The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-11-30
SOME SURPRISES
ARE HANDED OUT
To Boards of Trade BY Cen.
sus Bureau About Wages
and Industries.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Nov. 22--
Some surpr.ees are in store for
those West Virginia boards Of
trade or other commercial organi.
cations which are constantly seeking
the best kind of new industries and
offering them inducements to locate
In their cities, Those which often
seem to be the best, with most con-
slant work and steady employment,
are often not the best at all, accord
ing to the census figures made pub
lie today. figures on the CON
stancy of employment in the varl-
GUS industries are given for the lead
ing industries of the country. For
each industry the month in which
the largest number, of persons were
employed in 1910 Is taken and with
it the month in which the smallest
number of persons was employed
and the percentage is given.
OF the fourteen Industries listed
as those employing the largest num-
Der OF persons, iron and steel, steel
works and rolling mills, which or
dinarily are classed among the most
desirable OF manufacturing enter
prises are listed as the most unde-
sirable from the point of constancy
of employment, the number OF those
employed in the smallest month be-
ing but 1853 per cent of those en-
ployed in the greatest month OF the
year, The manufacture of lumber
and timber products. usually con-
sidered one of the most desirable of
manufactures, stands tenth in the
list OF fourteen.
The fourteen industries in which
the largest number of wage earners
are employed and the percentage of
the number employed in the smaller
months to those employed in the
banner months OF the year are as
follows:
Cotton goods, 97;6 per cent;
bread and other bakery products,
$40 per cent; printing and publish
ing, 1913 per cent; mems clothing,
and boots and shoes, tied for fourth
place with DIS per cent each: hos.
lcry and knit goods, 91.7 per cent;
tobacco, 91.6 per cent; wooden,
worsted, felt goods and wool hats,
91.0 per cent: cars and general shop
construction and repairs by steam
railroads, S9.1 per cent: furniture,
including refrlgerators, SS.2 per
cent; lumber and timber products.
SIS per cent; foundry and machine
shop products, 8O.7 per cent;
womens clothing. sos per cent;
lrion and steel, steel works and
rolling mills, 75.6 per cent.
In the main it will be seen from
the figures here given that the in
dustries which are operated most
steadily are those which manufac-
ture materials of food and clothing.
although it may. be true that the
wages are higher in some Of those
which are Incorporated so steadily,
the figures for. wage payments not
being givepysn the data made public
today by the census bureau.
The four Industries showing the
greatest variation in the number Of
wage earners employed at various
periods during the year are canning
and preserving, with 1873 per cent
CT the greatest month employed in
The smallest month; oil and cot
ton seed. cake. 17.6 per cent; brick
and tile, 36.5 per cent; manufauc-
tured ice, 43.1 per cent.
The month in 1910 in which the
largest number of wage earners was
employed in all lines of manufacture
was November. in which month
there were 7,OO6,S5S persons en-
ployed; while in January of 1910
there were but c. 21O,O63.