minors employed in that State. The five industries employing the greatest number of minors, with the classified weekly earnings in each, are on the following page.
An analysis of this table shows a slight similarity between the wages of minors and the wages of women. Thus, of the five industries under consideration, the percentage of minors who received less than $6 per week is,—
| Cotton Goods | 47 per cent. |
| Boots and Shoes | 37" |
| Worsteds | 33" |
| Foundry Products | 38" |
| Confectionery | 80" |
In none of these five industries do more than 9 per cent. of the minors receive over $8 per week. As with the women in Massachusetts, so with the minors, wages range below $6 for a goodly proportion, while almost none of the minors receive more than $9. The maximum of wages for any large group of women was $12, hence the wages of minors are somewhat below the wages of women in the upper wage groups.
The range of the entire group of minors' wages is somewhat lower than that for females, with
the exception of Confectionery, which appears from
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