State Total 



Figure 25. — Man-days of employment Jurnished 

 by the principal forest industries in the diferent 

 survey units, 1937, 



Data for southeast pine 

 included in southwest pine 



Employment 



Within Louisiana the forest industries have long over- 

 topped any other group of manutacturing industries as 

 a source ot employment and wages, notwithstantling the 

 development in recent years ot the mineral industries. 

 The United States Bureau of the Census found that in 

 1937 the torest-products industries in the State accounted 

 for 39 percent ot all the wage earners employed in manu- 

 facturing and 35 percent ot the money paid in wages by 

 manutacturing industries (fig. 24). 



By providing a large amount of employment for the peo- 

 ple of the State, the forest industries make one of their 

 greatest contributions to, the general welfare. Further- 

 more, in the forest-products industries a larger proportion 

 ot the manutacturing expenditure goes for wages than in 

 any other major manufacturing group in the State. Since 

 these industries are not likely to become more highly 

 mechanized, any increase in the manufacture of forest 

 proilucts will presumably add to employment. 



One of the aims of the survey has been to determine the 

 extent and character of the employment pro\ided by the 

 forest industries. Because the number of working days 

 per year varies greatly and because certain cla.sscs of 

 laborers work only part time, it is ditticult to express this 

 employment in man-years or in lunubcr of men employed. 



Estimates were therefore made on the basis of 8-hour man- 

 days. 



The manufacture ot lumber, including woods work, 

 accounts for 40 percent ot the total forest-industry- 

 employment (fig. 25 and table 11). The second largest 

 source of such employment is the cutting ot fuel wood, 

 both for sale and for home consumption. .Although 

 probably nine-tenths of the fuel-wood cutting pR>vides no 

 cash income, it supplies a necessity that would otherwise 

 require a cash outlay. The pulp and paper industry ranks 



T.ABLE 11. — Distribution of maii-tiays of employment in 



the principal forest ititlustries, b\- survey units, l^J7 ' 



Survoy unit 



Total 



0111 ploy- 



mont 



Lumb«<r 



Kii.'l 

 woihI 



Pulp 



OlhiT 





I MO 











man-dafs 



Prrcrnt 



Pmrnt 



/lEFff Hf 



/Vrrmf 



North .IcliM 



i.-ao 



28.5 



1&4 



3S.8 



19.3 



.•Joiillv <loU:i 



2,910 



33.4 



SS.0 



. . . . 



13, e 



North l>itU' 



4,121 



33.1 



ai.5 



SI. 9 



• lis 



Soulhwost piMi' ' 



S.OM 



57.7 



1&8 



tL« 



13.9 



All tmils 



• 14. s:s 



:!4 n 



2,V 9 



17 S 



l(i.4 



• l)(>tiiilo<l ilatji civon in tsiMo T2, .\ii|X>iuli\. 



' liU'liulo,< it.2 ivnviit altrihutiM to tTi>ss tu-s. iwlcs, mil l>U«<s conihl»i>'»l 

 > InoliiiU'S il!it!> for southeiisl i>iiio unit. 



< liu-Iiiili>.>; 2,'<U,UU0 luau-houis atu-ibutt>il lv> $|«nisb uias» rUiwrlui; ap-I 

 jliiiMing. 



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