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STATUARY AND ART GOODS

TABLE 3.-PRODUCTS, FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937

TABLE 4.-PRODUCTS, BY KIND, QUANTITY, AND VALUE, FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937 No detailed production statistics are collected for this industry; therefore, there are no figures for the above tables.

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TABLE 5.-WAGE EARNERS ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING, BY MONTHS, FOR THE UNITED STATES, 1939, 1937, AND 1929, AND BY STATES, 1939

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Group 14.-IRON AND STEEL AND THEIR PRODUCTS,

EXCEPT MACHINERY

The group as a whole. This group of industries | connection with rolling mills or in plants classified in includes establishments engaged primarily in the pro

duction of pig iron and of steel: iron and steel castings; and the rolling and forging of iron and steel into semifinished and finished rolled and forged products; and in further fabricating of the same into a great variety of finished iron and steel commodities. Some industries in this group report products made wholly or partly of nonferrous metals, such as hardware, stamped and pressed metal products, wire and wire products, ornamental metal work, plumbers' supplies, and metal or metal-covered doors, sash, and frames. This group does not include machinery and machine-tool attachments and dies (see Group 17), automobiles and automobile equipment (see Group 18), and transportation equipment except automobiles (see Group 19).

Establishments which roll or forge iron and steel and operate departments within the same plants for further processing into products, such as wrought pipe, bolts and nuts, wire and wire products, and tin plate and terneplate, are assigned in their entirety to the "Steel works and rolling mills" industry, except that blastfurnace departments are classified separately. These products, when manufactured in plants other than departments of rolling mills, although in some cases under the same ownership, are classified in other industries within this group. Thus, the statistics for certain of these industries by no means indicate the full extent of the manufacturing operations carried on in producing the various classes of commodities covered by the industry designations. In the tables presenting detailed statistics of products, however, data are given covering the total output of the individual classes of commodities, whether made in plants operated in

other industries.

Changes in classification.-At the census for 1939 a number of the 1937 industry classifications were broken down into two or more industries. There follows the industries in which such changes were made, showing, respectively, the 1939 and the 1937 industry titles:

"Steel works and rolling mills" and "Steel castings" were formerly "Steel works and rolling-mill products." "Gray-iron and semisteel castings" and "Malleable-iron castings" were formerly "Foundry products (gray-iron and malleable iron)." "Oil burners, domestic and industrial," "Steam and hot-water heating apparatus (including hot-water furnaces)," "Stoves, ranges, water heaters, and hot-air furnaces (except electric)," "Steam fittings, regardless of material," "Heating and cooking apparatus except electric, not elsewhere classified" were formerly "Heating and cooking apparatus, except electric." "Vitreous enameled products, including kitchen, household, and hospital utensils," "Automobile stampings," "Stamped and pressed metal products (except automobile stampings)," "Enameling, japanning, and lacquering" were formerly "Stamped and pressed metal products; enameling, japanning, and lacquering."

In addition, one industry was first treated as a separate industry for 1939, namely "Cold-rolled steel sheets and strip and cold-finished steel bars made in plants not operated in connection with hot-rolling mills." This industry was a part of the "Machine-shop products" industry for 1937.

A special tabulation of the 1937 figures, and in some cases the 1929 figures, was prepared to show comparable data for the industries in which the changes occurred.

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SUMMARY FOR GROUP 14.-IRON AND STEEL AND THEIR PRODUCTS, EXCEPT MACHINERY: 1939 AND 1937

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SUMMARY FOR GROUP 14.-IRON AND STEEL AND THEIR PRODUCTS, EXCEPT MACHINERY: 1939 AND 1937—Con.

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2 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages.

3 Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. This figure is not the sum of the figures shown for the industries as the figures have been revised for the "Cast-iron pipe and fittings" industry. This revision has not been carried to the group total or to the total for all groups for the United States. Not called for on schedule.

Data on horsepower of prime movers for the "Blast-furnace products" and "Steel works and rolling mills" industries cannot be shown separately because certain establishments maintain central power plants serving both their blast furnaces and their steel works and rolling mills. See footnote 4, which appears on the "Wage-earners" figure for the total for the group.

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GENERAL STATISTICS IN DETAIL FOR THE GROUP, THE SUBGROUPS, AND FOR THE INDUSTRIES1: 1939

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