In order that the actual wages and the hours of labor in each city may be studied and compared, the following table is presented, showing the predominant rate of weekly wages for each occupation and in each of the cities so far as the information was secured:

PREDOMINANT WEEKLY WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR IN SPECIFIED TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1909.

PREDOMINANT WEEKLY WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR IN SPECIFIED TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1909-Continued.

PREDOMINANT WEEKLY WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR IN SPECIFIED TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1909-Continued.

PREDOMINANT WEEKLY WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR IN SPECIFIED TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1909-Continued.

PREDOMINANT WEEKLY WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOK IN SPECIFIED TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1909-Concluded.

The figures of the foregoing table may be more readily compared arranged in the form of index numbers, New York being taken as the base or 100 and the mean predominant wage being expressed in the terms of wages in New York.