TABLE 3.-Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Fifty-Five Additional Revisions of employment and pay-roll indexes have been made as indicated: Refrigerators and refrigerating apparatus-June employment to 154.7; pay roll to 186.0. TABLE 4.-Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing1 and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1940 to September 1941 2 Industry 1940 1941 Av. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Employment Manufacturing All industries. Durable goods 3. Nondurable goods .. Non manufacturing tion. Telephone and telegraph 7 busses 7 8 Wholesale trade. Retail trade 7 Year-round hotels. Laundries 5. Dyeing and cleaning . Manufacturing All industries... Non manufacturing Anthracite mining. Crude-petroleum produc tion 107.5 111.4 113.8114.7 116, 2115. 5117.8119. 9 122.6124.9 127.9 130.7 133. 0 135.3 104. 3 108. 2 112.8 115. 5117.7118.3 121.0 123. 7 127. 7 131. 3 135. 1137. 7 138. 7 142. 2 110.6 114. 4114.8 113. 8114. 8112. 7114.7 116. 3 117.8 118. 8 121. 1 123. 9 127.7 128.7 50.7 49.8 49.4 50.4 50.8 50.3 50.6 50.2 48.7 48.6 49. 2 49.3 50.0 50.0 88.0 87.7 89.2 89.8 90.1 90.2 90.6 91.1 23.5 87.9 88.1 90.3 92.6 94.2 69.9 72.5 72.6 72.5 72.2 72.5 73.4 74.3 77.2 77.1 78.9 79.0 79.9 78.8 45.3 48.9 48.8 47.2 45.4 41.7 42.4 44.2 48.2 51.0 51.9 52.7 53.9 54.4 62.9 63.0 62.4 61.3 60.7 60.3 60.4 60.2 60.1 60.3 61.5 62.1 62.2 61.6 77.9 78.9 79.1 79.2 79.7 80.4 80.9 81.8 83.2 84.6 86.3 88.3 89.6 90.2 91.1 92.7 92.3 91.8 91.3 90.5 90.1 90.3 91.3 92.2 93.5 94.6 95. 2 94.6 68.5 68.5 68.7 68.7 68.4 68.3 68.0 68.2 68.3 68.9 69.1 69.5 69.7 69.9 90.4 90.9 91.0 91.8 92.5 91.2 91.4 91.8 92.4 92.2 93.8 94.2 95.8 95.4 92.3 92.8 94.3 96.3 108.1 90.5 90.7 92.5 97.8 96. 1 97.8 96.7 96.9 99.9 92.0 91.6 93.4 92.3 92.6 92.9 93.9 94.2 95.2 96.3 95.0 94.5 94.5 95.3 99.5 101.9 100. 2 99.7 100. 3 101. 4 101. 1 102. 5 104. 9 108. 3 112.0 115. 8 114.6113. 1 104. 7110. 0 109. 4 106. 0 103. 3101.0 101. 4 104. 4 117.2 120. 6122. 7|121. 7|118. 9 121.0 Pay rolls 105. 4 111.6 116. 2 116. 4 122.4 120.7 126. 8 131. 2 134. 7144. 1 152. 2 152. 7 158. 3 163.0 107.8 115. 1123. 4 125. 1 131. 7132.0 139. 3 144. 6 149. 9 163. 1173. 9 172. 4 177.9 184 0 102. 7 107. 7 108. 1 106. 6 112. 1108. 1 112.9 116. 3 117.7 122. 9 127.9 130.8 136. 3 139. 5 38.5 39.3 32.3 37.6 42.7 38.5 45.2 42.4 24.3 33.4 51.2 34.8 51.1 49.6 81.2 83.2 83.6 84.5 91.4 87.8 90.8 93.8 15. 5 103. 4 107. 2 105. 4 117.3 115. 6 66.7 69.5 71.3 69.8 72.8 70.4 71.8 72.7 78.9 81.5 85.3 79.3 85.4 85.9 40.5 46.2 46.7 42.3 42. 4 36.9 38.2 40.3 47.0 53.2 55.7 55.5 59.3 60.6 58.2 58. 2 57.6 56.8 55.9 55.7 57.3 56.1 57.8 58.6 59.9 61.4 61.5 63.3 Telephone and telegraph 7100 2101. 8 102. 2 103. 2 103. 5 103. 9 104. 3 106. 4 107.3 110.5 113.0 115. 7116. 4 118.8 Electric light and power? 104.8 105. 8 107.0106. 9 106, 0|105. 1105. 4 106. 1107. 6 109. 6 111. 4113. 5115. 1114.2 Street railways busses 78 Wholesale trade.. Retail trade 7 Year-round hotels. Laundries 3 Dyeing and cleaning . and 70.4 71.5 70.7 70.3 73.1 70.7 71.0 72.5 72.0 72.7 76.2 75.8 78.6 78.1 79.0 81.1 80.2 80.7 83.4 80.5 81.4 82.0 83.4 84.6 88.4 88.0 89.8 90.6 84.2 85.1 85.8 87.1 97.3 83.7 84.6 86.2 91.7 91.5 95. 2 94.0 94.0 95.8 82.4 81.8 84.2 83.6 84.1 84.1 86.1 85.7 87.1 87.9 87.4 87.6 88.2 89.1 87.7 89.9 88.0 87.2 89.2 89.8 89.7 90.9 95.8 98 7 102. 5 106. 7 104.7 105. 2 78.2 85.6 82.4 77.8 75.8 73.3 74 4 77.2 97.8 96.1 98.4 96. 4 92.1 99.4 13-year average 1923-25-100-adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures. See tables 9, 10, and 11 of December 1940 Employment and Pay Rolls for comparable figures back to January 1919 for "all manufacturing" and January 1923 for "durable goods" and "nondurable goods." 12-month average for 1929-190. Comparable indexes for wholesale trade, quarrying, metal mining, and crude-petroleum production are in November 1934 and subsequent issues of Employment and Pay Rolls or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of Monthly Labor Review. For other nonmanufacturing indexes see notes 5, 6, and 7. 3 Includes: Iron and steel, machinery, transportation equipment, nonferrous metals, lumber and allied products, and stone, clay, and glass products. Includes: Textiles and their products, leather and its manufactures, food and kindred products, tobacco manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and allied products, products of petroleum and coal, rubber products, and a number of miscellaneous industries not included in other groups. Indexes have been adjusted to the 1935 Census. Comparable series from January 1929 forward are presented in January 1938 and subsequent issues of Employment and Pay Rolls. See also table 7 of October 1940 pamphlet for revised figures for anthracite mining February 1910 to September 1940. See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised indexes January 1938 to January 1941. ? Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 Census and public-utility indexes to 1937 Census. Not comparable with indexes published in Employment and Pay Rolls pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in Monthly Labor Review prior to April 1940. Comparable series January 1929 to December 1939 available in mimeographed form. Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated, and successor companies. UNEMPLOYMENT IN OCTOBER 1941 UNEMPLOYMENT declined 600,000 in October to a new low of 3,900,000, according to data based on the WPA monthly unemployment survey. The labor force declined by 800,000 and, employment was reported 200,000 lower. Estimated Civilian Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment, by Months, 1 Includes persons on public emergency work projects. The decline in employment occurred exclusively in rural areas, as a result of seasonal changes in agriculture. Approximately two-thirds of the decline in the labor force was likewise concentrated in rural areas. In urban and metropolitan areas employment increased by about 500,000, reflecting continued expansion of industrial activity. The decrease in the labor force in nonrural areas indicates some further withdrawals of school-age workers in addition to those who had returned to school at the time of the September survey. DECEMBER 1941 Cooperative Movement Operations of consumers' cooperatives, 1940. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941, 20 pp. (Serial No. R. 1367, reprint from September 1941 Monthly Labor Review.) A survey of consumers' cooperatives in the United States. By L. G. Bryngelsson. New York, the author, 1941. 447 pp., bibliography. Contains chapters on Government relationship to the cooperative movement, local and national organization of the movement, labor policies, promotional education, etc. Special analytical chapters deal with proper accounting forms and practices for cooperatives, and actual practices are revealed by returns on questionnaires sent out by the author. As the author is a teacher of accountancy in the College of the City of New York, these are of especial value. Operations of credit unions in 1940. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941. 8 pp. (Serial No. R. 1354, reprint from August 1941 Monthly Labor Review.) Cooperative education: Part I, Bibliographical review of literature on cooperative education. By V. J. Tereshtenko and research staff. New York, U. S. Cooperative Project, 1941. xxiii, 363 pp.; mimeographed. (Studies of the Cooperative Project, Series D; prepared in cooperation with Work Projects Administration for City of New York and U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.) Abstracts of material on the subject of cooperative education and recreation, with a bibliographical index, an index of organizations and agencies referred to, a geographical index, and a topical index. The introductory chapter gives a gen eral discussion of cooperative education and the meaning it has for different people, according to their idea of its purpose. The material covered in the bibliographical section is classified into that relating to education in the theoretical aspects of cooperation, historical accounts, general cooperative programs, formal (school) and informal (discussion and study club) teaching of cooperation, the cooperative press, cooperatives in the schools, cooperative exhibits, and (since the two subjects of education and recreation are inextricably intermingled) cooperative recreation. Directory of mutual companies in the United States-fire and casualty insurance, business of 1940. Chicago and New York, American Mutual Alliance, 1941. 133 pp., chart. (Vol. 9.) Not only lists the mutual insurance companies writing fire and casualty insurance, but gives statistics of operation for the year 1940 for the various types and their central associations. Many of the mutuals included operate on genuinely cooperative or semicooperative principles. Rapports et comptes sur l'activité des organes de l'Union suisse des coopératives de consommation (U. S. C.) Bâle en 1940. Basel, Union suisse des coopératives de consommation, 1941. 114 pp. Report on operations in 1940 of the Swiss Union of Consumers' Cooperatives. EDITOR'S NOTE.-The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not distribute the publications to which reference is made in this list, except those issued by the Bureau itself. For all others, please write to the respective publishing agencies mentioned. 1619 Cost and Standards of Living Family expenditures in the United States statistical tables and appendixes. A National Resources Committee publication released by National Resources Planning Board. Washington, 1941. 209 pp. The third report by the National Resources Committee in its series based on the Study of Consumer Purchases, 1935-36, conducted jointly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Home Economics in cooperation with the Work Projects Administration. The preceding reports in this series are "Consumer Incomes in the United States" and "Consumer Expenditures in the United States." The present volume contains statistical tables giving greater detail on expenditures than the previous report on this phase of the survey. It is limited to estimates of average and aggregate expenditures for families, and does not include data for single individuals or persons living in institutions. The data on family expenditures cover more than 90 categories of outlay. The analysis includes estimates of differences in expenditures for families in communities of varying degrees of urbanization, in different regions, and for white and Negro families. Also included are estimates of differences in expenditures for durable, semidurable, and perishable goods. 83 pp. Montreal, (Studies and reports, International comparisons of food costs. By Robert Morse Woodbury. Graded versus proportional rents in public housing a discussion of their advantages Rent control. By Charles E. Noyes. Washington, Editorial Research Reports, 1013 Thirteenth Street NW., 1941. 14 pp. (Vol. 2, 1941, No. 13.) Describes the present problem of rising rents, housing crises, and rent laws in the last war, post-war action, and proposals now being made for rent control. An index of urban land rents and house rents in England and Wales, 1845–1913. By H. W. Singer. (In Econometrica, Chicago, July-October 1941, pp. 221230.) Discusses the statistical procedure used and gives the results. Economic and Social Problems Economics of social security: The relation of the American program to consumption, savings, output, and finance. By Seymour E. Harris. New York and London, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1941. 455 pp. Government and the American economy. By Merle Fainsod and Lincoln Gordon. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1941. 863 pp., bibliography. Shows the transition of Government from a comparatively passive role in the American economy to the assumption of major responsibilities, and the chief causes and methods of regulation. A chapter is devoted to promotion of the interests of labor. Occupational mobility: Democratic efficiency through the use of human resources. By Omar Pancoast, Jr. New York, Columbia University Press, 1941. 155 pp., bibliography. This is a study in economic theory. The different chapters deal with the question whether we can use our human resources effectively under democratic methods, the case for more training, contributions from formal economic literature, the background of liberal thinking about high labor rates, and occupational mobility as a means of combating unemployment. Hitler's "new order" in Europe. By Paul Einzig. London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1941. 147 pp. The author states that his purpose is to show that the German statements regarding their "new order in Europe" are propagandist in nature and would actually mean something totally different. |