Worsted Goods. · Table I- Concluded. Quillers. Females: 35, $8.47; total, 35; average per week, $8.47. Reelers. Females: 4, $5.92; 133, $7.99; total, 137; average per week, $7.93. Roving boys. Males: 1, $4.60; 1, $5.55; total, 2; average per week, $5.08. Second hands. Males: 5, $8.70; 1, $9.75; 2, $12.40; 1, $13.50; 1, $14.31; 1, $15; 8, $15.60; 1, $15.85; 2, $15.95; 1, $17.35; 1, $20.30; 4, $20.80; total, 28; average per week, $14.80. Sewers. Males: 32, $7.96; total, 32; average per week, $7.96. Females: 65, $7.07; 32, 9.24; 28, $9.58; total, 125; average per week, $8.19. Spinners. Females: 8, $5.51; 39, $5.91; 11, $6.05; 66, $6.40; 187, $6.42; total, 311; average per week, $6.32. Spoolers. Males: 3, $5.40; total, 3; av. erage per week, $5.40. Females: 10, $4.84; 52, 5.22; 1, $5.71; 143, $6.17; total, 206; average per week, $5.86. Teamsters. Males: 2, $10.20; 2, $10.40; 1, $11; total, 5; average per week, $10.44. Twisters. Males: 16, $14; total, 16; av. erage per week, $14. Females: 2, $4.64; 28, $5.92; 9, $6.09; 148, $6.32; 2, $15.25; total, 189; average per week, $6.33. Warpers. Males: 8, $6.16; 3, $11.28; 13, $13.75; total, 24; average per week, $10.91. Females: 16, $6.75; total, 16; average per week, $6.75. Males: 7, $8.75; 1, Waste handlers. $10.10; total, 8; average per week, $8.92. Watchmen. Males: 4, $12.25; 2, $14.70; 1, $15.25; total, 7; average per week, $13.38. Weavers. Males: 159, $8.25; 150, $10.14; 93, $10.84; 54, $11.37; 80, $13.39; total, 536; average per week, $10.31. Females: 159, $8.25; 291, $10; 92, $10.84; 143, $11.08; 80, $13.39; total, 765; average per week, $10.29. Winders. Males: 8, $8.15; total, 8; average per week, $8.15. Females: 124, $5.80; 46, $6.19; 12, $6.93; total, 182; average per week, $5.97. Wool scourers. Males: 10, $9.28; total, 10; average per week, $9.28. Wool sorters. Males: 46, $12.10; 144, $17.15; total, 190; average per week, $15.93. Wool washers. Males: 5, $8.35; 1, $10.90; total, 6; average per week, $8.78. Yard men. Males: 8, $8.40; 1, $8.75; total, 9; average per week, $8.44. Yarn hands. Males: 11, $6.69; 24, $7.54; 1, $10.15; total, 36; average per week, $7.35. By means of the Decennial Census of 1895 a classified index of the branches of occupation in each manufacturing industry was obtained. Having this index, it became comparatively easy to secure actual and average weekly earnings for each branch of occupation instead of for an industry as a whole. The most casual student of wage statistics cannot fail to see at once the much greater truthfulness and accuracy of such quotations, nor fail to realize how much more indicative they are of actual conditions than the industry averages, comprehending widely varying occupations, that are usually presented for wage comparisons. In this Section, 10 industries are considered. The number of branches in each, drawn from Table I in each case, is presented in the following table: If the actual weekly earnings had been presented for each industry as a whole, there would have been but 10 quotations. On the plan adopted, we have 694 quotations, of which 166 relate to the industry known as Boots and Shoes, 105 to the building trades, 127 to Cotton Goods, the remainder being distributed among the other seven industries. We draw from Table II in each industry a presentation which gives the number of branches of occupation affording comparisons as regards the actual weekly earnings of employees, by sex, engaged in the same branch of occupation but working for private firms or corporations. There are but six of the 10 industries in which comparisons are possible between the earnings obtained by employees working for private firms or for corporations. In 202 branches of occupation, comparisons are possible for men, and in 44, for women. Referring to the line for Boots and Shoes, we find that in 28 branches of occupation the men employed therein earned more each week when working for private firms than did those engaged in the same branch of occupation who worked for corporations. On the other hand, in 64 branches of occupation, the male employees engaged therein earned more each week when working for corporations than did those engaged in the same branches of occupation who worked for private firms. In the same industry, Boots and Shoes, there were 16 branches of occupation in which the female employees earned more when employed by private firms than those engaged in the same occupation who were working for corporations. There |