SPORTING AND ATHLETIC GOODS NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED

[A preliminary report for this industry was issued December 30, 1940]

Description of the industry.-This industry embraces establishments engaged primarily in the manufacture of a group of products not clearly defined in all respects but designated in general as "sporting and athletic goods." These comprise equipment for fishing and hunting (except firearms and ammunition); equipment for athletic games and sports, such as golf, baseball, football, tennis, skating, skiing, etc.; gymnasium and playground equipment; billiard and pool tables; bowling alleys, etc. Clothing and footwear made specially for sporting and athletic purposes, such as hunting coats and boots, bathing suits, sweaters, tennis shoes, leggings, etc., do not come within the scope of this industry classification but are assigned to the clothing industries, the knit goods industries, the boot and shoe

1 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment.

* 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 manufacture.

Arkansas, 2 establishments; Georgia, 1; Idaho, 1; Iowa, 2; Kansas, 1; Kentucky, 2; Maryland, 3; Massachusetts, 19; Mississippi, 1; Montana, 1; New Hampshire, 3; Oklahoma, 2; Rhode Island, 2; South Carolina, 1; Virginia, 2.

SPORTING AND ATHLETIC GOODS

593

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

1 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment.
See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages.
Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EX-
PLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture.
4 Not called for on schedule.

See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification.
See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages.

1 California, 2 establishments; Connecticut, 2; Georgia, 1; Iowa, 1; Missouri, 2; Ohio, 2; Oklahoma, 1; Pennsylvania, 1; Virginia, 2; Wisconsin, 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.

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