The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-26
Many Jobs Based On
 Drivers Purchases
Thirteen Per Cent of Sales in Nations Commercial and
 Service Fields Attributed to Same Proceedings
(special to The Democratl

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 Washington, Dec. 26.-Work and wages for one out of every six per- sons in the nations wholesale. re- tail and service trades are provided by firms wholly dependent upon automotive, petroleum. tire and other sales connected with high way use.
 This was revealed today in a statement based upon new census bureau figures and issued by the National Highway Users Confer ence.
 The statement, transmitted to federal and state officials, shows 383,347 of the 2.133,437 wholesale, retail and service establishments operating in the United States in 1883 relied entirely upon sales to owners and operators of motor ve- hicles.
 Analysis of the government fig ures also develops the following facts:
 Of the total payroll of $.O5S,S03,- 900 for all wholesale, retail and service trades, $801, ,006,000, or 15.9 per cent, accrued from automotive, petroleum, tire and allied trades.
 Automobile owners and opera tors, when buying from dealers who cater exclusively to their de- mands, make IS per cent-or ST. 839, ,O25, ,000-of the dollar-volume purchases recorded by the nations commercial and service establish ments.
 Firms making automotive and allied sales exclusively have 655,- 012 full-time employees and provide part time empoyment for 01,137 persons.
 The census of firms making auto- motvie sales exclusively includes the following totals: wholesaers of automotive products 6,303; whoe- salers of petroleum and it's prod ucts, 28,421; retail motor vehicle dealers, 3O,646: retail dealers in ac- cessories, tires and batteries, 16,- 027. and filling stations, 17O.404.
 The totals do not include figures covering highway construction and maintenance, automobile produc- tion,, petroleum production, motor bus driving, inter-city truck driv- ing and other activities of similar character. It is pointed out, also, that they do not include corre- spending figres for industries which supply materials. Neither do the totals reflect automotive business of firms with major interests in other fields.
 The business, wage and employ ment totals in the statement are cited by Roy F. Britton, director of the Naional Highway Users Conference, as indicating the de- gree to which sales to automobile owners and operators have reduced the impact of the depression.
 'These figures" MT Britton de- clared today, "enable us for the first time to get clear and ac- curate conception of the sustaining effect of the highway transporta-1 tion industries upon economic well fare of the nation.
 Except for the continued needs of the motoring jublic, every sixth business house and service 'estab- lishment in the United States would close; every sixth person em- ployed inu the wholesale, retail and service trades would lose his job, and approximately one-sixth of the business payroll would dry up instantly.
 "There is every reason to believe that with equitable operating con- ditions, particularly as regards tax ation and regulation, the automo- tive trades group will contribute even more to the prosperity of the nation in the years immediately ahead"