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Serial No. R. 1347
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner (on leave)
A. F. Hinrichs, Acting Commissioner
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EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
JUNE 1941
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON • 1941
CONTENTS
Summary of employment reports for June 1941:
Total nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
.
Detailed tables for June 1941:
Nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
Page
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10
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Tables
SUMMARY
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
June 1941
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary June 1941
TABLE 3.— Value of material orders placed on projects financed wholly
or partially from Federal funds and number of man-month^
of labor created in final fabrication of materials purchased,
second quarter of 1941, first quarter of 1941, and second
quarter of 1940
4
7
8
NONAGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT
TABLE 4.—Estimates of nonagricultural employment, by major groups.TABLE 5.—Estimated number of employees in nonagricultural establishments, by States
9
10
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT
TABLE 6.— Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, June 1941
TABLE 7.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, April through June
1941
TABLE 8.—Additional manufacturing industries—indexes of employment
and pay rolls, April, May, and June 1941
TABLE 9.— Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of
employment and pay rolls, June 1940 through June 1941__
TABLE 10.—Principal metropolitan areas—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in May and June
1941
TABLE 11.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—wage-rate
changes during month ending June 15, 1941
(in)
16
22
28
29
30
31
IV
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Page
TABLE 12.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls, June 1941
TABLE 13.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
June 1941, by type of project
..
TABLE 14.—Housing projects of the United States Housing Authority—
employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, June 1941,
by geographic division
TABLE 15.—Projects financed by the Work Projects Administration—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects
operated by the Work Projects Administration, June 1941;
employment, pay rolls and man-hours worked on Federal
agency projects, June 1941, by type of project
_ .
TABLE 16.—Projects operated by the Work Projects Administration—
employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, May 1941,
by type of project
. ._.
TABLE 17.—National Youth Administration student work program and
out-of-school work program—employment and pay rolls,
June 1941
....
TABLE 18.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls,
June 1941
.- __.
_
__.
TABLE 19.— Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, June 1941, by type of project
__. __
TABLE 20.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
June 1941, by type of project
TABLE 21.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, June 1941
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35
36
36
37
37
38
38
39
PURCHASES FROM PUBLIC FUNDS
TABLE 22.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, second quarter of 1941, by type
of project
TABLE 23.—Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, first quarter of 1941, by type of
project- __
__.
TABLE 24.—Rentals and services on projects operated by the Work
Projects Administration, first quarter of 1941, fourth
quarter of 1940, and first quarter of 1940
TABLE 25.—Value of public contracts awarded for materials, second
quarter of 1941, first quarter of 1941, and second quarter
of 1940-..
...
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43
45
45
Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR JUNE 1941
Total Nonagricultural Employment
APPROXIMATELY 38,808,000 persons were employed in civil nonagricultural occupations in June 1941. This total, which is above all
preceding levels, represented an increase of 494,000 workers over May
and a gain of 3,383,000 since June 1940. These figures do not include
C. C. C. enrollees, workers on W. P. A. or N. Y. A. projects, nor the
armed forces.
The greater part of the expansion over the month occurred in manufacturing (230,000), particularly in industries primarily devoted to the
defense program. Trade establishments showed an increase of 101,000
workers, and all other major groups, to a smaller extent, also showed
employment gains. The increase in construction employment was due
to a seasonal expansion in privately financed construction which more
than offset a slight decrease in Federal financed construction.
All major groups showed substantial employment gains over June
1940. In manufacturing, the gain amounted to 1,951,000 workers; in
construction 489,000; in trade 268,000; Federal, State, and local
government service 307,000; and transportation and public utilities
202,000.
Emergency employment decreased 32,000 over the month as a
result of the following changes: An increase of 78,000 in the military
service and decreases of 77,000 on projects operated by the Work
Projects Administration, 7,000 on the out-of-school work program of
the National Youth Administration, and 26,000 in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Industrial and Business Employment
Of the 157 manufacturing industries surveyed, 129 reported employment increases and 135 pay-roll gains over the month, most of the
increases being larger than seasonal or contraseasonal, as in preceding
months. Of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries regularly covered, all
but 2 showed gains in employment and pay rolls. Employment and
weekly pay rolls in all manufacturing industries combined advanced
(1)
contraseasonally in June to the highest levels reached since the beginning of the Bureau's series of indexes. The gains were 2.3 percent
or 230,000 wage earners in employment and 5.6 percent or $15,195,000
in weekly pay rolls. The usual seasonal changes from May to June are
decreases of 0.7 percent in employment and 0.8 percent in pay rolls.
The gains since June of last year were 24.0 percent in factory employment and 52.9 percent in factory pay rolls, pay rolls having increased
more sharply over the year interval than employment because of wagerate increases, increased hours, and overtime premiums.
For the durable-goods group of manufacturing industries, in which
operations have been particularly stimulated by defense activity, employment showed a gain of 2.9 percent over the month and 35.4 percent
over the year, with corresponding pay-roll increases of 6.6 percent and
71.4 percent. The increases in the nondurable-goods group were smaller,
namely, 1.8 piercent and 13.8 percent in employment and 4.1 percent
and 31.2 percent in pay rolls. Strategic defense industries in which
employment continued to expand were shipbuilding (14,800), aircraft
(11,800), engines (4,500), machine tools (3,300), machine-tool accessories (2,800), screw-machine products (1,100), and abrasives (300).
Other manufacturing industries affected by war-material orders and
showing large employment gains were foundry and machine-shops
(19,100); steel (13,800); electrical machinery (10,000); brass, bronze,
and copper products (3,400); chemicals (3,000); and automobiles
(2,400). Large employment gains were also shown in many other
manufacturing industries, among them being canning (30,100), cotton
goods (9,800), sawmills (7,200), furniture (6,400), baking (5,200),
beverages (4,700), meat packing (4,400), shoes (4,100), and tin cans
(3,500). Substantial decreases in employment, primarily seasonal,
were shown for women's clothing (9,100), fertilizers (6,400), millinery
(4,100), and book and job printing (2,200).
Anthracite mining employment and pay rolls rose contraseasonally
by 1.3 percent and 53.3 percent, respectively, reflecting increased
production schedules and wage-rate increases. Employment in this
industry was slightly below the level of June 1940, but pay rolls were
more than 25 percent higher. Bituminous-coal mines increased employment and pay rolls by 0.2 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively. These
slight gains were lower than the average June increases but were
significant, nevertheless, in view of the very large percentage increases
in the preceding month (May), which had reflected the return to work
of miners upon the conclusion of new wage agreements. The pay-roll
index of bituminous-coal mining (104.5 on the basis of 100 for the base
period 1929) was 40 percent above that of June 1940 and was at the
highest point since December 1929. Metal mines reported an employment increase of 1.3 percent and a pay-roll gain of 5.0 percent, the
pay-roll level being higher than any reached during the last 10 years.
3
Quarries and nonmetallic mines reported seasonal gains of 1.5 percent
in employment and 4.5 percent in pay rolls, while crude petroleum
production showed corresponding gains of 1.9 percent and 1.1 percent,
respectively. The telephone and telegraph industry showed an employment increase of 1.7 percent, continuing the series of monthly
employment gains which has been interrupted only once (September
1940) since March of last year. The electric light and power industry
also showed an employment increase of 1.7 percent, while street railways and busses reported virtually no change in employment
(+0.2 percent).
Wholesale trade employment increased more than seasonally by
1.0 percent, with all lines which employed large numbers of workers
showing employment increases except farm products in which employment fell seasonally 2.8 percent. Retail trade stores reported a largerthan-seasonal employment gain of 1.6 percent, with most of the
retail lines contributing to the expansion. Laundries and dyeing and
cleaning establishments reported employment gains of 3.2 percent
and 1.9 percent, respectively, the employment levels for these industries being the highest recorded in the past 10 years. Hotels reported
a seasonal employment reduction of 1.5 percent, and brokerage firms
a decline of 1.0 percent. Insurance firms increased their personnel
by 0.2 percent.
Employment in private building construction increased 3.3 percent
from May to June, a somewhat larger rise than the average May-June
percentage gain (2.3 percent) over the 9-year period 1932-40. The
gain from June of last year was 21.6 percent. Increases over the
month occurred in 8 of the 9 major geographic divisions, the largest
being in the East North Central States (8.8 percent) and the Mountain
States (7.3 percent). The East South Central States showed a decline
of 0.6 percent. General building contractors as a group increased
employment 4.4 percent and the special trades group 2.1 percent. Of
the 15 special building trades surveyed, 10 reported increased employment, namely, ornamental iron contracting (13.1 percent),
carpentering (12.2 percent), brick and stone masonry (10.0 percent),
elevator installation (5.6 percent), glazing (4.6 percent), plumbing
and heating (3.2 percent), structural steel erection (2.7 percent),
roofing and sheet metal work (2.2 percent), electrical contracting
(2.0 percent), tile and terrazzo contracting (0.6 percent), and excavating (less than 0.1 percent). The trades showing decreased employment were: Plastering (6.9 percent), building insulation (4.7 percent),
painting and decorating (2.4 percent), and wood flooring (1.1 percent).
A preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission for
class I steam railroads showed an employment gain of 2.8 percent
between May and June, the total number employed in June being
1,156,144. Corresponding pay-roll figures for June were not available
when this report was prepared. For May they were $185,932,877,
a gain of $11,594,453 since April.
Hours and earnings.—The average hours worked per week by manufacturing wage earners were 41.3 in June, a gain of 1.3 percent since
May. The corresponding average hourly earnings were 73.8 cents, an
increase of 1.8 percent from the preceding month. The average
weekly earnings of factory wage earners, both full-and part-time combined, were $31.84, an increase of 3.1 percent since May. Of the 16
nonmanufacturing industries regularly surveyed, 13 reported increases
in average weekly earnings. Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries
for which man-hours are available, 9 showed gains in average hours
worked per week and 14 reported increases in average hourly earnings.
TABLE 1.—Employment, Pay
Rolls, and Earnings
in All
Manufacturing
Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1941
Industry-
All manmacturing
combined1...
Index
June
1941
industries
Class I steam railroads 2_
._
Coal mining: 4
Anthracite 4...
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining 5
Quarrying
and nonrnetallic
"rni"ninsr
Crude-petroleum production
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 6...
Electric light and power «._.
Street railways and busses6 8.
Trade:
Wholesale»_.
Retail <*
410
Hotels (year-round)
_.
Laundries 4
Dyeing and cleaning 4
Brokerage
Insurance
Building construction....
Water transportation n .
_
Percentage
change from—
May
1941
June
1940
(1923-25
=100)
127.8 +2.3
+24.0
+2.8
+11.6
(1929=
100)
49.2 +1.3
86.6
+.2
78.1 +1.3
-1.1
+3.4
+11.1
113.3
51.7
61.6
86.1
93.7
69.0
93.1
97.6
94.9
111.7
122.9
(33)
(3)
()
80.3
+1.5
+1.9
+1.7
+1.7
+.2
+1.0
+1.6
-1.5
+3.2
+1.9
-1.0
+.2
+3.3
-1.2
Average weekly
earnings
Pay roll
Employment
Index
June
1941
(1928-25
=100)
152.1 +5.6
(3)
55.5
59.4
+10. 6
+2.8
112.1
111.3
75.6
+4.0
+6.2
+3.1
4-9.4
+9.1
87.5
94.5
87.0
102.3
98.4
(3)
(83)
()
(3)
-16.3
+1.2
+21.6
+2.9
(3)
(1929=
100)
51.2 +53.3
104.5 +2.5
85.6 +5.0
+7.9
-3.4
+.7
Percentage
Percentage
change from— Average change from—
in June
1941
May
June
May June
1941
1941
1940
1940
+52.9
31.84
+3.1
+23.3
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
+26.0
+41.4
+31.1
34.20 +51.4
32.08 +2.4
34.50 +3.7
+27.4
+36.8
+17.9
+4.5
+1.1
+1.4
+1.6
+3.9
+26.5
+1.0
27.07
35.31
+2.9
-.8
+17.2
+4.6
7 31.82 - . 3
7 36. 28 - . 1
7 35.62 +3.7
+1.3
+3.3
+6.4
+3.5
+3.3
+11.6 * 32. 68 +2.5
+11.4 7 22. 31 +1.7
+6.1 7 15. 84 +.5
+10.8
19.11
+.5
+9.9
22.15
+.5
-14.0 7 38.75
+.4
+4.6 7 38. 08 +1.4
+32.5
35.15
+.9
(3)
(3)
(3)
+7.4
+4.9
+2.9
+1.2
-1.0
+3.6
+2.4
-.6
+1.6
+4.2
(3)
+12.0
+6.2
+7.2
+.7
+2.7
+3.4
+8.9
(3)
1
Indexes adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures. See table 9 in December 1940 EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS for comparable series back to January 1919.
2
Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
3 Not available.
* Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938
issue of EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS. See also table 7 of October 1940 pamphlet for revised figures for
anthracite
mining February to September 1940, inclusive.
5
See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised figures January 1938 to January 1941.
c Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census. Not comparable
with indexes published in pamphlets prior to January 1940. Revised series available upon request.
7 Average weekly earnings not strictly comparable with figures published in issues of this pamphlet
dated earlier than January 1938, as they now exclude corporation officers, executives, and other employees
whose
duties are mainly supervisory.
8
Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated, and successor companies.
9
Indexes adjusted to 1933 census. Comparable series in November 1934 and subsequent issues of this
pamphlet.
10
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
11
Based on estimates prepared by the United States Maritime Commission.
Wage-rate increases between May 16 and June 15 averaging 9.1
percent and affecting 729,280 wage earners were reported by 1,374
manufacturing plants out of a reporting sample of 33,016 plants employing 7,150,772 wage earners. Among the industries in which substantial numbers of workers received pay increases were automobiles,
bodies and parts (263,600); paper and pulp (49,653); electrical machinery (29,885); shipbuilding (28,159); rubber tires and inner tubes
(26,288); brass, bronze, and copper products (20,644); foundries and
machine shops (16,409); and rayon and allied products (15,829). The
wage-rate changes reported for nonmanufacturing industries affected
49,192 of the approximately 3,000,000 workers covered. About onethird of those affected were in the street railways and busses industry.
As the Bureau's survey does not cover all the establishments in an
industry, and furthermore as some firms may have failed to report
wage changes, these figures should not be construed as representing
the total number of wage changes occurring in manufacturing and
nonmanufacturing industries.
Employment and pay-roll indexes and average weekly earnings for
July 1941 are given in table 1 for all manufacturing industries combined and selected nonmanufacturing industries, for water transportation, and for class I steam railroads. Percentage changes over the
month and year intervals are also given.
Public Employment
Substantial gains on Federal-aid roads, ship construction, and airports, which more than offset a decrease on building construction, resulted in a net employment gain of 19,000 in the month ending June 15
on construction projects financed from appropriations to regular
Federal agencies. Approximately 616,000 persons were employed on
defense projects and 204,000 were engaged in nondefense work. Payroll disbursements of $111,483,000 to the 820,000 persons employed on
all projects were $4,466,000 more than in the month ending May 15.
Contractors on low-rent projects of the United States Housing
Authority curtailed employment to the extent of 600 in the month
ending June 15. Approximately 250 additional building-trades workers
were employed on defense housing projects while the number at work
on nondefense housing declined 850. Pay-roll disbursements of
$4,248,000 to the workers on all types of projects were $258,000 less
than in the preceding month.
Employment on construction projects financed by the Public Works
Administration showed a decline of about 700 in the month ending
June 15. Wage payments of $1,057,000 to the 9,500 men employed
were $163,000 less than in May.
408815—41
2
6
The number of men at work on construction projects financed by
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation rose to 10,900 in the month
ending June 15. Defense construction absorbed the increase of 1,700
over May, with employment on nondefense construction remaining at
about the same level as in the earlier month. Pay rolls of $1,522,000
represent an increase of $261,000 over May.
Not since October 1935 has employment on work relief projects
operated by the Work Projects Administration been lower than the
1,370,000 persons reported at work in June. Employment on work
relief projects designated as defense projects decreased 14,000 during
the month and on nondefense projects the decrease amounted to
63,000. Totalpay rolls of $79,222,000 were $7,305,000 less than in May.
Federal agency projects financed by the Work Projects Administration
furnished employment to 49,000 persons in June, a decrease of 5,000
from the preceding month. Wage payments amounted to $2,324,000.
With the closing of the school year in June, employment on the
student work program of the National Youth Administration decreased 106,000, leaving 358,000 still employed. The number of youths
at work on the out-of-school work program fell to 393,000 in June,
a decrease of 7,000 from the preceding month. Pay-roll disbursements on the student program totaled $2,602,000 and on the out-ofschool program the amount was $8,113,000.
The number of persons in camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps
declined 26,000 in June. Of the 235,000 persons on the pay roll,
199,600 were enrollees; 1,500, educational advisers; 100, nurses; and
33,800, supervisory and technical employees. Pay-roll disbursements
of $11,278,000 exceeded May disbursements by $965,000.
Increased employment was reported in all of the regular services
of the Federal Government. The executive and military branches
reported sizable gains while the legislative and judicial branches
showed only slight increases. Of the 1,370,000 employees in the
executive service, 184,000 were working in the District of Columbia
and 1,186,000 outside the District. Force-account employees (employees on the pay roll of the United States Government who are
engaged on construction projects, and whose period of employment
terminates as the project is completed) were 11 percent of the total
number of employees in the executive service. Employment gains
were reported in the War, Navy, and Post Office Departments, the
Department of Agriculture, the Panama Canal, and the Department
of the Interior.
State-financed road projects showed a seasonal employment
increase of 22,000 in June. Of the 197,000 on the pay roll, 62,000
were engaged in the construction of new roads and 135,000 on main-
tenance. Wage payments of $14,596,000 were $75,000 less than in
May.
A summary of employment and pay-roll data in the regular Federal
services and on projects financed wholly or partially from Federal
funds is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Employment and Pay Rolls in Regular Federal Services and on
Projects Financed Wholly or Partially from Federal Funds, June 1941
[Preliminary figures]
Pay rolls
Employment
Class
June
1941
May
1941
Federal services:
Executive 1
1,370,110 1,306, 333
Judicial
2,526
2,517
Legislative
6,132
6,055
Military
1,740,058 1, 662, 428
Construction projects:
Financed by regular Federal appropriations:—820,110
801, 095
Defense..
Other
$205,581,047 $198, 382,389
642,704
644,557
1, 333, 550
1, 336, 535
96, 262,203
105,021, 351
Percentage
change
+3.6
+.3
+.2
+9.1
107,017,114
91,385,025
20,097,621
87,816,709
19,200, 405
+4.2
+4.1
+4.7
41, 576
-1.5
4,247,710
4,505.728
-5.7
4,837
36, 739
10, 209
+5.1
-2.4
-6.9
503,929
3. 743, 781
1,056, 578
534,147
3,971, 581
1,219, 777
-5.7
-5.7
-13.4
10,935
9,258
+18.1
1, 522,123
1, 261, 547
+20.7
8,572
2.363
6,852
2,406
+25.1
-1.8
1, 232,888
289,235
980, 240
281, 307
+25.8
+2.8
49, 289
54,174
-9.0
2, 323, 783
2, 711,234
-14.3
20, 583
28,706
22,600
31, 574
-8.9
-9.1
1, 036,380
1, 287,403
1,191, 626
1, 519,608
-13.0
-15.3
1,369, 728 1,446, 994
-5.3
79, 222,498
86, 527, 291
-8.4
414,187
400,382
969,346 1,032. 807
-3.3
-6.1
XJ. S. H. A. low-rent housing
40,958
Defense
Other
Financed by P . W. A.*..
5,082
35, 876
9,507
Financed by R. F . C 3
Defense
Other ._ .
National Youth Administration:
Student work program
Out-of-school work program
Civilian Conservation Corps
+4.7
M a y 1941
111, 482,646
612,109
188, 986
Defense
Other
Projects operated by W. P. A
+4.9
J u n e 1941
+2.4
+.6
+8.2
615,695
204, 415
Defense
_
Other
Federal agency projects financed
by Work Projects Administration.
Percentage
change
358,004
392, 514
235, 024
463,978
399,480
261, 357
-22.8
-1.7
-10.1
(4)
0)
2,602, 449
8,112, 719
11, 277,971
(4)
0)
3,400, 476
8,208, 793
12,242, 700
-23.5
-1.2
-7.9
1
Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to the
extent of 190,120 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $27,526,403 for June 1941, and 177,904 employees
and
pay-roll disbursements of $26,841,076 for May 1941.
2
Data covering P . W. A. projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds, Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 funds, and Public Works Administration Appropriation Act
of 1938 funds are included. These data are not shown under proj ectsfinanced by the Work Proj ects Administration. Includes 3,327 wage earners and $363,935 pay roll for June 1941; 3,354 wage earners and $374,798 pay roll
for May 1941; covering Public Works Administration Projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds. Includes 5,876 wage earners and $667,884 pay roll for June 1941 financed
from funds provided by the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938.
3
Includes 351 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $69,073 for June 1941; 348 employees and pay-roll
disbursements
of $70,313 for May 1941; on projects financed by the R F C Mortgage Co.
4
Pay-roll data not available.
The value of material orders placed on projects financed from
regular Federal appropriations during the second quarter of 1941
amounted to $599,048,000. Approximately 1,197,000 man-months
8
of labor were involved in the final fabrication of these materials.
On U. S. H. A. low-rent housing projects orders were placed for
$17,134,000 worth of materials, for which it is estimated 40,000 manmonths of labor were required in final fabrication processes.
The value of material orders placed on the various programs
financed by Federal funds during the second quarter of 1941, the
first quarter of 1941, and the second quarter of 1940, and the manmonths of employment created in the final fabrication of the materials
used are shown in table 3.
TABLE 3.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Projects Financed Wholly or Partially
From Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Program
Second
quarter
1941
First
quarter
1941
Public Works Administration 1
$5,809,167 $6,662,758
U. S. H. A. low-rent housing
17,133,737 19,842,884
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 2_ 9,220,102 6,134,407
Regular Federal appropriations
599,047,698 576,698,550
Federal agency projects financed from
W. P. A. funds 3
2,210,234
1,967, 551 73,473,221
Projects operated by W. P. A.
Rentals and services on projects operated by W. P. A
63,093,825
0)
Second
quarter
1940
Man-months of labor created
in final fabrication
Second
quarter
1941
First
quarter
1941
Second
quarter
1940
$42,624,146
13,698 88,349
10,701
22,889,484
45,722
53,442
39,727
1,077,339
12, 240
2,094
18,348
128,933,372 1,197,128 1,270,870 242,488
2,152,477
69,378,385
3,865
67,118,105
4,723
172,156
4,130
160,097
(*)
1 Data covering projects financed from E. R. A. A., 1935, 1936, 1937, and P. W. A. A., 1938 funds are included. These data are not shown under projects financed from W. P. A. funds. Includes low-rent housing projects financed from funds of N. I. R. A. and E. R. A. A., 1935.
2
3 Includes RFC Mortgage Co.
Includes projects financed by transfer of W. P. A. funds to other Federal agencies under sec. 3, E. R.
A.4 A., 1938, and sec. 11-A, E. R. A. A., 1939.
Data not available.
DETAILED TABLES FOR JUNE 1941
Estimates of Nonagricultural
Employment
THE estimates of "Total civil nonagricultural employment/' given on
the first line of table 4, represent the total number of persons engaged
in gainful work in the United States in nonagricultural industries, excluding military and naval personnel, persons employed on W. P. A.
or N. Y. A. projects, and enrollees in C. C. C. camps. The series
described as " Employees in nonagricultural establishments" also
excludes proprietors and firm members, self-employed persons, casual
workers, and persons in domestic service. The estimates for " Employees in nonagricultural establishments" are shown separately for
each of seven major industry groups. Tables giving figures for each
group, by months, for the period from January 1929 to date are
available on request.
9
The figures represent the number of persons working at any time
during the week ending nearest the middle of each month. The totals
for the United States have been adjusted to conform to the figures
shown by the 1930 Census of Occupations for the number of nonagricultural " gainful workers" less the number shown to have been
unemployed for 1 week or more at the time of the census. Separate
estimates for " employees in nonagricultural establishments" are shown
in table 5 for each of the 48 States and the District of Columbia for
May and June 1941 and June 1940. Tables showing monthly figures
for each State from January 1938 to date are available on request.
Because the State figures do not include employees on merchant
vessels, and because of certain adjustments in the United States estimates which have not been made on a State basis, the total of the
State estimates will not agree exactly with the figures for the United
States as a whole.
These estimates are based in large part on industrial censuses and
on regular reports of employers to the United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics and to other Government agencies, such as the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Data derived from employers' quarterly reports in connection with "old-age and survivors' insurance," and
employers7 monthly reports in connection with unemployment compensation have been used extensively as a check on estimates derived
from other sources, and in some industries they have provided the
most reliable information available.
TABLE 4.—Estimates of Total Nonagricultural Employment, by Major Groups
[In thousands]
Change
June 1941
to
(prelim- May 1941 May
June
inary)
1941
Industry
June
1940
Change
June 1940
to June
1941
Total civil nonagricultural employment 1..
38,808
38,314
+494
35,425
+3,383
Employees in nonagricultural establishments 1»
Manufacturing 3...
Mining
Construction
_ _
Transportation and public utilities..
Trade
Finance, service, and miscellaneous
Federal, State, and local Government:
Civil employees
Military and naval forces 4_
32, 665
11,775
868
1,810
3,234
6,522
4,350
32,171
11, 545
862
1,782
3,185
6,421
4,327
+494
+230
+28
+49
+101
+23
29,282
9,824
838
1,321
3,032
6,254
4,214
+3,383
+1,951
+30
+489
+202
+268
+136
4,106
1,740
4,049
1,662
+57
+78
3,799
474
+307
+1,266
_
_
+6
1 Excludes military and naval forces as well as employees on W. P. A. and N. Y. A. projects, and enrollees
in C. C. C. camps. Includes proprietors, firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, and domestic servants. Includes allowance for adjustment of factory wage-earner totals to preliminary 1939 Census
of 2Manufactures. Revised series available on request.
Excludes all of the groups omitted from "Total civil nonagricultural employment" as well as proprietors,
firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, and domestic servants.
3
Adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures.
4
Not included in total shown above. Includes members of the National Guard inducted into the Federal
Service by act of Congress.
10
TABLE 5.—Estimated Number of Employees in Nonagricultural Establishments, by States
[Excludes proprietors, firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, domestic workers, the armed
forces of the United States, and employees on merchant vessels]
[Numbers in thousands!
Geographic divisions and
States
New,J!ngland_
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
_.
Middle Atlantic.
New York...
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
East North Central
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
._.
-.
...
West North Central
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
.-
South Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia..
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
East South Central
Kentucky.
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
West South Central
Arkansas...
Louisiana..
Oklahoma
Texas
Mountain
Montana....
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico..
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Pacific.
Washington..
Oregon
California
June
1941
(preliminary)
2,893
212
147
80
1,501
270
683
8,343
4,107
1,294
2,942
7,712
2,014
923
2,501
1,567
707
2.524
563
421
844
77
84
210
325
3,911
78
602
405
585
398
626
315
533
369
1,468
384
484
413
187
1,970
189
397
300
1,084
825
117
90
56
237
77
96
115
37
2,677
471
282
1,924
Change May to
June 1941
May
1941
June
1940
Number
Number
204
142
77
1,478
266
672
8,241
4,072
1,269
2,900
7,567
1,975
903
2,452
1,544
693
2,497
554
421
833
77
83
207
322
3,882
77
597
398
577
394
629
313
522
375
1,458
384
479
406
189
1,950
184
390
299
1,077
804
114
87
54
231
74
95
114
35
2,613
462
263
1,888
+54
+8
+5
+3
+23
+4
+11
+102
+35
+25
+42
+145
+39
+20
+49
+23
+14
+27
+9
+0
+11
+0
+1
+3
+3
+29
+1
+5
+7
+8
+4
-3
+2
+11
-6
+10
0
+5
+7
-2
+20
+5
+7
+1
+7
+21
+3
+3
+2
+6
+3
+1
+1
+2
+64
+9
+19
+36
Change June 1940
to June 1941
+1.9
+3.8
+3.3
+3.7
+1.6
+1.3
+1.6
+1.2
+.9
+2.0
+1.4
+1.9
+2.0
+2.2
+2.0
+1.5
+2.1
+1.1
+1.7
+.1
+1.3
0
+1.4
+1.7
+.7
+.8
+1.0
+.8
+1.9
+1.5
+1.1
—.5
+.9
+2.1
-1.6
+.6
+i!o
+1.-7
-1.2
+1.0
+2.4
+1.8
+.4
A?
+2.5
+3.0
+4.6
+2.5
+4>7
+1.2
+1.7
+3.4
+2.5
+1.9
+7.3
+1.9
2,448
185
127
74
1,277
221
564
7,622
3.863
1,130
2,629
6,703
1,749
767
2,219
1,341
627
2,347
527
403
764
76
83
201
293
3,386
72
499
338
488
368
562
270
463
326
1,319
357
432
354
176
1,794
172
354
286
982
775
114
85
53
219
73
88
110
33
2,387
420
246
1,721
+445
+27
+20
+6
+224
+49
+119
+721
+244
+164
+313
+1,009
+265
+156
+282
+226
+80
+177
+36
+18
•wo
+1
+9
+38
+525
+6
+103
+67
+97
+30
+64
+45
+70
+43
+149
+27
+52
+59
+11
+176
+17
+43
+14
+102
+50
+3
+5
+3
+18
+4
+8
+5
+290
+51
+36
+203
+18.2
+14.4
+15.6
+8.3
+17.6
+22.1
+21. 0
+9.5
+6.3
+14.5
+11.9
+15.1
+15.1
+20.3
+12.7
+16.9
+12.8
+7.6
+6.9
+4.6
+10.4
+1.0
+1.2
+4.7
+10.8
+15.5
+8.5
+20.5
+20.0
+20.0
+8.1
+11.5
+16.6
+15.2
+13.2
+11.2
+7.5
+12.2
+16.4
+6.1
+9.8
+9.7
+12.1
+4.9
+10.4
+6.3
+2.7
+5.2
+7.2
+7.9
+6.1
+8.5
+4.6
+9.5
+12.2
+12.3
+14.5
+11.8
Industrial and Business Employment
Monthly reports on employment and pay rolls are available for 157
manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including
private building construction; water transportation; and class I steam
railroads. The reports for the first 2 of these groups—manufacturing
11
and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. The figures on water transportation are based on
estimates prepared by the Maritime Commission and those on class I
steam railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
They are presented in the foregoing summary.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls relate to wage
earners only. Those shown in tables 6 and 7 are based on the 3-year
average 1923-25 as 100. For all manufacturing industries combined,
the durable-goods group, the nondurable-goods group, and aluminum
manufactures, they have been adjusted to preliminary 1939 census
figures and for automobiles to the 1933 census. The indexes for all
other groups and industries have been adjusted to 1937 census data
except for the aircraft industry and the transportation equipment
group, which have been adjusted on the basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in August 1940. The over-all manufacturing indexes are
computed from reports supplied by representative manufacturing
establishments in 90 of the 157 industries surveyed. These reports
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 90 industries covered.
Indexes for 55 of the 67 manufacturing industries recently added to
the monthly survey are shown in table 8. These indexes are based on
1939 as 100.
The indexes for the nonmanufacturing industries are based on the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
and dyeing and cleaning, cover wage earners only, but the figures for
public utilities, trade, and hotels, relate to all employees except corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are
mainly supervisory. For crude-petroleum production they cover
wage earners and clerical field force. The coverage of the reporting
samples for the various nonmanufacturing industries ranges from
approximately 25 percent for wholesale and retail trade, dyeing and
cleaning, and insurance, to approximately 80 percent for quarrying
and nonmetallic mining, anthracite mining, and public utilities.
The indexes for retail trade have been adjusted to conform in
general with the 1935 Census of Retail Distribution and are weighted
by lines of trade. For the public utilities they have been adjusted
to the 1937 Census of Electrical Industries, for wholesale trade to the
1933 census, and for coal mining, year-round hotels, laundries, and
dyeing and cleaning to the 1935 censuses.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on reports of the number of employees and the amount of pay
rolls for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
The average weekly earnings shown in tables 6 and 7 are computed
12
by dividing the weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments by
the total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As not
all reporting establishments supply ma^n-hours, average hours worked
per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily based on data
furnished by a slightly smaller number of reporting firms. As the
size and composition of the reporting sample vary somewhat from
month to month, the average hours per week, average hourly earnings,
and average weekly earnings shown may not be strictly comparable
from month to month. The sample, however, is believed to be
sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances to indicate the general
movement of earnings and hours over the period shown. The changes
from the preceding month, expressed as percentages, are based on
identical lists of firms for the 2 months, but the changes from June
1940 are computed from chain indexes based on the month-to-month
percentage changes.
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY-ROLL INDEXES, AVERAGE HOURS, AND
AVERAGE EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly
earnings in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in June
1941 are shown in table 6. Percentage changes from May 1941 and
June 1940 are also given.
The employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly
earnings for April, May, and June 1941, where available, are presented
in table 7. The April and May figures, where given, may differ in
some instances from those previously published because of revisions
necessitated primarily by the inclusion of late reports. Indexes of
employment and pay rolls are given in table 8 for 55 of the 67 newly
added manufacturing industries for the months of April, May, and
June 1941. These indexes are based on 1939 as 100 and are available
in mimeographed form for the period from January 1939 to January
1941, inclusive.
In table 9 indexes of employment and pay rolls are given for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and for each of 13 nonmanufacturing industries, by months, from June 1940 to June 1941,
inclusive. The indexes for all manufacturing industries combined,
the durable-goods group, and the nondurable-goods group have been
adjusted to preliminary 1939 census figures. Comparable indexes for
all available months and years back to January 1919 are given in
tables 9, 10, and 11 of the December 1940 issue of this pamphlet.
The chart on page 13 indicates the trend of factory employment and
pay rolls from January 1919 to June 1941.
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1923-25=100
INDEX
INDEX
200
180
180
160
160
I
/V
140
120
100
80
1 vj I V
1
- E M P LOYME M T
— V—
\
60
PAY ROLL
40
20
V y
\\J
140
120
100
V
V
1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
80
60
40
00
14
Use oj average hourly earnings in "escalator" clauses.—Average
hourly earnings of wage earners, such as those shown in table 6, have
been compiled regularly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics since 1932.
These averages are published for the use of those who wish either to
compare the average earnings of wage earners in different industries,
or to study the changes in average earnings over a period of time.
Certain characteristics of the average earnings should be indicated.
The average of the actual earnings of wage earners as a group may
change from one period to another for either of two reasons: (1) By
reason of changes in the wages paid or (2) by reason of changes in the
composition of the group of wage earners actually at work in different
periods. As an example of the latter cause of change, it is evident
that if, from one month to the next, the number of wage earners
employed in a high-wage industry increases proportionally more than
employment generally has increased, the average of actual earnings
for the group as a whole will increase. This increase might take place
even though there were no changes whatsoever in the earnings of any
wage earner in any one of the establishments. It is apparent, therefore, that the Bureau's averages reflect both changes in the actual
hourly rates paid as well as changes in the composition of the wage
earners in the group. The averages contained in table 6 for all manufacturing, for durable goods, for nondurable goods, and for the various
subgroups of industries, such as "iron and steel and their products,"
reflect both types of influence upon hourly earnings; and they measure
the average of the actual earnings of the wage earners actually at work
in each respective period.
To an increasing extent, use is being made of these average hourly
earnings figures in so-called "escalator" clauses in Government contracts. These are designed to protect contractors from losses that
might arise from general wage increases over which they could exercise
no control. A number of contracts extending over many months have
been written recently with clauses that provide for increased payments
to the contractor in case of increases in the average of the hourly
earnings in the durable-goods industries.
It should be pointed out that the characteristics of the Bureau's
average hourly earnings figures, as described above, make it desirable
to use these averages for other than their designed purpose with a certain degree of caution. The purpose for which they were compiled
limits their usefulness, especially in July and August, as a measure of
change in labor rates. In these months the averages show a seasonal
movement unrelated to rates of pay. For example, the average
hourly earnings figure in the durable-goods industries dropped from
73.2 cents in June to 72.7 cents in July. This drop was due not to a
general decline in wages in this period but almost entirely to the fact
that employment in the automobile industry declined sharply as the
15
result of model changes. This industry is a high-wage industry in
which the average hourly earnings are about 95 cents an hour. Between June and July employment in the automobile industry dropped
from 104.9 to 82.3. This relative decline, of a purely seasonable
character, in the number of highly paid automobile workers was very
largely responsible for the decline of half a cent noted in the average
hourly earnings in durable-goods industries.
By way of illustration of the problem involved it would be possible
to construct an index of earnings that was unrelated to changes in
the relative occupational composition of the group workers actually at
work. For example, giving the averages for the several industries the
same weights in July and August that they had in June and considering only the influence of changes in average earnings in each industry,
we find no change in the rate of earnings from June to July and approximately the same percentage change as is shown by the published
figures from July to August. This means that from June to August,
the currently published figures show a slight decline over this 3-month
interval whereas the series computed with constant weights shows a
small gain.
It is not within the province of the Bureau to indicate the type of
average that was contemplated by the contracting parties in the contracts already drawn; least of all can the method of compiling an
average be changed. It is obvious, however, that in incorporating any
statistical series in legal documents careful consideration should be
given to the purpose for which the figures were originally compiled and
to their relevance to some new purpose. The officials of the Bureau
are at the disposal of all those who wish to apply any of the Bureau's
series to administrative problems. Carefully interpreted and applied,
these data have a present usefulness far greater than was imagined in
the past. Their appropriate adaptation to new uses involves on the
one hand a careful consideration by the Bureau of the purposes of the
contracting parties; on the other, consultation with the Bureau to
discover whether the new figures as they stand meet the purposes in
mind.
TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1941
MANUFACTURING
Industry
Index
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
May
All manufacturing
2
Durable goods 2
Nondurable goods 2
Average weekly earnings1
Pay rolls
Employment
Index
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
Average hourly earnings
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
June
1941
May
June
Average hours worked
per week i
June
June
June
1941
May
June
1941
May
1941
June
May
1941
1940
$31. 84
+3.1
+23.3
41.3
+1.3
+10.2
Cents
73.8
+71.4
+31.2
36.89
25.08
+3.5
+2.2
+26.6
+15.3
43.1
39.4
+ 1.4
+ 1.0
+11.7
+7.9
82.2
65.0
+4.8 +63.9
+4.1 +57.9
+6.3 +123.2
+3.8 +63.7
+3.6 +52.0
+7.6 +120. 9
+6.1 +75.1
+2.7 +43.7
+5.2 +71.4
+7.2 +79.7
+4.5 +50.7
+5.5 +85.2
+11.5 +48.9
+5.4 +104. 3
+2.9 +74.5
36.44
39.46
36.02
28.25
+2.4 +25.0
+ 1.7 +25.4
+3.4 +40.5
+1.1 +29.8
+2.0 +28.0
+5.4 +39.9
20.7
+4.7
+1.9 +15.9
+4.2 +18.9
+5.2 +33.8
+2.2 +20.4
+2.3 +29.0
+1.8 +13.2
+3.3 +35.4
+1.4 +24.0
42.0
41.0
45.8
41.9
+1.4
+1.6
+1.7
+.4
+1.1
+2.4
+.5
+.2
+2.9
+2.0
+.9
+1.0
+.1
+1.4
+11.6
+10.5
+23.5
+15.7
86.3
96.4
78.7
67.0
+12.6
+20.5
+11.3
+6.4
+9.3
69.9
88. 8
73.7
74.4
71.3
+14.8
+ 10.2
+15.5
+5.9
81.2
73.0
83.6
66.5
+19.5
+12.7
71.3
73.9
1940
1941
1940
127.8
+2.3
+24.0
152.1
+5.6
+52.9
135.6
120.9
+2.9
+1.8
+35.4
+13.8
173.8
127.8
+6.6
+4.1
136.1
144.0
165.6
96.9
+2.3
+2.4
+2.8
+2.6
+1.6
+2.1
+1.4
+.7
+1.0
+1.8
+2.1
+3.1
+9.5
+2.0
+1.5
+31.2
+25.9
+58.9
+26.1
168.7
179.9
248.4
114.6
+18.9
+58.0
+44.9
+24.1
+44.2
139.2
163.7
150.2
107.6
278.7
+34.2
+25. 2
+43.5
+31.5
137.8
124.7
120.1
169.0
+50.9
+40.8
181.0
280.9
1941
1940
1941
June
1940
+1.8
+2.0
+1.3
+10.6
+.8
+12.2
+13.9
+13.7
+11.8
+12.8
+6.0
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' supplies3
__
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittingsStoves
Structural and ornamental metalwork...
Tin eans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)
Wirework_:.
__,.
r_
r.T_r_
120.4
104.3
118.3
102.8
220.2
114.1
115.8
105.5
135.2
138.2
214.2
30.32
41.63
31.26
30.03
29.81
36.32
30.55
36. 98
28.15
33.07
31.95
43.9
47.0
42.5
40.7
41.6
44.8
41.6
44.4
42.1
46.8
42.6
-.1
0
+1.7
+.6
+ .7
+2.9
+4.2
+1.7
+1.1
+3.4
+1.3
+1.2
+1.4
+1.9
+1.3
+13.3
+16.0
+8.6
+8.9
+8.9
+16.6
+8.3
+12.0
+6.4
+13.4
+9.6
Qt>
Machinery, not including transportation equipment. 167.9
Agricultural implements (including tractors).. 171.8
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculat162.6
ing machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies 158.5
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and wind285.5
mills
Foundry and machine-shop products..
139.7
Machine tools
337.1
Radios and phonographs
180.7
Textile machinery and parts-.
103.8
Typewriters and parts _.
148.3
177.7
Transportation
equipment6
Aircraft5
6, 710. 5
Automobiles 6
134.7
Cars, electric-and steam-railroad. .
85.6
Locomotives-68.1
Shipbuilding..
335.0
Wonferrous metals and their products
.. 142.0
Aluminum manufactures 7
228.4
Brass, bronze, and copper products 8
189.7
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices 117.0
Jewelry
106.8
Lighting equipment
114.1
Silverware and plated ware
83.9
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.. 101.8
76.9
lumber and allied products
Furniture..
103.8
Lumber:
72.5
Millwork
Sawmills.
67.2
97.1
Stone, clay, and glass products..
Brick, tile, and terra cotta..
74.8
Cement..
79.2
Glass
125.4
Marble, granite, slate, and other products 9
45.5
Pottery
...,
114.4
+3.4
+.6
+7.5
+2.9
+5.1
+3.6
+3.5
+4.0
+2.4
+3.3
+3.6
+6.7
+.5
+7.6
+4.5
+8.9
+1.5
-2.2
+2.9
+.9
+2.2
+1.7
+1.2
+.1
+2.9
+3.7
+..5
+2.3
+ 1.6
+3.0
+1.5
+ 1.2
-1.8
+1.7
+45.9 230.2
+25.1 233.3
+24.7 216.2
+53.5 223.9
+80.6 480.1
+44.1 179.1
+47.1 526.6
+28.2 200.4
+31.4 130.5
+33.6 207.5
+55.5 239.1
+130.3 8,155. 3
+28.4 187.9
91.6
+67.2
90.8
+133.7
499.8
+105.8
+33.2 175.2
+25.3 321.1
+49.3 264.4
+28.3 147.9
+17.0 101.4
+36.1 117.6
93.8
+23.0
+16.7 116.6
83.9
+12.6
+17.9 109.7
67.2
+17.9
71.3
+8.5
+17.1 100.2
71.9
+18.6
89.5
+9.4
153.3
+ 19.5
-6.1
35.1
+27.8 118.2
+5.8
+1.9
+10.3
+4.0
+6.2
+7.8
+4.2
+4.7
+5.0
+9.4
+10.6
+6.0
+10.3
+8.7
+13.7
+16.3
+5.0
-.3
+7.2
+3.1
+3.7
+6.4
+3.4
+4.4
+7.6
+7.0
+7.7
+8.0
+2.5
44.0
+5.0
+2.0
-9.4
+4.1
+84.0
+47.8
+56.6
+89.3
+127.9
+87.0
+73.9
+49.6
+76.2
+85.0
+97.6
+174.8
+67.7
+102.3
+218.4
+ 169.0
+65.6
+51.8
+87.8
+60.4
+32.8
+68.1
+67.9
+36.1
+31.9
+44.6
+38.7
+22.8
+36.5
+40.7
+28.1
37.98
37.32
45.6
+55.8
27.97
24.82
31.93
30.00
27.10
26.06
+9.9
+1.1
+8.8
+6.9
+3.5
+1.9
+4.2
+2.2
+1.5
+4.7
+2.1
+4.3
+4.5
+3.2
+4.1
+5.5
+.9
+1.0
+3.5
+.8
-7.8
+2.4
+26.1
+18.1
425.6
+23.4
+26.1
+29.8
+18.2
+16.8
+34.1
+38.6
+27.1
+13.1
+30.6
+21.1
+36.2
+30.7
+24.4
+21.2
+25.8
+25.1
+ 13.5
+23.6
+36.6
+16.5
+17.2
+22.7
+17.5
+13.3
+ 16.6
+ 18.7
+17.1
-4-15.6
+4.9
+22.0
+47.6
+53.9
+65.2
+60.6
+74.1
+43.3
+45.6
20.22
20.12
27.71
17.87
21.75
23.21
28.17
+.8
+ 1.2
+*6
+.7
+.8
+9.0
+22.9
+24.2
+29.0
+2S. 6
4 23.7
+19.0
+26.2
38.1
J-38.0
-1.5
41.34
37.21
44.61
37.76
43.37
27.09
34.84
34.31
42.61
35.48
45. 68
34.16
40.87
43.45
34.39
35.09
38.69
27.93
25. 51
31.57
32.32
32.28
23.61
25.19
25.24
21.88
+2.4
+1.2
+2.6
+1.1
+1.0
+4.1
+.7
+.6
+2.5
+5.9
+6.8
-.7
42.1
45.3
43.9
47.3
46.0
51.9
40.9
46.8
45.8
43.8
44.7
43.1
40.9
46.5
45.3
43.1
42.2
44.8
42.4
41.3
41.3
44.0
40.5
40.9
42.3
42.5
39.7
38.6
38.4
41.6
38.4
37.2
38.1
+.4
+.9
-1.4
-.9
+.2
+1.5
-.8
4
++ .(4)
+1.1
+3.1
-1.0
+4.8
-.3
+4.6
+3.1
+.5
-.7
+.6
+.1
+.5
+.1
-2.6
+3.1
+2.2
+1.5
+1.0
+2.8
+.4
-.2
+2.4
+1.6
-5.8
+.6
+11.7
+7.3
+12.9
+9.6
+7.7
+14.6
+8.0
+6.7
+18.4
+21.3
+15.4
+4.6
+16.2
+9.5
+21.6
+16.1
+ 10.1
+5.9
+11.2
+13.4
+7.8
+11.6
+20.4
+4.4
+6.7
+11.2
+6.7
+3.7
+6.4
+ 3.9
+7.5
+9.8
+4.2
+8.7
83.2
88.6
92.4
84.5
+1.9
+.1
+4.1
+1.8
+.7
+2.3
+1.4
+.6
+2.1
+4.7
+3.2
+12.6
+9.9
+12.1
+12.1
71.7
64.5
76.7
77.8
73.0
68.1
+4.9
+1.4
+3.9
+2.4
+3.0
+2.6
+3.6
+2.1
+.8
+4.6
+5.1
+1.2
+2.5
+1.9
+2.9
+2.7
+.9
+1.0
+1.1
+1.2
-1.4
+1.5
+16.9
+13.1
+9.5
+9.6
+13.3
+14.2
+9.3
+7.4
+12.4
+9.8
+12.0
+10.3
+13.0
+14.4
+13.3
+10.6
+6.3
+10.8
+14.9
+11.7
+9.9
+11.0
+10.2
+9.2
+7.9
+14. 5
+8.9
+5.2
+.3
+8.8
53.4
52.2
70.6
45.1
52.5
59.9
79.3
+.9
+.5
+^3
+.4
+ 1.1
+2.8
+8.1
+8.3
+6.1
+9.6
+8.1
+9.1
+11.7
94.1
81.9
83.6
66.4
74.5
74.9
97.6
79.9
106.5
83.6
87.9
94.3
79.4
83.1
86.1
65.9
61.2
76.5
74.4
79.8
57.0
59.5
59.4
55.1
+.3
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs..
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
Hats, fur-felt
___
See footnotes at end of table.
_
112.5
106.2
89.9
108.5
103.7
139.3
82.2
+.1
+ 1.0
-r.9
+2.1
+ 1.1
-1.4
+2.9
+20.1
+23.9
4 28.1
+24.9
+40.6
+20.4
+15.4
111.3
+.9
111.6
+ 2.2
90.2
+.7
120.0
+2.7
116.2
+ 1.8
-.5
133. 2
83.8 + 12.1
39.1
39.3
39.6
41.5
38.3
36.0
+13.4
+ 14.6
+(+) 3 +21.6
+ 17.0
+.3 414.6
-.2
+9.2
+7.5 +12.2
+.4
+.6
4
TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1941—Continued
MANUFACTURING-Continued
Employment
Industry
Index
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
May
1941
June
1940
Average weekly earnings
Pay rolls
Index
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
May
1941
June
1940
Average hours worked
per week
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
May
1941
May
1941
June
1940
+()
+23.6 $19. 70
+49.1 19.57
+30.3 17.61
+43.0 21.82
+40.4 18.93
+79.2 25.02
+35. 5 20.50
+51.0 22.79
+24.1 20.23
+27.0 19.49
+38.2 15.89
-9.9 20.66
+46.4 16.06
40.3 +12.8
+1.1 + 18.1
4-1.7 +19.9
- 1 . 0 +14.1
+1.5 +21.0
+2.2 +25.6
+.1 +20.1
+5.0 +23.3
- 6 . 0 +16.2
+1.7 +20.4
+1.0 +24.6
-5.6
+.3
+3.7 +28.3
36.2
38.7
38.5
40.3
38.7
40.2
36.0
36.3
35.8
38.8
36.1
28.6
37.3
+45.1
+46.5
+40.9
22.97
21.66
28.52
+4.0
+3.8
+4.3
+28.4
+30.9
+20.1
88.7
38.2
40.8
+1.1
+3.0
+3.2
+1.9
+11.9
+9.7
+4.2
+15.2
+13.9
+18.2
+9.6
+6.1
+20.1
+5.5
+9.9
27.05
28.21
36.99
23.98
18.75
20.50
27.34
30.35
29.79
30.71
27.77
+1.2
+1.8
+2.2
+3.4
+7.6
+2.8
+3.4
+3.6
+.5
+4.7
+12.6
+7.4
+5.9
+1.4
+6.3
+17.8
+9.8
+9.2
+5.7
+7.9
+16.1
+9.7
41.0
42.5
41.4
46.9
36.6
38.1
43.1
46.7
40.4
39.8
41.8
+1.4
+1.1
+1.8
+1.6
+6.3
+1.2
+2.9
+3.2
—.1
+.7
+9.6
June
1940
Average hourly earnings
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
May
1941
June
1940
Nondurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products—Continued.
Fabrics—Continued.
Hosiery
..
Knitted outerwear io_._
Knitted underwear
_
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments
Men's furnishings
Millinery
Shirts and collars
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
Food and kindred products
Baking
Beverages
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery 9
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
__.
Sugar refining, cane
-
142.7
79.5
79.3
160.4
69.3
107.9
121.7
120.1
158.1
118.0
121.8
62.8
131.3
98.1
94.9
93.9
135.0
152.2
309.6
113.8
135.9
80.4
77.9
92.3
120.3
48.1
98.5
+9.5
+26.1
-3.7
+8.9
+3.7 +25.3
16.0
+1.1 +
+1.0 +42.6
+12.8
- 1 . 9 +21.8
+1.1
+6.8
-4.3
+5.4
- . 1 +11.1
-.1
-4.5
-17.1 +14.1
+.1
+2.7 +13.0
+2.1 +12.0
+4.8 +17.3
+5.9 +4.1
+2.2 +3.6
+5.7 +2.7
+3.9 +8.4
+36.1 - 3 . 3
+7.7
-.7
+.4
+1.8
+.4
+6.2
+3.1 +11.2
-9.1
+1.4
+.2
-3.8
-0.2
+3.6
158.1
75.5
82.8
153.2
64.1
117.1
103.8
107.4
118.1
138.7
131.1
42.5
134.8
+4.8
-2.1
+ 2.7
+2.6
+3.3
-1.8
+6.2
-10.0
+1.6
+.9
-16.8
97.2
91.9
106.6
+3.8
+6.8
+6.0
+9.2
144.3
154.4
391.3
104.6
133.5
85.5
79.2
82.7
137.8
57.2
97.5
+7.1
+4.0
+8.0
+7.4
+46.5
+2.2
+5.3
+10.1
+3.5
+6.3
+8.3
+11.8
+ S.5
+13.2
+13.5
+10.5
+11.9
+7.3
+13.9
+13.4
-10.0
+17.0
Cents
54.5
49.9
45.7
52.9
49.0
62.8
55.9
63.0
53.7
49.6
43.3
68.4
43.7
+1.2
+1.8
+2.7
+2.0
-1.5
+7.0
+10.6
+7.9
+9.7
+7.4
+6.6
+10.1
-.1
+8.2
+17.5
+19.2
+11.0
59.9
57.3
70.1
+1.6
+1-1
+2.6
+9.9
+10.1
+8.2
+2.1
+2.1
-1.4
67.2
66.5
90.2
50.6
51.9
54.6
63.3
64.0
73.8
79.0
66.9
+.1
+.8
+.2
+2.1
+.6
+2.5
+1.1
+.3
+.5
+2.5
+2.7
+5.6
+4.0
+2.1
+5.3
+9.7
+7.8
+3.2
+4.2
+7.1
+6.9
+2.0
+1.0 +11.2
+.8 +10.1
1
t+.2
!
+1.2
-.3
+1.0
-2.5
+.5
-1.2
-.3
+1.7
+6.0
+2.6
+5.7
+1.0
+.5
+8.7
+7.5
-0.6
+.2
+.8
+L3
+1.1
+1.8
+4.8
+0.6
+7.3
+6.2
4-3.7
OD
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
65.5
52.1
67.2
121.5
135.1
124.6
.
-1.5
135.8
125.4
138.3
172.1
66.3
127 A
+1.1
+2.8
+7
92.5
144.8
327.0
93.3
Rubber products
_
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes_.
Rubber goods, other
110.7
78.2
86.3
190.2
+1.3
+.6
+4.2
+1.5
101.6
117.4
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products..
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meaL
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products..
Soap
See footnotes at end of table.
+•9
-1.2
(»)
-.2
-10.1
+2.3
70.1
67.1
70.3
+4.8
-.5
+5.3
19.56
20.76
19.34
128.6
170.3
157.7
+4.5
+.3
+4.9
+3.0
+7.0
+8.3
+6.1
+17.1
+7.2
+14.5
+33.7
+25.0
32.10
25.34
30.97
+4.6
+1.0
94.8
113.6
-.9
-.3
+11.3
+2.3
32.21
39.39
+14.1
+1.8
+17.2
+24.4
+28.9
+10.0
(n)
+4.5
+14.6
+6.8
+14.5
171.1
156.7
175.5
232.6
62.4
149.9
+28.5
+14.3
+33.0
+40.8
+34.8
+18.9
(»)
+19. 5
+30.5
+15.3
+28.5
33.52
38.64
31.73
36.00
15.17
26.43
39.41
18.15
33.81
28.35
32.58
+63.3
+75.2
+57.9
+68.6
34.78
28.91
41.41
28.57
+.9
+3.2
-8.1
+1.7
01)
-27.2
+2.4
+1.1
+1.2
+4.0 +32.7
+4.4 +42.4
+3.5 +25.9
+4.7 +37.5
(")
93.7
177.8
362.4
129.0
141.1
98.4
122.4
224.4
+4.6
+7.1
+3.9
+4.9
+5.9
+5.0
00
-26.5
+4.4
+1.7
+2.7
+9.6
+11.4
+10.2
+8.3
+3.5 +3.8
+1.5 +11.2
+3.6 +2.9
+2.3 +7.8
+2.8 +14.2
+6.7 +16.7
+.6 +6.5
-.2
+1.3
+3.4 +12.6
+4.2 +12.3
+3.2 +13.4
+1.7 +13.1
+2.4 +4.5
+3.2 +7.9
+3.7 +18.6
+1.8 +13.7
+1.9 +14.0
+.7 +7.9
+1.4 +12.9
+5.4 +23.1
+6.6 +23.0
+6.5 +25.4
+3.5 +22.7
-.3
37.6
36.4
37.7
+2.0
-.2
+2.2
40.1
42.3
43.3
+1.0
+1.0
39.7
35.8
-.1
+3.8
+7.6
+4.5
+4.1
—1.2
-.4
+1.4
+4.9
40.5
38.3
41.2
41.7
40.4
41.0
44.6
37.4
43.4
39.3
41.1
41.3
43.0
39.9
42.2
+.2
+3.0
-1.3
+3.0 +6.8
+1.0 +4.0
+1.1 +3.5
+.7 +3.1
+3.6 +6.4
+12.1
+3.4
-2.6
+.6
-.7
+.8
+2.7
+4.4
+3.4
+1.4
+3.0
+5.6
+1.0
+1.8
+13.8
+12.4
+16.3
+11.1
51.7
57.4
51.1
82.6
60.6
71.6
+1.7
+1.7
+1.7
+1.7
+1.9
+5.7
82.5
106.9
+.7
+.4
82.4
102.2
76.1
86.4
35.9
62.7
88.6
48.5
78.0
72.2
79.3
+2.3
+1.4
+2.5
+.5
+1.7
+1.9
+.3
+4.5
+1.3
+1.4
+.5
+2.3
+2.1
+2.9
+1.7
83.6
67.2
103.7
68.1
+4.3
+6.9
+4.3
+4.0
+6.5
+11.6
+2.4
+1.7
+7.3
+5.3
+9.6
+9.4
+2.1
+5.0
+5.8
+10.4
+8.2
+6.8
+11.0
+7.6
+9.5
+7.2
+9.9
TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, June 1941—Continued
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
Employment
Industry-
Index
June
Percentage
change from—
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph
1!i 16
1516
.
151617
Electric light and power
Street railways and busses
Trade:
__ .
_ _
_.
_ _
Wholesale « i s
Retail » «16 . ... ...
Food
General merchandising
Apparel 1 6 16
Furniture 16
Automotive
Lumber 16 121S
Hotels (year-round")
is
Laundries12
Dyeing and cleaning 12
Brokerage
Insurance 15 .
Building construction
lfi
is
_ ._
May
1941
June
1940
49.2
86.6
78.1
51.7
61.6
+1.3
+.2
+1.3
-1.1
+1.5
+1.9
+3.4
+ 11.1
+7.9
-3.4
86.1
93.7
69.0
+1.7
+1.7
+10.6
+2.8
+.2
+.7
93.1
97.6
108.1
104.8
90.6
78.8
94.0
79.4
94.9
111.7
122.9
+1.0
+1.6
+.6
+4.0
00
00
Index
June
Percentage
change from—
1941
1941
Coal mining: 1213
Anthracite 12
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining14 _
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum production..
Average weekly earnings
Pay rolls
+3.2
+ 1.9
+6.2
+3.1
+8.9
+3.0
+1.8
+8.7
+5.7
+3.1
+9.4
+9.1
— 1.0
-16.3
+2.2
+.1
+.1
+1.8
+3.1
-1.5
+.2 +1.2
+3.3 +21.6
June
1940
51.2
104.5
85.6
55.5
59.4
+53.3
+2.5
+5.-0
+4.5
+1.1
+26.0
+41.4
+31.1
+ 26.5
+1.0
112.1
111.3
75.6
+1.4
+1.6
+3.9
87.5
94.5
103.6
99.6
85.5
76.3
102.5
80.1
87.0
102.3
98.4
+3.5
+3.3
+2.9
+3.8
+1.2
00
Percentage
change from—
1941
May
1941
00
00
June
Average hours worked
per week
June
1941
Percentage
change from—
June
1940
June
1940
$34.20
32.08
34.50
27.07
35.31
+51.4
+2.4
+3.7
+2.9
+27.4
+36.8
+ 17.9
+17.2
+4.6
34.0
31.5
43.1
42.8
36.9
+48.6
+1.9
+3.1
+12.0
+6.2
+7.2
31.82
36.28
35.62
-.3
-.1
+1.3
+3.3
+6.4
39.8
39.3
47.7
-1.0
-2.3
+.9
+4.3
+7.4
+4.9
+4.2
+2.4
+3.3
+6.7
+13.1
+6. 1
+2.9
+1.2
41.3
42.7
42.6
38.8
38.0
44.0
47.6
43.3
45.7
43.6
44.6
-.5
-.6
+.5
-.6
-14.0
32.68
22.31
24. 55
18.81
21.99
3028
32.63
28.25
15.84
19.11
22.15
38.75
38.08
35.15
+1.0
+2.6
+4.7
-1.0
+3.6
+2.4
+11.6
+11.4
+7.6
+ 11.5
+6.3
+8.7
+22.9
+12.2
+6.1
+10.8
+9.9
+2.9
+.3
+.9
+ .4
+1.0
+.8
nt
+4.6
+32.5
+3.7
+2.5
+1.7
+2.2
+1.4
+1.1
+.6
+.7
+1.5
+.5
+.5
+.5
+.4
+1.4
+.9
+.7
+2.7
+3.4
+8.9
1941
00
35.3
June
Percentage
change from—
1941
May
May
1941
-.8
Average hourly earnings
- +.7
2.9
+.8
+.7
+16.3
+18.6
+6.1
+5.7
-1.4
-.4
+1.0
-.3
-1.6
+.6
-.1
-.2
-.1
o
-1.3
-.3
-.5
00
00
+.2
00
00
+3.4
Cents
100.2
102.0
80.3
63.1
92.8
80.3
92.5
73.7
79.8
57.2
54.9
48.1
57.7
75.0
70.1
65.9
34.1
44.0
50.3
00
00
99.7
May
1941
June
1940
+6.0
+1.3
+7.7
+14.5
+11.2
+10.5
+.5
+2.3
+1.9
+.8
+2.1
+1.0
+2.1
+1.3
+1.5
+1.1
+1.5
+3.3
+1.2
+.9
+.1
+.7
+.1
00
00
+.7
+5.3
+.3
+3.7
+2.3
+7.0
+5.6
+5.0
+1.6
+4.1
+6.2
+15.4
+7.0
+3.6
+2.0
+.6
00
00
+5.3
1
Mimeographed sheets giving averages by years, 1932 to 1939, inclusive, and by months
January 1938 to August 1940, inclusive, available on request. Average hours and average
hourly earnings are computed from data supplied by a smaller number of establishments
& than average weekly earnings, as not all reporting firms furnish man-hours. The figures
8§ are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size and
£ composition
of the reporting sample.
J 2 See tables 9, 10, and 11 in the December 1940 issue of EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
£ for comparable series back to January 1919 for all manufacturing and back to January
j 1923
for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups.
I 3 See table 7 in the April 1941 issue of EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS for revised figures
•** from January 1940 to March 1941.
*6 Less than Mo of 1 percent.
Adjusted on basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics for August 1940. Not comparable with previously published indexes from January 1939 to August 1940, inclusive. Comparable figures for this
period
given in table 9 of the September 1940 issue of this pamphlet.
6
The indexes for "Automobiles" have been adjusted to 1933 census figures, but not to
later
census
figures because of problems involving integrated industries.
7
See table 8 in March 1941 EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS pamphlet for revised figures
from
January
1935 to February 1941.
8
Revisions in the brass, bronze, and copper products industry have been made as
follows: November and December 1940, January and February 1941 average weekly and
hourly earnings to $34.17, $35.80, $35.27, $35.20, and 80.2, 80.8, 80.8, and 81.1 cents; November 1940 and February 1941|average weekly hours to 42.7 and 43.5; January, February,
and March employment indexes to 171.5, 175.9, and 180.5; November and December
1940, January, February, and March 1941 pay-roll indexes to 201.9, 218.9, 220.1, 224.4,
and 237.9.
9
Because of change in the composition of the reporting sample, hours and earnings are
not comparable with those previously published for months prior to those for
which comparable figures are given as indicated:
Marble—Average weekly earnings, average weekly hours, average hourly earnings
(comparable March figures $25.19, 35.5 hours, 71.1 cents).
Confectionery.—Average weekly earnings and average weekly hours (comparable
December 1940 figures $19.75 and 40.2 hours); average hourly earnings (comparable December 1940, January, and February 1941 figures 49.0, 51.1, and 51.8
cents).
!o Because of expansion in the reporting sample, average weekly earnings, average
weekly hours, and average hourly earnings are not comparable with those previously
published for February and prior months (comparable February figures $18.04, 36.8
hours, and 48.3 cents).
«12 Not available.
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
i n 13January 1938 issue oi this pamphlet.
See table 7 of October 1940 EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS for revised employment
and pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and
average weekly earnings in anthracite mining, February 1940 to September 1940, inclusive.
14
See table 7 of February 1941 EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS pamphlet for revised
figures
for metalliferous mining from January 1938 to January 1941, inclusive.
15
Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not comparable with figures
published in EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS pamphlets prior to January 1938 as they now
excludv corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly
supervisory.
!8 Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census.
Not comparable to indexes published in EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS pamphlets prior
to January 1940 or in issues of MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW prior to April 1940, with but one
exception, retail furniture, which has been revised since publication of July 1940 pamphlet
back
to January 1936. Comparable series for earlier months available upon request.
17
Covers street-railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated,
and successor companies, formerly "electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance."
18 Indexes adjusted to 1933 census. Comparable series in November 1934 and subsequent
issues of EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS.
19
Cash payments only; additional value of board, room, and tips not included.
TABLE 7.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100. For "all manufacturing,"
g, "durable
drable goods,"
goods, "nondurable
o d u r a b e goods,"
goods, and "aluminum
aluminum manufactures,"
manufactures, they have been adjusted to pre
preliminaryy 1939 census figures.
g
The indexes for all other manufacturing groups and industries have been adjusted to
t 1937
1937 censusfigures,
fi
exceptt as otherwise
t h i
noted,
t d andd are nott com
parable
b l tto iindexes
d
published
b l i h d iin pamphlets
a m p h l t prior
i tto AAugust
u u t 1939
1939. C
Comparable
b
lseries
i available
i l b l upon request]
t]
Employment index
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings 1
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly
earnings l
Industry
All manufacturing 2_
Durable goods 2
Nondurable goods 2
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 toolsForgings, iron and steel _
Hardware
Plumbers'supplies 3
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittingsStoves
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 (including tractors) -.
Cash registers, adding machines, and caculating machines
_
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills
June
1941
May
1941
127.8
124.9
135.1
120.9
131.3
118.8
April
1941
June
1941
May
1941
April
1941
June
1941
May
1941
152.1
144.1
134.7
$31.84
$30.76
127.7
117.8
173.8
127.8
163.1
122.8
149.9
117.7
36.89
25.08
April
June
1941
May
1941
April
1941
40.0
Cents
73.8
Cents
72.6
Cents
70.8
42.5
38.9
41.5
38.4
82.2
65.0
64.1
June
1941
May
1941
'9 17
41.3
40.8
35.55
24.48
33.54
23.62
43.1
39.4
78.5
136.1
133.0
129.4
168.7
161.0
150.9
36.44
35.73
34.40
42.0
41.5
40.8
86.3
85.9
84.1
144.0
165.6
96.9
140.6
161.1
94.4
137.4
154.7
92.6
179.9
248.4
114.6
172.7
233.7
110. 3
164.1
212.0
104.2
39.46
36.02
28.25
38.98
34.92
27.93
37.87
32.99
27.00
41.0
45.8
41.9
40.4
45.1
41.7
39.8
44.7
41.8
96.4
78.7
67.0
96.7
77.5
66.6
95.4
73.8
64.1
120.4
104.3
118.3
102.8
220.2
118.5
102.1
116.7
102.1
218.0
116. 6
99.5
116.6
100.8
210.0
139.2
163. 7
150.2
107.6
278.7
134.3
152.3
141.5
104.8
265.0
125.1
140.3
135.7
98.4
242.5
30.32
41.63
31.26
30.03
29.81
29. 73
39.62
29.89
29.62
28.51
28.16
37.57
28.64
28.18
27.08
43.9
47.0
42.5
40.7
41.6
43.4
46.0
42.3
40.5
40.5
42.6
45.0
41.4
39.4
40.4
69.9
88.8
73.7
74.4
71.3
69.4
86.4
70.7
73.1
70.5
67.3
83.6
69.3
71.6
67.2
114.1
115.8
105.5
135.2
112.1
113.4
102.3
123.4
108.9
109.2
99.1
109.5
137.8
124.7
120.1
169.0
128.6
119.3
113.8
151.6
116.8
110.6
103.4
127.3
36.32
30.55
36.98
28.15
34.63
29.66
36.13
27.65
32.28
28.60
33.71
26.17
44.8
41.6
44.4
42.1
44.0
41.2
44.0
42.3
43.6
40.4
43.2
41.0
81.2
73.0
78.8
72.1
82.5
65.5
74.1
70.8
78.2
64.2
138.2
214.2
135.5
211.1
133.2
207.4
181.0
280.9
171.7
273.0
165.5
242.8
33.07
31.95
32.01
31.37
31.57
28.22
46.8
42.6
46.1
42.7
46.4
40.1
71.3
73.9
70.0
72.9
68.1
70.5
167.9
171.8
162.6
158.5
162.4
170.7
151.3
154.0
156.2
168.5
151.3
147.3
230.2
233.3
217.5
229.0
197.4
229.6
37.98
37.32
35.20
37.52
41.34
37.21
82. c
87.7
78.2
285. 5
271.6
257.2
480.1
452.0
372.4
44.01
38.30
83.2
88.6
92.4
84.5
94.1
78.9
87.2
191.0
192.3
45.4
41.8
45.9
44.4
81.8
88.6
196.0
215.3
45.6
42.1
45.3
43.9
44.5
43.2
216.2
223.9
37.21
36.88
40.28
36.68
39.26
34.41
45.3
44.1
43.3
88.7
Foundry and machine-shop productsMachine tools
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts . .
Typewriters and parts. „.
Transportation equipment 4
139.7
337.1
180.7
103.8
148.3
134.9
325.6
173.7
101.3
143.5
130.0
316.9
158.5
98.9
138.3
179.1
526.6
200.4
130.5
207.5
166.2
505.3
191.5
124.3
189.6
152.2
472.2
163.9
112.1
174.5
166.4
216.2
191.4
177.7
171.6
239.1
6, 710. 5 6,290. 3 5,929. 2 8,155.3 7,697. 3 7,134. 4
134.7
134.1
132.4
187.9
170.3
147.3
84.2
73.4
79.5
73.7
91.6
85.6
65.1
59.7
90.8
79.9
68.1
71.6
307.7
294.4
499.8
429.6
392.6
335.0
Aircraft 4 - 8
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad..
Locomotives-.
Shipbuilding-.
37.76
43.37
27.09
34.84
34.31
36.51
42.98
27.02
33.72
32.40
34.75
41.10
25.31
31.32
30.93
46.0
51.9
40.9
46.8
45.8
45.4
52.3
41.0
46.4
45.3
44.5
51.1
39.4
45.0
43.8
81.9
83.6
66.4
74.5
74.9
80.3
82.4
66.1
72.8
71.6
78.0
80.8
64.4
69.7
70.6
42.61
35.48
45.68
34.16
40.87
43.45
39.87
35.73
41.64
33.71
37.58
40.66
36.41
35.15
36.36
31.71
36.75
39.08
43.8
44.7
43.1
40.9
46.5
45.3
42.4
45.2
41.0
41.0
44.4
44.0
39.7
45.1
37.0
39.7
44.2
42.7
97.6
79.9
106.5
83.6
87.9
94.3
94.5
79.5
101.5
82.3
84.6
92.1
92.3
78.8
98.3
79.8
83.1
90.6
Nonferrous metals and their products
..
Aluminum manufactures 6
Brass, bronze, and copper products 7
Clocks and watches and time-recording
de vices..
Jewelry
Lighting equipment
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and
zinc.
142.0
228.4
189.7
139.9
233.5
184.5
138.7
231.0
182.5
175.2
321.1
264.4
166.8
322.0
246.7
157.2
290.4
234.8
34.39
35.09
38.69
33.10
34.36
37.10
31.50
31.40
35.70
43.1
42.2
44.8
42.8
42.5
44.5
42.0
41.7
43.8
79.4
83.1
86.1
77.0
80.8
83.4
74.9
75.4
81.6
117.0
106.8
114.1
83.9
115.9
104.4
112.2
82.9
114.2
104.4
113.3
81.5
147.9
101.4
117.6
93.8
143.4
97.7
110.5
90.8
133.6
93.7
105.8
82.0
27.93
25.51
31. 57
32.32
27.36
25.08
30.16
31.64
25.83
24.07
28.60
29.07
42.4
41.3
41.3
44.0
42.2
40.9
41.2
45.1
41.2
40.3
39.8
43.2
65.9
61.2
76.5
74.4
64.8
60.7
73.1
70.8
62.7
59.4
71.8
67.9
101.8
101.7
100.3
116.6
111.7
106.6
32.28
30.94
29.96
40.5
39.2
39.0
79.8
78.9
76.9
Lumber and allied products
Furniture _
Lumber:
Millwork. ...
Sawmills..
76.9
103.8
74.7
100.1
73.8
97.6
83.9
109.7
78.0
102.5
75.7
95.2
23.61.
25.19
22.54
24.29
22.16
23.22
40.9
42.3
40.1
41.8
40.2
40.8
57.0
59.5
55.6
58.4
54.7
57.0
72.5
67.2
70.0
65.7
69.7
65.2
67.2
71.3
62.4
66.0
59.3
66.4
25.24
21.88
24.29
20.73
23.36
21.01
42.5
39.7
42.2
38.6
41.1
39.7
59.4
55.1
57.5
53.7
56.6
53.0
97.1
74.8
79.2
125.4
45.5
114.4
95.6
72.7
78.0
124.0
46.3
112.5
93.0
69.2
74.2
121.8
45.3
113.1
100.2
71.9
89.5
153.3
35.1
118.2
97.8
69.1
85.2
150.3
38.7
113.6
91.1
62.4
75.5
143.5
34.6
111.1
27.97
24.82
31.93
30.00
27.10
26.06
27.65
24.58
30.71
29.53
29.38
25.58
26.50
23.38
28.72
28.70
26.80
24.88
38.6
38.4
41.6
38.4
37.2
38.1
88.5
38.4
40.6
37.8
39.5
38.1
38.0
38.4
40.3
37.4
36.9
37.6
71.7
64.5
76.7
77.8
73.0
68.1
71.0
63.9
75.7
76.9
74.1
67.0
69.5
60.6
71.3
77.0
72.3
66.2
112.5
106.2
89.9
108. 5
103.7
139.3
82.2
142.7
79.5
79.3
160.4
69.3
107.9
112.4
105.1
89.2
106.3
102.6
141.2
79.9
143.0
76.8
82.3
154.7
68.5
106.8
112.1
103.7
87.0
104.7
100.8
143.3
80.7
141.9
71.4
82.6
141.5
68.5
104.2
111.3
111.6
90.2
120.0
116.2
133.2
83.8
158.1
75.5
82.8
153.2
64.1
117.1
110.3
109.2
89.6
116.9
114.1
133.9
74.8
158.1
72.1
84.6
149.2
62.4
113.3
107.0
104.1
81.5
113.3
107.4
134.7
66.9
155.2
63.9
84.0
132.7
60.1
101.5
20.22
20.12
27.71
17.87
21.75
23.21
28.17
19.70
19.57
17.61
21.82
18.93
25.02
20.12
20.08
27.78
17.83
21.70
23.06
25.77
19.64
19.36
17.21
21.79
18.72
24.58
19.48
19.33
25.94
17.54
20.73
22.78
23.00
19.37
18.50
17.03
21.17
18.04
22.58
38.1
39.1
39.3
39.6
41.5
38.3
36.0
36.2
38.7
38.5
40.3
38.7
40.2
37.9
38.8
39.3
39.5
41.5
38.6
33.5
35.8
38.7
38.0
40.4
38.5
39.7
37.3
38.3
37.4
39.3
40.2
38.7
29.4
35.4
37.3
37.8
40.1
37.6
38.7
53.4
52.2
70.6
45.1
52.5
59.9
79.3
54.5
49.9
45.7
52.9
49.0
62.8
53.0
52.0
70.7
45.1
52.5
59.4
77.1
54.8
49.8
45.1
53.3
48.4
62.1
52.4
50.9
69.4
44.6
51.6
58.4
75.9
54.7
48.9
44.8
52.6
47.8
58.4
__.
Stone, clay, and glass products
___
Brick, tile, and terra cotta— ..
CementGlass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products 8_.
Pottery.
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs...
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles.
Hats, fur-felt _.
Hosiery
Knitted outerwear 9_.
Knitted underwear
_
Knitted cloth
._._
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods..
See footnotes a t end of table.
TABLE 7.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment index
Average weekly
earnings
Pay-roll index
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
June
1941
May
1941
121.7
120.1
158.1
118.0
121.8
62.8
131.3
124.0
118.8
165.2
118.1
122.0
75.7
131.1
98.1
94.9
93.9
95.5
93.0
135.0
152.2
309.6
113.8
135.9
80.4
77.9
92.3
120.3
48.1
98.5
April
1941
June
1941
May
April
1941
June
May
1941
$20. 23 $19.91
21.32
21.71
20.53
21.36
18.65
19.12
15.13
15.85
26.37
20.59
15.20
15.49
1941
April
1941
June
1941
May
1941
April
1941
June
1941
Mayy
1941
April
1941
1941
Nondurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products—Continued.
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's...
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments..
Men's furnishings
Millinery
Shirts and collars
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
Food and kindred products
___
Baking
Beverages..
Butter
Canning and preserving.....
Confectionery8
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing..
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane..
Tobacco manufactures
_.
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuffCigars and cigarettes
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals-
126.2
117.9
171.9
118.1
122.3
87.8
130.0
103.8
107.4
118.1
138.7
-131.1
' 42.5
134.8
105.7
101.2
131.3
136.6
129.9
51.0
129.8
106.2
98.3
132.3
132.5
123.9
75.5
126.3
$20.50
22.79
20.23
19.49
15.89
20.66
16.06
95.8
90.0
97.2
91.9
106.6
91.0
86.7
97.6
92.3
89.1
95.1
127.5
149.0
293.0
109.6
99.9
81.0
76.5
87.0
116.8
47.4
102.5
123.6
146.5
271.5
102.3
96.9
86.4
77.4
77.8
110.2
43.6
102.6
144.3
154.4
391.3
104.6
133.5
85.5
79.2
82.7
137.8
57.2
97.5
134.7
148.4
362.4
97.4
91.1
83.7
75.3
75.1
133.1
53.8
90.0
125.2
140.9
331.4
89.9
87.5
85.8
76.4
68.8
115.1
48.2
92.5
22.97
21.66
28.52
27.05
28.21
36.99
23.98
18.75
20.50
27.34
30.35
29.79
30.71
27.77
65.5
52.1
67.2
64.9
52.8
66.4
63.5
53.5
64.7
70.1
67.1
70.3
67.1
66.9
67.0
58.9
61.6
58.5
121.5
135.1
124.6
120.8
129.7
122.7
119.4
126.6
120.3
128.6
170.3
157.7
124.9
159.2
145.6
101.6
117.4
103 2
117.6
102.8
117.1
94.8
113.6
95.7
114.0
36.0
36.3
35.8
38.8
36.1
28.6
37.3
36.2
35.9
36.7
38.7
36.5
28.6
37.0
35.3
35.6
35.0
37.5
34.9
32.6
36.4
Cents
55.9
63.0
53.7
49.6
43.3
68.4
43.7
Cents
55.0
60.3
54.5
48.8
42.7
66.6
42.9
Cents
55.3
60.0
55.0
49.2
42.6
69.7
42.6
20.89
27.29
21.87
20.84
26.52
38.7
38.2
40.8
37.5
36.9
40.1
38.0
37.7
39.2
59.9
57.3
70.1
59.0
56.7
68.1
57.9
55.5
67.7
26.68
27.56
36.19
23.15
17.44
19.91
26.44
29.28
29.55
29.35
24.89
25.56
26.59
35.67
22.96
17.33
19.17
26.59
30.08
27.14
28.63
25.53
41.0
42.5
41.4
46.9
36.6
38.1
43.1
46.7
40.4
39.8
41.8
40.3
41.8
40.7
45.9
34.3
37.6
42.0
45.5
40.5
39.5
38.2
39.6
41.1
40.1
45.3
34.2
37.1
42.5
45.9
39.1
37.9
39.1
87.2
66.5
90.2
50.6
51.9
54.6
63.3
64.0
73.8
79.0
66.9
67.0
65.9
89.8
49.5
51.7
53.1
62.6
63.8
73.1
77.2
65.2
65.5
64.7
89.8
50.0
51.4
51.9
62.3
64.2
69.4
78.6
65.2
19.56
20.76
19.34
18.82
20.45
18.52
16.88
18.50
16.58
37.6
36.4
37.7
36.9
36.4
36.9
33.2
33.7
33.0
51.7
57.4
51.1
50.9
56.4
50.3
50.6
54.9
50.1
121.2
150.7
139.1
32.10
25.34
30.97
31.13
24.55
29.07
30.54
23.74
28.31
40.1
42.3
43.3
40.0
41.8
43.0
40.8
42.6
82.6
60.6
71.6
81.1
59.2
67.6
80.5
58.5
93.7
112.4
32.21
39.39
32.01
39.51
31.54
39.01
39.7
35.8
39.7
36.2
39.4
36.0
82.5
106.9
81.9
106.6
81.4
105.7
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining
_
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal....
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
_
Fertilizers
_
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products..
Soap___
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes..
Rubber goods other
176. 9
157.9
342.3
115.6
33.52
38.64
31.73
36.00
15.17
26.43
39.41
18.15
33.81
28.35
32.58
32.41
37. 14
30.78
35.48
14.73
25.49
38.01
17.99
33.05
28.16
32.13
30.96
36.64
29.09
34.24
14.90
25.12
36.15
17.48
31.57
27.54
29.76
40.5
38.3
41.2
41.7
40.4
41.0
44.6
37.4
43.4
39.3
41.1
39.8
37.0
40.7
41.1
40.3
39.4
43.1
38.5
43.0
39.5
40.7
39.9
37.0
40.7
40.8
42.5
39.4
41.4
41.9
41.9
39.0
40.4
82.4
102.2
76.1
86.4
35.9
62.7
88.6
48.5
78.0
72.2
79.3
80.6
100.8
74.4
86.3
35.0
61.5
88.3
46.8
77.0
71.2
78.9
77.3
99.5
70.7
83.9
34.2
61.1
87.4
41.7
75.5
70.6
73.7
122.3
83.6
106.3
194.9
34.78
28.91
41.41
28.57
32.82
27.11
38.88
27.56
31.62
26.54
37.68
26.10
41.3
43.0
39.9
42.2
40.3
41.2
38.6
41.7
39.4
40.9
37.9
40.4
83.6
67.2
103.7
68.1
81.6
65.8
100.8
66.6
80.4
64.9
99.5
65.1
135.8
125.4
138.3
172.1
66.3
127.4
134.3
122.0
137.3
166.8
72.1
125. 2
134.7
120.5
138.1
162.4
90.6
122.4
171.1
156.7
175.5
232.6
62.4
149.9
163.6
146.3
168.9
221.8
66.3
142.8
157.0
142.4
161.5
208.3
84.2
137.7
92.5
144.8
327.0
93.3
127.1
141.4
323.5
92.2
178.7
137.4
317.9
91.6
93.7
177.8
362.4
129.0
127.4
170.4
356.2
125.7
110.7
78.2
86.3
190.2
106.4
74.9
83.3
181.7
105.0
72.4
82.3
180.5
141.1
98.4
122.4
224.4
128.7
88.3
111.1
207.2
(10)
(10)
(10)
(10)
(10)
(!0)
See footnotes at end of table.
to
TABLE 7.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
Employment index
Average weekly
earnings
Pay-roll index
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
Coalmining: 1113
Anthracite _
—
Bituminous "
Metalliferous mining13
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining...
Crude-petroleum production..
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph " ^
Electric light and power " 14
u
Street railways and busses » 16_
Trade:
1
Wholesale
*"..Retail1* is15
_.
Food
General 1merchandising 14 16__.
Apparel *..Furniture 15
--Automotive 15_.
Lumber *» 111418
Hotels (year-round)
—
Laundries11
Dyeing and1419
cleaning11.
Brokerage1419
Insurance
Building construction19
June
May
1941
1941
April
1941
June
1941
May
1941
April
1941
May
1941
April
1941
June
May
1941
1941
1941
June
April
1941
June
1941
May
1941
April
1941
49.2
86.6
78.1
51.7
61.6
48.6
86.5
77.1
51.0
60.4
48.7
23.5
77.2
48.2
60.1
51.2
104.5
85.6
55.5
59.4
33.4
102.0
81.fi
53.2
58.8
24.3
15.8
78.9
47.0
57.8
$34.20
32.08
34.50
27.07
35.31
$22. 59
31.34
33.28
26.30
35.59
$16.43
18.02
32.19
24.37
35.31
34.0
31.5
43.1
42.8
36.9
22.9
30.9
41.8
42.5
38.0
18.5
22.8
41.2
40.7
38.0
Cents
100.2
102.0
80.3
63.1
92.8
Cents
94.5
100.6
79.9
61.7
91.1
Cents
92.3
84.1
78.5
60.0
90.0
86.1
93.7
69.0
84.6
92.2
68.9
83.2
91.3
68.3
112.1
111.3
75.6
110.5
109.6
72.7
107.1
107.6
72.0
31.82
36.28
35.62
31.91
36.32
34.36
31.55
35.96
34.37
39.8
39.3
47.7
40.3
40.2
46.4
39.8
39.8
46.4
80.3
92.5
73.7
79.7
90.7
73.0
79.6
90.6
73.1
93.1
97.6
108.1
104.8
90.6
78.8
94.0
79.4
94.9
111.7
122.9
-1.0
92.2
96.1
107.5
102.5
90.5
78.7
92.3
77.0
96.3
108.3
120.6
-1.6
92.4
97.8
107.5
108.7
99.9
76.8
90.7
74.9
95.2
104.9
117.2
-0.8
87.5
94.5
103.6
99.6
85.5
76.3
102.5
80.1
87.0
102.3
98.4
-0.6
84.6
91.5
100.7
96.0
84.5
75.7
99.9
76.5
87.9
98.7
96.1
-1.3
83.4
91.7
100.8
98.6
94.4
71.9
95.8
72.6
87.1
95.8
97.8
41.0
42.5
43.0
38.7
38.1
44.4
47.6
42.4
45.4
43.8
45.8
(10)
(10)
(10)
(10)
(10)
(10)
77.5
55.0
53.1
46.1
57.3
70.3
66.4
64.8
34.0
43.4
51.1
+1.6
+4.2
(19)
(10)
78.1
56.4
54.1
47.6
56.9
72.6
69.3
65.3
34.1
43.7
50.2
+.3
(10)
(10)
79.8
57.2
54.9
48.1
57.7
75.0
70.1
65.9
34.1
44.0
50.3
+11.1
+8.0
31.36
21.56
23.88
18.13
21.97
29.44
31.52
27.11
15.87
18.98
22.94
38.54
37.34
33.96
41.2
42.4
42.4
38.4
37.7
44.3
47.2
43.0
45.4
43.7
44.7
+.2
+5.4
31.90
21.94
23.95
18. 55
21.47
29.99
32.44
27.85
15.77
19.02
22.04
38.58
37. 55
34.87
41.3
42.7
42.6
38.8
38.0
44.0
47.6
43.3
45.7
43.6
44.6
+.2
32.68
22.31
24. 55
18.81
21.99
30.28
32.63
28.25
15.84
19.11
22.15
38.75
38.08
35.15
35.3
35.1
34.4
99.7
99.3
+3.3
+.7
+0.2
+.4
+15.5
(10)
(10)
98.9
1
Mimeographed sheets giving averages by years, 1932 to 1939, inclusive, and by months,
January 1938 to August 1940, inclusive, available on request. Average hours and average
hourly earnings are computed from data supplied by a smaller number of establishments
than average weekly earnings, as not all reporting firms furnish man-hours. The figures
are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size and composition
of the reporting sample.
2
See tables 9, 10, and 11 in the December 1940 issue of EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
for comparable series back to January 1919 for all manufacturing and back to January
1923 for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups.
3
See table 7 in the April 1941 issue of this pamphlet for revised figures from January
1940 to March 1941.
4
Adjusted on basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for August 1940. Not comparable with previously
published indexes from January 1939 to August 1940, inclusive. Comparable figures for
this
period given in table 9 of the September 1940 issue of this pamphlet.
5
The indexes for "Automobiles" have been adjusted to 1933 census figures, but not to
later census figures because of problems involving integrated industries.
6 See table 8 in March 1941 EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS pamphlet for revised figures
from January 1935 to February 1941.
7
Revisions in the brass, bronze, and copper products industry have been made as
follows: November and December 1940, January and February 1941 average weekly and
hourly earnings to $34.17, $35.80, $35.27, $35.20, and 80.2, 80.8, 80.8, and 81.1 cents; November 1940 and February 1941 average weekly hours to 42.7 and 43.5; January, February,
and March employment indexes to 171.5,175.9, and 180.5; November and December 1940,
January, February, and March 1941 pay-roll indexes to 201.9, 218.9, 220.1, 224.4, and 237.9.
8
Because of change in the composition of the reporting sample, hours and earnings are
not comparable with those previously published for months prior to those for which comparable figures are given as indicated;
Marble.—Average weekly earnings, average weekly hours, average hourly earnings
(comparable March figures $25.19, 35.5 hours, 71.1 cents).
Confectionery.—Average weekly earnings and average weekly hours (comparable
December 1940 figures $19.75 and 40.2 hours); average hourly earnings (comparable December 1940, January, February 1941 figures 49.0, 51.1, and 51.8 cents).
9
Because of expansion in the reporting sample, average weekly earnings, average weekly
hours, and average hourly earnings are not comparable with those previously published
for February and prior months (comparable February figures $18.04, 36.8 hours, and
48.3 cents).
10
Not available.
11
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
in 12January 1938 issue of this pamphlet.
See table 7 of October 1940 EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS for revised employment
and pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and
average weekly earnings in anthracite mining, February 1940 to September 1940, inclusive.
is See table 7 of February 1941 EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS pamphlet for revised
figures
for metalliferous mining from January 1938 to January 1941, inclusive.
14
Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not comparable with figures
published in this pamphlet prior to January 1938 as they now exclude corporation officers,
executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
15 Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census,
Not comparable to indexes published m EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS pamphlets prior
to January 1940 or in .issues of MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW prior to April 1940, with but
one exception, retail furniture, which has been revised since publication of July 1940
pamphlet back to January 1936. Comparable series for earlier months available upon
request.
is Covers street-railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated,
and successor companies; formerly electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance.
17 Indexes adjusted to 1933 census. Comparable series in November 1934 and subsequent
issues of EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS.
I ? Cash payments only; additional value of board, room, and tips not included.
19
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are not available; percentage changes from
preceding month substituted.
to
28
TABLE 8.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Fifty-Five Additional Manufacturing
Industries
[12-month average 1939=100]
Pay rolls
Employment
Industry
Iron and steel group:
Metal doors and shutters
___
Firearms
Screw-machine products
__
Wire drawing
Wrought pipe not made in rolling mills..
Steel barrels, kegs, and drums-„_.._
Machinery group:
Machine-tool accessories
Pumps
Refrigerators and refrigerating apparatus._
Sewing machines
Washing machines, wringers, and driers
Transportation equipment group:
Motorcycles, bicycles, and parts..
Nonferrous metals group:
Sheet-metal work
Smelting and refining of scrap metal
Lumber group:
Caskets and morticians goods..
Wood preserving
Wood, turned and shaped
Wooden boxes, other than cigar..
Mattresses and bedsprings
Stone, clay, and glass products group:
Abrasive wheels
Asbestos products
Lime
__
Gypsum
_._
Glass products made from purchased glass..
Wallboard and plaster, except gypsum.._
Textiles group:
Textile bags
Cordage and twine
Curtains, draperies, and bedspreads.
Housefurnishings, other
Jute goods, except felt
_
Handkerchiefs
Leather group:
Boot and shoe cut stock and findings
Leather gloves and mittens....
.
Trunks and suitcases
Food group:
Cereal preparations
Condensed and evaporated milk_
Feeds, prepared
Paper and printing group:
Paper bags
Envelopes
Paper goods, not elsewhere classified.
Bookbinding
.._
Lithographing
._
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products group:
Ammunition
Compressed and liquefied gases..
Perfumes and cosmetics
Coke-oven products..
Paving materials._
_
.
Roofing materials
Miscellaneous group:
Chemical fire extinguishers
_
Buttons
Instruments—professional, scientific, and commercial
Optical goods
Photographic apparatus
.
Pianos, organs, and parts
Toys, games, and playground equipment..
1
Not available.
June
1941
May
1941
133.9
128. 8
0)
0)
April
1941
126.9
0)
June
1941
170.3
(0
May
1941
142.7
0)
April
1941
135.9
0)
263.5
169.8
200.2
181.9
249.5
168. 1
201.4
168.9
226.6
157. 6
175.7
147.9
222.3
183.4
154. 8
128.2
138.3
184.7
137.2
156.2
128.8
211.2
173.9
154.6
125.3
137.5
178.7
136.5
155. 7
117.8
200.5
165. 5
150.9
122.3
130.8
281.9
268.0
186.1
194.1
179.5
275.7
243. 1
191.7
178. 1
173.0
251.7
218.6
179.0
165.4
162.6
166.9
158.0
147.3
204.9
182.8
168.3
142.9
143.2
141.3
138.4
142.2
141.2
179.9
175.0
170.9
163.6
161.2
167.5
100.3
119.6
117.8
126.9
123.7
101.5
120.2
117.4
121.6
119.1
102. 5
121.0
117.2
118.3
116. 2
108.5
146.7
138.2
161.4
146.2
110.3
143.5
134.9
149.5
135.7
109.3
142.8
130.9
137.7
127.7
181.3
137.3
124.0
121.7
140.8
133.6
178.1
126.8
125.6
118.2
144.6
127.9
172.3
121.3
120.0
112.6
134.6
122.8
224.2
171.4
153.0
147.8
157.0
156.2
219. 8
158.3
157.7
137.2
160.9
148.9
202.8
139.6
141.0
127.4
143.5
137.1
111.2
133. 6
99.1
147.6
126.1
103.3
110.3
129.2
101.0
143. 0
120. 1
103.2
110.8
124.6
98.2
136.0
121.5
101.1
124.4
171.6
115.3
168.7
159.5
119.6
120.4
161. 1
115.9
159. 8
151.4
120.0
119.6
148.1
115.0
141.3
150.7
112.8
106.3
141.3
150.6
103.7
135.7
142.1
103.3
135.7
136.4
127.4
179.0
148.3
115.2
172.1
138.4
111.9
169.4
131.6
109.8
124. 8
109.6
106.1
119.8
106.9
101.7
109.6
105.4
125. 5
146.7
127.0
118.7
134.9
117.7
113.9
117.7
113.5
120.8
115.5
121.1
92.3
104.2
118.5
113.8
118.8
106.7
100.2
115.0
112.0
117.7
105.9
98.7
146.7
128.4
137.1
110.7
113.1
138.7
125. 3
129.0
119.6
110.5
129.9
118.5
124.7
121.5
107.4
191.1
136.7
156. 5
133.2
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
139. 5
98.1
122.1
117.6
128.8
138.1
95.8
120.8
117.9
124.7
135.7
99.4
115.8
97.2
121.5
179.0
100.5
145.7
139.6
165.4
180.1
99.2
141.5
130. 7
149.3
257.7
112.4
240.7
114.8
224.4
111.9
357.6
139. 3
330.2
138.2
271.0
129.6
185.5
166.3
120.4
121.5
134.7
175.8
160.1
115.6
121.1
122.2
169.2
155.9
113.6
123.1
106.6
231.1
196.4
154. 3
133. 2
145.8
218.5
182.5
135.3
131.2
127.0
203.7
174.8
128.9
129.3
108.5
160.9
99.5
125.6
102.2
136.0
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TABLE 9.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing1 and
Nonmanufacturing2 Industries, June 1940 to June 1941
Av. June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June
Employment
Manufacturing
All industries._
Durable goods 3
Nondurable goods i
Non manufactu ring
Anthracite mining s_. _
Bituminous-coal mining s_.
Metalliferous mining 6
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum production
Telephone and telegraph 7_
Electric light and power 7..
Street 7railways and
busses *
Wholesale trade.
Ketail trade7
Year-round5 hotels 5_.
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning «_. .
107. 5 103.1 103. 2 107.4 111. 4 113. 8 114. 7 116. 2 115. 5 117.8 119.9 122. 6 124.8 127.8
104.3 99.8 i8.4 102.4 108.2 112.8 115.5 117.7 118. 3 121.0 123.7 127.7 131.2
110.6 106. 2 107.8 112.2 114.4 111.8 113.8 114.8 J12. 7 114.7 116.3 117.8 118.7 120.9
50.7
88.0
49.8 49.4
49.7 50.5 49.
83.8 84.9 86.6 87. 7\ 89.2
70.3 71.0 71.5 72.5 72.6
48.1
48.9
62.9
77.9
91.1
63.
77.
91.2
63.7
78.8
92.2
63.6 63.0 62.4
79.0 78.9 79.1
93.0 92.7 92.3
68.5
90.4
92.3
92.0
99.5
104. 7
68 5
89.6
91.9
92.0
102.1
112. 6
89.2
89.1
90.3
102. 5
108. 2
45.3
68.4
90.1
92.8
90.
91.6
102. 8 101.9
106. 7 110. 0
48.8
68.7
91.0
94. 3
93.4
100.2
109. 4
50.4 50.8
89 8 90.1
72.5 72.2
50.3
90.2
47.2 45.4 41.7
61.3
79.2
91.
91.8
96.3
92.3
99.7
106. 0
50. C 50.2 48.7 48.6 49.2
90.6 91.1 23.5 86.5 86.6
74.3 77.2 77.1 78.1
42.4 44.2 48.2
51.0
51.7
60.7 60.3 60.4 60.2 60.1 60.4
79.7 80.4 80.9 SI. 8 83.2 84.6
91.3 90.5 90.1 90.3 91.3 92.2
61.6
86.1
93.7
68.4
92.5 91.2
108.1 90.5
92.6 92.9
100.3 101.4
103. 3 101.0
68.2 68.3
91.8 92.4
92.5 97.8
94.2 95.2
101.1 102.5 104.'
101. 4 104.4 117. 2
91.4
90.7
68.9
92.2
96.1
96.3
108.3
120.
69.0
93.1
97.6
94. 9
111.7
122. 9-
Pay rolls
All industries.. .
Durable goods 3
Nondurable goods 4
105. 4 99. 5 98. 2 105. 5 111. 6 116. 2 116. 4 122.4 120. 7 126.8 131. 2 134. 7 144.0 152.1
107.8 101.4
102.7 97.4
97.4 106.5 115.1 123.4 125.1 131.7 132.0 139. 3 144. 6 149. 9 163. 0 173.8
99.1 104. 4 107. 7 108.1 106. 6 112.1 108.1 112. 9 116.3 117.7 122.7 127.8
Nan manufacturing
Anthracite mining «
Bituminous-coal mining 5 ..
Metalliferous mining e
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum production
Telephone and telegraph7?.
Electric light and power .
S t r e e t 7r a i l w a y s a n d
busses 8
Wholesale trade.
Retail trade 7
Year-round5 hotels«_.
Laundries .:
Dyeing and cleaning fi_. ._
40.
73.9
65.3
36.5 33.1
75.2 82.5
63.6 68.5
40.5 43.9
45.2
38.5
81.2
66.7
39. 3
83.2 83.0
69.5 71.3
46.
37.6 42.7 38.5 45.2
84.5 91.4 87.8 90.8
69.8 72.8 70.4 71.8
42.4
93.
72.7
24.3 33.4 51.2
15.8 102.0 104.5
78.9 81.5 85.6
42.3
40.3 47.0 53.2
55. 5
58.2 58.
59.1 59.0 58.2 57.6 56.8 55.9 55.7 57.3
57.1 58.8 59.4
100. 2 100. 0 101.3 100.4 101.8 102.2 103. 2 103. 5 103.9 104.3 106.4 107.1 110. 5 112.1
104.8 104 8 105. 8 L08.1 105. 8 107.0 106. 9 106. 0 105.1 105.4 106.1 107. 6 109. 6 111. 3
70.4
79.0
84.2
82.4
87.7
78.2
70.5
78.4
84.8
82.0
92.4
70.0
78.3
82.6
80.5
90.0
80.0
70.4
78.7
81.5
80.7
90.5
78.9
71.5
81.1
85.1
81.8
89.9
85.6
70.7
80.2
85.8
84.2
88.0
82.4
70.3
80.71
87.11
83.6
87. 2
77.8
73.1
83. 4
97.3
84.1
89.2
75.8
70.7
80.5
83.7
84.1
89.8
73.3
71.0
81.4 82.0
S4.6 86.2
86.1 85.7
89.7 90.
74.4 77.2
72.0
83.4 84.6
91.7 91.5
87.1 87.9
98.7
97.8 96.1
87.5
94.5
87.0
102.3
98.4
i 3-year average 1923-25=100—adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures. See tables 9, 10,
and 11 of December 1940 EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS for comparable figures back to January 1919 for
"all manufacturing" and January 1923 for "durable goods" and "nondurable goods."
* 12-month average for 1929=100. Comparable indexes for wholesale trade, quarrying, metal mining,
and crude-petroleum production are in November 1934 and subsequent issues of EMPLOYMENT AND PAY
ROLLS, or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW. For other nonmanufacturing indexes see notes 5, 6 and 7.
3 Includes: Iron and steel, machinery, transportation equipment, nonferrous metals, lumber and allied
products,
and stone, clay, and glass products.
4
Includes: 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.
s Indexes have been adjusted to the 1935 census. Comparable series from January 1929 forward are presented in January 1938 and subsequent issues of this pamphlet.' See also table 7 of October 1940 pamphlet
for revised figures for anthracite mining February 1940 to September 1940.
67 See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised indexes January 1938 to January 1941.
Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census. Not comparable
with indexes published in EMPLOYMENT AND P I Y ROLLS pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in MONTHLY
LABOR REVIEW prior to April 1940. Comparable series January 1929 to December 1939 available in mimeographed
form.
8
Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated, and successor
companies.
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INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN
AREAS
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in May and June 1941
is made in table 10 for 13 metropolitan areas, each of which had a
population of 500,000 or over in 1930. Cities within these areas but
having a population of 100,000 or over are not included. Footnotes
to the table specify which cities are excluded. Data concerning
them have been prepared in a supplementary tabulation which is
available on request. Thefiguresrepresent reports from cooperating
establishments and cover both full- and part-time workers in the
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 6,
with the exception of building construction, and include also miscellaneous industries.
Revisions made in the figures after they have gone to press, chiefly
because of late reports by cooperating firms, are incorporated in the
supplementary tabulation mentioned above. This supplementary
tabulation covers these 13 metropolitan areas as well as other metropolitan areas and cities having a population of 100,000 or more according to the 1930 census of population.
TABLE 10.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
May and June 1941, by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Metropolitan area
New York
i..
Chicago 2
Philadelphia 3 -.
Detroit
Los Angeles4..
Number of Number on Percentage Amount of
establishchange
pay roll
pay roll
ments
from
(1 week)
June 1941 June 1941 May 1941 June 1941
Percentage
change
from
May 1941
13, 268
4,282
2,345
1,169
2,907
772, 580
553, 503
278,032
395,144
253, 006
+0.6 $24, 661,472
+2.5 17, 833, 867
+1.3 8, 997, 741
+.8 17, 402,363
+2.7 8, 368, 443
+2.6
+4.4
+4.1
+7.8
+4.1
Cleveland..
St. Louis.-.
Baltimore-.
Boston 5
Pittsburgh
1,507
1,354
1,118
2,761
1,252
161,876
157, 464
147, 392
210, 262
246, 943
+2.6
+3.1
-1.0
+2.5
+2.5
5, 757,124
4,450,435
4,605,952
6,312, 995
9,156, 868
+4.8
+6.3
+.4
+4.3
+3.5
San Francisco 6 -.
Buffalo
Milwaukee..
1,606
785
966
109,659
119,182
135,816
+3.4
+2.1
+2.3
3,828,974
4,089, 027
4, 597, 831
+9.7
+4.4
+5.7
12 Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, or Paterson, N. J., or Yonkers, N. Y.
Does not include Gary, Ind.
3
Does not include Camden, N. J.
4
Does not include Long Beach, Calif.
s Does not include Cambridge, Lynn, or Somerville, Mass.
• Does not include Oakland, Calif.
WAGE-RATE CHANGES IN AMERICAN
INDUSTRIES
The following table gives information concerning wage-rate adjustments occurring during the month ending June 15, 1941, as shown by
reports received from manufacturing and nonmanufacturing establishments which supply employment data to this Bureau.
As the Bureau's survey does not cover all establishments in an indus-
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try and, furthermore, as some firms may have failed to report wagerate changes, these figures should not be construed as representing the
total number of wage changes occurring in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries.
TABLE 11.—Wage-Rate
Changes Reported by Manufacturing
and
Nonmanufacturing
Establishments During Month Ending June 25, 1941 x 2
Establishments
Group and industry
All manufacturing
Total
number
covered
Average
percentage change
in wage
Number rates of
having mployees
increases having
increases
Employees
Number
reporting
increases
Total
number
covered
33,016
1,374
7,150,772
729,280
9.1
2,531
347
64
132
9
6
1,058,483
570,595
18,651
52,802
5,588
2,633
9.2
7.1
13.9,
117
91
157
228
4
7
8
21
15,692
16, 663
53, 267
49,284
400
385
16,248
4,343
5.9
9.9
10.0
7.3
111
240
299
134
15
11
15
5
40,225
43,095
35, 713
36,901
6,370
1.963
2,105
704
8.9
7.2
10.5
7.3
131
163
12
80
3
9
4
4
19, 698
29,314
15,214
16,848
386
1,722
7,774
128
8.0
6.8
9.9
6.7
3,816
110
211
5
1,155, 741
70,260
81, 684
2,179
9.0
5.7
35
590
4
46
23,802
317, 665
990
29.885
8.4
10.2
68
2,249
196
125
13
92
106
59
8
106
13
8
3
5
6
4
82,491
374,390
86, 553
22,430
17,939
17, 334
25, 597
40,931
6,410
16,409
6,077
3,282
7,583
859
4,760
1,740
7.8
9.0
9.8
9.7
6.5
8.5
8.6
10.3
795
410
70
175
53
86
4
15
917, 648
489,086
43,115
177, 111
114,385
263,600
3,013
28,159
9.6
9.2
6.9
14.6
Nonferrous metals and their products
Brass, bronze, and copper prod acts
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices-.
..
Jewelry
Lighting equipment
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
Electroplating
„.._
Sheet-metal work,.
1,076
332
61
27
247, 887
98,878
36, 628
20,644
8.1
7.2
36
202
92
55
36
130
6
4
6
7
3
7
23,643
16, 984
14, 538
33,120
2,269
7,545
4,336
51
4,551
3,562
263
1,031
6.0
6.7
10.8
10.2
10.2
12.3
lumber and allied products..
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork.
Sawmills
Wooden boxes, other than cigar
2,790
705
111
27
352,680
107,115
23,015
11, 506
9.2
10.7
588
760
134
22
47
41,675
136,475
15,164
1,529
8,924
564
10.3
7.0
11.0
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills.-Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery)
and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel...
..
Hardware
Stamped and enameled ware
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.
Firearms
Screw-machine products,.
Machinery, not including transportation equipment.
Agricultural implements (including tractors).
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills
Foundry and machine-shop products..
Machine tools
Textile machinery and parts..
Typewriters and parts
Machine-tool accessories-Pumps
Refrigerating and refrigerating apparatus...
Transportation equipment
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam railroad..
Shipbuilding. ...
See footnotes at end of table.
7
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TABLE 11.—Wage-Rate Changes Reported by Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Establishments During Month Ending June 15, 1941—Continued
Establishments
Group and industry
Total
number
covered
Employees
Number
reporting
increases
Total
number
covered
Average
percentge change
in wage
Number rates of
mployees
t having
increases having
increases
Stone, clay, and slass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta__
Cement
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products.
Pottery
Asbestos products.._
Lime
.-.
Gypsum
1,572
528
130
144
250
129
23
86
24
65
20
10
9
4
5
4
3
3
224, 584
45, 581
21, 933
70, 307
6, 133
33,184
10, 725
7,198
2,838
12.296
2,173
1, 654
1,530
66
1,758
1,152
335
230
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
_
Cotton goods
Dyeing and finishing textiles.
Knitted underwear..Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods...
Cordage and twine.._
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's..
Shirts and collars
6,368
3,374
799
221
130
405
391
58
2,994
1,119
1,144
264
167
64
9
6
3
10
19
3
103
71
7
22
1, 348, 885
1, 009. 718
428, 735
58, 903
36, 786
79, 513
145. 708
12, 931
339,167
148,424
85. 329
57,282
38, 577
18,409
4.042
1,111
1,203
2,662
5,178
521
20,168
13,042
1, 268
5,477
leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes.
_.._
Leather
Boot and shoe cut stock and findings.
1,053
485
173
126
41
13
16
6
239, 347
167, 027
39,254
10,172
7,351
2,860
3,619
436
7.6
7.4
7.2
7.1
Food and kindred products
Baking.... ._
BeveragesButter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing....
Condensed and evaporated milk..
Feeds, prepared
5,144
1,001
599
317
1,013
285
341
278
337
106
99
147
13
10
3
56
8
8
3
15
4
24, 597
664
655
316
9,849
4,880
166
69
3,200
117
188
10.9
7
472,769
80, 968
43,485
6,540
83, 075
33, 981
14, 701
11,420
124,247
6,806
3,986
225
182
11
10
68,481
57, 537
9,134
9,038
5.2
5.2
3,972
658
433
150
19
96
385, 966
48, 511
140, 864
54,339
1,784
49, 653
9.5
8.9
9.6
1,604
732
121
20
4
9
79,876
60, S53
17, 531
760
37
1,796
5.8
9.0
9.6
2,369
239
92
311
527
182
30
88
112
17
4
11
25
15
6
4
359, 787
75,636
12, 599
11,913
25,936
73,479
51,847
17, 267
35, 812
4,210
291
588
2,358
2,981
15,829
63
7.5
6.5
6.1
9.9
8.3
6.8
6.0
13.3
252
42
198
13
4
9
138,919
66, 611
50,436
30,061
26,288
3,773
6.5
6.4
6.6
1,053
43
179, 595
22, 361
9.4
23,003
20,986
6.654
1,509
15, 266
155
10.0
Tobacco manufactures
Cigars and cigarettes..
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
_
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Paper goods, not elsewhere classifiedChemical, petroleum, and coal productsChemicals
Druggists' preparations.. .
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes-.
Petroleum refining
Rayon and allied products..
Rubber products
Rubber tires and inner tubes.
Rubber goods, other.
Miscellaneous
Instruments—professional,
scientific,
commercial
.
Photographic apparatus
Pianos, organs, and parts._.
See footnotes at end of table.
and
62
21
47
3
4
5
8.2
10.0
10.5
8.0
5.5
7.0
6.6
7.2
4.4
9.4
8.8
9.7
6.3
8.4
9.0
9.7
7.7
9.9
10.1
6.7
9.8
5.9
5.7
7.9
14.9
8.2
11.7
4.5
8.6
8.0
7.7
6.5
6.7
33
TABLE 11.—Wage-Rate
Changes Reported by Manufacturing
and
Nonmanufacturing
Establishments During Month Ending June 15, 1941—Continued
Establishments
Group and industry
All nonmanufacturing (except building construction).-_
- --Anthracite mining..
.
Bituminous-coalmining..
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining..
Crude-petroleum production _
Natural gas
Electric light and power..
Manufactured gas
Street railways and busses..
Trade:
Wholesale..
Retail..
Hotels
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaningBrokerage .
Insurance ..____ . . . .
Average
percentage change
in wage
Number rates of
having employees
increases having
increases
Employees
Total
number
covered
Number
reporting
increases
*94,150
•80
•1,080
•380
•1,100
•480
•670
•2,850
•160
•360
774
7
3
6
14
11
3
59
4
10
*3,016,000
•58,300
•237,900
•73,000
•40,400
•38,100
•25,300
•248,000
•34,800
•133,100
49,192
8,890
207
253
659
1,758
3,306
3,577
4,719
15,461
7.0
7.5
27.2
8.6
12.2
6.4
5.7
5.0
4.7
6.9
•15,320
•53, 760
•1,990
• 1 , 310
•860
•1,320
•2, 680
71
543
7
18
10
3
3
•344,400
•1,063,900
•151,000
•85,700
•20,100
•18,700
•126,100
5,273
3,356
162
1,107
395
49
14
8.3
7.5
10.8
8.0
6.1
10.3
13.4
Total
number
covered
1
Figures are not given for some industries to avoid disclosure of information concerning individual establishments. They are, however, included where practicable in "all manufacturing," and in the various
industry groups.
2
No decreases reported.
•Approximate—based on previous month's sample.
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment financed from both regular and emergency appropriations.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service of
the Federal Government in May and June 1941 are given in table 12.
TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the United States
Government, June 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Class
June 1941 May 1941
Entire service:
Total.
Percentage
change
June 1941
May 1941
Percentage
change
+4.9 $205,581,047 $198,382, 389
+3.6
Regular appropriation
1,167,162 1,116,503
Emergency appropriation..
47,326
48,206
Force-account
._ 154, 742 142, 504
Inside the District of Columbia:
177,328
Total
_. 184,236
+4.5
+1.9
+8.6
176,632,657
6,711,406
22,236,984
170,169, 547
6, 578,430
21,634,412
+3.8
+2.0
+2.8
+3.9
30,601,662
30,268,124
+1.1
Regular appropriation
E mergency appropriation
Force-account
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total....
160,794
7,741
8,793
+4.3
+1.3
-.8
27,739,709
1,216,424
1,645,529
27, 316,671
1,210,124
1,741,329
+1.5
1,185,874 1,129,005
+5.0
174,979,385
168,114, 265
4 4.1
955,709
39, 585
133,711
+4.6
+2.0
+9.2
148,892,948
5,494,982
20, 591,455
142,852,876
5,368,306
19,893,083
+4.2
+2.4
+3.5
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
1,370,110 1,303,333
Pay rolls
167,672
7,845
8,719
999,490
40,361
146,023
i Data relate to the last pay period of the month.
+.5
-5.5
34
CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS FINANCED BY
ADMINISTRATION
THE
PUBLIC
WORKS
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during June on construction projects financed from Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 13, by type of project.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, June 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Monthly
pay rolls
Manhours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
$1,056,578
1,130,827
$0.934
$1,478,443
Employment
Type of project
Maximum 2
All programs.—.
-
-
9,507
Weekly
average
8,170
Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act
fund 8
All projects.
Building construction..
Naval vessels..
Public roads 4 ...
Reclamation
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
3 209
190
$21,251
32,484
$0.654
$17,928
35
16
28
16
86
36
22
2
3,604
3,216
5,492
4,547
4,029
363
2,722
3,216
13,425
6,540
6,259
322
1.324
1.000
.410
.695
.644
1.127
5,633
0
11,000
755
420
120
(5)
39
31
2
Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration
Appropriation Act, 1938 funds
All projects
Airport construction (exclusive of
buildings)
—
Building construction..
Reclamation
—
River, harbor, andfloodcontrol
..
Streets and roads.
Miscellaneous
1,389
1,249
$154, 237
193, 246
$0.798
$242,415
210
194
834
127
20
4
210
170
751
96
20
2
24, 525
20, 761
97,803
10, 563
225
360
40,647
20,471
117,263
14,172
296
397
.603
1.014
.834
.745
.760
.907
15,449
126,950
75,959
7,188
2,154
14, 725
Non-Federal projects financed from National Industrial RecoveryAct funds
All projects
95
95
$3, 508
4,157
$0,844
0
Building construction..
Railroad construction..
Miscellaneous
5
69
21
5
69
21
164
781
2,563
108
1,486
2,563
1.519
.526
1.000
0
0
0
Non-Federal projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds
All projects
3,327
2,955
$363,935
498,042
$0,731
$574,838
Building construction..
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Water and sewerage
18
127
3,175
15
92
2,842
6
902
8,792
353,103
1,138
707
9,439
486,832
1,064
1.276
.931
.725
1.069
383
867
573, 588
0
See footnotes at end of table.
7
35
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, June 1941 J—Continued
Employment
Type of project
Maximum 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay rolls
Manhours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Non-Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration
Appropriation Act, 1938 funds
All projects..
4,487
3,681
$513,647
402,898
$1.275
$643,262
Building construction
Heavy engineering.
Reclamation
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous
1,381
1,778
21
307
741
259
1,120
1,460
13
262
601
225
171,472
191,751
1,308
19,673
74,069
55,374
111, 095
173,917
1,598
16,781
64,359
35,148
1.543
1.103
.819
1.172
1.151
1.575
192,288
321,750
574
8,961
45,052
74,637
_
_
1
2
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public roads.
4
Under
the jurisdiction of Public Roads Administration.
8
Not available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
UNITED STATES HOUSING AUTHORITY
Table 14 shows data concerning employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked in June 1941 on low-rent projects of the United States
Housing Authority.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Low-Rent Housing Projects Operated by the
United States Housing Authority, June 1941
Subject to revision
Employment
Geographic division
Monthly
pay rolls
Man-hours Average
worked earnings
during
per hour
month
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Maximum
Weekly
average
All divisions..
40,958
34,771
$4,247,710
4,447,978
$0.955
$5,267,184
New England
_.
Middle Atlantic
East North Central.—
West North Central-..
South Atlantic
4,498
5,075
6,945
323
11,527
3,889
4,250
5,967
246
9,639
524,704
676, 593
878,258
30,202
1,034,036
498,918
519,820
748,586
30,273
1,244,998
1.052
1,302
1.173
.998
.831
567,480
883,614
999,777
33,186
1,247,478
2,858
5,668
379
2,102
1,583
2,399
4,818
329
1,772
1,462
241,190
500,744
29,773
273,213
48,997
316,338
622,768
38,305
230,098
197,874
.762
.804
1.038
1.187
.248
306,389
780,683
53,504
342,953
52,120
East South Central-.
West South Central
Mountain.
Pacific
Outside continental United States..
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM
A record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked in June
on projects financed by the Work Projects Administration is shown
in table 15, by type of project.
36
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Work Projects
Administration, June 1941
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Maximum
number
employed *
Type of project
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Value of
Number of
man-hours Average material
orders
worked
earnings placed
during
per hour during
month
month
Projects operated by the Work Projects Administration 2
All projects
_
1,369,728
$79, 222,498
172, 559,357
$0,459
(3)
Projects operated by other Federal agencies
All projects.
.__
-
Airport construction
(exclusive of
buildings) 4
Building construction.
Forestry
Grade-crossing elimination5 - _
Hydroelectric power plants *
Plant, crop, and livestock conservation
Professional, 5technical, and clericalPublic roads
_.
Reclamation
. . .River, harbor, andfloodcontrol
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous
49, 289
47,382
$2,323,783
5,619,978
$0.413
$652,977
107
24,174
7,457
160
1,254
102
22,937
7,369
139
1,228
9,691
1,186, 608
310,028
14,162
57,284
18,014
2,788,092
791, 251
22,023
206,180
.538
.426
.392
.643
.278
0
379,899
56, 520
16,360
109, 227
7,221
1,327
193
6,386
33
555
176
246
7,180
1,279
141
6,079
31
513
146
238
333,183
95,149
11,488
274, 214
1,959
18,147
4,885
6,985
731,668
163,185
21,498
758, 366
3,364
67,996
18,146
30,195
.455
.583
.534
.362
.582
.267
.269
.231
36,323
5,913
14, 751
27, 287
0
4,255
2,196
246
1
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
2
Data are for the calendar month; will be published by type of project in July pamphlet.
43 Data on a monthly basis are not available.
8 Includes projects under construction in Puerto Rico.
Projects under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
Data on employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked in June on
each type of project operated by the Work Projects Administration
were not available when this report was prepared. The figures for
May are presented in table 16.
TABLE 16.—Average Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Operated by the Work
Projects Administration, by Type of Project, May 1941
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
All projects..
Conservation
_
Highways, roads, and streets
Community service programs, excluding sewing..
Public buildings 2
Publicly owned or operated utilities..
Recreational facilities 3_.
Sanitation
Sewing
_
Airports and airways
..
Not elsewhere classified—Total - National defense vocational training..
Other
Employment 1
Pay-roll
disbursements
Average
Man-hours earnworked ings per
hour
1, 446, 994 $86, 527, 291 190, 895, 422
34,008
2,140, 573
4, 767, 320
521,122 27,412,958 65, 834, 852
297,993 19, 735,049 39,848, 665
139, 032
9,195,118 18, 928, 658
140, 033
8, 768, 999 18, 647, 632
$0. 453
.449
.416
.495
.486
.470
56, 013
16, 004
99,862
70, 016
72,911
3, 456,115
839, 554
5, 272,964
4, 674, 579
5,031, 382
6, 933, 640
2, 034, 594
12,906, 005
11,123, 962
9, 870, 094
.498
.413
.409
.420
.510
34, 098
38, 813
1, 967, 499
3,063,883
4, 378, 713
5,491,381
.449
.558
1
Data for "All projects" and for "National defense vocational training" represent the average of the
weekly employment counts made as of each Wednesday during the calendar month; data for all other types
are2 estimated on the basis of employment on May 28, 1941.
Separate data for housing projects are not available.
3 Exclusive of buildings.
37
NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION
Employment and pay rolls on the National Youth Administration
projects for May and June 1941 are shown in table 17.
TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects,
June and May 1941
[Subject to revision]
Pay rolls
Employm ent
Type of project
June
June
May
Total
750, 518
863,458
$10,715,168
$11,609,269
Student work program. ___
Out-of-school work program..
358,004
392, 514
463,978
399,480
2, 602,449
8,112,719
3,400,476
8,208,793
May
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Employment and pay rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps in
May and June 1941 are presented in table 18.
TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, June 1941 x
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Pay rolls
Group
June 1941
May 1941
J u n e 1941
M a y 1941
All groups..
235, 024
261,357
$11,277,971
$12,242,703
Enrolled personnel 2_.
Nurses 3
E ducational advisers 3
Supervisory and technical 3_
199,646
125
1,476
33, 777
225,957
124
1,518
33, 758
5,988, 552
17, 349
257, 384
5, 014, 686
7,036,039
16,011
261,915
4,928, 738
1
Employment figure is an average of counts of enrolled personnel taken at 10-day intervals, and number
employed on last day of month for other groups.
2 June data include 3,166 enrollees and pay roll of $61,506 outside continental United States; in May the
corresponding figures were 3,080 enrollees and pay roll of $62,007.
3 Included in executive service, table 12.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE RECONSTRUCTION
FINANCE CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in June are presented in table 19, by type of project.
38
TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, June 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
Employment 2
Monthly
pay rolls
Man-hours
worked
during
month
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
Average
earnings
per hour
All projects
10,935
$1,522,123
1,322,996
$1.151
$3,361,568
Building construction 3
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Heavy engineering
10,276
409
153
97
1,474,771
8,212
26, 578
12,562
1,272,571
12,503
28,292
9,630
1.159
.657
.939
1.304
3,303,910
...
50,871
6,787
i Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
* Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
3 Includes 351 employees; pay-roll disbursements of $69,073; 55,958 man-hours worked; and material
orders placed of $16,428; on projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR
APPROPRIATIONS
FEDERAL
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations
during June 1941 are given in table 20, by type of project.
TABLE 20.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed from Regular
Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, June 1941 *
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Type of project
All projects
Airport construction
_
Building construction:
Residential
Nonresidential
Electrification:
Rural Electrification
Administration projects 4
Other than R. E. A. projects
Heavy engineering
Public roads «
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revetments,
etc
-_...
Locks and dams
Ship construction:
Naval vessels
Other than naval vessels.
Streets and roads
_
Water and sewerage.
Miscellaneous
Maximum *
3 820,110
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay rolls
Value of
Man-hours Average material
worked
orders
earnings
durinj
ng
per hour placed durmonLth
ing month
747,735 $111,482,646 125,939,998
$0,885 $203,714,431
51,819
47,230
7,462,792
8,434,850
.885
10,312,048
64,896
312,332
56,868
271,106
6,721,549
45,473,413
7,744,974
46,167,448
.868
.985
10,112, 341
61, 533, 747
11,060
629
6,704
(*)
29,627
9,098
488
6,704
79,612
28,348
1,147,578
612,808
66,091
75,372
804,510
438,380
7,794,536 11, 515,941
4, 346,075 4,700,456
.534
1.140
.545
.677
.925
3,127,994
121,660
722,832
12,316,053
8,587, 711
32,249
7,603
28,378
6,996
3,324,467
983,239
4,677,694
1,211,173
.711
.812
4,497,563
1,803,181
161,409
40,654
2,780
2,255
16,481
154,589
37,602
2,485
2,166
16,065
27,578,594
5,589,205
30,347,999
6,412,822
318,518
302,749
2,087,195
.909
.872
.721
.772
.296
61,212,977
24, 633,132
453, 749
449,090
3,830,353
233,847
618,761
* Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Governmen t
agency doing force-account work.
3 Includes weekly average for public-road projects.
• Financed by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
« Under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
• Not available, weekly average included in the total for all projects.
39
STATE-ROADS PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements on the construction and maintenance of roads financed wholly from State or
local funds in June 1941, compared with May 1941, and June 1940,
is presented in table 21.
TABLE 21.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction and Maintenance of State
Roads, June 1941, May 1941, and June 1940 l
[Subject to revision]
Employment
2
Pay rolls
Item
June 1941
May 1941
June 1940
189,730
$14,596,069
$14,671,221
$13,450,050
55,679
134,051
4, 231,809
10,364, 260
3,837,660
10,833, 561
3,555,180
9,894,870
June 1941
May 1941
June 1940
Total..
196,655
174,159
New roads
Maintenance -
61,759
134,896
55,214
118,945
1
2
Projects financed wholly from State or local funds.
Average number working during month.
PURCHASES FROM PUBLIC FUNDS1
Table 22 shows the value of material orders placed on construction
projects financed by Federal funds in the second quarter of 1941.
Material orders placed on construction projects operated by the Work
Projects Administration, not included in this table because data were
not available, will be included in the complete report for the first
quarter to be published in the September pamphlet.
In the second quarter of 1941 on construction projects financed from
regular Federal appropriations, orders were placed for materials
valued at approximately $599,048,000. Of this amount $158,655,000
was expended for iron and steel products, $281,687,000 for machinery,
$22,208,000 for cement and concrete products, and $36,031,000 for
forest products. Of the $17,134,000 of material orders placed on
the United States Housing Authority program, $5,919,000 was for
iron and steel products, $1,058,000 for machinery, $2,200,000 for
cement and concrete products, and $2,189,000 for forest products.
Previous sections of this report have shown the number of workers
employed at the site of construction projects financed from Federal
funds. The direct employment, however, is only a partial picture,
as the manufacture of the materials used on the proiects also creates
a large amount of employment.
Estimates have been made of the man-months of labor created in
fabricating the materials used on the various programs. (See table 3.)
The estimates include only the labor required in the fabrication of
materials in the form in which they are to be used. No estimate is
1
Unless otherwise specified, data presented in this section are as of the 15th of the month.
40
made of the labor required in producing the raw materials or in transporting them to the point of manufacture. In manufacturing structural steel, for example, the only labor included is that occurring in
the fabricating mills; no estimate is made for the labor created in
mining, smelting, and transporting the ore; nor for the labor in blast
furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces and the blooming mills.
TABLE 22.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed byFederal Funds for the Second Quarter of 1941
[Subject to revision]
Projects
ReconPublic
S.H.A. struction
Works U.
low-rent
Finance
Adminis- housing Corporatration i
tion 2
Type of material
$5,809,167 $17,133,737 $9,220,102 $599,047,698 $1,967,551
All materials- .
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc...
_ ..
Carpets and rugs
Cordage and twine..
Cotton products..
Felt products..
Jute products
Linoleum and asphalted felt-basefloorcovering
Sacks and bags, other than paper
Upholstering, filling, batting, padding, and
wadding
Waste and related products
Textiles and their products, n. e. c._
_
Forest productsCork products
Furniture and related products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c_
Planing-mill products
Window and door screens and weatherstrip
Forest products, n. e. c .
Ammunition and related products
Compressed and liquefied gases
Explosives
Paints, pigments, and varnishes
Chemicals and allied products, n. e. c
942,635
172,859
43
169,131
306
9
94
101
36
13
283
335, 591
220
88, 739
9,622
4,499
5,159
5,470
130,125
379
151,057
3,658
73
3,847
223,576
420
654
62
70
"66
8
2,958
4
3,898
340,188
113
215
2,189,254
415, 565 36,031,369
183,468
3,632
3,443
49,218
45, 597
157,482 1,039,116
16,865 1,064,684
29,990
2,803
140, 215
48, 065
1, 754, 394
73,678
249,850 24,110,152
43, 972 9, 926,061
20,145
80,402
55
2,082
151, 518
28, 580
1,233
117,158
263, 706
30,079
3,269,660
49,440
.
4,877
66,839
36,206
9,236
530
6,634
249,285
7,257
1,190
1,528
20,869
6,492
177, 520
816, 523
1,834,634
440,983
1,572
3,953
38,337
5,578
4, 605,634 1,443,240
49, 512,180
273,698
74, 302
367
357,432
40,462 1,133, 501
536,068
442,883
101, 557 1,756, 730
22,546
49,926
14,202
95, 584
121,178
224,105
817,479
11,331
41, 969
2,044
2,918, 351
14, 771, 579
7,436,730
5,776,811
935,203
54,705
92, 726
72,921
3,908
912,986
483
571
580,049
7,175
297,397
4,012
89,871
2,916
9,849,118
2,786
56,309
17,307
34,423
99,496
88,658
1,858
72,228
470,026
723,465
2,461
62,133
9,917
409,407
77,654
45,847
7,043
5,138, 852
164,006
4,584
6,590
Asbestos products, n. e. c
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products,
n. e. c_.
„.
Cement
Concrete products
Crushed stone..
Glass..
Lime
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone, cut
and shaped ._ ._
Minerals and earths, ground and otherwise
treated
Sand and gravel
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler
covering, and gaskets
Tiling, floor and wall, and terrazzo
Wall plaster, wallboard, and building insulation
Stone, clay, and glass products, n. e. c_.
-
585
70
_
Stone, clay, and glass products..
See footnotes at end of table.
131,659
9,435
Textiles and their products-.
Chemicals and allied products..
Regular
Federal
Federal
agency
projects
financed
from
W. P . 3A.
funds
1, 514,498
2,537
9,609
97,654
26,664
65, 366
969
169
54
41
TABLE 22.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed byFederal Funds for the Second Quarter of 1941—Continued
Projects
ReconPublic
S. H. A. struction
Works IT.
low-rent
Finance
Adminis- housing Corporatration
tion
Type of material
Regular
Federal
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery...
. $1,412,398 $5,919,323 $4,113,905 $158,655,102
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Doors, shutters, window sash and frames,
molding and trim, metal.. .
Firearms
Forgings, iron and steel...
Hardware, miscellaneous
Heating and ventilating equipment, except
pipe
. _ ...
Nails and spikes
Pipe and fittings, cast-iron
.._
Pipe and fittings, wrought iron and steel
Plumbing fixtures and supplies, except pipe_.
Rail fastenings, except spikes
.
Rails, steel
Springs, steel
Steel, reinforcing...
Steel, structural
Stoves and ranges, other than electric—
Switches, railway _
... .
Tools, other than machine tools..
Wire and wireworks products
Iron and steel and their products, n. e. c~ ..
Nonferrous metals and their products..
Aluminum products..
Copper products..
Lead products
Sheet-metal products..
Zinc products
Nonferrous metals and their products, n. e. c.
Machinery, not including transportation equipmentElectrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
E lectrical wiring and fixtures
Elevators and elevator equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels.
Machine tools
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators..
Pumps and pumping equipment..
._
Radio apparatus and supplies.
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making apparatus
Machinery, n. e. c .
Transportation equipment—air, land, and waterAircraft
Airplane parts
Boats, steel and wooden
Carriages and wagons
Locomotives, other than steam. _
Locomotives, steam
Motorcycles and parts
Motor vehicles, passenger-. .
Motor vehicles, trucks..„
Railway cars, freight.
Railway cars, mail and express..
Railway cars, passenger.
Transportation equipment, n. e. c.
See footnotes at end of table.
_
Federal
agency
projects
financed
from
W. P. A.
funds
$503,460
29, 525
3,524
40,223
2, 742,222
5,785
128,259
652,609
469, 983
32,241
32,068
1,273
394,839
20, 081
55, 759
7,494,433
5,320
9,489, 326
2,698,115
10,181
31,605
84,029
8,817
40,433
43,566
41, 565
545,030
2,555
548,696
380,659
1,085,371
527,299
9,257
61, 300
105,694
15,460
8,411
310,406
415,654
1,315, 580
500,048
310,499 1, 922,990
148,119
12,812, 871
855, 753
7,667, 588
15,121, 460
7,260,000
20,555
239, 705
14
8,428,413
50,353, 785
36,322
2,422
32, 628
29, 733
31,110
19,148
30,939
37,400
230,687
27,708
20, 993
197,134
7,027
54,303
469,239
15,825
19,952
341,623
3,073,755
5,461, 930
24,893, 535
12,202
12,035
17, 585
95,358
593,281
74, 592
10,872, 539
11,113
22,956
684
22,334
49, 384
1,615,065
3,242
2,218
212,421
6
375,394
57,442
17,102
~48~
4,814
220
5,786
293
1,058,352 2,452,091 281,687,293
96, 762
88,029, 304
30. 579, 596
12,318,631
77,712,014
10,839,040
5,422
13,475,390
463,998
21,649
11,399
562,761
47, 701,137
36,450
4,069,721
106,111
516,834
508,441
336,534
43,879
2,491
749
29,815
74,447
52,398
675,258
57,720
69,902
479,644
392,140
72,518
102
840,186
16
13,172
8,064
93,811
58,657
144,414
16,930
637,383
9,753
538
20,906
1,422
4,936
161,975
6,208
120,697
988
73,051
183,608
"92l"
2,777
6,041
424, 534
3,283, 544
135, 576
5, 498, 830
89
1, 529, 966
538
768,596
777,416
5,758
99,163
1,977,182
1,190
-
...
14
42
TABLE 22.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the Second Quarter of 1941—Continued
Projects
Type of material
Miscellaneous.
Belting, miscellaneous
Coal and coke..
-.
Creosote
Instruments, professional and scientific.
Mattresses and bed springs
Models and patterns
Paper products
Paving materials—asphalt, tar, crushed slag,
and mixtures
-Petroleum products.
Roofing—built-up and roll, asphalt shingles,
and roof coatings, except p a i n t . .
Rubber products
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment
Window shades and fixtures
Other materials
ReconPublic U.S.H.A. struction
Works
low-rent
Finance
Adminis- housing Corporatration
tion
$811,926 $2,371,990
Regular
Federal
$690,045 $54,007,199
Federal
agency
projects
financed
from
W. P. A.
funds
$570,640
2,554
7,817
78
3,974
497,991
616
658.342
1,703
39,094
117,769
12,731
173,163
647
35,357
100,044
272
2,777
33,783
32
5,661, 542
5,641,873
76,851
49,348
39,840
4,736
37,332
14,417
2,262
184,431
5,185
54,495
4,015
9,590
5,914
"~~6i"765"
1,958,789
591,976
1,959,311
629,712
203
34,475
38,683,743
7,808
18,330
2,889
~i,"540~
559,472
943
518
78
458,040
» Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed by the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937, and P . W. A. A. 1938 funds. Data on low-rent housing
projects
financed from N . I. R. A. and E . R. A. A. 1935 funds are also included.
2
Includes projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co.
3
Includes projects financed by transfer of W. P . A. funds to other Federal agencies under sec. 3, E . R. A. A
1938, and sec. 11-A, E. R. A. A. 1939.
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, 1937.
The value of material orders placed on all construction projects
financed by Federal funds during the first quarter of 1941, is presented
in table 23, by type of project.
T A B L E 23.—Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by Federal Funds for the First Quarter of 1941
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of materia
AH materials..
Total
Public Works
Administration^
U. S. H. A.
low-rent
housing
Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation 2
Regular
Federal
Federal agency
projects financed
from W. P3 . A.
funds
Operated by
W. P . A>
$685,022,054
$6,662,758
$19,842,884
$6,134,407
$576,698,550
$2,210,234
$73,473,221
Textiles and their products
7,334,981
38,061
81,051
329
969,834
1,561
6,244,145
Cotton products...
_
Textiles and their products, n. e. c .
Forest products
__
4,311,537
3,023,444
38,061
81,051
329
349,617
620,217
90
1,471
3,961,830
2,282,315
79,112, 716
312,022
2,270,983
181,500
67,991,782
351,571
8,004,858
5,810,179
57,269,524
16,033,013
112,540
167,754
31,728
98, 743
1,144,290
1,027,950
4,651
166,897
9,952
5,286,186
47,865,466
14,840,130
7,334
220,984
123,253
300,725
7,704,133
6,741,140
62,448
228,053
19, 751
4,233,665
54,709
2,142,514
1,471,970
646,472
34,666
13,635
14,147
66
221,466
6,521
754,700
3,254,550
224,415
2,672
45,591
6,446
679,863
1,068,568
394,083
Furniture and related products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c.
Forest products, n. e. c._
Chemicals and allied products..
Explosives
Paints, pigments, and varnishes
Chemicals and allied products, n. e. c .
Stone, clay, and glass products.
79,648,735
1,530,399
4,843,985
822,911
50,024,261
349,452
22,077,727
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products.
_.
Cement
Concrete products
_
Crushed stone
Sand and gravel
Wall plaster, wallboard, and building insulationStone, clay, and glass products, n. e. c.
8,528,136
21,229,003
12,852,671
9,145,264
13,718,981
7,641,674
6,533,006
114,474
505,205
1,358,983
495,175
1,547,011
29,043
387,593
33,821
360,600
371,897
528,521
542,398
419, 748
116,709
195,847
11,323
9,537
16,008
53, 739
3,686,109
14,875,335
6,743,419
5,719,068
8,294,654
6, 597,137
4,108,539
12,247
150,484
47,568
67,995
43,471
8,723
18,964
2,936,575
5,086,095
4,219,163
3,317,835
4,611,829
457,464
1,448,766
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery
183,172,838
1,633,985
6,816,378
3,039,919
155,457,642
559,046
15,665,868
4,975,581
12,980,535
52,724
52,606
218,128
736,225
29,404
544,898
353, 715
533,906
2,667,869
1,545,583
5,339
1, 709,966
17,007
1,773
97,556
2,479,285
17,787
426, 511
3,256,254
8,437,611
27,483,410
36,393,977
4,007,685
75,878, 705
47,151
49,371
125,377
224,177
13,309
99,661
1,248,730
3,905,268
3,084,355
2,703,289
447,683
4,276,543
Hardware, miscellaneous
_
_
__
Pipe and fittings, cast iron
_
_
Plumbing, heating, and ventilating equipment, except pipeStructural and reinforcing steel
Tools other than machine tools
Iron and steel and their products, n. e. c
_.
See footnotes at end of table.
44,082,536
4,521,207
82,936,284
TABLE 23.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by Federal Funds for the First Quarter of 1941—Continued
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material
Nonferrous metals and their productsMachinery, not including transportation equipment-.
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies..
Machinery, n. e. c
Transportation equipment—air, land, and water..
MiscellaneousCoal and coke
Paving materials—asphalt, tar, crushed slag, and mixturesPetroleum products
...
Roofing—built-up and roll, asphalt shingles, and roof coatings, except paint-.
Rubber products..
Other materials
..-
Total
Public Works
Administration
Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation
Regular
Federal
Federal agency
projects financed Operated by
from W. P. A.
W. P. A.
funds
$7,047,190
$75,816
$689,022
$43,942
$5,876,954
$24,630
$336,826
253,140,189
2,158,412
2, 541,248
1,688,845
243,423,627
260,624
3,067,433
80,641,826
172,498,363
1,721,918
436,494
1,215,485
1,325,763
351,502
1,337,343
75,618,250
167,805,377
164,540
96,084
1,570,131
1,497,302
3,438,879
25,455
1,578
2,001
2,622,181
37,576
750,088
65,385,386
826,160
2,370,586
335,209
46,098,604
571,065
15,183,762
1,168,949
10,699,561
9,664,884
25,790
17,567
166, 745
42,829
4,764
119, 341
6,269
11,454
16,563
636,485
7,114,450
6,958,404
2,181
5,199
56,436
455,395
3,546,127
2,347,395
3,366,955
874, 503
39,610, 534
7,899
5,210
602,949
310,130
124
1,893,398
45,110
5,124
250,689
2,656, 219
683,875
28,049,171
65,093
2,878
439,278
282,504
177,292
8,375,049
i Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed
by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935,1936, and 1937, and P. W. A. A. 1938
funds. Data on low-rent housing projects financed from N. I. R. A. and E. R. A. A.
1935 funds are also included.
U. S. H. A.
low-rent
housing
2
3
Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.
Includes projects financed by transfer of W. P. A. funds to other Federal agencies
under
sec. 3, E. R. A. A. 1938, and sec. 11-A, E. R. A. A. 1939.
4
Does not include National Youth Administration projects.
45
The needs of the Work Projects Administration for motor vehicles,
construction and other equipment, and miscellaneous services for use
on work relief projects are supplied in part through the rental of equipment and the purchase of utility and miscellaneous services. These
rentals and services on projects operated by the Work Projects Administration for the first quarter of 1941, the fourth quarter of 1940, and
the first quarter of 1940 are shown in table 24, by type of rental and
service.
TABLE 24.—Rentals and Services on Projects Operated by Work Projects Administration
[Subject to revision]
Type of rental and service
All rentals and services Motor vehicles
.
Teams and wagons
Construction equipment..
Other equipment
Other rentals and services.
First
quarter
1941
Fourth
quarter
1940
$63,093,825
$66,880,484
$50,644,414
21,367,952
349,877
15,782,144
3,854,546
21,739,306
24, 272,938
261,319
18,611,862
2,938,207
20,796,158
20,442,715
358,256
15,066,908
2,081,725
12.694,810
First
quarter
1940
In connection with the administration of the Public Contracts 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. The first public contracts were
awarded under the act in September 1936.
Table 25 shows the value of public contracts awarded under the
act for supplies during the second quarter of 1941, the first quarter
of 1941, and the second quarter of 1940.
TABLE 25.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material
[Subject to revision]
Type of materials
All materials..
Food and kindred products-.
1
Canning and preserving: fruits and vegetablesCanning and preserving: seafoods..
Cereal preparations..
Coffee and tea
Condensed and evaporated milk
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowl..
Flour and other grain-mill products. _.
Meat-packing products
Shortening and vegetable cooking oilSugar
_-Miscellaneous food products..
Revised.
Second quarter First quarter
1941
19411
Second
quarter 1940 *
$1, 975,384, 722
$674,489,441
$300,443, 228
15,579,685
7,616,821
3,508,429
2,926,966
145,864
10, 734
2, 854,690
1,141,996
363,189
1,118, 533
1,893, 540
32,975
1, 346, 751
3, 744, 447
822,029
154, 570
25, 384
1,075,164
793,971
690,598
518,956
623,096
0
601,171
2,311,882
522, 403
11,270
9,201
538,380
286, 515
220,364
172,125
345,910
0
446,399
955,862
46
TABLE 25.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Second quarter First quarter
Type of materials
1941
Textiles and their products
Awnings, tents, sails, and canvas covers..
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers,
etc.)
Clothing, manufacture only2
Cordage and twine, including thread._
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.)
Furnishing goods, men's, not elsewhere classified..
Housefurnishing goods (pillowcases, sheets, etc.)..
Knit goods (hosiery, underwear, etc.)
Linoleum
Woolen goods (flannels, suiting, etc.)..
Work clothing
Miscellaneous textile products.
Forest products
Cork and cork products..
_._
Furniture
Lumber and timber products, not elsewhere classified..
Planing-mill products
Treated lumber and timber....
Miscellaneous forest products..
$136,329,609
1941
Second
quarter 1940
$131,191,597
$47,680,221
6,318,495
7,623,130
21,838,562
1, 569,565
16,538,358
4,161,165
6,327,753
5,740,686
0
54,308,034
1,779,642
10,124,219
4,105,963
6,712,767
22,635,138
805,080
36,866,294
3,859,612
17,892,079
21,226,798
190,968
11,977,101
813, 539
4,106,258
528,686
1,700,597
46,488
366,702
5,820.958
1,998,692
5,842,398
459, 581
94,492
28,383,865
529,433
1,8" '
6,003,421
6,941,381
3,340,179
94,125
889,551
2,828,305
1,172,711
486,118
532, 611
264,216
685,154
3,827,478
1, 205,806
197, 228
761,499
24, 584
603,288
951,067
1, 576,185
116,429
Chemicals and allied products.
33,407,996
95,822,681
8,299,736
Ammunition and related products.
Compressed and liquefied gases..
Drugs and medicines.
Explosives-.
Linseed oil
Paints and varnishes
Soap and soap chips
Miscellaneous chemicals.
Products of asphalt, coal and petroleum
20,619,028
1,342,157
2, 750,356
1, 578,368
60,698
1,581,019
427,904
5,048,466
85,857,082
13,530
2,501,830
2,799,446
210,261
1,089, 477
733,917
2,617,138
1,818,212
141,924
163,901
1.906,946
37,106
442, 526
116,499
3,672,622
51,423,366
4,120,141
29,396, 220
541,679
2,069,075
441,157
536, 374
233,842
298,014
1,140, 240
6,861,728
9,928, 645
8,996, 529
2,086,832
382,246
19,080,815
14, 597,095
1,827,423
13,853,119
482,180
3,600,097
1,145,419
10, 741,134
291,916
341,425
3,222,620
1,507,400
21,760
105,654
192,609
18,005,856
235,695
5,410,179
1,028,838
882,176
1,186,074
1,812,588
15,807
28,200
1,438.033
425, 235
34,983
459,838
0
11,062
118,135
4,919,013
9,780,677
40,405
4,115,000
544, 292
437,351
434,712
641,334
113,916
0
1,294,611
61,602
117,940
35,380
0
38,942
41,911
1,863,281
7,345,374
205,761
3,348,643
123,663
691,669
577,752
305,911
407,567
14,400
252,972
345,988
108,901
307,125
0
42,480
98,337
514, 205
78,355,075
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery..
860,780
Bolts, nuts, rivets, washers, etc.
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
611,701
Castings
707,764
Fencing materials
120, 509
Firearms and artillery
26,194,258
Forgings, iron and steel
3,697,824
Hardware, miscellaneous
418,004
1,662,559
Heating and cooking apparatus, except electric
Materials
furnished
by
United
States
Government.
* Labor only.
70,506,538
1,627,805
369, 266
719,618
64,384
17,432,749
10,353,616
795,898
2,209,370
24,374,304
269,378
228,882
0
15,125
3,354,136
7,443,105
24,055
740,554
Asphalt, oil, tar, and mixtures..
...
Coal and coke
Fuel oil-._Gasoline
Lubricating oils and greases
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum products.
Leather and its manufactures..
Boots and shoes
Boot and shoe cut stock
Gloves
-_.
Miscellaneous leather goods
_
....
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick
Cement
Concrete pipe
Concrete, ready mixed
Crushed stone
Glass
Granite and marble.. _
Riprap stone
Sand and gravel-.
Slag
Soil, black earth
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering. _
Terracotta
Tile, clay, including drain
Vitrified clay and terra cotta pipe
Miscellaneous stono, clay, and glass products
47
TABLE 25.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Type of materials
Second quarter First quarter
Second
1941
1941
quarter 1940
Iron and steel and their products—Continued.
Metal doors, window sash and frames, and trim.
Metal furniture
Metal shingles and roofing
Pipe and fittings, not elsewhere classifiedPlumbingfixturesand supplies
Rails and fastenings
Reinforcing steel
..
Steel pipe and fittings
Steel sheets, plates, shapes, and strips
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet-steel piling _
Tools, other than machine tools
Wire products
Miscellaneous iron and steel products
$202,776
1,285,327
386,529
3,840,744
169,701
457,150
527,113
1,139,416
6,340,129
8,085,401
5,122,442
2,540,249
13,984,699
$1,834,298
3,142, 512
2,097,961
260,339
96, 784
653,259
2,347,524
766,187
6,548,334
2,247,417
1,857,737
15,081,480
$85,564
1,645,609
57,813
66,152
83, 233
49, 363
732,129
315,605
845,435
834,912
190,677
613,639
6,778,938
Nonferrous metals and their alloys
28,806,834
15,564,912
7,926,198
1,624,215
2,731,698
513,953
1,361,266
458,968
101,295
286,014
236,732
501,777
1,117,023
1,446,929
124,717
5,060,325
1,775,056
2, 513,628
88,741
339,692
98,972
81,983
40,971
192,314
25,479
22,314
368,005
10,725
2,368,318
Aluminum manufactures
Brass products
Bronze products
... Copper products
Fixtures, gas and electric. _
Lead products...Magnesium....
.._
Nickel
Platedware
._
Sheet-metal work
Tin
Zinc
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys.
8,255,162
2,785,993
468,475
959,321
6,043,068
773,640
22,875
426,511
1,177,973
1,179,042
2,140,621
792,576
3, 781,577
0
Machinery, not including electrical and transportation equipment
66,055,822
45,776,476
22,677,647
Air-conditioning equipment..
._.
Business machines
Cranes
Elevators and elevator equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and partsFilter and purification equipment
Laundry machinery and equipment
Machine tools
Phonographs and accessories
Power shovels and draglines
-Printing and publishing machinery.
Pumps and pumping equipment
__.
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making machinery.
Road machinery
Windlasses, hawsers, winches, and capstans..
Miscellaneous machinery and parts
281,770
234,098
4,984, 740
32,287
7,864,201
423,630
307,658
25,867,439
74 501
437^ 116
195,230
6,143,765
2,735,806
1,227,030
1,038,336
14,208,215
373,994
181,731
5,220,995
140,171
3,655,618
323,751
2,662,526
15,250,204
Q
156,011
105,046
5,346,389
2,137,221
515,173
1,369,971
8,337,675
39,182
95,471
806,682
387,590
9,653,219
90,059
309,798
4,116,002
Q
249,893
151, 735
2,145,227
112,037
196,429
359,539
3,964,784
69,079,589
35,778,784
18,060,041
320,604
753,550
8,490,425
36,222,293
7,307,248
672,908
1 8 ftflfl
LOf
UUU
1,311,874
2,494,533
889,484
881,010
367,775
811,580
3,976,026
14,228,440
2,538,650
552,279
Q
388,538
1,007,050
592,793
2,745,464
897,075
273, 204
3,899,678
4,227,949
3,402,383
84,911
Q
12,800
1,630,180
1,873,149
220,542
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Batteries
Circuit breakers and switches...
Communication equipment
Electric cable, wire, and other conductors
Generators and spare parts
Heaters and ranges
Lamps, incandescent, and X-ray tubes
Motors
_
Switchboards, relay and control equipment
Transformers
Welding equipment
_
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Transportation equipment.
Aircraft
Aircraft parts and equipment
B oats and boat equipment
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, truck
Motorcycles and parts
Naval vessels
Railway cars
Railway locomotives
Miscellaneous transportation equipment..
9,717,660
8,570,189
1,538,170
1,407,790,211
190,228,261
102,111,004
1,132,863,426
28,042,126
106,986,420
453,581
118,835,434
3,436,489
13,708,228
109,581,536
11,337,390
1,107,333
28,767,054
1,813,782
402,708
2,740,036
4,228,317
6,096,001
6,002,901
205,100
71,605,768
458,902
132,347
10,238,924
0
0
652,211
1,294,317
15,226,207
164,856
2,085,273
21,662,809
48
TABLE 25.;—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Second quarter First quarter
Second
1941
1941
quarter 1940
T y p e of materials
Miscellaneous.
.-.
Brooms, brushes, bristles, etc
Dental goods and equipment
Instruments, professional and scientific
Office equipment and supplies, not elsewhere classified...
Paper and allied products
Photographic apparatus and materials...
Printing, publishing, and subscriptions ..
Rubber products
Surgical and orthopedic supplies and appliances.
Tobacco manufactures '
Other materials
-_
Rentals, services, etc..
$45,466,443
955,576
619, 206
13, 222,241
771,229
8,356,953
2,826,221
509,038
5,759,092
3,397,153
155,733
6,992,401
1,901,600
$46,564,077
740,879
729,295
15, 485,292 '
581,251
2,056,634
8,747,736
416,692
3,055,776
2,440,931
34, 259
9,606,564
2,668,768
$23,896,452
38,901
172,673
10,045,861
1,409,322
5,141, 376
1, 598,379
492,353
1,071,451
350,715
203,133
2,678,586
693,702
The value of public contracts awarded for supplies by Federal
agencies totaled $1,975,385,000 during the second quarter of 1941. Of
the contracts awarded in the second quarter of 1941, $1,407,790,000
was for transportation equipment; $136,330,000 for textiles and their
products; $78,355,000 for iron and steel and their products, not including machinery; and $69,080,000 for electrical machinery, apparatus,
and supplies.
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