Group 12.-LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS This group comprises two subgroups-"Leather: tanned, curried, and finished" and "Leather products." The first subgroup covers establishments tanning hides and skins and currying and finishing leather in regular factories and also in contract factories, while the second subgroup covers those establishments making products of leather and includes nine individual industries. Duplication in group totals for cost of materials and value of products.-The cost-of-materials and value-ofproducts figures for the Leather and Leather Products group as a whole include considerable amounts of duplication resulting from the use of the products of establishments in certain industries as materials by of the products of the "Boot and shoe cut stock and findings" industry, which are used as materials in the "Footwear" industry. Similarly, the total cost of materials for the group includes not only the cost of the hides and other basic raw materials produced outside the leather group and used as materials by tanneries, but also the amounts paid for tannery products and for boot and shoe cut stock and findings by establishments which use these products as materials for further manufacture. Furthermore, reduplication occurs in the case of boot and shoe cut stock not made in boot and shoe factories, for the value of the leather used in making such stock appears three times in the total value of products for the group-once as reported by the tanneries, again as a part of the value of the cut stock, and still again as a part of the value of finished boots and shoes. Within any one of the industries, however, there is little duplication resulting from the use of the products of some establishments as materials by others. establishments in other industries. In other words, the total value of products for the group includes not only the factory value of the finished products in the form in which they reach the final purchaser but also the value of the products of the "Leather: tanned, curried, and finished" industries, which are used as materials in the other leather industries, and the value SUMMARY FOR GROUP 12.-LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS, 1899 TO 1939, AND FOR SUBGROUPS AND INDUSTRIES, 1939 AND 1937 SUMMARY FOR GROUP 12.-LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS, 1899 TO 1939, AND FOR SUBGROUPS AND INDUSTRIES, 1939 AND 1937-Continued 2 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. 1 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. Figures for years prior to 1935 do not include cost of contract work. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. The 1937 figures in italics are comparable with the 1939 statistics and exclude data for 115 establishments which have been transferred to another industry. No adjustment was made for other years. The 1937 statistics in roman type are comparable with the statistics for earlier years. Revised. Revision not carried into group total. GROUP 12.-LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS-GENERAL STATISTICS IN DETAIL, BY SUBGROUPS AND BY INDUSTRIES1: 1939 752, 273 756, 615 Construction. 33, 150, 557 294, 289, 718 16, 375, 436 431,412 120, 204 $61, 657, 237 $7, 609, 003 $4, 941, 253 $22, 735. 477 $222, 865, 621 $9. 416 347 $11, 555, 796 $14, 777, 416 $4, 460, 959 $3, 415, 580 $2,938, 855 3,852, 326 593, 759 585, 795 2, 191, 965 965, 253 9, 563, 517 19,817, 468 183, 657, 529 9, 556, 540 195, 078 75, 489 714, 211 760, 998 7,408, 682 499, 512 10. 200 22,744 1,452, 602 928, 334 7 918.929 1, 255, 113 688 1, 380, 023 567, 822 357, 601 417, 262 3, 655 2, 388, 230 200, 587 2,087.363 228.275 Other..... Cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work, total... Materials, supplies, and containers 805 911,414 222, 741, 041 6, 302, 515 13, 596, 416| 90,487, 474 388, 439, 102 13, 762, 985 19, 214, 722 32,-877, 628 7, 371, 951 6, 876, 684 4, 240, 886 Fuel Purchased electric energy. 100, 486 21, 531 329, 728, 052 16, 709, 502 24. 410, 104 106, 987, 011 10, 406, 987 10, 813, 688 1 The numbers at the head of each column represent the following industries: 1211, Leather: Tanned, Curried, and Finished-Regular Factories or Jobbers Engaging Contractors; 1212. Leather: Tanred, Curried, and Finished-Contract Factories: 1221, Industrial Leather Belting and Packing Leather; 1230, Boot and Shoe Cut Stock and Findings; 1240, Footwear (Except Rubber); 1250, Leather Gloves and Mittens; 1260, Suitcases, Brief Cases, Bags, Trunks, and Other Luggage; 1271, Women's Pocketbooks Handbags, and Purses; 1272, Small Leather Goods; 1291, Saddlery, Harness, and Whips; 1299, Leather Goods Not Elsewhere Classified. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. 3 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manu facture. LEATHER: TANNED, CURRIED, AND FINISHED [A preliminary report for the industries in this subgroup was issued December 31, 1940] Two industries comprise this subgroup-"Leather: tanned, curried, and finished-regular factories or jobbers engaging contractors" and "Leather: tanned, curried, and finished-contract factories." The first of these industries embraces chiefly those establishments primarily engaged in the manufacture of leather from hides, skins, etc., owned by them, including reports from jobbers engaging contractors. The second industry covers those establishments which are primarily engaged in manufacturing or currying and finishing leather on contract for others. Some of the establishments in the regular factories classification also do some work on contract, while the contract factories manufacture a small amount from owned hides and skins. Considerable quantities of leather are reported as made also on contract for establishments in the Gloves, Clothing, and other industries, but as neither the contractors nor the manufacturers report the values of leather thus made, the figures in table 4 understate somewhat the total value of leather. Table 2.—GENERAL STATISTICS FOR “LEATHER: TANNED, CURRIED, AND FINISHED—REGULAR FACTORIES OR JOBBERS ENGAGING CONTRACTORS” INDUSTRY, IN DETAIL BY STATES: 1939 [See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Disclosure of data for individual establishments] TABLE 2.-GENERAL STATISTICS FOR "LEATHER: TANNED, CURRIED, AND FINISHED-REGULAR FACTORIES OR JOBBERS ENGAGING CONTRACTORS" INDUSTRY, IN DETAIL BY STATES: 1939-Continued facture. ་ See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification. 1 California, 1 establishment: Colorado, 1; Illinois, 3; Michigan, 1; New Hampshire, 3; Pennsylvania, 4; Vermont, 1. 1 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. LEATHER: TANNED, CURRIED, AND FINISHED TABLE 4.-VALUE OF PRODUCTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937 37 TABLE 5.-PRODUCTS, BY KIND, QUANTITY, AND VALUE, FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937 [These industries, as constituted for Manufactures Census purposes, embrace regular and contract establishments engaged in tanning, currying, and finishing leather. Tanneries and other establishments working on contract report their receipts for work done and the quantities of leather tanned, curried, and finished for others, but do not report the value of the leather tanned, curried, or finished nor the cost of the hides, skins, or leather treated. Some of this contract work is done for the establishments in these industries. and these establishments report the value of their entire output of finished leather including that tanned or otherwise treated for them on contract. Considerable amounts of contract tanning, currying, and finishing are done, however, on hides, skins, and leather owned by manufacturers in the Gloves, Clothing, and other industries, and some of the manufacturers in these industries curry and finish their own leather; and as neither the contractors nor the manufacturers in question report the values of leather thus tanned, curried, and finished, the figures in this table understate somewhat the total value of the several classes of leather] |