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Serial No. R. 751
U N I T E D STATES D E P A R T M E N T O F LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
B U R E A U O F LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
/s
^<5HT"
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
MARCH 1938
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON • 1938
CONTENTS
Summary of employment reports for March 1938:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
Detailed reports for March 1938:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
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Tables
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
March 1938
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, March 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,
first quarter of 1938, fourth quarter of 1937, and first
quarter of 1937
TABLE 4.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, March 1938
TABLE 5.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, January through
March 1938
TABLE 6.—All manufacturing industries combined and the durable- and
nondurable-goods groups—indexes of employment and pay
rolls, January 1937 to March 1938
TABLE 7.—Selected nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of employment and pay rolls, January 1937 to March 1938
TABLE 8.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in February and
March 1938
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TABLE 9.—Principal metropolitan areas—comparison of employment and
pay rolls in identical establishments in February and
March 1938
TABLE 10.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls in February and March 1938
TABLE 11.—Executive service of the Federal Government—monthly
record of employment from March 1937 to March 1938,
inclusive
TABLE 12.—Government and Government-owned corporations—employment as of December 31,1937, and pay rolls for the 6-month
period ending December 31, 1937
TABLE 13.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
March 1938, by type of project
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TABLE 14.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from July 1933 to March 1938, inclusive
TABLE 15.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, March 1938, by type of
project
TABLE 16.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
program in July 1935 to March 1938, inclusive
TABLE 17.—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 March 1938, inclusive
TABLE 18.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls,
February and March 1938
TABLE 19.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, from
March 1937 to March 1938, inclusive
TABLE 20.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, March 1938, by type of project
TABLE 21.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from April 1934 to March 1938, inclusive
TABLE 22.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
March 1938, by type of project
TABLE 23.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
from August 1934 to March 1938, inclusive
TABLE 24.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, from March 1937 to March
1938, inclusive
TABLE 25.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, first quarter of 1938, by type
of material
TABLE 26.—Value of material orders placed on Federal professional, technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works Program,
first quarter of 1938, fourth quarter of 1937, and first
quarter of 1937
TABLE 27.—Value of public contracts awarded for materials first quarter
of 1938, fourth quarter of 1937, and first quarter of 1937__
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Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR MARCH 1938
NONAGRICULTURAL employment showed a further slight decline
in March with approximately 40,000 fewer workers employed.
Ordinarily between 200,000 and 300,000 workers go back into industry at this season. Compared with March 1937, it is estimated that
there were about 2,440,000 fewer people at work on nonagricultural
jobs, excluding W. P. A. and other Federal and State emergency
projects.
Employment in manufacturing industries decreased contraseasonally in March, as about 50,000 wage earners were laid off. Weekly
factory pay rolls showed a gain of $200,000, indicating some improvement in plant operating schedules. Factory employment was about
19 percent below the level of March of last year and factory pay rolls
were down by about 28 percent.
Other basic industries in which working forces were reduced, in
contrast to a normal employment increase in March, were class I
railroads, which laid off 11,700 men; bituminous-coal mines, which
laid off 10,600 workers; and metal mines. Anthracite mines had
fewer workers than in February, but their pay rolls were larger.
Public utilities reported small seasonal reductions in employment,
and wholesale firms cut their staffs by 1.4 percent, or about 20,800
workers. Brokerage houses again reduced the number of their
employees. Retail stores and dyeing and cleaning firms reported
increases in employment somewhat smaller than is usual for this time
of the year, while in the other service industries there were small
declines. Private building contractors, instead of taking on more
men in March, reduced their forces by slightly less than 1 percent.
In the executive and judicial services of the Federal Government
employment showed small increases over the preceding month,
while decreases occurred in the legislative and military services.
As employment in industry declined during the month of March,
the number of persons engaged in most of the programs financed
wholly or partially from Federal funds increased substantially.
The most marked increases occurred on projects operated by the
W. P. A. and on construction projects financed from regular Federal
appropriations. There was a decrease in the number of workers
in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
(1)
2
Industrial and Business
Employment
Employment declines between February and March were shown by
12 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries and by 53 of the 89 manufacturing industries covered. Decreased pay rolls were reported for 8 of
the nonmanufacturing and 39 of the manufacturing industries.
For manufacturing as a whole there was a falling off in employment
of 0.7 percent or 50,000 wage earners, and an increase of 0.1 percent
or $200,000 in weekly wages. The decline in number of workers was
contraseasonal and the gain in wage disbursements was less than is
usual for this time of year. The expected March gains are about 1
percent in employment and 2 percent in pay rolls. During the past
19 years for which data are available, employment increases have been
shown in March for 16 years and pay-roll gains for 15 years
As a result of continued declines since August, the Bureau's index
of factory employment for March was 81.7 on the basis of 100 for the
3-year period 1923-25 and was 19.2 percent lower than a year ago.
The index of factory pay rolls, at 73.3, was 27.5 percent below the
level of March 1937.
The largest reductions in number of factory workers were reported
by the following industries: Woolen and worsted goods (13,800 or 13.1
percent), automobiles (12,000 or 3.7 percent), electrical machinery,
apparatus, and supplies (7,700 or 3.8 percent), foundries and machine
shops (7,500 or 2.2 percent), blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling
mills (6,900 or 2.0 percent), slaughtering and meat packing (4,700 or
4.1 percent), book and job printing (3,200 or 2.6 percent), and canning
(3,100 or 4.7 percent).
Most of the increases in manufacturing employment were seasonal
in character. The industries taking on the largest number of workers
were sawmills (10,500 or 5.5 percent), shirts and collars (4,000 or 6.8
percent), cotton goods (3,100 or 0.8 percent), men's clothing (2,900 or
1.7 percent), women's clothing (2,700 or 1.4 percent), and boots and
shoes (2,600 or 1.3 percent). Among other industries showing increases were cement (8.5 percent), millinery (6.0 percent), men's furnishings (5.2 percent), stamped and enameled ware (4.3 percent),
stoves (3.6 percent), brick (2.0 percent), and knit goods (0.9 percent).
Four of the sixteen nonmanufacturing industries covered showed employment gains in March. In three of these industries, quarrying and
nonmetallic mining, retail trade, and dyeing and cleaning, the increases
were somewhat lower than seasonal. Insurance firms reported a gain
of 0.2 percent in employment. The employment changes in the
more important lines of retail trade were increases of 4.7 percent
in wearing apparel, 1.4 percent in general merchandising, and 0.7 percent in lumber and building materials, and decreases of 0.4 percent in
food, 0.3 percent in furniture and household furnishings, and 0.8 percent in the automotive group.
Although gains were reported by wholesale dealers in dry goods and
apparel, food, and building materials, there was a net decline of 1.4
percent for wholesale trade which represented an estimated loss of
20,800 in number of workers.
There were employment declines of 2.5 percent in bituminous-coal
mining, 2.4 percent in metalliferous mining, 2.7 percent in brokerage,
1.2 percent in anthracite mining, 1.2 percent in telephone and telegraph offices, 1.0 percent in year-round hotels, and 1.0 percent in crudepetroleum producing. The decreases in the remaining three industries
ranged from 0.4 percent to 0.9 percent.
According to a preliminary tabulation by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, class I railroads employed 915,110 workers in March,
exclusive of executives, officials, and staff assistants. This figure was
11,706 or 1.3 percent lower than the number reported for February.
March pay rolls were not available when this report was prepared.
Pay rolls for February amounted to $130,886,631 as against $142,328,575 for January, a decrease of 8.0 percent.
Hours and earnings.—Factory wage earners worked, on an average,
34.5 hours per week in March, a gain of 0.9 percent since February.
Average hourly earnings fell 0.3 percent to 65.5 cents, while average
weekly earnings climbed 0.9 percent to $22.46.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour data are
available, 10 showed increases in average hours worked per week and 4
reported higher average hourly earnings. Higher average weekly
earnings were reported by 9 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries
surveyed.
Previous 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 was requested that they be omitted
also for the industries named above. For this reason, the average
hours worked per week, 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
March 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 Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, March 1938
Index,
March
1938
All manufacturing
industries
combined l
Class I steam railroads 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
Trade:
"Wholesale
Ketail
General merchandising
Other than general merchandising
Hotels (year
round) * 7
Laundries4
Dyeing and cleaning *__
Brokerage
Insurance
_
Building construction
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Industry
February
Index,
March
1938
March
1937
1923-25
= 100)
81.7 -0.7
-19.2
1938
(1928-26
= 100)
73.3
51.9
-1.3
-15.7
100)
59.3
93.1
61.9
-1.2
-2.5
-2.4
-12.2
-15.4
100)
47.3
68.5
56.2
38.8
73.6
+2.7
-20.9
-.8
30.2
68.0
-.7
92.3
74.8
-1.2
+.5
-.2
92.2
70.8
— 4
-2.6
89.1
83.0
90.5
-1.4
-3.2
-6.2
-9.7
74.7
68.6
82.2
-5.1
-1.1
-3.8
-5.8
-17.7
65.8
81.0
78.5
67.8
81.0
93.4
94.8
98.2
+.7
+2.0
+.4
-1.0
-.9
+3.0
-2.7
+.2
Average weekly
earnings
Pay roll
Employment
+2.2
-22.3
February
1938
March
1937
+0.1
-27.5
+2.7 +15.2
Average in
March
Percentage
change from—
February
1938
March
1937
$22.46
+0.9
-10.3
-33.8
-20.4
26.01
19.57
28.42
+14.6
-26.9
+6.4
19.80
34.32
+3.9
-5.0
+2.9
+2.9
+3.1
+5.8
5 31. 65
+.1
+4.0
5 33. 79
-.4
+1.0
5 32. 29
+3.7
+.3
+.9
-.4
-2.7
-6.1
5 29. 09
* 21. 46
s 18.11 - 1 . 0
+2.9
+3.8
+4.1
()
-3.0
+2.9
-1.9
s 24.13
s 14. 88
17.00
19.27
5 35.15
s 36.12
28.44
+3.4
+4.1
+2.8
+.3
-4.8
-3.1
+5.9
-7.4
+.4
+5.7
-2.3
+14
-4.0
-.3
+.2
-1.1
-5.6
-21.6
-1.0
-17.8
1938
-1.5
+4.3
+.7
-2.0
+.2
+1.4
-1.3
-.5
+1.1
-24.6
-5.9
-7.6
+7.2
+6.5
+4.2
1
3
3
4
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.
6
Average weekly earnings not strictly comparable with figures published in issues of this pamphlet dated
earlier than January 1938, as they now exclude corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose
duties
are mainly supervisory.
6
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
7
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Public Employment
From mid-February to mid-March 94,000 men were at work on
construction projects financed from funds provided by the Public
Works Administration. Compared with the preceding month this
was an increase of 2,000. Of the total number 23,000 were working
on Federal and non-Federal projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds
and 71,000 on projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935, 1936, and 1937
funds. Pay rolls for the P. W. A. projects were $6,988,000 for the
month.
During the period ending in mid-March 157,000 emploj^ees were
at work on construction projects financed from regular Federal appro
priations, an increase of 8.0 percent compared with February. Increases in employment occurred on all types of projects with the
exception of forestry, heavy engineering, and locks and dams. Monthly pay-roll disbursements for all types of projects exceeded $15,167,000.
Projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had
3,500 men working during the period from mid-February to midMarch. Increases in the number working were reported on water and
sewerage and miscellaneous projects, and a decrease occurred on
building construction projects. Pay-roll disbursements for the month
exceeded $496,000.
In March there was an increase of 14 percent in the number of
employees working on projects of The Works Program exclusive of
Student Aid, bringing the total to 2,701,000. Employment on
projects operated by the Works Progress Administration reached the
highest level (2,392,000) since December 1936. More than 154,000
were at work on Federal projects under The Works Program and
155,000 on work projects of the National Youth Administration.
March data for Student Aid projects will not be available until next
month. In February 319,000 were working on Student Aid projects.
Exclusive of Student Aid, pay rolls for The Works Program in March
totaled $129,606,000.
Employment in the regular services of the Federal Government
decreased in the legislative and military services, and increased in
the executive and judicial services. Of the 815,000 employees in
the executive service in March, 112,000 were working in the District
of Columbia and 703,000 outside the District. Force-account employees (employees who are on the Federal pay roll and are engaged
on construction projects) were 7 percent of the total number of employees in the executive service. The most marked increases in
employment occurred in the Department of Agriculture, the War
Department, and the Works Progress Administration. The Navy
Department was among those reporting decreases.
In addition to employment in the regular services of the Federal
Government, Government and Governmejit-owned corporations with
pay rolls for the 6-month period ending December 31, 1937, totaling
$20,800,000, employed 25,000 workers as of the last day of the
period (see table 12). Employees of these agencies are not paid
directly by and in some cases are not hired by the Federal Government. For a similar period employment in the executive service
of the Federal Government was 891,000 and pay rolls totaled
$767,000,000.
Due to the end of an enlistment period the force of the Civilian
Conservation Corps dropped to 315,000 in March, a decrease of
4 percent compared with February. All groups of workers with the
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exception of nurses showed decreases in the number working. Of the
total number in camps 272,000 were enrolled personnel, 5,000 reserve
officers, 300 nurses, 1,500 educational advisers, and 36,000 supervisory and technical employees. Monthly pay rolls for all groups of
workers totaled $14,480,000.
Virtually the same number of employees (128,000) were working on
the construction and maintenance of State roads in March as during
the preceding month. Of the total number working on State roads,
91 percent were engaged on maintenance and repair of existing roads
and 9 percent on new road construction. Pay-roll disbursements for
both types of work amounted to $8,500,000.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll statistics for
February and March is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, March 1938 !
[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class
March
Percentage
February change
Pay rolls
March
Federal services:
Executive 2 ..
815,445 » 809, 580 +0.7 $123,765,927
2,156
520,414
Judicial2,172
+.7
Legislative
1,200,002
5,154
-.3
5,140
Military
333,624
- . 5 25,122,027
331,873
Construction projects:
91,581
Financed by P. W. A.«__
+2.3
6,987,705
93,703
3,481
Financed by R. F. C.«
+1.3
496,349
3,525
Financed by regular Federal appropriations
156,649
144, 776 +8.2
15,167, 424
Federal projects under The Works
147,182
Program
__
154,229
+4.8
7,227,913
Projects operated by W. P. A
2, 392, 347 2, 073, 759 +15.4 119,626,230
National Youth Administration:
154, 567
151,406
2,751, 797
Work projects
_
+2.1
Student Aid
_.
319,142
(7)
(0
315, 086
Civilian Conservation Corps
_.
328,044
14,479,801
-4.0
February
Percentage
change
$120,832,841
520,473
1,194,905
24,996, 798
+2.4
0)
+.4
+.5
7, 281, 549
513,923
-4.0
-3.4
14,016,649
+8.2
7, 325,807
102,096,059
-1.3
+17.2
+3.2
2, 667, 226
2,157, 458
15,062, 322
-3.9
i Includes data on projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds.
* Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to
the extent of 98,832 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $12,377,247 for March and 97,769 employees
and pay-roll disbursements of $11,868,278 for February.
3 Revised.
« Less than Mo of 1 percent.
8
Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds are included.
These data are not shown under The Works Program. Includes 70,731 wage earners and $4,980,926 pay
roll for March; 67,949 wage earners and $5,034,059 pay roll for February, covering P. W. A. projects financed
from E. R. A. A. 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds.
«Includes 100 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $9,484 for March and 107 employees and pay-roll
disbursements of $12,984 for February on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
7 Not available.
The value of material orders placed on projects financed by the
Public Works Administration, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and regular Federal appropriations, and on Federal projects
under The Works Program during the first quarter of 1938 amounted
to $117,489,000. It is estimated that approximately 303,000 manmonths of labor were created in the final fabrication of these materials.
In the corresponding quarter of 1937 the value of material orders
placed on these programs amounted to $139,857,000 and 387,000 man
months of labor were created in final fabrication. During the fourth
quarter of 1937 material orders placed were valued at $143,346,000
and 377,000 man-months of labor were created in final fabrication.
The value of material orders placed on the various programs financed
by Federal funds during the first quarter of 1938, the fourth quarter
of 1937, and the first quarter of 1937, and the man-months of employment created in the final fabrication of the materials used are shown
in table 3. Data on the value of material orders placed and rentals
and services for the first quarter of 1938 on projects operated by
W. P. A. and on work projects of the National Youth Administration
will be available at a later date.
TABLE 3.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Projects Financed Wholly or Partially
From Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created l
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Program
First
quarter
of 1938
Fourth
quarter
of 1937
First
quarter
of 1937
$117,670,038 $143,345,678 $139,856,988
Total
Public Works Administration 2
3
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
.
Regular Federal appropriations 4
Federal projects under The Works
Program:
Construction
Professional, technical, and clerical
Man-months of labor created in final fabrication
First
quarter
of 1938
Fourth
quarter
of 1937
First
quarter
of 1937
302,946
377,297
386,742
41,728,099
2, 590,301
62,827, 761
50, 240,810
4,688,871
72,156.428
74,379,314
5,487,984
38,163,221
118,234
6,097
152, 364
139,643
10,731
184,584
214,626
12, 560
99,024
10, 343, 751
16,103,046
21,535,585
25, 652
41,851
59, 639
156, 523
290,881
599
488
893
180,126
1 Data for the first quarter of 1938 are not available for projects operated by W. P. A., rentals and services
on2 projects operated by W. P. A., and NTatiomu Youth Administration projects.
Data covcrinn projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935, 1930, and 1937 funds are included. These data
are3 not shown under The Works Program.
Includes R FC Mortgage Co. Does not include projects for which contracts were awarded before March:
15,4 1934.
Does not include projects for which contracts were awarded before July 1, 1934.
DETAILED REPORTS FOR MARCH 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.
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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 March 1938 are
shown in table 4. Percentage changes from February 1938 and
March 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 January, February, and March 1938, are presented in table
5. The January and February 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 varies 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 percents, are based on identical lists of firms for the 2 months.
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, March 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]
Employment
Industry
Percentage
change from—
Index
Alurch
1938 Febru- March
ary
1937
1938
All manufacturing industries..
81.7
72.4
Durable goods
^S 91. 7
Nondurable goods
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
78.9
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills..
87.0
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
61.7
(last-iron pipe
___
55.6
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cut75.3
lery) and edge tools
40. 5
Forgings, iron and steel
66.4
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
i! 78. 4
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
56.7
steam fittings
76. .r.
iStoves
59.7
Structural and ornamental metalwork
87.0
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
79.3
files, and saws).___
120.7
Wircwork
96.8
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
136.9
Agricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calcu126. 5
lating machines
See footnotes at end of table.
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
March
1937
March
1938 FebruMarch
arv
1937
1938
Index
March
1938
-0.7
-1.2
-.4
-19.2
-24.9
- 1 3 . 61
63.8
85.3
-1.4
—2. 0
-2.4
-26.1
-25.7
-31. 6
-19.5
+1.3
62.1
1)5.5 + 1.1
-.5
52.7
39.0 +10.8
-2.9
-4.0
-1.7
-15.7
-36. 0
-33.7
-18.0
63.1
34.4
57.1
52.3
—. 6
+1.6
+3.6
-2.8
+1.8
-28.8
—32. 3
-19. 5
-13.2
42.7
60. »
54.6
92. 3
-.2
-2. 5
-2.9
-.5
-.9
-22. 2
-35. 3
-20.1
+4.1
76. 3
105. 4
88.7
178.3
-3.1
124.1
+1.6
Average weekly
earnings*
Pay rolls
73.3
+0.1 - 2 7 . 5
" +72"
+.2
Average hours worked
per week»
March
March
1938 Febru1938 FebruMarch
March
ary
ary
1937
1937
1938
1938
+0.9
+1.4
+.6
-10.3
-15.0
-3.8
14.5
33.6
35.3
-44.8
-48. 5
-5.1.3
-29. 7
22.12
22.28
19. 34
18.80
+2.7
+3.2
+2.0
+9. 0
-25.3
—30. 6
-28.8
-12.3
29.6
27.1
27.3
31.9
-5. 0
+ 1.6
—24. 9
-52.3
-ft 1.0
-35. 0
20.96
22. 59
19.47
21. 06
+2.4
+4.5
—3.3
+2.6
35.2
30.7
29.9
31.3
+.7
-45.7
21.76
23. 21
25. 63
23. 54
-.9
+3.1
0
+2.3
-11.0
2") 4
-2(). 2
-20. 6
-23. 6
-12.9
-6.0
22. 36
21.70
25.34
28. 99
+4.9
+6. 5
-.5
+1.9
-11.7
-10.7
-11.5
36.0
32.2
34.5
38.8
29.54
+1.4
+.5
-11.6
+2.0
+5.6
Percent age
change from—
Percentage
change from—
$22_46_
~2T06
20.92
+6. 7 - 4 1 . 0
-2.8 - 2 1 . 4
+4.2 - 1 J . 5
+4.7 - 3 1 . 2
+3. 9 - 4 1 . 5
-3.4 - 2 9 . 3
+1.4 +10. 0
Average hourly
earnings1
30.5
34.8
35.9
37.8
-15.9
-20.9
-10.8
Cents
65.5
~~72A
59.3
+2.5
+2.7
+1.1
+7.9
+2.7
+5.1
-1.0
+2.1
-31.4
-37. 4
-37.8
-23. 4
75.9
82.6
70.7
57.9
-18.3
-30.9
-31. 7
-28.1
61.6
73.8
65.1
67.1
-1.3
-32. 4
-18.6
-16.6
-7.0
79.0
67.1
71.5
62.7
-20.4
-20. 5
-20.7
-6.5
61.8
67. 6
73.0
74.9
+0.9
+ 1.4
+.5
+ 1.1
+.6
+3.4
+4.4
+5.6
—.6
+1.6
+1.2
1-13.3
80.7
-0.3
_____
+6.8
"TO
+7.1
-. 1
0 _
+L1
-.4
-2.3
+.3
+.5
+1.6
-.5
-1.2
+.4
+9
+(2)
+.3
+.3
+10.7
+ 10.9
+ 14.3
+ M.0
9.6
+8. ;i
+7.0
+ 10.5
+ 11.6
+7.4
+12. 6
+10. 3
+ 10.2
+ 13.5
+10.7
+11.2
+4.8
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, March 1938—Continued
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]
Average hours worked
per week
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Industry
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Employment
IndexIndexMarch
March
March
1938
1938
Febru- March
1938 Febru- March
ary
ary
1937
1937
1938
1938
Febru- March
ary
1937
1938
March
1938
Average hourly
earnings
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
chang from—
Febru- March
ary
1937
1938
March
1938 FebruMarch
ary
1937
1938
Durable goods- Continued
Machinery—Continued.
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
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
\luminum 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 S tamped and enameled ware
86. 4
121.3
85.2
127.7
SO 0
63.5
112.8
77.8
780. 6
79.8
39.1
43 7
94.6
44.4
61.8
43. 1
87. i
••no 5
86.6
98.8
84.8
67.0
71.5
75.2
110.0
-3.8
-2.6
-2.2
-4.5
-9 8
-3.7
-1.2
-3.5
+.6
-3.7
-7.4
—8.9
-.7
-1. 1
-.4
— 1.1
-.2
-1.1
-.8
-2.5
+.9
-3.0
+.6
-2.1
+4.3
-22.3
-13.2
-20. 2
-10.6
—47 2
—25. 2
-26. 2
-35.7
-1.3
—39.4
-44. 4
— 19 5
-11.5
-28.6
-3.5
-30. 6
-23.7
-19.1
-30.2
78.1
118.7
75.2
112. 3
60. 7
50. 1
80.6
66.0
700.3
61.9
43.7
32. 6
109. 3
45.5
68.4
43.9
74.2
100. 5
71.8
-19.1
-4.2
-35.4
-3.1
-7.3
-33.4
83.6
60.4
54.5
59.6
66.2
101.1
-4.3
-1. 1
-3.0
-6.7
— 15.2
-3.0
-8.0
-1.5
+.2
-8.7
— 11 9
—. 1
-.2
-.2
-.4
+ 1.1
+3.4
+2.2
-6.2
-1.7
-1.2
+4.6
-4.3
+8.8
+.7
-6. 9
+2.0
-10.3
-1.8
-16.3
-17.7
-9.4
-25.3
-28.7
-16.9
+3.1
-22.8
-1.4
-3.3
-.6
+.5
+.9
+.3
+6.4
-0.5
+.8
-4.0
-13. 0
-4.7
-19.5
32.9
36.3
34.7
37.0
30.7
32.7
29. 0
30.6
40.3
28.4
35.5
37.6
37.-1
40.9
44.1
40.6
34.2
35.7
31.3
-3.8
-14.2
-9.0
-22.7
-9.5
-5.1
-7.0
32.0
37.0
31.1
36.1
37.8
35. 5
-33.4
-33.6
-23. 0
-43.8
$24. 73
30.04
24.72
27.01
18.78
21.76
19. 58
27.06
28.49
26. 13
26. 78
29. 09
31.22
29.63
31.20
29. 30
22.97
24.77
23.44
+ 1.3
+4.5
+3.1
-30. 5
-12.8
-50.1
-12.3
-11.9
-38.1
19.41
21.85
21.03
22.68
25.91
22.45
+1.9
+3.9
-2.3
+4.3
-30.3
-14.8
-32. 5
-26. 4
— 52.2
-44.1
-47. 4
-46.6
-.4
-53.2
-44.8
-20.1
-5.8
-30.9
+2.0
+1.5
— .8
-2.2
-6.0
-.3
-2.5
+.0
-3.1
+5.7
-1.0
+ 1.9
-2.7
—3.8
+ 1.1
-7. 5
+2.1
-.4
+2.7
-1.2
-2.1
+2 '>
+ 1.2
-.4
+1.4
+1.3
+3.6
+2.2
-21.3
-12.0
-23.5
-21.0
-15.0
-27.5
— 31. .5
-22.7
-11.6
— 28.0
-12.5
-13. 1
-2.2
-7.4
-1.1
—8. 1
-19.8
-15. 7
-29. 2
-4.7
+.6
-24. 5
-2.3
-11.7
-14.1
-8.0
+2. 3 -27.2
+4.5 -11.2
+4.3
Cents
74.9
82.9
71.2
73.1
61.6
66. 6
66. ()
88.6
71.4
91.9
75.4
77. 5
83.2
71.9
69.5
72.2
67.2
69. 3
74.9
60.0
59.5
67.6
63.1
68. 5
63.4
+0.4
— .6
-L4
— .4
+.6
+.2
-00
+.4
-.2
—1 3
—.4
+•2
—. 5
+.1
+.9
+.7
+1.0
—2 5
-.2
9
o'
+.1
+ 12.2
+ 11.0
+ 10. 2
+4.3
+8.0
+3.2
+8.0
+7.0
-i-14. 9
+7.2
+ 13.5
+ 14. 1
+6. 3
+4.3
+7.2
+ 1.2
+9.0
+ 13.1
+ 13.5
+13. 8
-2.1
+6.1
+2.4
+7.5
+8.5
lumber and allied products._
_
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork
._
Sawmills
_
Stone, clay, and glass products
_
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Cement
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
_
Nondurable
46.1
42.3
55.5
36.1
53.5
83.7
35.4
70.7
+3.0
-.2
+.4
+5. 5
+.9
+2.0
+8.5
-2.1
+2.4
+.6
-20.1
-22. 3
48.7
53.9
+7.5
+1.0
-24.6
-30.0
19.35
18.91
+4.4
+1.2
-5.7
-9.9
37.3
35.2
+2.1
-18.7
-19.1
-21.1
-26.9
-15.8
-23.9
-12,4
-12.9
41.7
37.4
48.1
26.0
50.2
80.8
30.1
59.8
+4.2
+ 13.2
+3.2
+2.0
+ 12.3
+.8
+4.2
+2.0
-20.8
-22.1
-27.2
-39.0
-19.7
-29.8
-10.1
-19.1
20.56
19.33
21.95
17.24
23.79
23. 31
25.16
22.31
+3.8
+7.3
+2.4
+.1
+3.6
+3.0
+1.8
+1.4
-2.0
-3.8
-7.8
-16.5
-4.7
-7.8
37.8
38.4
34.1
32.9
34.9
33.6
37.0
34.8
+2.8
+2.5
+2.8
+2.0
+3.8
+3.8
+2.2
-19.5
-22.0
-29.1
-17.7
-26.1
-14.8
-8.0
-15.5
-27.1
-42.4
-14.8
-16.1
-14.0
-6.3
-17.9
-11.5
-15.2
-10.6
-7.6
-22.7
-5.0
-2.9
74.6
68.4
57.3
72.7
77.4
89.0
67.0
10(5.9
47.0
39.4
83.8
75.7
109.6
88.7
93.8
50. 8
90.7
72.7
71.9
78.2
103.5
126. 5
217. 3
66.1
74.5
72.8
72.3
60. 9
92. 0
42. 4
60.2
50.6
65. 3
48.8
96.6
89.4
+.1
-27.7
-29.8
-44.3
-28. 3
-29. 2
-21.0
-25. 2
-15.8
-33. 5
-50.1
-24.1
-28.4
-20.6
-9.6
-23.8
-21. 5
-25.9
-21.3
-19.2
-27.1
-.6
16.39
15.68
18.68
13.16
17.89
20.40
21.95
17.82
15.32
17.41
18.12
18.24
20.86
16.95
13.44
25. 46
12. 23
18.90
18.04
22.91
24.80
25. 48
32. 63
22.27
16. 32
17.80
25. 67
29.20
27. 26
29.36
22. 66
15 89
17.31
15. 60
27.71
20.37
-.1
-.8
+4.8
+1.3
+2.6
-10.1
-10.1
-21.5
-12.9
—4.2
-7.3
-18.6
-.4
-8.9
-13.4
-10.9
-14.7
-7.7
-3.2
-6.9
-11.5
-12.4
-12.0
-12.7
-5.7
+2.7
-7.2
+.9
+.8
-13.3
-19.3
52.7
53.9
+2.9
-15.4
-9.3
-15.9
-23.9
-12.7
-12.1
-1.9
-20.2
54.3
51.6
64.4
52.4
68.2
69.7
69.2
64.5
+1.0
+5.1
+.6
-.7
-1.9
-.2
-.6
+.4
+8.8
+10.6
+14.5
+6.6
+8.4
+9.3
+8.6
+5.1
+5.6
+16.1
goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
_
Carpets 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 its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather..
Food and kindred products
Baking
Beverages
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery..
Flour
Icecream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures
Chew ing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
_
See footnotes at end of table.
55.8
68.0
.
89.5
81.0
72.6
8(5. 5
80.3
104.9
83.5
104. 5
60.3
52.0
106.9
97.5
146. 1
87.2
121.1
59. 2
110.3
90.1
94.9
76.4
100.4
129.8
194. 3
81. 5
75.7
74.5
73. 2
63.4
84.3
34.0
68. 4
59.3
56. 5
59. 6
100.3
90.8
+.3
-.9
+.1
+.8
-.4
+.1
-.3
+.9
+1.4
-13.1
+2.6
+1.7
+1.4
+•8
+5. 2
-6.0
+6.8
+.8
+1.3
-1.5
-1.3
-.2
+2.3
+1.0
-4.7
-1.7
-.6
+2.3
-4.1
+10.0
-4.1
+.9
-3.8
+1.5
-.8
+1-1
+.9
-.9
-15.5
-5.4
-1.4
-1.7
-7.0
-12.5
-10.2
-2.5
-.8
-2.7
-6.3
-12.5
— 1.6
+4. 9
+2.1
+2.2
-.7
-7.8
+2.8
+3.0
-21.7
+2.9
+2. 2
+1.2
+5.7
+6.2
+ 10.6
+8.0
-.7
-.1
-2.5
-.8
+.3
+3.9
-.4
—4.5
-1.8
-1.1
+4.0
-4.1
+2.9
-6.2
+3.7
-4.2
+5.1
+.2
+2.0
+1.9
+3.0
+2.7
-16.8
-4.5
+2.7
+2.4
+.5
— a. 5
-25.4
-3.4
-.3
-3.8
-7.2
-16.2
-.8
-7.5
+1.8
+1.5
-9.8
+.4
+.4
-.2
+4.9
+1.0
+10.0
+1.2
-1.5
-1.4
-1.0
+.5
+.4
+1.5
— 1.4
+.2o
—. 5
+1.6
0
-6.4
-2.2
+4.7
+4.9
+2.1
+3.6
-1.6
+1.0
+4.2
+4.3
+8.0
+8.1
+2.8
-16.9
-1.0
+3.6
-1.0
+.9
+.9
-4*. 3
-.5
+.4
Q
32.6
32.8
29.1
31.8
37.4
37.2
29. 2
34.5
34.3
29.8
32.3
30.0
33.4
36.7
34.6
38. 5
32.0
35.4
35. 2
36.1
40.1
42.1
38.9
46.2
34. 5
37.1
42.9
46.3
39. 4
41.3
36.7
34.1
34.5
34.1
37.5
37.5
+.8
-14.8
-15.5
-29.6
-18.0
-8.8
+.2 - 8 . 0
-13.4. -26.1
+1.9 — 11.1
+2.2 — 11.1
—9.5 -20. 6
+2.0 -13.3
+2. 1 -21.2
+1.3
-6.1
+2.9
-6.7
+8.0 -14.4
+4.9
-6.4
+ . 2 -14.6
-1.8
-13.0
-1.8
-13.0
-1.4
-12. f)
+.1 - 3 . 9o
+.1
-3i 5
+.7
+.2
+6.8
+1.3
+2.4
-.6
+.2
+.1
—4
-3.7
-12.0
-5.8
-2. 9
+!9
+1.4
-.6
-.7
-2.9
+2.9
-2.6
+3.7
+.3
+.7
-3.4
+1.4
-25. 2
-7.6
-7.4
-7.6
-8.7
-14.1
50.6
48.2
64.3
41.2
48.1
54.6
73.3
52.6
44.5
58.3
54.9
59.6
57.5
46.0
35.9
68.1
38.9
52.3
50.0
63.8
62.1
60.9
84.5
48.5
48.9
48.0
58.9
61.7
69.3
74.4
61.9
46.4
50.5
45.9
76.4
54.7
-1.1
-.7
-1.9
-.2
+.3
-1.1
+2.0
-!s
-.4
-1.8
-2.1
-2.0
+1.5
-4.5
+5.4
-.9
-.6
-.7
+.5
+.6
+•5
+.8
+'3
-.3
+( 2 )
+.9
+.8
-2.6
+.7
+.1
+2.3
-.1
+ 7
- «
+5.1
+6.4
+ 11.4
+6.5
+4.6
+1.5
+6.4
+12.0
+2. 9
+9.0
+1.9
+4.1
+.7
+4.5
+6.9
-9.1
+3.8
+.7
-.5
+7.6
+8.4
+5.1
+5.2
+7.8
+11.8
+7.9
+7.0
+4.2
+13.0
+7.9
+8.1
+7.6
+8.8
-2.7
+7.6
+11.0
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Industries, March
1938—Continued
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]
Employment
Index
March
1938
Febru- March
ary
1937
1938
Average hours worked
per week
Index
March
March
1938 Febru1938 Febru- March
ary March
ary
1937
1U37
1938
1938
Average hourly
earnings
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Industry
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
March
1938
Percentage
change from—
March
Febru- March
ary
1937
1938
1938
Febru- March
ary
1937
1938
Nondurable goods—Continued
Paper and printing—Continued.
Paper and pulp - Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining ._
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal-..
Druggists' preparations
Explosives.
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
Soap
Petroleum refining
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoe^
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inn or tubes
Rubber tires and inner tubes
See footnote at end of table.
108.1
—0.6
-8.1
103.4
92.8
103.4
-2.6
-5.3
-2.1
87.6
101.8
113. 1
111.9
110. 5
87.1
104.7
87.2
116.7
117.3
334. 6
96.0
117.7
72.8
54.7
0
-9.4
-11.2
-17.5
-6.6
-3.3
-14.2
-12.8
-10.4
— 13.5
-2.3
-24.7
-31.8
119.7
114.6
117.6
77.5
115.3
90.9
110.7
113.3
301.3
111.8
136.0
60.8
40.3
-25.2
-21.9
98.3
52. 7
107.9
03.4
+.2
+.1
-4.1
-13.1
-1.2
-.2
+24.4
+1.2
+1.7
-.3
-2.2
-2.0
-.9
-3.3
+26.7
+0.4
-11.2
$23.73
+ 1.2
-7.1
-1.4
29.93
36.90
-6.6
-11.0
-16.1
-39.1
-44.1
27.40
24.35
29.47
12.67
24.01
29.13
15.70
26. 70
22. 22
28. 65
34.88
21.83
18.47
-32.7
-41.6
20.88
23.71
+.4
+.9
-4. L
-14.D
. r
+32.3
-4.9
-6.8
+25. 5 - 1 3 . 3
+2. (i - 1 4 . 8
+6. 3 - 1 3 . 8
-9.3
+.5
— l.fi
-.S
+2. 7
+1.4
+ 1.2
+4.2
+8.3
+1.0
+.9
+1.0
+.4
+.8
-.1
-1.1
+.7
+.9
+1.4
+4.6
+•8
+4.9
+3.4
+2.2
+7.7
-1.4
Cents
62.2
-3.4
38.2
+1.3
— 11.4
— 1.9
37.8
36.7
—.8
-6.8
-4.1
80.3
96.8
+2.1
-6.9
-8.7
-8.7
-1.0
-5.9
-11.7
-0.3
-10.0
-13.3
-5.5
73.7
65.4
79.0
25.4
59.9
80. 5
38. 2
69.7
-.8
—1.0
+.6
+3.1
+.2
+1.6
+4.5
+1.8
-3.5
+.9
+2.2
-3.9
+4.8
+10.9
-19.1
-18.0
37.5
38.0
37.3
50.1
38.0
3G.2
41.3
3S.3
34.2
39.0
36.2
29.7
30.6
— 10.0
-25.3
34.8
25.5
+.2
+.9
+1.3
-00
-5.0
-1.7
-2.7
+7.6
+1.8
+5.6
+.7
6L9
-.2
-.1
+5.1
+3.7
+1.9
-22.0
-22.7
74.4
97.0
76.1
60.3
— 16.2
-26.4
59.6
93.0
-{•8.6
-0.3
+.4
-.1
+3.7
+.5
+1.4
-6.0
-.4
-1.0
+(- 2. )3
-.8
-.5
-.8
-.3
+9.2
+5.4
+5.3
+10.3
+8.9
+11.3
+4.7
+7.1
+9.3
+8.7
+8.4
+11. 3
+10.9
+10.6
+4.3
+7.1
+4.7
+2.2
NONM ANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
Coal mining:
Anthracites...
Bituminous 3
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph *
Electric
light and power and manufactured
gas 4
Electric-railroad4 and motorbus operation and
maintenance ._
Trade:
Wholesale <
_
Retail*..
General merchandising 4
Other than genera] merchandising *
Hotels (year-round) 3 i 5
Laundries 3
Dyeing and4 cleaning 3
Brokerage
_
_._
Insurance *
Building construction
+15.2 $26.01
+2.7
-7.4
+.4
-.8
47.3
68. 5
56.2
30.2
68.0
+2.7
-12.2
-15.4
-20.9
-33.8
-20.4
-26.9
74.8
-1.2
-.7
92.3
92.2
-.6
-.2
98.6
+3.1
+1
70.8
-.4
-2.6
69.9
-.4
+6.4
+6.1
+4.0
+1.0
-1.4
-3.2
-6.2
-9.7
-5.1
-1.1
-3.8
-5.8
-17.7
74.7
68.6
82.2
65.8
81.0
78.5
67.8
59.3
93.1
61.9
38.8
73.6
-1.2
-2.5
-2.4
89.1
83.0
90.5
81.0
93.4
94.8
98. 2
CO
C6O
()
-.9
+.7
+2.0
+.4
-1.0
-.9
+3.0
-2.7
+.2
-.9
+0.5
+2.2
-22.3
00
(66)
()
+5.7
-2.3
-.4
-2.7
-6.1
-1.9
+(
)
-3.0
-.7
+4.4
-4.0
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 manhours. Percentage changes over year are computed from indexes. Percentage changes
ever 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.
-.8
+.3
+.9
2
-.3
+.2
+2.9
— 1.1
-5.6
-21.6
-1.0
-17.8
19. 57
28.42
19.80
34.32
+3.9
+14.6
-5.0
-24. 6
-5.9
-7.6
31.65
+2.9
+2.9
+1.5
+4.3
33.79
+.7
32.29
0
29.09
21.46
18.11
24.13
14.88
17.00
19.27
35.15
36.12
28.44
+.6
-.4
-1.0
-.3
-2.0
+.2
+1.4
-1.3
-.5
+1.1
+7.2
+6.5
+4.2
+3.7
+2.9
+3.8
+4.1
+3.4
+4.1
+2.8
+.3
-4.8
-3.1
+5.9
28.0
22.4
42.2
36.5
40.2
+5.6
-5.4
-1.0
+.9
92.2
86.8
67.3
54.0
84.0
-.9
85.7
+1.4
-1.6
-33.9
-4.8
-14.3
-.2
39.0
+3.0
+3.3
+.5
+2.5
40.3
+1.1
-2.2
84.1
-.6
45.3
-.4
-2.7
70.5
+.1
42.4
42.8
39.1
43.8
4.7.4
41.9
40.3
+.3
+.1
+1.0
-2.7
-1.5
-1.4
-1.6
-3.8
-3.0
-7.4
68.3
54.5
48.7
56.2
31.0
40.8
48.0
CO
+.8
CO
CO
-4.1
C6O
()
CO
CO
30.7
-.4
-.8
-.3
-.4
CO
92.1
-00
-1.5
-.1
-.2
+.2
-.2
-1.7
+.4
-.3
CO
CO
+.3
+17.0
+10.9
-1.1
+7.3
+6.7
+6.9
+7.2
+7.3
+4.9
+6.0
+4.6
+6.1
+6.1
+6.4
+6.9
CO
(<0
+10.9
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 additional6 value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Not available.
CO
TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, March, February, and January 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]
Employment index
Industry
All manufacturing industries..
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)
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
Radios and phonographs
March February
1938
1938
Jan
uary
1938
Average weekly
earnings*
Pay-roll index
March February
1938
1938
January
1938
March February
1938
1938
January
1938
Average hours worked
per week i
March February
1938
1938
January
1938
Average hourly
earnings1
March February
1938
1938
January
1938
$21. 89
34.5
34.3
33.2
Cents
65.5
Cents
65.6
Cents
66.3
20.49
33.6
35.3
33.2
35.3
32.3
34.0
72.4
59.3
72.4
59.4
2.7
21.54
21.60
18.94
17.24
20.42
20.17
17.62
17.37
29.6
27. 1
27.3
31.9
26.4
27.0
29.5
27.7
24.9
25.3
29.3
75.9
82.6
70.7
57.9
76.0
82.6
70.2
57.3
75.5
81.8
69.7
58.5
20.96
22. 59
19.47
21.06
20.38
21. 58
20.07
20.61
20.27
21.22
17.94
21.45
35.2
30.7
29.9
31.3
34.2
29.2
30.1
30.8
33.6
28.6
27.4
32.3
61.6
73.8
65.1
67.1
61.5
74.2
66.6
67.0
62.5
74.7
65.1
66.5
43.4
43.9
58.5
88.1
21.76
23.21
25.63
23.54
21.94
22. 56
25.74
22.89
22.21
20.21
25.74
22. 93
30.5
34.8
35.9
37.8
30.9
34.5
35.8
36.6
31.1
31.8
35.8
36.7
70.9
67.1
71.5
62.7
70.6
66.5
72.0
63.1
70.9
65.0
72.1
63.2
72.9
101.5
91.8
175.9
75.9
107.8
95.9
172.1
22. 36
21. 70
25.34
28.99
21.32
20.38
25.48
28.46
21.60
20.17
25.61
27.73
36.0
32.2
34.5
38.8
34.4
30.4
34.6
38.2
34.7
30.2
34.5
37.1
61.8
67.6
73.0
74.9
61.4
67.1
73.0
74.6
62.0
66.8
73.2
74.8
123.4
81.7
120.0
77.6
120.4
71.6
128. 5
88.1
128. 2
79.9
131. 5
76.2
29.54
24. 73
30. 04
24.72
27.01
18.78
29.30
24.88
29. 59
24. 85
27.64
19. 99
30.71
25.17
30.15
24.70
29. 01
20.81
36.8
32.9
36.3
34.7
37.0
30.7
36.3
33.3
35.7
34.8
38.0
31.7
37.8
33.5
36.3
34.4
39.7
32.7
80.7
74.9
82.9
71. 2
73.1
61.6
81.1
74.5
83.4
71.2
72.8
62.8
81.6
74.9
83.2
71.4
73.2
63.8
81.7
82.3
2.2
73.3
73.2
71.7
$22.46
72.4
91.7
78.3
92. 1
75.1
89.9
63.8
85.3
63.7
85.1
63.9
81.6
24.06
20.92
78.9
87.0
61.7
55.6
80.0
88.7
63.3
54.7
81.1
90.5
63.2
55.5
62.1
65.5
52.7
39.0
61.3
64.7
53. 0
35.2
59.1
61.7
49. 1
36.0
22.12
22.28
19.34
18.80
75.3
46.5
66. 4
78.4
77.6
48.4
67.6
79.2
77.5
52.3
70.8
78.3
63.1
34.4
57.1
52.3
63.5
34.3
60.1
51.5
62.8
36.3
56.3
53.1
56.7
76. 5
59.7
87.0
55.9
73.9
61.4
85.5
56.6
63.8
63.8
85.7
42.7
60.5
54.6
92.3
42.4
56. 6
56.2
88.6
79.3
120.7
136.9
79.5
123.8
99.7
137. 6
81.5
132.7
104.0
138.4
76.3
105. 4
88.7
178.3
126. 5
86.4
121.3
85.2
127.7
86.0
127. 6
89.9
124. 5
87.1
133. 7
95.4
126.8
95.9
130. 4
90.3
139.2
97.1
124.1
78.1
118.7
75.2
112.3
60.7
$22. 30
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
Stamped and enameled ware
_.
Lumber and allied products
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork
Sawmills
,
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick:, tile, and terra cotla
Cement
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
63. 5
112.8
77.8
780.6
79.8
39.1
43.7
94. 6
44.4
61.8
43.1
87.4
100.5
86.6
65.9
114.1
80.6
776.2
82.8
42.2
47.9
95.2
44.9
62.1
43.6
87.6
101.6
87.3
68.6
117.7
84.3
771.5
86.8
44.5
52.2
99.2
47.6
63.1
46.4
88.1
103.9
89.1
50.1
80.6
66.0
700.3
61.9
43.7
32.6
109. 3
45.5
68.4
43.9
74.2
100.5
71.8
51.6
87.6
67.0
698.9
62.3
47.9
37.0
109.5
45.6
68.5
44.0
73.4
97.2
70.2
53.4
76.8
68.6
674.9
63. 8
48.9
37.7
114.2
47.3
68.4
45.9
73.2
96.9
71.4
21.76
19.58
27.06
28.49
26.13
26.78
29.09
31.22
29.63
31.20
29.30
22.97
24.77
23.44
21. 61
20.50
26.86
28.64
25.85
27.25
29.63
31.15
29.44
31.19
29.07
22.64
23.69
22.77
21.27
17.41
26.23
27.79
25.15
26.41
28.11
31.21
28.87
30. 61
28.52
22.49
23.11
22.73
32.7
29.6
30.6
40.3
28.4
35.5
37.6
37.1
40.9
44.1
40.6
34.2
35.7
31.3
32.4
31.2
30.4
40.4
28.2
36.1
38.3
36.2
40.3
44.1
39.9
33.8
34.6
30.6
32.8
27.1
29.7
39.4
27.4
35.4
36.4
36.4
39.4
43.5
39.0
33.1
33.5
30.8
66.6
66.0
88.6
71.4
91.9
75.4
77.5
83.2
71.9
69.5
72.2
67.2
69.3
74.9
66.9
65.6
88.6
71.6
91.7
75.6
77.3
84.3
72.3
69.6
72.6
67.0
68.5
74.3
65.0
64.1
88.7
71.3
91.9
74.6
77.2
84.2
72.8
69.4
73.1
67.6
69.1
73.8
98.8
84.8
67.0
71.5
75.2
110.0
55.8
68.0
101.3
84.1
69.1
71.1
76.8
105.5
54.2
68.2
97.2
82.2
69.2
69.3
81.1
105. 2
53.7
68.5
83.6
60.4
54.5
59. 6
66.2
101.1
48.7
53.9
89.1
61.4
55. 2
57. 0
69. 2
92.9
45.3
53.3
86.7
60.5
52.7
54.0
74.0
88.6
42.5
49.3
19.41
21. 85
21.03
22.68
25.91
22. 45
19.35
18.91
20.19
22.26
20.61
21.80
26.52
21.54
18.69
18.56
20.48
22.52
19. 54
21.11
26.92
20.64
17.68
17.16
32.0
37.0
31.1
36.1
37.8
35.5
37.3
35.2
33.6
36.9
30.5
34.6
38.7
34.2
36.5
34.8
33.8
36.3
28.8
33.2
39-1
31.8
34.6
31.7
60.6
59.5
67.6
63.1
68.5
63.4
52.7
53.9
60.0
60.3
67.5
63.2
68.5
63.0
51.5
53.4
60.5
61.9
67.9
63.6
68.9
64.6
51.6
53.9
46.1
42.3
55.5
36.1
53.5
83.7
35.4
70.7
45.9
40.1
55.0
35.4
49.3
85.6
34.6
70.2
43.9
39.7
55.1
35. 3
50. 2
87.8
31.5
69.6
41.7
37.4
48.1
26.0
50.2
80.8
30.1
59.8
40.0
33.0
46.6
25.5
44.7
80.1
28.9
58.6
36.5
31.5
43.6
24.3
44.4
77.1
23.7
51.0
20.56
19.33
21.95
17.24
23. 79
23. 31
25.16
22.31
19.89
18.40
21.47
17.26
22. 99
22. 56
24.91
21.94
18.98
17.70
20.03
16.53
22.45
21.10
22.13
19.27
37.8
38.4
34.1
32.9
34. 9
33.6
37.0
34.8
36.9
37.5
33.1
32.1
33.7
32.4
36.0
34.4
34.1
36.5
31.2
31.2
32.8
30.1
32.8
31.8
54.3
51.6
64.4
52.4
68.2
69.7
69.2
64.5
53.8
49.7
64.9
53.5
68.3
69.9
69.7
64.6
55.6
49.3
65.0
54.1
68.4
70.5
67.8
63.8
89.5
81.0
72.6
86.5
80.3
104.9
83.5
104.5
60.3
52.0
106. 9
97. 5
146.1
87.2
121.1
59. 2
110.3
89.2
81.7
72.5
85.8
80.6
104.9
83.7
103. 5
59.4
59. 8
104.2
95.9
144.0
86.6
115.2
55.8
103.3
84.7
80.7
66.9
86.6
78.8
103. 6
82.7
99.2
57.8
59.1
91.7
83. 5
128.3
84. 6
97.6
50.1
89.0
74.6
68.4
57.3
72.7
77.4
89.0
67.0
106.9
47.0
39.4
83.8
75.7
109.6
88.7
93.8
fl0.8
90.7
74.5
69.5
54.6
71.2
75. 8
89. 6
72.6
104.0
45. 7
50. 3
81.4
74.1
108. 3
84.0
88.3
43.6
84.0
65.5
65.0
45.6
70.3
67.9
84.0
65.2
90.6
40.4
48.9
63. 8
58.4
82.8
74.5
66.5
34.4
70.5
16.39
15.68
18.68
13.16
17.89
20. 40
21. 95
17.82
15. 32
17.41
18.12
18. 24
20. 86
16.95
13.44
25. 40
12. 23
16.41
15. 82
17.92
12.99
17.44
20. 63
23. 58
17.40
14.87
19.32
17.94
18.19
20.72
15.99
13. 41
22. 53
12.14
15.34
15.08
16. 24
12.73
15.96
19. 57
21.40
15.86
13.55
18.97
16.09
16.44
17.87
14.64
12.05
20.02
11.82
32.6
32.8
29.1
31.8
37.4
37.2
29.2
34.5
34.3
29.8
32.3
30.0
33.4
36.7
34.6
32.4
32.8
27.3
31.4
36.4
37.3
33.6
33.8
33.3
33.0
31.8
29.4
33.2
35.6
32.1
30.2
30.8
24.6
30.2
33.1
34.3
31.2
31.0
29.5
32.0
28.9
26.7
29.8
31.7
29.2
50.6
48.2
64.3
41.2
48.1
54.6
73.3
52.6
44.5
58.3
54.9
59.6
57.5
46.0
35.9
51.0
48.5
65.6
41.3
48.1
55.1
71.9
52.7
44.2
58.6
55.7
60.6
58.6
45.2
37.6
51.0
49.0
65.9
42.0
48.7
56. 6
72.0
52.3
45.5
59. 4
55.3
61.8
56.0
46.5
37.8
32.6
32.6
30.4
38.9
39.7
41.3
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
LTttts, fur-felt
_'
Knit goods
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
"Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments
Alen's furnishings
Millinery
Shirts and collars
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, March, February, and January
1938—Continued
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]
Employment index
Industry
March February
1938
1938
January
1938
Pay-roll index
March February
1938
1938
Average weekly
earnings
January
1938
January
1938
March February
$18. 90 $19. 09 $17. 96
18.21
16.94
18.04
22.43
22.91
23.11
25.24
24.74
24.80
25.26
25.30
25.48
32. 26 31.38
32.63
22.54
22.27
22.83
16.11
16.32
16.30
17.67
17.58
17.80
25.87
25.86
25.67
29.39
28.89
29.20
27.32
29.30
27.26
28.38
31.38
29.36
23.72
22. 66 23.75
15.32
15.85
15.89
17.31
17.31
17.27
15. 48
15. 60 14.89
27.71
27.40
26.90
20.37
20.16
19.18
23.73
23.51
22.36
1938
1938
Average hours worked
per week
March February
1938
1938
January
1938
Nondurable goods— Continued
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
_
Leather __ __
Food and kindred products
Baking. . . .
_
Beverages
Butter
Canning and preserving..
Confectionery _
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet ..
Sugar refining, cane
__
_ _
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes.
._.
.__
Pjipflr and printing
Boxes, paper.
_ __
_. _
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals . . . _
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
__ __
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal. _
Druggists' preparations
-_
Explosives
Fertilizers.. _
__ __
Paints and varnishes
90. 1
94.9
76.4
100.4
129. 8
194. 3
81. 5
75.7
74.5
73.2
63. 4
84.3
34.0
68.4
59.3
56. 5
59.6
100.3
90.8
108.1
89.4
93.7
77.6
101.7
130.1
189.9
80.7
79.4
75.8
73.6
62.0
88.0
30.9
71.3
58.8
58.8
58.7
101.1
89.8
108.7
85.8
89.3
76.6
102.9
129.9
186. 2
80.5
82.1
76.4
73.7
61.7
92.8
33.3
65.6
51.9
57.2
51.1
101.0
89.3
108.1
72.7
71.9
78.2
103.5
126.5
217.3
66.1
74.5
72.8
72.3
60.9
92.0
42.4
60.2
50.6
65.3
48.8
96.6
89.4
103.4
73.2
71.9
80.2
104.3
126.1
209. 3
66.4
78.0
74.1
73 1
58.5
95.9
41.2
64.1
48.8
68.2
46.4
96.4
87.6
102.9
65.6
63.1
76.9
106.5
125.2
199.8
65.7
79.6
73.8
73.3
58.6
108.3
40.1
58.9
44.6
66.6
41.9
95.4
83.1
97.7
92.8
103.4
95. 2
103.2
95.8
103.0
87.6
101.8
89.1
100. 6
91.0
100.7
29.93
36.90
29.59
36.63
113.1
111.9
110.5
87.1
104.7
87.2
116.7
117.3
113.1
111.8
115.2
100.2
106.0
87.4
93.8
116.0
112.7
111.0
118.1
104.4
105.9
90.2
83.0
116.3
119.7
114.6
117.6
77.5
115.3
90.9
110.7
113. 3
119.2
113. 6
122.6
9C.2
115.9
92.4
88.2
110.5
117.5
112.2
124.3
96.8
118.4
82. 3
79.8
106.4
27.40
24.35
29.47
12.67
24.01
29.13
15.70
26.70
27.51
24.17
29.45
12.89
23.79
3C.25
15.62
26.26
Average hourly
earnings
March February
1938
1938
January
1938
35.4
35.2
36.1
40.1
42.1
38.9
36.0
35.9
36.6
40.7
43.6
38.6
33.4
32.9
35.4
40.4
41.6
37.7
Cents
52.3
50.0
63.8
62.1
60.9
84.5
Cents
52.6
50.3
63.4
60.9
58.4
84.1
Cents
53.6
51.4
63.8
61,8
61.3
84.0
34.5
37.1
42.9
46.3
39.4
41.3
36.7
34.1
34.5
34.1
37.5
37.5
38.2
34.4
37.0
43.1
45.5
39.7
42.0
38.4
33.1
35.4
32.8
37.4
36.9
37.7
34.5
36.8
43.4
45.4
42.7
38.9
38.1
33.3
34.7
33.1
36.7
35.2
35.7
48.9
48.0
58.9
61.7
69.3
74.4
61.9
46.4
50.5
45.9
76.4
54.7
62.2
48.8
47.7
58.9
61.9
68.9
75.6
61.9
46.0
49.1
45.5
75.9
55.1
62.4
48.0
48.0
58.6
62.7
68.8
75.9
59.6
47.6
50.3
47.2
76.3
54.9
62.7
29.95
36.76
37.8
36.7
38.0
36.6
38.4
36.7
80.3
96.8
78.5
96.6
79.3
97.0
27.20
24.19
29.18
13.18
24.37
26.11
15.99
25.16
37.5
38.0
37.3
50.1
38.0
36.2
41.3
38.3
37.3
37.6
37.3
53.6
38.7
37.5
38.5
37.6
36.7
37.2
36.8
53.2
38.9
33.0
37.6
35.9
73.7
65.4
79.0
25.4
59.9
80.5
38.2
69.7
74.2
65.9
79.0
24.1
59.1
80.7
40.6
69.7
75.0
66.7
79.3
25.0
60.7
7ft. 0
42.5
70.1
Rayon and allied products
Soap
Petroleum refining
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes
Rubber tires and inner tubes
60.3
65.3
74.3
97.6
77.3
60.5
65.7
74.8
97.8
78.9
61.1
59.6
93.0
60.1
94.6
61.1
95.7
27.0
21.6
40.6
33.3
39.5
92.2
86.8
67.3
54.0
84.0
93.1
87.1
67.3
55.0
85.4
92.3
87.1
67.4
55.6
84.3
334.6
96.0
117.7
72.8
54.7
329.2
96.3
118.2
74.4
55.8
315.2
94.0
119.3
78.4
59.2
301.3
111.8
136.0
60.8
40.3
283.4
111.2
137.1
59.2
39.8
275.5
109.2
134.7
66.1
44.3
22.22
28.65
34.88
21.83
18.47
21.26
28.58
35. 23
21.07
17.86
21.58
28. 65
34. 28
22.42
18.76
34.2
39.0
36.2
29.7
30.6
32.6
38.6
36.4
28.3
29.5
32.9
38.4
35.3
29.1
30.7
64.9
74.4
97.0
76.1
107.9
63.4
108.8
65.5
108.5
71.5
98.3
52.7
97.1
50.6
94.8
61.4
20.88
23.71
20.43
22.53
20. 00
25.02
34.8
25.5
34.1
23.8
32.8
26.2
26.5
23.7
40.9
35.0
40.1
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929 = 100]
Coal mining: 2
Anthracite 2
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph s
Electric
light and power and manufactured
gas 3
Electric-railroad3 and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Trade:
Wholesales
Retails
...
Genera] merchandising 3
3
Othor than 2general
merchandising
35
Hotels (year-round)
Laundries 2
___
Dyeing and
cleaning 2
Brokerage 3366
Insurance
Building construction 6
59.3
93.1
61.9
38.8
73.6
60.0
95.4
63.4
37.8
74.2
59.6
96.8
67.4
38.2
75.3
47.3
68. 5
56.2
30.2
68.0
46.1
74.0
55. 9
28.6
69.6
46.5
70.2
58.9
27.7
68.2
$26. 01
19. 57
28.42
19.80
34.32
$24.86
20. 59
27.48
19.29
34.88
$25. 27
19. 26
27.24
18. 56
33.80
28.0
22.4
42.2
36.5
40.2
74.8
75.7
77.8
92.3
89.5
93.7
31.65
30.19
30.76
39.0
37.9
39.5
85.7
84.4
82.6
92.2
92.9
94.0
98.6
98.5
98.9
33.79
33.60
33.47
40.3
40.0
39.3
84.1
84.4
85.5
70.8
71.1
72.2
69.9
70.2
70.6
32.29
32.08
31.98
45.3
45.4
45.0
70.5
69.9
70.0
89.1
83.0
90.5
81.0
93.4
94.8
98.2
—2. 7
90.4
82.4
88.8
80.7
94.4
95.7
95.4
—2. 3
-.1
-4.8
91.0
84.1
91.5
82.1
94.3
96.7
96.7
74.7
68.6
82.2
65.8
81.0
78.5
67.8
—4.0
-.3
75.3
68.4
81.5
65.7
83.5
79.1
65.0
—2. 3
-1.9
-4.7
75.4
70.1
84.6
67.1
81.5
80.1
65.3
—3. 4
29.09
21. 46
18.11
24.13
14.88
17.00
19.27
35.15
36.12
28.44
29.08
21.45
18.16
24.07
15.16
16.96
18.98
36.11
30. 39
28.56
28.96
21.43
18.37
23.92
14.90
17.04
18. 66
36. 23
37.17
28.36
42.4
42.8
39.1
43.8
47.4
41.9
40.3
42.2
42.9
39.3
43.9
47.2
41.8
39.4
42.1
43.1
39.9
44.0
46.6
41.8
39.0
68.3
54.5
48.7
56.2
31.0
40.8
48.0
68.6
54.2
48.6
55.8
31.7
40.8
49.3
30.7
(*)
30.4
30.5
0)
(4)
93.8
68.6
54.5
48.9
56.1
31.1
41.0
49.2
(4)
(*)
92.5
-.9
+.2
Q
— 11. H
- 1+.9
4.2
+.2
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.
The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the
size
and composition of the reporting sample.
2
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in
January 1938 issue of this publication.
3 Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not strictly comparable with
- 1+.8
5.2
u
92.1
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.
5
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
6
Indexes of employment and pay rolls not available; percentage changes from preceding
month substituted.
18
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in tables 6 and 7
for all manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and
nondurable-goods groups of manufacturing industries, and for 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade,
by months, from January 1937 to March 1938, inclusive. The
accompanying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and
pay rolls from January 1919 to March 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 March 1938 reports were received from 25,571 manufacturing
establishments employing 3,987,890 workers, whose weekly earnings
were $89,578,553. 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 KOXXS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
hc/ey Numbers
192325100
Index Numbers
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60
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40
20
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1
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100
80
60
40
?0
Q
1919 /920 192/ 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 /929 /930 193/ /932 /933 /934 1935 1936 1937 1938 u
Uwreo sariF BUREAU OF LABOR STAWT/CS
20
TABLE 6.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in All Manufacturing Industries
Combined and in the Durable- and Nondurable-Goods Groups *
[Adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures—3-year average 1923-25=100]
]Manufacturing
Durable goods 2
Total
Month
Employment
January
February
March,
April
May ___
June
July
_
August
September
October
November
December
Average
Pay rolls
Employment
Nondurable goods3
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1937
1938
1937
1938
1937
1938
1937
1938
1937
1938
1937
96.5
99.0
101.1
102.1
102.3
101.1
82.2
82.3
81.7
90.7
95.8
101.1
104.9
105.2
102 9
71.7
73.2
73.3
90.4
93.2
96.4
98.6
99.9
98.8
75.1
73.3
72.4
86.6
92.5
100.0
106.4
107.5
104 6
63.9
63.7
63.8
103.0
105 2
106 1
105.9
104 8
103.5
89.9
92 1
91.7
96.0
99 9
102 6
102.9
102 3
100.8
___
101.4
102.3
102.1
100.5
94.7
88.6
100.4
103.8
100.1
100.1
89.5
80.9
_
99.3
98.0
98.9
98.1
97.3
97.6
92.4
84.3 : : : : : :
95.5
100.7
104. 0
99.4
101.7
89.9
77.0
104.1
106.9
107.3
103 6
97.3
93.3
100.0
103.5
100.9
98.2
89.0
85.8
97.5
103.4
98.5
1938
81.6
85 1
85.3
1
Comparable indexes for earlier years will be found in the February 1937 issue of this report, or in the
April
1937 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.
3
Includes the following groups of manufacturing industries: Iron and steel; machinery; transportation
equipment; railroad repair shops; nonferrous metals; lumber and allied products; and stone, clay, and
glass
products.
3
Includes the following groups of manufacturing industries: Textiles and their products, leather and its
manufactures, food and kindred products, tobacco manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and allied
products, products of petroleum and coal, rubber products, and a number of miscellaneous industries not
included in other groups.
TABLE 7.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1937 to March 1938 1
[12-month average 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
Bituminous-coal
mining
and nonMetalliferous mining Quarrying
metallic mining
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
ment
ment
Month
1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937
January .
February
March
April
May .
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
_
_
Average. .
1938 1937
1938 1937 1938
65.2 59.6 46.4 46.5 104. 5 96.8 93.6 70.2 66.8 67.4 58.4 58.9 45.7 2 38.2 34.6 2 27.7
63.6 60.0 44.6 46.1 104.7 95.4 96.4 74.0 69.6 63.4 63.4 55.9 46.7 2 37.8 37.8 2 28.6
59.0 59.3 41.1 47.3 106.1 93.1 103.5 68.5 73.1 61.9 70.6 56.2 49.1 38.8 41.3 30.2
48.]
76.2
89.7
53.1
65.1
63.6
76.9
69.4
51.4
96.1
54.9
61.5
79.4
78.5
79.8
48 2
79.5
52.6
96.2
83.3
77.7
55.4
55.3
61.6
54 3
49.7
58.1 : : : : :
61.5
60.9
61.4
93 7
38 2
97.4
29.6
34.2 - - - - - 99.4
102.4
55.4
101.4
49.0
99.4
51.3
60.2
46.9
1
99.3
77.7
86.3
90.9
100.7
91.1
95.1
88.5
82.0
83.4
84.1
82.9 - - - - 75.4
70.4
77.8
83.0
82.2
81.7 : : : : :
71.6
65.1
55. 5
54.9
54.7
53.3 : : : : :
49.9
43.9
50.8
53. 2
50.1 - - - - 49.3
41.7
33.4
76.8
74.0 —
51.4
45.4
Comparable indexes for earlier years for all of these industries, except anthracite and bituminous-coal
mining, year-round hotels, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning, will be found in the November 1934 and subsequent issues of this pamphlet, or the February 1935 and subsequent issues of the Monthly Labor Review.
Indexes for anthracite and bituminous-coal mining, year-round hotels, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning
from January 1929 forward have been adjusted to the 1935 census and are presented in the January 1938
issue
of this pamphlet.
2
Revised.
21
T A B L E 7.—Indexes
of Employment
and Pay
Rolls
Industries, January 1937 to March
Crude-petroleum
producing
in
Selected
Nonmanufacturing
1938—Continued
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and
power, and manufactured gas
Electric-railroad and
motorbus operation and
maintenance 3
Employment
Employment
Employment
Month
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938
January.
February
March.
April.
May
June
72.7 75.3 61.2 68.2 74.4 77.8 83.6 93.7 92.1 94.0 92.3 98.9 72.5 72.2 68.0 2 70.6
73.5 74.6 64.1 69.4 74.8 75.7 82.2 2 89.5 92.2 92.9 93.6 98.5 72.5 71.1 68.7 2 70.2
74.2 73.6 63.9 68.0 75.4 74.8 87.2 92.3 92.4 92.2 94.8 98.6 72.6 70.8 69.2 69.9
67.7
72.9
95.5
76.6
93.1
86.3
69.4
75.8
68.2
73.3
97.9
94.6
89.5
70.1
76.7
77.7
70.4
73.3
100.4
96.3
88.6
71.1
78.5
78.5
July
August
September
October
November
December
78.5
79.3
78.2
77.5
77.2
76.5
Average... 76.5
70.5
70.8
71.2
69.9
70.2
69.8
79.7
79.8
79.8
79.6
78.9
78.0
92.1
92.1
92.3
94.9
91.4
94.7
97.5
98.3
98.6
98.5
97.3
96.1
68.2 . . . . .
77.8 ----- 89.6
95.6
Wholesale trade
Month
Employment
Total retail trade
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
102.2
102.6
104. 0
105. 3
103.8
102.4
99.6 . . . . .
73.4
73.4
73.7
73.4
73.2
72.8
70.8
73.1
71.6
71.4
71.8
71.9
73.1 . . . . .
70.6
Retail trade—g e n eral merchandising
Retail trade—other
than general merchandising
Employment
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938
January
February
March
April.
May
_
June
90.7 91.0 72.6 75.4 85.4 84.1
92.0 90.4 74.1 75.3 85.2 2 82.4
92.1 89.1 75.0 74.7 88. 5 83.0
88.8
91.9
75.4
89.9
90.8
76.1
90.5
90.3
76.3
July...
August
September
October
November
December
90.6
91.8
93.0
94.0
93.5
93.3
68.0 70.1 95.1 91.5 83.8 84.6 82.9 82.1 64.7 67.1
67.9 2 68.4 93.9 2 88.8 82.9 81.5 82.9 80.7 64.8 2 65.7
70.5 68.6 100.3 90.5 87.6 82.2 85.4 81.0 67.0 65.8
68.3
71.9
86.0
99.6
89.1
69.8
73.5
86.7
102.1
91.5
70.6
74.4
87.2
102.9
92.5
76.9
79.0
78.3
79.3
78.3
77.8
87.6
86.2
90.7
92.1
91.7
100.4
72.8
72.3
74.4
75.9
75.3
80.6
95.9
93.8
103.7
108.1
109. 8
145.9
Average.. 92.0 . . . . . 76.6
89.8
73.1
104.3
Year-round hotels
Employment
Month
Pay rolls
87.3
85.7
92.4
96.2
97.1
123.3
85.4
84.2
87.3
87.9
86.9
88.5
92.5 - — 85.9 - —
Laundries
Employment
Pay rolls
69.8
(59. 5
70.7
71.7
70.8
71.8
69.1
Dyeing and cleaning
Employment
P a y rolls
1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938 1937 1938
January
February
March
April
May
June
_
_
July...
August
SeptemberOctober
November
December
Average
_
_
_
_
_
92.9 94.3 76.2 81.5 98.3 96.7 78.2 80.1 98.8 96.7 617 65.3
93.9 94.4 78.5 83.5 98.4 95.7 78.1 79.1 98.0 95.4 63.6 65.0
94.4 93.4 78.7 81.0 98.5 94.8 79.3 78.5 104.3 98.2 71.8 67.8
80.1
109.2
80.7
98.3
80.4
96.1
86.1
113.9
79.7
100. 3
83.3
95.3
92.2
118.
5
80.1
103. 9
87.5
94.4
93.6
94.3
95.7
96.9
96.6
94.9
79.4
80.5
82.4
84.1
84. 3
82.6
105. 8
104.7
104.1
99.9
97.8
97.0
__ 94.9 _____ 80.6 . . . . . 100.6 . . . . .
89.0
88.0
86.4
83.4
81.1
81.1
111.0
110.3
112.8
110.5
103. 5
99.2
83.0 . . . . . 107.5 . . . . .
79.5
81.3
80. 7
83. 6
73. 7
68.6
77.6 . . . . .
3 Revised.
3
Not including electric-railroad car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 3.
65998—38
4
22
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic divisions, in February and March 1938, is shown in table 8
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.
TABLE 8.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
February and March 1938, by Geographic Divisions and by States
[Figures in italics arc not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
Manufacturing
Total all groups
Geographic division and State
PerPerPerPerNum- Number cent- Amount cent- Num- Number cent- Amount centber
age
ber
of
age
age
age
of
on
on
of
of
pay roll change
pay roll change
pay roll change
roll change
estab- pay
from
estab(1
week)
from
from
(1
week)
from
lish- March
Feb- March
lish- March
FebFebMarch
Feb1938
1938
ments
ruary
1938
ruary ments
ruary
ruary
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
New England
13,802 789, 043
Maine
51, 683
792
New Hamp33, 967
611
shire
14, 027
44G
Vermont
Massachusetts. i 8,291 429,465
Rhode Island.. 1, 226 77, 730
Connecticut
2,436 182,171
--11 . 7
-2.3
-2.5
-4.2
-1.3
-1.8
-2.4
Dollars
17,7, 440, 712 - 1 . 7
1, 023, 228 - 4 . 0
675, 369 - 3 . 1
300, 419 - 2 . 3
9,859,850 -1.0
1,615, 213 - 2 . 9
3,966, 633 - 2 . 2
32,069 1,[, 990, 835
7 50, 724, 750
Middle Atlantic
" :, 730, 320
New York
20, 648 898, 558 - . 2 24,
4,227 319, 725 - 1 . 0 8, 040,040
New Jersey
Pennsylvania-. 7,194 772, 552 - 1 . 2 17,', 954, 390
539, 431
42, 043
27, 318
8,533
249,160
60, 261
152,116
--1.
1. 7
-2.5
-2.8
-5. 6
-1.1
-1.9
-1.7
Dollar}
1,168, 207
11
791, 538
-2.4
-5.2
521, 363 -3.7
178, 730 -2.6
5,
-1.4
1,174,924 - 4 . 0
3, 200, 391 - 2 . 3
+.2
» 2,304 406,618
*839 232,676
2,319 466,520
9 26,710,098
'0,759,042+ ()
-• 4•10,
-1.7 5, 747,382 -1.9
5 _
\ 203,674 s +.5
-.3
8, 552
2,550
982
2,446
1,043
81,531
1,444,905
383,831
182,584
379, 754
342,369
166,367
- 1 . 5 35,1,065,222
-1.2 8,891, 446
-.3 4,104,635 +4
-2.7 9,504, 837
-1.7
8,747,619 -2.1
5
+.3
-.8 3,816,685
+.7
2,471
439
439
861
56
38
164
198,961
377, 735
35, 234
89,401
599
1,943
9,551
24,498
), 251, 885
-. 3 15,
334, 208 - 1 . 2
1.7
2,935, 777
(3)
2,874
85
617
East North Central. 24,820 11,941,321
1.4
:
Ohio._
_. 7, 368 525,925
9
230,908
Indiana
2,634
6
Illinois
6,617 564, 564 - • 49
Michigan
3,877 394,749 -2. 3"
7
Wisconsin
4,824 225,175
-.2
West North Central. 11,590 395,627
+.4
Minnesota
79,567 +.4
2,068
60,193 +1.1
Iowa
1,740
Missouri
2, 879 160, 673 +.9
4,534 +1.9
North Dakota543
7,069 + 00
South Dakota438
28, 563 - . 9
Nebraska
_ 1,438
65,028
Kansas
'2,484
South Atlantic
10,986 826, 713
Delaware-.'-._.
208
14,101
Maryland
_ 1,618 128, 425
See footnotes at end of table.
-. 1
3,611
294
202
14'
1,796
427
745
47,624,164
12,269,651
5,198,602
14,439,747
10, 232, 274
5,483,890
-.9
-.3
+• 1
+2.7
-.2
-.7
2, 027,949 +1. 0
1, 399,138 +2.6
3,683,006
+.7
109, 932 +1.2
182, 633 - 1 .
631,195 - 1 .
1,299, 075 8 -.2
+.
L, 105, 713
474
546, 962
9,750
-.1 4,724, 588
-.9
990, 512
+2.2 850,611.
1,
+.1 952,154
16, 560
+1.5
47,670
—.4
235, 018
-3.3
-1.4 632,063
+.1
-2.1
9,240,416
225,595
1,947,893
5 -.2
-.1
+1.2
+4.2
-1.9
+1.2
-4.5
-1.1
-1.2
+.5
-.8
23
TABLE 8.—Comparison of Employment
and Pay
Rolls in Identical Establishments
February and March 1938, by Geographic Divisons and by
Total all groups
Geographic division and State
in
States—Continued
Manufacturing
PerPerPerPerNum- Number cent- Amount cent- Num- Number cent- Amount centof
ber
age
age
age
of
ber
age
of
on
change pay roll change
of
on
change pay roll change
run
nnTT Thrill
estab- }jciy
from (1 week) from estab- £'<%J ITU11 from (1 week) from
lish- March Feblish- March
FebMarch
FebMarch
Febirvyn
ivoo
1938
1938
1938
ments
ruary
ruary ments
ruary
ruary
1938
South
AtlanticContinued.
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia..
N o r t h Carolina
South Carolina.
Georgia
Florida
_..
1938
1,088
2,108
1,273
Dollars
993,469
38, 526 n o 7
111,286
+>J 2, 037, 204
141,447 - 2 . 6 3, 069,491
1,459
731
1,412
1, 059
152, 028
77, 593
108,619
54,688
5,249
1, 360
1,413
1, 814
632
278, 708
78, 798
94,012
86,117
19, 781
-.5
-2.7
West South Central. 6,078
Arkansas
12 950
Louisiana
1, 067
1, 395
Oklahoma
Texas..
_.. 3 2,666
227, 566
29, 586
54, 572
41,535
101,873
-.9
-1.7
-2.0
-1.5
Mountain
Montana
Idaho.
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico...
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
4,177
117, 703
15,496
9,209
8,774
39,838
6, 720
14, 744
19,890
3,032
2,979, 226
466, 343
24.0, 614
230, 820
958,881
+.9
+1.0 131,414
382,440
-6.8
479,421
-1.3
89, 260
+.4
Pacific
_.
Washington
Oregon
_.
California
9,580
2,968
1,341
415, 580
90,177
45, 550
279,853
+5.9
+6.8
East South Central_
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
641
444
326
1,208
296
460
604
198
4
5,271
1938
1938
Dollars
-1.4
-1.1
-4.3
38
464
267
3, 239
76,670
51,949
+.8
-2.2
109,100
1,360,395
1,145, 732
-1.5
-2.0
2, 284, 300
1,049, 206
1, 614, 826
932, 904.
+1.6
+1.3
+.0
600
21.3
382
208
139, 381
70,040
84, 038
24,196
+.6
+1.4
-.2
+.2
2,057, 656
910, 479
1,103,926
379, 640
+2.3
+1.5
+.5
+1.2
4,825,215
1,452,182
+.5 1,609,914
+.6 1,469, 054
294, 065
-1.1
-1.1
-6.1
1,086
305
391
288
102
167, 541
32,411
67,276
55, 349
12, 502
-.5
-4.1
-2.4
2, 757, 901
609,358
1,126,510
861,1.51
160,879
1,404
287
262
144
711
109, 696
17, 860
31, 310
11,698
48,828
2, 331,186
285, 828
-1.4
591,015
-2.4
288,112
-3.0
+••* 1,166,231
600
84
61
42
194
34
41
126
18
31,989
3, 660
2, 306
1,615
13,184
1,007
2, 994
6,458
765
2,624
575
323
1,726
218,112
49, 031
26,106
142,975
+ (3)
+1.3
+.1
-.2
+.1
5,038,949
510,127
1, 085,971
1,038, 099
2, 404, 752
-1.2
-1.3
-2.6
-1.3
+ . 7 11,620,180
-1.8
2, 333, 756
1,180,809
8,099,615
+0.9
-.8
+1.2
+2.1
-3.2
+.3
-2.6
+ 1.2
+.7
-1.6
-.2
+4.J
-2.8
-.4
-7.6
-5.9
-2.5
+2.5
+2.1
+6.7
+9. 9
—.2
+.6
+. 9
-1.2
+3.2
+3. 4
+3. 6
-1.3
+6. 5
+7. 6
-3.8
-.2
+9.9
+2.9
+11. 2
+11.3
-1.0
+0.6
K
-6." 5
+2.0
+2.7
-8.4
+.8
-3.5
+2.4
-.2
+1.3
+2.7
814, 799
100,170
-.4
57, 84.1 +11. 5
53,213 - 1 . 6
337,114 +6. 9
14, 930 -14.2
71,376 - 5 . 7
158, 59<i
+.4
21, 55C +5.5
5, 792,486 +4.0
1, 238,059 +14. 6
657,341 +17.8
-.9
3,897, 083
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
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
4
Includes laundries.
« Weighted percentage change.
6
Includes automobile and miscellaneous services, restaurants, and building and contracting.
7
Includes construction but not public works.
8
Does not include logging.
9
Includes
financial institutions, miscellaneous services, and restaurants.
10
Weighted percentage change including hired farm labor.
11
Percentage change from January to February should have been +0.5 instead of +4.5.
1
2 Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building stone.
13
Includes business and personal service.
14
Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN AREAS
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in February and March
1938 is made in table 9 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.
24
Footnotes to the table indicate which 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 9.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
February and March 1938, by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Metropolitan area
New York i
Chicago 2
Philadelphia 3..
Detroit
Los Angeles 4 ...
Cleveland
St. Louis
Baltimore
_
Boston <L
Pittsburgh
San Francisco 7.
Buffalo.,
Milwaukee
Number
of establishments
Number Percentage
Amount of Percentage
change
change
on pay roll
pay roll (1
from
from
March
February week) March February
14,908
4,337
1,957
1,687
2,871
597,922
432,198
192,339
241,165
147,882
-0.2
-2.2
-.7
-2.4
-2.5
$15,940,047
11,624,747
4,993, 472
6,774,995
4,147, 741
-0.6
-1.6
-1.3
1,727
1,523
1,217
1,493
1,033
115,070
123,655
101,023
100, 224
169,860
+.3
-09
+.2
-2.5
2, 793,153
2, 908,027
2, 326,400
2, 712,401
3,959,131
-1.1
-.9
+1.3
-1.9
1, 658
880
1,120
79,859
56,483
98,273
-1.0
2, 353,156
1,455, 535
2, 522,753
-1.5
-2.7
+.2
+.8
+.2
1 Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, or Paterson, N. J.; nor Yonkers, N. Y.
Does not include Gary, Ind.
3 Does not include Camden, N. J.
* Does not include Long Beach, Calif,
s Less than Mo of 1 percent.
8
Figures relate to city of Boston only.
7 Does not include Oakland, Calif.
2
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.
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 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 recieved from the sale of securities. The Public
Works Administration was continued until July 1, 1939, by the Public
Works Administration Extension Act of 1937.
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
25
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 tins program includes employment on Federal projects
and employment on projects operated by the Works Progress Administration. Federal projects are those conducted by Federal agencies
which have received allotments from The Works Program fund. Projects operated by the Works Progress Administration are those projects
conducted under the supervision of the Works Progress Administration with the cooperation of States, cities, or counties.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, created in April 1933, was further
extended under 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.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service of
the Federal Government in February and March 1938 are given in
table 10.
TABLE 10.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the U. S. Govern-
ment, February and March 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Item
Entire service:
Total
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account (regular and emergency)
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account (regular and emergency)
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
_
Force-account (regular and emergency)
.
March
February 2
815,445
809,580
694,117
60,331
690,801
59,946
60,997
58,833
112, 692
94,467
12,674
Percentage
change
Pay rolls
March
February *
+0.7
$123, 765,927
$120,832,841
+2.4
+.5
+.6
+3.7
107,918,905
8,121,682
105,696,097
8,128,699
+2.1
7,725,340
7,008,045
+ 10.2
113, 022
-.3
20,105,057
19, 594, 854
+2.6
93,944
13,573
+.6
-6.6
17,202, 766
2,006,429
16, 797, 648
2,046,265
+2.4
5,551
5,505
+.8
895,862
750,941
+19.3
702, 753
696, 558
+.9
103,660,870
101, 237, 987
+2.4
599,650
47,657
596,857
46, 373
+2.8
+.5
90, 716,139
6,115,253
88, 898, 449
6,082,434
+2.0
55,446
53,328
+4.0
6,829,478
6, 257,104
1 Data include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
Revised.
3
Percentage
change
-.1
-1.9
+.5
+9.1
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The monthly record of employment in the executive service of the
United States Government from March 1937 to March 1938, inclusive,
is shown in table 11.
TABLE 11.—Employment in the Executive Service of the U. S. Government, by Months,
March 1937 Through March 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Outside
District District
of
of
Columbia Columbia
Month
Total
Month
Outside
District District
of
of
Columbia Columbia
Total
1937— Continued
October 2
November 22
December
110,809
112,112
114,350
718,081
709, 447
776,350
828,890
821, 559
890,700
1938
January 2 2
February .__
March
113,387
113,022
112,692
698, 767
696, 558
702, 753
812,154
809, 580
815, 445
1 Data include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
June
1937 data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month.
2
Revised.
Prior to
March.
April.
May..
June2
1937
July 2 2
August
September 2
116,535
116,755
116,274
111,981
713,047
718,884
724, 247
759,161
829, 582
835,639
840, 521
871,142
110,942
111,301
111, 296
738, 599
732,014
725,774
849, 541
843,315
837,070
GOVERNMENT-OWNED CORPORATIONS
Semiannually the Civil Service Commission collects data on Government and Government-owned corporations and on the employees
of the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Division of Insolvent
National Banks, Treasury Department. Employees of these agencies
are not paid directly by and in some cases not hired by the Federal
Government.
Table 12 shows employment as of December 31, 1937, and pay rolls
for the 6-month period ending December 31, 1937, in the Office of
Comptroller of the Currency, Division of Insolvent National
Banks, Treasury Department, and in Government-owned corporations.
TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Office of Comptroller of the Currency
and in Government and Government-Owned Corporations
Establishment
All establishments.
Treasury: Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Division of Insolvent
National Banks
_
_.
Farm Credit Administration:
Banks for cooperatives
Federal intermediate2 credit bn nks
Federal land banks
General agents' office
...
Joint stock land banks
Production credit corporations
Federal Reserve banks
Inland Waterways Corporation
Panama Railroad Co.3
Spruce Production Corporation
Total pay
Number of
roll for 6employees month
as of Dec. ending period
Dec.
31, 1937 i
31, 1937
$20,798,880
445,071
263, 555
527, 545
4,844, 460
521, 711
846, 653
415,096
9, 247. 032
1, 750; 278
1, 929, 089
8.390
1 Data on number of employees refer to employees on pay roll who were paid during the last pay-roll
period
of the month,
2
Includes land-bank appraisers.
3
Includes the Panama Railroad Steamship Line, which is owned and operated by the Panama Railroad Co.
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CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS FINANCED BY
ADMINISTRATION
THE
PUBLIC
WORKS
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during March on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 13, by type of project.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, March 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per
hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds
All projects
Building construction
Naval vessels
Public roads *
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control. _
Miscellaneous
3 13,336
12, 535
$1,207,816
1,608,852
$0. 751
2,067
4,208
(3)
1, 594
484
117
1,713
3,841
4,866
1, 554
447
114
239,987
483,064
254,643
194,372
22,211
13, 539
200, 583
587,074
544,902
232,691
29, 762
13,840
1.196
.823
. 467
.835
.746
.978
$1,041,088
273,090
175,000
485,145
13, 756
6,089
Non-Federal projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds
All projects
9, 636
8,046
$798,963
Building construction
Railroad construction.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous
4,120
19
577
3, 792
1,128
3,450
19
423
3,183
971
409,042
69
22, 674
312, 694
54,484
806, 659 $0 990
$1,460,959
1 194
473
746
951
521
584, 737
0
17,882
634,086
224, 254
342, 642
146
30, 388
328,962
104, 521
Projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds •
All projects 7
70, 731
58,860
$4,980,926
Building construction 7
Electrification
1 leavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control-_
Streets and roads.
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
45, 881
702
4,544
388
382
8,105
9, 703
1,026
37,642
609
4,061
355
359
6, 550
8,421
863
3, 214,849
39, 221
465, 526
43,099
24,148
423,920
689,076
81,087
6, 210,981 $0.802
3, 755,435
51,253
541,843
52, 375
33,108
762,355
923,288
91,324
. 856
.765
. 859
.823
.729
. 556
.746
.888
$12, 369,412
7, 669,130
237, 632
1,416,848
245,854
93, 593
685,184
1, 628, 603
392, 568
1 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
34 Includes weekly average for public roads.
Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
8
Not available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
6
These data are also included in separate tables covering projects financed by The Works Program.
7
Includes a maximum of 3.091 and an average of 2,618 employees working on low-cost housing projects
financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 funds who were paid $353,386 for 326,965 man-hours of labor. Material
orders in the amount of $358,801 were placed for these projects. These data are also included in separate
tables covering projects financed from The Works Program.
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Federal construction projects for which data are included in tables
13 and 14 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,
29
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and third,
locomotive and passenger- and freight-car building in commercial
shops.
MONTHLY TREND
A summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed from Public Works Administration funds from
July 1933 to March 1938, inclusive, is given in table 14.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1933 to March 1938, Inclusive, on Projects
Financed From Public Works Administration Funds 1
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number
of wage
earners 2
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
July 1933 to March 1938 3 *..
$1,083,154,172
1, 574, 725, 712
July to December 1933
January to December 1934 3
January to December 1935 _3
January to December 19363 .
January to December 1937
33,244,066
308, 393, 662
270, 548,829
271,331,937
177,529, 796
Year and month
January...
February..
March
1988*
96, 725
9J,58L
93, 703
7, 836, 628
7,281,549
6,987, 705
62,209,479
523,484.012
392,127,344
353, 259,435
216,928, 257
9, 293.040
8, 797,653
8,626,492
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of material orders
placed
$1,892,875,054
.534
.589
. 690
. 768
.818
75,587,773
« 610,065,389
5 439,244,485
«432, 513, 423
293, 735, 885
.843
.828
.810
14,943,433
11,913,207
14,871,459
1 Data are for tho month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work. Includes weekly average for public-roads projects.
3 Includes employees working on non-Federal projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds and
low-cost housing projects financed from E. H. A. A. 1935 funds. Beginning with November 1937 data wore
included on projects financed from E. It. A. A. 1937 funds. These data are also included in tables 15 and 16
covering projects financed by The Works Program. March figures include a maximum of 70,731 employees
and a pay roll of $4,980,926.
«Revised.
* Includes orders placed by railroads for new equipment.
THE WORKS PROGRAM
A detailed record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on projects financed by The Works Program in March is shown in
table 15, by type of project.
30
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls, on Projects Financed by The Works Program,
March 1938 l
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum Weekly
number
averemployed
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Value of
Number of Average material
man-hours earnings orders
worked
per
placed
during
during
hour
month
month
Federal projects
All projects
Building construction..
_.
Electrification
_
Forestry 3
Grade-crossing elimination 4
Hydroelectric power plants a
Plant, crop, and livestock conservi
tions
Professional, itechnical, and clerical._.
Public roads
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous.
2154, 229 140, 472
$7, 227, 913
47,995
212
9,359
4,065
1,638
43, 425
105
7. 707
3, 373
1,510
2, 375.169
12,174
396,134
222, 997
50,860
4, 236, 042
21.599
955, 519
375,957
201,123
.561
.564
.415
.593
.253
9,140
4, 255
3, 333
34, 075
20, 300
10.953
334
8,570
8, 598
4,284
2,615
32, 745
17, 584
10,087
291
415, 751
389, 440
161, 608
1,817, 721
851,013
375,015
9,762
150, 269
1,080, 535
533, 390
298, 884
3, 787, 306
1,518,643
1,052, 595
33, 800
729,161
.385
.730
.541
.480
. 560
.356
.289
.206
14, 824, 554 $0. 488
678, 003
48, 591
97, 011
295, 790
17,932
53,073
55, 653
166,193
2,152,996
259, 665
83,109
2, 659
45,880
P . W . A. projects financed from E . R . A. A. funds of 1935, 1936,
and 1937 «
All projects
_
Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering...
Reclamation.
River, harbor, and flood control.
Streets and roads..
Water and sewrerage
Miscellaneous
._
2 70, 731 58,860
$4,980, 926
6, 210, 981
45,881
702
4,544
388
37,642
609
4,061
355
3,214,849
39, 221
465, 526
43,099
3,755.435
51. 253
541, 843
52, 375
382
8,105
9,703
1,026
359
6,550
8,421
863
24,148
423, 920
689,076
81,087
33,108
762, 355
923,288
91, 324
$0. 802 $12, 369,412
.856
. 765
. 859
.823
7, 669,130
237. 632
1,416,848
245, 854
.729
.556
.746
93, 593
685,184
1,628, 603
392, 568
Projects operated by W o r k s Progress Administration
All p r o j e c t s . . .
8
2, 392, 347
$119,626,230 238,429,358
7
$0,502
1 Unless otherwise noted data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
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 the Bureau of Public Roads.
«6 These data are for projects under construction in Puerto Rico.
Includes data for 67,640 employees working on non-Federal projects and 3,091 employees working on
low-cost housing projects. These data are included in separate tables covering projects under the jurisdiction of Public Works Administration.
'8 Data are for the calendar month. Not available by type of project.
Represents number of names on pay roll for week ending Mar. 26, 1938.
9
Data on a monthly basis are not available.
MONTHLY TREND
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects financed
by The Works Program from the beginning of the program in July
1935 to March 1938, inclusive, are given in table 16.
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TABLE 16.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1935 to March 1938, Inclusive, on Projects
Financed by Tlie Works Program l
[Subject to revision]
Year and month
Maximum
number
employed 2
Number of
man-hours
worked
Pay-roll disbursements
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of material orders
placed
Federal projects
July 1935 to March 1938, inclusive.
1451, 967,158
942,174, 554
$0. 480
$300,047, 483
July to December 1935
January to December 193G 3_.
January to December 1937...
34,813.554
241,747,821
152, 878, 569
77, 558, 083
524,091,294
295,002,722
.449
.461
.518
34,358,011
174,427,865
80, 737,730
1938
157,827
147,182
154,229
January...
February..
March
7,973,494
7,325, 807
7, 227,913
15,721,606
14,975,695
14,824, 554
3, 599,854
2,967,468
3,956, 555
F. \V. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. funds of 1935, 1936, and
1937 4
July 1935 to March 1938, inclusive.
July to December 1935.
January to December 1936._.
January to December 1937 3_.
$254,077,309
324, 588,731
$0. 783
$473,460,960
1,132,784
123. 396,077
114,357,025
1,718,758
163, 682,866
140, 612, 510
. 659
. 754
.813
2,095,506
229,999,173
208,184,158
5,176,438
5,034,059
4,980,926
6,178,815
6,184,801
6,210,981
.814
.802
11,361,854
9,450,857
12,369,412
1938
67,967
67,949
70, 731
January...
FebruaryMarch
Projects operated b y W o r k s Progress Administration
July 1936 to March 1938, inclusive.
July to December 1935
January to December 1936..
January to December 1937..
19S8
January...
FebruaryMarch
1,898,162
2,073, 759
2, 392,347
$3,333, 305,073
6, 924, 576,103
$0. 481
238,018,075
1,592,942,9(54
1,187,661,083
570,184,607
3,432,621,686
2, 297,005,627
.417
.464
.517
92.960, 662
102,096,059
119,626,230
182, 776,459
203, 558,366
238,429,358
.509
.502
.502
8
> $948, 201,876
1 Unless otherwise noted data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month on Federal and P. W. A. projects by each
contractor and Government agency doing force-account work.
3 Revised.
* These data are included in tables covering projects under the jurisdictson of the Public Works Administration. The data for March 1938 include 67,640 employees working on non-Federal projects and 3,091 employees working on low-cost housing projects.
' These data are for the calendar month and exclude both work projects and Student Aid projects of the
National Youth Administration, which appear in a separate table.
6
Data on monthly basis are not available. This total represents expenditures through December 1937,
and includes rentals and services and some sponsors' contributions.
Table 17 shows the employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on work projects of the National Youth Administration from January
1936 to March 1938, inclusive. Similar data for Student Aid are
shown from September 1935 to February 1938, inclusive.
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TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls From Beginning of Program Through March
1938, on National Youth Administration Projects Financed by The Works Program *
[Subject to revision]
Number
of persons employed
Year and month
Number of
man-hours
worked
Pay-roll disbursements
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Work projects
January 1936 to March 1938, inclusive.
January to December 1936..
January to December 1937..
January...
February..
March
144,797
151,406
154,567
$69,453,886
184, 715,555
28,883,589
32,601,360
75,827, 799
87,092, 351
.381
.374
2, 549,914
2, 667,226
2, 751, 797
6, 896, 668
7, 288, 377
7, 610,360
.370
. 360
.302
$0. 376 2$5,549,074
Student Aid
September 1935 to February 1938, inclusive.
September to December 1935
January to December 1936
January to December 1937
_
$60,390,891
202,298,384
$0. 299
6,363, 503
2 5 , 8 8 8 , 559
23,988, 561
19,612,976
85,424,616
82,756,012
. 3L>-1
. 303
.290
1,992,810
2 , 1 5 7 , 458
6,942,656
7, 562,124
.287
.285
1938
January...
February..
306,341
319,142
1 Data are for tho calendar month.
2 Data on a monthly basis are not available. This total represents expenditures through December 1937
and includes rentals and services and some sponsors' contributions.
* No expenditures for materials on this type of project.
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Statistics concerning employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps in February and March 1938 are presented in
table 18. The Civilian Conservation Corps is usually regarded as a
part of The Works Program, although it is now financed by a separate
appropriation.
TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps,
and March 1938
February
x
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
March
February
March
February
All groups
315,086
328, 044
$14,479,801
$15,062, 322
Enrolled personnel 2
Reserve officers_
Nurses 3
Educational advisers 3
Supervisory and technical 3
272,183
5, 068
298
1, 547
35,990
283,879
5, 229
284
1, 569
37, 083
8, 490, 782
1,337,112
31, 197
261, 300
4,359,410
8, 851, 770
1,350,319
30, 789
277, 428
4, 552, 016
1
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amount of pay rolls are for tho
entire month.
a March data include 4,376 enrollees and pay roll of $97,976 outside continental United States; in February
the3 numbers were 4,383 enrollees and $92,337.
Included in executive service, tables 10 and 11,
33
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.
Monthly statistics of employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps from March 1937 to March 1938, inclusive, are
given in table 19.
TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps> by Months,
March 1937 Through March 1938 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of
employees
Month
March
April
Mav..
June
1987
Julv
August..
September
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
employees
Month
307,336
369,309
348, 905
326, 626
$15,770,090
17, 502,905
16, 719,019
16,085,832
348, 779
327,300
289,167
16,851,511
16, 380.024
14, 950, 554
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
19S7— Continued
October
November
December..
363,256
350, 714
338,217
$15,622,911
16, 335, 299
15,824, 325
1938
January
February
March.. _
335,244
328, 044
315,086
15,444, 234
15, 062, 322
14,479,801
1
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amount of pay rolls are for
entire month.
CONSTRUCTION PROJFXTS FINANCED BY RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE
CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in March are presented in table 20, by type of project.
TABLE 20.—Employment and Pay
Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, March 1938 !
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
Value of
Maximum Monthly Number of Average
number of pay-roll dis- man-hours earnings per material
orders
wage earnworked
durbursements ing month
placed durhour
ers 2
ing month
-
3,525
$496,349
558,688
$0,888
$785,474
Building construction
"Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous.
192
3,175
158
17,876
466,713
11, 760
18,361
521,163
19,164
.974
.896
.614
29,890
754,320
1,264
All projects
* Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
Includes 100 employees; pay-roll disbursements of $9,484; 6,684 man-hours worked; and material orders
placed during the month of $8,802 on projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co.
2
3
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A monthly summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation from April 1934 to March 1938, inclusive, is
given in table 21.
TABLE 21.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by Reconstruction
Corporation, April 1934 to March 1938, Inclusive
Finance
1
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number of
wage
earners 2
Year and month
April 1934 to March 1938.
April to December 1934.
January to December 1935.
January to December 1936 3
January to December 1937
January...
FebruaryMarch
1938
_
3,739
3,481
3, 525
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders placed
$55, 771, 710
74, 507, 617
$0. 749
$85, 802. 893
14.452.541
14, 283, 449
15:717,824
9, 758, 566
20, 022. 708
19.477.373
21.144.078
12,112, 104
.722
. 733
. 743
. 800
18, 783.135
24.310,752
23, 7 9 \ 516
16.317,189
. 896
.887
.888
1, 03), 611
774, 216
785, •:74
549, 058
513, 923
496,349
613, 079
579. 287
558. 088
1
Includes projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co. Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month.
3 Revised.
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
doing the work. These reports are returned to the Bureau and show
the number of men on pay rolls and 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 following tables present data concerning construction projects
for which contracts have been awarded since July 1, 1934. The
Bureau does not have statistics covering projects financed from
regular 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 March are given in table 22, by type of project.
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TABLE 22,—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From
Regular Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, March 1938 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
All projects
s 156,649
Building construction
Electrification:
Rural Electrification
Administration projects 4
Other than Rural Electrification Administration projects.
Forestry
Heavy engineering.
__
_.
Public roads 5
Reclamation
_
River, harbor, and flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revetments,
etc
_
Locks and dams
Ship construction:
Naval vessels.
_
Other than naval vessels
Streets and roads
_
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
Weekly
average
Number of
man-hours Average
worked
earnings
during
per hour
month
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
145,226 $15,167,424
20,819,825
$0. 729
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
$23,086,301
2, 653,019
19,956
16,672
1, 589, 260
1, 773, 518
6,953
5,652
397,066
721,938
.550
2,170,208
80
56
(6)
10,645
57
80
38
34,478
10,227
3. 548
3; 649
6,002
2,401,889
1,196,669
4,969
9,831
4,608
4,440,848
1,495,836
.714
.371
1.303
.541
.800
6,001
1,193
781
4,003,141
2,141,643
30,699
6,241
26,104
5,629
2. 534, 773
' 644, 592
4,023,449
895,266
.720
2,424,964
2,655,724
43, 373
426
1,932
173
1,549
42, 708
362
1,733
149
1,337
6,161,112
30,180
100,495
14,333
83,856
7,081, 738
28,472
197,830
18, 204
123, 318
.870
1. 000
.508
.787
.680
5, 501,383
897, 794
253,140
78,786
298,524
1 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor, and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public-roads projects.
• Financed by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
• Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
6
Not available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on construction
projects financed from regular Federal appropriations from August
1934 to March 1938, inclusive, are shown by months in table 23.
TABLE 23.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From
Regular Federal Appropriations, August 1934 to March 1938, Inclusive 1
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number
of wage
earners J
Number of
man-hours
worked
August 1934 to March 1938..
$407, 235, 097
597,488, 200
$0. 082
August to December 1934...
January to December 1935__
January to December J936..
January to December 1937—
4,767,402
31,615,314
125, 992,929
199,940,141
8,721,451
50,911,488
191,020,070
285,330,817
. 517
.622
.000
.701
8, 329, 094
59,015,233
177,841,977
250,118,787
15.705,838
14,010, 019
15,107, 424
21,447,213
19, 230,730
20,819,825
.732
.729
.729
21, 517, 038
18, 223. S22
23.080, 301
January...
1938
February
March
153,804
144, 770
156,049
A verage
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Pay-roll
disbursements
Year and month
$558,133, 452
1 Data, are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor, and Government
agency doing force-account work. Includes weekly average for public-roads projects.
STATE-ROADS PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of State roads from March 1937 to March 1938,
inclusive, is presented in table 24.
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TABLE 2A.-^Employment
and Pay
Rolls on Construction and Maintenance
of State
Roads, March 1937 Through March 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Month
Number of employees
working on 2—
New roads
March
April
May
June
July
August
September.
October
November.
December..
January...
February.
March
19S7
Total
Maintenance
Total pay
roll
11,802
13,164
17,241
19,382
25,140
28,379
26, 632
27, 280
29,491
23,825
119, 016
124, 761
159,167
148, 392
149,907
160,143
167, 028
160, 045
163,182
146,340
130,848
137,925
176,408
167, 774
175, 047
188,522
193,660
187,325
192, 673
170,165
$8, 333,600
9,108, 030
10,850,394
11,069,510
11,998,370
12,815,790
12,843,370
12,134, 860
12, 776, 701
10,377, 340
15,394
12, 252
11,379
126, 565
115,710
116,812
141, 959
127,962
128,191
9, 577, 200
8, 789,148
8, 504, 260
19S8
1 Data are for the month ending on the 15th and are for projects financed wholly from State or local funds.
2
Average number working during month.
Material Orders Placed l
The value of material orders placed on construction projects financed
by Federal funds in the first quarter of 1938 is presented in table 25.
In the first quarter of 1938 on the Public Works Administration
program, orders were placed for materials valued at approximately
$41,728,000. Of this amount $13,062,000 was expended for iron and
steel products, $2,297,000 for cement, $3,679,000 for forest products,
and $6,605,000 for machinery.
Previous sections of this report have shown the number of workers
employed at the site of construction projects financed from Federal
funds. The direct employment, however, is only a partial picture,
as the manufacture of the materials used on the projects also creates
a large amount of employment.
It is estimated that in fabricating the materials used on the various
programs (table 3) approximately 303,000 man-months of labor have
been, or will be created. This includes only the labor required in the
fabrication of material in the form in which it is to be used. No estimate is made of the labor required in producing the raw materials or
in transporting it to the point of manufacture. In manufacturing
structural steel, for example, the only labor included is that occurring
in the fabricating mills; no estimate is made for the labor created in
mining, smelting, and transporting the ore; nor for the labor in the
blast furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces, and the blooming mills.
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
1 Unless otherwise specified, data presented in this section are of the 15th of the month.
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number of man-hours created in his plant in manufacturing the materials specified in the contract. For materials purchased directly by
contractors the Bureau estimates the man-months of labor created.
This estimate is based upon the findings of the Census of Manufactures for 1935.
TABLE 25.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed byFederal Funds for the First Quarter of 1938 1
fSubject to revision]
Projects
Total
Type of material
Public
Works
Administration a
Reconstruction
Finance
Corporations
Federal
construcRegular tion under
The
Federal *
Works
Program
$117,489,912 $41, 728,099 $2,590,301 $62,827, 761 $10,343,751
All materials
191,341
132,317
172
44,444
14,408
19, 285
1, 326
20,616
4,650
2,282
2,821
128, 598
3,491
200
7,072
10,811
1, 326
3,408
2,072
1,887
2,259
109,224
18
172
6,204
2,098
16,338
136
192
45
15,363
3,291
2,875
870
2,442
203
1,517
4,011
182
200
2,885
Forest products
_
Cork products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c
Plani ng-mill products
Window and door screens and weatherstrip
7,685,112
31,732
5,898,014
1,707, 553
3,679, 279
19, 447
2, 466, 082
1,160, 734
3, 230, 869
11,418
2,838,185
366,727
735,160
867
554, 205
180,064
47,813
33,016
234
14, 539
24
Chemicals and allied products
Ammunition and related products
Chemicals, miscellaneous
Compressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
Paints and varnishes
___
1, 258, 070
6,3-12
29, 752
50,904
619, 292
551, 780
474,624
6,335
9,006
10, 582
224,900
223,801
54,625
476,820
10, 547
44,032
46
11, 583
20, 269
280, 574
164, 394
252.001
7
9,163
9, 506
69, 786
163, 539
27, 624,412
11, 655
9, 608, 631
10, 942
517, 568
13,910, 505
630
3, 587,708
83
2, 578,846
11, 527,977
2,180,139
2, 610, 626
250,658
21,449
2, 046, 376
2,296, 576
1, 559, 438
362,134
168,950
17,097
7,898
423,615
448,412
6,194,296
387,286
2,066, 672
68,448
3,387
76,160
2,613,490
233,415
181,817
12, 534
965
2,355,706
1, 293, 309
1,971
1,035,967
24,459
3,592
5,029, 510
442, 676
2 734
1,180' 992
287, 586
74,226
4,616
858
3,402,567
131, 729
371,755
18,715
611, 548
382,497
4,513
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
. ...
_.
_
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, lloor and wall, and terrazzo
Wall plaster, wall board, and insulating
board
1,312
39,804
39,542
28
3
726
170, 253
54, 285
Iron and steel and their products, not in2, 237, 728
26, 487, 571 13,062,393
326, 657 10,860,793
cluding machinery
31,191
203,880
353, 298
949
117, 278
Bolts, nuts, washers, etc
112,977
196,287
1, 521, 225
1,211,015
946
Cast-iron pipe and fittings...
Doors, shutters, and window sash and
24,101
771,564
1,622,139
819,028
7,443
frames, molding and trim (metal)
i This table includes certain items which are not actually construction materials, i. e., fuel, transportation
equipment, tools, furniture, etc. Data for projects operated by W. P. A. are not available.
a Includes material orders placed on P. W. A. projects financed by the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937.
3 Does not include material orders placed on projects for which contracts were awarded before Mar. 15,
1934. Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.
* Does not include material orders placed on projects for which contracts were awarded before July 1,1934.
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TABLE 25.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the First Quarter of 1938—Continued
Projects
Type of material
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery—Contd.
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware, miscellaneous
Heating and ventilating equipment
Nails and spikes
Rail fastenings, excluding spikes
Rails, steel..1
_
Springs, steel
Steel works and rolling-mill products,
n. e. c
Stoves and ranges, other than electric._
Structural and reinforcing steel
Switches, railway
Tools, other than machine tools
Wire products, n. e. c
_
Wrought pipe
Nonferrous metals and their products
Aluminum manufactures
Copper products
_
Lead products
Nonferrous-metal alloys and products,
n. e. c
Sheet-metal work
Zinc products
Machinery, not including transportation
equipment
_
_
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and
supplies
Elevators and elevator equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and waterwheels.
Foundry and machine-shop products,
n. e. el
Mnehine tools
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators
Pumps and pumping equipment
Refrigerators and refrigerating and icemaking apparatus..
_
Transportation equipment—air, land, and
water
_
Boats, steel and wooden (small).
Carriages and wagons
Motor vehicles, passenger
_
Motor vehicles, trucks.
Miscellaneous
Belting, miscellaneous..
Coal.
Creosote
Electric wiring and fixtures.
Furniture, including store and office
fixtures
Instruments, professional and scientific.
Mattresses and bed springs..Models and patterns
_
Paper products
_
_
Paving materials and mixtures, n. e. c .
Petroleum products
Photographic: apparatus and materials..
Plumbing supplies, n. e. c
Radio apparatus and supplies
Roofing materials, n. e. c
Rubber goods
Steam and other packing, pipe and
boiler covering, and gaskets
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment
Window shades and fixtures
Other materials
Total
$f>82,304
1, 229,231
3,030,112
152,936
5,446
160, 525
76
Public
Works
Administration
$92,119
2,145, 275
73,151
2.979
143,827
76
Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation
$1, 065
109, 111
8,320
113
Regular
Federal
Federal
construction under
The
Works
Program
$569, 387
367, 078
776, 360
41,724
2,467
16, 688
$19,733
149. 853
100,157
37,948
46,102
1,682, 427
120
5,599,316
2, 331
475
4. 832
31,815
415, 343
186, 337
264, 293
1,415
1, 282, 586
2,054
103, 384
98,811
9,212
57, 665
90
686
287
10
3, 723. 997
12; 559
12, 378, 525
3,913
161.250
758, 507
691. 528
999,029
231,486
101,119
21,997
1, 632, 307
11,024
5,450, 521
1,859
23. 720
243, 878
491,147
144,970
6(54,712
191,177
92,195
21,400
3,671
1, 254
40, 219
6,984
310
199, 754
444,179
494
100,938
259, 002
1,497
920
94, 329
130,878
261
2,990
53, 379
233
30,900,933
6, 604, 988
1, 180, 348
21, 519, 657
1,295,940
7,033.189
820, 591
1, 468, 081
331,209
123, 775
880
5, 257. 769
483, 473
183,564
5,029
5,058,211
1,198,184
4,338
3, 608,754
246,935
16, 235, 899
205, 979
3,036, 559
38,042
1,348,835
11,098,111
135,927
752, 394
32,010
155.015
1,361,357
137,125
377, 613
17,858
905, 751
32
75,473
2,520
30. 692
18,175
12,014
503
104,497
523
2,036
24,896
77. 042
34, 460
29
1,270
5,977
27.184
36, 939
33,098
494
429
5,191
26, 984
22, 238,947
589
147, 547
2,390
6,375,992
7,4
364
63, 431
130
2,053, 775
1,402,965
47, 240
3, 733
3, 760
8, 706
1.090, 355
4, 277,053
11,728
2,181, 845
2,481
587, 849
100, 338
1, 248,149
8,430
3, 680
3,470
4,132
226. 929
716, 801
59
1,365, 793
2, 481
392,088
45, 534
136, 332
10, 439
44,574
5,803,031
94, 529
10, 439
39,852
1,186, 539
167, 456
337
13, 728
22.874
12, 474, 753
5,984
70, 607
1, 361
4,156, 577
225
13, 509
899
159, 656
34, 260
850
14, 797
120, 556
37,960
53
290
2,431
778,171.
2, 758,435
10,133
623, 671
2,143
84,673
754,990
1,536
177, 584
1,453
23, 897
109,151
19, 285
85,157
11, 622
40, 746
1,057
1,810
3,743,516
2,912
798,970
582
46, 737
74,006
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The value of material orders placed on Federal professional, technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works Program, by type
of material, for the first quarter of 1938, the fourth quarter of 1937,
and the first quarter of 1937 is shown in table 26.
TABLE 26.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Federal Professional,
Clerical Projects Financed by The Works Program
Technical, and
[Subject to revision]
First
quarter of
Type of material
1938
All materials
Fourth
quarter of
1937
First
quarter of
1937
_
$180,126
$156,523
$290,884
Computing machines
Furniture
_
_
Office supplies
_
_
Stationery
Typewriters
Other office machines
Other materials
__
_
Kental of machinery and equipment.
401
2,640
10,877
2,219
562
1,431
144,357
17,639
1,310
7,749
18,297
5, 519
307
3,916
76,698
42, 727
2,450
6,502
53,158
7,938
7, 553
17,651
103, 612
92,020
In connection with the administration of the Walsh-Healy Act the
Bureau of Labor Statistics has been collecting data on supply contracts
awrarded 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 w^ere awarded under the act in September
1936.
The value of public contracts awarded under the act for materials
during the first quarter of 1938, the fourth quarter of 1937, and the
first quarter of 1937, are shown in table 27.
TABLE 27.— Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government^ Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material
[Subject to revision]
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
All materials
Food and kindred products.
Canned fruits and vegetables
,
Canned sea foods
_
,
Cereal preparations
__
,
CoiTee and tea
Condensed and evaporated milk
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowls
Flour and other grain-mill products...
Meat-packing products.
_
Shortening and vegetable cooking oiL.
Sugar
_
Miscellaneous subsistence stores and supplies.
See footnotes at end of table.
First
quarter
Fourth
quarter
1938 i
1937 2
First
quarter
1937 3
$46,441, 445 $71,019,889 $78,885,126
1, 200,698
70, 646
140, 322
103, 563
159.055
177,915
104,637
181, 416
263,144
2, 516,131
4,018,995
281, 467
78,883
24, 797
712,664
84,119
255,165
123, 945
364,831
58,998
218, 442
312,820
265, 654
26,826
633,803
341,927
392,322
197, 533
367,443
98,855
367,390
1,327, 242
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TABLE 27.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
First
quarter
1938
Textiles and their products.
Canvas bags and covers
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers,
etc.)--.
Clothing, manufacture only 4
Cordage and twine, including thread
Cotton gloves.
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.).
Cotton shirts.
Furnishing goods, men's, n. e. c
Housefurnishing goods (pillow cases, sheets, etc.) _
Knit goods (hosiery, underwear, etc.)
Woolen goods (flannels, suiting, etc.)
Work clothing
___
Miscellaneous textile products
Forest products..
Cork and cork products
Furniture
_
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c .
Planing-mill products
Treated lumber and timber._
Miscellaneous forest products
Chemicals and allied products.
Ammunition and related products.
Compressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
_
_
Linseed oil—
Paints and varnishes
Soap and soap chips
Miscellaneous chemicals
_
Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum..
Asphalt, oil, tar, and mixtures
Coal and coke__
_
_
Fuel oil
Gasoline
_
Lubricating oils and greases
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum products.
Leather and its manufactures,.
Boots and shoes
Boot 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, black earth
Tile, clay, includinnr 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
See footnotes at end of table.
Fourth
quarter
1937
$5, 288, 785 $12,125,315
175,821
359,103
630,368
39, 785
First
quarter
1937
$34,127,602
886, 696
205, 512
57,043
547, 684
84, 434
111, 170
2,850, 789
233, 948
120,068
962, 271
944,099
580, 653
355, 973
210,097
523, 296
532, 755
5, 980,195
356, 419
665, 921
286,697
32,099
1, 578, 643
182, 853
243, 516
4, 503, 608
10, 253
367, 584
1,031, 418
1, 942,308
21, 208,221
1, 960,082
780, 320
498, 795
2, 799,035
822, 271
35,156
78,429
1, 648, 505
690, 931
40, 505
249, 753
269, 341
47, 378
462, 912
165, 638
130, 297
16,046
972, 228
2, 612, 910
1,133,495
433,622
168, 261
79,034
44,190
37,044
32,080
114,105
59, 557
205, 427
327, 215
358,067
4, 379,023
14,086,526
5,096,152
231, 569
1, 134,815
915, 954
1,969, 845
126,840
697, 221
410,817
7, 556, 568
4,940, 037
99,058
382, 825
517,909
24, 659
1, 701, 792
2,816, 825
13, 967
21,000
1,314,670
243,103
3,105, 231
1,234,712
20, 603
63,522
2,939,380
15,077
38,319
112,455
74, 525
310, 685
13,673
96,590
77,604
167,670
173, 347
443,344
"I," 887," 803'
47, 269
59,355
132, 312
5, 208,139
2,929,697
2, 284,895
192,910
2,355,749
114, 779
411,570
987,338
10,217
234,090
0,090
534,054
22,539
1,847,716
29,346
199, 504
42,377
93, 768
101,417
256,019
225,426
45, 500
1,034,984
231,921
240,093
149,628
16,397
15,119
59,480
124, 731
63,384
78,906
85, 366
139,386
5,182,757
5.783,893
6, 248, 747
93,612
40,069
11,345
131,628
25,964
116, 676
37,690
475,081
15,995
220,453
10,472
809,125
75, 700
88,376
268,718
36, 227
41
TABLE 27.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
First
quarter
1938
Iron and steel and their products—Continued.
Hardware, miscellaneous
Metal doors, sash, and frames
_._
Metal furniture
Metal shingles and roofing
Pipe and fittings, n. e. c
_
Plumbingfixturesand supplies
Rails, steel
.
Reinforcing steel
_
_
Steel pipe and fittings
Steel sheets, plates, shapes, and strips
Stoves and ranges, other than electric
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet steel pilingTools, other than machine tools
Wire rope.
__
Miscellaneous iron and steel product;?-.
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
_
Tiu
Zinc
inc
_
_
M
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys.
Machinery, not including transportation equipment and electrical
equipment...
_
_
___
_
Air-conditioning equipment
Elevators and elevator equipment.
Engines, turbines, tractors, and parts
Filter and purification equipment
Laundry machinery and equipment
Machine tools.
_
_
Office equipment
_
Phonographs and accessories
Power shovels and draglines
_
Printing and publishing machinery
Pumps and pumping equipment
_
_
_.
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making machinery..
Road machinery
Windlasses, winches, and capstans
_
Miscellaneous machinery and parts.._
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Batteries
_
_
Circuit breakers and switches
_
_
Electric cable, wire, and other conductors
Generators and spare parts
Heaters and ranges
_
_
Motors
_
___
Radio equipment and supplies
_
Sparkplugs
_._
Starters
Switchboards, relay and control equipment
_
Telephone and telegraph apparatus
Transformers
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Transportation equipment.
Aircraft
Aircraft parts and equipment.
Boats and boat equipment
Motor vehicles, passenger
See footnotes at end of table
$16,166
43,871
1,651,065
Fourth
quarter
1937
First
quarter
1937
$72, 769
44, 559
115,156
$13,364
79,774
11,550
193, 736
45,182
17,248
454,741
349,890
1, 720,900
35,670
1,089,124
568,917
56,731
128,808
1,487,641
788,215
42,986
339,978
2,565,422
2,660,976
1,717,844
2,076,603
171,508
356, 773
10,612
305,848
66, 720
60, 448
76, 210
230, 257
162,250
240,835
116,859
63,993
59,050
117,615
14,745
27,673
289,170
87,700
191,887
15,270
577,239
356,306
12,874
23,892
17,068
622,903
228, 676
483,846
36,854
542,577
20,571
35,659
1,200.847
21,668
11,992
153,819
720,129
13,925
767,534
319,1*7
3,669,062
3,204,397
51, 732
"177197172"
23,034
441, 707
28,130
54,978
311,558
12,348
404,421
0, 285, 570
57,500
35, 518
691,478
134,346
13, 500
538, 504
792, 741
112, 326
30, 514
50, 968
12,810
10,400
84,950
1,489,083
61,265
472, 348
13,900
16,000
489, 545
69.081
849, 662
35,355
57,324
43,708
3, 327,141
5,972,898
5,213, 593
6,121,273
20,801
51, 785
585,055
2,424,909
145,329
223,814
489, 793
1,026,311
35,856
1,043,031
274,590
1,885,982
299,684
108,021
11,694
868,007
99,336
34, 825
306,095
58,301
91,173
943, 023
27,530
107,203
174,072
94,129
89, 251
53, 614
238,307
2,046, 242
1,808,538
47, 503
57,188
235, 652
109, 303
1,034,306
41, 206
390,482
7,826,075
8,810,465
5,939,248
5,392,515
1,628,971
23,469
126,089
5,838,353
1,497,447
50,461
275,621
88,018
3,457,059
39,359
575,673
99,240
42
TABLE 27.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
Transportation equipment—Continued.
Motor vehicles, trucks
Miscellaneous transportation equipment .
Miscellaneous
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 covering .
Surgical and orthopedic supplies and appliances
Tobacco manufactures
Other materials..
Rentals, services, etc.*
First
quarter
1938
Fourth
quarter
1937
$507,330
147, 701
$753,49S
395,085
$1,779,139
2, 207,339
8,976,980
2,625,044
] 87, 797
65,014
1, 294, 263
87,935
2,805,783
743,670
131,331
234, 597
56,800
13,620
85, 742
89,413
2,556,102
624,907
220,155
52,082
417,893
381,954
283,585
G9.711
148,238
118,368
41,409
154, 575
273,956
795, 543
First
quarter
1937
415,955
195,967
273, 741
364,046
27,047
455, 287
202,871
i For period ending Mar. 31, 1938.
» For period ending Dec. 31, 1937. Revised.
» For period ending Mar. 31, 1937. Revised.
*1 Labor only. Materials furnished by U. S. Government.
Includes equipment rental, repairs, aerial surveys, etc.
The value of public contracts awarded for materials by Federal
agencies totaled $46,441,000 during the first quarter of 1938. Of the
contracts awarded in the first quarter of 1938, $7,826,000 was for
transportation equipment; $5,973,000 for electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies; $5,289,000 for textiles and textile products;
$5,208,000 for stone, clay, and glass products; and $5,183,000 for
iron and steel and their products, not including machinery.
@FedFRASER