COMMITTEE EXHIBIT No. 16-Continued

Rank of 124 industries in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing, May 1945– Average hourly earnings

22

Alloying; and rolling and drawing of nonferrous metals, excluding aluminum

1.183

1. 172

1.168

1. 151

1. 149 1.146

1. 143

1. 141

1. 132

1. 131

1. 127

1.112

29

Electrical equipment.

1.111

30

Malleable-iron castings.

1. 109

31

Hats, fur-felt

1.100

COMMITTEE EXHIBIT NO. 16-Continued

Rank of 124 industries in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing, May 1945— Average hourly earnings-Continued

COMMITTEE EXHIBIT NO. 16-Continued

Rank of 124 individual industries in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing in 1939-Average hourly earnings

Machinery and machine-shop products.

30 Alloying; and rolling and drawing of nonferrous metals, except aluminum. Fabricated structural and ornamental metal work..

COMMITTEE EXHIBIT NO. 16-Continued

Rank of 124 individual industries in manufacturing and nonmanufacturig in 1939-Average hourly earings-Continued

Mr. MURDOCK. I should like also to offer as Committee Exhibit No. 17 a similar ranking of the same industries on the basis of average weekly earnings. These are exactly the same industries shown in Committee Exhibit No. 16, and they are based on the BLS statistics, which show that in 1939, in average weekly earnings, class I railroads ranked fifteenth; in 1945 they ranked fifty-fourth; and in 1949 they ranked thirty-second.

The CHAIRMAN. This document will also be marked as a committee exhibit, as "Committee Exhibit 17," and received in evidence.

(The document was marked "Committee Exhibit 17," received in evidence, and is as follows:)

COMMITTEE EXHIBIT NO. 17

Rank of 124 industries in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing in May 1949Average weekly cearnings1