Liquor Business and Labor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 1, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 34.

Liquor Business and Labor

Compiled from United States Census Reports (See Special Reports, 1905, Manufactures, Part 1, Table 3)

What Ten of the Leading Industries Do for the Workers, and What the Liquor Business Does Not Do	No. of wage-earners employed	No. employed for each $1,000,000 invested
Steam railway cars and shop construction	236,900	1,612
Women's clothing	115,706	1,563
Boots and shoes	149,924	1,222
Knit goods and hosiery	103,715	973
Men's clothing	137,190	896
Lumber and timber	404,626	783
Furniture	110,133	721
Cotton goods	310,458	513
Foundry and machine-shop products	348,380	412
Steel works and rolling-mills	207,562	296
Distilled, vinous, and malt liquors	57,461	91

All manufactures, capital...... $12,686,265,673 Manufacture of liquors, capital... $631,447,598 All manufactures employ...... 5,470,321 Manufacture of liquors employs.. 57,461

All other manufactures, with $12,054,818,075 capital, employ 5,412,860 wage-earners, or 451 wage-earners to every $1,000,000 invested.

The manufacture of liquors employs but 91 wage-earners to each $1,000,000 capital invested. At the same rate as other manufactures, the liquor business ought to employ 284,581 wage-earners. At the lowest rate, 296 to the million, it ought to employ 186,776. Its greed ought to sentence it to death.