The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-11-28
MISSOURPS TOBACCO OUTPUT

JEFFERSON City, MO-, Nov. 19.-Mis-
souri, tobacco factories, large and
small, located in st. Louis, Kansas
City, st. Joseph, Springfield, Cape GiN
rardeau, Sedalia, Ste. Genevieve. Jop-
lin, Brunswick and other cities, in 1918
turned out plug and twist chewing
end several varieties of smoking to-
bacco and cigarettes with a final
wholesale and tax-paid worth of SAL
S73,031, and therethrough broke all
previous records for this State in this
respect, declares Bureau of Labor
Statistics bulletin issued today under
the direction of Labor Commissioner
William H. Lewis. The value of Mis-
souri's cigar output, 1913, is not in
Guided in the total which is given.
That industry will be considered sep
arately in future bulletin.
The worth of chewing and smoking
tobacco turned out by st. Louis fac
tories in 1913 alone reached the high
total Of SAL, G73,376, all Federal and
other taxes paid. For years st. Louis
has held first rank among all cities
OF the world for quantity, quality and
total worth of chewing tobacco manu-
featured and sold annually and there
is no reason to believe that this city
lest its prestige in this respect dur
ing 1918.
The effect of the world war on Mis-
sourl's tobacco manufacturing is re-
vealed by the fact that the 1914 out
put Of plug and other forms of chew
ing tobacco had an aggregate tax
paid worth of $31, 063,327 that of the
year 1917, $37, 586,625; and now comes
the 1918 record-breaking total value
Of SAL ,873,031. In 1914 the capital in
vested in the industry in Missouri, in
GLIDING stock on hand, totaled $6,411,-
sol; in 1917, $7,757,75O; and in 1918,
$S,957, las. q
The close of the year 1918, announc-
es the Bureau of Labor Statistics bull
letin, which was prepared by Super
visor of Statistics A. T. Edmonston,
found more women employed in the in
dustry and fewer men than in 1914.
The places of the men the 1917 and
1918 war drafts took from the business
were readily and quickly filled by
members of the other sex, who, in
short order indicated through their ac-
Invites and adaptability they could do
the work just as well. Each year
since 1915 has seen the number of wo-
men and girls employed in the indus
try in Missouri increase, as the fol-
lowing compilation which includes the
management, office, sales, and all
other forces, promulgates:
Total salaried employees and wage
earners, 1914, 1888, consisting of q
O18 men and youths, and 1,514 women
and girls.
Total salaried employees and wage
earners, 1915, 1851, consisting of q
1872 men and youths and 1919 women
and girls.
Total salaried employees and wage
earners, 1916, 3,429, consisting of g.
1853 men and youths and 1851 women
and girls.
Total salaried employees, 1917, g.
62S, consisting of 2,0S9 men and
youths, and 1889 women and girls.
Total salcried employees and wage
earners, 1918, 4,260, consisting of g. i
l21 men and youths, and 2,139 womSF
and girls. ,-
For the wage earners was 80 per
Scub lIClSsiSc Ill Wtckly earnings,
1918 over 1917, and ten per cent, 1916
over 1915. The daily time, 1918, av-
eraged nine hours and the weekly,
fifty hours.
To manufacture chewing and smok-
ing tobacco with a 1918 worth of
Sal, 873,031 it took raw tobacco and
other materials and supplies with an
aggregate value of 1923, 490,753 The
disbursements that year for salaries
and wages totaled $3,603,172, and for
rent, insurance, and city, State, Fed
eral and all other taxes, 1904, 1858.
Miscellaneous expenses, the same year
aggregated $402,065.
In 1917 Missouri tobacco factories,
to manufacture 78,251, 294 pounds Of
plug and twist chewing tobacco, snuff
and smoking tobacco, consumed 49,
GA, 448 pounds of stemmed and I'M
stemmed leaf tobacco and stems and
scraps, 15,136,318 pounds of licorice,
10,7S1 ,743 pounds of that now scarce
commodity sugar, and 5,202,818
pounds Of miscellaneous ingredients.
The 1918 production, a little lower
than that of 1917, consumed nearly
the same quantities of raw materials
and stIpplies. sVYe3 t -