TABLE 4.--Employment and pay rolls for the executive branch of the Federal Government

in selected months 1

1 Includes employees on force-account construction.

2 Covers War and Navy Departments, Maritime Commission, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, The Panama Canal, Price Decontrol Board, Philippine War Damage Commission, and the emer. gency war agencies.

3 Beginning July 1945, data include clerks at third-class post offices who previously were working on a contract basis. Data exclude substitute rural mail carriers.

* Includes Alaska ani the Panama Canal Zone.
s Employment is as of the first of the calendar month.
& Subject to revision.

7 Data are for all pay periods ending within the calendar month. Beginning July 1945, this ordinarily represents pay for 4 weeks, but in November 1946 it represents pay for 6 weeks for most employees.

Detailed Reports for Industrial and Business

Employment, October 1946 Monthly reports on employment and pay rolls are presented below for more than 150 manufacturing industries and for 27 nonmanufacturing industries including water transportation and class 1 steam railroads. Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay rolls for the period ending nearest the 15th of the month. Table 1.- Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries !

Estimated number of production workers

(in thousands)

Industry group and industry

October Septem

1946 ber 1946

August

1946

October

1945

All manufacturing

Durable goods.
Nondurable goods...

Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products.

Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills
Gray-iron and semisteel castings.
Malleable-iron castings..
Steel castings.
Cast-iron pipe and Ottings.
Tin cans and other tipware
Wire drawn from purchased rods.
Wirework.
Cutlery and edge tools
Tools (except edge tools, machine tools, files, and saws).
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies.
Stoves, oil burners, and heating equipment not elsewhere

classified
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings..
Stamped and enameled ware and galvanizing -
Fabricated structural and ornamental metalwork.
Metal doors, sash, frames, molding, and trim.
Bolts, nuts, washers, and 'rivets.
Forgings, iron and steel..
Wrought pipe, welded and heavy-riveted.
Screw-machine products and wood screws.
Steel barrels, kegs, and drums.

Firearms...
Electrical machinery.

Electrical equipment.
Radios and phonographs.

Communication equipment.
Machinery, except electrical.

Machinery and machine-shop products.
Engines and turbines.
Tractors
Agricultural machinery, excluding tractors.
Machine tools.
Machine-tool accessories.
Textile machinery
Pumps and pumping equipment.
Typewriters.
Cash registers, adding and calculating machines
Washing machines, wringers and driers, domestic
Sewing machines, domestic and industrial.

Refrigerators and refrigeration equipment.
Transportation equipment, except automobiles.

Locomotives.
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad.
Aircraft and parts, excluding aircraft engines.
Aircraft engines.
Shipbuilding and boatbuilding.
Motorcycles, bicycles, and parts.
See footnote at end of table.

56.8
48.0
79.0
55. 5

9.8
18. 7
26.3
12.8
27. 7

6.4 14.0 526 290.7 82.8

86.4 1,051 356.6 44.9 52.8 40.7 61.3 50. 2 32. 7 56.9 19.4 33. 2 11.5

9.7 60.5 451 26.8 46.6 134, 2

27.5 158.3 10.6

46.7 40. 3 61.0 41.3

7.2 19.6 24. 3 13. 8 25. 0

5. 3 11. 2 467 291.0 56. O 65.4 909 330. 2 42.9 49.5 35. 9 57.9 45.9 25.5 51.6 12.6 24. 4 7.4 7.5 34.8 667 29.9 41.7 126.9

29.4 368. 2

6.5

441
27.1
48.1
139.5

27.6
141.3
11.0

Table 1.- Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries 2

Continued

319 86.6 10.3 20.3 44.6 38. S 4.2 9. 2 7.5 12.9 16.6 17.5

8.9

Nonferrous metals and their products.

Smelting and refining, primary, of nonferrous metals
Alloying and rolling and drawing of nonserrous metals ex-

cept aluminum.
Clocks and watches...
Jewelry (precious metals) and jewelers' findings.
Silverware and plated ware-
Lighting equipment.
Aluminum manufactures

Sheet-metal work, not elsewhere classified.
Lumber as timber basic products...-

Sawmills and logging camps.

Planing and plywood mills.
Furniture and finished lumber products.

Mattresses and bedsprings.
Furniture
Wooden boxes, other than cigar.
Caskets and other morticians' goods.
Wood preserving...

Wood, turned and shaped..
Stone, clay, and glass products.

Glass and glassware.
Glass products made from purchased glass
Cement.
Brick, tile, and terra cotta.
Pottery and related products..
Gypsum
Wallboard, plaster (except gypsum), and mineral wool.
Lime
Marble, granite, slate, and other products.
Abrasives
Asbestos products...

TABLE 1.-Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries ↳ Continued

O 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

WAGE EARNERS AND WAGE EARNER PAY ROLL