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ing into this industry as well as the in- 

 creased and expanding market for the pro- 

 duct itself. 



THE STATISTICAL POSITION 



For the census year of 1909 the wage- 

 earners and the value of manufactured 

 products and the value added by manufac- 

 ture in twelve of these industries and in the 

 manufacture of chemicals is given in Table 

 la. 



this amounts to about 15 cents per person 

 per year. 



Now, which would you rather have, these 

 thirteen industries with their $2,500,000,000 

 worth of manufactured product or the coal- 

 tar dye industry with its $100,000,000 of 

 product ? The number of persons employed 

 in these above thirteen industries is in ex- 

 cess of 500,000; the entire world's supply 

 of coal-tar dyes is made by fewer than 40,- 

 000 people. Which would you rather have ? 



TABLE la 



Wage-earners 



Wine 1,911 



Copper 15,628 



Fertilizer 18,310 



Textiles 44,046 



Canned and preserved foods 59,968 



Cotton-seed oil 17,071 



Cement 26,77.5 



Sugar 20,730 



Brewing 54,579 



licather 62,202 



Glass 68,911 



Paper and wood pulp 75,978 



Ohemieals (strictly) 23,714 



Totals 529,823 



TABLE 16 



Iron and steel 278,505 



Petroleum refining 13,929 



Lead smelting and refining 7,424 



Illuminating and heating gas 37,215 



Confectionery 44,638 



Paint and varnisli 14,240 



Soap 12,999 



Carpets and rugs 33,307 



Explosives 6,274 



Zinc smelting and refining 6,655 



Turpentine and rosin 39,511 



Oil cloth and linoleum 5,201 



Chocolate and cocoa i 2,826 



Baking powder and yeast 2,155 



Dyestuffs and extracts 2,397 



Blacking, cleansing and polishing preparations . . 2,417 



Wood distillation other than turpentine 2,721 



Oleomargarine 606 



Totals 513,020 



Total for 31 chemical industries 1,042,843 



Total for all industries 6,615,046 



AMERICAN INDUSTRIES VS. COAL-TAR DTES 



A most liberal estimate of the market 

 value of the world's entire production of 

 coal-tar dyes places it under $100,000,000 ; 

 the entire consumption in the United States 

 is less than $15,000,000, duty included, and 



These thirteen industries employ 8 per 

 cent, of all wage-earners in manufacturing 

 enterprises in the United States, produce 

 12 per cent, of the total value of manu- 

 factured product and 10.5 per cent, of the 

 total value added by manufacture. In 



