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Serial No. R. 68 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FRANCES PERKINS, Secretary BUREAU OP LABOR STATISTICS ISADOR LUBIN, Commissioner TREND OF EMPLOYMENT NOVEMBER 1933 By Industries: Pa«e Manufacturing Industries............................................. 1-13 Nonmanufacturing In d u stries.................................... 14-18 Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Mining Metalliferous Mining Quarrying and Nonmetallic Mining Crude Petroleum Producing Public Utilities: Telephone and Telegraph Power and Light Electric Railroads Wholesale and Retail Trade Hotels Canning and Preserving Laundries Dyeing and Cleaning Banks, Brokerage, Insurance, and Real Estate Building Construction ..................................................22-23 Public Works Projects................................................. 39-44 Public R o a d s ...............................................................44-45 Executive Civil Service..................................................32-34 Class I Steam R a ilroa d s............................................. 34 By States • ........................................................................ 24-31 By C i t i e s ............................................................................ 32 Average Hours and Average Hourly Earnings.................. 19-21 Wage C h a n g e s................................................................... 35-38 Prepared by Division of Employment Statistics LEWIS E. TALBERT, Chief UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE W ASH IN G TO N : 1934 Trend of Employment November 1933 HE Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor presents herewith data compiled from pay-roll reports supplied by representative establishments in 89 of the principal manu facturing industries of the country and 16 nonmanufacturing indus tries, covering the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month. Additional information is presented concerning employment on pub lic-works projects, public roads, the executive civil service, and class I steam railroads. T Employment in Selected Manufacturing Industries in November 1933 Comparison of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in November 1933 with October 1933 and November 1932 M PLOYM EN T in manufacturing industries decreased 3.5 per cent between October and November 1933 and pay rolls de creased 6.2 percent over the month interval, according to reports received from representative establishments in 89 important manu facturing industries of the country. Comparing the changes in employment and pay rolls over the year interval, it is seen that the level of employment in November 1933 is 20.2 percent above the level of November 1932, and pay rolls in November 1933 showed a gain of 30.3 percent over the year interval. The index of employment in November 1933 was 71.4, as cojnpared with 74 in October 1933, 73.9 in September 1933, and 59.4 in Novem ber 1932; the pay-roll index in November 1933 was 50.3, as compared with 53.6 in October 1933, 53.3 in September 1933, and 38.6 in Novem ber 1932. The 12-month average for 1926 equals 100. These changes in employment and pay rolls in November 1933 are based on reports supplied by 18,047 establishments in 89 of the prin cipal manufacturing industries of the United States. These estab lishments reported 3,128,908 employees on their pay rolls during the pay period ending nearest November 15 whose combined weekly earnings were $56,393,962. The employment reports received from these cooperating establishments cover approximately 50 percent of the total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country. E (D 2 These declines in employment and pay rolls in November 1933 mark the first decreases to occur in either of these items since March. Decreases in both employment and pay rolls between October 15 and November 15 have been reported each year since 1923, with the single exception of the year 1925 in which a slight gain in employment com bined with unchanged pay-roll totals was reported. The decreases of 3.5 percent in emplyoment and 6.2 percent in pay rolls in the current report, however, are greater than the average declines shown in November of preceding years. The changes in employment in November over the preceding 10-year period show an average decrease of 1.3 percent and the changes in pay rolls over the same interval show an average decrease of 3.3 percent. It is estimated that this decrease of 3.5 percent in employment in manufacturing industries between October and November is equiva lent in actual numbers to a decrease of 234,000 wage earners. The decrease of 6.2 percent in pay rolls represents a decrease of approximately $7,300,000 in the amount disbursed in factory workers' envelops in November, compared with weekly disbursements in October. Comparing the index number of employment in November 1933 with the March employment index (55.1) shows a gain of 29.6 percent in employment over this 8-month interval, while a similar comparison of the pay-roll indexes in these 2 months shows that the November pay-roll index is 50.6 percent above the level of the March 1933 pay roll index (33.4). These percentage gains indicate an increase in actual number of workers over this interval of approximately 1,460,000 and in weekly pay rolls of approximately $37,100,000. Thirty of the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed reported increased employment in November 1933, compared with October, and 24 industries reported increased pay-roll totals. The most pro nounced increases in employment and pay rolls over the month were shown in the dyeing and finishing textiles industry, in which the termi nation of the strike which had been in progress for a number of weeks resulted in the return to employment of large numbers of workers. The beet-sugar industry, reflecting seasonal activity, reported a gain of 16.2 percent in employment. The iron and steel forgings industry reported a gain of 8.4 percent and the typewriter industry reported a gain of 8 percent in number of employees. The agricultural-implement industry reported an increase of 7.2 percent in employment, the machine-tool industry 6.7 percent, the engine-tractor-turbine industry 5.5 percent, and the aircraft industry 5.4 percent. The radio industry and the silverware industry reported increases in employment of 4.2 percent and 4 percent, respectively. Other industries in which large numbers of wage earners are employed and in which increased employ ment was reported in November were cigars and cigarettes, news 3 papers, book and job printing, glass, petroleum refining, and chemicals. The most pronounced decreases in employment between October and November were reported in the following industries: Plumbers’ supplies, 15.7 percent; stamped and enameled ware, 14.5 percent; cottonseed-oil-cake meal, 13.2 percent; millinery, 13.1 percent; boots and shoes, 12.9 percent; women’s clothing, 12.2 percent; automobiles, 11.8 percent; and woolen and worsted goods, 11.2 percent. The declines in a number of these industries were of seasonal character. Substantial declines also were reported in such industries of major importance as furniture, men’s clothing, knit goods, sawmills, leather, cotton goods, shipbuilding, and iron and steel. Strikes continued to cause restricted operation or a complete cessa tion of production in a number of silk, jewelry, leather, knit goods, and furniture factories. Only 2 of the 14 groups into which the 89 manufacturing industries are classified, showed increased employment between October and November. The tobacco manufactures group showed a gain of 2.2 percent, due to increased employment in the cigar and cigarette industry and the machinery group showed a small net gain in number of workers due to increased employment in the typewriter, agricultural-implement, machine-tool, engine-tractor-turbine, radio, and cash-register industries. The remaining three industries in this group (electrical machinery, textile machinery, and foundries) showed losses in employment ranging from 0.4 percent to 1.7 percent. In the remaining 12 groups of manufacturing industries decreased employment was reported in November. The leather group reported the greatest decline in employment (11.1 percent) reflecting seasonal losses in both the shoe and leather manufacturing industries. The transportation group reported a decrease of 9.8 percent in number of workers in November, the decrease of 11.8 percent in employment in the automobile industry accounting largely for the pronounced decline. The shipbuilding industry reported a decrease of 3.8 percent and the locomotive industry reported a small decline. The remaining two industries in this group, aircraft and car building, reported gains in number of workers. The lumber group reported a decline of 5.2 percent in number of workers between October and November, the furniture industry reporting a decline of 7.9 percent and the sawmills and millwork industries reporting losses of 4.1 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively. The textile-products group reported a loss of 4.8 per cent in number of workers between October and November. Seasonal decreases in millinery, men’s and women’s clothing, and woolen goods, together with declines in several other textile industries, more than offset the pronounced gain of 22.4 percent in the dyeing and finishing industry and the smaller gains in the corset and silk goods industries. The nonferrous metals group reported a loss of 4 percent 4 in employment and the iron and steel group reported a decrease of 3.1 percent. In this last-named group, the iron and steel industry reported a decrease of 3.3 percent. In the remaining 6 groups, the decreases in employment in 3 groups (paper and printing, railroad repair shops, and chemicals) was six tenths of 1 percent or less and in the food, rubber, and stone-clay-glass groups the decreases ranged from 2.1 percent to 2.5 percent. A comparison of the indexes of employment and pay roll in manu facturing industries in November 1933 with November 1932 shows that 79 of the 89 industries surveyed reported increased employment over the year interval while 83 industries had increased pay rolls. Decreases in both items over the 12-month period were reported in six industries— corsets and allied garments, men’s furnishings, mil linery, electric-railroad repair shops, cement, and marble-graniteslate. Four additional industries—women’s clothing, boots and shoes, cottonseed-oil-cake meal, and cigars and cigarettes— reported decreases in employment over the year interval, coupled with increased pay rolls. In table 1, which follows, are shown the number of identical estab lishments reporting in both October and November 1933 in the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed, together with the total number of employees on the pay rolls of these establishments during the pay period ending nearest November 15, the amount of their earnings for 1 week in November, the percentages of change over the month and year intervals, and the indexes of employment and pay roll in November 1933. The monthly percentages of change for each of the 89 separate indus tries are computed by direct comparison of the total number of employees and of the amount of weekly pay roll reported in identical establishments for the 2 months considered. The percentages of change over the month interval in the several groups and in the total of the 89 manufacturing industries are computed from the index num bers of these groups, which are obtained by weighting the index num bers of the several industries in the groups by the number of employees or wages paid in the industries. The percentages of change over the year interval in the separate industries, in the groups and in the totals, are computed from the index numbers of employment and pay-roll totals. 5 T a b l e 1 —C O M P A R IS O N O F E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M ANUFACTU RING E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN N O V E M B E R 1933 W IT H O C T O B E R 1933 A N D N O V E M B E R 1932 Employment Industry Food and kindred prod ucts........................ .................. Baking........ ............. .......... Beverages........................... Butter........... . . . .................. Confectionery_____ _____ Flour_______________ _____ Ice cream________ ____ . . . Slaughtering and meat packing_______ ____ ___ Sugar, beet______________ Sugar refining, cane______ Textiles and their prod u c ts ................................. ....... F a b ric s............................. Carpets and rugs____ Cotton goods________ Cotton small wares.. . Dyeing and finishing textiles____________ Hats, fur-felt_________ Knit goods................. Silk and rayon goods. W oolen and worsted goods...... .................. Wearing apparel............. Clothing, m en’s.......... Clothing, women’s— Corsets and allied garments...... ............ M en’s furnishings___ M illinery...................... Shirts and collars........ Iron and steel and their products, n o t including m achinery............................ Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets__________________ Cast-iron pipe___________ Cutlery (not including silver and plated cut lery) and edge tools____ Forgings, iron and steel— Hardware............................ Iron and steel....... .............. Plumbers’ supplies______ Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings__________ S to v e s ............................... Structural and ornamen tal metalwork................. T in cans and other tin ware.................................. Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and saws)................ Wire w ork_____ __________ Pay-roll totals Index num bers N ovem ber 1933 (Average 1926=100) Estab Percent of Percent of lish change change ments report A m ount ing in Number N o of pay N o on pay both vem vem roll (1 October roll N o October ber week) N o October ber and N o vember to N o 1932 to vember to N o 1932 to E m 1933 vember N o p loy vember 1933 vem ber N o vem vem ment 1933 1933 ber ber 1933 1933 Pay roll totals 2,973 1,006 385 273 303 395 315 298,671 69,650 22,549 4,680 42,615 16,626 8,891 - 2 .1 +18.9 $6,032,570 - . 9 +11.1 1,511,067 - 9 . 5 +100.9 607,689 - 3 .1 + 7 .3 96,658 - 4 .2 + 5 .9 604,639 - . 2 +15.7 331, 236 - 9 .2 + 8 .9 221,365 - 1 .6 +20.5 + 9 .2 -.3 - 8 . 7 +126.8 -4 .8 +• 1 - 7 . 9 +13.7 - 1 . 0 +10.0 + 3 .2 -9 .5 101.5 88.2 136.6 102.7 98.1 96.0 69.8 80.4 72.3 116.6 76.8 73.8 74.5 52.0 221 63 12 99,973 24,739 8,948 - 2 .5 +25.1 1,985,695 +16.2 +21.2 482, 714 191,507 - 1 .5 + 20.2 - 1 . 4 +28.1 + 25.2 +30.6 + 1 .6 +10.6 107.8 289.1 91.8 85.7 204.1 69.1 3,245 1,912 26 668 113 717,839 585,239 16,765 286, 295 10,318 - 4 . 8 +14.7 10,398,489 - 3 .5 +20.6 8,392,061 - 6 . 9 +39.7 289,389 - 3 . 7 +30.9 3, 618,061 -9 .4 + 9 .6 152,915 -9 .6 -6 .0 -1 7 .4 -5 .8 -1 3 .5 +29.1 +36.3 +63.6 +57.8 +16.5 83.7 90.3 77.0 98.8 90.2 61.2 69.9 54.3 81.4 67.0 149 31 441 248 39,698 5,492 110,170 51,891 + 22.4 +18.6 731,983 - 7 .6 + 2 .3 113, 224 - 4 .4 + 3 .7 1, 703, 659 + .2 + 7 .4 741,611 +26.6 -1 5 .1 -5 .8 -2 .3 +26.7 + 14.0 +13.3 + 24.5 92.6 71.0 92.4 65.3 68.4 48.9 74.9 49.3 236 1,333 401 574 64,610 132,600 66,322 28,878 -1 1 .2 +24.0 1,041,219 - 8 .3 - . 3 2,006,428 - 7 . 5 + 2 .3 1,020,630 -1 2 .2 - 2 . 8 488,478 -1 5 .5 +32.8 -1 9 .1 +10.8 -1 6 .4 +21.6 -2 5 .8 + 5 .2 88.4 68.1 71.3 63.0 66.0 44.1 46.2 40.4 28 75 133 122 4,749 7,723 7,334 17, 594 + 2 .9 - 1 .6 -1 3 .1 - 5 .1 -1 2 .5 - 8 .4 -8 .4 - 8 .8 -1 9 .3 -5 .6 -1 1 .0 +27.9 98.2 66.1 60.5 69.7 70.5 44.8 35.5 55.9 1,386 394,076 - 3 .1 +33.3 6,795,484 - 9 .3 +65.0 70.9 42.9 79 45 13, 549 6,454 -3 .2 - 4 .9 +39.9 +11.0 240,113 89, 517 - 1 .5 +68.3 + 2 .5 +35.7 85.9 33.4 57.9 19.4 132 66 88 205 70 10, 675 7,848 26,260 238,818 8,306 -.7 + 8 .4 -.6 - 3 .3 -1 5 .7 +22.3 192,122 +56.5 146, 524 +10.2 419,447 +38. 7 4,106,741 +24.0 116, 735 - . 1 +28.4 + 8 .9 +105.3 - . 5 +24.5 -1 2 .1 +89.6 + 7 .9 -2 6 .3 78.5 83.1 55.0 73.8 68.8 54.3 54.0 30.5 43.6 34.3 97 154 16,851 22, 779 - . 2 +24.7 -1 0 .7 +59.0 45.4 80.3 27.8 50.4 196 •61 122 71 -1 .5 -9 .7 -5 .6 + 6 .7 58,676 101,520 117,481 219,643 + 1 .6 +18.2 - 2 .8 +46.0 296,162 411,406 16, 295 - 2 .4 +24.1 301, 684 - 1 .3 +38.7 50.0 32.6 10,107 - 1 .2 +16.0 189,000 - 1 .2 +22.1 84.9 50.9 8, 619 7, 515 + .3 +34.8 - 4 .4 +36.0 154,403 131, 630 - . 4 +50.7 -1 1 .4 +50.2 83.3 122.5 53.8 92.1 6 T a b l e 1.—C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M AN UFACTU RIN G E S T A B L IS H M E N T S 1932—Continued IN NOVEM BER 1933 W IT H OCTOBER Employment Industry Machinery, n o t including transportation equip m e n t________________ ____ Agricultural implements. Cash registers, adding machines, and calcu lating machines............... Electrical machinery, ap paratus, and supplies.. . Engines, turbines, trac tors, and water wheels. _ Foundry and machineshop products................. Machine tools___________ Radios and phonographs. Textile machinery and parts__________________ Typewriters and supplies. Nonfcrrous m etals and their products___________ Alum inum manufactures. Brass, bronze, and copper products________ _______ Clocks and watches and time-recording devices. _ Jewelry....... ............ ............ Lighting equipm ent_____ Silverware and plated ware___________________ Smelting and refining— copper, lead, and zinc. _. Stamped and enameled ware___________________ Transportation equip m e n t ..._______ __________ Aircraft_________ ________ Automobiles_______ ______ Cars, electric- and steamrailroad________________ Locom otives................. . Shipbuilding................... Railroad repair shops.......... Electric railroad................. Steam railroad......... .......... Lum ber and allied prod ucts______ _________________ Furniture............................. Lumber: M ill w o r k ..................... Sawmills____________ Turpentine and rosin........ Stone, clay, and glass products................ ................ Brick, tile, and terra cotta................... .............. Cement_________J________ Glass____________________ Marble, granite, slate, and other products........ Pottery_________ _________ 1933 A N D NOVEM BER Pay-roll totals Index num bers N ovem ber 1933 (Average 1926=100) Estab Percent of Percent of lish change change ments report Amount ing in Number N o of pay N o on pay both vem roll (1 vem October roll N o October ber week) N o October ber and N o vember to N o 1932 to vember to N o 1932 to E m 1933 vember N o ploy vember 1933 vember N o vem 1933 vem ment 1933 ber ber 1933 1933 1,752 350, 683 + 6 2 .9 64.1 78 9, 562 + 7 .2 +78.8 +13.0 +124. 2 43.5 177, 303 40.4 35.2 32 15, 541 + 1 .1 +36.8 385,156 + 4 .5 +54.4 86.7 70.4 289 112,654 +43.4 62.6 46.6 88 22,093 1,018 143 41 110, 675 16,454 40,978 51 12 10,235 12, 491 609 103,751 24 6, 515 208 37,348 26 118 50 + 0 .2 -.4 + 4 0 .0 $6,988,329 +27.5 2, 306,050 + 5 .5 +47.4 - 0 .2 P ay roll totals -.7 464, 729 + 5 .8 + 63.6 58.5 38.6 - 1 .7 +34.1 2,055, 714 + 6 .7 +67.9 346,921 + 4 .2 +117.9 794,444 - 3 . 4 +58.7 + 9 .2 + 97.8 + 5 .3 +125.9 59.4 51.2 169.3 36.5 36.2 131.9 - . 6 +69.2 + 8 .0 +48.1 219, 693 238, 319 - 1 . 7 +111.5 + 6 .4 +99.4 89.5 87.7 68.1 65.2 - 4 .0 + 2 8 .9 1,893,567 -2 .3 + 3 9 .1 70.1 +30.4 50.2 - 1 .8 113, 887 -3 .4 +38.0 63.0 42.1 - 3 .5 +34.5 679,159 - 5 .9 +50.0 69.8 46.5 9, 518 7, 571 3,282 + .3 +21.1 + 4 .4 - 6 .7 + 1 .7 +26.7 177, 545 146,972 60,234 + 2 .0 +37.2 - 4 .7 +13.0 + 4 .6 +28.0 52.7 44.6 85.5 44.6 33.0 62.1 56 9,359 + 4 .0 +25.9 190, 505 + 2 .8 +30.6 80.6 56.7 40 13,819 + .4 +52.1 255,370 - 1 .1 +47.2 86.7 55.2 87 16,339 -1 4 .5 +12.9 269,895 -4 .4 +36.2 71.0 53.4 414 228,805 + 2 1 .9 4,665,686 -1 1 .7 27 226 7,756 181,809 51 10 100 8, 628 2, 783 27,829 + 2 .0 + 3 .8 - . 7 +43.3 - 3 .8 +14.1 921 93,574 383 538 19, 710 73,864 -.4 + 1 .3 -.5 1,567 153,643 -5 .2 + 2 8 .9 2,178,674 468 55,296 - 7 .9 +24.5 789,821 485 595 19 19, 786 76,878 1,683 -3 .8 - 4 .1 - 2 .7 +14.2 284,271 +33.9 1,084,545 +40.2 20,037 - 5 .6 - 6 .3 -6 .2 1,283 100,141 -2 .5 + 1 5 .3 1,677,120 655 113 180 18,880 10,071 47, 509 - 8 .3 + 5 .5 -.4 - 7 .8 + 1 .3 +41.1 233, 780 177, 760 861, 251 218 117 5,140 18, 541 - 9 .6 -.7 -1 2 .0 +18.3 89,873 314,456 -9 .8 + 5 .4 +42.1 198,755 -1 1 .8 +23.6 3,656, 279 + 1 .2 156,196 54,366 600,090 2,239,131 - 2 .4 499,357 + 1 .6 1, 739, 774 + 3 1 .4 51.3 36.4 + 7 .5 +28.4 -1 4 .1 + 34.9 260.7 51.3 239.3 36.3 + . 7 + 8 .5 + 2 .8 +39.2 - 1 .4 + 19.0 21.9 20.2 76.1 12.7 13.5 57.0 - 5 .8 + 3 .6 - 6 .5 + 7.7 - 1 .5 + 8 .7 50.8 42.1 64.0 49.8 51.7 41.4 -1 0 .2 + 4 3 .3 49.1 29.8 -1 8 .0 +33.6 59.0 34.2 +16.0 +60.2 +42.1 38.7 47.0 62.8 23.2 29.0 52.3 - 5 .5 + 1 9 .7 50.4 31.0 - 8 .6 - 7 .1 -.7 +16.5 - 8 .6 +47.3 28.9 37.8 81.7 13.4 21.2 59.2 -1 7 .6 - 2 2 .1 - 4 .2 +27.2 41.0 74.2 22.5 48.1 7 T a b l e 1.—C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN N O V E M B E R 1932—Continued 1933 W IT H OCTOBER Industry Leather and its m anufac tures...................................... Boots and shoes_________ Leather__________________ Paper and printing________ Boxes, p a p er.................... . Paper and pulp........... ....... Printing and publishing: B ook and jo b ________ Newspapers and peri odicals_____________ NOVEM BER Pay-roll totals Employment Estab lish ments report ing in both October and N o vember M A N U FA C TU RIN G 1933 A N D Percent of change Percent of change Index num bers N ovem ber 1933 (Average 1926=100) Amount N o N o Number of pay vem vem roll (1 on pay Em roll N o October ber week) N o October ber vember to N o 1932 to vember to N o 1932 to ploy vember N o 1933 ment 1933 vember N o vem vem 1933 1933 ber ber 1933 1933 492 339 153 132,381 101,767 30, 614 -1 1 .1 + 4 .0 $2,118,430 -1 2 .9 - . 3 1, 521,332 - 4 .0 +21.1 597,098 -1 6 .6 +21.9 -2 0 .6 +19.2 - 5 .7 +29.0 1,944 326 436 234,688 26,163 103,373 - . 3 +12.6 5,242,861 - 4 .5 +19.3 446, 686 - 1 .8 +24.1 1,808,867 - .4 - 5 .0 - 6 .5 + 7.7 +17.2 +23.3 P ay roll totals 74.8 71.8 86.8 51.7 46.5 69.8 90.2 88.4 93.1 70.3 72.2 62.0 747 46,047 + 1 .3 + 3 .8 1,149,026 + 2 .1 + 3 .5 74.5 59.0 435 59,105 + 1 .6 +8 .1 1,838, 282 + 2 .3 + 1 .8 105.8 87.2 1,085 102 176,205 24,934 - . 6 +29.1 3,755,058 + .8 +42.9 578, 783 - 1 .2 -.8 +26.5 +40.1 98.1 121.9 76.9 86.3 104 55 31 172 349 147 5, 577 8,798 4, 528 8, 709 16, 226 57,173 -1 5 .6 + 1 .9 - 3 .6 - 7 .9 + 3 .4 + .5 + 8 .3 +13.9 +37.9 +43.5 +13.9 +15.6 54.6 82.4 106.3 72.0 77.8 73.4 50.9 81.8 74.6 44.2 58.9 60.1 23 102 34, 678 15, 582 +• 2 +38.4 - 3 .9 +14.0 608, 577 313, 397 + .3 - 1 .1 +43.8 +10.4 197.7 112.1 172.9 91.6 Rubber products...... .......... . R ubber boots and shoes.. Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes____________ Rubber tires and inner tubes................................. 147 8 89,952 9, 847 - 2 .2 +34.8 1,681,362 + 1 .8 +26.6 181,890 -7 .6 +0) +44.3 +36.5 87.1 69.9 58.0 61.7 101 26,186 - 3 .0 +37.2 446,896 - 6 .9 +32.6 117.2 76.9 38 53,919 - 3 .0 +35.7 1,052, 576 -9 .8 +54.3 79.8 50.6 Tobacco m anufactures___ Chewing and smoking to bacco and snuff________ Cigars and cigarettes_____ 229 54,499 + 2.2 —1.2” 727,201 - 2 .0 + 3 .8 73.9 57.8 30 199 9, 677 44,822 - 2 .0 + 2 .9 + .7 - 1 .4 126, 625 600, 576 -6 .2 - 1 .4 +• 7 + 4 .3 89.8 71.9 72.3 56.0 18,047 3,128,908 - 3 .5 +20.2 56,393,962 - 6 .2 +30.3 71.4 50.3 Chemicals and allied prod u c t s ....____ _____ ________ Chemicals_______________ Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal_____ _____ _______ Druggists’ preparations—. Explosives________ ______ Fertilizers_______________ Paints and varnishes____ Petroleum refining............ Rayon and allied prod ucts_______ ___________ Soap____________________ Total, 89 industries-__ -1 3 .2 + 2 .0 + .3 -.2 - 3 .2 + 1 .0 -.2 57,280 +14.6 178, 769 92, 630 +34.6 101, 794 +56.5 331,305 +15.9 +19.3 1,492, 523 1 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. Per Capita Earnings in Manufacturing Industries P e r capita weekly earnings in November 1933 for each of the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and for all industries combined, together with the percentages of change in November 1933 as compared with October 1933 and November 1932, are shown in table 2. These earnings must not be confused with full-time weekly rates of wages. They are per capita weekly earnings, computed by dividing the total amount of pay roll for the week by the total number of employees (part-time as well as full-time workers). 28572—34------2 8 T a b l e 2 . — P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S IN N O V E M B E R 1933 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H O C T O B E R 1933 A N D N O V E M B E R 1932 Percent of change Per capita weekly October Novem ber earnings in 1932 to 1933 to Novem ber Novem ber Novem ber 1933 1933 1933 Industry F ood and kindred products: ........ .. . . . , . . ...... Baking Beverages_____________________________ _______________________ Butter____________________________ _____ _____________________ Confectionery_______________ _________________ ______________ Flour.__................................................. ............................................... Icecream .................... ............ ................................. .............................. S laughtering and meat packing Sugar, beet____________________________________________________ Sugar refining, nan« .... _ _ . _, _ _ 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 good s.,___ W oolen and worsted goods____ __________ ______ _________ Wearing apparel: Clothing, men’s_____________________ _____________________ Clothing, women’s_________________________________________ Cnrsfits and allied garm ents ____ _____ $21.70 26. 95 20.65 14.19 19. 92 24.90 19.86 19.51 21.40 + 0 .6 + .9 —1.8 -3 .9 —.8 —.3 + 1 .1 +7. 7 + 3.1 —1.4 + 13.0 —6.7 + 7 .1 -4 .6 - 4 .7 + 2 .7 + 7 .7 -7 .6 17.26 12.64 14.82 18.44 20. 62 15.46 14.29 16.12 -1 1 .3 -2 .2 -4 .6 + 3 .5 —8. 2 —1.6 —2. 5 —4.8 + 16.4 +19.9 + 6 .0 + 7 .0 +11.5 + 9 .2 +16.1 + 6 .8 15.39 16.92 12. 36 13.15 16.02 12.48 -9 .7 —15.4 -1 4 .9 - 6 .9 - 7 .1 —6.2 + 19.0 + 8 .7 —6.8 + 1 .0 +. 2 +19.5 + 1 .7 + 7 .7 + .6 + .5 + .1 - 9 .1 -1 2 .6 - 1 .7 —8.1 + 1 .1 + .1 -.7 - 7 .4 +20.1 +22.8 + 4 .5 + 31.4 + 13.2 + 36.7 -1 3 .0 + 5 .4 + 8 .8 +12.1 + 5 .0 +11.9 +10.5 + 5. 3 + 3 .3 -.3 + .3 —1.7 + 2 .3 + 1 .0 —1.2 —1.4 + 24.8 + 12.8 + 12.3 +10.9 +18.6 +17.4 + 3. 5 +25.1 + 35 .0 - 1 .6 -2 .5 + 1 .6 + 2.1 + 2 .8 -1 .2 -1 .4 +11.8 + 5 .7 +11.9 + 13.2 + 8. 5 + .9 + 3 .8 - 2 .8 + 20.6 + 2 .0 -2 .6 -1 .4 + 3 .6 + 2 .5 - 9 .7 + 9 .4 + 4 .7 - 3 .1 + 4 .2 + 2 .3 -6 .0 + 1 .0 + 6 .6 -1 0 .9 + 7 .2 —1.8 -2 .2 -3 .6 + 1 .9 +19.1 + 1.1 —. 3 -6 .7 -1 .9 -8 .9 -3 .5 + 9. 7 -.8 + 4 .4 -1 1 .6 + 7 .7 M en ’s furnishings________________________________ _________ M illinery__________________________________________________ Shirts and collars________ __________________________ ______ Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery: 17. 72 Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets________________________________ 13.87 Cast-iron pipe______ ______ ___________________________________ 18.00 Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools. 18. 67 Forgings, iron and steel..................................................... ................. 15. 97 Hardware_____________________________________________________ 17. 20 Iron and steel_____________________!___________________ ______ 14.05 Plumbers’ su p p lies_________________________________________ 17.58 Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings_____ Stoves__________________________________________________ _______ 18.06 18. 51 Structural and ornamental metalwork _________________ ______ _ T in cans and other tinware_____________ ____ _________________ 18. 70 17.91 Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and saw s).. W irework............ ............ ........... ............. ............................................ 17. 52 M achinery, not including transportation equipment: 18. 54 Agricultural implements__ ___________________________ _____ 24. 78 Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines-------20.47 Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies_________________ 21.04 Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels__________________ 18. 57 Foundry and machine-shop p r o d u c t s _____ ________________ 21.08 M achine tools_________________ ________ ____ _____ ___________ 19. 39 ........ ............................................... ........... R adiosan d phonographs 21.46 Textile machinery and parts............................................. ................. 19.08 Typewriters and supplies_______________ . .................... ............ . Nonferrous metals and their products: 17.48 Aluminum manufactures___________ _____ _________ _____ ____ 18.18 Brass, bronze, and copper products__ ______ __________________ 18. 65 Clocks and watches and time-recording devices_______ ______ Jewelry......... .......................................................................................... 19.41 j 18. 35 Lighting equipm ent........ .................................. ............. .................... 20.36 Silverware and plated w a r e . .___________ __________ __________ 18. 48 Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc _ ............. ....... 16. 52 Stamped and enameled ware................................................ .............. Transportation equipment: 25. 63 Aircraft....................................................................... ............................ 20.11 Autom obiles___ __________ ______ ________________ ______ ___ 18.10 Cars, electric- and steam-railroad_________ _____ _______________ 19.54 Locom otives______ ___________________________________ ________ 21. 56 Shipbuilding______________________ _______ ___________________ Railroad repair shops: 25. 34 Electric railroad________________________________________ _____ _ 23. 55 Steam railroad................................................. ........................... .......... Lum ber and allied products: 14.28 Furniture____ __________ _____ ________ _____________________ Lumber: M illw ork_________________ ________ ________ _____________ 14. 37 14.11 Sawmills___________ _____ ___________ ____________ ________ Turpentine and rosin_________ ________ ______________________ 11.91 Stone, clay, and glass products: 12.38 Brick, tile, and terra cotta__ __________________________________ 17.65 Cement____ _____ 1_____________________________ __________ ____ :: 18.13 G la s s ____________ ______________________ ___________ - ........ ....... 17.49 M arble, granite, slate, and other products_____________________ 16. 96 P ottery............................................................................................ ........ 9 T a b l e 2 .—P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S IN M AN UFACTU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S IN N O V E M B E R 1933 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H O C T O B E R 1933 A N D N O V E M B E R 1932— Con. Percent of change Per capita weekly October Novem ber earnings in 1933 to 1932 to Novem ber Novem ber Novem ber 1933 1933 1933 i N o change. $14.95 19.50 —8.9 —1.8 +19.3 + 6 .9 17.07 17.50 —.6 —4.7 -1 .9 -.9 24.95 31.10 + .8 + .7 -. 1 -6 .3 23.21 10.27 20.32 20.46 11.69 20.42 26.11 17.55 20.11 -1 .6 -2 .7 -.1 -3 .9 -7 .7 -.2 -.4 + .1 + 2 .9 - 1 .6 + 8 .8 -.3 + 2 .3 -7 .8 -1 .7 - 3 .1 + 3 .5 - 3 .6 18.47 17.07 19.52 - 1 .8 + 7 .5 - 3 .3 +13.9 13.09 13.40 18.02 - 4 .2 - 4 .1 2 - 2 .8 1 1 Leather and its manufactures: Boots and shoes . . Leather_____ ________ _____________ __ Paper and printing: Boxes, paper___________________ ____ Paper and pulp____ _____ _________ __ . Printing and publishing: Book and jo b ____ ______ __________________ ______________ Newspapers and periodicals____ __ __ _ ________________ Chemicals and allied products: Chemicals____________ _. ___________________________ ______ Cottonseed— oil, cake, and meal__ ____ _________ _________ Druggists’ preparations________________________________________ Explosives___ __________ _____ __________________________ ______ _ ___ Fertilizers______ _________ _________________________ Paints and varnishes______ ____________ _____________________ Petroleum refining____________________________________________ Rayon and allied products___________________________ Soap______________ __________ _________ __________ _____ _____ Rubber products: R ubber boots and shoes_____________ ____ ____________ ________ Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tu b e s.._ Rubber tires and inner tubes___ ___________ _____ ___________ Tobacco manufactures: Chewing and smoking tobacco and sriuff___ _________________ Cigars and cigarettes--------------------------------------------------. . ---------. . Total, 89 industries.. ______________ ___________ _________ OOi Industry 0) 2 + 5 .9 + 8 .3 2 Weighted. General Index Numbers of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in Manufacturing Industries G e n e r a l index numbers of employment and pay-roll totals in manu facturing industries by months, from January 1926 to November 1933, together with average indexes for each of the years from 1926 to 1932 and for the 11-month period, January to November 1933, inclusive, are shown in the following table. In computing these general indexes the index numbers of each of the separate industries are weighted according to their relative importance in the total. Following this table are two charts prepared from these general indexes showing the course of em ployment and pay rolls from January 1926 to November 1933, inclusive. T able 3 .—G E N E R A L I N D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y 1926 T O N O V E M B E R 1933 [12-month average, 1926=100] Pay rolls E mployment M onth 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1926 January......... February___ M arch______ A pril........... M a y ............. June............. July_________ August—........ September. __ October-------N o v e m b e r... December___ A v e ra g e .. . 100.4 101.5 102.0 101.0 99.8 99.3 97.7 98.7 100.3 100.7 99.5 98.9 100.0 97.3 99.0 99.5 98.6 97.6 97.0 95.0 95.1 95.8 95.3 93.5 92.6 96.4 1 Average for 11 months. 91.6 93.0 93.7 93.3 93.0 93.1 92.2 93.6 95.0 95.9 95.4 95.5 93.8 95.2 97.4 98.6 99.1 99.2 98.8 98.2 98.6 99.3 98.4 95.0 92.3 90.7 90.9 90.5 89.9 88.6 86.5 82.7 81.0 80.9 79.9 77.9 76.6 97.5 84.7 74.6 75.3 75.9 75.7 75.2 73.4 71.7 71.2 70.9 68.9 67.1 66.7 64.8 65.6 64.5 62.2 59.7 57.5 55.2 56.0 58.5 59.9 59.4 58.3 72.2 60.1 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 98.0 94.9 89.6 94.5 88.1 63.7 48.6 35.8 102.2 100.6 93.9 101.8 91.3 68.1 49.6 36.4 103.4 102.0 95.2 103.9 91.6 69.6 48.2 33.4 101.5 100.8 93.8 104.6 90.7 68.5 44.7 34.9 99.8 99.8 94.1 104.8 88.6 67.7 42.5 38.9 99.7 97.4 94.2 102.8 85.2 63.8 39.3 43.1 95.2 93.0 91.2 98.2 77.0 60.3 36.2 46.5 98/7 95.0 94.2 102.1 75.0 59.7 36.3 51.9 99.3 94.1 95.4 102.6 75.4 56.7 38.1 53.3 102.9 95.2 99.0 102.4 74.0 55.3 39.9 53.6 99.6 91.6 96.1 95.4 69.6 52.5 38.6 50.3 99.8 93.2 97.7 92.4 68.8 52.2 37.7 ------164.1 100.0 96.5 94.5 100.5 81.3 61.5 41.6 U3.5 56.6 57.5 55.1 56.0 58.7 62.8 67.3 71.6 73.9 74.0 71.4 10 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MONTHLY INDEXES 1926-1933. MONTHLY AVERAGE. 192.6=100 EMPLOYMENT 105 105 I9Z6 100 "\ — y' \ \ \ 95 192.9 I928~ ------- -------- — - - \ ----" 'K 95 \ N ^\ 90 90 193^ N 65 \ v 80 80 193) 75 75 x —X -. i _ 70 70 \ \ __ \ 65 65 1932 60 *7 * 1933 n> # # V *1 55 55 50 5*0 4S <*0 ♦0 * 35 JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT OCT. NOV. DEC. 11 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. MOUTHLY INDEXES 1926-1933. MONTHLY AVERAGE. 192.6= 100. PAY-ROLL TOTALS 105 105 192.7 100 100 95 95 1928 \/ 90 90 1930 85 65 60 80 15 75 1931 70 70 65 65 60 60 55 55 V.. 50 1932 50 45 45 40 40 35 35 APR. MAV JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT OCT. ItOV. DEC. 12 Time Worked in Manufacturing Industries in November 1933 R e p o r t s as to working time in November were received from 14,631 establishments in 89 manufacturing industries. Of these establish ments 2 percent were idle, 68 percent operated on a full-time basis, and 30 percent worked on a part-time schedule. An average of 92 percent of full-time operation in November was shown by reports received from all the operating establishments included in table 4. The establishments working part time in November averaged 74 percent of full-time operation. T able 4 .—P R O P O R T IO N OF F U L L T IM E W O R K E D IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S B Y E S T A B L IS H M E N T S R E P O R T IN G IN N O V E M B E R 1933 Percent of Establishments establishments reporting operating— Industry Total Percent number idle Food and kindred products____ ______________ Beverages____________________________________ Butter. __________________________________ -C onfectionery________________________________ Flour___________ ___________ _____ __________ Ice cream__________________________________ . Slaughtering and meat packing______________ Sugar, beet________________ _________________ Sugar refining, cane__________________________ 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_______ _____________ W oolen and worsted goods_______________ Wearing apparel: Clothing, m en’s __________________________ Clothing, wom en’s___ - __________________ Corsets and allied garments_______ ______ M en ’s furnishings_____________________________ M illinery________________________________ Shirts and collars_________________________ Iron and steel and their products, not includ ing m achinery_______________________________ Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets _____________ Cast-iron pipe________ ______________________ Cutlery (not including silver and plated cut lery) and edge tools _____________________ Forgings, iron and steel _____________________ TTfl.rriwfl.rfl _____ _________________________________ Iron and steel____ _____________________ _____ Plumbers’ supplies_ ________ ____________ Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings ___________ ________________ Stoves __ ______________________ Structural and ornamental metal w ork_______ T in cans and other tinware _ . __ Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and saws)_____________________________ Wire work __ _____ ___________________ Machinery, n o t including transportation equipm ent___________________________________ Agricultural im p lem en ts________ ___________ Cash registers, adding machines, and calcu lating machines __________________ - Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies. Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels. _ i Less than one half of 1 percent. 2,524 905 328 201 260 361 228 174 56 11 1 0) l l 2 0) 0) Full time Part time 76 85 55 61 63 89 70 78 98 64 24 15 45 38 35 11 29 22 2 36 Average percent of full time reported b y— All oper Estab ating lishments establish operating ments part time 95 98 90 92 92 96 93 96 100 88 79 86 78 80 77 66 77 82 80 66 2,677 4 74 22 92 66 19 622 100 136 20 408 225 218 11 2 4 1 58 73 65 74 30 84 87 80 32 25 31 24 70 13 7 17 87 91 91 93 76 96 97 95 63 64 73 73 65 70 65 71 292 384 24 53 86 90 5 10 76 58 33 47 73 86 18 32 67 51 26 12 94 84 79 88 92 96 69 55 68 76 71 66 46 42 15 51 58 61 85 85 73 72 74 67 40 35 47 61 42 57 65 53 30 58 86 82 84 91 79 76 73 70 73 65 35 53 65 47 63 47 32 53 77 88 94 88 64 74 81 78 1,124 65 41 105 37 72 142 55 86 137 170 55 3 6 2 2 1 2 3 24 3 9 2 4 100 59 2 24 37 74 63 80 72 74 56 1,465 50 1 62 80 37 20 90 96 74 78 46 67 29 54 33 71 88 94 77 77 83 68 28 248 70 13 T able 4 .—P R O P O R T IO N OF F U L L T I M E W O R K E D IN M A N UFACTU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S B Y E S T A B L IS H M E N T S R E P O R T IN G IN N O V E M B E R 1933—Continued Percent of Establishments establishments reporting operating— Average percent of full time reported by— Total Percent number idle All oper Estab ating lishments establish operating ments part time Industry M achinery, n o t including transportation equipm ent—-Continued. Foundry and machine-shop products......... ...... M achine tools.................... ..................................... Radios and phonographs... ............................ . Textile machinery and parts............................... Typewriters and supplies................... ................ Nonferrous metals and their products......... Alum inum manufactures.................................... Brass, bronze, and copper products.................. Clocks and watches and time-recording devices Jewelry.......... ............ ............. ............................... Lighting equipment.............................................. Silverware and plated ware............................. Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.. Stamped and enameled w are-............................. Transportation equipm ent.............................. .. A ircra ft..........- ................................................. ... Automobiles................................. ................... ...... Cars, electric- and steam-railroad_______ ____ _ Locom otives____ . ______ ____________________ Shipbuilding—_________ _____________________ Railroad repair shops.. Electric railroad....... . Steam railroad.......... . Lum ber and allied products........ .......... ........ Furniture.______________ _________________ Lumber: M illw ork.................................... ............... Sawmills............. .................. . . ................. Turpentine and rosin.................................... . Stone, d ay , and glass products............... ...... Brick, tile, and terra cotta...................... ...... Cement........................................................... Glass.......................................... ........................ Marble, granite, slate, and other products.. Pottery................. ............. ...................... ........ Leather and its m anufactures....................... Boots and shoes................................. ............... Leather............................................................. Paper and printing.......................... . Boxes, p a p e r................................. . Paper and p u lp ...... ........................ Printing and publishing: Book and jo b _______________ Newspapers and periodicals.. Chemicals and allied products___ Chemicals.............. ................... ...... Cottonseed—oil, cake, and m eal„ Druggists’ preparations. ............. Explosives____________ _________ Fertilizers________________ _____ _ Paints and varnishes____________ Petroleum refining______________ R ayon and allied products______ Soap......................................... ........ Rubber products......... ........... ............................. . R ubber boots and shoes............... ...................... R ubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes_________ ________ _______ _ Rubber tires and inner tubes_____ ___________ Tobacco m anufactures........... .......... ............ Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff. Cigars and cigarettes..................................... Total, 89 industries.. 1 Less than one half of 1 percent. 869 122 35 36 7 523 23 187 20 92 41 49 37 74 321 25 156 40 6 94 m 316 409 1,303 395 397 499 12 717 217 68 157 176 99 409 269 140 1,681 283 365 649 384 841 71 75 28 15 159 311 96 14 72 124 8 1 1 1 3 2 2 8 3 0) 1 2 2 2 2 12 23 12 1 13 3 8 10 4 1 0) 2 0) 2 1 7 1 3 Full time Part time 61 66 91 56 71 52 52 61 10 25 39 41 81 72 70 76 83 13 33 76 52 83 28 69 78 38 34 9 44 29 47 48 38 90 72 61 57 19 28 28 24 17 80 67 21 48 17 71 29 20 89 91 99 91 96 89 89 91 81 85 82 85 95 93 95 96 99 73 82 97 91 97 86 93 95 72 72 84 79 86 77 76 77 79 79 70 74 75 76 78 85 82 68 73 88 80 83 80 75 73 65 66 50 58 59 65 82 22 80 73 65 88 80 75 63 32 32 50 30 18 24 17 66 17 19 25 8 19 25 35 92 92 88 90 93 87 97 79 94 93 90 98 95 95 90 75 74 77 71 68 52 83 73 65 65 63 81 76 78 73 87 90 70 90 73 57 33 96 53 88 100 49 41 63 13 10 28 8 20 43 67 4 46 9 51 59 38 64 50 43 48 42 85 86 88 86 89 76 72 74 73 74 30 92 74 88 28 197 29 168 6 3 6 36 50 52 48 52 14,631 2 68 97 74 99 88 94 79 99 86 93 69 92 81 87 81 99 68 90 78 99 91 100 90 ............. 80 86 75 95 86 14 Employment in Nonmanufacturing Industries in November 1933 E M PLO YM EN T increased in November as compared with October 1933 in 8 of the 15 nonmanufacturing industries appear ing in the following table, and increased pay-roll totals were reported in 5 of these industries. Data for the building-construction industry are not presented here but are shown in more detail under the section “ Building construction.” The most important gains in employment over the month interval in these nonmanufacturing industries were in coal mining, in which it is estimated 37,000 additional workers were returned to employment in November. The bituminous-coal-mining industry, reflecting seasonal demands and the settlement of strikes in certain areas, reported a gain of 10 percent in employment between October and November. The anthracite mining industry reported 7.3 percent more employees in November than in October, coupled, however, with sharply decreased earnings due to the All Saints Day and Armistice Day holidays in the pay period reported. Employment in the crude petroleum producing industry increased 2.3 percent over the month interval. Reports supplied by 18,666 retail trade estab lishments showed a gain of 2.2 percent in employment between October and November. Under this retail classification, the group composed of department-variety-general merchandise stores and mail-order houses showed a gain of 3.7 percent between October and November. This percentage change indicates an estimated return to employment of 26,500 workers in this general merchandise group. The group of grocery stores and meat markets reported a decline of 0.1 percent and the combined total of the remaining reporting retail establishments showed a small loss in employment. The gains in the 3 industries comprising the public utilities group (telephone and telegraph, power and light, and electric-railroad and motor-bus operation) ranged from 0.3 to 0.5 percent, and the banks-brokerageinsurance, real-estate group showed an increase of 0.2 percent in employment from October to November. The most pronounced percentage decline over the month interval (45.1 percent) was a seasonal decrease in employment in the canning and preserving industry, which regularly registers sharp declines at this season of the year. This seasonal decline indicates the release of approximately 64,000 workers from gainful employment in this industry. The dyeing and cleaning industry reported 6.8 percent fewer employees in November than in October. The quarrying and nonmetallic-mining industry and the laundry industry reported decreases in employment of 3.9 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively. 15 The hotel industry reported a loss in employment of 1.6 percent over the month interval and the decreases in the two remaining industries (wholesale trade and metalliferous mining) were two tenths of 1 percent or less. Eleven of the 15 nonmanufacturing industries appearing in the following table reported increased employment between November 1932 and November 1933. The industries in which the level of employment in 1933 was below the level of 1932 were electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance, laundries, anthracite mining, and telephone and telegraph. In the following table are presented employment and pay-roll data for the nonmanufacturing industries surveyed, exclusive of building construction. T 1.—C O M P A R IS O N OP E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN N O V E M B E R 1933 W IT H O C T O B E R 1933 A N D N O V E M B E R 1932 able Employment Industrial group Estab lish ments report ing in both October and N o vember 1933 Coal mining: Anthracite......................... 160 Bituminous....................... 1,509 Metalliferous m ining.............. 294 Quarrying and nonmetallic m ining............................ ....... 1,185 Crude petroleum producing.. 264 Public utilities: Telephone and telegraph. 8,234 Power and light.......... . 3,188 Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and 554 maintenance__________ Trade: Wholesale______________ 3,019 R eta il................ ............... 18,666 Hotels (cash payments only)1 2,483 . Canning and preserving____ 906 1,290 Laundries........................... . Dyeing and cleaning________ 338 Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate...................... 4,599 Pay-roll totals Percent of change Percent of change Index num bers N ovem ber 1933 (average 1929=100) Number N o Amount of N o on pay vem pay roll (1 vem roll N o October ber week) N o October ber Em vember to N o 1932 to vember to N o 1932 to 1933 1933 vember N o vember N o ploy vem vem ment 1933 1933 ber ber 1933 1933 84, 729 227,883 27,784 + 7 .3 - 2 . 7 $1,932,194 +10.0 + 7 .8 3,962, 551 564, 712 - . 2 +27.3 -2 2 .5 -6 .3 +15.1 +33.4 - 1 .3 +36.9 Pay roll totals 61.0 74.8 40.6 47.8 50.7 25.6 34,303 28,610 -3 .9 + 2 .3 + 3 .4 +27.8 497, 238 780, 558 - 9 .3 + .5 + 4 .4 +18.6 51.1 72.2 28.3 50.3 247,820 209, 433 + .3 + .5 -8 .7 + 4 .4 6, 595,151 5,946, 943 + 1 .0 - 2 .2 -8 .9 + 1 .8 68.9 82.6 67.7 74.5 132,975 + .5 -.7 - 3 .7 - 1 .1 3, 538, 996 86, 591 438,484 132, 647 56,145 66,086 10,187 + 7 .5 -.1 + 2 .2 +12.1 + 2 .0 -1 .6 -4 5 .1 +37.2 -1 .2 - 3 .5 + 5 .6 - 6 .8 2, 235, 204 8,416, 269 1,704, 661 648, 226 963,948 177,021 -2 .9 + 1 .3 + .4 + 8. 5 -1 .7 -4 .0 -4 1 .7 +47.7 -2 .9 -2 .0 -8 .6 + 5 .9 179,403 2 + .2 2+ 1 .6 5,859,816 2+1.7 2 + .5 71.0 59.4 83.4 91.6 75.8 69.3 75.3 82.4 64.1 72.6 55.2 50.8 57.9 55.4 2 99.6 2 86.1 1 The additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed. 2 Weighted. Per capita weekly earnings in November 1933 for 15 nonmanu facturing industries included in the Bureau's monthly trend-ofemployment survey, together with the percentages of change in 28572—34------3 16 November 1933 as compared with October 1933 and November 1932, are given in the table following. These per capita weekly earnings must not be confused with full-time weekly rates of wages; they are per capita weekly earnings computed by dividing the total amount of pay roll for the week by the total number of employees (part-time as well as full-time workers). T 2 ,—P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S IN 15 N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G I N D U S T R IE S IN N O V E M B E R 1933 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H O C T O B E R 1933 A N D N O V E M B E R 1932 able Industrial group of Per capita Percent ber change N ovem 1933 weekly compared with— earnings in N o vember October N ovem 1933 1933 ber 1932 Coal mining: $22.80 - 3 .6 Anthracite___________________________________ __________ ____ ______ -2 7 .8 Bitum inous____________________ ______________ _____ ____________ _ _ + 4 .6 17.39 +23.7 Mfltfl.11ifp.miis m ining______________ ______ ______________________________ 20.33 —1.1 + 7 .7 Quarrying and nonmetallic m ining______________________________________ 14.60 -5 .5 + .9 Crude petroleum producing_____________________________________________ 27.28 -5 .8 - 7 .1 P ublic utilities: - . 1 Telephone and telegraph____________________________________________ 26.61 +• 7 —2.5 Power and light ____________________________________________________ 28.40 —2.6 26.61 —1.3 Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance__________ —2.6 Trade: - 2 .8 —5.8 25.81 Wholesale____________________________ - _____________________________ -3 .2 19.19 -1 .8 Retail ______________________________________________________________ - . 1 12.85 -5 .9 Hotels (cash payments only)1 ____________________________________________ 11. 55 + 6 .3 + 7 .6 Canning and preserving___________________________ ______ ______________ + .6 Laundries ______________________________________________________________ -.9 Dyeing and cleaning_____________________________________________________ 17.38 —1.9 +• 1 2 - 1 .1 2 + 1 .4 Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate________ - ___________________ 32.66 1 The additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be com puted. 8 Weighted. Indexes of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals for Nonmanufacturing Industries I n d e x numbers of employment and pay-roll totals for 15 non manufacturing industries are presented in the following table. These index numbers show the variation in employment and pay rolls by months, from January 1930 to November 1933,in all nonmanufacturing industries except the laundry, dyeing and cleaning, and the banks, brokerage, insurance, and real-estate industries for which information over the entire period is not available. The Bureau has secured data concerning employment and pay rolls for the index base year 1929 from establishments in these industries and has computed index numbers for those months for which data are avialable from the Bureau’s files. These indexes are shown in this tabulation. 14.59 17 T 3. —IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R N ONM ANUFACTURING IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y T O D E C E M B E R 1930, 1931, A N D 1932, A N D J A N U A R Y TO N O V E M B E R 1933 [12-month average, 1929=100] able Anthracite mining M onth Em ploym ent Bituminous-coal mining Pay rolls Employment Pay rolls 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 January____ ____ February.............. M arch. __............. April...................... M a y ............... ....... June............... ....... July................ . August....... ......... September______ October_________ N ovem ber______ December............. 102.1 106.9 82.6 84.1 93.8 90.8 91.6 80.2 93.8 99. C 97.2 99.1 90.6 89.5 82. C 85.2 80.3 76.1 65.1 67.3 80. C 86.8 83.5 79.8 76.2 52.5 105.8 89.3 71.2 58.7 121.5 101.9 73.7 54.6 78.5 71.3 70.1 51.6 75.0 75.2 66.9 43.2 98.8 76.1 53. C 39.5 94.3 66.7 44.5 43.8 84.0 53.7 49.2 47.7 78.8 56.4 55.8 56.8 91.6 64.9 63.9 56. fl 117.2 91.1 62.7 61.0 98.0 79.5 62.3 ------- 100.0 78.4 61.5 43.2 57.3 56.8 61.2 48.8 72.0 37.4 58.0 30.0 37.4 34.3 34.5 38.2 41.4 46.6 47.0 60.7 66.7 61.6 51.0 47.8 56.2 ........ 102.5 102.4 98.6 94.4 90.4 88.4 88.0 89.2 90.5 91.8 92.5 92.5 93.9 91.5 88.8 85.9 82.4 78.4 76.4 77.0 80.4 81.3 81.1 81.2 80.8 77.4 75.2 65.5 62.6 60.5 58.6 59.4 62.4 67.0 69.4 70.0 69.8 69.3 67.6 63.7 61.2 61.3 63.2 68.6 71.8 68.0 74.8 ------- 101.4 102.1 86.4 81.7 77.5 75.6 68.9 71.1 74.9 79.4 79.1 77.7 73.3 68.3 65.2 58.6 54.4 52.4 50.4 50.6 53.6 56.2 54.6 52.3 47.0 36.1 47.0 37.2 46.8 30.7 33.9 26.6 30.7 26.9 27.3 29.2 24.4 33.6 26.4 43.3 30.2 44.1 37.8 44.1 38.0 50.7 37.7 ------- Average___ 93.4 80.5 62.5 151.5 95.3 75.4 53.7 145.9 93. 4 83.2 67.4 167.2 81.3 57. 5 35.6 136.6 Metalliferous mining January................. February_______ M arch_____ ____ A pril........... .......... M a y _____ ______ June____________ July..................... August____ _____ September______ October. ........... . N ovem ber______ December............. 95.7 92.3 90.9 89.3 87.5 84.6 80.5 79.0 78.1 77.2 72.8 70.1 68.3 65.3 63.5 63.9 62.4 60.0 56.2 55.8 55.5 53.8 52.8 51.2 49.3 46.9 45.0 43.3 38.3 32.2 29.5 28.6 29.3 30.5 31.9 33.3 32.4 31.5 30.0 29.4 30.0 31.5 33.0 36.8 38.9 40.7 40.6 ------- 92.7 92.5 90.8 88.3 85.6 81.6 71.9 71.0 69.9 68.6 63.4 59.9 55.0 54.6 52.8 51.4 49.3 46.1 41.3 40.2 40.0 37.4 35.1 34.3 Quarrying and nonmetallic mining 29.7 27.8 26.5 25.0 23.8 20.1 16.9 16.5 17.0 18.0 18.7 18.7 18.1 17.8 17.4 16.4 17.0 18.3 19.0 21.9 23.9 25.9 25.6 ------ 79.6 79.8 83.0 87.4 90.8 90.3 89.9 89.3 87.7 84.7 78.3 70.2 64.4 66.6 70.0 76.1 75.0 72.3 71.0 68.9 66. 6 64.5 59.3 53.9 48.9 35.1 47.4 34.8 46.0 35.1 48.6 39.3 50.6 43.4 49.5 47.3 49.5 49.5 51.1 51.6 52.4 52.6 52.4 53.2 49.4 51.1 42.3 ........ 71.9 73.5 80.0 85.4 90.2 90.9 85.5 85.8 82.5 79.3 66.8 59.9 50.4 54.4 58.2 62.6 62.3 60.1 57.3 55.1 51.2 48.7 43.3 36.9 30.2 29.6 28.7 30.0 32.3 30.0 29.1 29.7 30.5 30.1 27.1 22.1 18.1 17.4 17.8 20.2 23.8 27.5 28.4 29.9 29.3 31.2 28.3 Average___ 83.2 59.1 36.5 134.1 78.0 44.8 21.6 120.1 84.3 67.4 49.0 144.8 79.3 53.4 29.1 124.7 Crude-petroleum producing January................. February.............. M arch............... April................ . M a y ...................... June...... ................ July....................... August_____ ____ September........ . October. ............. . N ovem ber........ . December_______ Average— 92.7 90.8 89.3 86.8 89.8 90.2 89.9 87.7 85.0 85.2 83.6 77.4 74.8 73.2 72.2 69.8 67.8 65.0 65.3 62.4 61.2 60.4 57.6 58.2 54.9 54.4 51.4 54.9 54.5 54.2 55.4 57.4 56.2 56.8 56.5 57.2 57.2 57.0 56.5 56.8 56.9 58.0 59.5 60.8 66.2 70.6 72.2 ------- 94.0 88.6 91.3 86.6 85.4 87.1 88.5 86.0 84.0 82.6 80.0 77.2 71.5 70.0 73.2 66.3 64.7 62.7 59.2 56.3 55.2 54.4 52.0 54.9 46.5 46.9 43.2 44.5 47.1 44.8 44.6 42.9 41.9 42.5 42.4 41.7 Telephone and telegraph 39.9 41.7 42.5 40.1 41.6 40.6 42.2 42.5 44.4 50.1 50.3 ------- 90.5 89.2 88.6 88.1 87.4 86.9 86.6 85.9 85.0 84.1 83.5 83.1 83.0 82.0 81.7 81.2 80.6 79.9 79.1 78.1 77.4 76.2 75.5 74.8 74.6 73.9 73.2 72.3 70.1 69.2 68.5 68.1 68.3 68.7 68.9 ------- 105.1 101.9 105.8 103.4 103.2 103.4 106.6 102.5 102.2 100.9 97.9 101.3 96.3 94.8 97.9 95.0 94.1 95.0 93.3 92.3 92.1 91.6 89.7 92.7 89.1 89.6 88.2 83.4 82.8 82.1 79.6 79.1 75.9 75.7 74.3 73.5 71.7 71.9 71.6 67.8 68.5 66.6 66.7 66.1 64.6 67.0 67.7 ------- 87.4 65.7 55.3 161.1 85.9 61.7 44.1 143.3 97.9 86.6 79.1 170.5 102.9 93.7 81.1 168.2 Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance 2 Power and light January................. February.............. M arch ........ .......... A pril....... ............. M a y ...... ................ June....................... July_____________ August____ ______ September______ October................. N ovem ber............ December............. 101.6 100.2 99.4 98.9 99.7 99.8 100.0 98.8 96.8 94.5 93.0 91.6 99.6 98.8 99.7 100.7 103.4 104.6 105.9 106.4 105.2 104.8 103.4 103.2 99.2 97.8 96.7 97.1 97.6 97.2 96.7 95.9 94.7 92.7 91.3 90.3 89.3 87.2 85.5 84.8 84.0 83.2 82.3 81.5 81.0 79.9 79.1 78.4 77.7 77.4 76.9 76.9 76.9 77.3 77.5 78.1 80.3 82.2 82.6 ........ 99.7 100.4 102.1 102.6 104.5 107.8 106.7 106.6 106.1 105.6 103.7 106.3 98.6 99.7 102.4 97.6 98.7 98.3 97.4 96.2 94.3 93.2 93.3 91.2 88.4 86.0 85.4 82.4 84.2 80.5 78.7 76.7 74.7 74.4 73.2 73.2 73.0 71.6 71.9 69.4 69.9 69.9 70.0 70.9 71.8 76.2 74.5 ------- 97.1 95.1 94.4 95.2 95.2 94.8 95.3 92.9 91.8 91.0 89.3 88.8 86.9 86.6 86.4 86.8 85.9 85.3 85.6 84.8 84.0 82.7 81.5 79.9 79.5 78.9 77.6 78.0 76.9 76.5 75.6 74.1 73.5 72.3 71.8 71.4 70.6 70.4 69.8 69.5 69.1 69.3 69.4 69.5 69.7 70.6 71.0 ------ 97.8 95.7 95.4 97.1 96.0 97.0 95.6 92.1 90.5 88.9 87.7 88.6 85.6 87.1 88.1 86.6 85.1 84.8 83.3 81.9 81.2 79.0 79.7 77.8 75.4 74.8 73.6 71.8 72.2 70.2 66.4 63.8 62.5 61.5 61.7 61.9 60.9 60.6 59.4 58.1 58.2 58.0 57.4 58.2 57.8 59.8 59.4 ........ Average___ 103.0 95.6 83.0 178.5 104.3 96.7 79.8 171.7 93.4 84.7 75.5 169.9 93.5 83.4 68.0 158.9 1 Average for 11 months. 2 N ot including electric-railroad-car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railro&d repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 1. 18 T 3 —IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R NON M AN UFACTURIN G IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y T O D E C E M B E R 1930, 1931, A N D 1932, A N D J A N U A R Y T O N O V E M B E R 1933—Continued [12-month average, 1929=100] able Wholesale trade M onth Em ploym ent R etail trade Pay rolls Employment Pay rolls 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 11931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 January............... F e b r u a r y ........... M arch____ _____ A pril......... ........... M a y ............... ....... June____ _______ July_____________ August.................. September______ October............. . N ovem ber............ December_______ Average— 100.0 98.5 97.7 97.3 96.8 96.5 96.0 95.0 94.8 94.2 92.6 92.0 89.5 88.2 87.4 87.4 87.1 87.1 86.8 86.5 86.1 85.2 84.1 83.7 81.8 80.9 79.8 78.9 77.9 77.0 76.6 76.4 77.1 77.8 77.6 77.0 75.3 100.0 87.5 74.1 98.3 88.4 73.1 99.7 89.1 73.3 97.9 85.2 74.0 97.4 84.7 75.7 98.6 84.1 76.9 96.0 83.3 79.7 93.6 82.1 82.1 93.6 81.4 83. 5 92.9 79.9 83.4 91.0 ■ 79.7 91.3 77.8 74.1 72.5 71.3 68.9 69.7 66.2 64.7 63.2 63.1 63.9 63.3 62.6 61.7 58.6 57.1 56.0 57.4 57.3 59.1 60.8 62.3 66.0 64.1 98.9 90.0 94.4 87.1 93.9 87.8 97.3 1 90.1 96.7 89.9 93.9 89.1 89.0 83.9 85.6 81.8 92.0 86.6 95.5 89.8 98.4 90.9 115.1 106.2 Average___ 76.9 73.4 71.4 78.6 77.0 78.3 74.6 78.1 86.0 89.6 91.6 99.7 96.0 95.5 97.5 97.3 96.8 91.7 87.6 92.4 95.1 96.8 107.7 89.4 86.7 87.5 88.3 88.0 87.6 83.3 80.3 83.5 84.6 85.4 94.1 78.0 73.7 73.4 72.7 71.1 68.2 63.3 60.7 64.6 67.1 66. 9 73.6 62.7 58.4 55.1 60.4 59.5 60.5 58.1 62.7 69.2 72.3 72.6 96.0 86.6 78.2 i 77.4 95.9 83.6 67.0 i 60.0 95.9 89.4 80.9 i 79.6 96.2 86. 6' 69. 4 i 62.9 I 1 Hotels January................. February.............. M arch_____ ____ April_______ ____ M a y ------------------June.......... ............ July................ August........... ....... Septem ber............ October................. N ovem ber............ D ecem ber_______ 84.3 80.5 81.4 81.6 80.9 79.4 74.6 72.6 77.8 81.3 81.7 95.2 1932 1933 100.4 102.4 102.4 100.1 98.0 98.0 101.3 101.5 100.1 97.5 95.2 93.5 95.0 96.8 96.8 95.9 92.5 91.6 93.3 92.8 90.6 87.4 84.9 83.1 83.2 84.3 84.0 82.7 80.1 78.0 78.4 77.6 77.0 75.4 74.3 73.2 73.8 73.8 72.4 71.9 71.9 73.6 75.6 77.1 78.7 77.0 75.8 100.3 103.8 104.4 100.3 98.4 98.1 99.8 98.6 97.1 95.5 93.6 91.5 Canning and preserving 91.0 93.7 93.4 89.9 87.7 85.4 85.2 83.8 81.9 79.7 77.1 75.4 73.9 73.9 72.4 69.6 67.0 63.8 61.8 59.6 59.1 58.6 57.5 56.6 55.7 46.1 48.9 35.0 34.1 50.3 55.9 45.7 48.3 37.1 35.1 51.5 53.5 49.7 53.0 36.3 33.2 50.8 51.7 74.8 59.6 47.0 49.2 72.6 51.8 65.7 56.0 40.5 45.5 66.9 52.3 83.0 70.6 55.5 55.6 81.5 53.3 126.3 102.2 73.0 76.6 112.7 54.0 185.7 142.9 99.0 112.7 172.0 55.6 246.6 180.1 125.3 175.6 214.8 56.2 164.7 108.1 81.1 126.3 140.0 55.2 96.7 60.8 50.5 69.3 82.9 61.6 40.7 33.7 57.4 46.1 48.6 50.3 57.1 56.0 58.6 74.2 104. 7 129.4 77.6 48.1 36.9 31.8 32.7 31.9 37.9 36.0 40.5 47.5 65.6 75.1 51.8 34.4 25.6 24.8 25.9 24.2 33.5 31.8 36.7 46.2 68.3 127.0 87.1 50.8 99.2 91.7 79.0 i 74.7 98.5 85.4 64.5 i 54.1 103.9 80.9 59.5 i 73.9 96.1 65.6 42.6 i 50.6 Laundries Employment B a n k s , brokerage, i n s u r a n c e , and real estate Dyeing and cleaning Pay rolls Employment Pay rolls E m ploy ment Pay rolls 1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1932 1933 1932 11933 January................ February.............. M arch____ ______ A pril........... .......... M a y ...................... June........ .............. J uly....................... August.............. September______ October................ N ovem ber______ Decem ber............. Average___ 90.5 90.0 89.5 90.5 90.3 91.0 91.8 90.2 89.3 88.1 86.2 85.3 84.7 82.9 82.0 82.0 81.4 81.0 80.3 78.9 78.6 77.5 76.2 75.9 75.4 74.4 73.0 73.4 73.5 76.0 76.3 77.9 79.3 78.0 75.3 86.6 85.6 85.6. 86.8 86.5 87.1 87.4 84.6 84.1 81.8 78.9 77.4 76.4 73.3 71.6 71.4 70.6 68.6 66.3 63.9 62.9 61.2 59.1 58.7 57.9 55.5 52.9 54.0 54.5 56.7 56.1 57.6 60.6 59.7 57.9 88.9 87.4 88.0 95.7 96.7 99.0 98.6 93.5 95.3 94.2 90.1 84.9 82.1 80.5 80.6 83.3 84.5 85.1 82.4 79.5 83.3 82.3 78.0 75.2 73.0 70.9 71.2 81.1 82.0 85.6 82.9 83.1 88.6 88.4 82.4 77.7 75.1 75.6 86.3 86.6 89.1 86.2 80.0 82.6 81.4 74.7 67.9 65.8 62.2 61.7 65.9 67.3 65.8 60.0 56.3 61.0 58.8 52.3 48.4 46.6 42.4 41.0 54.6 53.9 56.7 52.8 | 52.8 60.3 60.6 55.4 98.3 98.3 98.9 98. 698.0 97.9 98.4 98.5 98.4 98.6 98.0 98.0 97.5 96.8 96.5 96.2 96.2 97.3 97.7 98.3 99.0 99.4 99.6 93.5 93.0 92.9 92.1 92.7 90.0 89.8 88.2 87.1 86.3 85.7 85.5 85.2 84.3 83.7 82.9 83.2 84.4 84.8 84.4 84.5 84.7 86.1 89.4 80.1 i 75.7 84.4 67.0 i 56.7 92.7 81.4 180.8 80.3 60.5 i 52.5 98.3 197.7 89.7 184.4 1 i Average for 11 months 19 Average Man-Hours Worked and Average Hourly Earnings I N THE following tables the Bureau presents a tabulation of man-hours worked per week and average hourly earnings based on reports supplied by identical establishments in October and November 1933 in 15 industrial groups and 78 separate manufacturing industries. Man-hour data for the building-construction group and for the insurance, real estate, banking, and brokerage group are not available, and data for several of the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed monthly are omitted from these tables due to lack of adequate information. The total number of establishments supplying man-hour data in these 15 industrial groups represents approximately 50 percent of the establishments supplying monthly employment data. The tabulations are based on reports supplying actual man-hours worked and do not include nominal man-hour totals, obtained by multiplying the total number of employees in the establishment by the plant operating time. Table 1 shows the average hours worked per employee per week and average hourly earnings in 15 industrial groups and for all groups combined. The average hours per week and average hourly earnings for the combined total of the 15 industrial groups are weighted aver ages, wherein the average man-hours and average hourly earnings in each industrial group are multiplied by the total number of employees in the group in the current month and the sum of these products divided by the total number of employees in the combined 15 indus trial groups. The average man-hours and hourly earnings for the combined 89 manufacturing industries have been weighted in the same manner as the averages for all industrial groups combined, table 1. In presenting information for the separate manufacturing industries shown in table 2, data are published for only those industries in which the available man-hour information covers 20 percent or more of the total number of employees in the industry at the present time. 20 T a b l e 1 .—A V E R A G E HOURS W O R K E D P E R W E E K P E R E M P L O Y E E A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN 15 IN D U S T R IA L G R O U P S , O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933 Average hours per week Average hourly earnings Industrial group October 1933 M a n u factu rin g.___ _________________________________________ Coal mining: Anthracite___________________ ____ _______________ _______ Bitum inous____________ __________ ________ ______________ Metalliferous mining_____________ __________________ ______ Quarrying and nonmetallic mining______________ _______ _____ Crude petroleum producing__ ________ ________________ ______ Public utilities: Telephone and telegraph__________________________________ Power and light_____________________________________ _____ Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance. Trade: Wholesale______________ _____ ____________________________ Retail_________________ __________________________________ H otels____________________ _______________________ _________ Canning and preserving_____ ___________________ _____________ Laundries_____ _______________________________________________ Dyeing and cleaning_____________________ ___ ____ ___________ Average___ _____ ___________________________________ ____ N ovem ber 1933 October 1933 N ovem ber 1933 Hours 35.7 Hours 34.4 Cents 51.7 Cents 52.1 38.7 29.9 39.3 34.8 36.2 28.1 29.6 37.9 32.5 35.0 81.5 56.8 51.7 44.4 77.3 80.8 58.0 53.0 45.2 76.6 37.6 43.1 45.6 37.5 42.3 44.9 67.2 67.5 56.2 68.1 66.9 56.2 42.9 39.5 49.7 34.4 37.9 41.4 42.3 39.9 49.8 32.2 37.9 40.7 60.9 49.8 24.6 33.7 37.5 43.6 59.8 48.1 24.7 37.6 37.6 43.2 37.8 37.1 52.2 51.9 Per capita weekly earnings, computed by multiplying the average man-hours worked per week by the average hourly earnings, are not identical with the per capita weekly earnings appearing elsewhere in this trend-of-employment compilation, which are obtained by dividing the total weekly earnings in all establishments reporting by the total number of employees in those establishments. As already noted, the basic information upon which the average weekly manhours and average hourly earnings are computed covers approximately 50 percent of the establishments reporting monthly employment data. T 3 .— A V E R A G E HOURS W O R K E D PE R W E E K P E R E M P L O Y E E A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN S E L E C T E D M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S , O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933 able Average hours per week Average hourly earnings Industry October 1933 Food and kindred products: Baking—_____ ____________________________________________ Beverages.______________ ______ ______________ _____ _____ Confectionery............. . _______ ____________________________ Flour............ .................................................. ....... .......... .............. Ice cream______ _________________________ __________ ______ Slaughtering and meat packing___________________________ Sugar, beet------------------------------------------------------------------------Sugar refining, cane................................... ..................... .............. Textiles and their products: Fabrics: Carpets and ru gs„_ ------------------------------------------- --------Cotton goods___________ _______ _______ _____ _______ _ Cotton small wares____________ _____ _____ __________ Dyeing and finishing textiles__________________________ Knit goods_____ ________ _____________________________ Silk and rayon goods---------------------------------------------------W oolen and worsted goods........... ...................... ................ N ovem ber 1933 October 1933 Hours 39.6 40.6 35.9 39.0 43.5 39.5 51.7 35.5 Hours 40.0 37.5 33.7 38.2 41.1 39.9 50.4 36.6 Cents 51.8 66.3 39.8 49.3 60.2 49.8 37.7 56.1 Cents 51.8 73.4 39.8 49.7 63.2 49.8 39.8 56.3 37.6 35.2 36.3 36.4 36.7 34.8 34.8 32.2 34.6 35.1 35.9 36.1 33.8 32.8 51.2 36.2 43.4 49.0 44.8 42.3 48.6 52.7 36.4 43.4 51.8 44.8 42.5 49.4 N ovem ber 1933 21 T 25.—A V E R A G E H O U R S W O R K E D P E R W E E K P E R E M P L O Y E E A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN S E L E C T E D M A N U FA C TU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S , O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1 93 3 -Continued able Average hours per week Average hourly earnings Industry N ovem ber 1933 October 1933 Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery: Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets___________________________ Cast-iron pipe______ _____ ________________________________ Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools_________________________________ ____ _____________ Farmings, irnr> finr| Hardware______________________ ____ _____________________ Iron and steel_____________________________________________ Plumbers’ supplies Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings. _ Stoves __ _______ _ _____________________ _______________ Structural and ornamental metalwork________.....__________ T in cans and other tinware__________________________ ____ Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and sa w s ).................... ......................... .......... .......... .................. W irework___ ________ ____________________________________ Machinery, not including transportation equipment: Agricultural implements_____________________ ____ _______ Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines. Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies_____________ Engines, turbines, tractors, and water w h eels._____________ Foundry and machine-shop products _ r ........... Machine tools________________ ____ _______________________ Radios and phonographs __ ____„ _____ ____ . __............ ......... Textile machinery and parts_________________________ _____ Typewriters and supplies............................................................ Nonferrous metals and their products: Aluminum manufactures..... ........ .................. „ _______ _ Brass, hronzn, and nnppar 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______________________________ Transportation equipment: Aircraft___________________________________________________ Automobiles_ _________ _________________________________ _ Cars, electric- and steam-railroad_________________________ ___ __ _________ __ _ Locomotives ». _ Shipbuilding. ................................................................................. Railroad repair shop: Electric railroad___________________________________________ Steam railroad____________________________________________ Lumber and allied products: Furniture___ _____________________________________________ Lumber: M ill work_____________________________________________ Sawmills_______________________ ______________________ Stone, clay, and glass products: Brick, tile, and terra cotta________________________________ Cement...................... .............................................................. Glass....... ...................................... ....................................... .......... Marble, granite, slate, and other products_________________ P ottery........ .......... .......................................... ....................... ..... Leather and its manufactures: Leather____________________________ _____ ________________ Paper and printing: Boxes, paper______ _______ ________________ ______________ Paper and p u lp .................................................. ..................... ..... Printing and publishing: Book and jo b ____ ___________________________________ Newspapers and periodicals....................................... ......... Chemicals and allied products: Chemicals....... ............................................................ - ........ ......... Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal___________ _______________ Druggists' preparations___________________________________ E x p losiv es..__________ ____________ ______________________ Fertilizers............................. .......................................................... Paints and varnishes_________________________________ !____ Petroleum refining________________________________________ R ayon and allied products________________________________ Soap............. ........................................................................ .......... R ubber products: Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes. Rubber tires and inner tubes______________________________ Tobacco manufactures: Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff__________________ Cigars and cigarettes______________________________________ N ovem ber 1933 October 1933 Hours 33.8 25.3 Hours 34.4 27.2 Cents 50.1 49.6 Cents 50.2 51.1 36.8 34.4 34.9 33.5 32.1 32.5 38.0 34.2 36.0 36.8 33.5 32.6 29.0 28.0 31.8 34.9 33.8 35.5 49.1 57.9 46.5 56.4 51.0 54.8 51.7 53. 7 50.7 49.9 57.3 50.5 59.0 50.0 54.9 51.5 55.0 51.9 36.6 34.6 37.5 32.3 49.1 54.9 48.7 53.8 35.0 37.5 32.8 34.9 33.9 36.0 36.0 37.2 38.9 35.9 38.2 33.1 35.1 33.3 36.5 34.5 37.5 39.0 50.6 65.1 62.9 60.0 55.7 57.3 49.7 64.1 49.7 51.9 65.6 61.9 59.9 56.4 57.7 50.0 63.5 48.9 35.7 35.7 41.6 37.9 36.3 40.0 36.3 32.0 35.0 34.9 41.2 38.5 36.9 39.3 36.0 35.8 47.5 51.9 44.5 48.1 50.8 50.6 50.8 45.2 48.1 52.0 44.6 49.0 51.3 50.8 50.6 46.1 37.4 32.3 33.8 31.6 30.5 38.0 30.6 34.5 32.9 29.5 63.2 64.5 58.6 60.8 66.8 65.0 65.4 58.0 60.8 67.5 43.2 40.3 43.6 37.7 57.0 62. 2 57.6 62.4 38.0 34.9 42.0 42.6 34.3 34.7 34.2 34.4 43.5 42.9 42.8 42.0 31.3 34.5 33.5 34.3 39.3 30.5 32.4 33.1 31.5 38.5 39.8 54.3 53.0 59.7 44.6 40.4 54.2 52.7 58.0 44.8 37.6 37.5 50.8 50.5 36.8 38.7 36.5 36.5 46.2 47.5 46.6 48.1 34.8 36.9 35.5 36.4 71.9 80.4 71.5 81.5 39.7 42.8 38.7 35.3 36.0 38.1 36.4 37.9 39.1 39.1 41.6 39.2 33.4 32.4 37.9 35.3 37.8 38.6 60.5 26.4 47.9 59.5 35.5 53.1 69.4 46.3 49.7 60.4 25.9 48.0 62.2 36.5 53-6 69.8 46.4 51.0 35.3 30.5 33.7 27.9 48.9 69.5 49.6 71.1 36.4 37.7 34.1 36.8 37.5 36.8 37.9 36.0 22 Employment in Building Construction in November 1933 M PLO YM EN T in the building-construction industry decreased 7.3 percent in November as compared with October and pay rolls decreased 7.5 percent over the month interval. The percents of change in employment and pay-roll totals in No vember as compared with October are based on returns made by 11,149 firms engaged on public and private projects not aided by public-works funds. These firms employed in November 85,582 workers in the various trades in the building-construction industry whose combined weekly earnings during the pay period ending nearest November 15 were $1,866,494. These reports cover building opera tions in various localities in 34 States and the District of Columbia. E C O M P A R IS O N O F E M P L O Y M E N T A N D T O T A L P A Y R O L L IN T H E B U ILD IN G CON S T R U C T IO N I N D U S T R Y IN I D E N T I C A L F IR M S , O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933 Locality Alabama: Birmingham...................... California: Los Angeles K................................ San Francisco-Oakland 2............. Other reporting localities2.......... Colorado: Denver................................ Connecticut: Bridgeport...................................... Hartford.......................................... N ew H aven................................... Delaware: W ilm ington...................... D istrict of Colum bia........................... Florida: Jacksonville................................... M iam i............................................. Georgia: Atlanta.................................. Illinois: Chicago 2......................................... Other reporting localities 2.......... Indiana: Evansville...................................... Fort W ayne................................... Indianapolis................................... South B end.................................... Iowa: Des M oines............................... Kansas: W ichita.................................. K entucky: Louisville......................... Louisiana: N ew Orleans.................... M aine: Portland.................................. M aryland: B altim ore2....................... Massachusetts: All reporting local ities *.................................................... Michigan: D etroit............................................ Flin t................................................ Grand R apids................................ Minnesota: D uluth............................................ Minneapolis................................... St. Paul........................................... N um N um ber on pay roll ber of Percent of firms change report Oct. 15 N ov. 15 ing 70 Oct. 25 N ov. 15 $5,373 $4,954 -7 .8 0) 819 833 509 733 674 783 368 789 -1 7 .7 - 6 .0 -2 7 .7 + 7 .6 14,793 17,517 10,312 13,501 12,353 19,070 7,968 14,321 -1 6 .5 + 8 .9 -2 2 .7 + 6 .1 123 260 179 114 512 609 1,239 1,124 925 7,729 592 1,196 931 922 7,531 -2 .8 -3 .5 -1 7 .2 -.3 -2 .6 12,309 26,990 25,750 18,992 211,317 12,038 25,779 21,748 18,622 209,658 -2 .2 -4 .5 -1 5 .5 -1 .9 -.8 62 79 152 517 1,105 1,152 516 1,059 1,040 -.2 - 4 .2 - 9 .7 7,042 18,671 17,859 7,948 20,115 15,029 + 12.9 + 7 .7 -1 5 .8 132 73 1,448 1,423 1,722 1,915 + 18.9 +34.6 39,666 28,460 51,416 63,432 + 29.6 +122.9 57 83 158 36 96 69 151 120 99 107 343 352 1,221 239 577 343 1,272 1,006 423 899 328 327 984 238 383 233 1,229 877 349 874 - 4 .4 - 7 .1 -1 9 .4 -.4 -3 3 .6 -3 2 .1 -3 .4 - 1 2 .8 -1 7 .5 -2 .8 5,234 6,309 24,722 5,424 10,079 5,968 23,029 17,071 9,478 16,765 5,291 5,290 19,478 3,765 6,836 3,888 21,746 15,274 6,980 15,030 + 1 .1 -1 6 .2 -2 1 .2 -3 0 .6 -3 2 .2 -3 4 .9 - 5 .6 -1 0 .5 -2 6 .4 -1 0 .3 711 4,896 4,617 -5 .7 114,694 105,289 -8 .2 501 57 108 4,636 238 470 3,995 224 437 -1 3 .8 -5 .9 -7 .0 95,725 3,935 7,036 81,211 3,907 6,869 -1 5 .2 -.7 - 2 .4 52 223 179 325 1,905 1,343 307 1,476 1,042 -5 .5 -2 2 .5 -2 2 .4 5,216 39,063 29,488 4,969 27,965 21,760 -4 .7 -2 8 .4 -2 6 .2 i No change. 1 Data supplied by cooperating State bureaus. Percent of change 352 22 32 19 202 352 Am ount of payroll 23 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D T O T A L P A Y R O L L IN T H E BUILDING CON STRU CTION IN D U S T R Y IN I D E N T I C A L F IR M S , O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933— Continued Locality Missouri: Kansas C it y 3................................ St. Louis......................................... Nebraska: Omaha............................... New York: New York C ity 2__...................... Other reporting localities 2.......... North Carolina: Charlotte................ Ohio: A kron.............................................. C incinnati».................................... Cleveland....................................... D ayton............................................ Youngstown.................................. Oklahoma: Oklahoma C ity............................. Tulsa............................................... Oregon: Portland................................. Pennsylvania: • Erie area2....................................... Philadelphia area2....................... Pittsburgh area 2........................... Reading-Lebanon area 2.............. Scranton area2.............................. Other reporting areas 2................. Rhode Island: Providence................. Tennessee: Chattanooga.................................. Knoxville........................................ M em phis........................................ Nashville........................................ Texas: Dallas............................................ . El Paso........................................... Houston.......................................... San Antonio................................... Utah: Salt Lake C ity......................... Virginia: Norfolk-Portsmouth.................... Richm ond...................................... W ashington: Seattle............................................. Spokane.......................................... Tacom a........................................... West Virginia: Wheeling ................... Wisconsin: All reporting localities2 ~ Total, all localities.................... N um Number on pay roll Am ount of pay roll ber of Percent firms of change report Oct. 25 N ov. 15 Oct. 15 N ov. 15 ing 292 597 153 1,722 3,524 814 1,645 3,516 735 -4 .5 —. 2 -9 .7 37,909 92,319 16,992 ‘ 35,884 86,689 14,927 -5 .3 -6 .1 -1 2 .2 337 243 54 6,053 5,807 354 5,773 5,697 416 -4 .6 -1 .9 +17.5 182,775 135,713 5,791 180,991 126,308 5,790 -1 .0 -6 .9 -w 84 475 627 125 76 399 2,373 2,99$ 531 326 314 2,124 2,304 422 289 -2 1 .3 -1 0 .5 -2 3 .1 -2 0 .5 -1 1 .3 7,831 54,699 82,002 10,282 5,448 5,500 48,236 52,714 7,648 5,010 -2 9 .8 -1 1 .8 -3 5 .7 -2 5 .6 - 8 .0 97 55 186 648 278 1,098 567 222 1,011 -1 2 .5 -2 0 .1 -7 .9 10,229 4,312 22,931 9,617 3,626 19,061 -6 .0 -1 5 .9 -1 6 .9 30 484 262 51 37 335 250 244 6,297 2,011 319 251 3,478 1 844 496 6,060 1,690 285 251 3,158 1,643 +103.3 -3 .8 -1 6 .0 - 1 0 .7 0) -9 .2 -1 0 .9 2,714 118,328 46,681 5,545 5,818 71,437 42,159 3,366 109,368 36,701 4,378 4,759 65,629 36,525 + 24.0 - 7 .6 -2 1 .4 - 2 1 .0 - 1 8 .2 - 8 .1 -1 3 .4 40 48 79 85 198 460 404 957 201 329 360 576 + 1 .5 -2 8 .5 -1 0 .9 -3 9 .8 3,228 6,833 6,446 13,730 2,851 4,746 5,813 8,471 -1 1 .7 —30.5 - 9 .8 -3 8 .3 183 27 177 112 87 771 136 1,168 563 612 685 171 1,414 394 314 -1 1 .2 +25.7 +21.1 -3 0 .0 -4 8 .7 12,186 1,357 18,113 7,600 8,194 10,022 2,127 26,108 5,019 6,153 - 1 7 .8 + 56.7 +44.1 -3 4 .0 -2 4 .9 93 138 816 1,075 662 956 -1 8 .9 -1 1 .1 16,210 21,891 12,540 17,599 - 2 2 .6 - 1 9 .6 155 53 78 49 57 731 212 122 281 1,396 647 369 136 221 1,219 -1 1 .5 +74.1 +11.5 -2 1 .4 -1 2 .7 13,964 4,021 1,968 6,375 24,957 12,054 6,663 2,091 4,222 17,289 -1 3 .7 +65.7 + 6 .3 -3 3 .8 -3 0 .7 11,149 92, 274 85,582 -7 .3 2,016, 776 1,866,494 - 7 .5 1N o change. * Data supplied b y cooperating State bureaus. 3 Includes both Kansas C ity, M o., and Kansas C ity, Kans. * Less than one tenth of 1 percent. * Includes Covington and Newport, K y . * Each separate area includes from 2 to 8 counties. Percent of change 24 Trend of Employment in November 1933, by States I N THE following table are shown the fluctuations in employment and pay-roll totals in November 1933 as compared with October 1933, in certain industrial groups by States. These tabulations have been prepared from data secured directly from reporting establish ments and from information supplied by cooperating State agencies. The combined total of all groups does not include building-construction data, information concerning which is published elsewhere in a separate tabulation by city and State totals. In addition to the com bined total of all groups, the trend of employment and pay rolls in the manufacturing, public utility, hotel, wholesale trade, retail trade, bituminous-coal mining, crude-petroleum producing, quarrying and nonmetallic mining, metalliferous mining, laundry, and dyeing and cleaning groups is presented. In this State compilation, the totals of the telephone and telegraph, power and light, and electric-railroad operation groups have been combined and are presented as one group— public utilities. Due to the extreme seasonal fluctuations in the canning and preserving industry, and the fact that during certain months the activity in this industry in a number of States is negligible, data for this industry are not presented separately. The number of employees and the amount of weekly pay roll in October and Novem ber 1933 as reported by identical establishments in this industry are included, however, in the combined total of “ all groups.” The percents of change shown in the accompanying table, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted percents of change; that is, the industries included in the groups, and the groups comprising the total of all groups, have not been weighted according to their relative importance in the combined totals. The State totals for the anthracite-mining industry, which is confined entirely to the State of Pennsylvania, will be found in table 1, nonmanufacturing industries. When the identity of any reporting company would be disclosed by the publication of a State total for any industrial group, figures for the group do not appear in the separate industrial-group tabulation, but are included in the State totals for “ all groups.” Data are not presented for any industrial group when the representation in the State covers less than three establishments. 25 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S [Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y cooperating State organizations] Manufacturing Total, all groups State N um N um ber on Amount of Per ber of Per pay roll pay estab cent of (1 week) cent of roll lish change N ov. 15, change 1933 ments N ov. 15, 1933 Amount of pay roll Per (1 week) cent of N ov. 15, change 1933 -2 .0 + .9 + .2 -.9 -3 .8 $836,245 179,802 250,954 5,912,633 691,253 - 4 .6 -1 .9 - 2 .1 -3 .0 -1 .4 211 45,963 2,027 42 174 18,451 1,045 139,981 108 12,390 $569, 282 36,665 167,857 -0 9 - 10.6 3,063,479 256,142 -4 .0 - 2 .4 -5 .9 + .5 1,114 164, 239 - 2.0 154 10, 559 -1 3 .9 614 33,052 + 1 .8 632 27,369 + 1 .6 729 88, 664 - 3 . 6 3,081,418 214, 509 747,880 451,112 1, 208, 370 - 4 .0 -8 .3 + .1 -.8 - 3 .5 632 143,018 7, 519 47 3, 382 51 129 14, 972 71,566 - 2 .3 2, 539,725 142,495 -2 .5 108,914 -.8 212,405 -1 .0 -3 .6 -4 .9 -4 .7 -.1 -2 .1 -4 .3 5,053 35 1,105 213,499 563 95, 223 396 23,857 447 27,649 92,826 8,974,049 1, 756,195 432,617 574,354 + 22.7 - 6 .3 + 1 .5 -3 .0 -.3 523 65,255 Alabama_________ 409 9,047 Arizona__________ Arkansas________ 18,718 250,099 California________ *1,8 33,355 Colorado_________ Connecticut....... . Delaware________ Dist. of Columbia. Florida_________ Georgia__________ N um N um ber on Per ber of pay cent of estab roll lish N ov. 15, change ments 1933 9,982 238 Idaho..................... Illinois___________ * 1,755 340,231 Indiana...... .......... . 1,310 129,862 1,184 45, 901 Iow a_____________ Kansas.____ _____ *1,866 71,299 + 5 .4 -2 .6 -5 .2 -1 .4 6+(2) 188, 564 +11.5 6,993,196 - 3 .7 2 ,407, 855 -.7 848,180 - 3 . 4 1,581,233 Q+2.2 K entucky________ 879 458 Louisiana________ M aine___________ 561 M aryland________ 806 Massachusetts___ 5 8,048 -4 .7 -1 .2 -9 .0 - 2 .3 -2 .5 1,139,323 533,127 723, 248 1,772,955 7,867,169 M ichigan________ M innesota_______ Mississippi______ M issouri_________ M ontana________ 1,664 265,421 - 5 . 7 1,140 72,953 - 1 . 1 373 10,573 ' - 3 . 4 1,214 110,978 - 4 .3 361 11,640 + 1 .0 Nebraska.......... . N evada__________ N ew H am pshire.. N ew Jersey______ N ew M exico........ . 718 22,676 146 1,859 491 35,834 1, 522 211,471 4,609 191 N ew Y ork _______ N orth Carolina. North Dakota___ Ohio______ _______ Oklahoma_______ 8,292 573,053 893 124, 708 336 4,469 4,941 422,030 833 31, 271 -2 .5 + 1.4 -3 .8 1 -2 .7 + .2 + 12.8 -3 .9 - 3 .1 - 2 .2 - 2 .1 -2 .8 -3 .1 200 191 177 m 1,142 25,025 18, 780 36, 628 64,679 198,339 -1 0 .1 371,576 -1 .8 270, 713 582,115 - 8 .1 * -5 .1 1.217.823 - 4 . 7 3,625,464 -2 4 .5 - 1 .8 - 12.1 6- 4.8 -6 .3 5,447,086 1,466,184 143, 508 2,163,148 270,176 - 8 .3 - 2 .8 - 4 .0 -5 .7 -.4 651 281 73 502 50 33,057 6,919 58,938 3,786 - 7 .6 4,651,431 -4 .6 635,302 -5 .5 86,958 - 7 . 9 1,036,539 73,072 -1 .1 -6 .8 -4 .7 -6 .1 -1 0 .4 -5 .9 -2 .7 + .8 -7 .9 + 5 .0 - 3 .0 469,643 45,073 587,096 4, 725,167 82, 709 - 2 .6 + 1 .7 -3 .5 + 5 .4 - 7 .8 112 10, 678 290 22 181 31,358 1650 '83,802 713 24 1.6 13, 537,088 1, 571,644 89,267 7,888,825 617, 735 - 2 .1 -7 .9 -2 .8 -9 .2 -1 .0 Oregon__________ Pennsylvania____ R hode Island____ South Carolina_ _ South Dakota___ 33,624 -1 7 .7 643,475 -1 6 .0 5,062 676, 599 + 2 .3 13,164,007 - 4 .3 996,904 -1 4 .5 897 55,049 - 1 2 . 2 747, 501 - 2 . 4 327 59,035 - 1 . 0 259 6,380 + 1 .7 150, 579 + 5 .6 Tennessee_______ Texas____________ Utah____________ Verm ont_________ Virginia_________ 732 817 335 379 1,280 W ashington_____ West Virginia____ W isconsin....... ...... W yom ing.............. 01, ou 70,946 32, 618 44,343 - -10.8 -1 .5 - 11.1 65,045 73, 405 16,024 10,190 85,351 -2 .9 -.3 -.1 - 3 .8 - 3 .4 980, 709 1 ,592,570 310,027 183,684 1,403, 655 -3 .6 + 1.4 + 1 .8 -4 .6 -3 .6 1,159 57, 695 870 117,106 151,113 195 6, 648 - 8 .4 + 4 .7 -3 .5 -.6 1,147, 288 2, 202,028 2,639,475 154,439 -6 .2 + 8 .9 - 5 .4 - 11.8 216,916 6,547 490,150 ,877,518 12,389 - 3 .0 -1 .8 -2 .7 + .0 - 1 .5 1,803 354,108 533 119,390 953 56 1,819 303,270 9, 989 147 7 .880.824 - 2 . 6 1,486, 257 -5 .0 18,981 - 4 . 4 5,410,173 - 3 .0 186,337 - 4 .3 150 19,065 1,753 392,454 249 42,106 170 55,189 2,325 44 -4 .2 337,835 - 1 . 3 6,818, 851 695,940 -1 5 .5 687, 510 -1 .6 44,914 + 9 .0 -9 .4 -4 .5 -1 9 .9 - 2 .8 +19.9 249 397 73 113 385 -4 .3 -3 .0 - 8 .2 + (2 ) + .3 -3 .2 -1 1 .9 46,495 42,198 6,442 5,376 57, 789 -3 .6 + 1 .4 + 18.8 -5 .1 -4 .3 670,305 862,214 111, 501 91,689 892,345 - 4 .7 + 2.2 + 18.1 - 8 .0 -4 .8 252 27, 802 173 44, 573 772 119,200 22 1,759 - 5 .1 + 9 .8 522,398 843, 566 2,024,895 44,116 - 4 .1 + 26.1 6 - 3.1 -2 .7 6- . 6 -4 .6 1 Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building construction. 2 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. 3 Includes banks, insurance, and office employment. 4 Includes building and contracting. 5 Includes construction, municipal, agricultural, and office em ployment, amusement and recreation professional, and transportation services. 6 Weighted percent of change. 7 Includes laundries. 8 Includes laundering and cleaning. 8 Includes construction but does not include hotels and restaurants. 26 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued [Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y cooperating State organizations] Retail trade Wholesale trade State Amount N um N um Per Per of pay ber of ber on cent roll (1 cent pay estab of week) of roll lish N ov. 15, change N ov. 15, change ments 1933 1933 14 22 N um Am ount N um ber on Per of pay ber of roll (1 cent pay estab week) of roll lish change N ov. 15, ments Nov. 15, 1933 1933 Per cent of change $14,988 + 0 .4 4,310 - 4 .8 13,576 -1 0 .8 145,767 + 1 .0 22,892 - 6 .8 63 192 120 125 278 2,136 1,932 1,423 24,143 4,391 - 2 .3 + 3 .4 + 1 .4 -.5 - 2 .9 $36,546 33,768 13,719 489,914 84,051 -1 .3 +. 8 + 7.1 -.8 - 4 .1 28,379 2,216 10,100 26,083 12,018 -2 .3 + .2 -1 .8 + .9 - .9 125 27 410 105 84 5,347 374 13,042 2, 216 3, 579 -.6 + 4 .5 + 3 .6 + 4 .0 + .6 104,997 6,692 257, 792 40,404 61,801 -1 .4 + 2 .1 +. 7 + 3 .2 - 2 .8 + 8 .1 + 3 .2 -.2 -3 .8 + 1 .7 3,306 58,523 37,624 27,335 49,798 - 4 .1 + .3 -.9 - 8 .9 + 2 .2 68 148 185 121 491 919 26,311 7 ,132 3,355 7,094 -3 .4 + 5 .4 + 2 .7 + 2 .8 + 1 .8 14,799 510,066 123,803 57, 652 122,834 - 3 .5 + 5 .8 + .9 + .1 -.3 418 653 444 740 15,543 -3 .0 + 1 .4 -4 .3 -.3 -.5 9,087 14,611 10,352 16,319 397,010 - 4 .8 - 4 .9 - 4 .7 - 2 .7 -.9 61 27 67 38 4,172 2,492 3, 766 955 7,333 67,841 41,937 -2 .0 54,489 +18.1 17, 682 -.6 + 2 .7 124,100 + 1 .5 1,311,980 - 2 .4 + 4 .3 +. 5 + 1 .8 + 1 .5 65 79 4 60 14 1, 570 5,249 114 4,781 242 -.9 +. 6 + 1 .8 + .5 -.8 41,721 132, 717 2, 215 120,652 7,109 - 5 .7 -3 .8 + .3 - 4 .3 - 4 .6 161 13,180 272. 9, 681 47 483 137 11,232 83 903 + 6 .1 + 12.2 + 2 .8 +11.3 -.4 249,685 152, 201 5, 259 207,042 18,056 -1 .5 + 3 .8 -4 .7 + 5 .2 -2 .3 Nebraska................ N evada................... N ew H a m p s h ire N ew Jersey............ N ew M exico.......... 34 8 16 22 6 981 115 168 621 87 -1 .1 + 2 .7 -.6 -.3 (10) 25,177 3,403 4,329 16,797 3,000 -6 .0 + .9 + .1 -.8 - 3 .5 188 43 73 417 49 2,086 281 1,018 9,239 268 + 1 .0 -8 .2 + 1 .6 + 5 .0 + .4 38,232 6,306 14,829 198,038 6,316 + .8 -4 .0 - 3 .1 + 3 .1 + 1 .4 N ew Y o r k _______ North C a rolin a ... North D a kota ___ Ohio______ ______ Oklahoma________ 445 14 16 234 54 13,326 172 273 5,385 1,136 -.7 -1 .7 -2 .8 -.1 + 1 .9 397,118 3,643 6,835 132,377 24,945 - 2 .3 -.3 -8 .6 - 2 .6 - 4 .4 4,147 158 11 1,584 153 82,037 708 308 38,681 2,797 + 2 .2 1,724,279 14,691 + 6 .5 4,361 + 3 .0 + 2 .0 709,015 51,473 + 3 .0 + 1 .9 + 3 .3 - 5 .6 -.7 -2 .7 Oregon______ ____ Pennsylvania........ R hode Island........ South Carolina___ South Dakota........ 52 122 40 14 9 1,398 3,639 1,114 221 111 -.9 -.1 +. 8 + 1 .8 (10) 35,161 95,861 26,090 4,898 2,919 - 7 .8 - 2 .1 + .8 -.6 - 4 .1 178 351 492 29 9 2,359 32,159 5,699 688 124 -3 .8 + .6 + 1 .5 + 3 .3 (i°) 46,572 613,436 107,131 7,927 2,152 -5 .5 -.2 + .6 -. 1 + 2 .3 Tennessee............... Texas............. ......... Utah........................ Verm ont................. Virginia.................. 35 131 14 5 47 871 3,419 506 115 1,213 - 2 .1 + 3.1 + .2 (i°) -1 .0 17,571 81,669 12,374 2,697 26,468 - 4 .9 +• 4 + .4 - 1 .1 - 3 .4 54 85 77 39 480 3,892 8,403 575 456 5,493 - 1 .5 -1 .2 - 1.0 -4 .2 -.2 60,609 142,325 13,007 7,037 101, 346 + (2 ) +• 4 -3 .8 -5 .6 - 1 .3 W ashington........... W est Virginia........ W isconsin........... . W yom ing------------- 105 27 46 8 2,274 576 2,252 61 -1 .8 -.5 -.3 -4 .7 58,147 - 7 .0 14,139 -1 0 .5 47,763 - 2 .3 1, 727 - 7 .4 393 53 SO 44 6,837 953 11,058 260 -4 .7 -.3 -.3 - 1 .9 127,407 15,999 152,712 5,883 - 4 .6 -7 .6 -5 .9 -6 .0 Alabama................. Arizona................... Arkansas................ California________ Colorado................. 95 26 577 174 567 5,254 842 + 0 .5 + 2 .4 -.7 +• 4 -.5 Connecticut........... Delaware................ Dist. of Columbia. Florida................ . Georgia................... 55 7 25 72 31 964 110 342 1,140 432 -.2 -1 .8 + .3 + 2 .1 + 2 .6 Idaho...................... Illinois..................... Indiana................... Iowa........................ Kansas______ ____ 8 48 70 38 81 133 2,500 1,616 1,137 2,142 K entucky............... Louisiana...... ......... M aine..................... M aryland............... Massachusetts___ 21 21 18 34 708 M ichigan................ M innesota.............. Mississippi_______ M issouri................ M ontana................ 20 * Less than one tenth of 1 percent. N o change. 27 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S -C o n tin u e d [Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics but are taken from reports issued b y cooperating State organizations] Quarrying and nonmetallic mining N um ber of estab lish ments State Amount A m ount N um N um N um of of ber on Percent pay roll Percent ber of ber on Percent pay roll Percent of of pay roll of estab pay roll of (1 week) (1 week) N ov. 15, change change lish N ov. 15, change N ov. 15, N ov. 15, change 1933 ments 1933 1933 1933 + 1 .9 $5,903 -3 .2 833 - 7 .7 3,697 + 4 .0 24, 261 -1 7Colorado 657 .0 -7 .4 + 4 .3 -1 7 .9 + 2 .4 -1 5 .8 347 73 -1 .7 +23.7 5, 630 1,304 +. 1 +52.7 14 27 821 1,426 + 6 .3 -3 .8 9, 707 14,063 +10.5 -1 0 .4 -1 4 .4 -1 6 .7 -1 9 .7 +•9 13,392 19,541 6,508 -1 0 .3 -2 1 .0 -1 9 .9 Alabama_________ Arizona__________ Arkansas. .......... . California________ _________ 15 4 10 41 5 643 61 299 1,249 44 Connecticut______ Delaware________ Dist. of Colum biaFlorida___________ Georgia_____ ____ 26 3 Idaho____________ Metalliferous mining 24 67 33 774 1,366 476 25 1,226 22,178 -1 .4 K entucky........... . Louisiana. - ____ Maine__ _ _______ M a r y la n d .______ M assachusetts___ 34 7 9 n 24 1,004 + 3 .6 + 2 .4 633 408 +107.1 11,085 9,196 6, 632 -8 .2 3,900 -8 .9 9,830 45 31 11 48 9 1,417 418 213 1,310 56 + 1 .1 -2 1 .9 + 3 .9 + 12.0 -5 4 .1 22,393 6,429 2,294 18,399 762 -1 6 .7 -3 0 .1 - 5 .3 + 2 .0 -4 5 .1 —6.2 - 4 .1 34 2,664 + 6.6 1,064 + .2 + 1 .9 63,485 15 26,608 -7 .0 2,168 + 1 .0 48,836 + 4 .2 10 858 + .8 17,541 + 1 0 .6 42 31 4,278 1,329 + 6 .0 -1 6 .9 62,311 23,867 + 5 .0 -2 9 .4 14 17 1,670 2,537 - 1 .8 + 6 .6 22,671 68,249 + 3 .7 + 1 .5 18 572 + 5 .0 14,225 + 6 .5 3 5 14 952 + 7 .7 + 2 .3 335 16,869 +27.9 -1 3 .4 31 1,460 - 9 .8 23, 780 - 2 .4 6 71 + 18.3 1,373 + 23.5 -1 3 .1 M ichigan________ M innesota_______ Mississippi_______ M issouri_________ M ontana_________ $22,374 51,335 -8 .2 479 + 5 .7 - 2 .2 +17.1 -3 .0 +79.6 291 1,754 2,309 11 Indiana Iowa - __________ Kansas___________ 10 20 I llin o is . Nebraska________ N evada__________ New H am pshire.. N ew Jersey______ New M exico_____ New Y ork _______ North Carolina___ N orth D akota____ Ohio........................ Oklahoma________ Oregon.................... Pennsylvania_ _ R hode Island _ . South Carolina___ South Dakota____ Tennessee________ T exa s.. . _ _ . U tah____ ________ V e r m o n t________ Virginia__________ 6 249 + 9 .2 3, 577 +11.2 10 37 122 666 -4 3 .5 + 2.1 2, 312 12,003 -6 3 .8 + 6 .9 80 14 2,021 440 -8 .0 +11.4 33,704 4,817 -1 4 . 5 - 3 .3 144 14 3,470 275 - 6 .4 +11.3 48,002 2,295 -1 4 .8 +19.0 5 152 76 4,834 +22.6 - 9 .5 1,130 65,024 +14.8 -1 5 .8 78 120 55 + 4 .3 -1 1 .3 1,129 876 + 6 .4 -2 4 .0 - 9 .7 + 6.6 +30.9 -4 .2 -1 0 .1 18,065 2,313 41,565 10,427 -1 0 .7 +. 5 +13.9 - 2 .5 -1 6 .0 4,141 +101. 2 11, 736 - 9 .1 29 1,438 22 468 6 38 30 178 2,218 1,172 14 21 231 887 +77.7 + 1 .8 U 198 + 18.6 W ashington______ W est Virginia____ W isconsin________ W yom ing__ _____ 2 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. 1 N ot available. 1 9,087 2,705 + 20.3 4 312 -.3 6,126 -2 .8 12 1,998 - 5 .2 40,100 -2 .2 7,616 + 10.0 (“ ) 378 + (2 ) 28 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued [Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y cooperating State organizations] Crude-petroleum producing Bituminous-coal mining State Alabama_________ Arizona__________ Arkansas. ......... ..... California________ Colorado______ N um N um Per ber of ber on estab pay roll cent N ov. of lish change 15, ments 1933 55 9,604 3 247 50 Amount Per of pay roll (1 cent week) of N ov. 15, change 1933 $116, 541 5,707 +23.6 4,703 + 5 .0 82,064 + 1 .7 35 50 22 S O 8,165 5,611 2,270 2,095 + S .7 + 4 .5 + 20.9 + 3.0 153,664 119,880 37,579 38,852 - 4 .0 + 15.7 - 3 .5 +22. 5 164 31,053 —.6 492,790 - 2 .5 u 1,504 + 4-3 22,751 + 17.8 M ichigan. .......... . M innesota.............. Mississippi_______ Missouri_________ M ontana_________ 19 11 1,677 953 + 3 .8 + 4 .4 23,381 24,643 —7.9 + 3 .9 Nebraska________ N evada__________ New Hampshire N ew Jersey______ New M exico_____ 13 1,344 -1 0 .0 22,975 -1 2 .4 Amount of pay Per roll (1 cent week) of N ov. 15, change 1933 + 1 .6 (10) N um N um ber on Per ber of estab pay roll cent N ov. of lish 15, change ments 1933 -0 .7 8 39 469 7,196 —1.9 + 2 .5 $11,186 211,019 —4.6 -2 .8 10 5 209 45 +13.6 -4 .3 4 ,328 787 + 22.6 +15.2 30 1,589 + 9 .3 36,136 +15.6 6 10 241 247 -7 .7 + 1 .2 3,326 5,641 -7 .5 + 3 .7 4 32 +33.3 634 + 12 .4 Connecticut_____ Delaware________ Dist. of Columbia. Florida..... ............ Georgia__________ Idaho____________ Illinois___________ Indiana___ Iowa_____________ Kansas__________ K en tu cky.. _____ Louisiana__ .......... M aine___________ Maryland________ Massachusetts___ New Y ork________ North Carolina N orth Dakota____ Ohio............. .......... Oklahoma..... ......... Oregon___________ Pennsylvania........ Rhode Island____ South Carolina South Dakota____ Tennessee________ Texas____ _______ Utah............. .......... Verm ont_________ Virginia _ _ _ Washington West Virginia____ Wisconsin_______ W yom ing________ 4 35 +12.9 908 + 9 .4 3 81 +19.1 2,115 +3.3; 10 83 20 831 13,851 903 +15.3 + 4 .4 +12.5 16,698 250,195 15,496 +10.5 + 2 .0 + .6 6 62 67 5,704 -2 3 .0 + 4 .9 766 134,212 - 4 1 .5 + 3 .9 449 63, 788 +34.0 1,084,637 +81.5 21 959 + 7 .3 21,833 + 8 .1 22 5 19 3,040 356 2,381 + 2.1 - 4 .0 + 7 .2 38,968 5,973 55,931 + 1 .1 -1 2 .4 + .7 3 8,552 + 1 .3 274,178 + 3 .1 39 8,730 + 3 .9 148,430 + 3 .6 32,383 +185. 2 1,317 +220.4 + 1 .6 61,095 + 2 .6 1,117,537 6 393 +17.3 8,051 + 8 .6 -1 8 .9 7 179 -6 .3 4,855 - .6 11 358 32 11N o change. 3, 508 + 2 .8 79,045 29 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued [Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y cooperating State organizations] Hotels Public utilities State N um N um ber of ber on Percent of estab pay roll lish N ov. 15, change 1933 ments Alabama_________ Arizona__________ Arkansas_________ California. ............. Colorado____ ____ 89 67 62 43 196 1,752 1,456 1,804 41,931 5,395 Connecticut______ Delaware ............... Dist. of Columbia. Florida___________ Georgia__________ 133 28 22 185 186 9,510 1,124 8, 554 4,533 6,535 Idaho...................__ 56 Illinois-____ _____ 81 Indiana_____ ____ 133 Iow a..................... 430 Kansas___________ » m K en tu cky.............. Louisiana............... M aine______ ____ M aryland............... Massachusetts___ N um N um Am ount Amount of pay roll Percent ber of ber on Percent of pay roll Percent (1 week) (1 week) estab payroll of of of N ov. 15, change lish N ov. 15, change N ov. 15, change 1933 1933 1933 ments + 0 .9 $36,983 + 4 .5 35,015 37,911 +• 4 + .7 1,164,4*4 134,131 + .1 + 2 .9 + 3 .7 -.7 -(2 ) - 2 .3 26 21 16 167 57 1,197 472 637 7,827 1,279 + 3 .1 + 1 .3 + 8 .7 +•4 -5 .5 $9,853 6,747 6,033 120,319. 17,386 + 0 .8 + 3 .3 + 28.8 + 4 .0 -2 .7 + .9 + 1 .8 + 1 .8 -5.1 + .5 290, 254 31,345 229,478 111, 640 180,086 + 2 .0 + .3 - .8 -9 .4 + 1 .5 28 6 46 61 22 1, 217 255 4,119 1,222 814 -.8 + 1 .6 + 1 .7 + 8 .7 + .5 15,278 3,433 58,479 11,592 6,100 + 1 .8 + .9 + 3 .3 + 8 .2 (2 ) 766 71,287 9,379 9,379 7,417 K4.9 14,916 -1.1 1,947,600 -1.6 220,560 -1.3 207,805 b1.6 171,625 + 4 .9 + .6 - 4 .0 - 2 .4 + 2 .7 21 78 69 32 351 10,860 2,825 2,565 728 -.6 -1 6 .6 -5 .0 + 6 .3 + .7 4,054 165, 725 27,511 23, 533 7,758 + 1 .1 -2 2 .0 -6 .2 + 5 .1 + 1 .4 293 150 169 94 181 6,315 5,696 2,652 12,675 45,412 + .2 143,168 + 3 .1 139,159 + 3 .2 69,392 + 1.5 841,172 - . 6 1,254,837 -1 .7 -.7 + .6 + .8 1.5 36 22 26 22 82 1,866 1,818 772 1,138 4,845 +. 2 + 4 .8 -3 6 .0 + 9 .4 + 1 .2 18,805 19,027 9,042 18,996 66,236 + 1 .0 + 5 .9 -3 4 .7 + 7 .8 + 2 .4 M ichigan................ M innesota_______ M ississippi........... M issouri................. M ontana................ 412 232 190 185 100 20,451 12,624 1,676 19, 332 1,982 + .2 -1 .4 + .7 -.9 + 1 .5 615,494 311,778 34,860 500,856 57,122 + 3 .1 -5 .8 + 1 .4 -.7 + 6 .3 98 76 15 86 30 4, 535 3,325 430 4,272 444 -.2 + 3 .0 + 2 .9 + 1 .0 + 3 .7 50,945 38,028 2,992 50,736 5,858 + 1 .6 + .9 + 2 .8 + 2 .2 + 1 .4 Nebraska................ N evada...... .......... N ew Hampshire N ew Jersey............ N ew M exico_____ 299 38 140 265 53 5,604 421 2,227 21,151 577 + .1 +18.9 + 3 .6 -.1 -4 .0 139,761 10,996 57,907 591,893 11,549 -1 .6 + 8 .0 + .8 -2 .0 -6 .4 42 10 15 62 14 1,585 93 180 3,415 323 + 6 .0 -3 3 .1 -5 8 .2 -2 .6 + .9 15,610 1,648 2,138 41,489 3,264 + 2 .5 -2 6 .2 -5 9 .5 -3 .5 -4 .4 N ew Y ork _______ N orth Carolina. . . North Dakota....... O h io ...................... Oklahoma............... 856 96 170 464 245 97,279 1,748 1,209 33,814 5,968 + 1 .1 2,976,700 -2 .5 36,737 -.7 28,523 + .4 873,209 + .7 133,650 + 1 .8 - 2 .0 - 4 .5 -3 .0 -.2 255 33 21 144 58 30,719 1,225 364 8,281 1,495 + .1 + 3 .6 + 2 .8 + .3 + 2 .4 469,482 10,562 3,439 98,271 16,103 + 1 .7 + 1 .4 -2 .6 + 1 .5 + .9 Oregon................... Pennsylvania........ Rhode Island........ South Carolina___ South Dakota........ 183 809 42 70 129 5, 531 54,406 3,301 1,599 1,047 -.4 137,269 + . 4 1,471,087 + 1 .2 94, 594 + 4 .3 32,823 + 2 .1 25,158 - 2 .1 -l.S + .9 -2 .6 + .1 60 168 14 11 19 1,281 9,091 325 281 302 + 1 .5 -1 .0 -1 .8 -.7 -1 .6 15,470 110,987 3,865 2,327 3,649 + .1 + .2 -.7 + 2 .5 - 1 .9 Tennessee............... Texas...... ................ Utah........................ Verm ont_________ Virginia................... 245 184 69 122 179 4,482 6,750 1,906 1,109 5,894 + 1 .2 11.5 + 2 .8 + 5 .1 + (2 ) 100,044 177,866 38,428 26,976 141,201 -.7 - 2.8 + 1 .0 + 5 .4 -2 .4 35 45 12 22 31 2,003 8,615 467 524 1,989 + 3 .6 -1 .5 (1 ) 0 -8 .2 + 8 .1 16,688 45,281 5,730 5,105 20,143 + .4 -.7 -.2 -9 .6 + 3 .8 Washington........... W est Virginia____ W isconsin............... W yom ing............... 196 120 “ 41 48 9,658 5,996 10,685 452 + .8 -4 .4 -1 .6 + .7 257,325 150,067 800,249 10,443 -.5 -4 .7 - 8.8 -.1 82 37 2,464 1,121 1,268 117 -1 .9 + 1 .5 - 1.5 - 2 .5 28,313 11,856 (“ ) 1,519 -.6 + 1 .4 2 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. 1 N o change. 0 1 Includes steam railroads. 1 1 Includes railways and express. 8 1 Includes restaurants. 3 1 N ot available. 4 12 55 1345 10 30 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued [Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y cooperating State organizations] Dyeing and cleaning Laundries State ... N um ber of estab lish ments N um Amount Per of pay roll Per ber on payroll cent of (1 week) cent of N ov. 15, change N ov. 15, change 1933 1933 Alabama Arizona__________ Arkansas................. California________ Colorado................. 18 11 12 U 64. 34 990 378 316 4,598 1,328 —2.8 —.8 -1 1 .7 + (2 ) -1 .0 $8,699 5,180 2,812 81,800 16,903 -0 .5 + 3 .2 - 15.2 —.1 + .2 Connecticut........... Delaware_________ Dist. of Columbia. Florida.................... Georgia................. - 46 4 14 21 30 1,762 297 2,150 971 2 326 , - 1 .9 -4 .5 -2 .3 + 1 .1 -2 .8 27,329 4,990 33,428 8,955 23,309 -1 .8 - 1 .9 -.3 + 4 .9 -4 .7 Tdaho . - -Illinois______ ____ Indiana................... Iow a........................ Kansas___________ 19 1 25 5 46 33 “ 41 361 1,502 2,003 1,185 868 + .6 -8 .2 -3 .6 -2 .2 —5.4 5,453 20, 799 26,200 15,785 10,906 + .7 -5 .0 -2 .3 -2 .2 —6.8 Kentucky............... Louisiana............... M aine___________ Maryland............... Massachusetts___ 33 7 23 28 114 1,384 447 513 1,752 8,848 -2 .2 -5 .5 -6 .7 -4 -4 -.8 16,441 4,514 7, 250 27,062 61,447 -1 .2 -4 .6 - 8 .8 -1 .9 “ .4 M ichigan................ M innesota.............. Mississippi_______ Missouri................. M ontana................. 56 49 11 53 17 2,725 1, 757 399 2,407 412 -.8 - 3 .1 - 3 .4 -2 3 .5 - 2 .1 36,833 25,621 3,597 32,663 6,904 - 1 .5 -4 .4 —5.4 -2 0 .8 -3 .6 Nebraska........ ....... N evada__________ New Hampshire. _ N ew Jersey............ N ew M exico_____ 12 4 15 26 6 669 50 266 3,004 216 + 1 .7 -2 .0 -5 .0 -5 .0 + 1 .4 8,902 922 3,982 58,459 3,023 N ew Y ork_______ N orth Carolina___ N orth Dakota____ Ohio........................ Oklahoma.............. 71 13 11 75 16 6,947 643 230 3,824 745 -2 .9 -1 .4 -.4 - 2 .3 -3 .4 Oregon.................... Pennsylvania........ Rhode Island____ South Carolina___ South Dakota____ 9 38 22 10 8 337 2,740 1,106 520 192 Tennessee............... T e x a s .................... Utah........................ Verm ont................. Virginia.................. 15 24 9 9 17 Washington______ West Virginia____ Wisconsin________ W yom ing, ............. 16 22 1 28 5 8 3 42 -6 .7 $468 -2 3 .9 11 163 -5 .2 2 , 798 -8 .6 9 216 - 6 .1 4,321 -7 .0 5 9 4 116 98 91 —12.1 + 5 .4 - 7 .1 2 , 139 1,427 1,055 - 7 .1 +• 1 -6 .2 10 6 143 232 -2 .7 -9 .4 2,168 3,651 -9 .7 -6 .2 5 4 239 76 - 4 .8 -3 .8 3,269 848 -9 .4 -1 2 .6 10 80 181 1,984 + 1.1 - 4 .1 8,028 84,820 -1 .4 + 1 .0 13 14 377 489 -9 .6 - 9 .1 7,251 8,007 -8 .6 -1 1 .4 11 3 362 20 -1 1 .5 - 9 .1 6,006 444 -1 5 .7 -4 .5 + 1 .6 —3.6 —3.4 - 5 .3 —1.5 4 98 -1 0 .1 1,778 -7 .5 7 210 -.5 5,172 -3 .3 120,881 6,892 3,445 55,989 9,066 -.7 -.1 -1 .2 -2 .5 - 4 .8 14 4 502 65 -8 .2 -1 9 .8 9,528 822 - 8 .8 -1 7 .3 39 7 1,552 171 -5 .4 -1 3 .6 27,272 2,349 - 9 .0 -1 3 .4 -1 .7 -.5 -.9 -6 .5 —1.5 4,804 41,603 18.404 5,046 2 , 457 -4 .0 -.7 - 1 .3 - 4 .0 —1.2 4 16 5 60 946 314 -6 .2 -1 1 .1 -9 .8 1,114 16, 716 5, 707 -7 .5 -1 8 .3 -1 2 .2 1,299 1,112 579 137 998 - 5 .1 -4 .7 (10) + .7 -7 .5 11,686 12,113 8,408 1,722 11,018 -5 .2 -3 .8 + .6 —5.4 -6 .9 4 15 7 52 466 84 -3 .7 - 5 .1 -1 .2 646 7,209 1,544 -1 4 .3 -7 .6 - 2 .1 20 316 - 3 .1 4,463 -5 .4 605 734 989 140 -2 .4 -.9 -5 .7 -.7 10,300 9,145 12,016 2 186 , -3 .0 -1 .3 -6 .8 + .8 9 7 80 175 -5 .9 -.6 1,319 2 , 425 -1 3 .8 -2 .6 2 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. 1 N o change. 0 w Includes dyeing and cleaning. N um N um A mount Per of pay roll Per ber of ber on estab pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of lish Nov. 15, change N ov. 15, change ments 1933 1933 31 C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued [Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y cooperating State organizations] Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate State Number Amount of Number of estab on pay roll Percent of pay roll (1 Percent of week) N ov. lish N ov. 15, change change ments 15, 1933 1933 A la b a m a .., _____________________ __________ Arizona_____________________ ________________ Arkansas____ ____________ __________________ California_________ __________________________ Colorado_____________________________________ 18 28 19 1,134 31 472 201 242 23,375 1,088 (10) -1 .5 (10) -.7 -.6 $13,448 5,299 5,906 762,840 39,626 + 0 .4 - 4 .8 -.1 -.4 + 4 .8 Connecticut____________ _____________________ Delaware_____ _____ _________________________ District of Columbia_________________________ F lorida.__________ ___________________________ Georgia__________________________ ___________ 59 15 41 20 31 1,847 562 1,347 584 1,120 + .2 -.5 +. 9 + 1 .0 + 1 .3 65,275 19,371 47,550 17,620 33,350 + 1 .9 -.9 -.6 -.4 + 2 .7 Idaho_____________________________________ ... Illinois______ ____ ___________________________ Indiana-____ _________________________________ Iow a...................................... ................................. Kansas____________ _____ _____ ______________ 16 94 43 17 32 150 10,842 1,492 983 798 + 8 .7 + .4 + .5 3 3,928 375,400 47,834 31, 215 24,862 +13.3 + 1 .9 -.1 -.9 - .5 K entucky__________________ _____ _ _______ Louisiana—. . ________ _____ _____________ ____ M aine......................... ................ .............................. M aryland_____ _____ ____ ___________________ Massachusetts______________ ____ __________ 20 9 15 24 1 273 6 709 368 247 857 7,336 -.7 -.8 -.4 + .1 -■ 4 25,408 13,512 6,472 31,287 215,606 -.6 -.1 -.2 -1 .2 -(2 ) M ichigan________________ _______ _______ ____ Minnesota_____________________________ _____ Mississippi________________ _____________ ____ Missouri____________ ________________ ____ _ M ontana_________ _________ ______ __________ 93 53 17 87 21 4,327 4,611 197 4,758 244 +. 6 + 10.0 + 1 .0 +• 1 (10) 133,908 127,929 4,364 139,662 6,879 +09 +25.5 + 1 .0 +. 1 + .2 Nebraska............................. ................... ............... Nevada................ N ew Hampshire________________ _____ ________ New Jersey______ __________ _________________ N ew M exico___ ____ ____________________ _____ 17 501 —. 8 17,246 -1 .0 39 121 15 464 12,601 78 - 1 .3 + .5 - 1 .3 11,041 361,992 2,286 -1 .9 + 2 .6 + .3 New Y o r k , . _____________ ______________ ____ North Carolina ................................. ................. . North Dakota______________ _______ _________ Ohio____________________________ ____ _______ Oklahoma____________________________________ 726 27 38 282 24 53,369 292 275 7,985 611 -.6 (10) + .4 -.2 + 1 .5 1,862,628 7,018 6,567 261,536 17,837 + 1 .0 -.7 -.3 + .8 -.4 Oregon........................ ..................... ......................... Pennsylvania_____ ___________________________ Rhode Island________ _______________________ South Carolina______ ____________ ___________ South Dakota______ _________________________ 25 805 31 9 31 1,180 28, 959 1,067 100 236 +. 3 + (2 ) + 2 .2 + 2 .0 -1 .7 34,737 746,582 44,863 2,899 5,935 - 9 .3 +. 6 + 7 .6 + 1 .6 -1 .3 Tennessee.. ........................................ ................... Texas__________ __________ ______ ___________ U tah_____ ______________________ _________ _ Verm ont________ _______ ____________________ Virginia____ _____ _________ ____________ ____ 36 27 16 28 36 1,158 1,479 471 226 1,378 + .8 + 1 .1 -.2 -.9 + .4 39,980 42,192 16,323 6,469 44,253 + 2 .2 + 2 .6 —1.2 -.3 -.4 W ashington...._____ ___ ______ ______________ West Virginia...... ............ ................................... ... W isconsin_____________ _______ ______________ W yom ing.................................................................. 35 44 17 12 1,355 603 916 114 + 5 - 1 .0 -.3 -.9 41,986 17,507 30*889 3,461 + 1 .3 -.1 -.7 - 2 .3 2 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. N o change. u Includes banks and trust companies, insurance companies, and agencies. 32 Employment and Pay Rolls in November 1933 in Cities of Over 500,000 Population I N THE following table are presented the fluctuations in employ ment and pay-roll totals in November 1933 as compared with Octo ber 1933 in 13 cities of the United States having a population of 500,000 or over. These changes are computed from reports received from identical establishments in each of the months considered. In addition to including reports received from establishments in the several industrial groups regularly covered in the Bureau's survey, excluding building construction, reports have also been secured from other establishments in these cities for inclusion in these totals. Information concerning employment in building construction is not available for all cities at this time and therefore has not been included. F L U C T U A T IO N S IN E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O LLS IN N O V E M B E R 1933, AS C O M P A R E D W IT H O C T O B E R 1933 Cities N ew York C ity _________ Chicago, 111....... .......... ....... Philadelphia, P a .......... . Detroit, M ich ___________ Los Angeles, Calif_______ Cleveland, Ohio_________ St. Louis, M o _______ _ Baltimore, M d ................... Boston, Mass-----------------Pittsburgh, P a__________ San Francisco, Calif_____ Buffalo, N .Y .... .......... . Milwaukee, W is_________ Number of establish ments reporting in both months 5,260 1,821 820 543 816 1,088 511 575 3,655 403 1,126 439 451 Number on pay roll October 1933 344,495 239,125 149,543 165,882 77,928 97,256 70,147 56,035 99,371 56,280 50,373 43,235 48,015 Per cent of change November 1933 343,559 232,334 147,332 153,393 76,464 94.631 67,180 54,499 97.632 55,850 49,017 42,238 47,014 -0 .3 -2 .8 -1 .5 -7 .5 -1 .9 -2 .7 -4 .2 -2 .7 - 1 .8 -.8 - 2 .7 -2 .3 - 2 .1 Amount of pay roll (1 week) October 1933 $8,975,266 5,578,196 3,355,169 3,668,890 1,873, 223 2,000,984 1,440, 210 1,123, 229 2,377,684 1,226,302 1,213,069 937, 505 964, 579 Per cent of change Novem ber 1933 $8,975,711 5,390,684 3, 260,509 3, 305,915 1,808, 264 1,904,321 1,362,016 1,078,045 2,348,833 1,182,463 1,177,841 922,809 929,623 +0) -3 .4 -2 .8 - 9 .9 - 3 .5 -4 .8 -5 .4 -4 .0 -1 .2 -3 .6 -2 .9 -1 .6 -3 .6 i Less than one tenth of 1 percent. Employment in the Executive Civil Service of the United States, November 1933 HE United States Government had 588,035 employees on its pay rolls during the month of November. This is an increase of 16,973 as compared with November 1932. Comparing November 1933 with October 1933, there was an increase of 10,865 employees or 1.9 percent. This data does not include the legislative, judicial, or Army and Navy services. The information shown in table 1 was compiled by the various departments and offices of the United States Government and sent to the United States Civil Service Commission where it was assembled. The figures were tabulated by the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics and are published here in compliance with the direction of Congress. T 33 Table 1 shows the number of Federal employees inside the District of Columbia, the number of Federal employees outside of the District of Columbia, and the total number of such employees for the entire Federal service. Approximately 12 percent of the total workers employed by the United States Government work in the city of Washington. T able 1.—E M P L O Y E E S IN T H E E X E C U T IV E C IV IL S E R V IC E OF T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S N O V E M B E R 1932, O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933 District of Columbia Outside the District Entire service Perma Tem Total nent porary 1 Perma Tem porary i Total nent Perma Tem nent porary i Total Item Num ber of employees: 64,342 Novem ber 1932_______ 2,046 66,388 468,620 36,054 504,674 October 1933_____ ____ 64,668 6,386 71,054 454,056 52,060 506,116 65,830 Novem ber 1933........... 7,301 73,131 -459,965 54,939 514,904 Gain or loss: N ovem ber 1932-November 1933...... ......... +1,488 +5,255 +6,743 -8 ,6 5 5 +18,885 +10, 230 October 1933-November 1933....................... +1,162 +915 +2,077 +5,909 +2,879 +8,788 Percent of change: Novem ber 1932-No+ 2 .0 vember 1933........ ....... + 2 .3 +256.8 + 10.2 -1 .8 +49.6 October 1933-November 1933....................... + 2 .9 + 1 .3 + 5 .5 + 1 .8 +14.3 + 1 .7 Labor turnover Novem ber 1933: 10,121 20,096 30, 217 A dditions____________ 2,324 1,466 3,790 4, 212 17,217 21,429 1,162 551 1,713 Separations.................... 0.92 32.18 4.20 8.05 2.38 Turnover rate per 100- _ 1.78 532,962 518, 724 525,795 38,100 571,062 58,446 577,170 62, 240 588,035 -7 ,1 6 7 +24,140 +16,973 +7,071 + 3, 794 +10,865 - 1 .3 +63.4 + 3 .0 + 1 .4 + 6 .5 + 1 .9 12,445 5,374 1.03 21,562 17,768 29.45 34,007 23,142 3.97 1 N ot including field employees of the Post Office Department. Comparing November 1933 with October 1933, there was an in crease of 2,077 or 2.9 percent in the number of employees in the District of Columbia. The number of permanent employees increased 1.8 percent, while temporary employees increasd 14.3 percent in number. Comparing November 1933 with November 1932, there was an increase of 2.3 per cent in the number of permanent employees, but an increase of 256.8 percent in the number of temporary employees. The large addition to the number of temporary employees as compared with the same month of the previous year is caused by the creation of the emergency Government units, such as the Public Works Adminis tration, the National Recovery Administration, and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, etc. The total number of employees increased 10.2 percent. Outside the District of Columbia, the number of permanent employees decreased 1.8 percent and the number of temporary employees increased 49.6 percent, comparing November 1933 with November 1932. Comparing November 1933 with October 1933 there was an increase of 1.3 percent in the number of permanent employees, an increase of 5.5 percent in the number of temporary employees, making a net 34 increase of 1.7 percent in total Federal employment outside of the District of Columbia. The total Government pay rolls for the Executive Civil Service for the month of October was $75,207,443. November pay rolls totaled $77,309,800. Employment on Class I Steam Railroads in the United States EPORTS of the Interstate Commerce Commission for class I railroads show that the number of employees (exclusive of executives and officials) decreased from 1,012,755 on October 15, 1933, to 985,428 on November 15,1933, or —2.7 percent. Data are not yet available concerning total compensation of employees for November 1933. The latest pay-roll information available shows an increase from $118,777,553 in September to $121,981,119 in October, or + 2.7 percent. The monthly trend of employment from January 1923 to November 1933 on class I railroads— that is, all roads having operating revenues of $1,000,000 or over— is shown by index numbers published in the following table. These index numbers are constructed from monthly reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, using the 12-month average for 1926 as 100. R T able 1.—IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T ON CLASS I S T E A M R AIL R O A D S IN U N IT E D S T A T E S , J A N U A R Y 1923 T O N O V E M B E R 1933 THE [12-month average, 1926—100] M onth 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 January_____ ____ ____ February-------------------M arch............................. A pril__________ ______ M a y ................ ................ J u n e ..:............................ J u ly ..------------------------A u g u s t ...------------------September------ -----------October........................... Novem ber...................... Decem ber....................... 98.3 98.6 100.5 102.0 105.0 107.1 108.2 109.4 107.8 107.3 105.2 99.4 96.6 97.0 97.4 98.9 99.2 98.0 98.1 99.0 99.7 100.8 99.0 96.0 95.6 95.4 95.2 96.6 97.8 98.6 99.4 99.7 99.9 100.7 99.1 97.1 95.8 96.0 96.7 98.9 100.2 101.6 102.9 102.7 102.8 103.4 101.2 98.2 95.5 95.3 95.8 97.4 99.4 100.9 101.0 99.5 99.1 98.9 95.7 91.9 89.3 89.0 89.9 91.7 94.5 95.9 95.6 95.7 95.3 95.3 92.9 89.7 88.2 88.9 90.1 92.2 94.9 96.1 96.6 97.4 96.8 96.9 93.0 88.8 86.3 85.4 85.5 87.0 88.6 86.5 84.7 83.7 82.2 80.4 77.0 74.9 73.3 72.7 72.9 73.5 73.9 72.8 72.4 71.2 69.3 67.7 64.5 62.6. 61.2 60.3 60.5 60.0 59.7 57.8 56.4 55.0 55.8 57.0 55.9 54.8 53.0 52.7 51.5 51.8 52.5 53.6 55.4 56.8 57.7 57.5 55.9 Average................ 104.1 98.3 97.9 100.0 97.5 92.9 93.3 83.5 70.6 | 57.9 i 54.4 1 Average for 11 months. 1933 35 Wage-Rate Changes in American Industries Manufacturing Industries HE following table presents information concerning wage-rate adjustments occurring between October 15 and November 15, 1933, as shown by reports received from manufacturing establish ments supplying employment data to this Bureau. Increases in wage rates averaging 13.8 percent and affecting 42,657 employees were reported by 247 of the 18,047 manufacturing establish ments surveyed in November. Eight establishments in the iron and steel industry reported wage-rate increases averaging 11.4 percent and affecting approximately 7,000 employees and a similar number of employees in 12 establishments in the dyeing and finishing industry also received increases in wage rates averaging 26.3 percent. The increases in rates in this last-named industry were due largely to adjustment of rates following the settlement of a strike. Twenty-five establishments in the paper and pulp industry reported increases in rates averaging 11.1 percent and affecting 6,492 workers. Increases affecting 2,870 employees were reported by 7 establishments in the beet-sugar industry. Approximately 2,000 employees in 4 establish ments in the automobile industry and a similar number in 14 establish ments in the foundry industry also received wage-rate increases. Eleven establishments in the silk industry reported increases in wage rates affecting 1,650 employees and the car-building and stampedware industries each reported slightly more than 1,000 employees affected by wage-rate increases. Of the 18,047 manufacturing establishments included in the Novem ber survey, 17,785, establisments, or 98.5 percent of the total, reported no change in wage rates over the month interval. The 3,085,568 employees not affected by changes in wage rates constituted 98.6 per cent of the total number of employees covered by the November trend-of-employment survey of manufacturing industries. Fifteen manufacturing establishments in nine industries reported wage-rate decreases, affecting 683 employees between October and November. T 36 T able 1 .—W A G E -R A T E C H A N G E S IN M AN UFACTU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S D U R IN G M O N T H E N D IN G N O V . 15, 1933 Industry Estab lish ments report ing N um ber of establish ments reporting— Total number of em ployees All manufacturing industries. — 18,047 3,128,908 Percent of total______ 100.0 100.0 Food and kindred products: Baking.................................. Beverages.............................. Butter.......................... .......... Confectionery. .................... Flour__________ __________ Ice cream_________________ Slaughtering and meat packing............................... Sugar, beet________________ Sugar refining, cane_______ 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.. . W oolen and worsted goods..................... ....... Wearing apparel: Clothing, men’s_______ Clothing, wom en’s____ Corsets and allied gar ments____ __________ M en ’s furnishings_____ M illinery.......... .............. Shirts and collars______ Iron and steel and their prod ucts, not including machin ery: Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets.......... ........................ Cast-iron pipe........... ............ Cutlery (not including sil ver and plated cutlery) and edge tools.................... Forgings, iron and steel___ Hardware........... .................... Iron and s te e l....................... Plumbers’ supplies________ Steam and hot-water heat ing apparatus and steam fittings................................. Stoves________ ____________ Structural and ornamental metal work....... .................. T in cans and other tinware. Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and s a w s ).................... . W irework_________________ Machinery, not including transportation equipment: Agricultural im plem ents.. . Cash registers, adding ma chines, and calculating machines_______________ Electrical machinery, ap paratus, and supplies____ Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels_______ Foundry and machineshop products__________ Machine tools.................... . Radios and phonographs... Textile machinery and p a rts..____ _____________ Typewriters and supplies. _ 17,785 98.5 247 1.4 No wagerate changes Wagerate in creases 15 3,085,568 98.6 0.1 42,657 1.4 69,626 22,470 4, 638 41,837 16,564 8,891 Wagerate de creases 16 79 42 778 62 114 2,870 1,006 385 273 303 395 315 69,650 22,549 4,680 42, 615 16, 626 8,891 1,004 382 272 221 63 12 99,973 24, 739 218 56 12 99,859 21,869 26 668 113 16, 765 286,295 10,318 26 666 109 149 31 441 248 39,698 5,492 110,170 51,891 137 31 440 237 32,498 5,492 109,948 50,241 236 64,610 236 64, 610 401 574 66,322 28,878 400 565 66, 252 28, 640 75 133 122 4,749 7, 723 7,334 17, 594 28 74 133 122 4,749 7, 708 7,334 17, 594 79 45 13,549 6,454 75 45 13,464 6,454 132 66 88 205 70 10, 675 7,848 26, 260 238,818 8,306 125 65 82 197 69 10,485 7, 714 25,432 231,480 97 154 16,851 22, 779 96 152 16,746 22,614 105 115 196 61 16, 295 10,107 195 53 16,270 25 1,144 122 71 8,619 7,515 117 68 8,449 7,481 170 34 78 9, 562 77 9,482 683 0) 16, 765 285,670 10,129 1 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. No W age- Wagerate rate wagein de rate changes creases creases Num ber of employees having— 315 7,200 1, 650 155 190 134 7,338 43 32 15, 541 32 15, 541 289 112,654 287 111, 697 88 22,093 86 22,089 4 018 143 41 110,675 16,454 40,978 1,004 138 40 108, 764 16,101 40,970 1,911 353 51 12 10,235 12, 491 51 12 10, 235 12, 491 957 50 37 T able 1.—W A G E -R A T E C H A N G E S IN M A N U FACTU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S D U R IN G M O N T H E N D IN G N O V . 15, 1933—Continued Industry 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 refin in g copper, lead, and zinc___ Stamped and enameled ware________ _______ ___ Transportation equipment: Aircraft................................ . Automobiles______________ Cars, electric- and steamrailroad________ _______ _ Locom otives......................... Shipbuilding......................... Railroad repair shops: Electric railroad.................. . Steam railroad...................... Lumber and allied products: Furniture............................... Lumber: M illw ork........................ S aw m ills.-..................... Turpentine and rosin_____ Stone, clay, and glass products: Brick, tile, and terra cotta— Cement______ ________......... Glass______________________ Marble, granite, slate, and other products................... Pottery_____ _____________ Leather and its manufactures: Boots and shoes.................... Leather................................... Paper and printing: Boxes, paper......................... Paper and p ulp .................... Printing and publishing: Book and jo b _ _ ............. Newspapers and peri odicals__________ ____ Chemicals and allied products: C hem icals-______ ________ Cottonseed—oil, cake, and m eal____________________ Druggists’ preparations___ Explosives_________ _______ Fertilizers............................... Paints and varnishes______ Petroleum refining________ R ayon and allied products. Soap___ __________________ Rubber products: Rubber boots and shoes___ Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes_____ ________ Rubber tires and inner tubes.............. ..................... T obacco manufactures: Chewing and smoking to bacco and snuff_________ Cigars and cigarettes______ Estab lish ments report ing Num ber of establish ments reporting— Total number of em ployees WageNo rate wagerate changes Wagerate de- N um ber of employees having— No wagerate changes Wagerate in- 24 6,515 24 208 37,348 204 36, 118 50 56 9, 518 7,571 3,282 9,359 26 113 50 55 9, 7, 3, 9, 40 13,819 40 13, 87 16,339 79 15, 27 226 7,756 181,809 27 222 7, 179, 51 10 100 8,628 2,783 27,829 43 10 7, 2, 27, 1,097 374 538 19, 73, 452 538 19,710 73,864 Wagerate de- 331 "7 7 1,052 1,959 22 55,296 465 55,017 279 485 595 19 19, 786 76,878 1,683 477 595 19 19, 76, 1, 153 655 113 180 18,880 10,071 47,509 647 113 180 18, 10, 47, 218 117 5,140 18,541 218 114 5, 18, 317 101,767 30,614 337 150 101, 30, 21 218 326 436 26,163 103,373 411 747 46,047 435 59,105 102 24,934 104 55 31 172 349 147 23 102 5,577 8,798 4,528 8,709 16,226 57,173 34,678 15,582 26,163 96,881 1,492 738 45, 791 238 434 065 40 24, 824 110 364 798 528 555 736 173 678 261 87 154 490 i, 457 390 101 55 31 165 345 147 23 9,847 101 26,186 100 53,919 30 199 9, 677 44,822 14 25 321 26,177 53,919 196 9, 677 44, 601 139 18 126 38 Nonmanufacturing Industries D a t a concerning wage-rate changes occurring between October 15 and November 15, 1933, reported by cooperating establishments in 15 nonmanufacturing industries are presented in the following table. No changes in wage rates were reported in the anthracite-mining or telephone and telegraph industries. Increases were reported in each of the remaining 13 industries and decreases were reported in 4 industries over the month interval. Wage-rate increases averaging 18.1 percent and affecting 6,363 employees were reported in the bituminous-coal-mining industry and were due to some extent to the settlement of strikes in Pennsylvania. Increases averaging 4.9 per cent and affecting 2,666 employees in electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance were due largely to the adoption of the N.R.A. motor-bus industry code. Increases were reported in the retail-trade industry averaging 12.1 percent and affecting 1,472 employees. The increases or decreases in rates in the remaining industries were not of especial significance. T able 3 - W A G E - R A T E C H A N G E S IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S D U R IN G M O N T H E N D IN G N O V . 15, 1933 Number of establish ments reporting— Industrial group Anthracite m ining_____ ______ Percent of total___________ Bituminous-coal m ining______ Percent of total___________ Metalliferous mining__________ Percent of total __................ Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.................................... . Percent of total___________ Crude-petroleum producing___ Percent of total___________ Telephone and telegraph______ Percent of total___________ Power and light_______________ Percent of total___________ Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and mainten ance.............. ............................. Percent of total___________ Wholesale trade.. ____ ________ Percent of total___________ Retail trade___ _______________ Percent of total..................... H otels___________ ________ ___ Percent of total.............. ...... Canning and preserving_______ Percent of total. ........... ...... L aundries............................. ...... Percent of total___________ Dyeing and cleaning................. Percent of t o ta l................... Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate______________ Percent of total___________ Estab lish ments report ing Total number of em ployees 160 100.0 1,509 294 100.0 84,729 100.0 227,883 100.0 27,784 100.0 1,185 100.0 264 100.0 8, 234 100.0 3,188 100.0 160 46 3.0 4 1.4 34,303 100.0 28,610 100.0 247,820 100.0 209,433 100.0 1,178 99.4 256 97.0 8,234 7 .6 8 3.0 524 100.0 3,019 100.0 18,666 100.0 2, 483 100.0 906 100.0 1,290 100.0 338 100.0 132, 975 100.0 86, 591 100.0 438,484 100.0 132, 647 100.0 56,145 100.0 66,086 100.0 10,187 100.0 515 98.3 3,004 99.5 18,652 99.9 2,475 99.7 901 99.4 1,284 99.5 336 99.4 4. 599 179,403 100.0 100.0 4, 567 99.3 100.0 Number wagerate changes Wagerate in creases 84,729 100.0 221,520 97.2 27, 288 98.2 Wagerate de- 100.0 1,463 97.0 290 1 Less than one tenth of 1 percent. N um Wageber rate wagein rate creases changes Number of employees hav ing— 6.363 2.8 496 1.8 34,132 99.5 28,083 98.2 247, 820 rate de creases 171 .5 527 1.8 100.0 100.0 3,175 209, 258 175 .1 130, 309 98.0 86,471 99.9 436,981 99.7 132,442 99.8 55,813 99.4 65,474 99.1 10,094 99.1 2, 666 179,167 99.9 212 .1 9 1.7 14 .5 8 0) 8 .3 3 .3 6 .5 2 0) 0) ( 2.0 118 .1 1,472 .3 205 .2 283 .5 612 .9 0) 0) ' 49 .1 24 0) 39 Employment Created by the Public-Works Fund I T IS the duty of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to publish each month the number of wage earners, the amount of pay rolls, and the number of man-hours worked by persons employed directly on construction projects financed from the $3,300,000,000 public-works fund. Allotments for construction projects awarded by the Public Works Administration are divided into two groups— first, Federal allot ments, and second, non-Federal allotments. Projects to be built from Federal allotments are financed wholly by public-works funds. They include such types of projects as postoffice buildings, naval vessels, river, harbor, and flood-control work, reclamation projects, and forestry work. They are supervised entirely by a branch of the Federal Government. After the money has been allotted to a Federal agency, they may elect either to do the work by force account (that is by labor hired directly) or to award a contract. Whenever a contract is awarded by one of the Federal agencies, the name and address of the contractor, the type of project, and the amount of the contract is at once furnished the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A copy of the Bureau’s form B.L.S. 742 is sent to each contractor asking for the number of wage earners employed, the amount of pay rolls, number of man-hours worked, and the total amount of expenditures for materials, for all pay-roll periods ending between the 15th of the past month and the 15th of the current month. The contractor is also asked to furnish the names and addresses of all subcontractors. The Bureau in turn mails questionnaires to each subcontractor. For work done by force account, the Federal agency must supply the Bureau with the same information as is obtained from the contractors. Information concerning non-Federal projects is obtained from the State engineers of the Public Works Administration. For the most part, non-Federal projects are confined to building construction, including housing projects; street and road paving; water and sewerage plants. The Public Works Administration makes an outright grant of 30 percent of the total cost of non-Federal work, and in many cases will loan the remaining 70 percent. Table 1 shows, by types of project, employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked during November 1933, on projects financed from public-works funds. 40 1 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O JE C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M P U B L IC -W O R K S FU N D S D U R IN G N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y T Y P E OF P R O J E C T T able Num ber of wage earners em ployed Amount of pay roll Average Number Average number Expendi earn of hours tures for of manings per w orked material hours hour in worked month Building construction_______________________ 16,707 Public roads_________________ ______________ 148,121 River, harbor, and flood control_____________ 36,978 Streets and roads 2................... ........................ . 7,415 Naval vessels_______________________________ 3,474 Reclam ation_____ _________ ________________ 4,037 Forestry____ _______ _____ _________________ 23,144 Water and sewerage_________________________ 4,793 7,182 Miscellaneous_______________ _____ _________ $676,901 8,862,864 1,942,747 307,003 332,510 222,052 1,152,526 208, 573 467,368 986,109 0) 3,547,483 564,473 437,720 397,249 2,038,061 330,489 808,732 $0. 686 0) .548 .544 .760 .559 .566 .631 .578 T otal..................................... ....................... 251,851 14,172,544 49,110,316 <.583 T yp e of project 59.0 0) 95.9 76.1 126.0 98.4 88.1 69.0 112.6 $1,163,818 0) 3, 203,058 432,079 4,126,398 362,739 272, 239 462,414 3 1,592,835 <87.8 «11,615,580 1 Data not available. 2 Other than those reported b y the Bureau of Public Roads. * Includes $900,377 worth of material which cannot be charged to any specific type of project. < Excluding data for Bureau of Public Roads. For the month ending November 15, 1933, there were 251,851 per sons directly employed on public-works construction jobs. This is more than double the number of workers that were employed on October 15, 1933. These figures exclude all clerical and super visory workers. Of the wage earners directly put to work on these construction projects, more than one half were working under the supervision of the Bureau of Public Roads. River, harbor, and flood-control work employed the next largest group (over 36,000). Forestry work gave employment to more than 23,000 and building construction to more than 16,000 persons. Monthly pay rolls for all persons employed on public works totaled over $14,000,000; nearly $9,000,000 of this amount going to workers on public roads. It was impossible to obtain the number of manhours worked by the employees of the Bureau of Public Roads. It is hoped that this data will be available for the month of December. Exclusive of workers hired by the United States Bureau of Public Roads there were 103,730 wage earners employed from public-works funds. The average hourly earnings for these men for the month ending November 15 was approximately 58 cents. Workers engaged in constructing naval vessels received the highest average hourly rate, 76 cents. This was followed in order by building-construction wage earners, 69 cents, and water and sewerage workers, 63 cents. The average hours worked during the month by workers exclusive of those on public roads totaled 87.8. Workers engaged on naval vessels put in 126 hours per month. Those engaged on miscellaneous projects, 112.6 per month. No other type of work afforded as much as 100 hours per month. 41 Expenditures for materials purchased by contractors and Govern- . ment agencies doing force-account work totaled more than $11,000,000 during this period. More than one third of this was expended by contractors engaged in the construction of naval vessels. Table 2 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked during November on projects financed from public-works funds, by geographic divisions. T 2 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O J E C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M P U B L IC -W O R K S F U N D S D U R IN G N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N S able Num ber of wage earners employed on— Geographic division Public roads New England__________ M iddle Atlantic________ East North Central____ West North Central___ South Atlantic. ............. . East South Central____ West South Central____ M ountain......................... Pacific...... ......................... Projects other than public roads 12,921 19,031 15, 686 39,386 14,692 5,918 16,971 17,421 6,095 4,741 6,329 8,399 15,038 8,916 13, 541 12,403 14,840 17, 353 Total continental United States.__ j 148,121 * 102, 702 Outside c o n t i n e n t a l 1,028 United States........ ....... 0) Grand total............ 148,121 103, 730 Amount of pay roll on— Public roads Projects other than public roads $800,269 1,153,370 926, 551 2, 343,600 642,792 243,427 748,447 1,447,921 556,487 $295,364 396,412 416, 785 642,926 558,837 820, 564 487, 790 652,368 866, 762 Number of manhours worked i Aver Aver age num age earn ber of Expendi tures for ings hours per w orked materials1 hour i in month 1 437,014 $0.676 583,261 .680 .617 675,132 1,191,191 .540 .609 918,040 1,531,081 .536 994,602 .490 .558 1,168,077 .691 1, 254,964 92.2 92.2 80.4 79.2 103.0 113.1 80.2 78.7 72.3 $265,232 777,293 1,003, 311 1,454,336 4,061,077 1,049, 721 1,121,185 209, 445 668,865 87.5 311,510,842 8,862,864 25,252,570 28,985,294 2.585 57,110 125,022 .457 121.6 104, 738 5,309, 680 9,110, 316 .583 87.8 11, 615, 580 (4 ) 8,862,864 1 Excluding data for public roads which are not available. 2 Including data for 1,142 wage earners which cannot be charged to any specific geographic division. 3 Including $900,377 worth of material which cannot be charged to any specific geographic division. 4 Data not available. More than 54,000 of the 251,851 wage earners paid from publicworks funds were at work in the West North Central division. This is over 20,000 more than were employed in any other geographic division. The New England and East South Central divisions each had less than 20,000 workers. Pay rolls in the West North Central division reached a total of approximately $3,000,000. In the Middle Atlantic and Mountain divisions the pay rolls were over $1,500,000. Pay rolls for projects other than public roads totaled over $5,000,000. Since data on man-hours were not available for public roads, the average earnings per hour as shown in the table are for projects other than public roads. The hourly average rate for the country as a whole was nearly 59 cents. The rate for the Pacific division was over 69 cents, or approximately 10 cents per hour more than for the country as a whole. Workers in the New England division, the Middle Atlantic division, the East North Central division, and the South Atlantic division also averaged over 60 cents per hour. 42 Material orders placed by contractors in the South Atlantic division amounted to more than those from any other division. Table 3 shows expenditures for materials during the month ending November 15 by types of materials. T able 3 .— M A T E R IA L S P U R C H A S E D D U R IN G M O N T H E N D IN G N O V . P U B L IC -W O R K S P R O JE C T S , B Y T Y P E OF M A T E R I A L 15, T yp e of material Aluminum manufactures________________________________________________________ _____ ____ Bolts, nuts, washers, etc__________________________________ ______________ __________________ Cast-iron pipe and fittings___ ________ ______ ______ _____________ _______ _________________ Cement______ ________________ ____________________________________________ _______________ Chem icals._______ ______________________ __________ _______ ________ ________ __________ Clay products_________________ __________ _____________ _____________________ ____________ Concrete products........ ............ - ______ __________________ ______ ___________________ ________ Cordage and twine............................................... ............................ ............................ ......................... Crushed stone________ _________________ _________________ ____________ ____________ _______ Electrical machinery and supplies___ ______________ ________________ __________ ___________ Engines and turbines................. ............................................. .................................. ............... ........... Explosives________ _____________________________ ____________ _______ _______ ______________ Foundry and machine-shop products, not elsewhere classified__________ _______ ____________ Hardware, miscellaneous____ ______ _________________________ _____________________________ Instruments, professional and scientific_________________ _____ _____ _______________________ Lighting equipment........................................... ........................................................... ............ ............ Lumber and timber products...................................................... .......................................................... Machine tools____ _________ _____________________ _______________________ ____ ____________ Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products..... .......... .............................................................. Minerals and earths, ground or otherwise treated............................................................................ Nonferrous-metal alloys; nonferrous-metal products, except aluminum, not elsewhere classi fied-________ ___________________________ _____ ___________________ ______ ________________ Paints and varnishes_______________ ______ ____ _____ __________ ______ ___________________ Paving materials and m i x t u r e s ______ _______ ______ _______ _________ _____________ ____ _ Planing-mill products__________________________________________________________ _____ _____ Plumbing supplies................................................................................. ................................. ............... Pumps and pumping equipm ent_______________ ________ _______ __________________________ Roofing, built-up and roll; asphalt shingles; roof coatings other than p a in t__________________ Sand and gravel.................................. ......................... .............. .......... .......... ............................. .......... Sheet-metal work_____ ____________________________________ _______ _______ ________________ Steam and hot-water heating apparatus____________ __________ _______ _______________ ____ Steel-works and rolling-mill products_________ _____ ____________________ ____ _____________ Structural and ornamental metalwork, not made in plants operated in connection with rolling mills___________________ ________________ ______ ________________________ ________________ Tools, other than machine tools______________________ ______________________________________ Wire, drawn from purchased rods__________________ ______ ______ _________________________ W ire work not elsewhere c la s s if ie d ____ ______ _____ _________ ______ _____________________ Other_______________________ _______________ ____ _______________________ _________________ Total______ ________________________________________________________________ ________ 1933, FOR A mount expended $11,185 10,883 333,731 366,384 13,162 152,717 644,544 11,559 23,074 1, 324, 010 441,105 62,975 133,086 77, 273 17,107 284,161 1, 684,150 331,646 403,924 24.879 72.879 30, 227 178,268 22,317 81,822 288,200 53,595 107, 453 312,840 841,320 1,019, 468 72, 612 81,063 288, 507 51,375 1, 762,079 11,615,580 More than $11,000,000 was expended for materials by contractors on public-works projects during the month ending November 15. More money was expended for lumber and timber products than for any other class of material during the month. Electrical machinery and supplies accounted for the next highest expenditure. It is estimated that the fabrication of the materials purchased dur ing this month will create approximately 34,000 man-months of labor. Civil Works Administration E a r l y in November an allotment of $400,000,000 was made to the Civil Works Administration to be expended in providing em ployment during the winter months. As can readily be seen, it takes quite some time for the types of projects included under the regular Public Works Administration to get under way. There are legal obstacles in many States that must be overcome, plans must be drawn, and even after work is 43 started considerable time must elapse before a great number of men can be employed on a given job. In order to bridge the gap between the awarding of a contract and the maximum employment on publicworks projects it was necessary to create the Civil Works Adminis tration. The duty of this agency is to put people to work on needed projects at once. That this has been accomplished can be seem by the following table. Employees from the civil-works rolls are engaged at the present time in tick and mosquito eradication, slum-clearance projects, road and street repair work, landscaping, etc. Table 4 shows the number of civil-works employees on the pay rolls on December 2, by geographic divisions. T able 4 .—C IV IL -W O R K S E M P L O Y E E S ON P A Y R O L L S D E C . 2, 1933 On pay rolls Geographic divisions Number Percent T otal_____________________________________________________________ ________ 49,539 208,089 313,023 118,234 291,481 94, 778 302,499 46,930 99, 394 3.3 13.7 20.5 7.8 19,1 6.2 19.8 3.1 6.5 1, 523,967 ______________ ________ _______________________ _________ N ew E n g la n d .,__ ___________________ ______________________ M iddle Atlantic___________ ____ __ East North C e n t r a l- ..______ ________ _____ ______________ ________ _____ _____ W est N orth Central______ ____ ________________ _ _________ _____ __________ South Atlantic____ _______________ ____ __________ ________ ___________ East South Central_________ ____ ___ ________ ______ _____ ____________ ________ W est South Central.. _ __ __ _ _____________ ______________ __________ _ M ountain___ _____ __________ _________ _______ _____ ______ _____ ______________ Pacific............ ................. _ _________________ _____ _______ ___ ____________ 100.0 The tentative quota of civil-works employees was set at 4,000,000. By December 2, two weeks after the allotment was made, more than 1,500,000 people had been hired. Some States were earlier than others in getting their projects under way. It is estimated that the entire quota will be employed before the end of December. Emergency Conservation Work Employees on the rolls of the Emergency Conservation Work are now paid by allotments made from public-works funds. Table 5 shows the employment and pay rolls in the Emergency Conservation Work during the months of October and November. T able 5.— E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN T H E E M E R G E N C Y W O R K , O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933 Num ber C O N S E R V A T IO N Pay rolls Group October N ovem ber October Enrolled personnel................................................................. Reserve oflBcers, line__________________________________ Reserve oflBcers, m edical........ ................ .............................. Supervisory and technical__________ ____ _____ ______ _ Carpenters and laborers________________ ____ _________ 239,859 3,298 1,074 13,488 2 22,812 285,322 7,490,799 3,494 676,031 1,085 } 13,099 1,605,140 26,059 2 1,761,828 T otal.............. ............. ............................ ..................... 280, 531 329,054 1 Data not available. 2 First report. 11,533,798 3 See notes for details. Novem ber 8,910,606 C) 1 1,558,781 2,400,304 3 12,869,691 44 Comparing November with October, there was an increase of approximately 50,000 persons engaged in Emergency Conservation Work. This increase in the most part occurred in the enrolled per sonnel, although there was a slight increase in reserve officers. The number of supervisory and technical workers decreased. Information concerning employment and pay roll in the Emer gency Conservation Work is collected by the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics from the War Department and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. The pay of the enrolled enlisted personnel is $30 per month, except that 5 percent of the personnel of each company are $45 a month and an additional 8 percent are paid $36 per month. The pay roll of this branch of the service is figured on that basis. The carpenters and laborers shown in the above table are con structing barracks to be used as winter quarters by the Civilian Con servation Corps. This construction work will be finished early in December. Employment on Public Roads HE following table shows the number of employees (excluding those paid from public-works fund) engaged in building and maintaining public roads, State and Federal, during the months of October and November, by geographic divisions. T T 6 .—N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S E N G A G E D IN T H E C O N S T R U C T IO N A N D M A IN T E N A N C E OF P U B L IC R O A D S , S T A T E A N D E E D E R A L , D U R IN G O C T O B E R A N D N O V E M B E R 1933, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV ISIO N S » able Federal Geographic division State Novem ber N ovem ber October em ployees Em ployees Pay roll (1 week) October em ployees E m ploy Pay roll ees (1 week) N ew E ngland................ ................................. M iddle Atlantic....... ........ ................ ........... East North Central................ ....................... West North Central................ ...................... South Atlantic................................................ East South Central...... .................................. West South Central........................................ M ountain................................................. ........ Pacific___________________________________ 2,640 5,103 10,357 5,482 7,040 6,266 7,897 7,211 4,876 1,769 3,441 6,631 2, 555 6,017 4,288 7,105 3.650 2,656 $24,221 58,722 87,317 36,347 53, 770 39,858 71,057 65,809 51, 549 16,103 45,815 53,210 32, 527 43,970 10,308 11,909 8,137 7,992 24,100 45,729 48,227 33,462 40,655 12,142 11,503 6,065 12,249 $496,913 902,732 647,429 414,750 332,193 136,834 188, 775 116, 701 258,248 T otal...................................................... Percent of change______________ _______ 56,872 38,112 -3 3 .0 488,650 229,971 234,132 + 1 .8 3,494,575 i Exclusive of employment furnished b y projects financed from public-works funds. During the month of November there were 38,112 men employed on Federal roads projects other than those financed from publicworks fund. This is a decrease of 33 percent. The reason for the decrease is that very few regular Federal-aid road contracts are now 45 being awarded. Most new work undertaken is financed from publicworks fund. For the most part the Federal employees as shown in this table are engaged on projects for which contracts were awarded previous to the creation of the Public Works Administration. As these contracts are finished, the number of employees will naturally decrease rapidly. There was an increase of over 50,000 in the number of employees engaged in public-roads work financed from P.W.A. funds. The num ber of people engaged on highway projects financed from State funds increased 1.8 percent comparing November with October. Data concerning employment were obtained for the first time for the month of October. For the week ending November 15, pay rolls for State work totaled $3,494,575, of which 70.1 percent was for main tenance and 29.9 percent for new road work. Pay rolls for Federal work totaled nearly $500,000. o
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