* Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. 4 No comparable figures for years prior to 1937. Not called for on schedule.

TABLE 2.-GENERAL STATISTICS IN DETAIL BY STATES: 1939-Continued

7,509, 163 4,829, 556 2 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification.

3 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. Alabama, 1 establishment; Colorado, 2; Florida, 2; Georgia, 1; Iowa, 5; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 3; Nebraska, 2; New Hampshire, 1; North Carolina, 1; Oklahoma, 1; Oregon, 5; Tennessee; 2; Vermont, 2.

14, 718, 477
10, 193, 767

3,453, 061
1,990, 652

183, 771
109, 087

102, 910
67, 617

322, 885
191, 656

55, 420

4, 961, 648

3,041, 179

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

TABLE 4.-PRODUCTS, BY KIND, QUANTITY, AND VALUE, FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937

FOOD-PRODUCTS MACHINERY

445

TABLE 4.-PRODUCTS, BY KIND, QUANTITY, AND VALUE, FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937-Continued

2 Revised.

Not reported by number.

1 Figures for "Combination slicing and wrapping machines" included in figures for "Other bakers' machinery" for 1937. TABLE 5.-WAGE EARNERS ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING, BY MONTHS, FOR THE UNITED STATES, 1939

TEXTILE MACHINERY

[A preliminary report for this industry was issued December 13, 1940]

Description of the industry. The establishments classified in this industry are engaged wholly or chiefly in the manufacture of machinery for use in the textile industries. The relatively large volume of "Extra parts, attachments, and accessories," more than twofifths of the total value of textile machinery and parts made in 1939, is accounted for by the fact that some manufacturers of textile machinery ship a considerable proportion of their output, especially that destined for export, in the form of "knocked-down" or partly assembled machines. The records of these manufac

CENSUS YEAR

turers do not in all cases show the numbers of complete machines represented by such shipments, and accordingly they are necessarily reported as parts.

At previous censuses, establishments reporting roll covering or re-covering as their major activity were assigned to this classification but are assigned to the "Machine-shop products, not elsewhere classified" industry for 1939. These establishments numbered 44 in 1937 but since the total amount of receipts for the work done was only $1,148,668, no adjustments. have been made in the figures for 1937 and former years given in these tables.

TABLE 1.-SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1919 TO 1939

1939.

1937.

1933.

1933.

1931.

1929.

1927.

1925

1923.

1921. 1919 7

Number

of establishments 1

Wages

for the

year) :

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. & Not called for on schedule. : Data not available.

1 Illinois, 3 establishments; Kentucky, 1; Maine, 3; Maryland, 1; Michigan, 1; New Hampshire, 8; Ohio, 2; Vermont, 1. Bee GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment.

See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages.

See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification.
Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture.