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Serial No. R. 648
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
SEPTEMBER 1937
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON
1937
CONTENTS
Page
Summary of employment reports for September 1937:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment.
Detailed reports for September 1937:
Industrial and business employment
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Public employment
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Tables
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
September 1937
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rol]s—summary, September
1937
TABLE 3.—Value of material orders placed on projects financed wholly or
partially from Federal funds and number of man-months of
labor created in final fabrication of materials purchased,
third quarter of 1937, second quarter of 1937, and third
quarter of 1936
TABLE 4.—-Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—-employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, September 1937
TABLE 5.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, June through August
1937
.
TABLE 6.—All manufacturing industries combined and the durable- and
nondurable-goods groups—indexes of employment and pay
rolls, January 1936 to September 1937
TABLE 7.—Selected nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of employment and pay rolls, January 1936 to September 1937
TABLE 8.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in August and
September 1937
TABLE 9.—Principal cities—comparison of employment and pay rolls in
identical establishments in August and September 1937
TABLE 10.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls in August and September 1937
TABLE 11.—Executive service of the Federal Government—monthly record
of employment from September 1936 to September 1937,
inclusive
TABLE 12.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
September 1937, by type of project
TABLE 13.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from July 1933 to September 1937, inclusive.
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TABLE 14.—Projects financed by The Works Program-—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, September 1937, by type of
project
TABLE 15.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, September 1937__TABLE 16.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
program in July 1935 to September 1937, inclusive
TABLE 17.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning
of the projects to September 1937, inclusive
TABLE 18.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls,
August and September 1937
TABLE 19.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, from
September 1936 to September 1937, inclusive
TABLE 20.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, September 1937, by type of project
TABLE 21.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from September 1936 to September 1937,
inclusive
TABLE 22.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked*
September 1937, by type of project
TABLE 23.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
from September 1936 to September 1937, inclusive
TABLE 24.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay roll disbursements, from September 1936 to September 1937, inclusive
TABLE 25.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, third quarter of 1937, by type
of material
TABLE 26.—Value of material orders placed on Federal professional, technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works Program,
third quarter of 1937, second quarter of 1937, and third
quarter of 1936
TABLE 27.—Rentals and services on projects operated by the Works Progress Administration from July 1935 to December 1936, and
first, second, and third quarters of 1937
TABLE 28.—Rentals and services on work projects of the National Youth
Administration from January 1936 to June 1937 and third
quarter of 1937
TABLE 29.—Value of public contracts awarded for materials from September 28, 1936, through December 1936, and first, second,
and third quarters of 1937
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Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR SEPTEMBER 1937
MORE THAN 190,000 additional workers found employment between August and September in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, primarily because of seasonal increases in wholesale and retail trade.
Aggregate weekly pay rolls, however, were approximately $6,200,000
lower than in the preceding month, due chiefly to the decrease in
factory wage disbursements, which had been adversely affected by
shut-downs for Labor Day and other holidays.
Comparisons with September 1936 showed a gain of more tlian
930,000 workers in these industries over the year interval, and an
increase of approximately $55,200,000 in weekly pay rolls.
Class I railroads again reported fewer employees on their pay rolls.
According to a preliminary tabulation by the Interstate Commerce
Commission they had 1,120,883 employees in September, exclusive
of executives, officials, and staff assistants, a decrease of 29,506 since
August.
Employment in the judicial and legislative services of the Federal
Government was slightly greater in September than in August.
There were small decreases in employment, on the other hand, in the
executive and military services. Employment on construction
projects financed by regular Federal appropriations registered a small
increase, while decreases occurred on projects financed by the Public
Works Administration, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Federal projects under The Works Program, and projects operated
by the Works Progress Administration. There was a decrease in the
employment level of the Civilian Conservation Corps, due to the end
of an enlistment period.
Industrial and Business Employment
Although there was a decline from August to September of about
18,000 workers in manufacturing and 8,000 in 6 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries surveyed, the gains in the remaining nonmanufacturing industries covered resulted in a net increase of more than
190,000 workers for manufacturing and nonmanufacturing combined.
The employment loss in manufacturing industries represented a
decrease of 0.2 percent over the month interval, while the drop of
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approximately $7,500,000 in weekly factory wages represented a
decline of 3.6 percent. The decrease was sharper in pay rolls than
in employment largely because of shut-downs for Labor Day. During
the 18-year period, 1919 to 1936, inclusive, for which data are available, factory employment has shown gains in September in 16 years
and factory pay rolls have shown increases in 11 years.
Despite the declines in September of this year, the September
factory employment index (102.1) has been exceeded, since November
1929, only in April, May, and August of this year, while the corresponding pay-roll index (100.1) was higher than for any month
from December 1929 through February 1937.
Gains in factory employment from August to September were
shown in 51 of the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed, and increased pay rolls were reported in 40 industries. Increased activity
reflecting seasonal expansion resulted in pronounced employment gains
in cottonseed oil, cake, and meal (122.4 percent), beet sugar (28.5
percent), confectionery (16.5 percent), fertilizer (15.6 percent),
canning and preserving (12.1 percent), and millinery (7.2 percent).
In the last four industries, gains from August to September have
generally been somewhat greater than they were this year. Other
industries in which substantial seasonal gains in employment were
shown were lighting equipment (7.2 percent), jewelry (5.3 percent),
women's clothing (4.1 percent), silverware and plated ware (4.2
percent), hardware (3.1 percent), clocks, watches, and time-recording
devices (2.7 percent), and radios and phonographs (2.4 percent).
The gains in jewelry and women's clothing were less than seasonal.
Employment in the agricultural implement industry increased 4.4
percent continuing the expansion which, with the exception of occasional seasonal recessions, has been shown in this industry since the
latter months of 1932. The September 1937 employment level for
this industry (147.2) stands above the level of all months from 1923
to date, with the exception of the first 7 months of 1929. In shipbuilding, there was a gain of 3.7 percent in employment. Among
the industries of major importance in which less pronounced gains
were shown were newspapers and periodicals, book and job printing,
machine tools, engines-turbines-tractors, glass, baking, knit goods,
and electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies. The increase
of 2.0 percent in machine tools is noteworthy, not only because the
industry may be considered a barometer for orders placed for powerdriven metal-cutting machinery, but also because, with two exceptions, consecutive gains have been shown each month since October
1934. The employment index for this industry has climbed from a
low of 33.4 in April 1933 to the September level of 157.6, this level
exceeding those of all months from 1923 to date, with the exception
of 11 months of 1929.
Seasonal slackening of operations accounted in large measure for the
decreases in employment in woolen and worsted goods (10.1 percent),
ice cream (8.5 percent), boots and shoes (4.6 percent), beverages (3.2
percent), and butter (2.8 percent). Temporary shut-downs for change
in models resulted in a decrease of 5.2 percent in the automobile industry. Other industries showing large declines were sugar refining
(12.7 percent), tin cans and other tinware (3.3 percent), fur-felt hats
(3.6 percent), electric- and steam-car building (5.7 percent), and castiron pipe (3.9 percent). The decreases in the two last-named industries resulted primarily from labor disputes. Other industries which
employ large numbers of workers and in which employment decreased
over the month interval were blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling
mills; foundries and machine shops; steam-railroad repair shops; sawmills; furniture; cotton goods; silk and rayon goods; and men's
clothing.
Among the 10 nonmanufacturing industries in which employment
gains were shown over the month interval, were a number in which
the expansion was of a seasonal nature. Approximately 173,000
additional workers found employment in the retail-trade establishments of the country between August and September, the gain of 5.1
percent reflecting a seasonal expansion to handle increased volume of
fall purchasing. The September 1937 employment index for retail
trade (90.6) stands above the September level of any year since 1930.
In addition to a gain of 10.5 percent in employment in the retail
general merchandising group (department, variety, and general merchandising stores and mail-order houses), retail apparel stores reported
a seasonal gain of 20.5 percent, and substantial increases were reported
by retail furniture, jewelry, and wood-coal-ice firms. Wholesaletrade establishments also expanded their working forces in September,
the seasonal increase of 1.4 percent in employment indicating the
reemployment of approximately 19,000 workers. Employment in
this industry in September reached the highest level registered since
October 1930. Among the more important lines of wholesale trade
in which gains were reported over the month interval were dry goods
and apparel, chemicals, drugs and allied products, furniture and housefurnishings, groceries, machinery equipment and supplies, metals and
minerals, petroleum and petroleum products, and paper and paper
products.
With the approach of colder weather, anthracite and bituminouscoal mines took on additional workers in September, anthracite mines
reporting a gain of 17.1 percent, or approximately 10,000 workers between August and September, and bituminous-coal mines, a gain of
2.1 percent, or 7,800 workers. Employment was also greater in metal
mines, the gain of 0.8 percent continuing the rise which has been evidenced each month since July 1935 with but two exceptions. Employ
ment in this industry in September has reached a level which is nearly
three times as great as the low point recorded in August 1932. Dyeing and cleaning plants reported a seasonal gain of 2.1 percent, or
1,000 workers, and year-round hotels also reported a seasonal rise,
1.5 percent, or 3,800 employees. Among the nonmanufacturing industries in which declines in employment were reported, the largest
decreases were 1.2 percent in crude-petroleum producing and 1.9 percent in brokerage. Employment in the private building-construction
industry declined 0.7 percent while laundries and quarries and nonmetallic mines reported seasonal losses of 0.5 percent and 0.4 percent,
respectively. Insurance companies reported a slight decrease (0.2
percent) in number of workers over the month interval.
TABLE 1.—Employment, Pay Rolls, and Earnings in All Manufacturing Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1937 (Preliminary Figures)
Employment
Industry
Index
September
1937
Percentage
change from—
August
1937
Index
SepSep- tember
tember 1937
1936
= 100)
102.1 -0.2
Class I steam railroads a.
63.4 -2.6
{1929=
100)
48.2 +17.1
80.5 +2.1
84.1
+.8
+1.2
+3.0
+33.2
-.4
-1.2
+5.1
54.7
78.3
80.1
98.5
+.3
+.2
+2.8
-.4
$24.92
-3. 4
+12.0
()
(1929=
100)
31.5 +15. 5
+9.4
77.7 +5.3
- . 9 +64.5
82.2
50.1 -5.8 +12.0
71.2
+.6 +17.9
18.99
24.37
31. 22
-1.4
+3.1
—1.7
+6.2
+23.5
22.86
33.41
-5.4
+1.8
+12.4
+12.1
+.7
+1.0
+8.6
93.1
+1.0
+18.1
31.81
+5.3
103.8
+1.2
+13.5
34.04
-2.2
+7.7
31.70
-2.5
+6.5
+3.0
+8.0
+11.1
+11.9
+11.8
30. 60
22. 36
19.37
-2.3
-2.0
-2.2
+5.0
+6.9
+6.3
+11.7
+12.7
+10.2
+10.2
+2.4
+4.3
+23.2
24.71 - 1 . 8
15. 00 +.8
16.84 - 1 . 3
20.61 +3.4
-.6
38.77
38.59 - 2 . 2
31.76 - 1 . 5
+7.0
+7.8
+5.4
+10.2
+3.8
+2.8
+1.2
71.6
+5.7
+4.6
+5.2
78.3
74.5
92.6
+3.6
+1.5
-.5
+2.1
+4.4
+4.6
+4.6
(5)
-1.4
+1.5
+6.3
70.7
76.1
84.4
72.8
-1.9
—.2
-.7
-10.9
+8.7
+.4
87.2
88.1
93.7
86.7
Percentage
Aver- change from—
age in
SepSep- tember AuSepAugust tember
gust tember 1937
1936
1937
1937
1936
+19.7
93.0 +1.4
90.6 +5.1
103.6 +10.5
73.7
Percentage
change from—•
(1923-25
= 100)
100.1 -3.6
+6.9
All manufacturing
industries
combined 3
Coal mining:
Anthracite.-.
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining
Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph..
Electric light and power
and manufactured gas...
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance.
Trade:
Wholesale
Retail
General merchandising.
Other than general
merchandising
Hotels (year-round)4
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Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
Brokerage
Insurance
Building construction
Average weekly earri-
Pay rolls
+1.7
+2.3
-1.9
+5.5
-2.5
-2.4
-2.2
+7.8
+16.0
aA Not available.
* Revised indexes—Adjusted to 1933 Census of
Cash payments only; the additional value of
Manufactures.
2
Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Com- board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
• Less than Ho of 1 percent.
mission.
A reduction in the number of workers on pay rolls was again reported by class I railroads. According to a preliminary tabulation by
the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1,120,883 workers were employed, exclusive of executives, officials, and staff assistants, in Sep
tember as against 1,150,389 in August, a decrease of 2.6 percent.
Pay-roll figures were not available for September at the time this report was prepared. For August, the wage payments totaled $169,379,107, while for July they amounted to $164,047,159, a gain of 3.3
percent over the month interval.
Hours and earnings.—Factory wage earners worked 37.4 hours per
week in September according to reports covering full- and part-time
workers combined. This represented a decline of 3.4 percent since
August. The average hourly earnings of these workers stood at the
same level as in August (65.8 cents) and average weekly earnings
($24.92) showed a decline of 3.4 percent over the month interval.
Compared with September of last year, average hours worked per
week were 3.6 percent lower in the current period, but average hourly
earnings were 15.9 percent higher, and average weekly earnings were
12.0 percent higher.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour data
are available, 5 showed gains over the month interval in average hours
worked per week and 6 showed increases in average hourly earnings.
Average weekly earnings were higher for 6 of the 16 nonmanufacturing
industries covered.
Table I presents a summary of employment and pay-roll indexes
and average weekly earnings in September 1937 for all manufacturing
industries combined, for selected nonmanufacturing industries, and
for class I railroads, with percentage changes over the month and year
intervals except in the few industries for which data are not available.
Public Employment
Employment on construction projects financed from Public Works
Administration funds was 167,000 in September, a decrease of 21,000
or 11.1 percent compared with August. Decreases occurred in the
number of workers employed on Federal and non-Federal projects
financed from funds provided by the National Industrial Recovery
Act and on projects financed from funds provided by the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935 and 1936. Pay-roll disbursements
for the month amounted to $14,309,000.
The number of workers employed on construction projects financed
from regular Federal appropriations totaled 207,000 in September.
This was an increase of more than 2,000 compared with August.
Increases in employment occurred on all types of projects with the
exception of forestry, public roads, streets and roads, and miscellaneous projects. For these four types of projects the level of employment was somewhat lower than in the preceding month. Pay-roll
disbursements totaling $21,668,000 were $2,096,000 greater than in
August.
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There was a decrease in the number of workers employed on
projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. During the month over 3,000 employees were working on this program.
Small increases on building construction and miscellaneous projects
were offset by a marked decrease in employment on water and sewerage
projects. Pay rolls on all types of projects totaled $448,000 for the
month, $137,000 less than in the preceding month.
The number of wage earners on projects financed by The Works
Program during September was 1,892,000, a decrease of 49,000 or 2.5
percent compared with August. Of this total, 193,000 were working
on Federal projects, 1,536,000 on projects operated by the Works
Progress Administration, and 163,000 on work projects of the National
Youth Administration and Student Aid. Pay-roll disbursements for
all projects totaled $95,110,000.
In the regular agencies of the Federal Government small increases
were reported in the judicial and legislative services. Decreases, on
the other hand, occurred in the executive and military services. Of
the 836,000 employees in the executive service in September, 112,000
were working in the District of Columbia and 724,000 outside the
District. Approximately 91.4 percent of the total number of employees in the executive service were paid from regular appropriations and
8.6 percent from emergency funds. The most pronounced increases
in the number of workers in the executive departments of the Federal
Government occurred in the War Department and the Tennessee
Valley Authority. Among the departments reporting decreases were
the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the
Department of Labor, and the Works Progress Administration.
Employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps reached the lowest
level of the year (289,000) in September. This was a decrease of more
than 38,000 compared with August and was due to the end of an
enlistment period. Decreases were registered for all groups of
workers. Pay rolls for all workers amounted to $14,943,000, a decrease of $1,437,000.
In September 194,000 were working on the construction and
maintenance of roads financed wholly from State funds, a gain of 5,000
compared with the preceding month. There was an increase of 7,000
in the number employed on maintenance work and a decrease of 2,000
on new construction. Of the total number employed, 13.8 percent
were engaged on new road construction and 86.2 percent on maintenance work. Pay rolls for the month totaled in excess of $12,843,000.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll statistics for
August and September is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, September 1937 !
[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class
Septemepte
berr
August
Pay rolls
Percentage
change September
August
Federal services:
- 0 . 8 $125,897,930 3 $126,541,673
836,173 3 843,082
Executive 2
1,904
+.2
1,908
504, 220
479,696
Judicial
5,233
+.8
5,273
1,215,658
1,209,429
Legislative
325,091
323,292
25,284,004
25,424,025
Military
Construction projects:
187,822 -11.1
166,958
14,309,249
15,426,466
Financed by P. W. A.«
4,065 -20.9
3,215
448,114
585,510
Financed by R. F. C.«
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Financed by regular Federal appro204,174
206,663
+1.2 21,667,700
priations
_
19,571,849
Federal projects under The Works Pro207,331
193,114
-6.9
11,500,978
12,004,981
gram...
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1,536,029 1,601,054
81,250,907
-4.1
Projects operated by W. P. A
82,861,644
National Youth Administration:
2,207,000
132,787
2,342,172
126,700
-4.6
Work projects
36,000
151,000
Student Aid
6 17
6 81
(
Relief work: Civilian Conservation
289,167
14,942,683
327,381 -11.7
3 16, 380,024
Corps
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* Includes data on projects financed wholly or
partially
from Federal funds.
2
Includes 108,171 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $13,625,065 for September; 109,204 employees
and pay-roll disbursements of $13,770,563 for August
covering force-account and supervisory and technical
employees
shown under other classifications.
3
Revised.
* Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from
E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds are included. These
data are not shown under The Works Program. In-
Percentage
change
-0.5
+5.1
+.5
-.6
-7.2
-23.5
+10.7
-4.2
-1.9
-5.8
cludes 114,803 wage earners and $9,309,180 pay roll for
September; 131,547 wage earners and $10,183,970 pay
roll for August covering P. W. A. projects financed
from
E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds.
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Includes 130 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $13,509 for September and 32 employees and
pay-roll disbursements of $2,409 for August on projects
financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
6
August employment and pay-roll figures on Student Aid projects were low due to the summer vacation period.
The value of material orders placed on projects financed wholly or
partially from Federal funds during the third quarter of 1937 amounted
to $282,959,000. It is estimated that approximately 662,000 manmonths of labor were created in the final fabrication of these materials.
The estimate is based upon the findings of the Census of Manufactures for 1935. For estimates previously published the 1933 census
figures were used. Data have now been revised on the new basis. In
the corresponding quarter of 1936 the value of material orders placed
amounted to $299,357,000, and 824,000 man-months of labor were
created in final fabrication. During the second quarter of 1937 material orders valued at $259,313,000 were placed and 616,000 manmonths of labor were created in final fabrication.
Table 3 shows the value of material orders placed on the various
programs financed by Federal funds during the third quarter of 1937,
the second quarter of 1937, and the third quarter of 1936, and the
man-months of employment created in the final fabrication of the
material used.
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TABLE 3.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Projects Financed Wholly or Partially From
Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created in Final Fabrication
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Man-months of labor
created in final fabrication
Program
Third
quarter
of 1937
Total. „
Second
quarter
of 1937
Third
quarter
of 1936
Third Second Third
quarter quarter quarter
of 1937 of 1937 of 1936
$282,958, 568 $259, 313,311 $299,357, 319 662, 236 616,469 824,219
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Public Works Administration 1
Eeconstruction Finance Corporation 2
Regular Federal appropriations s
Federal projects under The Works Program
Construction
Professional, technical, and clerical
Projects operated by W. P. A
Hentals and services on projects operated
by W. P. A
-National Youth Administration:
Work projects
Rentals and services on work projects..
74,186,957 83, 764, 660 116,830,781 209,868 236,116 334,:,744
5, 565, 391
6,457 11, 786
7,459
3, 048, 560 2, 761, 743
86,144,157 53, 654,981 65, 314, 386 215,997 139, 441 162, 880
19, 375, 780 22, 793, 575
279,893
161, 265
57, 303' 258 56, 266, 574
42, 079, 294 51, 726 60, 738 110, 531
876
1,241
406, 929
507
68,979,861 174, 480 170,828 202,507
41, 632, 998 39,128,795
722,146
383,447
663, 090
0)
(*)
180, 677
(4)
2,199
(4)
2, 013
530
()
1
3 Does not include projects for which contracts were
Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from
before July 1,1934.
E . R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds are included. These awarded
4
data
are
not
shown
under
The
Works
Program.
Data not available.
2
Includes RFC Mortgage Co. Does not include
projects for which contracts were awarded before
March 15, 1934.
DETAILED REPORTS FOR SEPTEMBER 1937
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY REPORTS on employment and pay rolls in industrial
and business industries are available for the following groups: 89
manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including
private building construction; and class I steam railroads. The reports for the first two of these groups—manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, and in virtually all industries the samples are large enough
to be entirely representative. The figures on class I steam railroads
are compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission and are
presented in the foregoing summary.
EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS, HOURS, AND EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls, average hours worked per
-week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in September 1937 are
shown in table 4. Percentage changes from August 1937 and September 1936 are also given.
Indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings
for June, July, and August 1937 are presented in table 5. These
figures may differ in some instances from those previously published
because of revisions necessitated by the inclusion of late reports and
other causes.
Average weekly earnings shown in tables 4 and 5 are computed by
dividing the total weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments
by the total number of full and part-time employees reported. As all
reporting establishments do not supply man-hour data, average hours
worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily based
on data supplied by a smaller number of reporting firms. The size
and composition of the reporting sample varies slightly from month
to month and therefore the average hours per week, average hourly
earnings, and average weekly earnings shown in the two following
tables are not strictly comparable from month to month. The sample,
however, is believed to be sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances
to indicate the general movements of earnings and hours over the ;
period shown.
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1937
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures]
Employment
Industry
All manufacturing industries
Durable goods ._ . .
. _
Nondurable goods.
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
.. _
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings __ __ _
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metalwork
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)
_.
Wirework ..
Machinery, not including transportation equipmentAgricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines _
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and suppliesEngines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels .
Average weekly
earnings !
Pay rolls
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly
earnings *
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from—
change from—
change from—
change from—
change from—
Index
IndexSepSepSepSepSeptember
tember
tember
tember
tember
1937
1937
SepSepSep1937 August SepSepAugust tember
1937 August tember
August tember
1937 August tember
tember
1937
1937
1937
1937
1S37
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
102.1
-0.2
97.3
107.3
-.8
+.4
108.8
121.4
87.5
64.9
-( 2 )
+.9
-3.9
89.9
73.0
92.6
94.5
77.4
113.4
82.3
114.0
98.4
170.3
130.7
147.2
136.5
121.3
153.6
+.1
+.8
+1.6
+3.1
+1.0
+1.3
+.7
+1.1
o
o
+6.9
+13.5
+1.3
100.1
-3.6
99.4
100.9
-4.4
-2.5
+11.9
+13.2
+14.1
112.9
129.7
96.9
48.9
-6.2
-8.9
-3.8
-8.7
86.7
69.6
101.4
72.7
+2.0
+3.7
-1.4
+ 13.2
+23.2
+24.1
+12.7
+7.4
+1.0
+9.3
+2.2
+15.7
+14.0
+.4 +21.6
+4.4 +56.8
+1.2 +17.4
+.2 +25.7
+1.7 +35.4
-2.0
-.6
72.2
97.8
83.9
122.9
103.6
166.8
134.3
189.2
146.5
124.1
158.8
-2.3
-5.0
+.8
+.9
-1.0
-4.6
-2.9
+3.8
-2.0
+2.7
+4.6
-2.2
+2.1
37.4
-3.4
-3.6
Cents
65.8
-3.6
-2.9
+12.0
+13.4
+8.7
38.6
36.1
-3.9
-2.8
-4.2
-3.4
72.4
59.0
+.2
+18.1
+12.2
29.37
31.65
25.21
20. 15
-6.3
-8.8
-4.6
-5.0
+15.8
+ 17.3
+9.8
+10.6
37.8
37.5
37.6
35.1
-5.4
-7.4
—5.1
-5.6
7.1
76.8
84.2
67.3
56.7
Q
-8.8
-5.7
-5.5
7
24.32
29.23
24.58
24.57
+1.2 +10. 2
+2.1 + 19.4
- 5 . 2 +14.3
-5.9
+8.3
.6 +15.0
+.2 +2.4
- 2 . 0 + 16.5
-1.4
+6.9
-.9
+9.1
+4.4 +27.6
- 2 . 4 +16.7
- 1 . 6 +39.4
40.7
39.7
36.5
37.2
-.3
-.3
-5.0
-6.3
+5.0
-6.7
-4.9
61.0
73.9
67.2
65.9
38.7
28.9
40.7
39.7
-1.5
— 1.0
-2.3
-3.3
-4.2
-6.1
-2.0
-5.1
69.7
65.3
70.6
60.8
+23.6
+27.5
+16.3
+15.3
+12.3
+13.9
+22.9
+14.0
+20.0
+8.5
+ 19.0
+13.9
39.7
35.6
39.7
38.8
-1.3
+2.7
-4.1
— 1.4
-.6
61.6
68.7
71.6
74.4
+3.4
40.9
38.4
39.2
+1.6
-2.7
-.6
+19.7 $24.92
+28.8 28.18
+ 10.2 21.30
-3.4
+29.6
+32. 7
+25.2
+9.0
+24. 6
+47.0
+41.9
+22.0
+23.5
+3.5
+27.2
+9.3
+26.3
+45.4
+41.8
+117.1
+40.0
+47.1
+72.6
26.97
25.37
28.69
23.97
24.54
24.47
28.47
28.78
33.20
28.05
32.00
-2.3
+.4
+19.1
+17.1
+27.4
-3.3
-3.2
-2.4
+13.0
+4.5
— 9
+7!o
81.9
73.1
82.2
+15.9
0
i
+oo
+.4
+ 1.5
+2.5
-.4
+.3
+.7
+.8
+.2
+2.7
+.4
+1.7
+.9
+1.7
+1.9
+.2
+1.1
+13.7
+29.4
+17.5
+24. 7
+13.9
+17.2
+19.2
Foundry and machine-shop products
111.9
Machine tools._T
__
_. 157.6
Radios and phonographs
208.3
Textile machinery and parts
84.0
Typewriters and parts
_.
_. 151.2
Transportation equipment
107.0
Aircraft.
766.8
Automobiles,..
112.5
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
68.5
Locomotives
64.4
Shipbuilding
106.2
Railroad repair shops
.._. 60.4
Electric railroad—
63.4
r
Steam railroad
60.2
Nonferrous metals and their products
114.1
Aluminum manufactures
131.0
Brass, bronze, and copper products
114.8
Clocks and watches and time-recording
127.0
devices—
Jewelry
101.1
Lighting equipment
_. 97.3
Silverware and plated ware
79.5
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
93.0
Stamped and enameled ware
153.2
Lumber and allied products
71.7
Furniture
89.1
Lumber:
Millwork
— 55.6
Sawmills
54.6
Stone, clay, and glass products..
.
72.7
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
52.3
Cement
69.9
Glass
111. 1
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
44.9
Pottery
__
77.0
-.6
+2.0
+2.4
-2.1
—.5
-4.3
-5.6
-5.2
-5.7
+1.8
+3.7
-2.7
+.6
-2.9
+1.2
-1.2
-1.8
+2.7
+5.3
+7.2
+4.2
+ 1.1
-1.8
-.2
-2.7
-2.3
+1.1
+.5
_(2)
+1.4
+.9
+1.7
+18.7
+27.0
-3.7
+15.4
+24.8
+22. 6
+26.5
+24.6
+19.6
+71.3
+3.7
+ 1.9
+1.6
+2.0
+10.9
+17.4
+7.2
+12.4
+6.1
+14.6
+18.4
+19.4
+6.9
+5.1
+4.8
+5.6
+5.3
+8.6
+4.3
+7.3
+11.9
-1.0
+1.6
114.2
165.5
173.9
85.2
142.8
104.4
670.4
105.6
79.7
55.0
119.0
63.1
67.7
62.9
110.1
135.7
113. 2
-1.7
87.1
85.3
84.5
92.4
95.9
94.9
69.2
116.9
68.2
57.6
+34.4
+48.9
+8.0
+34.6
+27.0
+36.8
+38.4
+36.6
+51. 5
+113.0
+19.7
+6.6
+10. 5
+6.5
+25.1
+37.3
+18.9
+22.5
+13.1
+31.7
+48.0
+38.4
+21.3
+13.1
+10.0
+14.2
+14. 8
+20.1
+17.7
+19.2
+30.2
+5.3
+8.5
28.42
32.36
21.94
27.18
25.20
30.57
26. 71
30.93
27.89
33.28
30.34
30.05
30.24
30.02
25.95
26.05
27.94
-5.4 +3.8
-5.2 +6.0
-13.4 +1.9
-4.7 +13.4
+5.7 +8.6
+1.2 +1.9
-20.5 - 9 . 2
-.2
-2.1
+3.7 +5.7
-15.9 +4.0
16.99
16.79
20.05
14.84
18.02
20.86
21.92
17.43
16.55
18.82
-4.0
+3.3
-1.1
-3.4
-.7
-7.4
-10.7
-8.4
-8.8
+4.5
+.1
-6.2
-1.4
-6.6
+.2
-3.9
-2.9
128.0
81.7
98.6
81.4
88.6
149.2
68.2
78.2
+5.0
+10.2
+13.6
+ 12.2
53.2
52.6
69.9
46.4
72.8
118.7
39.8
66.8
-5.2
-6.5
-4.1
-5.0
-4.5
-1.2
-.9
+.3
-5.6
-1.3
+.2
+3.1
22.91
24.73
25. 50
27.81
28.01
22.69
21.41
20.85
22.09
21.65
24.38
21.64
26.20
25.68
25.71
22.71
+13.3
+17.2
+12.2
+16. 7
+1.7
+11.7
+7.8
+9.6
+26.6
+24.3
+15.3
+4.7
+8.8
+4.4
+12.9
+16.8
+10.9
+8.9
+6.7
+15.0
+24.9
+15.9
+13.5
+7.6
+5.0
+8.1
+9.1
+12.7
+12.9
+11.0
+16.3
+6.3
+6.7
40.4
44.2
36.9
41.3
39.5
35.0
38.5
34.2
37.4
43.7
35.8
41.0
43.6
40.8
39.1
39.5
38.1
-4.4 +5.7
-2.8 +7.0
-12.2 -7.5
-2.3 +10.7
+4.1 +7.2
+.2 +2.6
-17.5 -7.0
-2.2 +3.0
+4.2 +7.8
-6.5 +15.0
-3.5
+1.3
-3.4
-1.3
-.2
-3.3
-5.5
-3.4
-3.3
+2.7
-3.5
-3.6
-2.0
-3.8
-.9
-2.7
-1.1
+2.2
+4.6
+6.0
+7.7
-5.1
-4.9
-2.8
-1.0
-2.6
-4.4
-2.0
o
-5^6
-2.7
-.7
+1.4
-4.9
+.5
-4.1
-.7
-.6
-2.7
-5.)
-2.1
-5.1
+.3
-5.6
-7.4
-2.3
-7.8
-1.3
-4.1
-1.7
-2.9
+4.2
-1.1
+4.9
-8.0
-5.4
-4.1
-8.2
+6.6
+7.6
+3.5
-.6
+2.3
-.8
-4.9
-1.3
-9.7
-4.1
-5.2
-5.9
+15.5
70.3
73.3
60.0
65.9
63.8
87.4
69.3
90.4
74.7
76.1
83.2
73.4
67.9
73.8
66.0
66.0
73.4
-7.1
-4.8
-1.9
-6.6
-3.7
-1.4
+1.9
+2.3
+1.4
+4.1
+.4
+4.4
+.5
+1.4
+.5
+1.6
+1.5
+1.1
+.8
+.1
-.4
+.5
+.4
+1.3
+.4
+1.9
+3.2
+.9
+2.0
+.6
+1.6
+.1
+.4
+.8
+.2
+.6
+.6
-7.1
+1.4
+2.4
+.2
40.1
40.7
39.1
43.5
40.2
37.3
40.3
40.5
+.7
+2.1
+4.7
+7.3
40.8
40.0
38.3
39.4
38.5
36.8
38.7
39.4
-3.8
-4.7
-3.5
-3.2
-6.4
-4.5
-1.7
-.4
-3.8
54.3
55.0
64.3
54.9
68.0
70.0
66.9
61.6
33.2
34.4
30.8
34.9
37.0
36.3
30.8
34.3
35.1
32.1
-3.5
-2.8
-13.0
-2.5
-5.6
-5.8
-22.7
-5.0
-1.3
-8.6
-16.7
-5.8
-3.7
-3.8
51.6
49.2
65.0
42.4
49.6
57.1
70.9
52.0
46.9
58.9
-5.3
-4.6
-3.6
-1.8
-2.6
-5.1
-6.0
-8.0
+3.8
-.3
57.2
60.0
65.4
64.7
69.7
60.9
53.8
51.6
+1.4
+.9
+.4
— 7
+.4
-.9
-.4
+17.0
+12.3
+15. 7
+11.8
+13.9
+18.2
+12.5
+19.8
+17.6
+15.5
+8.4
+5.3
+7.0
+5.2
+18.8
+18.7
+22.9
+14.7
+9.7
+21.9
+7.0
+ 19.0
+20.5
+13.9
+13.6
+15.9
+ 13.7
+14.4
+21. 2
+15.4
+12.1
+6.7
+13.4
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dying andfinishingtextiles
Hats, fur-felt
Knit goods
Silk and rayon goods..
Woolen and worsted goods
See footnotes at end of table.
101.6
94.9
99.4
98.3
97.8
110.5
85.5
116.5
79.9
70.4
-1.2
-2.5
-1.4
-2.5
+1.5
+.9
-3.6
+.1
-.4
-10.1
-.9
+10.2
+2.4
+1.3
-.8
-2.3
-3.0
-2.0
-9.6
+3.8
o
-14^9
-3.0
+2.4
-6.4
+12.0
+14.3
+18.0
+17.1
+11.4
+13.2
+6.1
+10.0
+11.4
+19.8
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and NonmanufactuHng Industries, September 1937—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment
Industry
Index
September
1937
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Average hours worked
per week
Av jrage hourly
earnings
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from—
change from—
change from—
change from—
Index
SepSepSepSeptember
tember
tember
1937 August Sep1937 August Sep1937 August SepSepSep- tember
1937 August tember
August tember
tember
tember
1937
1937 tember
1937
1937
1937
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
Percentage
change from—
Nondurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products—Continued.
Wearing apparel..
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
__ .
Corsets and allied garments
Men's furnishings.-Miillinery
Shirts and collars _
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
-
._ .
Food and kindred products
Baking
Beverages
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery
Flour _ __
Icecream
.._
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes
Paper and printing Boxes, paper
_
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers'and periodicals
. .
_
0
-5.8
87.0
-8.6
83.9
+4.3
-2.9
-7.3
106.3
-.3
84. 2 +3.0
-2.1
-6.9
95.4
49 0 +21 4 —3.6
-1.6
103.0
+.2
-5.4
71.6 -14.5
-8.8
64.5 -18.1
-5.0
98.6
+3.3
133.2
+1.5 + 14.3
136.1
+2.8 +15.5
- 7 . 5 +11.4
253.0
114.4
+1.2 - 3 . 4
-.4
108.7
-2.1
152.2
+4.1 - 6 . 6
88.9
+1.0
+.9
-2.9
127.7 +( 2 )
56 7 +7 2 —10 5
119.2
+2.8 — 1.1
-4.0
—1.5
92.7
-.5
94.0
-4.6
92 5
—1 4 —5.0
137.8
+4.0 +1.4
136 7
+1 1 +4 1
223. 3 - 3 . 2
+6.6
91 6
—2 8 +6 1
+2.0
311.5 +12.1
-3.1
85.4 +16.5
-.2
76.8
-.9
82.2
-8.5
+6.3
-4.5
86.8 _(2)
-2.8
91.6 +28.5
67.2 -12.7 -14.2
-2.4
62.1
+.5
+.2 +1.1
55.8
+.5 - 2 . 8
62.8
107.7
+1.3 +5.0
102.8
+.3 +1.2
119.1
+7.9
-CO
307.1
89.0
80.7
74.0
98.0
100.7
60.1
56.5
70.0
54.9
103.7
103.3
117.6
+2.0
+2.8
92.8
103.8
98.9
105.9
+6.1
+2.3
r 9
+4.5
+18.4
+.6
-12.1
+1.5
+35.0
-26.0
-1.2
+9 2
+18.6
+9.3
+13.9
+9.1
+15.2
+6.0
-6.3
+6.0
+5.2
+12.7
+4.6
+23.5
+13.6
+6.4
+5.5 +12.7
-2.2
+1.1
+.5
-5.0
+3.6
+4.7
$17. 53
18.12
18.94
15.62
13.43
25.05
12.88
17.94
16.49
23. 70
23.03
25.90
33.27
22 35
15.75
18.79
27.15
27.83
23.35
26.01
24.96
17.12
18.81
16.79
27.89
20.53
24.71
29.69
37.03
-7.1
-6.6
-10.9
+2.0
-6.9
+13.2
-2.5
-10.9
-14.1
-3.6
-2.3
+3.4
+4.7
+3.8
-1.2
+1.0
+7.5
-.5
-4.0
-8.3
+8.7
+12.8
+10.9
-4.5
+4.5
—2 4 +2.9
- 6 . 8 +16.2
+1.6 +12.8
+1.6 +14.2
-4.0
+2.7
+1.5 +20.6
+5.0 +9.1
+9.3
-15.2
-1.7
+8.6
+5.3 +11.5
-2.7 +8.4
-.2
+7.4
+.2
+3.4
- 5 . 0 +14.5
+1.5 +7.0
+1.8 +3.9
+1.7
30.8
29.8
30.1
32.6
31.6
32.8
32.9
31.7
37.7
40.5
42.8
40.2
36.9
40.8
45.3
46.3
41.1
44.7
36.2
37.0
37.2
37.0
38.4
39.2
39.2
38.6
36.9
-5.0
-5.6
-6.6
-4.3
-6.6
-9.4
-4.0
-12.3
-14.8
-3.1
-1.4
-8.2
-11.3
-13.7
- 22. 2
+1.2
+3.2
-4.8
-5.9
-6.0
+1.3
-4.6
+( )
-2.2
-4.3
-1.7
+5.8
+.7
+.9
+2.0
~(2)
-6.9
+2.1
+13.0
-15.7
-2.1
+4.9
-- 12 .. 58
-.4
-5.1
-6.9
-1.7
-1.0
-1.8
-.6
-5.2
-7.5
-1.4
+.4
+4.4
-.3
+.9
-1.4
Cents
56.3
61.7
58.4
47.5
38.1
40.4
55.0
53.0
63.0
57.0
60.8
83.2
44.3
46.5
59.2
59.7
69.1
59.6
69.0
46.0
51.0
45.5
75.1
52.8
63.0
77.9
96.5
+1.0
+8.7
+12.3
+8.7
+5.4
+6.8
+8.6
+8.1
+7.4
+10.9
+ 13.2
+7.6
+6.6
+19.7
+13.1
+11.1
+2.6
+22.0
+16.0
+15.1
+11.1
+12.9
+10.8
+7.3
+11.0
+16.2
+2.5
+.4
+5.2
-0.9
+1.0
-3.3
-4.0
+.5
+1.5
+1.9
o
-1.8
+.5
+.2
-2.7
-3.6
+1.3
+2.3
-.5
-6.1
+2.4
+.3
+.6
+.3
+.8
+•2
+.2
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
_.
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
..
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
_.
Paints and varnishes—
_
Rayon and allied products.
Soap
_
Petroleum refining
___
_
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
_
_
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes
_
Rubber tires and inner tubes.—
_
128.6
128.9
137.4
120.7
114.1
97.6
84.6
132.4
407.1
103.1
127.2
98.0
78.7
134.7
88.3
+3.0 +7.6
+3.9 +8.5
+.1 +8.1
+122. 4 +24.5
+2.1 +10.6
+2.0 +6.8
+15.6
+8.6
— 3
+4.5
+^9 +13.1
-3.4
+1.1
-.8
+4.0
+.1 +3.9
+2.0 +1.7
-.3
+8.1
-.1
+2.0
139.0
137.7
150.9
112.4
127.3
106.4
97.2
131.6
393.6
122.1
143.1
97.4
75.9
132.6
90.4
+24.1
+24.5
+25.6
+134. 7 +43.4
+3.5 +18.7
-.6
+19. 2
+23.0 +27.8
-2.9
+15.4
-1.8
+30.2
+3.7 +20.9
-4.9
+23.1
+.4
+5.6
+3.7 +23.3
-1.2
+15.4
-1.6
+.6
-1.2
0
-3.3
28.19
25.92
30.47
13.14
24.29
30.89
19.16
27.53
23.88
28.68
34.16
26.64
24.24
22.60
29.76
-.9
+15.4
+14.7
+16.3
+15.1
+7.2
+11.6
+17.8
+10.4
+15.1
+25.4
+18.3
+1.6
+21.2
+6.7
+.7
-3.7
-4.1
-3.8
-3.4
+5.5
+1.4
-2.5
+6.4
-2.6
-2.6
+2.5
-4.1
+.3
+1.6
39.0
40.2
38.9
53.2
40.8
38.9
41.1
39.6
38.4
39.9
35.5
34.5
40.0
37.5
30.8
-1.0
-.1
-4.1
-.4
-.9
-2.8
+ 10.8
+2.4
-1.7
+5.2
+4.7
+3.3
-.9
-00
+1.3
+2.9
+1.0
-6.2
-2.6
-2.4
-4.4
-.5
+.8
-3.0
-2.6
+5.1
74.0
66.1
78.4
24.9
57.8
79.5
46.7
69.6
64.6
72.7
97.4
79.1
60.6
-2.0
-2.4
+.7
-4.8
+1.1
-.8
+1.2
-.2
+ (2)
+1.4
+.2
+.5
+.9
+.5
+.5
-1.5
-.1
-3.3
-12.3
60.6
97.0
-4.0
-20.1
-6.5
90.8
89.0
71.6
53.9
83.6
-1.4
-.5
83.8
85.4
+.8
68.1
+.4
71.7
56.3
51.7
57.7
31.6
39.7
47.4
(4)
(4)
92.8
-1.2
-.6
-2.2
-.1
+16.6
+16.5
+19.5
+9.9
+5.0
+12.7
+18.8
+13.6
+18.6
+22.3
+18.4
+10.6
+16.5
+12.7
+9.6
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929= 100]
Coal mining:
Anthracite
__
_
B ituminous
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
_
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph
_
Electric light and power and manufactured gas_
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Trade:
Wholesale
..
Retail...
General merchandising
Other than general merchandisingHotels (year-round) «
_
_
_..
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
Brokerage
_
Insurance
__
__.
Building construction
_
_
48.2
80.5
84.1
54.7
78.3
80.1
98.5
73.7
93.0
90.6
103.6
87.2
88.1
93.7
86.7
(4)
(4)
(4)
+17.1 +1.2
+2.1 +3.0
+.8 +33.2
-.4
-.4
-1.2
+5.1
+.3 +8.7
+.2 +5.3
+.4 +1.2
+1.4 +5.7
+5.1 +4.6
+10.5 +5.2
+3.6 +4.4
+1.5 +4.6
-.5
+4.6
+2.1 -( 2 )
-1.9
-1.4
-.2
+1.5
-.7
+6.3
31.5
77.7
82.2
50.1
71.2
+15.5
+5.3
-.9
-5.8
93.1
103.8
+.6
+1.0
+1.2
71.6
-2.2
78.3
74.5
92.6
70.7
76.1
84.4
72.8
(4)
(4)
+3.0
+8.0
+1.7
+2.3
-1.9
+5.5
0)
-.9
-2.5
-2.4
-2.2
i Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours.
Percentage changes over year are computed from indexes. Percentage changes over
\\\ m average weekly earnings for the manufacturing groups, for all manufacturing
-9.8
+9.4
+64.5
+12.0
+17.9
+18.1
+13.5
+7.7
+11.1
+11.9
+11.8
+11.7
+12.7
+10.2
+10.2
+2.4
+4.3
+23.2
18.99
24.37
31.22
22.86
33.41
-1.4
-10.9
+3.1
— 1.7
+6.2
+23.5
+12.4
+12.1
+8.6
+7.8
+6.5
+5.0
+6.9
+6.3
+7.0
+7.8
+5.4
+10.2
+3.8
+2.8
+16.0
-5.4
31.81
34.04
+1.8
+.7
+1.0
31.70
-2.5
30.60
22.36
19.37
24.71
15.00
16. 84
20.61
38.77
38.59
31.76
-2.3
-2.0
-2,2
-1.8
+.8
-1.3
+3.4
-.6
-2.2
-1.5
20.8
27.5
43.6
42.1
40.2
+3.5
-2.0
-5.0
+2.2
-.4
39.5
40.1
+1.8
46.0
-2.4
42.6
42.8
39.1
44.0
47.4
42.5
43.9
(4)
(4)
34.1
-1.3
-1.5
+4.5
-1.4
+3.2
+2.6
+.6
+1.0
+.2
-1.8
-1.4
-3.0
-1.0
-1.5
+.6
-.8
+1.9
(44)
()
+2.1
+.3
+.4
-2.3
+1.5
(4)
(4)
+.4
-.2
-.3
-.7
+.7
+1.3
+2.2
(4)
(—4) 2
+8.4
+12.3
+18.1
+14.0
+8.4
+6.0
+8.9
+6.2
+5.5
+8.2
+10.8
+7.6
+6.9
+6.7
+6.1
(*)
(4)
industries
combined, and for retail trade are also computed from indexes.
2
Less than 1/10 of 1 percent.
* Cash payments qnly; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be coin-?
puted.
< Not available.
CO
TABLE 5,—Employment* Pay Rolls* Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmatiufacturing industries, June, July, and August 1937
MANUFACTURING
tlndexes are based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures]
Employment index
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings»
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly
earnings i
IndustryJune
1937
July
1937
August
1937
June
1937
July
1937
All manufacturing industries
101.1
101.4
102.3
102.9
100.4
103.8
$26.00
Durable goods
Nondurable goods
_Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills. _
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated
cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware
-Plumbers' supplies
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings . .
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metalwork
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)
Wirework .
__
_
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
__
Agricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels.
Foundry and machine-shop products _
Machine tools __
Radios and phonographs _ _
Textile machinery and parts
Typewriters and parts. _
_
98.8
103.5
98.9
104.1
98.1
106.9
104.6
100.8
100.7
100.0
104.0
103.5
29.36
22.14
28.32
21.81
101 4
106.2
81.9
70.6
107.6
119.9
87.8
69.2
108.7
121.4
86.7
67.6
110.4
123.4
93.3
59.7
113.5
132.4
93.6
53.7
120.4
142.3
100.7
53.5
31.06
34.48
25.96
22.73
86.2
72.6
96.7
93.2
84.0
72.3
93.3
92.6
89.1
71.8
89.8
93.6
86.2
71.5
96.5
76.3
78.0
63.6
107.8
71.9
85.1
67.1
103.8
76.6
79.8
119 0
78.7
109 2
77.0
104 6
80.6
114 8
76.4
112 6
81.4
117 9
76.4
106 2
82.4
116 6
70.9
82.2
82.3
122.0
101.6
181 2
102.0
175.9
100.4
171.3
114.9
188.5
129.2
140 6
129.9
138.6
130.2
141.0
135.9
119.9
149.9
112.7
152 7
182.3
87.3
153.8
137.1
121.0
151.6
112.5
152.7
196.8
86.2
152.3
135.0
121.0
151.1
112.5
154.6
203.5
85.8
152.0
137.2
182.7
146.7
126.1
156.4
119.5
164.6
156.2
93.6
151.1
August
1937
June
1937
July
1937
August
1937
June
1937
$25. 31 $25.87
39.2
37.9
29.31
22.03
40.7
37.6
30.03
32.75
24.29
20.85
31.52
34.74
26.48
21.28
25.22
30.25
22.53
25.71
23.44
26.93
26.09
24.74
71.7
98.9
84.7
128.8
27.67
26.24
29.36
23.77
107.6
171.6
106.7
160.7
133.6
172.5
146.7
124.1
155.0
114.8
159.3
166.1
89.5
145.6
July
1937
August
1937
June
1937
July
1937
August
1937
38.7
Cents
65.3
Cents
65.7
Cents
38.6
37.1
40.1
37.2
71.4
58.6
72.2
58.8
72.2
58. 9*
40.2
40.2
39.9
39.6
38.2
38.1
36.4
36.5
40.0
40.5
39.6
37.2
76 0
85.4
65.1
57.0
77 3
85.8
66.8
56.8
77 5
85.7
67.3
56.9
24.09
28.61
26.02
25.84
42.9
42.0
36.1
40.7
39.6
38.3
38.0
38.5
40.9
39.8
38.6
39.7
60.1
72.3
62.4
63.2
60.1
70.7
68.8
64.2
60.1
72.2
67.5
65.1
26.61
23.15
28.67
23.56
27.11
25.28
29.20
24.30
40.5
40.5
42.3
40.1
38.8
37.1
40.6
39 5
39.1
39 3
41.5
41 1
68.3
65 1
69.5
59 8
68.5
62 6
70.8
60 2
69.0
64 7
70.5
59 2
26.36
26.33
24.58
24.71
24.81
23.46
43.5
39.6
40.1
37.5
40.2
34.4
60.5
66.5
61.3
65.9
61.6
68.3
137.1
184.2
29.41
29.10
28.51
27.68
28.97
29.06
41.8
40.5
40.0
38.2
40.8
40.1
70.6
72.5
71.0
73.1
140.0
126.8
155.5
118.9
160.2
175.8
88.2
143.8
33.24
28.95
32.53
29.58
33. 21
22.47
28.83
26.22
33.11
28.29
31.87
28.41
32.14
22.16
27.81
25.53
32.06
28.72
32.07
29.19
31.94
22.78
27.57
25.25
41.6
39.9
40.1
43.2
46.3
38.4
43.8
41.6
41.3
38.5
39.4
41.0
44.4
36.8
42.2
40.4
40.3
39.5
39.4
42.0
44.0
38.1
41.6
39.7
70.4
72.7
81.0
72.5
81.3
68.5
71.8
58.9
66.0
63.0
81.1
71.8
81.0
69.2
72.5
61.0
66.1
63.1
80.2
72.7
81.5
69.4
72.7
61.0
66.5
63.6
65.7
Transportation equipment
Aircraft._..
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad.
Locomotives
Shipbuilding...
Railroad repair shops
Electric railroad
Steam railroad
_.
Nonferrous metals and their products
Aluminum manufactures
_
_
Brass, bronze, and copper products—
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices
Jewelry
Lighting equipment
_
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
Stamped and enameled ware
lumber and allied products
Furniture
Lumben
Millwork
Sawmills
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Cement
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
126.4
834.0
137.8
76.5
59.5
103.3
64.0
62.7
64.1
113.9
129.5
122.3
119.9
790.7
130.4
71.6
62.5
100.2
63.8
63.3
63.8
111.5
131.5
119.0
111.8
812.1
118.7
72.7
63.3
102.4
62.1
63.0
62.0
112.8
132.6
116.9
127.8
751.3
135.2
91.4
51.4
114.5
68.7
67.1
69.0
111.5
135.6
125.3
117.5
682.7
123.6
83.4
50.5
111.7
63.5
67.0
63.3
105.3
134.5
116.7
112.8
750.8
115.3
87.4
52.6
118.8
67.3
68.7
67.4
1C9.9
141.2
116.6
32.00
28.48
32.46
29.10
33.49
30.75
30.80
30.19
30.89
26.38
26.36
28.91
30.89
27.34
31.30
27.98
31.16
30.42
28.63
29.87
28.44
25.43
25.74
27.58
31.71
29.28
32.08
28.84
32.25
31.44
31.13
30.81
31.17
26.22
26.82
28.21
37.0
44.4
36.1
40.0
46.5
37.6
44.8
44.5
44.8
40.2
40.4
40.6
35.0
39.1
34.1
38.6
44.0
36.9
41.4
43.8
41.2
38.2
39.5
38.2
36.0
41.5
34.9
39.4
43.6
38.2
44.3
44.7
44.3
39.6
41.1
38.7
86.8
64.2
90.0
72.7
72.0
80.3
69.0
66.4
69.2
65.1
65.4
71.4
88.7
70.0
92.1
72.5
70.9
81.6
68.9
66.9
69.1
65.8
65.2
72.5
88.5
70.6
92.0
73.3
74.0
81.7
70.5
67.5
70.7
65.6
65.3
73.0
121.6
89.1
96.1
74.4
88.8
159.2
72.9
89.1
114.8
90.8
91.5
73.8
91.8
151.0
72.9
87.9
123.7
95.9
90.8
76.3
92.1
153.4
73.0
89.2
118.5
70.3
95.3
69.1
85.2
162.4
72.3
78.7
108.4
67.8
88.8
66.9
87.2
146.2
67.3
73.9
121.9
74.1
86.8
72.5
92.4
157.0
71.4
79.2
22.42
24.17
24.91
25.83
28.61
23.84
22.10
20.80
21.47
22.95
24.32
25.09
28.12
22.60
20.92
20.09
22.40
23.28
24.15
26.00
29. 56
23.83
22.08
21.04
40.3
38.9
38.5
40.0
41.9
39.6
42.8
41.0
38.1
37.7
37.2
39.5
40.0
37.0
39.8
39.4
39.8
39.8
37.3
40.5
42.3
39.1
42.0
41.2
55.5
60.9
64.8
64.6
68.3
60.4
52.5
51.0
56.3
59.8
65.6
63.8
70.3
61.1
53.4
51.6
56.3
57.8
64.9
64.7
69.8
61.1
53.2
51.3
57.5
55.7
74.0
54.5
69.7
112.4
44.1
80.0
57.3
56.3
71.7
53.8
69.7
107.9
44.4
72.8
57.1
55.9
71.9
52.0
69.9
109.6
44.5
75.8
57.5
57.4
71.4
49.1
75.0
119.4
37.6
70.3
54.8
52.8
66.1
46.2
72.4
108.6
38.4
59.0
56.1
56.2
70.5
46.2
77.1
120.3
39.7
64.7
23.12
22.78
24.53
21.89
26.90
25.61
24.88
23.28
22.31
21.11
23.41
20.96
25.95
24.36
25.14
21.47
22.74
22.70
24.84
21.75
27.63
26.35
26.04
22.47
44.1
43.5
39.9
41.9
40.6
38.2
38.5
40.5
41.4
39.6
37.9
39.7
39.0
35.9
38.6
38.4
42.3
42.4
39.7
40.9
41.2
38.7
39.6
39.2
52.6
53.3
62.0
52.4
66.2
67.5
64.5
60.2
53.9
54.2
62.4
52.8
66.5
68.2
65.7
60.1
53.9
54.2
63.0
53.1
67.1
68.5
65.7
61.4
103.4
99.7
101.6
103.0
97.4
109.7
83.9
118.1
79.1
86.0
109.3
106.6
137.3
89.6
136.5
51.2
118.0
100.0
98,0
99.8
102.0
96.0
109.1
83.9
116.3
79.7
80.7
102.0
107.4
117.0
88.1
129.7
38.8
113.4
102.8
97.3
100.8
100.8
96.4
109.4
88.7
116.3
80.2
78.3
113.0
111.0
146.2
88.1
127.6
52.9
116.0
91.3
93.8
100.2
101.2
91.6
95.8
73.8
119.0
68.4
78.5
82.5
86.7
91.6
85.2
103.7
37.4
101.7
85.5
89.6
97.0
96.7
90.4
94.1
80.8
112.6
67.4
71.8
73.8
86.4
71.3
80.2
96.6
23.8
95.9
92.1
90.0
97.6
97.0
90.8
93.8
87.0
119.4
65.7
68.5
92.4
91.8
114.7
81.7
102.4
40.3
102.8
17.73
17.74
23.14
15.55
17.49
21.07
24.26
17.51
16.70
21.08
17.70
19.19
18.32
15.50
13.43
21.17
12.90
17.18
17.22
22.89
15.04
17.49
20.93
26.52
16.88
16.33
20.51
17.07
19.02
16.78
14.97
13.19
17.30
12.34
17.77
17.41
22.80
15.20
17.50
20.83
26.78
17.85
15.89
20.18
18.81
19.45
21.47
15.27
14.03
22.12
12.77
35.1
36.4
36.7
36.9
36.8
36.3
34.2
35.7
36.6
36.1
32.2
32.5
30.9
32.9
33.2
33.9
35.3
35.8
35.5
36.7
36.3
37.6
34.1
35.7
35.6
30.6
30.9
29.1
32.3
31.3
34.4
35.3
35.4
35.7
35.8
36.4
36.4
35.4
34.1
34.4
32.3
31.6
32.3
32.2
33.0
50.2
48.6
63.1
42.1
48.2
57.4
72.0
50.1
45.4
58.6
53.5
58.1
55.8
46.6
35.5
50.3
48.6
64.0
42.2
48.7
57.2
73.7
50.3
45.6
57.9
54.1
60.4
55.5
46.1
36.5
51.5
49.1
64.5
42.5
49.7
56.8
76.3
51.3
46.0
58.9
56.3
61.1
60.1
47.5
37.8
33.9
32.6
33.8
39 3
39.2
38.9
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products.
Fabrics
'
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles.
Hats, fur-felt
Knit goods
Silk and rayon goods
Wooden and worsted goods
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments..
Men's furnishingsMillinery
Shirts and collars
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June, July, and August 1937—Contd.
MANUFACTURING-Continued
Employment index
Average weekly
earnings
Pay-roll index
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
August
1937
June
1937
July
1937
96.6
98.6
93.9
132.5
135.3
230.7
94 3
278.0
73.3
77.5
89.8
86.8
71.3
76.9
61.8
55.7
62.5
106 3
102.6
119 1
80.6
73.3
108.4
115.8
133.8
260.5
76 6
123.5
68.0
74.2
81.5
99.2
55.2
68.4
55.7
69.4
54.0
104.9
104.4
124.3
84.6
79.8
104.0
128.3
134.9
284.8
78 1
245.0
64.3
79.6
85.6
99.9
56.0
80.9
55.8
66.0
54.5
101.6
100.3
119.2
83.7
78.7
103.8
131.2
132.4
273.4
77 8
293.9
75.2
80.2
84.2
96.6
74.6
81.2
57.2
66.3
56.1
102.6
102.8
123.8
95.6
103.2
96 9
102.9
91.3
103.6
90.1
99.8
89.6
99.1
124.3
123.5
139. 5
41.8
106.2
95.3
69 8
136.3
401.0
102.4
127.5
124.9
124.1
137.2
54.3
111.8
95.8
73.2
132.8
403.4
101.9
128.2
137.4
135.7
153. 5
38.6
121.3
103.0
79.2
142.7
391.8
115.1
143,0
136.8
134.9
153.9
35.3
112.0
103.8
77.1
138.3
392.9
118.9
143,1
140.7
137.7
156.1
47.9
123. 0
107.1
79.0
135.4
400.7
117. 7'
150.5,
June
1937
July
1937
93.8
94.0
98.0
112.6
136.6
224.4
95 6
122.7
68.9
73.6
90.6
88.9
49.3
74.9
60.1
56.4
60.5
106 9
103. 0
120 5
96.3
98.0
94.7
124.9
136.7
234.4
97 3
209.8
69.2
77.9
93.2
89.9
52.9
81.0
60.6
55.4
61.2
106 0
102.2
119 5
95 4
105.4
123.9
123.4
138.5
43.9
108.8
94.8
75 7
138.9
391.4
102.5
126.0
August
1937
August
1937
June
$20.01 $20. 57 $20. 29
18.80
19.68
19, 24
24.54
24.32
24.64
24.88
23.80
24.86
25.37
25.56
25.48
34.32
36.01
34.95
22 29 22 33 22 99
16.90
16.17
18.93
17.74
16.75
18.55
25.68
26.13
26.63
27.34
27.85
28.71
27.97
27.85
27.99
25.65
24.13 23.89
25.40
27.77
29.36
17.15
17.33
17.39
18.42
18.39
17.85
16.89
17.15
17.30
28.61 27.74
28.03
20.70 20.00
20.57
25.90
25.03 26.01
38.1
37.7
39.3
41.4
43.3
41.7
38.3
38.2
38.6
42.3
43.0
43.0
35.9
37.7
44.1
49.2
40.8
40.6
39.4
38.0
37.1
38.1
39.7
40.3
42.2
30.26
37.18
29. 76
36.66
29.30
36.16
28.89
26.52
30.81
12.15
24.40
30.99
17.06
28.54
24.69
27.26
34.36
28.34
26.08
30.41
11.53
23.14
28.42
17. 85
27.86
24.20
27.67
33.84
29.33
26.72
31.56
12.14
24.12
32.10
17.91
28.06
24.53
27.98
35,66
June
1937
July
1937
August
July
1937
37.8
37.6
38.9
41.0
42.3
42.1
Cents
53.5
51.0
62.6
60.0
59.3
83.3
Cents
54.2
52.0
63.1
59.0
60.0
84.5
Cents
54.1
42.3
35.4
44.5
50.3
40.4
37.6
42.4
37.6
35.6
37.8
38.6
38.8
40.3
P8.5
38.6
45.0
49.7
40.2
38.1
42.9
37.8
35.5
38.1
39.1
39.3
41.5
46.6
47.1
57.5
56.0
68.7
64.8
64.3
45.1
50.1
44.5
74.5
51.9
61.4
45.8
47.8
58.0
55.1
69.2
66.4
64.3
46.2
52.2
45.5
74.7
52.2
62.2
45.5
48.3
58.2
57.6
69.6
63.5
67.1
46.0
50.7
45.5
74.1
52.8
62.8
39.5
36.8
38.7
36.3
38.5
36.6
77.8
97.1
78.1
96.8
77.0
94. 9
39.6
40.6
40.5
48.7
40.0
39.0
40.2
42.5
39.8
39.3
36,5
38.5
39.6
39.9
46.6
37.8
39.0
39.4
41.0
38.6
39.0
39.4
40.1
40.6
48.0
39.8
40.1
39.2
40.7
38.8
39 3
37.2
73.7
66.1
76.2
25.1
58.1
79.4
42.5
67.4
62.0
69.7
95.2
74.6
66.7
76.3
24.9
58.0
72.9
45.3
68.2
62.7
71.4
96,6
75.1
67.2
77.8
25.4
57.6
80.1
45.9
69.0
63.1
71.6
July
1937
1937
Nondurable floods—Continued
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
___
Leather
Food and kindred products _
Baking.
Beverages
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery
Flour
F Icecream
Slaughtering arid tneat packing
Sugar, beet
_
,_ .
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures.
_ _
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper _
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
Soap
_
Petroleum refining
_
June
1937
1937
35,5
August
1937
51.9
62.8
58.0
60.4
83.4
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes _ __
Rubber tires and inner tubes _
101.2
72.5
96.2
61.8
97. 9
77.1
ios.8
69.7
96.8
54.7
97.6
73.2
2151
24.18
26.84
22.27
26.5$
23.85
39.6
35. t
84.7
37.3
34.7
39.7
78.8
61.0
79.6
59.7
78. &
60.1
142.1
92.7
136.7
89.7
135.1
88.4
144.9
97.9
135.8
93.6
134.1
89.8
23.54
30.77
22.78
30.37
22.89
29.55
39.4
32.1
38.2
31.7
38.2
30.9
59.8
96.3
60.7
96.9
60.3
96.3
19.25
23.58
31.62
24.06
33.50
31.2
25.9
43.5
44.4
40.1
26.0
25.0
42.4
42.3
39.8
21.7
26.6
44.5
44.3
39.5
91.7
88.6
71.7
53.8
82.5
91.5
88.1
71.2
54.3
83.6
92.1
89.4
71.1
54.1
NONMANUFAGTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929=* 100]
Coal mining:
Anthracite
_
_.
Bituminous
_.
Metalliferous mining
_
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing.
_
_
Public utilities:
'
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Trade:
Wholesale,
..
Retail
General merchandising
__
Other than general merchandising..
Hotels (year-round) 2
Laundries
Dyeing and3 cleaning
Brokerage
_
Insurance 3 —
Building construction 3
_
51.1
77.9
79.5
55.4
78.5
45.0
75.8
82.0
55.5
78.5
41.2
78.8
83.4
54.9
79.3
35.2
66.4
77.8
50.8
70.5
50.9
71.2
77.7
52.6
70.4
28.99
23.19
31.11
23.84
33.50
22.78
22.18
30.02
22.84
33.58
78.5
79.7
79.8
88.6
92.1
92.1
29.95
31.02
30.94
37.9
39.5
39.0
81.7
81.6
82.4
96.3
97.5
98.3
100.4
102.2
102.6
33.57
33.84
33.64
40.6
39.8
39.3
82.6
84 7
86.2
73.3
73.4
73.4
71.1
70.8
73.1
31.85
31.65
32. 71
46.6
45.9
47.1
67.5
68.2
68.5
90.3
90.5
102.9
87.2
86.9
93.5
92.1
-3.0
90.6
87.6
95.9
85.4
86.1
95.2
86.0
-1.3
91.8
80.2
93.8
84.2
86.8
94.2
84.9
-1.3
76.3
74.4
92. 5
70.6
74.0
85.5
79.2
-3.2
76.9
72.8
87.3
69.8
73.3
86.9
68.0
-1.6
79.0
72.3
85.7
69.5
74.4
86.0
69.0
-1.6
— 1. 6
30.56
22.06
18.74
24.73
14.83
17.18
21.32
39.28
39. 78
31.25
30.41
22.41
19.07
24.99
14.83
17.15
19.58
39.22
40.38
31.31
31.31
22.58
19.21
25.18
14.86
17.17
20.23
38.85
38. 93
32.28
43.3
43.4
39.7
44.5
47.7
43.6
45.4
43.0
43.4
39.0
44.7
47.4
43.9
42.6
43.4
43.5
39.0
44.8
47.3
43.5
43.2
4
70.7
55.5
50.6
57.0
30.7
39.1
47.1
71.4
56.9
52.8
58.1
31.2
39.0
40.5
33.8
33.8
92.5
92.5
72.3
56.6
52.8
57.8
31.1
39.6
47.3
(44)
()
93.0
+•4
+3.1
+.3
+3.3
+.3
+2.4
+1.1
+3.5
+.9
+5.2
i Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours.
The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the
size and composition of the reporting sample.
27.2
73.8
83.0
53.2
70.8
+5.2
()
«Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
s Indexes of employment and pay rolls not available; percentage changes from preceding month substituted.
* Not available.
18
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS, JANUARY 1936 TO
SEPTEMBER 1937
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in tables 6 and 7
for all manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups of manufacturing industries, and for 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade, by
months from January 1936 to September 1937, inclusive. The accompanying chart indicates the trend of factor employment and pay
rolls from January 1919 to September 1937.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are computed
from returns supplied by representative establishments in 89 manufacturing industries and cover wage earners only. The base used in
computing these indexes is the 3-year average, 1923-25, as 100. In
September 1937 reports were received from 25,289 manufacturing
establishments employing over 5,000,000 workers, whose weekly
earnings were more than $125,000,000. The employment reports
received from these establishments cover more than 55 percent of the
total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country and
more than 65 percent of the wage earners in the 89 industries included
in the monthly survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
TABLE 6.- - Indexes of Employment
and Pay Rolls in All Manufacturing
Combined and in the Durable- and Nondurable-Goods Groups x
Industries
[Adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures—3-year average 1923-25== 100
ManufEicturing
Durable goods 2
Total
Month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July...,.
August
September
October...
November
December
Average
Employment
Employment
P a y rolls
P a y rolls
Nondurable goods
Employment
3
P a y rolls
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
86.8
86.9
87.9
89.1
89.8
90.1
96.5
99.0
101.1
102.1
102.3
101.1
73.8
73.7
77.6
79.3
80.8
81.1
90.7
95.8
101.1
104.9
105.2
102.9
78.7
78.6
80.2
82.3
84.0
84.7
90.4
93.2
96.4
98.6
99.9
98.8
66.9
66.6
71.8
76.0
78.5
79.0
86.6
92.5
100.0
106.4
107.5
104. 6
95.4
95.8
96.1
96.3
96.0
95.9
103.0
105.2
106.1
105.9
104.8
103.5
82.5
82.7
84.9
83.5
83.8
83.9
96.0
99.9
102.6
102.9
102.3
100.8
91.2
93.5
95.5
96.7
96.9
98.1
101.4
102.3
102.1
80.2
83.5
83.6
89.0
90.7
95.2
100.4
103.8
100.1
84.6
84.7
85.7
89.2
91.0
92.7
98.9
98.1
97.3
75.9
77.0
77.2
85.3
88.9
93.4
91.9
82.4
84.7
1 Comparable indexes for earlier years will be
found in the February 1937 issue of this report, or
in the April 1937 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.
2
Includes the following groups of manufacturing
industries: Iron and steel; machinery; transportation equipment; railroad repair shops; nonferrous
metals; lumber and allied products; and stone, clay,
and glass products.
78.0
4
100.7
104. 0
99.4
98.2 104.1
102.8 * 106.9
105.9 107.3
104.7
103.3
104.0
99.5
85.6 100.0
91.8 * 103. 5
91.6 100.9
93.7
92.9
97.5
87.9
3 Includes the following groups of manufacturing
industries: Textiles and their products, leather and
its manufactures, food and kindred products,
tobacco manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and allied products, products of petroleum and
coal, rubber products, and a number of miscellaneous industries not included in other groups.
* Revised.
19
The indexes of nonmanufacturing industries are also computed from
data supplied by reporting establishments, but the base is the 12-
month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries, dyeing
and cleaning, and building construction cover wage earners only, but
the figures for public utilities, trade, hotels, brokerage, and insurance
20
relate to all employees, including executives. For crude-petroleum
producing they cover wage earners and clerical field force.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay rolls
for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
TABLE 7.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1936 to September 19371
[12-month average 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
Month
Bituminous coal
and nonMetalliferous mining Quarrying
metallic mining
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
ment
ment
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
59.1
61.2
February . .
52.5
March
49.8
April . _
54.9
May
51.2
June.
July._
48.4
41.1
August
47.6
September
October
_. 49.9
51.5
November
54.8
December .
Average- 51.8
54.4
76.7
42.6
28.6
56.3
42.0
42.7
41.0
37.8
63.9
44.4
50.9
79.8
80.2
80.4
77.5
76.2
75.7
84.6
84.8
85.9
72.6
77.8
77.9
79.0
45.7
Crude-petroleum
producing
Month
54.2
55.5
55.9
57.5
60.8
61.9
58.4
63.4
70.6
76.9
79.8
77.7
45.0 37.2 35.2 75.5 75.8 62.6 66.4 61.3 82.0 46.1 77.8
41.2 31.4 27.2 76.9 78.8 65.4 73.8 61.6 83.4 48.2 83.0
48.2 34.9 31.5 78.2 80.5 71.0 77.7 63.1 84.1 50.0 82.2
48.5
81.1
79.2
64.2
53.7
40.3
82.3
80.7
62.9
54.6
64.4
55.4
83.9
85.0
57.7
54.1
52.7
48.9
54.0
51.0
51.1
70.6
78.4
.70.2
62.6
62.2
61.5
79.9
82.4
88.4
54.4
67.8
71.2
70.8
66.8
69.6
73.1
76.2
78.5
79.5
60.3
Telephone and telegraph
41.7
42.8
45.1
45.5
47.7
48.2
48.4
Electric light and
power, and manufactured gas
39.4
36.9
42.2
48.4
52.0
53.5
45.7
46.7
49.1
53.1
54.9
55.4
25.5
23.9
30.9
36.1
42.1
44.0
34.6
37.8
41.3
48.1
51.4
52.6
54.4 55.5 43.9 50.8
55.3 54.9 46.2 2 53.2
54.9 54.7 44.8 50.1
46.2
54.6
43.5
52.6
49.4
39.4
38.9
49.5
Electric-railioad and
motorbus operation and
maintenance 3
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
ment
ment
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February
March..
April
55.7
55.7
56.0
57.1
58.0
58.9
2 61.2
2 64.1
2 63.9
2 67.7
2 68.2
2 70.4
70.1
69.9
70.2
70.8
71.6
72.1
74.4
74.8
75.4
76.6
77.7
78.5
75.0
76.2
77.2
76.0
78.5
77.4
83.6
82.2
87.2
86.3
89.5
88.6
86.1 92.1
86.1 2 92.2
86.8 2 92.4
88.0 2 93.1
89.0 2 94.6
90.4 2 96.3
84.8 92.3
84.7 2 93.6
85.9 2 94.8
86.2 2 95.5
87.0 2 97.9
88.1 2100.4
June.. .
71.1 72.7
70.8 73.5
70.9 74.2
71.3 75.8
72.7 76.7
73.7 2 78.5
July _
August
September
October
November
December
75.4 2 78.5 60.4 2 70.5 73.1 79.7 79.9 92.1 91.7 2 97.5 89.8 2102.2
75.0 2 79.3 59.7 2 70.8 73.5 79.8 81.2 92.1 93.1 2 98.3 89.8 2102.6
74.5 78.3 60.4 71.2 73.7 80.1 78.8 93.1 93.5 98.5 91.4 103.8
83.1
73.6
73.8
94.0
59.6
92.7
81.6
93.5
91.8
73.2
60.1
73.7
61.3
82.4
93.2
93.8
72.4
73.6
May
Average. 72.9
58.6
72.2
78.9
90.5
88.8
70.7
71.7
71.2
71.3
71.5
71.7
72.5
72.5
72.6
72.9
73.3
73.3
65.0
68.3
67.8
65.9
66.1
66.8
68.0
68.7
69.2
69.4
70.1
71.1
72.4 73.4 66.5 70.8
72.4 73.4 66.5 73.1
72.8 73.7 66.4 71.6
73.1
67.7
73.0
69.7
69.3
72.5
72.0
67.2
1
Comparable indexes for earlier years for all of the September 1935 issue of the Monthly Labor
these industries, except year-round hotels, will be Review
2
found in the November 1934 and subsequent issues
Revised.
of this pamphlet, or the February 1935 and sub- 3 Not including electric-railroad car building and
sequent issues of the Monthly Labor Review. repairing; see transportation equipment and railComparable indexes for year-round hotels will be road repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries,
ffound in the June 1935 issue of this pamphlet, or table 3.
21
TABLE 7.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1936 to September 1937—Continued
Wholesale trade
Month
Employment
Pay rolls
Total retail trade
Employment
Pay rolls
Retail trade—general merchandising
Retail trade—other
than general merchandising
Employment
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
. January
February. _
March
April
"May....
June
-July . .
August
September
October
November
December
85.6
85.0
85 6
85.7
84.6
84.6
_
90.7
92.0
92.1
91.9
90.8
90.3
85 4 90 6
86.3 91.8
88.0 93.0
89.0
89.7
91.0
66.6
66.6
69.0
67.9
68.2
68.4
72.6
74.1
75.0
75.4
76.1
76.3
80.4
79.7
81.9
85.2
85.0
85.5
85.4 62.1
85 ?, 61.6
88.5 63.5
88 8 65.3
89 9 65 8
90.5 66.4
69.0 76.9 83.2 87.6
69.7 79.0 82.4 86.2
70.5 78 3 86 6 90 6
88.7
71.5
90.1
73.1
99.6
72.8
Average- 86.7 . . . . . 69.4 . . . . . 85.7
68.0
67.9
70.5
71 9
73 5
74.4
88.2 95.1
85.1 93.9
90.9 100.3
97.4 99.6
95 5 102.1
96.4 102.9
Employment
83 8
82.9
87 6
89.1
91.5
92.5
65.1 72.8 90.7 95.9 77 3 87.3
64.4 72.3 89.4 93 8 76 4 285, 7
66 6 74.5 98 5 103.6 82.8 92.6
87.2
68.3
103.9
91.4
70.1
109.3
116.2
75.9
143.4
99.1 ----- 83.5
66.3
Pay rolls
Employment
78.4
78.3
79.5
82.0
82.3
8? 6
82 9
82 9
85.4
86.0
86.7
87.2
59.1
59.1
60 7
62.1
62.7
63,3
64,7
64.8
67.0
68.3
69.8
70 6
81.2 85 4 62 6 69 8
80,5 84 2 61.9 69.5
83. 5 87.2 63.3 70.7
64.4
84.7
65.7
85.1
88.1
67.6
82.2
Laundries
Year-round hotels
Month
76 4
73,9
77 3
81.0
80.8
81.3
62.7 . . . . .
Dyeing and cleaning
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February .
March
April
May.
June
July
August . .
September
October . _
November
December
Average __
a
85.5
86.4
86 9
88.4
87.7
86.9
86.1
CO O
86.8
84.2 88.1
85.4
84 6
84.0
83.6
81.9
82.8
82.8
83.2
84.1
83.9
83.3
64.9
66.5
66.0
66.3
67.0
66.6
66.0
66.1
67.5
69.6
69 6
69.8
67.2
70.4
72.5
72.7
74.5
73 6
74.0
73.3
74.4
76.1
81.5
81.2
82.1
83.2
85.5
87.2
90.5
89.6
89.6
87.6
87.0
87.6
86.1
88.5
88.6
88 7
88.5
90.3
93.5
95.2
94.2
93.7
68.3
67.8
69 9
70.9
75.6
75.8
79.0
76.7
76.6
75.3
74.5
76.1
73.9
76.4
76.3
77.5
78.5
81.4
85.5
86.9
86.0
84 4
71.5
70.3
74.7
81.8
87.3
87.5
85.5
83.5
86 7
86.5
81.3
77.7
81.2
76.8
76 2
81.1
84.9
88.6
92 1
86.0
84.9
86,7
51.6
49.0
56,4
64.1
72.2
69.2
64 8
63.2
66 1
66.7
60.2
57.3
61.7
55.6
54 fi
61.7
68 8
73.9
79.2
68.0
69.0
72 8
Revised.
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic
divisions, in August and September 1937, is shown in table 8 for all
groups combined, and for all manufacturing industries combined,
based on data supplied by reporting establishments. The percentage
changes shown, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted—that is, the
industries included in the manufacturing group and in the grand total
have not been weighted according to their relative importance.
The totals for all manufacturing industries combined include
figures for miscellaneous manufacturing industries in addition to the
89 manufacturing industries presented in table 4. The totals for all
groups combined include all manufacturing industries and each of the
nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 4 except building
construction.
26627—37
4
22
TABLE 8.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
August and September 1937, by Geographic Divisions and by States
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued bycooperating State organizations]
Total—All groups
Manufacturing
PerPerPerPerI
Numcent- Amount centNumcentAmount
centage
age Number on
age
ber on
of pay
age
of pay
Geographic divi- Number
of
ber of pay
roll change roll (1 change estab- pay roll change roll (1 change
sion and State
estabweek)
from
from
week)
from lishSepfrom
Seplish- tember
Au- Septem- Autember Au- Septem- Auments
gust ber 1937 gust
gust ber 1937 gust ments
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
Dollars
Dollars
3,549 647,123 - 3 . 0 14, 731,346 - 4 . 1
14,008 930, 577 - 1 . 6 21,,934,513
New England
904, 563 -12.4
298
45, 523 - 8 . 8
828
56,911 -7.5 1,182,736 -10.2
Maine
634,235 - 7 . 8
205
32,429 - 1 . 6
624
40,091 -2.2
New Hampshire.
816,652 -7.2
145
10,935 - 8 . 1
243,813 -8.9'
480
18,209 -6.0
Vermont
412,320 -6.5
Massachusetts...
504,602 -1.4 11,999,454 -2.3$ 1,741 301,081 -3.7 6,867,107 -4.r
1,250
421
73,937 - 3 . 9 1, 559,197 - 4 . 7
Rhode Island
92,918 -3.0 2,063,180 - 3 . 9
2,494 217,846
739 183,218
Connecticut
+.1 4, 522, 431 - . 1
+.5 5,460,171
+.1
Middle Atlantic
31, 887 2,
!, 275, 033 +1. 9 60,619,857 -1.5 5,421 1,347, 389
5 35i, 377, 786 - 3 . a
!8,292,
575
15, 183,502
20,330 1,006,423
New York
2 2,224 480,919
9,442, 513 -3*. 2 *844 270, 569 +1.7 6,842,396 -4.5
4,272 364,170 +2.
New Jersey
15,351,888 *-5.5
7,285 904,440 +1. 9 22,884,769 -3.3 2,353 595,901
Pennsylvania
', 511, 329 -2.4 8,351 , 887,486 - . 3 52,!, 427,020 - 3 . 9
East North Central- 23,769 2,457,',784
-S.9
Ohio
7,702 667,919 +1. 3 18,248, 219 -2.7 2,573 506, 517
8 .1,174,648
14,
0 7,822,820
2,568 297, 951 +2.0
-.9
915 243,629 +1.8 6,514,375 -1.6
Indiana
-1.1
3
18,200,600
676,139
12,786,946
-.1
478,831
5
6,301
Illinois
8 12,
8,441
+1.
464,072 +1. 14,006,350 -7.8
3,817 555,716 - 2 . 3 16,662,874 -5.1
Michigan
983
4-2.4
6,576,816
260,059
-1.8
194,937
4,944,701
6
3,381
Wisconsin
+1.3
-4.5
7
1,
1,953,755 -2.0
227,179 1+I.6 5,405, 539 -- 43 .. 17
West North Central. 11, 374 451,171
+ 2 10,5
2,169
96,164 -1.0 2,488,467 -1.5 2,405
Minnesota
46,
290
- 2 . 0 1,156,336 +3.2
422
68,797 +3.8 1, 651,704 +1.8
40,f'" - 5 . 7 1,005,979 - 8 . 7
Iowa
1,706
411
4,230,842 -5.1
99,
715
3,028 178,839
Missouri
+5.1 2, 208,319 - 8 . 4
871
670 - 3 . 4
18,953 +2.5
512
5,297 +i!o 134,352 +1.1
North Dakota...
56
202,187 (8)
1,947
51,365 - 1 . 3
458
7,801
South Dakota
+.2
-10.3
37
0
11,447
289,398
1,547
33,545 +1.4 805,764
Nebraska
a
156
+'.1
675,189
60,728 *-3.8 1,440,439 *+'.l 452
26,1 '
Kansas—
South Atlantic
11,194 893,309
+. 4 18,068, 707 -1.4 2,803 600, 275 -.4 11,159,221 - 3 . a
435,395 -3.2
14,067 -4.2
Delaware217
18,420
319,394 - 3 . 7
1,627 144,481
Maryland
+.8 8,508,826 —1.8
101, r
2,437,441
District of Co1,086
40,936 +3.0 1,061,125 +1.1
36
3,567 +1.7
123,817 +3.2
lumbia
-.1 2,356, 582 -3.8
2,151 121,170
84,240 - 1 . 3 1,581,304 - 6 . 3
476
Virginia-.+.6
+.2
1,263
161,883
-1.1
62,
303
1,621,976
-5. 6
4,160,473
254
West Virginia
2 2, 629,486 - . 3
2 2,367,436
—.4
583 152,432
North Carolina-. 1,457 167,428
785
69,
798
1,002,989
2. 5
-2.0
78,403
1,166,956
212
-.7
-!3
South Carolina _.
1,519 119,794
92, 708 +.3 1, 359, 575 - 1 . 9
1,966,383 —1.1
377
Georgia
19,832
40, 854 +L4
345, 289
+.2
788,981
196
+.7
Florida
4,631 313,851
East South Central+.8 5, 984, 906
1,002 198, 329 +.2 3, 599, 879 - 1 . 5
92,504 +1.2 2,015,254
1,330
296
39,464
830,970 -2.9Kentucky
2,026,015
381
1,421 110, 697
82, 941 +.9 1,482,445
Tennessee
+.a
240
92,441
1,642,645 -2.0
1,277
65, 735 -.7 1,134,986 - 3 . 1
Alabama
85
10,189 +5.9
151,478 +1.6
603 18, 209 +3:7 300, 992 +.9
Mississippi
West South Central
4,707 213, 860 +1.5 4,898,393
- . 3 1,102 105, 908 +.9 2,313,051 -1.3
Arkansas.
23,454
+.6 189 16,113
270,436 +•*
+.1 421,613
50, 337 +1.9 982, 705 +1.1
Louisiana
235
27, 730 +l'
491,414 +1.6
45,029
-1.8
1,359
140
Oklahoma
1,130,347
12,867 + ()
310,405 - 5 . 0
+.1
95, 040
Texas
__.
2,863, 728 -.3
538
49,196 +1.1 1,240, 796 -1.8
4,375 151, 530 +2.6 3, 999, 997 -.7
Mountain
572 46, 841 +2.8 1,169, 734 -3.8
Montana
678
22, 618
680,515
-.6
80
152,480
5,361 - 3 . 2
449
Idaho...
_.
11, 628 +4.4 323, 683 +1.2
53
3,573 +2.8
102,058 - 1 . 5
340
40
Wyoming
10,156 +4.8 293, 696 +6.7
+1.3
60,058 - 3 . 1
1,238
190
Colorado
50, 240 +3.8 1,234, 954 -2.2
20^ 030 +4.1 489, 963 - 6 . 1
312
-.3
32
New Mexico
7,435 +1.2 164,115
879
17,089 - 2 . 5
474
562,279 -5.2
41
Arizona
20,014 -1.0
3,597 -2'. 4
90,069 - 8 . 4
674
113
Utah
25, 701 +4.3 629,632 +2.3
230,742 +2.0
10,553 +6.5
210
111, 123 -2.2
22
3,738 +2.1
27, 275 -5.5
Nevada
915
+•4
8,535 472,029
Pacific
+.5 12, 761, 919 -3.6 2,351 281,818
- . 2 7,306,447 -6. a
3,044 115,822 +9.1 3,008, 551
569
Washington
69, 383 +11.
1, 704, 679
-.9
1,354
63, 593 +4.6 1, 644, 528
30,
Oregon...
39, 502 +6.
985, 904 - 1 . 0
California
'• 4,137 298, 614 -.3 8,108,840 -5.6 1,477 172,933 -5.7 4,615,864 -8.6
1
Includes banks and trust companies, construc6 Includes construction but not public works.
7
tion, municipal, agricultural, and office employment,
Does not include logging.
8
amusement and recreation, professional services,
Less than 1/10 of 1 percent.
8
and
trucking
and
handling.
Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous
2
Includes laundering and cleaning, and water, services, and restaurants.
light
and power.
*° Includes automobile dealers and garages, and
3
Includes laundries.
sand,
gravel and building stone.
11
*{ Weighted percentage change.
Includes business and personal service.
12
Includes automobile, and miscellaneous services,
Includes banks, insurance, and office employrestaurants, and building and contracting.
ment.
23
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL CITIES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in August and September
1937 is made for 13 cities which had a population of 500,000 or over
in 1930. The figures represent reports from cooperating establishments and cover both full- and part-time workers in miscellaneous
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries as well as in the
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 4
except building construction.
TABLE 9.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
August and September 1937, by Principal Cities
Number
Percentage
on pay roll
September
1937
change
from August 1937
15,129
4,465
2,359
1,654
2,959
671,937
510,420
219,490
348,123
159, 541
+3.2
+1.3
+1.0
+5.7
$17,962, 665
14, 612, 786
5,897,003
11,049,929
4,433,997
+0.6
Cleveland, Ohio
St. Louis, Mo
Baltimore, Md
Boston, Mass
Pittsburgh, Pa
1,771
1,561
1,174
3,723
1,236
148, 699
142,446
105, 312
192, 099
232,967
+2.1
4,141,445
3,508,988
2, 626,832
4,794,488
6,568,813
-1. 5
-6.1
-1.3
-.6
-6.9
San Francisco, Calif.
Buffalo, N. Y
Milwaukee, Wis
1,677
785
1,035
93,808
71, 339
114, 240
2,767,320
2,076,136
3,044,723
-1.3
-3.1
-.1
City
New York, N . Y . . . .
Chicago, 111
Philadelphia, Pa
Detroit, Mich
Los Angeles, Calif...
-.2
-1.5
+1.9
+.6
+.8
+.6
+.9
+5.2
Amount of Percentage
change
pay roll (1
week) Sep- from Autember 1937 gust 1937
-.1
-1.4
—7.1
-2.8
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment in the regular agencies of the Government, employment on
the various construction programs wholly or partially financed by
Federal funds, and employment on relief-work projects.
Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administration
are those projects authorized by Title II of the National Industrial
Eecovery Act of June 16, 1933. This program of public works was
extended to June 30, 1937, by the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935 and Title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of
1936. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, reappropriated unobligated funds originally made available under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935 and authorized the use of $300,000,000
from funds on hand or received from the sale of securities. The
Public Works Administration was continued until July 1, 1939, by the
Public Works Extension Act of 1937.
24
By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President, in a series of Executive orders,
inaugurated a broad program of works to be carried out by 61 units
of the Federal Government. The Works Program was continued by
Title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, and was further
continued by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937.
Employment created by this program includes employment on Federal
projects and employment on projects operated by the Works Progress
Administration. Federal projects are those conducted by Federal
agencies which have received allotments from The Works Program
fund. Projects operated by the Works Progress Administration are
those projects conducted under the supervision of the Works Progress
Administration with the cooperation of States, cities, or counties.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, created in April 1933, was further
extended under the authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935. During the fiscal year 1937 the Civilian Conservation
Corps was continued from appropriations authorized by the First
Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936. Beginning with July 1, 1937,
the Civilian Conservation Corps was continued for 3 years by an act
of Congress.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service
of the Federal Government in August and September 1937 are given
in table 10.
T A B L E 10.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the U. S. Government^
August and September 1937l
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Item
Entire service:
Total
Regular appropriation
E mergency appropriation
Force-account
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
Regular appropriation...
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total
Regular appropriation...
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
_
_
_
Pay rolls
Percentage
change September
August *
August a
836,173
843,082
-0.82
$125,897,930
$126, 541, 673
-0.51
700,155
71,691
64,327
703,459
76, 359
63, 264
-.47
-6.11
+1.68
108,180,115
9,699, 853
8,017,962
108,400, 435
10, 269, 788
7,871,450
+1.86
111, 608
111, 591
+.02
19,610,094
19, 512, 247
+.50
91,710
14,197
5,701
91,333
14, 596
5,662
+.41
-2.73
16, 314, 674
2,320, 860
876, 713
+1.18
+.69
16, 506, 536
2, 264,081
839,477
724, 565
731,491
-.95
106, 287,836
107,029,426
—.69
608,445
57, 494
58, 626
612,126
61,763
57, 602
-.60
-6.91
91, 673, 579
7, 435,772
7,178,485
92,085,761
7, 948, 928
6,994, 737
+2.63
+1.78
1 Data includes number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
2 Revised.
Percentage
change
September
-.20
-5.55
-2.45
-4.25
-.45
-6.46
25
The monthly record of employment in the executive service of
the United States Government from September i936 to September
1937, inclusive, is shown in table 11.
TABLE 11.—Employment in the Executive Service of the U. S. Government, by Months,
September 1936 through September 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Month
Outside
District District
of
of
Columbia Columbia
Total
Month
September..
October
November. _
December..
115,050
114,783
115,174
116,345
718,990
724, 361
722,098
712,962
834,040
839,144
837, 272
829,307
1937—Continued
March
April
May
_
June 2
1937
January
February. __
116, 259
116, 259
713,924
710,462
830,183
826,721
July 2
August2
September..
i From June 1937 data include number of employees I
receiving pay during the last pay period of the month. |
Outside
District District
of
of
Columbia Columbia
Total
116,535
116, 755
116, 274
112,118
713,047
718,884
724,247
758,144
829,582
835, 639
840, 521
870,262
.111,288
111,591
111, 608
737,925
731,491
724, 565
849, 213
843, 082
836,173
2 Revised.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS
ADMINISTRATION
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during September on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 12, by type of project.
Federal construction projects for which data are included in tables
12 and 13 are financed by allotments made by the Public Works
Administration to the various agencies and departments of the Federal
Government from funds provided under the National Iudustrial
Recovery Act, The major portion of the low-cost housing program
now under way, however, is financed by funds provided under the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The work is performed
either by commercial firms which have been awarded contracts, or by
day labor hired directly by the Federal agencies.
Non-Federal projects are financed by allotments made by the
Public Works Administration from funds available under either the
National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of
1936. Most of the allotments have been made to the States and their
political subdivisions, but occasionally allotments have been made to
commercial firms. In financing projects for the States or their
political subdivisions from funds appropriated under the National
Industrial Recovery Act, the Public Works Administration makes a
direct grant of not more than 30 percent of .the total labor and material
cost. When funds provided under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936 are
used to finance a non-Federal project, as much as 45 percent of the
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total cost may be furnished in the form of a grant. The remaining
55 percent or more of the cost is financed by the recipient. When
circumstances justify such action, the Public Works Administration
may provide the grantee with the additional funds by means of a loan.
Allotments to commercial enterprises are made only as loans. All
loans made by the Public Works Administration carry interest charges
and have a definite date of maturity. Collateral posted with the
Public Works Administration to secure loans may be offered for sale
to the public. In this way a revolving fund is provided which
enlarges the scope of the activities of the Public Works Administration.
TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, September 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per
hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds
All projects
Building construction
Naval vessels4
Public roads
•
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
3 28, 701
26,890
$2, 909, 749
3, 785, 002
$0. 769
$3,070, 541
4,239
7, 243
(6)
2,470
5,841
98
9
306
3,608
7,005
8,495
2,262
5,156
527, 214
939,153
492, 250
293,369
624, 698
7,433
168
25, 464
491,640
., 113, 671
949,328
370,921
818,270
9,090
1.072
.843
.519
.791
.763
.818.602
.801
582,150
605,717
600,000
772,952
493,950
5,311
0
10,461
267
279
31,803
Non-Federal projects financed from N . I . R. A. funds
All projects
Building construction.
Railroad construction
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous
23, 454
277
2,165
9,199
1,910
19, 521 $2, 090, 320
8,097
277
1,654
7,913
1,580
852,967
1, 859
150, 623
971,801
113,070
2,185, 854
$0. 956
$4,391,418
3,450
195, 242
972,451
205,846
1. 055
.539
.771
.999
.549
2,110,939
0
209, 629
1,762, 458
Projects financed from E . R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds 8
All projects i
Building construction 7
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood c o n t r o l Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
114,803
61, 233
556
6, 393
912
209
23, 651
20, 630
1,219
1 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public road's.
4
Estimated by the Bureau of Public Roads.
» Not available; weekly average included in total
for6 all projects.
These data are also included in separate tables
covering projects financed by The Works Program.
95, 262 $9, 309,180 11, 411,949 $0. 816 $16,065,674
50, 574
417
5, 524
760
176
19, 301
17, 630
880
5, 392, 292 5, 744, 700
32, 860
43,010
556, 663
733, 695
94, 780
114, 827
9,881
21,374
1, 374, 488 2,341, 284
1, 738,659 2,292,324
109, 557
120, 735
.939
.864
.759
.825
.462
.587
.758
.907
8,634,265
74,448
1,872,114
78, 800
3,572
2,326,907
2,376,431
699,137
7
Includes a maximum of 13,331 and an average of
11,052 employees working on low-cost housing projects
financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 funds who were paid
$1,554,058 for 1,527,027 man-hours of labor. Material
orders in the amount of $1,569,682 were placed for
these projects. These data are also included in
separate tables covering projects financed from The
Works Program.
27
Commercial loans have been made, for the most part, to railroads.
Railroad work financed by loans made by the Public Works Administration falls under three headings: First, construction work in the
form of electrification, the laying of rails and ties, repairs to buildings,
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and
third, locomotive and passenger- and freight-car building in commercial
shops.
MONTHLY TREND
A summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed from Public Works Administration funds from July
1933 to September 1937, inclusive, is given in table 13.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1933 to September 1937, Inclusive, on
Projects Financed From Public Works Administration Funds 1
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number
of wage2
earners
Year and month
July 1933
to September 1937, inclusive 3 4_
July to December 1933, inclusive
January to December 1934, inclusive--.
January to December 1935. inclusive 33.
January to December 1936, inclusive .
January 3___
February 3 .
March3 3___.
April
May 3
J u n e33
July 3
August
September 3
1937
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
$990,930,143
1,462,313, 413
Average
earnings
per hour
$0. 680
33, 244, 066
308, 311,143
270, 505, 555
242, 768,950
62, 209, 479
523, 561. 666
392, 066, 554
316, 666,182
.534
.589
15, 439,981
13, 796, 390
13, 353, 904
15, 242, 390
15, 850, 554
16, 430, 649
16, 250, 846
15, 426, 466
14, 309, 249
18, 768, 676
16, 580, 393
16, 341, 250
19, 068, 352
19,984, 975
20, 510, 465
20, 057, 290
19,115, 326
17, 382, 805
.823
.832
.817
.799
.793
.801
.810
.807
.823
202,175
175, 990
173, 574
192, 201
206, 019
204, 098
198, 483
187, 822
166,958
12 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work. Includes weekly
average
for public-roads projects.
3
Includes employees working on non-Federal
projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936
.767
Value of material orders
placed
$1, 752, 090,572
75, 524, 702
s 611, 051, 090
6 439, 210,679
5 401,387, 008
26,922, 308
19, 390, 733
20, 652, 435
25, 885, 173
31, 727, 717
26,151, 770
24,945,172
25, 714,152
23, 527, 633
funds and low-cost housing projects financed from
E. R. A. A. 1935 funds. These data are also included
in separate tables covering projects financed by The
Works
Program.
4
Revised.
5
Includes orders placed by railroads for new equipment.
THE WORKS PROGRAM
A detailed record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on projects financed by The Works Program in September is shown in
table 14, by type of project.
28
TABLE 14.—Employment
and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Program*
September 1937
x
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number
of manhours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects
All projects
Building construction
Electrification
Forestry
Grade-crossing elimination 3
Hydroelectric power plants
Plant, crop, and livestock conservation
Professional, technical, and clerical
Public roads
_-_•
Reclamation
River, harbor, andfloodcontrol
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
193,114
49, 685
176, 268 $11, 500, 978 20, 583, 498
46,888
12, 632
16, 933
1,823
11,451
13, 829
1,722
3,364, 548
68,864
586,458
1,072,158
49,746
17, 566
6,770
21,612
46, 701
11,612
3,726
946
2,110
15, 745
6,767
17, 612
44, 987
10,409
3,382
816
1,851
756,175
534,178
1,194, 548
2,889, 414
682,154
178, 277
24,124
100,334
orvQ
QQC
$0. 559
$5, 566,224
5, 207, 986
121, 576
1, 273,415
1, 646, 657
183, 313
.646
.566
.461
.651
.271
618, 636
259, 306'
103, 378
1,463, 34912,234
2,144, 683
858,426
2,145, 845
5, 355,981
981,921
364, 371
94, 764
204, 560
.353
.622
.557
.539
.695
.489
.255
.490
88,112
69,952
1, 542, 786982, 078
299,036*
33, 391
15, 578
78, 388
P. W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds *
All projects
Building construction
Electrification
_
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, andfloodcontrol
Streets and roads
..
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
114,803
61, 233
556
6,393
912
209
23, 651
20, 630
1,219
95,262
$9, 309,180
11,411, 949
50, 574
417
5,524
760
176
19, 301
17, 630
880
5, 392, 292
32, 860
556, 663
94, 780
9,881
1, 374, 488
1, 738, 659
109, 557
5,744,700
43, 010
733, 695
114, 827
21, 374
2,341, 284
2, 292, 324
120,735
$0. 816 $16, 065, 674
.939
.864
.759
.825
.462
.587
.758
.907
8, 634, 26574,448
1,872,114
78, 800?
3,572"
2, 326, 907
2, 376,431
699,137"
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration *
All projects.
Conservation
Highway, road, and street
Housing
_
Professional, technical, and clerical..
Public buildings
Publicly owned or operated
utilities.
Recreational facilities 7
Sanitation and health
Sewing, canning, gardening, etc
Transportation
_
Not elsewhere classified
1, 536, 029
60, 576
548, 632
3,298
181, 249
159,129
141, 849
134, 139
47, 228
180, 265
27,760
51,904
1
Unless otherwise noted, data are for the month
ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month on Federal projects and P. W. A.
projects by each contractor and Government agency
doing force-account work.
* These data are for projects under construction in
Puerto Rico.
$81, 250,907 153,858, 375
2, 871, 111
25, 639, 819
198, 815
13,112,240
9,478,860
7, 666,941
7, 859,048
2,038,297
8,096, 271
1,615,779
2,673,726
5, 622, 005
54,027,412
298, 789
19, 541, 046
14,137, 701
14,064, 229
13, 040,907
4, 658,946
20, 026,009
2,756, 585
5,684,746
$0. 528
.511
.475
.665
.671
.670
.545
.603
.438
.404
.586
.470
4
Includes data for 101,472 employees working on
non-Federal projects and 13,331 employees working
on low-cost housing projects. These data are included in separate tables covering projects under the
jurisdiction of P. W. A.
« Data are for the calendar month.
» Data on a monthly basis are not available.
7
Exclusive of buildings.
29
Statistics on employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
National Youth Administration work projects and Student Aid in
September are shown in table 15, by type of project.
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects
Financed by The Works Program, September 1937 x
[Subject to revision]
Type of program
Total
Work projects
Student Aid-
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
162, 700 $2,358,000
6,445,000
$0. 366
2,207,000
151,000
5, 795,000
650,000
.381
.232
126, 700
36,000
1 These data are for the calendar month.
Data are not available on a monthly basis.
2
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
persons
employed
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
I 3 No expenditures for materials on this type of
I project.
MONTHLY TREND
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects financed
by The Works Program from the beginning of the program in July
1935 to September 1937, inclusive, are given in table 16.
Table 17 shows the employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on work projects of the National Youth Administration from January
1936 to September 1937, inclusive. Similar data for Student Aid
projects are shown from September 1935 to September 1937, inclusive.
30
TABLE 16.—Employment
and Pay Rolls, July 1935 to September 1937, Inclusive, on
Projects Financed by The Works Program *
[Subject to revision]
Month and year
Maximum
number
employed2
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average Value of
earnings material orper hour ders placed
Federal projects
July 1935 to September 1937, inclusive.
$382,707,701
July to December 1935
January to December 1936
1937
813,235,326
$0. 471 $241,732,721
34,813, 554
228,024, 201
77, 558, 683
501, 501, 344
.449
.455
34,358,011
142,937,728
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
328,867
267, 525
249,690
254, 524
266, 686
284,893
15, 652,964
13,024,133
12, 504,895
13,432, 725
14,154,856
14,794,640
32,064, 351
27, 260, 313
25, 666,281
26, 680, 307
27,170, 573
28,754,978
.488
.478
.487
.503
.521
.515
7,595,246
6,874,851
7,356,372
6,901, 508
7,563, 201
8,608, 759
July
August
September.
262, 487
207, 331
193,114
12, 799, 774
12,004, 981
11,500,978
24, 371, 372
21, 623, 626
20, 583, 498
.525
.555
.559
7,041, 736
6,929,085
5,566,224
P. W. A. projects Enanced from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds 3
July 1935 to September 1937, inclusive.
July to December 1935.
January to December 1936..
1937
$194, 783, 405
251, 783, 337
1,089, 510
106, 441, 300
1, 657,968
142,082, 051
.657
.749
2,061, 700
212,853, 501
$0. 774 $371, 708,194
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
131,153
115, 214
113,930
129,887
139, 561
141, 708
9,346, 663
8,428, 606
8, 254, 306
9, 618, 255
10, 339,137
10,960,950
31,390,883
10, 212, 726
10,147, 405
12, 027, 623
13, 049,326
13,655,399
.821
. 825
.813
.800
.792
.803
16, 361, 268
13, 543, 480
14,486,389
18,563,586
20,996,436
18,813,454
July
August
September..
139,701
131, 547
114, 803
10,811,528
10,183, 970
9, 309,180
13, 339, 272
12,808, 735
11,411,949
.811
.795
.816
18, 542,402
19,420,304
16,065,674
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration *
July 1935 to September 1937, inclusive .
6
July to December 1935 .
January to December 1936 6 .
January 6_.6
February
March 6__.
Aprils
May«
June 8
$2, 769,850,851 5, 825,429, 706
$0. 475
238,018,075
570,184,607
1, 592,942,964 3,432, 621,686
.417
.464
$842,953,628
1937
Julys
August
September.
2, 243, 545
2,255,067
2, 216,499
2, 201, 404
2,133,472
2, 020, 218
115,065,444
116, 256, 506
117,124,860
114, 004, 768
112,382,869
106,975,172
223, 245,896
230, 853,339
230,166,494
225. 291, 463
217, 780, 857
205,215, 318
.515
.504
.509
.506
.516
.521
1,802,659
1, 601, 054
1, 536, 029
92,967, 642
82,861, 644
81, 250, 907
177,161,345
159, 050, 326
153,858, 375
.525
.521
.528
1 Unless otherwise noted data are for the month
ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month on Federal projects and P. W. A. projects by each contractor and Government agency
doing force-account work.
3 These data are included in tables covering projects under the jurisdiction of the Public Works
Administration. The data for September include
101,472 employees working on non-Federal projects
and 13,331 employees working on low-cost housing
projects.
4
These data are for a calendar month and exclude
both work projects and Student Aid projects of the
National Youth Administration which appear in
a separate
table.
5
Data on a monthly basis are not available.
Includes rentals and services and some sponsors'
contributions.
6
Revised.
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TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls from Beginning of Program Through September
1937 on National Youth Administration Projects Financed by The Works Program x
[Subject to revision]
Month and year
Number of
persons
employed
Pay-roll
disburse-
Value of
material
orders
placed
Number of Average
man-hours earnings
worked
per hour
ments
Work projects
$54, 539, 580 144, 424, 204
January 1936 to September 1937, inclusive _
January to December 1936-.
$0. 378
28, 822,196
75,659,914
.381
2
$3,982,208
1937
January. _.
February..
March
April
May
June
184, 686
189, 228
191,569
191,982
184,173
170,472
3, 084, 561
3, 239, 694
3, 224,944
3,181, 627
3, 093, 750
2, 862, 654
8, 212. 091
8, 731, 727
8, 724, 840
8, 662, 278
8, 341, 895
7, 664,197
.376
.371
.370
.367
.371
.374
July
August
September..
149, 628
132, 787
126, 700
2, 480,982
2, 342,172
2, 207, 000
6, 538, 705
6, 093,557
5, 795, 000
.379
.384
.381
S t u d e n t Aid
September 1935 to September 1937, inclusive-
$50, 392, 887 167,369,995
$0. 301
6, 363, 503
25, 722,951
19, 612,976
84, 897, 469
.324
316
470
619
744
362
460
2,943, 731
3,161, 600
3, 290, 723
3, 302,100
3, 591, 961
1, 852, 006
10,142, 349
10,948,189
11, 384,181
11, 443, 240
12, 254, 712
5,978, 410
.290
.289
2,956
17
36, 000
13, 231
81
151, 000
58, 069
400
650, 000
.228
.203
.232
September to December 1935
January to December 1936
January. _.
February..
March
April
May
June
1937
July
August
September..
412,
417,
435,
434,
418,
240,
.293
.310
1
3
These data are for a calendar month.
No expenditures for materials on this type of
2 These data are not available on a monthly basis. project.
Includes rentals and services and some sponsors'
contributions.
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Statistics concerning employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps in August and September 1937 are presented in
table 18. The Civilian Conservation Corps is usually regarded as a
part of The Works Program, although it is now financed by a separate
appropriation.
Employment and pay-roll data for the Civilian Conservation Corps
are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce,
and the Department of the Interior. The monthly pay of the enrolled personnel is $30 per month. However, assistant leaders, not
to exceed 10 percent of the total number of enrollees, may receive
up to $36 per month, and leaders, not to exceed 6 percent, may receive
up to $45 per month.
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TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, August and
September 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
September
August
All groups
289,167
327,381
Enrolled personnel 3
Reserve officers
Nurses *
Educational advisers 4
Supervisory and technical *
238,627
6,696
259
1,857
41, 728
274, 258
7,183
301
1,882
2 43, 756
September
$14,942,683
7, 559, 583
1,775,997
27,444
310,468
5, 269,191
August
2
$16,380,020
2
8,593, 241
1,893, 670
32 111
316,494
5,550, 508
1 Data on number of employees refer to employ3 September data include 3,095 enrollees and pay
ment on last day of month. Amounts of pay rolls roll of $64,670; August, 2,854 enrollees and pay roll of
$67,748
outside continental United States.
are2 for the entire month.
4
Included in executive service, tables 10 and 11.
Revised.
Monthly statistics of employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps from September 1936 to September 1937, inclusive, are given in table 19.
TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, by Months*
September 1936 Through September 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of
employees
Month
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
employees
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
307,337
369, 309
348,905
323,626
348,779
327,381
289,167
$15,770, 090
17, 502,905
16,719,019
16,085,832
16,851,511
2
16,380,024
14,942,683
1937 -Continued
1936
September
October
November
December
January
February
Month
1937
318, 707
402,669
389,122
374, 744
$16,005, 247
17, 292,812
18,232,391
17,738,965
407, 723
394, 521
18,650,537
18,314,594
i Data on number of employees refer to employ-1
ment on last day of month. Amounts of pay rolls
are for entire month.
I
March
April
May..
_
June
July
August
September
2 Revised.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED
BY RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in September are presented in table 20, by type of project.
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TABLE 20.—Employment
and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, September 1937 *
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
Number of
wage
earners 2
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
All projects
3,215
8,114
523,337
$0. 856
$795,313
Building construction
Water and sewerage. _
M iscellaneous
262
2,795
158
21, 546
414,933
11,635
24,890
482, 244
16, 203
.866
.860
.718
104, 567
682,720
8,026
1
2
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
3 Includes 130 employees; pay-roll disbursements
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of $13,509; 10,921 man-hours worked; and material
>at the month by each contractor.
orders placed during the month amounting to $10,864
on projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co.
A monthly summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation from September 1936 to September 1937, inclusive, is given in table 21.
TABLE 21.—Employment
and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, September 1936 Through September 1937 *
[Subject to revision]
Month
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
10, 290 $1,085,642
8,864
1,002,648
9,611
1,108,258
9,189
1,106,816
1, 510,109
1,347, 317
1, 502,460
1, 514, 355
1.719
.744
.738
.731
$1, 4L0, 444
1,298,643
3,008,077
1,433,075
Number
of wage
earners 2
Average
earnings
per hour
1936
SeptemberOctober
NovemberDecember..
1937
January. _.
February..
March
April
May
June
8,232
7,299
7,696
8,226
5,847
4,898
968,077
864,776
929,032
1,041,280
790,018
690,822
1,300,989
1,150, 721
1,191,977
1, 295,053
967,273
823, 541
.744
.752
.779
.804
.817
.839
2,329,944
1,018,058
1,138,460
1,023,599
902, 762
835,382
July...
August
September.
4,099
4,065
3,215
574, 541
585, 510
448,114
670,956
681,692
523,337
.856
.859
.856
620,736
1,632, 503
795,313
1
Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co. I 2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month.
Data are for month ending on the 15th.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR FEDERAL
APPROPRIATIONS
Whenever a construction contract is awarded or force-account work
Is started by a department or agency of the Federal Government, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is immediately notified, on forms supplied
by the Bureau, of the name and address of the contractor, the amount
oi the contract, and the type of work to be performed. Blanks are
34
then mailed by the Bureau to the contractor or Government agency
doing the work. These reports are returned to the Bureau and show
the number of men on pay rolls, and the amounts disbursed for pay,
the number of man-hours worked on the project, and the value of the
different types of materials for which orders were placed during the
month.
The following tables present data concerning construction projects
for which contracts have been awarded since July 1, 1934. The
Bureau does not have statistics covering projects financed from regular
Federal appropriations for which contracts were awarded previous
to that date.
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations
during September are given in table 22, by type of project.
TABLE 22.—Employment on Construction Projects Financed From Regular Federal
Appropriations, by Type of Project, September 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
All projects
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
197,767 $21,667,700
Number of
man-hours Average
worked
earnings
during
per hour
month
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
31,476,926
$31,993,137
Building construction
Electrification
Forestry
Heavy engineering.
Naval vessels
18,016
2,859
116
34
40,635
14, 703
2,338
109
25
39,976
1, 652,558
188,101
8,351
2,523
5,471,227
.547
.464
.856
2,762,079
1,290,782
1,156
615
4,009,422
Public roads *.
__.
Reclamation
_..
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads._
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
()
95,407
12, 647
28,129
2,006
259
2,168
9,296,589
1,509,381
3, 226,870
132, 728
21,500
157,872
.591
.741
.675
.502
.727
.784
11,331,546
6,431.274
5,410, 274
239,899
33,500
482,590
13,164
31,520
2,201
319
2,392
1
3
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
3 Includes weekly average for public roads.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week
* Estimated by the Bureau of Public Roads.
of the month by each contractor and Government
«Not available; weekly average included in total
agency doing force-account work.
for all projects.
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on construction
projects financed from regular Federal appropriations from September
1936 to September 1937, inclusive, are shown by months in table 23.
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TABLE 23.—Employment on Construction Projects Financed from Regular Federal
Appropriations, September 1936 Through September 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Month
1936
September
October
November
December
Monthlypay-roll
disbursements
Number
of wage
earners 2
July.
August
September
_
Average
earnings
per hour
" Value of
material
orders
placed during month
166,902
175,071
152,513
144, 274
$14,846,961
16,931,017
13,766, 630
13,491, 223
22,475,820
25, 505,296
20,375,741
19,164, 694
$0,661
.664
.676
.704
$22,164,997
20, 357,778
16,370,640
16,009,255
119,853
112, 770
120,175
132,639
160,346
177, 265
11,857,007
10,904,648
11,847, 783
13,855,633
15,278,529
16,980,060
16,506,278
14, 735,028
16,280,905
19,545,518
21,858,124
24,532,459
.718
.740
.728
.709
.699
.692
11,729, 532
13,613, 251
12,820,438
15, 572,168
18,508,278
19,574,535
193, 695
204,174
206,663
19,599,384
19,571,849
21, 667,700
29, 236,412
28,396,014
31,476,926
.670
.689
.688
24,485,499
29,665,521
31,993,137
1937
January
February
March
April
May
June
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
I of the month by each contractor and Government
* Maximum number employed during any 1 week | agency doing force-account work.
STATE-ROAD PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of State roads from September 1936 to
September 1937, inclusive, is presented in table 24.
TABLE 24.—Employment on Construction and Maintenance of State Roads, September
1936 Through September 1937 1
[Subject to revision
Number of employees working on 2—
Month
Total pay
roll
New roads
Maintenance
34,459
34,136
27,988
21,394
151,772
149, 717
153,688
138,540
186, 231
183,853
181,676
159,934
$11,806,481
11, 566,892
11,330,509
10, 000,371
January
February
March
April
May
June
15,622
11,706
11,802
13,164
17,241
19,382
117,576
120,786
119,046
124,761
159,167
148,392
133,198
132,492
130,848
137,925
176,408
167,774
8, 387,864
8, 560,561
8,333,600
9,108, 030
10,850,394
11,069,510
July
August .
September
25,140
28,379
26,632
149,907
160,143
167,028
175,047
188,522
193,660
11,998,370
12,815,790
12,843,370
September
October
November
December
1936
Total
1937
i Excluding employment furnished by projects
financed from Public Works Administration and
Works Progress Administration funds. Data are for
the month ending on the 15th.
2 Monthly average.
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MATERIAL ORDERS PLACED
The value of material orders placed on construction projects financed
by Federal funds in the third quarter of 1937 * is presented in table 25.
In the third quarter of 1937 on the Public "Works Administration
program, orders have been placed for materials valued at approximately $74,187,000. Of this amount, $21,136,000 has been expended
for iron and steel products, $5,733,000 for cement, $6,000,000 for forest
products, and $9,979,000 for machinery.
On projects operated by the "Works Progress Administration, material orders placed in the third quarter of 1937 amounted to $58,025,000. Previous sections of this report have shown the number
of workers employed at the site of construction projects financed
from Federal funds. The direct employment, however, is only a
partial picture, as the manufacturer of the materials used on the
projects also creates a large amount of employment.
It is estimated that in fabricating the materials used on the various
programs (table 3) approximately 662,000 man-months of labor have
been, or will be created. This includes only the labor required in the
fabrication of material in the form in wilich it is to be used. No
estimate is made of the labor required in producing the raw material
or in transporting it to the point of manufacture. In manufacturing
structural steel, for example, the only labor included is that occurring
in the fabricating mills; no estimate is made for the labor created in
mining, smelting, and transporting the ore; nor for the labor in the
blast furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces, and the blooming mills.
The information concerning man-months of labor created in fabricating materials is obtained by sending a questionnaire to each firm
receiving an award for materials to be financed from Federal or State
funds. The manufacturer is requested to make an estimate of the
number of man-hours created in his plant in manufacturing the
materials specified in the contract. For materials purchased directly
by contractors, the Bureau estimates the man-months of labor created.
This estimate is based upon the findings of the Census of Manufactures for 1935.
The value of material orders placed on Federal professional, technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works Program, by type
of material, for the third quarter of 1937, the second quarter of 1937,
and the third quarter of 1936 is shown in table 26.
1
Unless otherwise specified, data presented in this | June 15, Sept. 15, and Dec. 15.
section are for quarterly periods ending on Mar. 15, |
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TABLE 25.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by Federal
Funds for the Third Quarter, 19371
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material
All materials..
Total
8 7,684,503
Forest products
Cork products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c.
Planing-mill products
Window and door screens and
weatherstrip
16,972,993
51,318
8, 428,824
2, 7.56, 713
14,516
8,341
28,590
7.013
9, 73fi
6, 739
224, 825
3,329
94
4,386
457
216
53,238
10
231
17, 798
404
3,154
19, 723
1,455
3,163
651
6, 040,194
34,513
3,988, 587
1, 943, 363
7,541
41,!
1,943
3,181,118
15, 522
2,822, 358
338,675
43.881
4,563
24, 366 • 7,376.934
4,515
1, 875
232
1,998
560
12,892
1,685
37
572
2, 050, 305
6 5,657,495
1,283
1,575,941
472, 732
349
78, 643
73, 731
736, 034
61.671
528,115
403, 887 • 1,687,128
11,580
37, 007
11,580
15,585
16,865
202. 664
489, 340
12
9,678
51,164
817
10, 0?l
19, 239
354. 321
144, 524
11,379
24, 699
182, 028
185, 781
478, 779 26,866,911
353
5, 237, 332
408, 222
806
382, 595 13, 400, 541
432,880
227
4,736 4, 269, 555
54,010
2,043
3,215
200,865
1,999,064
794, 874
594,085
13,488
2,225
154
1,360, 558
204, 251
84,970
2, 946
6, 697, 596
95,830
93
1,291, 963
56,975
807, 517
141, 205
78, 825
50,979, 58? 21,136, 256
651,152 15, 328, 599
70, 481
790,177
1, 864,974
6
229,508
2,244
8, 341
8. 907
6,146
4, 584
6,179
192, 210
189
57
3, 416.835
6
6 71,503,96:
Stone, clay, and glass products.
Asbestos products, n. e. c
8,883
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay
6, 248. 76'
products
Cement
26, 326, 660
Concrete products
6, 393. 052
Crushed stone
9, 595. 496
Glass
__
398, 028
Lime
51,016
Marble, granite, slate, and other
stone products
3, 798, 572
Minerals and earths, ground or
65,403
otherwise treated
Sand and gravel
14,802, 293
Tiling, floor and wall, and terrazzo..
687, 324
Wall plaster, wall board, insulating
board, and floor composition
1,027, 987
Iron and steel and their products,
not including machinery
Federal
construcRegular4 tion under Operated
by
The
Federal
W.P.A.«
Works
Program
$240,780,858 $74,185,957 $3, 048,560 $86,144,157 $19, 375,780 $58,025,404
Textiles and their products
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc
Carpets and nr/s
Cordage and twine
Cotton goods..Felt goods
Jute goods
Linoleum
Sacks and bags
Upholstering materials, n. e. c
Waste
—_
Chemicals and allied products
_
Ammunition and related products..
Chemicals, miscellaneous
Compressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
Paints and varnishes.
ReconPublic
Works struction
Finance
Administration 2 Corporation 3
2, 233, 609
62, 364
3,172,889
531, 711
1, 044, 512
617,688,905
624
2,031,445
4,811,692
1,867, 076
3,323,335
3, 554,875
4,606,841 6 9, 256,734
82,992
186,260
159, 090
Bolts, nuts, washers, etc
431,427
3, 085
170, 862 2,927,306
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
5,921,945 2,431,515
3,785
388,477
Doors, shutters and window sash
and frames, molding, and trim
36,421
(metal)
580, 343
1,813,231 1,193, 707
2,760
90,460
415,398
204, 324
Forgings, iron and steel
554
710, 736
305,142
369,136
Hardware, miscellaneous
1,890, 551 1,154, 720
61, 553
767,895
82,831
Heating and ventilating equipment.
3,
321,
527
7,734
4, 676, 39f
84, 589
127,721
29, 222
Naps and spikes
178
241, 71f
531
Rail fastenings, excluding spikes
8,497
9, 02F
3,709
Rails, steel
99,908
87,965
191, 582
Steel-works and rolling-mill prod519,637
ucts, n. e. c
211,010 2, 644,153
6, 588, 965 3, 214,165
Stoves and ranges, other than elec4,474
136
tric
__
8,367
977
1
15, 1934. Includes projects financed by RFC
This table includes certain items which12,are
not Mar.
Co.
actually construction materials, i. e., fuel, transpor- Mortgage
4
tation
equipment, tools, furniture, etc.
Does not include material orders placed on projects
2
Includes material orders placed on P. W. A. for which contracts were awarded before July 1, i934.
5 Includes material orders placed to June 30, 1937.
projects financed by the Emergency Relief ApproIncludes
National Youth Administration projects.
priation
Acts of 1935 and 1936.
6
3
Includes material orders placed for projects operDoes not include material orders placed on
projects for which contracts were awarded before ated by W. P. A. which are not classified in detail.
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TABLE 25.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by Federal
Funds for the Third Quarter, 1937—Continued
Projects
Type of material
Structural and reinforcing steel
Switches, railway
__.
Tools, other than machine tools
Wire products, n. e. c
..
Wrought pipe
Nonferrous metals and their products
Aluminum manufactures
Copper products
Lead products
Nonferrous-metal alloys and products, n. e. c
Sheet-metal work
Zinc products
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Electrical machinery,
apparatus,
and supplies
Elevators and elevator e q u i p m e n t . .
Engines, turbines, tractors, and
waterwheels
F o u n d r y and machine-shop products, n. e. c
Machine tools
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas
generators
P u m p s and pumping equipment
Refrigerators and refrigerating and
ice-making apparatus -
Transportation equipment, air,
land, and water
Boats, steel and wooden (small)
Carriages and wagons
Locomotives, steam
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, trucks
Miscellaneous.
Belting, miscellaneous
Coal
Creosote...
Electric wiring and fixtures
Furniture, including store and office
fixtures...
_
_
Instruments, professional and scientific.
_
Mattresses and bed springs
Models and patterns.
_
Paper products
Paving materials and mixtures,
n. e. c
Petroleum products
Photographic apparatus and materials
Plumbing supplies, n. e. c
Radio apparatus and supplies
Roofing materials, n. e. c
Rubber goods
Steam and other packing, pipe and
boiler covering, and gaskets
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment
Window shades and fixtures
Other materials
Total
Public
ReconWorks struction
Adminis- Finance
tration Corporation
$22,736, 701 $8,197,454
1,034
1,034
1,331,411
57,425
1,187,844
395,986
701, 291
545, 589
51,701,296
Regular
Federal
Federal
construction under Operated
by
The
W.P.A.
Works
Program
$284, 788 $8, 755, 643 $2,855,654
$2, 643,162
600
13,195
61,910
504, 528
529,856
84, 283
111,754
248,807
9,509
657,104
* 264, 514
23,908
324,112
208,884
104,027
213,163
39,610
35,367
154, 517
34, 299
21,823
64, 370
34,982
4,061
4,290
1,841
1,250
252, 530
826,105
1,347
96,289
558, 719
1,953
132
141,059
79,184
456
13,229
188,070
204
9,978,907 1,485,873 25,584,149
2,115,743
841,682,371
14,029, 542
711,319
879,878
2, 836,175
449,758
6,045,996
1,195,113
18,115,087
275,421
4, 572,809
111,058
50,858
2, 270,973
45, 268
672, 368
115, 040
96, 358
381,417
133,090
27,052
2,743
23,550
29, 725
298, 347
5,766
1. 755
23, 550
1,812
100, 207
46,457,898
711,142
8, 655, 593
258,169
660,049
3,392
8,435
« 2,517, 6
1,166, 583
4, 516,295
326,153
764,957 10, 566,404
129,591
175
927,936
34,597
4,910
1,436,202
680
161, 239
16,985
1,697
29,302
159,446
19, 625
1,661
3,208
6,469
21, 549
135, 248
56,423
13,821,054
299, 683 14, 248,613
4,568,976
13, 519,572
1,644
277, 756
6,682
7,585,952
753
26,922
5,017
2, 903,679
334
116, 624
71
4,057, 875
557
29,150
1,594
105,060
3, 268,964
2, 576,168
17,008
82, 744
8,879
15, 258
11,333
26, 350
6,176
15, 237
9,194
56, 249
2,703
18
1,160
145
3
979
9, 220,453
8, 267,167
1, 246, 650
1, 612, 205
1, 581, 613
4,078,116
738,733
1,086,706
5, 653,457
1,362, 250
37, 626
3, 651, 548
8,143
894,762
267,301
11, 740
2,223, 876
4,939
632, 014
47,978
25,383
466,398
3, 204
101,869
42, 206
503
401,895
550,323
159,451
50, 363
95, 519
268,125
207,174
60,168
783
78,838
78, 702
12, 426,021
75,832
2,110,312
1, 659
3, 635, 955
1,211
1, 481,950
1,164
3,156
3,156
17,653
127,890
9,056
1,428
31,235
112,421
1,282,981
56,423
606, 745
8,208
667, 580
5,085,383
"Includes material orders placed for projects operated by W. P. A. which are not classified in detail.
39
TABLE 26.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Federal Professional, Technical, and
Clerical Projects Financed by The Works Program
[Subject to revision]
Type of material
Third quarter of 1937
Second quarter of 1937
$161,265
$279,893
$406,929
352
2,825
35,529
6,502
270
866
72, 763
42,158
8,000
14,641
49,984
11,064
1,289
4,695
119, 614
70, 606
17,780
34,985
72,184
5,925
4,506
30,484
133,367
107,698
Total
Computing machines
Furniture.
_
Office supplies
Stationery_
Typewriters
Other office machines
Other materials
Rental of machinery and equipment
Third quarter of 1936
A cumulative total for rentals and services on projects operated by
the Works Progress Administration from July 1935 to December
1936, inclusive, and for the first, second, and third quarters of 1937,
is shown in table 27, by type of rental and service.
TABLE 27.—Rentals and Services on Projects Operated by the Works Progress
Administration
[Subject to revision]
July 1935
through
December
1936
Type of rental and service
First
quarter of
1937 !
Busses and autos
742,342
2,660, 632
2, 202,463
Teams and wagons
15,660,403
Trucks and vans
_.
__ 115,957,483 22,734,107
Paving, road-building, and construction equipment
54,855,178 13, 532,815
685,243
Other equipment (including office equipment)
5,844,836
Space rentals and services
_
_
_
5,812,968 2,043,446
Other services (including utilities)
11, 314, 268 4,210,498
1
Third
quarter of
1937 3
$212,105,768 $46,150,914 $39,128,795 $41,632,998
All rentals and services
2
Second
quarter2 of
1937
Quarterly period ending Mar. 31,1937.
Quarterly period ending June 30,1937.
565,237
1,313,122
18,160,926
11,723,627
836,416
2,359,897
4,169, 570
487,329
1,005,987
19,856,660
13,820,540
695,192
2,074, 500
3,692,790
3 Quarterly period ending Sept. 30, 1937.
Table 28 shows a cumulative total for rentals and services on work
projects of the National Youth Administration from the beginning of
the program in January to June 1937 and for the third quarter of 1937.
TABLE 28.—Rentals and Services on Work Projects of National Youth Administration
[Subject to revision]
Type of rental and service
All rentals and services
Busses and autos
Teams and wagons
._
Trucks and vans
Paving, road building, and construction equipment
Other equipment (including office equipment).
Space rentals and services
O ther services (including utilities)
i Quarterly period ending Sept. 30, 1937.
January 1936
quarter
through June Third
of 1937 i
1937
$1,009,400
$383,447
15,949
15,993
197,989
89, 987
172,896
378,444
138,142
5,564
4,172
76,991
26,972
39,974
174,049
55,725
40
In connection with the administration of the Walsh-Healey Act the
Bureau of Labor Statistics has been collecting data on supply contracts awarded by Federal agencies of the United States for the
manufacture or furnishing of materials, supplies, articles, and equipment in any amount exceeding $10,000.
Table 29 shows the cumulative total value of public contracts
awarded under the act for materials from September 28, 1936, to
December 1936, inclusive, and for the first, second, and third quarters
of 1937.
The first public contracts were awarded under the act in September
1936.
TABLE 29.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act
[Subject to revision]
Value of contracts awarded
Sept. 28,
1936,
through
Dec, 31,
1936 1
Type of materials
All materials
First
quarter of
1937 2
Second
quarter of
1937 3
Third
quarter of
1937*
$40,006, 772 $76, 439, 523 $93, 639,028 $41,67^,896
Food and kindred products.
Canned fruits and vegetables
Canned sea foods
Cereal preparations
Coffee
Condensed and evaporated milk
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowls.
Flour and other grain-mill products
Meat-packing products
__
Shortenings and vegetable cooking oil__
Sugar
Tea.
Miscellaneous subsistence stores and supplies.
Textiles and their products. _
1,425,903
4,066,107
3, 251,034
74, 377
265, 654
425,974
12,860
92,103
60,313
178,897
238,930
331,905
205, 364
130,514
16,421
84, 219
26, 826
633,803
329,639
392, 322
197, 533
367, 443
98,855
426,790
11,682
383,056
619,898
219,420
291,746
167, 541
385,122
208,205
1, 327, 242
746,595
~159~632
34,127, 602 11,046,925
7,508,110
6,501,319
2,437, 6
1, 249, 667
88, 251
12, 741
185,984
39, 559
218, 793
241,740
33,123
Canvas bags and covers
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers, etc.)
Cordage and twine, including thread
Cotton gloves
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.)
Cotton shirts
Furnishing goods, men's, n. e. c_
Hats.
Housefurnishing goods (pillow cases, sheets, etc.).
Knit goods (hosiery, underwear, etc.)
Oilcloth
Woolen goods (flannels, suiting, etc.)
Work clothing
Miscellaneous textile products
68,811
47,500
30,940
9,999
205, 292
312, 758
007, 447
286, 697
1,188, 794
182,853
243, 516
4,503,608
420, 241
367, 584
195, 576
351,651
493,858
267,403
3, 982, 293
236,045
404, 297
301, 435
34, 350
10,350
1,031,418
1,942,308
369, 572
2,678,756
1,125,423
106,210
77,366
576,922
330, 544 21, 208, 221
95,345
1,972, 042
46,548
780, 320
745, 299
745, 562
576,613
3,105,818
137,830
290, 765
Forest products
809, 202
822, 271
2, 526,955
444,922
Cork and cork products
Furniture
Lumber and limber products, u. e. c.
Planing-mill products
Treated lumber and timber
Miscellaneous forest products
15. 873
36, 460
392, 096
181,729
183, 044
47,378
462, 912
165, 638
130, 297
16,046
30, 658
1,236,910
701, 962
161, 226
242, 561
153,638
20.290
173, 213
251. 419
1 For period ending Dec. 31, 1936. Revised.
For period ending Mar. 31,1937. Revised.
2
.
3
4
18,975
155,917
26,102
21,910
1,864,872
For period ending June 30, 1937. Revised.
For period ending Sept. 30, 1937.
41
TABLE 29.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act—Continued
Value of contracts awarded
Sept. 28,
1936,
through
Dec. 31,
1936
Type of materials
Chemicals and allied products
Ammunition and related products.
Compressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
Linseed oil
Paints and varnishes.-.
Soap and soap chips
Miscellaneous chemicals..
Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum
Asphalt, oil, tar, and mixtures
Coal
Coke
Fuel oil
Gasoline
Lubricating oils and greases
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum productsLeather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
...
Boot and shoe cut stock
Gloves
Shoe upper leather
Miscellaneous leather goods-
products, not
—
$992,535
$1,133,495
$5,904,144
$2, 360,976
60, 971
4,177,458
234, 503
448, 529
62, 577
298,364
60,441
622, 272
1,034,660
498, 585
52, 663
67,135
74, 644
238, 537
37,044
32,080
114,105
59,557
205,427
327, 215
358, 067
11, 396,619
5, 096,152
23, 625,024
1, 727,312
1, 545, 987
29, 746
11, 335
5,123,845
4,660, 206
517,909
24,659
3,837, 954
635,690
25, 500
1, 701,792
2,816,825
13, 967
21, 000
9, 018,471
7,975, 746
1, 735, 211
421,952
399, 709
499,439
16,136
603,030
152,278
12,095
44,625
1, 237, 698
3,1C5,231
1,614,883
2,1767l70
1,026,156
2,939,380
15, 077
38,319
112,455
1,267, 538
" " 185," 798
161, 547
1, 767,361
103,479
29,380
257,275
18,675
2,284, 895
4, 568, 779
2, 751,114
115,883
855,820
517,767
220,697
444,669
40,000
72,315
56,001
75, 900
173, 759
448,900
103,490
16,155
11,711
39,161
13, 662
16, 397
15,119
59,480
124, 731
63,384
59,896
19,010
85, 366
139,386
101,189
2,260,425
169,384
324, 530
518,384
75,425
51, 557
164, 640
17,250
509, 934
85,840
16, 866
10,801
65, 036
26,282
171,520
365,630
1,68?, 376
14,360
50,295
150,161
10,800
41,868
516,196
34, 630
22, 778
239, 776
45, 622
204, 806
including
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Fencing materials..
_
Firearms and parts
_
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware, miscellaneous
_
Metal doors, sash, and frames
Metal furniture
_
—
Metal shingles and roofing
Pipe and fittings
Plumbing fixtures
Rails, steel.Railway tie plates
_
Reinforcing bars
_
Safes
Steel pipe
Steel sheets, plates, shapes, and strips
Stoves and ranges, other than electric
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet-steel piling..
Tools, other than machine tools
Wir&rope
Miscellaneous iron and steel products
Third
quarter of
1937
3,205, 890
D i r t fill
Glass..
Granite and marble
Riprap stone
Sand and gravel
Soil, black earth
Terracotta
Tile, clay
Tile, drain
Vitrified clay and terra-cotta pipe
Miscellaneous stone, clay, and glass products
their
Second
quarter of
1937
38,882
90,325
82,335
Stone, clay, and glass products..
Brick
_—
Cement
_.
Concrete pipe
Concrete, ready-mixed.
Crushed stone
Iron and steel and
machinery
First
quarter of
1937
2, 830,560
4,400,305
4,845,320
4,597,374
179,712
60,879
220,453
10,472
88,677
69,032
114,209
11,701
11,270
153,430
29,750
73,668
35,325
114, 564
20,690
164,069
809,125
72, 769
44, 559
115,156
65,720
38,382
114,525
69,740
290,096
180,935
35,670
1,089,124
10,320
654,065
96,124
269,239
170,519
536,301
148,191
111,436
594,334
734,695
42,986
339,978
775,195
593,413
26,868
201,307
1,599,747
23,494
665,924
91,816
76,639
77,478
866,320
36,076
87,277
42,081
97,635
~79~348
110,123
619,727
50,556
619,083
15,967
817,495
145,964
~962~l36
42
TABLE 29.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act—Continued
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
Nonferrous metals and their alloys.
Aluminum manufactures
Brass products
Bronze products.
-Copper products..
Lead, sheet
Magnesium.._
NickelPlated ware
Sheet-metal work.
Tin
Zinc.
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys
Machinery not including transportation equipment and
electrical equipment
Air-conditioning equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and parts.__
Filter-room equipment
Laundry machinery and equipment
Machine tools
Office equipment
Phonographs and accessories
Power shovels and draglines
Printing machinery
Pumps and pumping equipment
Refrigerators
Road machinery
Windlasses, hawsers, etc
—
_.
Miscellaneous machinery and parts
Sept. 28.
1936,
through
Dec. 31,
1936
First
quarter of
1937
Second
quarter of
1937
Third
quarter of
1937
$370,063
$1, 720,297
$1, 645,031
$1,876,162
90, 773
87, 700
191, 887
15,270
577, 239
12,874
23, 892
611, 983
240,062
72, 747
211,215
80, 250
61,320
50, 250
12,803
74,667
1,572, 719
18,800
607,085
39,331
37,977
145, 839
54,055
397, 577
26,640
136,615
108, 800
28,130
54,978
311,558
12,348
404,421
6, 285, 570
57, 500
792, 741
61, 265
472, 348
13,900
16,000
489, 545
69,081
849, 662
35, 355
57, 324
43, 708
3,327,141
122,650
28,047
119,151
94, 204
144,972
7,485,335
1,999,925
23,492
15,358
360,151
45,837
354,806
222,833
486,901
43, 750
33,386
38,527
53, 750
12,420
23, 73b
482,947
72,573
405,337
7,149, 65&
108,228
2,454,810
115,209
296,092
43,300
46, 596
78,025
540, 564
304,847
190, 336
197, 927
219,685
3, 772,971
25, 880
3,440,952
5, 614, 547
4,049, 582
1,339, 825
54,486
292,174
65,705
1,155,377
57, 813
1,118,467
165,630
56, 289
187,907
131,827
35, 594
1,228, 517
465,852
518,266
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Batteries
Cable and insulated wire
Circuit breakers and switches
Generators and spare parts
Heaters and ranges
—
Lighting equipment
Motors
Radio equipment and supplies
Spark plugs,.
Starters
Switchboards, relay, and control equipment
Transformers
_
_
Welding equipment...
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and sup-
2, 358, 605
39,933
607, 040
41, 336
1,009,473
39,078
182,063
25,020
82,287
12,000
40,998
11,467
96, 727
115,102
56,081
271,809
953,453
671,788
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
Aircraft parts and equipment
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, trucks
Miscellaneous transportation equipment
3,399,060
5,966, 334
10, 535, 029
1,800,376
785, 519
2,388,813
100, 242
97, 411
27, 075
88, 018
3, 457, 059
575, 673
1,806, 225
39,359
5.018, 570
3,350, 284
369,053
1, 729, 793
67,329
799,938
236,741
687,489
76.208
3,814,197
127, 536
18, 633
2,404, 638
10,976, 022
220,155
102,919
2,794,447
159, 740
52,082
417,893
39,214
1, 673,272
489,213
Miscellaneous.
_
Brooms, brushes, bristles, etc
Cafeteria equipment
Dental goods and equipment
__
Instruments, professional and scientific- _
Laboratory equipment
Linoleum
Oyster shell
Paper and allied products.
Photographic apparatus and materials
Printing and publishing and subscriptions
Rubber products
_..
__
Steam and other packing, pipe, and boiler covering..
Surgical and orthopedic supplies and appliances
Tobacco manufactures
_
Other materials
_
726, 726
16, 263
31,150
2,220,062
33,000
396,825
41, 529
87,675
5, 026, 626
1,043,031
1,885,982
299,684
108, 021
372,116
11,694
852,197
99,336
41, 550
41, 206
410,195
184,192
273,741
364, 046
27,047
114,798
"455," 287"
67, 236
24,165
5, 649, 511
368, 520
200,000
348,894
22,623
400,458
559,930
264, 260
1, 255,020
57, 515
10,628
10.000
236,348
752,009
619, 292
98,687
455,148
130, 254
18,059
178,911
38,471
666, 672
43
The value of public contracts awarded for materials by Federal
agencies totaled $41,674,000 during the third quarter of 1937. Of
the contracts awarded in the third quarter of 1937, $7,508,000 was for
textiles and textile products; $7,150,000, for machinery, not including
transportation and electrical equipment; $4,597,000, for iron and steel
and their products, not including machinery; and $4,050,000, for
electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
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