
+1.6
+2.3
+2.0
-7.2
+4.3
+6.4
+2.1
+3.2
+3.4

TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1938—Continued
MAN UFACTURING—Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100, and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936]

Industry
Index,
June
1938

Percentage
change from—
May
1938

June
1937

-3.1

-16.1
-6. 7
-18.5
-22.2
+9.1

Average weekly
earnings

Pay rolls

Employment

Index,
June
1938

June
1938

June
1937

1938

May
1938

June
1937

+0.6

-0.4
+2.4

Average hourly
earnings
Percentage
change from—

Percentage
change from—

Percentage
change from—

Percentage
change from—
May

Average hours worked
per week

June

Juno
1938

Mav
1938

Juno
1937

-1.0
-2.2

-5.5

1938

Mav
1938

June
1937

Nondurable goods— Continued
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum refining __ _
Petroleum refining
..
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and metil
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers .__ .
Paints and varnishes
Kayon and allied products
Soap
.
Rubber products

Kubber boots and shoes
Kubber tires and inner tubes _
Kubber goods, other

_

103 9
117.6
100.6
107.7
47.9
103.7
84. 9
62 3
116.7
284, 2
91.7
70 6
53. 5
62.2
102.7

+•2

-4.0

+.1

-16.3
-.2

+.1

-31.1
-1.7
-6.5

+ (2)
-1.3
+2.1
-(2)

-3.7

-4.6
-10.4
— 17.7
-16.0
-27.4
— 10.5
-30.2
-26. 2
-32. 9
-27.7

114.8
136.6
108.0
117.2
42.9
114.8
89.3
66.3
118.2
258.1
107.1
63.2
41.0
58.4
92.7

-2.5
-1.3
-3.0

+ 1.1
-16.4
+.2
+4.0
—30.8
-3.3
-6.2
—. l

+.2

+3.2
+2.5
-4.3

-16.4
-4.4
-20.4
-23.7
+10. 9
—5.4
-13.3
— 16.3
-17.2
-34.1
—7.0
-39.1
-41.2
—40. 4
-36.0

$23 80
35. 2(>
25.63
29. 90
12. 87
24. 03
29. 30
17 33
27.79
22.42
28.81
23.75
19.18
27. 35
20. 49

-1.5

+1.1
+1.0

-. 1

+.4
+3.9
- +.5
1.6
+.4
—. 1

+1.4
+ 1.1
+2.5
-.6

-2.4
-1.8

+ 1.7
-.8
-3.2

+1.7
-1.3
-9.3

+4.0
-12.8
-20. 1
-11.2
-11.6

37.3
36.3
37.7
37.7
48.3
37. 7
33.4
38.0
39. 9
34. 6
38.8
31.3
32. 1
28.7
34. 5

+.3

—2. 2

+.' 8
+4.2
-2.2
-2.1
0

+.7

+2.2
+2. 9
-1.8

-.3

-6. 9
-(>. 3
-5.7
-4.8
-5.5
—3.4
-5.2
-12.9
2.2
11.5
-18.5
— 10.4
-12.5

Cents
7T. 0
97.8
68. 5
79. 3
26. 1
60. 0
81. 5
45. 8
69. 7
64. 8
74. 5
77.0
od. 8
94. 5

+1.8
+.4
+1.9
+• 5
+2.5
-. i
-.3

+3.0
+.6
+.3
+ (•)
— 1. 1
—.6

+4.5
+2.4
+3.8
+•1.7

+5. 8
+2.5
+2.5
-M). 3
+ 1.0
4-4. 5

+6.1
-2.4
-2.3
-1.4

59.7

+.9

+.8

93. 2
87.9
07. 9
53. 5
83.9

+ 1.2

+2.1

NONMANUFACTURI1NG
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
Coal mining: 3
Anthracite 3
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmotallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing




56.0
80.1
55.8
43. 6
72.9

+S.0
-2. 0
-5.1
:

-.5

O

-9.2
-16.8
-29.8
-21. 3
-7.2

49.7
57.1
46. 0
37.3
67.6

+29.9
+2.8

-10.2
-2. 6

+1.3

-10.1
-31.5
-40. 9
-29.1
-4.0

$28.91
18. 93
25. 49
21. 61
3-1. 48

+22.6
+5. 5
-5.4
-2. 3

-1.0
— 17.7
-15. 8
-9. 9

+ 1.8

+3.4

30. 6
21.0
37. 6
40. 1
40.4

+20.7
+5. 8
— 5.«)
-1.5

+2 2

-2.9
-1.9. 4
-10.6
-10.5

+.6

—. 7
+• 1
-.9
o

-.8
— 5. 7
-;-.

6

+2.3

I

Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph *
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas*
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance*
Trade:
Wholesale*
Retail *__
General merchandising *
Other than general merchandising *_
Hotels (year-round) 3 *«
Laundries s_
Dyeing and cleaning 3
Brokerage 4__
Insurance *
Building construction

74.8

-.3

-4.8

90.9

-.4

+2.6

31.08

-.1

92.2

+.6

-4.2

98.7

+1.3

-1.7

33.72

+.7

70.4

-.4

-4.0

69.6

-2.2

-2.1

32.39

-1.8

87.2
83.6
91.9
81.4
92.1
96.6
110. 9

-.2
-.2
-.5
-.1
-1.7

-3.4
-7.6
-10. 6
-6.6
-2.4
-7.0
-6.4
-18.8

73.6
69. 5
84.3
66.4
79.4
81.8
83.3

-2.1
-.7
2

-3.6
-6.6
-8.9
-5.9
-.9
-6.5
-9.7

29.58
21.46
18.22
24.11
14.89
17.26
2!). 98
33.87
36.30
29.43

-1.9
-.5

+.5
+.9
-1.4
+.4 +2.1
+.2 -30.4

-L3

+1.1
+3.2
-1.6
+.9
+1.1

9fi 4

-2.8
-30.7

+.3

-.7
+.3
+.7
+2.3
-.2

+.5
+1.0

+7.8
+2.6
+2.0

38.4

+.3

+1.9

85.5

—.1

40.2

+2.7

-1.6

84.1

-1.7

+4.1

45.0

-2.0

-3.9

70.9

+.2

2

42.5
42.7
39.3
43.7
46.9
42.4
43.4

+.1
-.4
+.2
+.5
+2.7

-.7
-.3

-2.1
-.7
-1.1
-3.7
-3.2
-5.1

70.1
55.0
49.4
56.6
31.2
41.1
48.4

+.2
+.8
+.1
-.5
+.1

+6.2
+1.6
+3.5
+2.2
+3.6
+3.2
+4.8
+2.7

8

8

+L9
+.8
+1.6
+.5

-3.5
9 3
-4.8
-.3

8

+.7

8

-.9

-.5

+5.1

8

90.4
32.6
+4.0
+.8 - 4 . 8
1 Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments as 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 manufacturing industries combined, and for retail trade are also computed from indexes.
2 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
3 Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938 issue of this pamphlet.
< Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not strictly comparable with figures published in pamphlets prior to January 1938 as they now exclude corporation officers
executives,
and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
5
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
6
Not available.




TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June, May, and April 1938
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936.
Comparable series available upon request]

Employment index

Pay-roll index

Average weekly earnings i

Average hours worked
per week i

Average hourly earnings »

June

Juno

April
1938

June
1938

May
1938

April
1038

Industry

All manufacturing industries
Durable goods
Nondurable goods

1938

May
1933

April
1938

70.7

$22.30

$22.17

$22. 28

34.4

34.4

34.2

Cents
64.8

Cents
65.0

Cents
65.2

60.5
80.3

61.8
82.0

24.22
20.52

23.76
20.64

24.16
20.52

34.0
34.7

33.9
34.9

33.6
34 7

71.8
58.7

72 2
58.8

72 2
59.0

57.4
59.0
52.3
41.0

60.9
63.9
55.7
40.6

61.2
Go. 3
51.3
41). 6

22.17
22.21
20. 16
19.11

22.75
23. 08
20. 50
19.06

22.44
22. 91
19. 11
19.03

29.6
20.5
28.3
32.7

30.2
27.6
29.2
32.7

29.8
27.6
27. 1
32.5

76.3
84.1
71 1
57.6

76.3
83.7
70 5
57 5

76 2
83.2
70 5
57 6

74.9
44.2
61.1
78.7

58.0
28.4
53.1
57.4

58.2
31.0
53.9
58.7

CO. 0
81.7
f)L». 4
51. 0

20. 51
21. 30
20.77
22.55

20.28
21.82
20. 37
23.28

20. 04
21.90
19. 42
21.66

33.0
28. 9
31.8
34.1

33.9
29.0
31.4
34.7

33.4
30.0
30.0
32.1

62.8
73.8
65.3
66.0

62 1
73.9
64 9
67.0

61 6
73 3
64 6
67 5

57.0
76.5
57. 5
88.7

55.7
75.3
59.0
88.1

46.4
58.3
50.4
95.1

43.1
61.5
52.7
93.6

41.7
59. 3
ftf. 3
9J. 9

23.79
22. 95
25. 26
22.71

22.01
23.61
25. 77
23.36

21.70
23.09
25.41
22.82

34.1
34.9
34.7
37.8

30.9
35.7
35.8
37.9

30.4
35.0
35.4
30.9

69.8
66.4
72.8
60.1

70.9
66.6
72 2
61.9

71 4
66 2
71 8
62.3

73.2
103. 5

74.9
116.0

76.7
117.4

65.2
85.8

68.5
98.3

09. 9
102.1

20.71
20.59

21. 25
20. 99

21.18
21. 56

33.4
31.3

34.0
31.6

34.1
31.8

61.7
65 8

61 8
66 5

61 8
67 9

86.0
117.2

89.6
129.5

93.2
136.5

76.9
141.0

81.3
162.5

84.2
10S.6

24.68
26. 84

24.96
27. 98

24 94
27.50

33.8
30.7

34.1
37.2

34.0
36.8

72.7
73.4

72 9
75 4

73 0
74 9

121.9

124.4

126.0

115.8

116.4

115.0

28.56

28.16

27.49

35.2

34.8

34.0

81 8

81 2

80 9

75.2
104.4
75.7
108.8

78.0
108.5
79.2
116.4

81.6
119.3
81.7
122.1

67.3
95.0
65.8
86.1

69.1
101.6
70.1
96.8

72.7
115. 0
71.5
101.3

24. 49
27. 50
24.30
24.31

24. 27
28.35
24.74
25.54

24.42
29. 50
24.47
25.51

32.7
33.9
33.9

32.3
34.8
34.7
34.9

32.6
35.9
34.4

74 7
81.5
71.4
72.7

74 9
81.6
71.3
73.0

74 6
82.5
71.2
72.9

April
1938

June

77.4

79.6

67.2

69.2

65.8
86.7

68.2
87.4

70.0
89.8

58.1
78.8

73.1
78.8
58 8
57.3

75.5
82.1
61.4
57.1

76.9
84.4
60.8
57.2

70.7
40.7
57.7
80.4

71.8
43.4
59.8
79.7

56.8
74.5
50.2
90.1

June
1038

May

75.9

1938

1938

May
1938

April
1938

1938

May
1938

Durable goods

Iron and steel and their products, not including
marhinftry
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills..
Bolts nuts washers and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel __
Hardware
-Plumbers' supplies
.
_
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings
Stoves
_
_
Structural and ornamental metalwork
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine
tools,files,and saws)
Wirework
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.
Foundry and machine-shop products
Machine tools




33.4

35.0

Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts
...
Typewriters and parts
_.
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
_
_
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
.Locomotives
Shipbuilding
Railroad repair shops
Electric railroad
.
Steam railroad
Nonferrous metals and their products
A him inum manufactures
_
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices
Jewelry
Lighting equipment.-^Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
Stamped and enameled ware
Lumber and allied products _._
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork.
Sawmills
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terracotta
__
Cement
Glass.
_
"Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
___

02.2
56.1
112.3
62.3
715. 2
61. 6
28. 6
30.5
92.9
39.9
59.8
38.4
79.6
91.5
82.0
86.8
75.8
59.6
67.7
68.4
96.6
54.2
64.5

86.3
60.0
1J2.9
63.2
745.1
68.7
32.1
33.0
93.1
41.0
60.4
39.6
82.5
94.9
83.6
90.7
73.6
63.6
68.8
71.1
105.3
54.4
03.8

88.0
60.3
111.4
72.0
768. 9
73.1
37.1
37.5
90.5
42.3
61.3
40.9
84.9
97.1
85.0
• 94.0
78.1
66.1
70.4
73.1
108.2
55.0
65.4

75.1
46.8
80.2
67.7
655. 7
53.7
31.1
19.6
108.9
41.0
66. 2
39.2
65.5
84.8
67.2
63.4
53.7
49.6
52.0
61.0
84.8
48.1
49.7

70.1
48.4
79.1
59.9
683.7
56. 1
34.4
22.3
106. 7
42.5
67.3
40.8
63.7
92.3
70.5
68. 1
50.6
50.7
54.0
64. 0
92.8
47.4
47.8

45.1
41.6
57.2
39.8
63.5
79.5
37. 5
68.3

44.2
42.4
57.4
39.9
62.2
80.9
37.3
68.6

45. 3
42.3
56.9
38.7
60.5
81.8
35.9
69.6

42.4
38. 1
51.3
32. 5
65.9
77.1
32.7
54.0

80.2
76.5
57.1
80.4
75.4
97.8
55.4
99.7
53. 5
58.3
86.9
72.2
118.7
85.5
112.4

82.3
76.8
63.7
80.9
77.7
101.7
67.1
99.0
59.1
51. 7
93. 2
76. 2
132.8
86. 6
114.4

86.3
78.1
68.4
83.2
78.1
103. 4
80.7
103.3
59.7
46.6
103. 0
90.6
143. 3
87.2
116.3

60.3
62. 0
46.7
64.0
69. 0
76. 7
40.8
96.1
41.2
45.4
54.6
43.2
72.0
76. 5
82.3

69.0
48.5
78.4
65.4
6S9. 3
62. 5 .
39. 6
25.7
105.9
43.2
07.7
41.5
69.3
92.6
69.0
68.4
52.2
50.8
54. 3
64.8
98.3
47.1
49.2

22.07
23. 00
19. 56
29.64
29. 11
29. 60
2(3. 14
25. 08
31.61
29.70
31.19
29. 35
22.20
22. 75
23. 14
16. 85
21.82
22. 10
20. 85
26. 14
21.35
19. 52
18.42

21.64
22.30
19. 19
24.95
29.14
27.71
25. 67
26. 38
30. 92
29.94
31.32
29. 62
22. 55
23. 97
23. 78
17. 25
21. 00
21.14
21.41
2f».42
21.45
19.21
17.96

20.91
22. 22
19. 27
23.94
28.47
2S. 78
25. 56
26. 68
31.57
29.55
31. 18
29. 19
22.15
23. do
22. 95
16. 70
20. 58
19. 86
21.00
25. 90
22. 26
18.91
17.92

36.9
34.0
30.0
33.4
39.7
32.0
35. 0
32.7
37.3
41.1
43.8
40.7
33.5
33.4
32.6
29. 3
35.2
32.1
32.6
38.4
33.8
37.5
35.0

35.9
33.4
29.5
31.9
40.4
30.1
34. 6
33.8
37.0
41.3
44.0
40.9
33.8
35.0
33.4
28.5
33.9
31.4
33. 9
39. 1
33.9
36.8
33.2

33.5
33.2
29.5
32.7
39.8
31.3
34.2
34.5
36.4
40.8
44.0
40.4
33.0
33.9
31.9
27.2
33.9
29.2
33.4
38.1
35.3
36.0
33.2

59.9
67.9
65.1
88.9
73.8
92.7
74.6
76.8
83.3
71.9
69.8
72.2
66.0
68.2
70.9
58.6
60.9
68.8
63.4
68.2
62.7
53.1
53.1

60.7
67.0
64.9
88.5
72.9
92.0
74.2
78.0
82.7
72.0
69.8
72.3
66.3
68.6
71.4
60.5
61.2
67.2
63.0
67.6
62.9
53.1
54.6

62.0
67.0
65.1
88.5
72.1
91.9
74.8
77.4
84.2
72.0
69.5
72.3
66.6
69.5
72.0
61.3
60.7
68.0
63.0
68.1
63.0
53.5
54.4

41.6
38. 2
52.6
32.3
66.4
78.5
34. 4
58.0

40.7
37.3
49.4
29.2
58.8
77.1
31.8
56.5

21.36
19.76
22.77
19. 43
26. 62
23. 48
25. 19
20.93

21.39
19. 42
23.12
19.17
27.44
23. 44
2f>. 94
22.38

20.43
19. 17
22.00
17. 89
2il. 98
22.88
2G. 02
21.49

39.0
38.6
35.7
37.7
38.9
33. 4
37.1
34.0

38.9
38.2
36.0
36.6
40.2
33. 6
39.3
34.9

37.7
37.1
34.6
34.6
36. 7
33.2
37.9
34.4

54.9
52. 7
64.1
51.8
68.4
70. 5
67.8
63.6

55.1
51.8
64.0
51.8
68.3
69.8
68.7
64.2

54.1
52.8
63.8
51.6
68.1
69.1
69.2
63.8

63.7
62. 7
40.7
65.9
71. 5
83.1
47. 5
97.7
46. 5
37.3
63.0
47.9
88.4
81.7
79.5

68.6
64.0
51.8
67.9
70.6
86. 0
53. 6
102.6
45.8
31.0
74.6
64.5
99.1
86. 4
83.9

15.03
15. 29
19.29
12.52
16.82
18. 97
20. 05
16. 68
15. 04
18.02
14.31
14. 09
16. 25
11.91
12.74

15.23
15. 12
17.41
12. 70
16. 89
19. 74
19. 27
17. Ofi
15.30
10. 05
15. 52
14.80
18.14
16.27
12.16

15.60
15. 16
17. 9'i
12.78
16. 69
20. 10
18.00
17.27
14. 90
10. 71
16. 69
16. 77
18. 92
16. 47
12.55

31.4
32,4
30. 1
31.3
34.7
34.5
29. 6
33. 1
33.5
33.7
29.2
26.2
30.2
31.7
34.3

31.8
32.2
27. 1
31.1
34.8
36.0
27.9
33. 7
34.0
30.6
31.0
27. 1
33.1
31.9
33.2

31.6
31.9
27.8
31.1
34.6
36.8
23.3
33.3
33.8
28.7
31.2
28.5
32.4
35.4
33.8

47.9
47.3
64.2
40.1
48.4
54.7
72.0
51.4
44.2
53.7
48.9
54.8
49.3
46.5
35.1

47.9
47.3
64.2
40.8
48.2
54.4
73.6
51.3
44.6
54.6
49.1
55.1
49.7
46.3
33.8

49.5
48.0
64.7
41.1
48.2
54.1
72.0
52.6
43.8
58.4
52.1
58.1
52.9
46.1
34.5

Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products

Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
CoIron small wares
Dyeing andfinishingtextiles..
Hats, fur-felt..._
Knit goods.
__
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
Wearing apparel
Clothing, m e n ' s
Clothing, w o m e n ' s
Corsets and allied g a r m e n t s . . .
M e n ' s furnishings

See footnotes at end of table.




TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June, May, and April 1938—Contd.
MANUFACTURING—Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100, and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936.]
Comparable series available upon request]
Employment index

Pay-roll index

Average weekly earnings

Average hours worked
per week

Average hourly earnings

June
1938

June
1938

May
1938

April
1938

Industry

Nondurable

June
1938

May
1938

April
1938

June
1938

May
1938

April
1938

June
1938

42.9
106. 8
78.5
80.8
73.9
107.3
132. 1
212.7
90.2
110.6
67. 5
72.8
83.2
84.8
42.1
75.9
60.3
55. 1
60.9
97.2
88.6
104.5

52.1
105.6
82.5
85.8
74.0
101.8
129. 9
204.3
87.5
82.9
66.9
71.5
71.4
83.3
38.6
76.4
59.4
55. 7
59.8
98.5
89. 0
105.4

60.8
108.4
88.0
92.7
71.6
101.0
129.9
198.4
85.0
80.5
71.6
71.8
69.9
83.0
38.7
66.9
59.1
56.4
59.3
99.7
89.8
106.9

28.0
80.2
55.1
49.6
76.1
111. 1
130.4
245.0
75.1
107.1
67.2
74.4
77.6
95.6
49.8
72.1
55.2
68.2
53.6
91.4
86. 3
96.4

35.0
83.5
53.3
54.1
74.7
107.0
128. 1
233.1
73.5
85.4
63.6
71.3
74.0
94.6
46.7
73.1
52.5
63.8
51.1
93.8
87.5
98.7

46.6
85.5
67.1
65.7
74.4
104.1
126. 3
223. 0
68.4
80.4
66 0
70.9
66 6
92.0
45.6
65.0
49.3
66.1
47.3
94.6
87.2
99.9

$18.35 $19. 72 $22. 42
11.87
11.78
11.22
16.30
16.66
17.84
14.71
15.39
16.90
23.11
22.57
22.32
24.89
24.98 25.40
25. 76 25. 84 25.36
33. 30 32.83
33.51
23.18
23.37
22.31
15.98
17.05
16. 53
18.21
17.22
16.79
25. 76
26.66
26.00
28.42
28.43
29. 06
28. 38 27.73
28.19
27.89
28.52
27.74
24. 22 24.67
25.05
16.91
16.31
15.54
18.62
17.16
17.57
16. 13 15.10
16.57
27.41
27.30
27.04
19.89
20.33
20. 10
23.20
23.16
22.89

28.4
30.8
31.7
30.4
36.8
40.7
42.3
40.3
48.1
34.9
37.4
44.5
47 6
40.7
40.8
39.7
36.9
36.6
37.0
36.4
36.7
36.7

31.9
32.1
31.4
30.4
35.8
40.7
42.3
39.7
48.5
34.5
35.7
43.6
47.6
41.2
39.4
39.9
35.2
34.3
35.3
37.0
36.9
37.3

35.4
31.2
34.1
33.8
35.1
40.1
41.8
39.1
47.2
34.6
35.1
42.8
46.9
40.1
39.9
41.2
33.0
35.2
32.7
36.9
36.8
37.4

Cents
63.0
37.8
51.4
48.6
63.0
61.4
61.3
84.1
48.0
46.7
49.0
59.6
60. 1
69.0
70.8
61.0
45.7
50.9
45.1
77.4
55.3
62.5

Cents
58.2
37.7
52.2
49.8
63.3
62.4
61.5
84.4
48.2
50.5
48.7
59.1
59.6
68.8
75.2
61.9
46.2
50.4
45.8
76.9
55.5
62.3

Cents
63. 7
38.0
51.3
48.7
63 6
62 1
61 0
81.7
47.7
49.4
47.9
59.7
61.7
69.1
72.9
60.9
46.6
50.3
46.1
76.5
55.0
62.0

87.8
102.2

90 2
103. 1

91.7
103. 9

80.3
99. 8

83.7
101. 4

81 8
102. 0

29.02
36.81

29.40
36. 92

29.27
36.88

36.5
35.8

37.3
36.3

37.1
36.4

80.6
99.4

79.9
98.4

79.9
97.3

103.9
117.6
100.6
107. 7
47.9
103.7

107.2
117. 1
101.8
107. 6
57. 3
104.0

110.5
117.8
108.7
109. 4
74.9
104.3

114.8
136. 6
108.0
117.2
42.9
114.8

117.7
138. 4
111.3
115.9
51.2
114. 6

116.3
133. 8
110.9
IK). 6
61. 9
111.8

28.80
35.26
25.63
29.90
12.87
24.03

28.50
35.78
25.17
29. 63
12.82
23.89

27.32
34.47
24.17
29.42
12.29
23,89

37.3
36.3
37.7
37.7
48.3
37.7

37.7
37.0
37.9
37.6
49.3
37.6

37.0
35.8
37.5
37.2
49.0
37.7

77.0
97.8
68.5
79.3
26.1
60.0

75.7
97.5
67.2
78.9
23.4
59.8

74,2
96.8
65.9
79.5
25.3
60.0

May
1938

April
1938

May
1938

April
1938

goods—Continued

Textiles and their products—Continued.
Wearing apparel—Continued.
Millinery
Shirts and collars
Iieather 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
_
Chemicals and allied products, and petr-'leum refining
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refinin°"
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal- __ _
Druggists' preparations
,....-._,..




Explosives
_
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products...
Soap
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes
Rubber goods, other.

84.9
62.3
116.7
284.2
91.7
70.6
53.5
62.2
102.7

84.8
90.4
118.7
304.0
91.7
71.5
52.4
62.3
106.6

86.0
123.0
118.0
303.1
93.8
72.7
53.9
63.0
108.9

89.3
66.3
118.2
258.1
107.1
63.2
41.0
58.4
92.7

85.9
95.7
122.2
275.0
107.2
63.1
39.7
57.0
96.8

86.5
121.1
116.7
260.3
108.5
61.7
38.1
54.6
98.6

29.30
17.33
27.79
22.42
28.81
23.75
19.18
27. 35
20.49

28.55
17.46
28.17
22.34
28.84
23.39
18.98
26. 67
20.72

28.32
16.24
27.11
21.21
28.54
22.47
17. 72
25. 21
20.70

36.4
38.0
39.9
34.6
38.8
31.3
32.1
28.7
34.5

34.9
39.0
40.7
34.6
38.7
31.1
31.4
27.9
35.1

34.9
40.6
39.4
32.6
38.4
30.1
29.3
26.6
35.0

81.5
45.8
69.7
64.8
74.5
77.0
59.8
94.5
59.7

81.7
44.9
69.3
64.6
74.7
76.9
60.5
95.0
59.4

81.1
40.1
68.9
65.0
74.4
76.7
60.5
94.6
59.3

$22. 26
17.39
27.01
20. 55
34.28

30.6
21.0
37.6
40.4
40.4

25.1
19.7
40.1
41.0
39.4

23.5
19.8
40.0
37.8
39.9

93.2
87.9
67.9
53.5
83.9

92.3
88.4
67.8
53.9
85.2

92.7
86.8
67.6
54.2
84.3

NONMANUFACTURING
(Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100)
Coal mining: 2
Anthracite 2
Bituminous _—
___
Metalliferous mining
_.
Quarrying and nonrnetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 3
Electric
light and power and manufactured
gas 3
Electric-railroad3 and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Trade:
3
Wholesale
Retail 3
General merchandising 3
Other than 2general
merchandising 3
_
Hotels (year
round) 3 6
2
Laundries
_
--2
Dyeing and
cleaning
_.
Brokerage 3 6._
Insurance 3 6
._
Building construction 6
_
1

56.0
80.1
55.8
43.6
72.9

52.8
82.2
58.8
43.7
73.2

57.0
85.8
61.6
41.7
73.8

49.7
57.1
46.0
37.3
67.6

38.3
55. 5
51.2
38.3
66.7

39.0
56.3
53.3
33.9
68.0

$28.94
18.93
25. 49
21.61
34.48

$23.61
17.82
27.12
22.11
33.64

74.8

75.0

74.8

90.9

91.3

91.6

31.08

31.14

31.30

38.4

38.4

39.4

85.5

85.6

84.2

92.2

91.7

91.8

98.7

97.4

97.6

33.72

33.38

33.34

40.2

39.2

40.1

84.1

85.2

83.4

70.4

70.6

71.1

69.6

71.2

70.0

32.39

32.96

32.21

45.0

45.9

45.1

70.9

70.7

70.4

87.2
83.6
91.9
81.4
92.1
96.6
110.9
-1.4

87.3
83.8
92.4
81.5
93.7
96.2
109.9
-2.0

88.5
88.2
101.0
84.9
93.5
95.4
111.8
-2.0

73.6
69. 5
84.3
66.4
79.4
81.8
83.3
-1.6

+.2
+3.4

74.6
72.2
89.4
68.6
80.5
80.6
87.2
-3.4
-.3

+5.5

+5.8

+7.3

29.58
21. 46
18.22
24.11
14.89
17. 26
20.98
33.87
36.30
29.43

30.30
21.45
18.15
24.18
14.80
17.10
20.30
33. 75
36.02
29.07

29.59
21.09
17. 66
23.98
14.87
17. 20
21.58
34.47
36. 75
28.66

42.5
42.7
39. 3
43.7
46.9
42.4
43.4
(4)
(*)
32.6

42.8
42.7
39.3
43.7
46.6
42.0
42.1
(4)
(4)
32.3

42.6
42.6
39.5
43.6
46.9
42.1
44.1
(4)
(4)
31.4

70.1
55.0
49.4
56.6
31.2
41.1
48.4
(4)
(4)
90.4

71.3
54.5
48.9
56.2
31.5
41.1
48.4
(4)
(4)
90.3

69.8
54.5
47.6
56.6
31.6
41.1
49.1

+.4
+.2

75.1
70.0
84.4
67.0
80.5
80.9
80.7
-4.9
-.1

+.2

+.9

+1.1

()

90.9

Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours. The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size
and composition of the reporting sample.
a Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938 issue of this publication.
3
Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not strictly comparable with figures published in pamphlets prior to January 1938 as they now exclude corporation officers,
executives,
and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
4
Not available.
•B Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are not available; percentage changes from preceding month substituted.




18
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS

Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in table 6 for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and of 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade, by months,
from June 1937 to June 1938, inclusive. The accompanying chart
indicates the trend of factory employment and pay rolls from January
1919 to June 1938.
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 1938
reports were received from 25,714 manufacturing establishments
employing 3,734,235 workers, whose weekly earnings were $83,277,915.
The employment 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.
The indexes for the nonmanufacturing industries are based on the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
dyeing and cleaning, and building construction cover wage earners
only, but the figures for public utilities, trade, hotels, brokerage, and
insurance relate to all employees, except corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
For crude-petroleum 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 15th of the month.




EMPLOYMENT & PAY BOLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
InJer Numbers

192325100

Index'umbers
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60

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20

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20
TABLE 6.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing

manufacturing

2

1

and Non-

Industries, June 1937 to June 1938, Inclusive
Employment

Industry

1937
1938
Avg.
for
year
1937 June July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June

Manufacturing
All industries.

99.3 101.1 101.4 102.3 102.1 100.5 94.7

88.6

82.2

98.1 97.3 97.6 92.4
95.5 8.8
Durable goods 3 Nondurable goods <_.. 103.4 103.5 104.1 106.9 107. 3 103. 6 97.3
Nonmanufacturing

84.3
93.3

75.1 73.3 72.4 70.0 68.2 65.8
89.9 92.1 91.7 89.8 87.4 86.7

Anthracite mining
Bituminous-coal mining..
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
_

60.2 61.6 54.3 49.7 58.1 61.5 60.9 61.4 59.6
99.3 96.2 93.7 9£4 99. 4 102.. 4 101.4 99.4 96.9
76.8 79.5 82.0 83.4 84.1 82.9 75.4 70.4 67.4

82.3

60.0
95.5
63.6

81.7

79.6

77.4

75.9

59.3 57.0 52.8 56.0
93.2 85.8 82.2 80.1
62.3 61.6 58.8 55.8

51.4 55.4 55.5 54.9 54.7 53.3 49.9 43.9 38.2 37.8 38.9 41.7 43.7 43.6
76.5 78.5 78.5 79.3 78.2 77.5 77.2 76.5 75.3 74.2 73.6 73.8 73.2 72.9

Telephone and telegraph- 77.8 78.5 79.7 79.8 79.8 79.6 78.9 78.0 77.8 75.7 74.9 74.8 75.0 74.8
Electric light and power,
and manufactured gas... 95.6
97.5 98.3 98.6 98.5 97.3 96.1 93.8 92.6 92.0 91.8 91.7 92.2
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation
and
maintenance 5
73.1 73.3 73.4 73.4 73.7 73.4 73.2 72.8 72.3 71.2 70.8 71.1 70.6 70.4
92.0 90.3 90.6 91.8
Wholesale trade
90.5 87.6 86.2
Retail trade
General merchandis104. 3 102.9 95.9 93.8
ing
Other than general
merchandising
_ 85.9 87.2 85.4 84.2
Year-round hotels
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning

93.0 94.0 13.5 93.3 91.0 90.4 89.1
90.7 92.1 91. 7 100. 4 84.1 82.4 83.0

87.3
83.8

87.2

103.7 108.1 109.8 145.9 91.5 88.8 90.5 101.0 92.4 91.9
87.3 87.9 86.9

88.5

82.1 80.7 81.0 84.9 81.5 81.4

92.1
94.9 94.4
94.3 95.7 96.9 96.6 94.9 94.3 94.5 93.4 93.5
.00.6 103.9 105.8 104. 7 104.1 99.9 97.8 97.0 90.8 95.7 94.8 95.4 96.2 96.6
100.6
95.6 98.5 111.8 109.9 110.9
107.5 118.5 111.0 110.3 112.8 110. 5 103. 5 99.2
Pay rolls

Manufacturing
AH industries
Durable goods 3
Nondurable goods *
Nonmanufacturing

98.0 102.9 100. 4 103.8 100.1 100.1

9.5

80.9

71.7

73.2

73.3

70.7

61.8
97. 5 104. 6 100. 7104.0 19.4 101.7 89.9 77.0 63.9 63.7
98.5 100.8 100.0 103.5 100.9 i8.2 89.0 85.8 81.6 85.1 85.3 82.0

.9.2
60.5
80.3

67.2

58.1
78.8

Anthracite mining
46.9 55.3 38.2 29.6 34.2 55.4 49.0 51.3 46.5 46.1 47.3 39.0 38.3 49.7
Bituminous-coal mining... 88.5 83.3 77.7 86.3 90.9 100.7 91.1 95.1 70.4 74.0 68.4 56.3 55.5 57.1
Metalliferous mining
_ 74.0 77.7 77.8 83.0 82.2 81.7 71.6 65.1 59.1 55.8 56.3 53.3 51.2 46.0
Quarrying and nonmetal-

lic mining
27.7 28.6 30.2 33.9 38.3 37.3
45.4 52.6 50.8 53.2 50.1 49.3 41.7
Crude-petroleum produc70.2 69.8 68.2 69.6 68.0 68.0 66.8 67. A
ing
68.2 70.4 70.5 70.1 71.2
1
3-year average, 1923-25=100—adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Comparable iudexes are in
February 1937 and subsequent issues of Employment and Pay Rolls or in April 1937 and subsequent issues
of Monthly Labor Review.
I 212-month average for 1929=100. Comparable indexes are in November 1934 and subsequent issues of
Employment and P a y Rolls, or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of Monthly Labor Review,
except for anthracite and bituminous-coal mining, year-round hotels, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning.
Indexes for these industries from January 1929 forward have been adjusted to the 1935 census and are presented in the January 1938 and subsequent issues of Employment and Pay Rolls.
• 3 includes: Iron and steel; machinery; transportation equipment; railroad repair shops; nonferrous
metals; lumber and allied products; and stone, clay, and glass products.
* * Includes: Textiles and their products, leather and its manufactures, food ana 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.
J
Not including electric-railroad car building and repairing. See transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 4.




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T A B L E 6.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1937 to June 1938, Inclusive—Continued
Pay rolls
Industry

1937
Avg.
1938
for
year
1937 June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June

Nonmanufacturing—Con.
Telephone and telegraph. . 89. G 88.6 92.1 92.1 92.3 94.9 91.4 94.
89.9 92.6 91.6 91.3 90.9
Electric light and power,
and manufactured gas... 99.6 100.4 102. 2 102. 6 104. 0 105. 3 103.8 102. 4
98.5 98.6 97.6 97.4 98.7
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation
and
70.6 71.1 70.8 73.1 71.6 71.4 71.8 71.9 70.6 70.2 69.9 70.0 71.2 69.6
maintenance 5
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
General merchandising
_
Other than general
merchandising

76.6
73.1

Year-round hotels. _
Laundries...
Dyeing and cleaning

80.6 80.1
83.0 87.5
77.0 92.2

76.3
74.4

92.5 92.5
69.1 70.6

76.9 79.0
72.3
72.8
85.7
87.3
69.5
69.!
79.4 80.5
89.0 88.0
79.5 81.3

78.3 79.3 78.3 77.8 75.4 75.3 74.7
74.4 75.9 75.3 80.6 70.1 68.4 68.6
92.4

96.2

74.6
72.2

97.1 123.3 84.6 81.5 82.2

70.7 71.7 70.8 71.8 67.1 65.7 65.! 68.6

75.1 73.6
70.0 69.5
84.4

84.3

67.0

66.4

82.4 84.1 84.3 82.6 81.6 83.6 80. 9 80.5 80.5 79.4
86.4 83.4 81.1 81.1 80.1 79.1 78. r> 80.1 80.9 81.8
85.7 83.6 73.7 68. (i 65.5 65.2 m.2 87.2 80.7 83.3

8
Not including electric-railroad car bu'lding and repairing.
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 4.

See transportation equipment and railroad

TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES

A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic divisions, in May and June 1938, 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, each of the
nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 4 (except building
construction), and seasonal hotels.




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T A B L E 7.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments

in

May and June 1938, by Geographic Divisions and by States
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Total—all groups

Geographic division and State

PerPerPerPerNum- Num- cent- Amount
cent- Num- Num- cent- Amount
centof pay
of pay
ber of ber em- age
age
ber
of
ber
emage
age
roll
roll
estab- ployees, change (1 week)
change estab- ployees, change (1 week)
change
lishJune
from
lishfrom
June
from
from
June
June
ments
1938
May ments
May
1938
May
May
1938
1938
1938
1933
1938
1938
Dollars
2.7 16, 560, 202
- 1'. 2~
944,704

New England
__ 13, 738 762, 616
832
Maine.
50,870
Now Hamp32,518
030
shire
-.
479
15, 487
Vermont
Massachusetts. 1 8,145 4H, 125
Rhode Island. _ 1, 255
77,027
2,44'
Connecticut
17I, 989

-3. 6
+1.1

32, 516 1, 906, 673
859, S2f>
322, 005
721,242

Middle Atlantic

20, 574
New York
4, 389
New Jersey
Pennsylvania.. 7, 553

East North Central.. 25, 643 1,, 835, 485
7, 573 503, 797
Ohio
2,961 219, 04,5
Indiana
5 6, 715 538,519
Illinois
4,015 318,68'
Michigan
Wisconsin
«4, 379 225,437
West North Central. 12, 433
2,336
Minnesota
2, 076
Iowa
3, 008
Missouri
North Dakota543
South Dakota. .
449
Nebraska
1,393
Kansas
3 2,578

South Atlantic
_. 11, 366
Delaware
211
Maryland
1,614
District of Co1,122
lumbia
2,181
Virginia
West Virginia.. 1,207
North Carolina. 1, 567
719
South Carolina.
1,486
Gcortria
1,166
Florida
East South Central..
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi

Manufacturing

5,:
1,419
1,449
1,695
623

3,653
301

502,796
40,180

609,864
327, 937
-3.1
- 1 . 3 1,551,812
- 3 . 1 3,661,490

-7.0
-.2
-2.3
I
-2! 8

202
154
1,809
429
758

25, 487
8, 913
227,241
58,937
142,038

-1.3
-1.8
•
-.3
—1.2

-.5
-1.2
-.6

5, 542 1,026,337 - 1 . 7
'3 389
" 376,397 -1.7
S31 226,211
+.5
2,322 423, 729 *-2.0

-2.7
-2.3
/

-3.4
-2.5
-4.0
-2.3
-6.9

49,034,231
23,821,330
8, 075,847
17,134, 054

- 2 . 6 45,187, 381
-2. 1 11,841,278
-S.I
4,928,441
-1.6 13, 568,283
-5.
9,172,313
5, 377, 066

+.5

8, 670 1,, 314, 489
2,561 365, 9211
1,042 168,326
2,481 354, 689
-2.3
-4.2 1, 045 281.216
'1,541
154, 329
-.4

411,297
9, 771, 876
97, 272 +.1 2,471,140
-.6
58,556
1,344,922
-.8
- . 8 3,059,073
157, 579 -2.0
-.9
4,877 +2.0
117,394
-.7
7, 770 +.9
2)0,965 +1.6
29,716
+.3
079,231
+.4 1,299,151
55,527 •+J.8
i-1.7
734, 021 -1.1 14,480,142 -1.1
13,170
2J8,157 —1.2
+.5
124,133 -1.7 2, 799, 794 -2.0
39, 774
111,261
126, 903
150,597
69,864
105, 459
42,800
273, 963
80,236
95,521
80,059
17, 547

Dollars
3.9 10, 043, 653
693*365

-2.6
-6.3

-1.9

+.5

-3.8
+1.0
+2.3
— 1.5
-6.2

1,048,044
-.6
2, 047, 278
+.4
2, 750,191 - 1 . 0
2,276,158 - ( 1 0 )
A
934, 186
1, 568, 694
757, 640

- 1 . 4 4, 676, 610
+ 1.8 1,491,741

1, 607, 003
- 4 ! 8 1,312,492
-2.0
265,374

-3.5
-1.6
-1.3
-8.1
-3.8

~ '
-2.4

-4.2
-9.1

-5.0

444,755 -10.0
177,82,* +1.9
—5.2 4,759.316
-4.3
- 1 . 4 1, 086', 691
-.3
- 3 . 3 2, 887, 708 - 3 . 4

+3.7

24,413,167
9, 672, 879 -1.2
5,556.546
-.6
9,183, 742 *-4.S
32, 044, 502
8, 2W>, 736
3, 808, 968
8, 644,263
7, 684, 355
3, 640,180

-3.8
-3.3
-5. 8
-3.1
-4.9
4
5

2,631
008
422
890
55
39
102
455

200, 532
45, 423
31,00!)
85, 483
708
2.22B
10, 220
25,451

- 1 . 1 4, 787, 625
- 1 . 0 1,191,235
-.5
738,039
- 2 . 4 1,855,183
18, 904
+6. 5
+3.1
57,174
+3.8
257,112
-.3
669,888

2,981
84
621

517, 670
9,642
84,163

8, 691, 095 -2.0
+•4 215,307 -1.0
-2. 5 1,821,406 i-2.6

40
480
272
001
214
397
212

3, 332
73. 2J2

45,181
137. 090
02. 450
80, 571
22,003

—.1
111,838
+.2
—. 7 1, 325,691
+.5
-7.3
978,578 - 1 1 . 4
+ 1 . 3 2, 043, 730
+.4
+2.5
798,246
— 1.7 1,054,764 +1*3
-1.9
341, 535 - 5 . 5

1,096
300
388
300
102

159, 010
30, 57"
07,21)5
50,545
10, 593

-1
+2.0

2, 591, 906
593, 695
1, 092, 234
762,870
—5. 1
143,051
-5.1

-.7
-.6

+.2

+1.4
+6.5
+3.8
-1.8

+.3

-.9
-8.5
-5.4

Q
- . 1 2, 389,944 -2.0
1,387 109, 524
5,153,476 - 1 . 5
Wast South Central. 6,372
290, 945 +4.0
29, 34 + 0°)
302
17.816
511,251 +2.9
Arkansas
+•<?
il,084
500,515 - 2 . 7
259
30, 400 - 2 . 1
Louisiana
1,073 54,081 - 1 . 6 1,075,681 - 2 . 4
147
11.640 +1.2
280,574 - 2 . 3
1,078,481 - 1 . 2
43,173
Oklahoma
_ 1,424
679
2,791 101, 766
2,488,06S
Texas
-2.2
+0 /, 257,910 -2.9
1
Includes banks and trust companies, construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment,
amusement and recreation, professional services, and trucking and handling.
2
Includes laundering and cleaning, and water, light, and power.
3
Includes laundries.
4
Weighted
percentage change.
6
Includes automobile and miscellaneous services, restaurants, and building and contracting.
e7 Includes construction, but not public works.
Does not include logging.
8
Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous services, and restaurants.
9
Weighted
percentage change including hired farm labor.
10
Less than Mo of 1 percent.
11
Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building stone.




23
T A B L E 7.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments
May and June 1938, by Geographic Divisions and by States—Continued
Total— all groups

Geographic'division and State

in

Manufacturing

PerPerPerPerNum- Num- cent- Amount
cent- Num- Num- cent- Amount
centof pay
of pay
ber of ber em- age
ber
of
age
ber
emage
age
estab- ployees, change (1 roll
estab- ployees, change (1 roll
week) change
week) change
lishlishJune
from
from
June
from
from
June
June
May
ments
1938
May ments
1938
May
May
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938

4,!
Mountain
G53
Montana
487
Idaho
322
Wyoming
1,254
Colorado..
293
New Mexico
458
Arizona
•__
618
Utah..._
171
Nevada
Pacific
_. 10,177
2, 962
Washington
1, 418
Oregon
i 5, 797
California

Dollars
- 1 . 5 2, 899, 394 - 2 . 4
396,469 -14.8
13,912 - 1 1 .
238,465 +4.7
10,126 +4.3

114, 961

8 r1~~ +1.3
3«)| 450 - . 8
6,370
13,915
-.6
19,721

+.2
2,940
-(10)
429, 564 +1. 8
"
89, 502
48,327
291, 735 +5.1

+
+

227,049
961,211
134,921
363,060
460,016
88,203
12,090, 647
2,319,077
1,213,019

8,528,551

+.8
+1.4
+2. 3
-4.3
-3.4
-.3
+1.0
+1.6
+3.0
+.5

589
89
61
39
190
32
45
117
16
2,593
500
307
1,726

Dollars
32,029 - 0 . 1
821,641 +0.3
4,166 - 6 . 9
113,902 - 4 . 4
3,084 + 11.5
83.502 +18.7
1,593 +2.0
52,715 - 4 . 0
11,724 -3.8
301,851
+.1
980 +8.2
18,933 +11.6
2.898
-.9
70,2:»3 - 4 . 1
6,918 +6. 5
160,447
-.3
660 -.10.4
19,998 - 7 . 7
222, 780 +1.9 5, 996, 899 +1.3
47,621. +1.7 1,204, 342 +2.7
27,516 +8.1
683, .100 +6.2
147, 643
+•9 4, HO, Jh57
+.1

+1.2
10
Less than Mo of 1 percent.
*2 Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.

INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN AREAS

A comparison of employment and pay rolls in May and June 1938
is made in table 8 for 13 metropolitan areas which had a population
of 500,000 or over in 1930. Cities within these areas, but having a
population of 100,000 or over, are not included, as data concerning
them are tabulated separately and are available on request.
Footnotes to the table indicate wThich cities are excluded. The
figures represent reports from cooperating establishments and cover
both full- and part-time workers in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 4 with the exception of building
construction, and include also miscellaneous industries.
TABLE 8.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments
May and June 1938, by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Number of Number on Percentage
change
pay roll,
establishfrom
June
ments
May

Metropolitan area

New York 1
•Chicago i
Philadelphia 3
Detroit
Los Angeles 4
Cleveland
St. Louis
Baltimore
Boston 5

.

. _

.

___ __ __ .
_
-

Pittsburgh
San Francisco 8
Buffalo
Milwaukee
1
8

-

-_

14,605
4,497
2,007
1,779
3,084
1,791
1,565
1,171
1,516
1,126
1,724
881
1,160

572,479
413,646
176,039
209,067
151,240
113,970
119,726
94,315
98,938
155,031
83, 712
53, 605
92, 799

-2.5
-1.5
-.8
-7.5
+.1
-2.1
-1.2
-2.7
-1.1
-4.9
+1.2
-3.3
-1.4

Amount of
pay roll
(1 week),
June
$15,365,590
11,079,993
4, m, 192
6,13-1,430
4,400,911
2,776,913
2,840,718
2,144,450
2, 668, 931
3,710,063
2,487,251
1,402,767
2,376, 769

Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, or Paterson, N . J.; nor Yonkers, N . Y.
Does not include Gary, Ind.
* Figures relate to city of Boston only.
*4 Does not include Carnden, N . J.
<> Does not include Oakland, Calif.
Does not include Long Beach, Calif.




in

Percentage
change
from
May
-2.0
-2.9
-.5
-5.5
-.9

-4.5
-.6

-1.7
-.9

-6.2
+.7
-2.0
-.3

24
Public 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.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service of
the Federal Government in May and June 1938 are given in table 9.
TABLE 9.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the U. S. Government,
May and June 1938 l
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Item
June
Entire service:
Total
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation.._
_
Force-account (regular and emergency)
_
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
_.
Regular approoriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account (regular and emergency)._._
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total..
_
_
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation.__
Force-account (regular and emergency).
_
1
J

Percentage
change
Maya

Pay rolls
June

May*

Percentage
change

+2.5
+2.5
+2.5
+2.7

857, 520

841.176

+1.9

$128, 071,062

$124,983.174

729, 657
62, 984

715.946
61.147

111, 486,947
8, 305, 085

108, 814. 593
8,104, 303

64, 879

64,083

+1.9
+3.0
+1.2

8, 279, 030

8, 064. 278

115. 774

114, 556

20, 243, 385

+.8

90. 715
12, 431

+1.1
+1.9

20, 414, 797

98. 573
12, 533

+.8

17, 753. 910
1,931,023

17, 481. 787
1.935, 748

+1.6

4, 668

5. 410

-13.7

729, 864

825, 850

-11.6

+2.1
+1.9
+3.6
+2.6

107, 656. 265

104, 739. 789

93, 733. 037
6, 374. 062

91. 332. 806
6,168, 555

7, 549,166

7, 238, 428

+2.8
+2.6
+3.3
+4.3

741, 746

726, 620

631.084
50, 451

610. 231
48. 716

60, 211

58, 673

-.2

Date include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
Revised.

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 10, by type of project.




25
TAIJLE 10.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, June 1938 *
[Subject io revision]
Wage earners
Type of project

Maximum
number
employed 2

Weekly
average

Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements

Xumber of
m:m-hours
worked
during
month

Average

earnings
per

hour

Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month

Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery
Act funds
3 13,137

All projects
Building construction
Xa val vessels
Public roads 4__
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control._
Miscellaneous

11,494

$1,060,312

1,419
1. 241
5, 799
1, 607
1,332
9G

203.191
199.975
330, 628
204, 6.11
113.173
8, 734

1.403,291 ; $0,729 | $1,467,851
172.876 i 1.175
221, 527
. 903
627,502 ! . 536
251.963 ! .812
179,163 | . (532
10,263
.851

156, 246
214.312
320,000
630, 380
145. 5(!2
1, 411

Non-Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery
Act funds

All projects.__

10,596 I

8.666 j $1,076,891

951 915

$1 131

$1,300, 960

561, 645
182
58,034
353, 407
103,563

380 594
375
81 694
326 774
162,478

1 476
485
710
1. 082
637

483.832
0
148.833
514, 246
154.049

Building construction
Railroad construction.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous

Projects financed from Emergency Re'ief Appropriation Acts of
1935, 1936, and 1937 funds •

All projects

8

Building construction 8
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control. _
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
_.

93,141

77,459

$7,630,319

9,387,127

60,235
890
5,943
1,185
598
12,453
11, 569
268

50,441
710
5,053
947
561
9, 998
9,529
220

5, 239, 787
53, 562
589, 570
80, 554
55, 757
674,322
908,414
22, 353

5,881,032
79, 670
698,479
118,090
87,452
1,246,022
1,244, 403
31,979

$0,813 j $14,104,772
.891
.672
.844
. 733
.61:8
.541
.730
. 699

9,677, 239
280, 562
1,063. 730
G6,149
71,237
1,183,801
1, 570, 826
191, 228

1
2

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
Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
* Xot available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
6 Includes data foi workers engaged in construction of underground tunnel who, because of the additional
risk
involved, were paid at rates higher than those usually paid for building construction.
7
These data are also included in separate tables covering projects financed by The Works Program..
8
Includes a maximum of 2,393 and an average of 2,034 employees wcrkii g on low-cost housing [rejects
financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 funds who were paid $277,110 for 267,955 manhours of labor. Material orders in the amount of $178,485 were placed for these projects. These data are
also included in separate tables covering projects financed from The Works Program.

Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administration are those projects authorized by title II of the National Industrial Recovery 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




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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.
The Public Works Administration was continued until July 1, 1939,
by the Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937.
Federal construction projects for which data are included in table
10 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
way, however, is financed by funds provided under the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The work is performed either by
commercial firms which have been awarded contracts, or by day labor
hired directly by the Federal agencies.
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, the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, or the Public
Works Administration Extension Act of 1937. 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, the First
Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, or the Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937 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,




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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.
THE WORKS PROGRAM

By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President, in a series of Executive orders,
inaugurated a broad program of work to be carried out by 61 units of
the Federal Government. The Works Program was continued by
title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, and was further continued by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937. Employment created by this program includes employment on Federal
projects and employment on projects operated by the Works Progress
Administration. Federal projects arc 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.
A record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects financed by The Works Program in June is shown in table 11,
by type of project.
TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Program,
June 1938 *
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project

Maximum Weekly
number
averemployed
age

Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements

Average
earnings
per
hour

Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month

Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month

i
Federal projects
|
All projects
Building construction
Electrification
Forestry 3
Grade-crossing elimination 4
Hydroelectric power plants 5
Plant, crop, and livestock conservation1'
Professional, 4technical, and clerical
P u bl ic road s
Reclamation
River, harbor, nnd flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
M iscel larieous
See footnotes a t end of table.




202, 035 $15, 103,038 28,871,519
110,970
334
17, 353
5, 322
2, 230
21, 713
4, 901
3, 484
40,081
44. 975
22, 377
955
13, 243

103, 034
293
14,060
4. 338
2,115
20, 0S9
4,844
2,815
38, 809
39, 397
19, 230
807
12,054

0. 527,823 10. 377, 243
10, 853
39,959
705, 405 1,708,711
332,901
534, 205
75, 000
324, 237
980,031
2,033,731
437, 504
049, 241
180, 998
30S, 440
2, 223, 440 4, 708, 259
2, 223, 438 4, 000, 043
99-S, 884 2, 129, 547
21,025
111,093
438, 470 1,280,804

$0. 525 $5, 134, 729
. 029
.422
. 399
. 023
. 233
.372
.074
. 587
. 472
. 555
. 409
. 189
.342

1, 28(5, 207
24, 840
213,933
348, 428
38,898
124, 190
35, 144
298, 492
1, 4,19, 104
1, 018, 534
217, 534
2, 552
70, 807

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TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Prograni,
June 1938 —Conlinued
"Wage earners
Type of project

Maximum Weekly
number
averemployed
age

Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements

Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month

Average
earnings
per
hour

Value of
material
orders
placer!
d urine:
month

Public Works Administration projects financed from Emergency
Relief Appropriation Act funds of 1935, 1936, and 1937"o
All projects

_

Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
.

93, 141 77, 459
60, 235 50, 441
710
890
5, 913 5, 053
947
1, 185
561
59S
12, 453 9, 99S
11,5(59 9, 529
220
208

$7, 630, 319 ; 9, 3S7, 127 | $0. 813 .$14, 104, 772'
5, 239, 787
53, 562
589, 570
86, 554
55, 757
674. 322
90S, 414
22, 353

r

>, 881, 032
79, 670
69S, 4.79
118,090
87, 452
1, 246, 022
1, 244, 403
31, 979

.891
. 672
. 844
. 733
.638
. 541
. 730
.699

, 677, 239
280, 562
, 003, 730
66. 149
71, 237
183, 801
570, S2t>
191,228

Projects operated by Works Progress Administration '
All projects

„ ? 2,767,125

$145, 943, 462 290, 711, 566

$0. 502

i Unless otherwise noted 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 The data for the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, under plant, crop, and livestock conservation, and the Bureau of Forest Service, under forestry, are for the calendar month.
< These data are for projects under the jurisdiction of i he Bureau of Public Roads.
* These data are for projects under construction in Puerto Rico.
«Includes data for 90,748 employees working on non-Federal projects and 2,393 employees working on lowcost housing projects. These data are included in separate tables covering projects under the jurisdiction
of the Public Works Administration.
i Data are for the calendar month. Not available by type of project.
8 Represents number of names on pay roll for week ending June 25, 1938.
9
Data on a monthly basis are not available.

Table 12 shows the employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on work projects of the National Youth Administration from the
beginning of the program in January 1936 to June 1938, inclusive.
Similar data for Student Aid are shown from September 1935, the
starting date, to June 1938, inclusive.




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TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects
Financed by The Works Program From Beginning of Program Through June 1938 *
[Subject to revision]

Year and month

Number
of
persons
employed

Pay-roll
disbursements

Number of
man-hours
worked

Average
earnings
per hour

Value of
material
orders
placed

Work projects
January 1936 to June 1938, inclusive.
January to December 1936..
January to December 1937..
January 1938.
February 1938
March 1938..
April 1938
M a y 1938-.__
_
June 1938

144. 797
151,400
154,567
158.082
172,134
202,184

$78, 018, 852

210,195, 440 |

28. 883. 589
32, 001. 300
2,549.914
2, 007. 220
2, 751, 797
2, 700. 533
2,907.134
3,437, 299

75.827, 799
87.092, 351
0,890. fif;8
7, 288, 377
7, 010, 300
7, 073. 809
8.280.913
9, 519,103

$0. 374 I 2 $7, 310, 288
.381
.374
.370
. 300
.302
. 300
.358
.301

Student Aid

September 1935 to May 1938, inclusive..
September to December 1935.
January to December 1936
January to December 1937 *...
January 1938 «
February 1938 *
March 1938 4
April 1938 *
_
May 1938

307, 544
319. 707
328,037
333,902
326,644

$07,281,828

226,454,452

SO. 297

6,363,503
25.888, 559
23,997, 634
2.001,786
2,102, 506
2, 217, 742
2, 250, 506
2, 393, 532

19,612, 970
85. 424,616
82, 794, 398
6, 980,595
7, 584,382
7,781.022
7,920, 942
8, 355, 521

.290
.287
.285
.285
.285
.286

.324

1
2

Data are for a calendar month.
Revised. Data on a monthly basis are not available. This total represents expenditures through Alar.
31,3 1938, and includes rentals and services and some sponsors' contributions.
No expenditures for materials on this type of project.
4
Revised.

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS

The Civilian Conservation Corps, created in April 1933, was
further extended under the authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. During the fiscal year 1937 the Civilian Conservation Corps was continued from appropriations authorized by the
First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936. Beginning with July 1,
1937, the Civilian Conservation Corps was continued for 3 years by
an act of Congress. The Civilian Conservation Corps 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,
and the Department of the Interior. The monthly pay of the
enrolled personnel is $30 per month. Assistant leaders, not to exceed
10 percent of the total number of enrollees, may receive up to $36
per month, and leaders, not to exceed 6 percent, may receive up to
$45 per month.




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Employment and pay rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps in
May and June 1938 are presented in table 13.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, May and
June 1938 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees

Amount cf pay rolls

Group
June

June

May

May

All groups..

293,859

306,141

$13,506,062

$14, 237,636

Enrolled personnel 2
Reserve officers
Nurses 3
Educational advisers 3
Supervisory and technical 3

250,555
5,069
275
1,547
36,413

262,494
5,014
288
1,540
36,805

7,087,136
1, 316,237
29, 262
260,026
4,813,401

8,195, 731
1,302,260
30,092
255,664
4,453,889

_

* Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amount of pay rolls are for
the2 entire month.
June data include 3,514 enrollees and pay roll of $82,923 outside continental United States; in May the
corresponding figures were 3,549 enrollees and $75,215.
3 Included in executive service, table 9.

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED UY 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 14, by type of project.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, June 1938 l
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number
of wage
earners a

Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements

Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month

All projects

2,984

$493,122

555,943

$0.887

$775, 767

Building construction
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous

171
2,706
107

16,499
468,576
8,047

19.411
523.016
13,516

. 850
. 896
.595

26,076
742,244
7,447

Type of project

Average
earnings
per hour

Value of
material
orders
placed during month

1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
Includes 97 employees, pay-roll disbursements of $8,345, 6,643 man-hours worked, and material orders
placed of $20,224 on projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.
3

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR FEDERAL
APPROPRIATIONS

When 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



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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.
The Bureau has collected data concerning construction projects for
which contracts have been awarded since July 1, 1934. The Bureau
docs not have statistics covering projects financed from regular
Federal 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 Federal appropriations
during June arc given in table 15, by type of project.
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From Regular
Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, June 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
Type of project

All projects.
Building construction
Electrification:
Rural Electrification
Administration projects 4
Other than Rural Electrification Administration projects.
_.
'..
Forestry
Heavy engineering
Public roads 5
Reclamat ion
River, harbor, and flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revel men ts,
etc
Locks and dams
Ship construction:
Naval vessels
Other than naval vessels
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous

Maximum
number
employed 2

Weekly
average

Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements

Number of
man-hours Average
earnings
worked
per hour
during
month

Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month

29,998, 260

$0. 712

$33, 760,157

20,727

16,846

1,863,001

2,000,846

.931

3,152,344

6, 513

5,335

374,471

715, 596

.523

2,797,825

187
143
118
15, 227

114
138
102
91,309
14, 4.12

8,950
7, 566
14, 285
6, 735, 400
1,908, 639

11,969
17,843
17,139
11,817,611
2,310,011

.748
.421
.833
.570
.826

12,343
1,836
12,591
11.225.C67
3,834, 526

29, 639
9,390

25, 689
8,303

2,896,145
992,158

4,267,317
1,322,433

.679
. 750

2,871,568
1,835,519

42, 603
1,405
2,898
301

41, 536
1,141
2, 685
247
1, 453

6,172,525
111,910
168, 277
19, 436
89, 843

6,879. 460
127,726
321,898
31,648
150, 763

.897
.876
. 523
.614
. 573

5,917,019
1,390,875
503, 288
82,336
122, 42a

3 222,096

(8)

1,(536

209, 340 $21, 362, 606

1
2

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-road projects.
4
Financed
by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
8
Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
• Not available; weekly average included in total for all projects.

STATE-ROADS PROJECTS

A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of roads financed wholly from State or local
funds in June 1938, compared with May 1938, and June 1937, is
presented in table 16.



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TABLE ]6.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction and Maintenance of Slate
Roads, June 1938, May 1938, and June 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees 2

Pay-roll disbursements

Item
June 1938 M a y 1938 J u n e 1937

June 1938

M a y 1938

June 1937

Total

179, 807

17-1.137

107, 774

$12,059,910

$11,3*7, 305

$11,009,510

New roads.. _ _
Maintenance

19, 875
159,992

17. C74
150,403

19, 3S2
148, 392

1,415.870
10, 614, 040

1.212. Olio
10,174, 700

1,3'51,5OO
9, 708, 010

1
2

________

Data aro for the month ending on the I5t h and are f.)r projects financed wholly from State or local funds.
Average number working during month.
x

Material Orders Placed
The value of material orders placed on construction projects financed
by Federal funds in the second quarter of 1938 is presented in table 17.
In the second quarter of 1938 on the Public Works Administration
program orders were placed for materials valued at approximately
$51,218,000. Of this amount $15,524,000 was expended for iron and
steel products, $5,750,000 for cement and concrete products, $7,905,000
for machinery, and $3,690,000 for forest products.
Previous sections of this report have shown the number of workers
employed at the site of construction projects financed from Federal
funds. The direct employment, however, is only a partial picture,
as the manufacture of the materials used on the projects also creates
a large amount of employment.
Estimates have been made of the man-months of labor that have
been or will be created in fabricating the materials used on the
various programs. (See table 3.) The estimates include only the
labor required in the fabrication of material in the form in which it
is to be used. No estimate is made of the labor required in producing
the raw materials or in transporting them to the point of manufacture.
In manufacturing structural steel, for example, the only labor included
is that occurring in the fabricating mills; no estimate is made for the
labor created in mining, smelting, and transporting the ore; nor for
the labor in the blast furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces, and the
blooming mills.
The information concerning man-months of labor created in fabricating materials is obtained by sending a questionnaire to each firm
receiving an award for materials to be financed from Federal or State
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, 1935.
1

Unless otherwise specified, data presented in this section are as of the 15th of the month




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TABLE 17.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the Second Quarter of 1938 «
[Subject to revision]
Projects

Type of material

All materials.._
Textiles and their products..
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. o. c
Planing mill products.
Window and door screens and weather strip.
Chemicals and allied products..
Ammunition and related products.
Chemicals, miscellaneous
Compressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
_
Paints and varnishes
Stone, clay, and glass products..
Asbestos products, n. e. c
._
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products..
Cement.
_
_
Concrete products
Crushed stone
Glass
_
_
_
Lime
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products
Minerals and earths, ground or otherwise treated..
Sand and gravel
Tiling, floor and wall, and tcrrazzo
Wall plaster, wallboard, and insulating board
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

See footnotes at end of table.




Public
"Works
Administration 2

Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation 3

Federal
Regular
construcFederal tion
under
appropria- The Works
tions
Program

$51,217,783 $2, ?04,430 $35, 308, 721 $13,086,761
—
115, 678
57,735
18,455
2,275
25,315
2,952
602
5,043
6,091
72, 303
223

16,089
28
18,961
330
320
432
15,406
548

1,460

5,621

2,038
3,580
29
1,270
5,482
131
129
4,336

29,964

4,081,757

1,115,657

26, 518
2,404, 108
1,239,038
20, 281

23, 581
6,383

8,076
3, 683,012
380,905
9,764

674
924,138
189,862

462,010

58,016

598,964

323,422

5,096
8,701
12,175
165, 814
267, 224

12
16,940
40,122
942

4, 346
18,339
391,370
181,009

7,671
9,165
47,601
258,985

13,766,716

240,612

20,898,157

2,855, 245

49,064
1,838
658

447
512,153
9,475,877
604,748
3,458,991
155,336
4,488
1,139, 632
949
5, 226,332
120,651
198, 553

3,210
133,024
1,164, 644
308, 320
479,518
22,470
2,978
107,498
2,505
514,214
48,832
68,032

15, 523, 573

503, 529

13,849,487

3, 228, 308

119,415
1,733,265

844
1,408

227,430
357, 683

62,687
133,922

646

8?3, 283
1,005,540
472, 588
913,571
45, 589
438
25,241

77, 787
35,429
255,739
75,871
55,118
153
14

2,687, 749
253
6, 596, 255
24,957
562,808
106,102

1,069,122
505
1,134,602
137,743
181,690
7,926

"874
3, 689,945

30, 264
3,161,554
3, 694,249
2,056, 222
585,823
194, 200
40, 308
1, 375,122
149
1, 583,430
446, 567
598,828

978,877
119,176
676, 203
3, 320, 507
91,056
9, 242
252, 864
146
1,903,498
1,858
5, 683, 791
29, 3c9
308, 300
296,016

1,443
184,339
122
2,585
50
513

92,013
643
207

295,931

~I69,~646~
2,151
40

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TABLE 17.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed byFederal Funds for the Second Quarter of 1938—Continued
Projects

Type of material

Nonferrous metals and their products

_

Aluminum manufactures
Copper products
Lead products
Nonferrous-inetal 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 waterwheels
Foundry and machine-shop products, n. e. c
Machine tools
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators
Pumps and pumpine equipment
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making apparatus
Transportation equipment—air, land, and water
Boats, steel and wooden (small)
Carriages and wagons
Locomotives, steam
Motor vehicles, passenger.
Motor vehicles, trucks
Railway cars, freight
Miscellaneous
Belting, miscellaneous
Coal
Creosote
Electric wiring and fixtures. . . .
Furniture, including store and office futures
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 material!-, 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

Public
Works
Administration

Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation

$675,115

$1,072

$318,401

$99,180

19, 263
101, 661
47,028
34, 920
472, 009
234

591
140

62,169
10,387
27, 299
128, 693
89, 651
202

118
653
185
1,885
96, 250
89

29,407, 622

2, 365, 733

8, 480,780
519. 496
5, 8«X 695
12,590,341
474,199
80, 406
I~329~ 1,405, 719

369, 378
7,905
235,065
1, 443, 792
51, 564
51
256,954

294
47

7, 904, 720

1,211,958

3,011,598
603, 589
600, 668
3,008, S65
88, 677
36,817
500, 596

78, 065
894
554
1,130, 638
478

Federal
Regular
construcFederal
tion
under
appropria- The Works
tions
Program

53 910

15,986

53, 60S

8"), 774

875

7.323
1, 220
23, 207
18. 605
30, 419
5,000

7,017
45, 716
9,026,418

159,279

451
19, 760
60
2, 201, 294
6, 695
789,802
12, 855
8,153
3,159
5 581
463, 850
842,162
21," 183"
50, 338
2, 074, 755 "'~14~825~
5 POO
521. 532
1, 223
52, 581
33, 390
116,959
31,802
36, 230
1, 790, 094

1,024
109, 301
1,487
1,279
9,845
96, 690

16,010,824

2,971,460

775
141, 761
79
4,669, 060
183,684
42, 351

2,167
12,965
2.939
317,897
57,962
1, 336

258
4,155
1,353,383
3, 752. 553
1G. 134
505,809
575
96, 399
35, 251

4, 653
237,141
768.923
3. 052
268, 293
93, 315
24, 281

494

40, 388

2,171

81, 469

3,072
5,165,137

3, 455
1,170, 910

1
This table in eludes certain items which are not actually construction materials—i. e., fuel, transportation equipment, tools, furniture, etc. Data for projects operated by Works Progress Administration were
not available at the time this report was prepared. For a summary of data for the first quarter of 1938,
including
information on projects operated by Works Progress Administration, see table 18.
2
Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed by the Emergency
Relief
Appropriation
Acts of 1935. 1936, and 1937.
3
Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.

Table 18 shows the value of material orders placed on construction
projects financed by Federal funds during the first quarter of 1938,
by type of project.




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TABLE 18.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed byFederal Funds for the First Quarter of 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Projects

Total

Type of material

ReconPublic
struction
Works
P'inancc
Administration a Corporation 3

Regular
Federal

Federal
construction under
The Works
Program

Operated
by Works
Progress
Administration

_.. $198,775,155 $41, 728,099 $2,786,893 $62,827,761 $10,343,751 $81,088,651

All materials _
Textiles and their products
Forest products

-.

3, 760, 779

132,317

172

44,444

18,019,123

3,679,279

62,961

3, 230,869

14,408

3, 569,438

735,160 10,310,854

Chemicals and allied products

4, 255, 945

474, 624

60, 201

476,820

252,001

2,992, 299

Paints and varnishes
Other chemicals

2,316,015
1,939, 930

223,801
250,823

2.405
57, 796

164,394
312, 426

163,539
88,462

1,761, 876
1,230,423

54,808,040

9, 608, 631

533,129 13,910,505

3, 587, 708 27,168,067

6, 685, 216
17,979, 776
5,939,919
6, 268, 592
10,803, 380

2,046,376
2, 296, 576
1, 559, 438
362,134
1,180,992

10,007
429,019
256
441
77,129

448,412
6,194, 296
387, 286
2.066, 672
3,402,567

76,160
2, 613. 490
233, 415
181,817
371,755

4,104,261
6,446,395
3, 759,524
3,657, 528
5, 770,937

7,131,157

2,163,115

16, 277

1,411,272

111,071

3,429,422

Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, hollow tile, and other
clay products
Cement
Concrete products
Crushed stone
Sand and gravel
Other stone, clay, and glass
products
__
Iron and steel and their products,
not including machinery
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Heating and ventilating equipment
Structural and reinforcing steel.
Tools, other than machine tools.
Other products of iron and stecl.

42,812,060 13,062,393

345,612 10,860,793

2,237,723 16,305,534

6, 525, 555

1,211,015

1,573

196, 287

112,977

5,003, 703

3,814,243
16,146,118
2, 392,098
13,934,046

2,145, 275
5,450, 521
23, 720
4,231,862

9,001
54, 748
3, 431
276,859

776, 360
5,599,316
31,815
4, 257, 0.15

100,157
1,282,586
103. 384
638, 624

783,450
3, 758, 947
2, 229, 748
4, 529,686

Nonferrous metals and their products

1,383,011

664,712

6,433

272,981

57,665

381, 220

Machinery, not including transportation equipment

33,976,664

6,604,988 1, 514, 261 21,519, 657

1,295,940

3,041,818

Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Foundry and machine shop
products, n. e. c
Other machinery

5, 257,769

183, 564

1,495,075

17, 556, 673
7,888,865

3,036, 559 1,351,183 11,098,111
2,100, 348
36,441 5,163, 777

752, 394
359,982

1,318, 426
228, 317

Transportation equipment,
land, and water
Motor vehicles, trucks
Other transportation
ment

8, 531,126

1, 468,081

126, 637

air,
393, 460

34, 460

36,939

33,098

288,963

366,005

27,184

22,874

26,984

288,963

27, 455

7,276

14,065

6,114

39, 366,073

7,466, 695

264,124 12,474,753

594,251

63,431

70,607

13, 509

446, 704

2, 287, 576
5,681,473
6,496, 693
3, 429,375
369,330
20, 507,375

1,248,149
226,929
716,891
1,365, 793
45, 534
3, 799, 968

120, 556
778,171
2, 758,435
623, 671
19, 285
8,104,028

34, 260
84, 673
754,990
177, 584
11,022
1,053,405

884,611
4,591,118
2, 216, 209
1, 238,878
268,413
7, 384, 525

equip-

Miscellaneous
Coal
..._
Furniture, including store and
office fixtures
Paving materials and mixtures..
Petroleum products
Plumbing supplies, n. e. c
Rubber goods
Other materials

582
50,168
23, 449
24, 476
165,449

2,130,043 17,030,458

1 This table includes certain items which are not actually construction material—i. e., fuel, transportation
equipment, tools, furniture, etc.
2 Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed by the Emorgnecy
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937.
3 Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.




36
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 1938, the first quarter of 1938, and
the second quarter of 1937 is shown in table 19.
TABLE 19.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Federal Professional,
Clerical Projects Financed by The Works Program

Technical, and

[Subject to revision]
Second quarter First quarter Second quarter
ofl933
of 1933
of 1937

Type of material
All materials
Computing machines
Furniture-.
Office supplies
Stationery
Typewriters
Other office machines
Other materials
Rental of machinery and equipment

$115,360

$180,126

$297, 805

2. 382
14.404
21,663
2, 486
1. 063
4, 368
34, 224
34, 770

401
2, 640
10. 877
2, 219
562
1.431
144. 357
17, 639

8, 315.
14. 641
41,104
11, 709
1,447
4.696
145,396
70, 497

Rentals and services on projects operated by the Works Progress
Administration for the first quarter of 1938, the fourth quarter of
1937, and the first quarter of 1937 are shown in table 20, by type of
rental and service.
TABLE 20.—Rentals and Services on Projects Operated by Works Progress

Administration

[Subject to revision]

1938 i

Fourth
quarter of
1937 2

First
quarter of
1937 3

$53,147, 699

$44,151,434

$46,150,914

19,999, 770
1,149,911
15,649, 200
764,806
2, 658,342
3,929,405

23,476,449
2,202,463
13, 532, 815
685, 243
2,043,446
4, 210,498

First
quarter of

Type of rental and service
All rentals and services
Motor vehicles
Teams and wagons
_
Paving, road building, and construction equipment
Other equipment (including office equipment)
Space rentals and services
Other services (including utilities)
1
2
3

Quarterly period ended Mar. 31,1938.
Quarterly period ended Dec. 31,1937.
Quarterly period ended Mar. 31,1937.

Table 21 shows rentals and services on work projects of the National
Youth Administration for the fourth quarter of 1937 and the first
quarter of 1938.
TABLE 21.—Rentals and Services on Work Projects of National

Youth

Administration

[Subject to revision]
Type of rental and service
All rentals and services..
Motor vehicles
_
_
Teams and wagons..
_.
Paving, road building, and construction equipment.
Other equipment (including office equipment)
Space rentals and services
Other services (including utilities)
i Quarterly period ended Mar. 31,1938.




Fouith

First
quarter of

quarter of

193#i

1937 2

$730,346

$683,127

140, 502
9, 769
47, 509
104, 607
315, 476
112,483

84,346
5,104
56,201
91, 934
330, 510
115,032

* Quarterly period ended Dec. 31,1937.

37
In connection with the administration of the public contracts law
the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been collecting data on supply
contracts awarded by Federal agencies of the United States for the
manufacture or furnishing of materials, supplies, articles, and equipment in any amount exceeding $10,000.
The first public contracts were awarded under the law in September
1936.
Table 22 shows the value of public contracts awarded under the
law for materials during the second quarter of 1938, the first quarter
of 1938, and the second quarter of 1937.
TABLE 22.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements To Comply With the Public Contracts Law, by 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 and tea
Condensed and evaporated milk
__
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowls
Flour and other grain mill products.._
Meat-packing products...
_
Sugar
Miscellaneous subsistence stores and supplies.
Textiles and their products.

Second
quarter

First
quarter

1938 i

1938 2

Cork and cork products
Furniture
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c .
Plauing-mill products
Treated lumber and timber.
Miscellaneous forest products.
Chemicals and allied products.
Ammunition and related products.
Compressed and liquefied gases
E xplosi ves
Linseed oil
Paints and varnishes
Soap and soap chips
Miscellaneous chemicals
Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum..
Asphalt, oil, tar, and mixtures..
Coal and coke
See footnote at end of table.




.1937 3

$82,591,962

19,481,063

$96, 852, 281

2,620,919

1,410, 281

3,183,996

347,174
15, 356
513,688
708. 005
10.450
172.200
308, 235
185.026
366, 785

70, 646
15, 483
140,322
117,140
279, 675
177,915
104, 637
209,154
325. 309

421, 974
11,682
383.050
61.9,898
2L9.420
291. 746
189, 648
385. 122
661, 450

9,547, 713

5,930, 349

10,953,105

175.821
359,103
655.585
39, 785

195,576
304,547
278,935
50 1, 925
267, 403
3, 982, 293
404. 297
250,822

Awnings, tents, sails, canvas bags, and covers..
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers, etc.)
Clothing, manufacture only *
Cordage and twine, including thread
Cotton gloves
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.)
Furnishing goods, men's, n. e. c
Ilousefurnishmg goods (pillow cases, sheets, etc.)
. . . _ .(hosiery,,
..
„, underwear,, etc.)_
Knit goods
Woolen goods (flannels, suiting, etc.)..
"Work clothing
Miscellaneous textile products
Forest products..

Second
quarter

1,063,160
355, 397
120.068
962,271
962, 099
602, 334
634, 726

2, 698, 227
756, 302
733,165
576,613

546

558,012

2, 508, 737

145,485
203, 763

74, 525
30,617
322, 010

126. 114
125, 184

52.4IJL
78,429

30, 658
1,2:56,910
701,962
161.226
224,343
153,638

2,717, 158

1,61.3,079

5,904,144

407, 664
13,673
197, 650
77, 001
193,751
173,347
519. 390

4,177. 458
234, 503
448. 529
62. 577
298, 364
60,441
622. 272

9,438,450 |

23,260,749

600,

441.

634

172,177
247,448
11,453
94.016
137, 60S
, 609,822

14,463,201
1,428,356 I
987,907 I

3,837,954
635, 690

38
TABLE 22.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements To Comply With the Public Contracts Law, by Type of Material—
Continued
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials

Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum—Continued.
Fuel oil
Gasoline
Lubricating oils and greases
_
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum products
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Boots and shoe cut stock
Gloves
___
Shoe upper leather
Miscellaneous leather goods
Stone, clay and glass products

..

_
..

Brick..
_._
Cement
_
Concrete pipe
_
Concrete, ready mixed
Crushed stone
Glass
Granite and marble
Riprap stone
_
Sand and gravel
_
Soil, bl\ck earth..
Terracotta
_
_
Tile, clay, including drain
Vitrified clay and terra cotta pipe
Miscellaneous stone, clay, and glass products.
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery.
Bolts, nuts, rivets, washers, etc
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
._
Fencing materials
Forgings, iron and steel
_
Hardware, miscellaneous
Metal doors, sash, and frames
Metal furniture
Metal shingles and roofing
Pipe and fittings, n. e. c.
Plumbing fixtures and supplies
Rails, steel
._
Railway tie plates
Reinforcing steel
Steel pipe and fittings..
Steel sheets, plate?, shapes, and strips
Stoves and ranges, other than electric
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet-steel piling..
Tools, other than machine tools..
Wire products
Miscellaneous iron and steel products
Nonferrous metals and their alloys..
Aluminum manufactures
Brass products...
Bronze products.
Copper products
Fixtures, gas and electric
Lead products
Magnesium
.... .
Nickel
.".."....."
Plated ware
Sheet-metal work
Tin
Zinc
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys




Second
quarter
1938

First
quarter
1938

$7,248,151
2, 214. 272
1,855, 117
729, 398

$1,159, 252
5,339, 192

2,174,911

1,314,670

1, 614,883

1, 013, 798
128, 975
24, 797
259,050
148, 291

1, 234,712
20, 603

1, 267, 538

9, 644, 139

6,198,085

4, 514, 618

92,365
3,620, 683
84,192
825, 454
1,922, 615
38,016
309,933

192,910
3,075.044
178,648
411,570
1,065, 795
10,217
246, 247
9,996
521,054
7(1, 607

Second
quarter
1937

195, 093

$8,856, 247
7, 773, 695
1,735,211
421, 952

185, 798
59, 355
161,547

606,043

101,417
305, 580

101,189
2, 260,425
169, 384
324, 530
518,384
51, 557
164,640
17,250
567,384
85,840
16,866
10,801
22, 778
203, 590

8, 800, 5(58

6, 261,158

5,337,139

23, 899
165, 171

142, 276
46,069
68,821
535,716
57, 752
67, 258
1,671,465

47,168
65, 720
3S, 382
69, 740

2,085,032
26, 400
33,406

626, 327
25, 200
108, 532
16, 290
17, 901
505, 220

1,516,356
197,195
128, 169
13,748
28,183
14.299
12,0S9
871,957
3S, 600
212.116

17,068
10,000

23,494
677, 208
91, 816
76, 639
77,478

633, 76S
279,400
526,416
36, 85 i
729,937
103,119
50,108
1,288,431

10, 320
654,065
269, 239
170, 519
14, 925
593,413
26, 868
201,307
2, 228,838

3, 624,066

1,657,448

552,006
453, 472
10, 61.2
33H, 208
77, 1-12 i
70,505 i

611,983
240,062
72, 747
211,215
12,417

71,756
11,992
153,819
881,356
13,925
991,213

122, 650
23,047
119,151
91,204

j
.
,
i
!.

141,972

39
TABLE 22.— Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements To Comply With the Public Contracts Law, by Type of Material—
Con I i nued
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials

Second
quarter
1938

Machinery, not including transportation equipment and electrical
equipment
Air-conditioning equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and parts
..
Filter and purification equipment
Laundry machinery and equipment
Machine tools
Oflicc equipment
Power shovels and draglines
Printing and publishing machinery
Pumps and pumping equipment
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making machinery.
Road machinery
Windlasses, winches, and capstans
. ...
Miscellaneous machinery and parts
.

Transportation equipment
Aircraft
.Aircraft parts and equipment
-_.
Boats and boat equipment
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, trucks
Miscellaneous transportation equipment ... ..
Miscellaneous

1

For period ending June 30, 1938.
* For period ending Mar. 31, 1938. Revised.
For period ending June 30. 1937. Revised.
* Labor only. Materials furnished by V. S. Government.
* Includes equipment rental, repairs, aerial surveys, etc.




$-1, 546, 991

34,078
742. 468
13,382
36,081
475,787
59,239

51,732
1,950,010
23,034
562, 019
167,001

Batteries
Circuit breakers and switches
Electric cable, wire, and other conductors.
Generators and spare parts
Heaters and ranges
... .
Lamps, incandescent, and X-ray tubes
Motors
Radio equipment and supplies
.
Spark plugs
Starters
Switchboards, relay and control equipment
Telephone and telegraph apparatus
Transformers
Welding equipment
.. j
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies. _j

1

$4, 003, 427

_„

Second
quarter
1937

$7,567,215
1,989,610
23, 492
35, 613
360,151
45, 837
362, 7GQ

91.173
1,106,919

304, 847
190,336
197,927
219,685
3, 836, 927

3, 905. 507

6, 751,036

6,051,051

41.075
623, 897
962,263
558,657
28,057

20,801
51,785
1,106,019
2,581,627

IS, 179
4-19,899
81,767

27, 530
1(17,203
174,072
94,129
120.321
125,997
238,307

479, 640
115,403

Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies

Brooms, brushes, bristles, etc.
Dental goods and equipment
Instruments, professional and scientific...
Linoleum
Paper and allied products...
Photographic apparatus and materials
Printing, publishing, and subscriptions
Rubber products
Slag
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler coverijig..
Surgical and orthopedic supplies and appliances
Tobacco manufactures
Other materials-.
Rentals, services, etc.5

First
quarter
1938

2, 016, 242

199,0*4
1,358,895
301,024
65, 705
57,829
57,813
1,146,152
165,630
56, 289
187,907
78,080
131,827
35, 594
2, 206, 222

1 11,359,683 |

8,741,995

10, 759, 623

I

6, 890, 371
2,354.983
243,419
123,688
1,290.525
456. 697

5,392,515
1, 734,600
23, 469
197,993
1,101,879
291,539

5,018,570
3,316,289

11,231,831

3,0f,6, 591

200, 138
208.213
395.290
71,314
266, 758

90, 549
34,117
584; 396
62. 765
4,642,874
437.125
202. 721
232.259
766.136
429,012
502,692
27.517
1.857, 728
1.361.943

421, 704

295,818
262,114
17-1,488
138,745
41.409
154,368
501,123
1.066.822

""~627,~f>42

1,729.793
67, 329
13,539,573
102,919
39,214
1,737,032
67,236
5,705,^14
368, 520
200,000
348, 894
22.623
415.358
571,967
264, 260
1.326,142
2. 369, 894

40

The value of public contracts awarded for materials by Federal
agencies totaled $82,592,000 during the second quarter of 1938. Of
the contracts awarded in the second quarter of 1938, $14,463,000 was
for asphalt, coal, and petroleum; $11,360,000, for transportation
equipment; $9,644,000, for stone, clay, and glass products; $9,548,000,
for textiles and their products; and $8,800,000, for iron and steel
and their products, not including machinery.




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