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peaks in certain years may be found in the fact that union
agreements, such as those in the cloth hat and cap industry
and the garment industry, became effective in those years.
DisTRIBUTION BY INDUSTRY OF PLANTS OPERATING ON
Five-Day WEEK SCHEDULE
The distribution by industry of plants operating on a fivejay
week schedule gives an indication of its applicability to
different types of process and reveals the extent of its adoption
in the various industries. Table 4 shows this distribution
by industry and also the size and sex composition of the
working forces affected.
TABLE 4: DISTRIBUTION, BY INDUSTRY AND BY NUMBER
AND Sex or EMPLOYEES, oF 270 MANUFACTUR-NG
EsTaBLISHMENTS OPERATING
oN Five-Day WEEK
(Source: National Industrial Conference Board)
Industry
Cloth hats and caps...
[.adies’ dresses. ......
Men's clothing. ......
Other garments.......
Printing, publishing
and lithographing. . .,
Textiles. ............
Paper products. ......
futomobile and aircraft
equipment. . . .
Miscellaneous metal
products...........
Unclassified. .........
Total. .....
1 Workers Employed. Sex of Workers
Number —_— re - — re
| | On EveDay ry Employeesl 00 cP
lish- Pp» Total — — Rs ——ime
nents Number | 2 Male | Femate: Male Female
1,440(100.0] 897] 543] 897] 543
1,694; 99.6 659] 1,041 6531 1,041
7,870] 96.5! 4,266] 3,887 4,191, 3,679
6141100.0 1381 476 138] 476
8,827] 8,301] 94.01 7,435)
3,564] 2,504] 98.3 2,115)
4920) 4789] 97.3 4,793:
77 9201177 220{100.0175,377!
|e sa omel a0a3l ssqf ages) 496
oib2 61251 374 3361 2631 3,532] 2,593
270 [218.2191216,921| 99.4}204,274113,9451203,421113,500
1,392] 7,023
1,449] 2,082
129) 4,660]
1,843/175,377]
In point of number of establishments operating on the fivejay
schedule, the garment industries outnumber all others
combined, and account for practically 60% of the total. But
the combined employment in these garment plants amounted
to only about 5% of the total number of wage earners employed
in the 270 establishments found to be operating on a
