. The relationship between rates of pay and earnings and the cost of living in the anthracite industry of Pennsylvania . le. In support of this statement, the following tablegives the percentage of boys for the year 1902 (in the collieries of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, according to the report ofthe Anthracite Strike Commission) and for the year 1919 (from thereport of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of its survey in January,1919) : Number of boys. | Per cent of total employees. 1902. Inside mines I 114 Outside mines I 761 Total 1 875 1919. 247580 827 1902. 1919. 1.
. The relationship between rates of pay and earnings and the cost of living in the anthracite industry of Pennsylvania . le. In support of this statement, the following tablegives the percentage of boys for the year 1902 (in the collieries of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, according to the report ofthe Anthracite Strike Commission) and for the year 1919 (from thereport of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of its survey in January,1919) : Number of boys. | Per cent of total employees. 1902. Inside mines I 114 Outside mines I 761 Total 1 875 1919. 247580 827 1902. 1919. Thus during the years when the number of boys was relativelyhigh the earnings of the two fields were about the same, while for theyears when the number of boys was low the anthracite earnings(which include the earnings of these boys) was lower than thebituminous earnings, so if the boys were omitted from the totalaverage, the relative change that has taken place would be, as statedabove, greater than is shown in the table. The figures in the table are shown graphically in the follov>iiigchart:. _^a -IIOQ J ! t .„L It is evident that from 1903 to 1911 the earnings in the anthracitemines Avere approximately the same as they were in the bituminousmines of Pennsylvania. Sometimes one is higher, and sometimesthe other. In recent years, however, the bituminous earnings havebeen considerably higher than in the anthracite mines, the averageexceeding the anthracite average by the following yearly amounts: Amounts and percentages by which yearlyaverage earnings in the bituminous minesof Pennsylvania exceed the yearly averageearnings in the anthracite mines.
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