TABLE 4.-Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing1 and Nonmanufacturing Industries, November 1939 to November 1940, Inclusive Manufacturing All industries. Durable goods 3. Nondurable goods .. Non manufacturing Anthracite mining 3. Telephone and telegraph 6. Retail trade. Year-round hotels Laundries 5 Dyeing and cleaning. Av. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. 96. 9103. 9 104. 2 101. 5 100. 9 100.9 99.7 99.1 99.6 99.7 103. 8 107. 7110. 0110. 8 87.9 98.3 100. 2 97.6 96.7 96.6 96.2 96.7 97.3 95.9 99.8 105. 5 109, 9 112.6 105. 5 109. 2 108. 0 105. 3 106. 1 105. 1103. 0 101. 4 101. 7 103. 3 107. 6 109. 8110. 2109. 1 50.6 51.3 51.0 51.5 51.6 52.2 51.2 51.8 49.7 50.5 49.9 49.8 49.4 50.4 78.6 94.9 92.6 91.8 91.7 89.7 86.2 85.1 83.8 84.9 86.6 87.7 89.2 90.0 62.7 66.5 67.3 66.4 66.3 66.2 67.7 69.2 70.3 71.0 71.5 72.5 72.6 72.9 65.8 63.8 63.8 63.2 44.6 47. 1 44.0 37.8 38.3 41.0 44.5 46.9 47.9 48. 1 48.5 48.9 48.8 47 4 63.0 63.2 63.1 63.3 63.8 63.7 63.6 63.0 62.4 61.4 75.9 76.0 76.7 77.3 77.8 78.8 79,0 78.9 79.1 79. 1 89. 2 89.3 90.0 90.6 91.2 92.2 93.0 92.7 92.3 91.6 69.0 69.3 69.0 68.8 68.7 68.2 68.3 68.4 68.5 68.4 68.4 68.5 68.7 68.6 89.2 92.1 92.2 90.6 90. 2 90.5 89.3 88.9 89.6 89.2 90.1 90.9 91.0 91.9 89.8 93.3 104.2 87.7 87.0 91.1 89.8 91.2 91.9 89.1 88.7 92.8 94.3 96.0 92.0 91.8 90.8 91.3 92. 1 92.0 92.7 93.4 92.0 90.3 90.3 91.6 93.4 92.5 95.9 95.6 95.6 96.0 95.8 96.2 97.2 99. 1 102. 1 102. 5 102. 8 101.9100.2 99.5 101.3 97.8 97.4 94.0 93.7 99.5 104, 5 108. 7112. 6 108. 2 106. 7 110. 0 109. 4 106. 2 Pay rolls Manufacturing All industries. Durable goods 3. Nonmanufacturing Anthracite mining . tion. Telephone and telegraph. Dyeing and cleaning. 90.8 101.7 103.9 98.4 97.9 98.4 96.5 96.4 98. 196. 8 104. 0110. 1114. 5 114. 8 85. 3 101. 1 104.8 98.4 96.9 97.8 97.5 97.8 100.4 96, 5105. 5114. 1122.2124. 0 97.0 102. 4 102.8 98.4 99. 1 99.0 95.4 94.9 95.6 97. 1102. 4 105. 6 105.9 104. 5 39.5.42.0 26.6 52.5 32.9 38.4 36.3 40.0 40.6 36.5 33.1 39.3 32.3 37.6 69.9 96.3 84.3 87.0 87.0 78.3 72.2 75.3 73.9 75.2 82.5 83.2 83.6 84.6 56.0 63.9 65.0 63.6 64.2 63.2 63.5 65.7 65.4 63.7 68.5 69.5 71.4 70.8 38.7 42.9 39. 2 29.6 30. 8 34.1 38.1 42.7 43.9 43.5 45.2 46. 2 46.7 42.6 61.0 59.6 59.2 58.4 59.0 58.4 59.0 58.7 58.8 59.1 59.0 58.2 57.6 56.5 95.6 96.4 97.4 97.4 96.9 98.1 98.7 98. 8100.0 101. 3 100. 4 101. 8 102. 2 101. 8 100. 4 102. 5 102. 4 101.6 102. 2 102. 3 103. 3 104. 2 104. 8 105. 8 108. 1105. 8 107. 0 106. 0 69.5 69.4 69.8 69.0 71.5 69.5 69.2 69.2 70.5 70.0 70.4 71.5 70.7 70.2 76.6 79.0 79.1 77.1 77.1 77.8 77.4 77.4 78.4 78.3 78.7 81.1 80.2 80.6 80.8 83.6 91.8 79.979.1 82.0 82.3 83.4 84.8 82.6 81.5 85.1 85.8 86.9 81.2 81.8 81.1 81.1 82.7 81.8 83.2 83.0 82.0 80.5 80.7 81.8 84.2 83.7 83.1 82.9 83.7 83.4 83.1 84.1 85. 6 88.5 92.4 90.0 90.5 89.9 88.0 87.3 73.6 70.8 69.9 65.5 64.4 72.7 79.6 85.4 89.6 80.0 78.9 85.6 82.4 78.0 13-year average 1923-25-100-adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures. See table 5 (p. 1591) of the De cember 1940 Monthly Labor Review for further revisions. * 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 and 6. 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. 5 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. Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census. Not comparable with indexes published in Employment and Pay 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. 7 Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated, and successor companies. INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL A comparison of employment and pay rolls in October and November 1940 is made in table 5 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. The figures represent reports from cooperating establishments and cover both full- and part-time workers in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 5, 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 5.-Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in October and November 1940, by Principal Metropolitan Areas 1 Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, or Paterson, N. J., or Yonkers, N. Y. WAGE-RATE CHANGES IN AMERICAN INDUSTRIES The following table gives information concerning wage-rate adjustments occurring during the month ending November 15, 1940, 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 industry and, furthermore, as some firms may have failed to report wage-rate changes, these figures should not be construed as representing the total number of wage changes occurring in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries. TABLE 6.-Wage-Rate Changes Reported by Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Establishments During Month Ending November 15, 1940 1 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," in "all nonmanufacturing," and in the various industry groups. FEBRUARY 1941 Child Labor and Child Welfare Proceedings of White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, Washington, D. C., January 18-20, 1940, including general report adopted by the Conference. Washington, U. S. Children's Bureau, 1940. Various paging, charts. (Bureau publication No. 266.) Among the subjects taken up in the general report are the goals of democracy, the child in the family, educational services in the community, protection against child labor, youth and their needs, conserving the health of children, and children under special disadvantages. America's children. By Maxwell S. Stewart. New York, Public Affairs Committee, Inc., 1940. 31 pp., charts. (Public affairs pamphlet No. 47.) Based for the most part on Children in a Democracy, the general report adopted by the White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, January 1940, and on other data prepared for the conference. Child labor facts. By Gertrude Folks Zimand. New York, National Child Labor Committee, 1940. 38 pp., chart, illus. (Publication No. 381.) Reviews extent of child labor, kinds of work being done by children, and Federal and State child-labor legislation. Children in a depression decade: A survey of the factors affecting children from 1930 to 1940, showing present status of child welfare. Edited by James H. S. Bossard. (In Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 212, Philadelphia, November 1940, pp. 1–234.) The introductory articles by the Chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau and Homer Folks are followed by discussions on the changing mathematics of child welfare, the changing social and family backgrounds, general problems of child welfare, a decade of dealing with special groups, objectives for children in a democratic society, and whether or not we are doing too much for our children. A summary of State laws affecting employment of minors in factories and stores. Washington, U. S. Children's Bureau, September 1940. 7 pp.; processed. Conciliation and Arbitration Negotiation and arbitration-a course outline. By Henry P. Melnikow. Berkeley, Calif., Pacific Coast School for Workers, 1940. 11 pp.; mimeographed. (P. C. S. W. publication No. 37.) Report of Anthracite Board of Conciliation. Hazelton, Pa., [1940]. 526 pp. (Vol. XXV.) Individual grievances are reported and the disposition of each case is shown. Labor arbitration in Chile. By Heinz Schwenk. (In Arbitration Journal, New York, October 1940, pp. 148-151.) EDITOR'S NOTE: The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not distribute the publications to which reference is made in this list, except those issued by the Bureau itself. For all others, please write to the respective publishing agencies mentioned. Consumer Problems The challenge of the consumer movement. By Colston E. Warne. (In Social Action, New York, December 15, 1940, pp. 5–30.) Defines the consumer movement, describes the conditions which gave rise to it, shows how it has developed, what it has accomplished, and how the reader can become a part of it. Consumer relations and national defense. Digests of addresses and discussion at regional conferences at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse, October 7, 11, and 15, 1940. Washington, D. C., Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1940. 15 pp.; mimeographed. Deals mainly with the problems of retail dealers in their relations with the consuming public, price increases arising out of war conditions, and dealers' attitudes toward the "consumer movement.' Directory of governmental consumer services and agencies. Prepared by Leland J. Gordon for Office of Consumer Adviser, Advisory Commission to Council of National Defense. Washington, [1940?]. 29 pp.; mimeographed. Gives a general discussion of the kinds of consumer services of Federal, State, and municipal governments; also a brief description of each governmental agency which performs some consumer service. Studies in consumer instalment financing: 1, Personal finance companies and their credit practices; 2, Sales finance companies and their credit practices: 3, Commercial banks and consumer instalment credit; 4, Industrial banking companies and their credit practices; 5, Government agencies of consumer instalment credit; 6, The pattern of consumer debt, 1935-36; 7, The volume of consumer instalment credit, 1929-38. New York, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1940. 7 vols.; various paging. Cost and Standards of Living Family income and expenditures, Middle Atlantic, North Central, and New England Regions: Part 1, Family income. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Home Economics, 1940. 258 pp., charts. (Consumer purchases study, farm series; Department of Agriculture miscellaneous publication No. 383.) A memorandum on research in income and levels of living in the South. By William B. Sewell. Stillwater, Okla., 1940. 30 pp. (Publication No. 3 of Social Science Research Council of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.) Notes on sources of information and on needed research in this field. Consumo de alimentos en la zona urbana de Puerto Rico. By S. Díaz Pacheco. Rio Piedras, P. R., Estación Experimental Agrícola, April 1940. 29 pp., charts. (Bull. No. 52.) The Results of a study of food consumption in 22 cities and towns of Puerto Rico in June 1938, based on 1,901 family schedules. Comparative data are included from a similar investigation made in the city of San Juan as of June 1937. report shows the relation of food consumption to family income and to education of the housewife, and also regional consumption differences. A brief summary in English is provided. Investigación sobre el costo de la vida en Caracas, los presupuestos familiares, 1939. Caracas, Ministerio de Fomento, Dirección General de Estadística, 1940. 79 pp. Official report of a family-budget study made in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1939, based on 204 families in January and 149 families in February, largely families of salaried employees. Employment and Unemployment Family unemployment: An analysis of unemployment in terms of family units. By Don. D. Humphrey. Washington, U. S. Work Projects Administration, 1940. xvi, 144 pp., charts. The study deals with the relation between unemployment in terms of individual workers and unemployment in terms of family units. It helps to explain the variations in relief needs of the various communities and States, as there are wide differences in the percentages of multiworker families in different localities. In communities where multiworker families are numerous, the relation of changes in unemployment to changes in relief needs was found to be less direct and less immediate than in communities where one-worker families predominate. |