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Number of male employees for whom detailed information was secured, by general nativity and race. [This chart shows only races represented by 500 or more employees.]

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Number of foreign-born employees and total number of employees for whom information was secured, by locality.

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The table next presented shows, by locality and by general nativity and race, the per cent of iron and steel workers for whom detailed information was secured:

TABLE 12.-Race of male employees for whom information was secured, by locality; per cent distribution.

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TABLE 12.-Race of male employees for whom information was secured, by locality; per cent distribution-Continued.

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COMPARATIVE SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION.

The following table shows the number of employees for whom original data were secured, in its relation to the total number of employees in the localities studied:

TABLE 13.-Comparative scope of the investigation.

[Compiled from United States census special report, manufactures, 1905, Pt. IV, Table 2, pp. 5-6.]

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a Compiled from the figures for 1905 for New York and Pennsylvania and the figures for 1900 for West Virginia. The figures for West Virginia are not given separately in the census report.

Compiled from the figures for 1905 for Alabama and from the figures for 1900 for Maryland. The figures for Maryland for 1905 are not given separately in the census report.

c Compiled from the figures for 1905 for New York, Pennsylvania, and Alabama, and from the figures for 1900 for West Virginia and Maryland. The figures for West Virginia and Maryland for 1905 are not given separately in the census report.

The most recent statistics, showing the total number of iron and steel workers in the territory studied, are supplied by the special reports of the United States Census Office for 1905.

It will be seen that the total number of employees in the three divisions studied was, at the time of the taking of the census, 210,211. Of these employees, 138,323 were in the East, 61,160 in the Middle West, and 10,728 in the South. On comparing these figures with the total number of employees for whom detailed information was secured it will be seen that original data were obtained for 47.5 per cent of the total number of employees in the East, for 19.5 per cent of those in the Middle West, for 77.6 of those in the South, and for 41 per cent of all employees in the three divisions. As a matter of fact, the number of employees for whom original information was secured is even larger than appears in the table. In addition to the investigation by means of the employee's schedule, represented by the figures given, a further study was made of employees in households. This study embraces 2,439 employees in the East, 420 in the Middle West, and 771 in the South, a total of 3,630 employees. The sum of these figures and figures indicating the numbers of employees studied in the course of the individual investigation does not represent the total number of the employees for whom information was secured. There was necessarily some duplication; a certain proportion of the employees studied in the households were doubtless again studied as individuals. It is certain, however, that all of the employees included in the latter study were not studied twice. For this reason the proportion of the total number of the employees for whom original information was secured is doubtless larger than is indicated by the percentages of the table.

It appears then that original data were secured for something over two-fifths of all the employees in the three divisions specified. In the Middle West the proportion was slightly less than one-fifth, but in the East it was nearly one-half, and in the South it was over three-fourths.

METHOD OF PRESENTING DATA COLLECTED.

In preparing the study of the industry the following divisions, for the reasons mentioned below, have been adopted in the discussion and presentation of the data:

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1. Presentation of industry as a whole. This part of the report affords a brief summary of the facts and conditions developed by the investigation.

2. Geographical areas. A division has been made following the distribution of the iron and steel industry in the United States, principally for the following reasons: (a) To show difference in working and other conditions in the different sections of the country; (b) to compare the status of the various races under different environments; (c) to exhibit relative inducements to immigration offered by different sections of the country.

3. Detailed reports on selected communities.-By selecting for intensive study representative communities connected with the iron and steel industry it has been thought (a) that a verification of the tendencies exhibited by the more extended tabulations might be had; (b) that direct effects of recent immigration upon American life and institutions, not covered by the statistical tables, might be presented; and (c) that more definite conclusions as to the economic effects of immigration might be reached.

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