employing the largest number of wage workers, they fail, for the most part, to publish any worthy wage statistics. A few citations will establish the truth of this assertion. New York wage statistics relate to members of labor unions only; the average wage statistics of Pennsylvania are incomplete,—even those cited are wretchedly compiled and presented; Illinois has published no recent statement of wages except in department stores; the latest available Wisconsin report includes the years 1906-7; Missouri, Michigan and Indiana publish little or no wage data. Thus, of the ten leading industrial States, but three,—Ohio, Massachusetts and New Jersey,—furnish wage data which merits a somewhat extended comment. The statistics for Ohio are excellent, but very diffuse and unconcentrated. The statistics for Massachusetts and New Jersey are, on the other hand, scientifically classified, accurately presented, and in every sense satisfactory and reliable. Therefore, of the ten leading industrial States, three present worthy wage data; the statistics of two are far from satisfactory; while five of the ten States furnish no current wage material of value to this study.
Deplorable as is the lack of statistics in these
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