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found much oftener than once in a hundred times, while a wage of less 

 than $500 is paid in three fourths or four fifths of the cases. 



Although so many data have heen compiled for textiles, the other 

 industries have not been neglected. A number of wage figures are 

 available for lumber and kindred industries. The Tariff Board pub- 

 lished a report on the wages for certain selected occupations in the 

 paper industry/^ and the Bureau of Labor has a study of wages in the 

 lumber and furniture industries. The men employed in the paper 

 industry receive rates of less than $750 in four fifths of the instances, 

 and of less than $1,000 in nineteen twentieths of the instances. The 

 wage rates in the lumber, millwork, and furniture industries are ap- 

 proximately the same as those for pulp and paper, although lumber 

 falls lower than either of the other two. Two fifths of the men in the 

 lumber industry receive less than $500 per year; nine tenths receive 

 less than $750. Millworkers receive less than $750 in three fifths of the 

 cases, and less than $1,000 in three fourths; while furniture makers 

 (male) receive less than $750 in half of the cases, and less than $1,000 

 in nine tenths of the cases. 



The data presented by the Department of Labor for the clothing 

 industry are so meager as to be almost unusable. The total number of 

 persons included in the statement is six thousand women, and seven 

 thousand men.*^ Since there is no certainty as to the manner in which 

 the selection was made, and since there is little or no corroborating evi- 

 dence, the material must be passed over. 



The study of wages in the cigar industry, which the Department 

 presents, is somewhat more illuminating, because it is more careful and 

 detailed. *2 Still, the number of employees for whom evidence is sub- 

 mitted is woefully small. Among the 3,615 males, three tenths received 

 a wage of less than $750, and half a wage under $1,000, Four fifths of 

 the 7,551 females received less than $750. Any one who takes the pains 

 to examine these figures can not help feeling that they do not adequately 

 represent the cigar industry. 



An interesting analysis of the work of women in the finishing 

 department of the glass industry appeared in connection with the study 

 of "Woman and Child Wage-Earners." The study, which covered the 

 glass industry with a degree of thoroughness, shows 2,774 women en- 

 gaged in finishing, for whom satisfactory data could be secured. The 

 chief interest in these figures lies, not in the wage scale which they 

 reveal — there is nothing unusual in that — but in the fact that Mr. 

 Manly, in making the study, procured for this group of women the 



40 Eeport on Paper aud News-print Paper Industry, 62d Congress, 1st Ses- 

 sion, Senate Document 31, "Washington, Government Printing Office, 1911, p. 111. 



■41 "Wages and Hours of Labor in the Cigar and Clothing Industries, 1911 

 and 1912," United States Department of Labor, Bulletin 135, Washington, Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office, 1913, pp. 25-80. 



*ilbid., pp. 5-25. 



