number of wage earners," the ten foregoing industries employed the largest number of adult males (21 years of age and over) and paid them the wages indicated.
These industries are really divisible, according to the numbers employed, into two groups,—those industries employing more than forty thousand persons, and those employing less than fifteen thousand persons. Between these two extremes not a single industry appears. A study of the above table shows that wages range much lower in the textile industries. Thus in Cotton Goods, Worsteds, Woollens and Dyeing and Finishing, there are respectively 31, 21, 25 and 21 per cent, of the employees under $8 a week. In the other industries these percentages are much lower, with a maximum in Furniture of 15 per cent., and a minimum in Foundry and Machine Shop of 6 per cent.
Similar deductions may be made from an analysis of the higher wage group. In the textile industries (Cotton, Worsteds, Woollens and Dyeing and Finishing) there are respectively 9, 17, 10 and 12 per cent, of employees receiving more than $15 per week, while in the other industries the percentages above $15 per week are,—
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