AVERAGE AMOUNT OF WEEKLY EARNINGS OF MALE EMPLOYEES, BY GENERAL NATIVITY AND INDUSTRY*

Not computed, owing to small number involved. This table shows wages or earnings for the period indicated, but no account is taken of voluntarily lost time or lost time from shut-down or other In the various tables in this report showing annual earnings allowance is made for time lost during the year.

causes.

AVERAGE AMOUNT OF WEEKLY EARNINGS OF FEMALE EMPLOYEES, BY GENERAL NATIVITY AND INDUSTRY*

a Not computed, owing to small number involved.

This table shows wages or earnings for the period indicated, but no account is taken of voluntarily lost time or lost time from shut-downs or other causes. In the various tables in this report showing annual earnings allowance is made for time lost during the year.

manufacturing establishments, and the lowest, $5.66, by the workers in glass tableware factories. Of the total number of women wage-earners of foreign birth, the highest average amount of weekly earnings, $8.57, is shown by silk-mill operatives, and the lowest, $5.14, by those employed in the manufacture of glass table

ware.

The average weekly earnings for all female employees fourteen and under eighteen years of age are only $5.46. Among both the native-born and foreignborn females who were working for wages the highest average weekly earnings are shown by those employed in connection with the manufacture of agricultural implements and vehicles, and the lowest by silk-mill operatives.

Average weekly earnings are not available by general nativity for employees of oil refineries, cigar and tobacco factories, slaughtering and meat-packing establishments, bituminous coal mines, and temporary or railroad and other construction work. The table which appears on p. 163, however, shows for these industries, according to general nativity, the average daily earnings of male employees who were eighteen years of age or over, and of those who were fourteen but under eighteen years of age. In the first age-group are 138,375 wage-earners and in the second 7,363.

Upon comparing the wage-earners eighteen years of age or over according to industries, it is seen that native-born whites of native father have the highest average daily earnings in the oil-refining establishments, followed, in the order named, by those engaged in construction work, bituminous coal mining, slaughtering and meat packing, and cigar and tobacco manufacturing. Of the industrial workers native-born of

AVERAGE AMOUNT OF DAILY EARNINGS OF MALE EMPLOYEES, BY GENERAL NATIVITY AND INDUSTRY*

a Not computed, owing to small number involved.

This table shows wages or earnings for the period indicated, but no account is taken of voluntarily lost time or lost time from shut-downs or other causes. In the various tables in this report showing annual earnings allowance is made for time lost during the year.

foreign father, the highest average daily earnings are shown in construction work, followed by oil-refining, bituminous coal mining, slaughtering and meat packing, and cigar and tobacco manufacturing in the order named. In the case of the foreign-born wage-earners, the highest earnings are exhibited by those employed in oil refining, followed in consecutive order by those engaged in the manufacture of cigars and tobacco, bituminous coal mining, slaughtering and meat packing, and construction work. Of those employed in cigar and tobacco factories, the foreign-born show an average daily wage of $2.21, as compared with $1.97 for the native white workers of native father, and

$2.20 for the native-born of foreign father. In the case of the bituminous coal-mine workers, an average daily wage of $2.19 is shown for the whole industry, $2.16 for the foreign-born workers, $2.38 for the native-born of foreign father, and $2.31 for the white miners of native birth and of native father. In the oil-refining plants and slaughtering and meat-packing establishments, the native-born wage-earners show considerably higher average daily earnings than do those of foreign birth.

Of the male employees fourteen and under eighteen years of age, the foreign-born exhibit the highest average daily earnings, $1.65, in the bituminous coal mines, and the lowest, $1.22, in the oil refineries. The total native-born also exhibit the highest average daily earnings, amounting to $1.51 in the bituminous coal mines, and the lowest, $0.93 per day, in the manufacture of cigars and tobacco.

The table on p. 165 shows, by general nativity, for the same industries, the average daily earnings of 14,416 female employees eighteen years of age or over, and of 4,224 who were fourteen and under eighteen years of age.

The average daily earnings exhibited by the female industrial workers eighteen years of age or over are $1.16. The native-born women show their highest average daily earnings, $1.37, in connection with the oil-refining industry, and the lowest, $1.13, among those employed in cigar and tobacco factories. The average for the total number of women of foreign birth is $1.20 a day in the two branches of manufacturing for which the averages have been computed.

As regards the female wage-earners fourteen and under eighteen years of age, the average daily earn