TABLE III.-Maximum and MINIMUM NUMBER OF WAGE-EARNERS EMPLOYED IN MANUFACTURES DURING ANY ONE MONTH, NUMBER AND PER CENT UNEMPLOYED, 1899, AND PER CENT FOREIGN-BORN ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL PURSUITS, 1900, BY SEX AND by States.'

September 16,7 February

47.9 12.4

11,1 5,6 33.5 13.0

May 144,5 December 125,3 19,2
November 2,4 June

March 36,0 July

13.3 14.7 I,I 1,3 54.2 15.2 27,8 8,2 22.8 16.0

September 19,2 February 16,3 2.9 15.1
September 80,2 January

17.7 66,6 13,6 16.8 18.4

'Compiled from XII. Census Report on Manufactures, Vol. I, Table 3, pp. 62–63;

Occupations at the XII. Census, p. 164, Table 34.

•States where the number of males or females, respectively, employed during the maximum month was less than 1000, are not included.

28,3 26,0

TABLE IV.—PERcentage Ratios OF UNEMPLOYED AND OF FOREI}}

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I Telegraph and telephone

'XII. Census. Occupations, pp. ccxxvii. et seq., Tables LXXXVIIL

and LXXXIX.; pp. cxiv.-cxvi., Table XXXVII.