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THE FIVE-DAY WEEK

five-day week, and to only 289, of the total wage earners if
we exclude the employment of the Ford Motor Company.
Thus, while the five-day week has apparently made greater
headway in the garment industries than in others, neither the
actual number of wage earners affected nor the proportion of
this number to the total number of wage earners in American
industry under the five-day week plan is particularly significant.

Another industry in which the five-day week has made considerable
 progress 1s the printing and lithographing industry,
but as will be seen later, there are special conditions making
the five-day week schedule particularly applicable in this industry.
 A comparatively small number of establishments in
the textiles, paper products and metal working industries
were found to operate on this schedule. Other industries in
which one or more plants were found to be using the five-day
schedule of operation include those which manufacture the
following articles:

Aeronautical instruments
Aircraft engines
Automobiles
Automotive equipment
Carpets
Castings
Chewing gum
Copper products
Cotton spinning and manufacturing
Cotton dyeing, bleaching and finishing
Cutlery and shoe tools.
Felt
General and special machines
Goggles
Guns and rifles
Heat indicators
Heating and ventilating apparatus
Insulated wire and cables
Jewelry
Ladies’ hand bags

Metal tubing and hose
Noodles
Paper
Paper board
Paper cartons
Pencils
Pharmaceuticals
Pressed steel
Rubber goods
Salad dressing and spices
Shoes
Smoking tobacco
Soap
Sporting goods
Steel plate fabricating
Surface abrasives
Turkish towels
Valves
Water and oil meters
Woolens

While the variety of industries that have found the fiveday
 schedule feasible is rather impressive at first glance, it
does not prove that this schedule is universally, or even gen-