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Bliss, contributor of statistical articles to the Journal of Political Economy and American Journal of Sociology, in his pamphlet "Plutoc- racy's Statistics, " subjects the official statistics to a most rigid criticism, especially wage statistics, and proves that the data about wages and prices are doctored "in the most unscrupulous manner in the interest of plutocracy. " After having re- jected the official data as intentionally falsified he presents his own figures, which we quote here. The M...assachusetts report regarding manufac- turing industries for 1897 (p. 174) presents com- parative statistics for 4, 695 identical establish- ments for the years 1896 and 1897, showing aver- age annual earnings of $426. 66 in the former and $421. 69 in the latter year. The average time worked was 281. 03 ^Y s in the former and 283. 33 THE INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION. 1 27 in the latter year. Thus there was $5 less pay and two days' more work. The report for 1898 (p. 72) gives statistics of 4, 701 establishments for the years 1897 and 1898, which show average annual earnings as $422.
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