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Show REVIEW OF 13 U. S. INDUSTRIES WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Cigar making, paper manufacturing and tho Iron and steel mills were the only industries in-dustries out of 13 investigated by the bureau of labor statistics which employed em-ployed more persons in January, 1918, than in the Bame month last year. The Increase was 4.9 per cent In cigar fac-I fac-I tories, three-tenths of one1 per cent in paper mills and 2 per cent in Iron and steel. Automobile plants showed the greatest decrease in workers, 10.4 per cent; silk 9.8; boots and shoes 9 02, and leather 8.9. Nino industries had n greater payroll pay-roll last month than in tho same month of 1917, the greatest increase being 18.3 per cent In woolen manu-fcturing, manu-fcturing, in which there was a decrease de-crease of two-tenths of one per cent in the number employed. The payroll of cotton factories increased 17.4 per cent as compared with 1.8 per cent decline de-cline in the number of workers. Boots and shoes, automobile manufacturing and leather manufacturing showed the only deoreases In total payrolls, the greatest being 11.9 per cent in tho last named. |