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Rh the States which use such methods of compiling wage statistics might reduce their Labor Bureau appropriations by the amount of the printer's bill, without serious loss to the public.

Another most unsatisfactory group of figures is furnished by a number of States of which Michigan is a typical illustration. For the entire State of Michigan there were in 1909, 9,052 industrial establishments, employing

making a total of 291,799 employees with an average daily wage of $1.98. These totals are computed from the same figures for each county, but no industries are mentioned, so that, while the figures convey more information than the North Carolina figures, they are still exceedingly defective.

The next group of State reports, typified by Pennsylvania, gives rather detailed average