LIQUOR AND OTHER INDUSTRIES.
For every million dollars invested in the following r industries the following number of men are employed:— Liquor, 77; iron and steel and their products, 284; paper and printing, ; leather and its products, 460; textiles and their finished products, 578; lumber and its manufactures, 570. A comparison of wages show s the proportionate ratio of wages paid to the amount of capital invested: — Liquor, 5.6 per cent. ; iron, 17.6 per rent. ; paper, 21.3 per cent.; leather, 23.5 per cent.; textiles, 23.0 per cent.; lumber, 27.1 per cent. A quick glance at these figures shows how comparatively little the labour man gets »*ut of the liquor business. If the money spent for intoxicating liquor were spent for bread and clothing it would give employment to nearly eight times as many workers, who would collect vely receive five and one-half times as much wages as is now the rase in the liquor business. —Address delivered by Sharles Stelzie at a national conference of Charities and Correction in USA.
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 264, 18 June 1917, Page 2
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170LIQUOR AND OTHER INDUSTRIES. White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 264, 18 June 1917, Page 2
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