This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Schedule of Questions.--In order to carry out the purpose of this inquiry the special schedule on the following page was drafted. 4. Sections of the Country Covered.--The work of securing the data called for by this schedule was intrusted to special agents who were instructed to visit certain manufacturing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Schedule of Questions.--In order to carry out the purpose of this inquiry the special schedule on the following page was drafted. 4. Sections of the Country Covered.--The work of securing the data called for by this schedule was intrusted to special agents who were instructed to visit certain manufacturing establishments in the respective territories to which they were assigned, care being taken to select essentially manufacturing localities. This restriction, together with lack of sufficient time to make a more thorough canvass, explains the absence of returns from the States classed in the census reports as "Western"; but although the report is to that extent deficient, affording no basis for a comparison of wages between that section and other parts of the country, it is believed that the main results of the investigation are not thereby seriously impaired. Fortunately, returns were secured for a few industries for the Pacific States. 5. Industries Investigated.--The inquiry was limited to 34 industries, nearly all of a permanent character, which are not violently affected by seasonal influences. They are: Agricultural implements. Glass. Bakeries. Iron and steel Breweries. Knitting mills. Brickyards. Lumber and planing mills. Candy. Paper mills. Car and railroad shops. Pianos. Carpet mills. Potteries. Chemicals. Printing. Cig&rs. Rubber. Clothing. Shipyards. Collars and cuffs. Shoes. Cotton mills. Silk mills. Distilleries. Slaughtering. Dyeing and finishing textiles. Tanneries. Flour mills. Tobacco. Foundries and metal working. Wagons and carriages. Furniture. Woolen mills. In grouping the returns by industries, the plan of classification adopted by the division of manufactures of the Twelfth Census, in which product is the determining fact...
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