All items. 100.0 52.3 Food 43.1 62 26.7 Rent 17.7 15 2.7 Clothing 13.2 77 10.2 Fuel and light 5.6 45 2.5 Sundries 20.4 50 10.2 The figures examined prove that there was a fair similarity of increase in the different sections of the country. The advance in rent in the dwelling places of the average wage earner was put down at 15 per cent. "A general summary is given of changes in the cost of living among industrial workers as presented by the Railroad Wage Commission for the period between December, 1915, and the end of April, 1918, as follows: Per Cent. For families with incomes up to $600 43 For families with incomes from $600 to $1,000 41 For families with incomes from $1,000 to $2,000 40 "By the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen the advance in living costs between 1914 and 1917 was placed at 43 per cent. Conditions among ship-building workers on the Pacific coast, as arrived at by the United States Shipping Board, indicated that between June, 1916, and February, 1918, living costs had gone up 46 per cent. A table is given which shows relative increase in the cost of food as measured by wholesale and retail prices for the past six years."