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The following table and its accompanying chart show the number and percentage of male employees of each race studied:

TABLE 633.-Male employees for whom information was secured by general nativity and

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Number of male employees for whom information was secured, by general nativity and race.

[This chart shows only races represented by 100 or more employees.]

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PREPARATION OF DATA.

In preparing this study for publication it was considered advisable to set forth, as in other localities, the salient facts relative to the immigrant iron and steel workers in a general survey based upon the information received from employees. To this has been added a detailed study of the Birmingham district, setting forth the economic and other effects of immigration upon the southern iron and steel

center.

CHAPTER II.

RACIAL DISPLACEMENTS.

History of immigration-Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees-Racial classification of employees at the present time-[Text Tables 634 to 639 and General Table 363].

HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION.

Data showing in detail the history of immigration to the iron and steel industry in the South according to race are not available. Information of considerable value in this connection is supplied, however, by the reports of the United States Census, showing in a general way the composition of the working forces of the furnaces and steel mills in the years 1880, 1890, and 1900. These statistics are presented in the following tables:

TABLE 634.—Number of iron and steel workers in the South, by nativity and State, 1900.a [Compiled from United States census report, 1900.]

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80 342 122 1,058 335 2,013
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94 569 1,450 225 1,604 372 29 45 1,478 262 805 2,089 123 614 2,928 487 2, 409 351 18 27 583 48 600 10 12 9 82 178 126 2,044 4,439 39 281 370 36 645 48 90 40 1,242 107 1,173 8,510 6,879 180 922 3,881 571 3,654 154 457 196 2,550 745 3,509 23,698

197 3,535 96 355 147 1,226 460 2,210 13, 144

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6,151 134 849 1,820 261 2,248 128 432 162 2,300 441 3,185 18, 111

This table does not include the small number of females employed in unimportant positions in connection with the iron and steel manufacturing industry.

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TABLE 635.— Number of iron and steel workers in the South, by nativity and State, 1890. [Compiled from United States census report, 1890.]

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TABLE 636.—Number of iron and steel workers in the South, by nativity and State, 1880. [Compiled from United States census report, 1880.]

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11 923 2,183 299 1,800

64 204 74 1,117 155 1,254 8,461

It will be noted that the classification of workers is different for each census. The census report of 1880 presents data showing the country of birth of the workers, both race and parentage being disregarded, and the census of 1890 indicates country of birth and, in addition, the number of colored workers and the general parentage of the native-born whites. In the census of 1900, on the other hand, the principles of presentation followed in both the preceding censuses have been abandoned, and the workers have been classified according to general nativity and color and country of birth of parents. Because of this difference in classification it is impossible to make an exact comparison between the returns for the several periods, but country of birth of parents, in connection with the figures showing the number of native whites of foreign parentage, doubtless indicates origin with a precision sufficient for the purposes of a general study.

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