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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

IV

THE IMMIGRATION COMMISSION,
Washington, D. C., December 5, 1910.

To the Sixty-first Congress:

I have the honor to transmit herewith, on behalf of the Immigra-

tion Commission, a report in two volumes entitled "Abstracts of

Reports of the Immigration Commission, with Conclusions and Rec-

ommendations and Views of the Minority." In addition to abstracts

of the more extended reports of the Commission, these volumes include

the complete reports on the following subjects: Immigration Con-

ditions in Hawaii; Immigration and Insanity; Immigrants in Charity

Hospitals; Alien Seamen and Stowaways; Contract Labor and Induced

and Assisted Immigration; The Greek Padrone System in the United

States; Peonage.

WILLIAM P. DILLINGHAM,

CONTENTS.

Introductory...

Brief statement of the investigations of the Immigration Commission, with

conclusions and recommendations and views of the minority.

Brief statement of the investigations-

The immigration legislation of 1907..

Membership of the Commission...

Organization of the Commission..

Purpose of the inquiry.

Plan and scope of the inquiry

Investigations in Europe...

Investigations in the United States.

Racial classification of immigrants.

Methods of work....

Reports of the Immigration Commission.

Sources of immigration and character of immigrants..

Causes of the movement...

Immigration of diseased aliens

Immigration of criminals

Immigration of the mentally defective.

Contract labor and induced and assisted immigration

The padrone system....

Importation of aliens for immoral purposes.

Steerage conditions..

Immigrant homes and aid societies..

Immigrant banks

Boards of special inquiry.

Immigration and crime..

Immigration and the public health..

Immigration and pauperism.....

Congestion of immigrants in cities..

Immigrants in manufacturing and mining.

Recent immigrants in agriculture....

Artificial distribution of immigrants....

Japanese and other immigrants on the Pacific slope.

Assimilation of immigrants...

Children of immigrants in schools...

Changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants.

Recommendations..

Views of the minority.

Abstract of the statistical review of immigration to the United States, 1820

Number of immigrants, 1820 to 1910..

Sex, 1820 to 1910..

Country of origin, 1820 to 1910..

Sex and race of immigrants, 1899 to 1910..

Illiteracy, 1899 to 1910.

Occupation, 1899 to 1910..

Financial condition of immigrants.

Immigrants who have been in the United States previously.

Destination of immigrants in the United States..

Aliens debarred at United States ports..

Aliens leaving the United States....

Abstract of the report on distribution of immigrants, 1850 to 1900..

Growth of foreign-born population...

Concentration in cities..

Voting age and citizenship..

Illiteracy and ability to speak English..

Abstract of the report on emigration conditions in Europe..

Old and new European immigration.......

Attitude of European countries toward emigration.

Character of European emigration....

Occupations of emigrants.

Literacy in Europe..

Money shown by immigrants

Permanent and transient emigration..

Extent and permanence of the return movement.

Effects of the return movement in Europe.

Causes of emigration

Assisted immigration..

Geographical extent of the investigation....

The principal branches of mining and manufacturing studied.

Extent of information secured....

Field methods employed..

Preparation of data..........

Emigration of criminals..

Examination of emigrants abroad

Abstract of the Immigration Commission's dictionary of races or peoples.. 205-283

Races or peoples..

Abstract of the report on immigrants in manufacturing and mining..

Scope and method of the investigation-

The present discussion.

Summary of data secured according to principal industries—

Iron and steel manufacturing.

Slaughtering and meat packing.

Bituminous coal mining

Glass manufacturing....

Woolen and worsted manufacturing..

Silk goods manufacturing and dyeing

Cotton goods manufacturing

Clothing manufacturing.

The manufacture of boots and shoes

Furniture manufacturing.

Collar, cuff, and shirt manufacturing.

Leather tanning, currying, and finishing

Glove manufacturing

Sugar refining..

The manufacture of cigars and tobacco.

Statistical summary of results-

Explanation of methods of presentation.

Households studied

Members of households

Racial composition of operating forces of mines and manufacturing

establishments at present time

Racial composition of the operating forces of 16 selected industries...

Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees

and members of their households......

Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households

Principal occupation abroad of immigrant wage-earners

Principal occupation in this country at the present time of industrial

workers and members of their households..

Average weekly earnings according to general nativity and race of

Average daily earnings according to general nativity and race of

The range of weekly earnings according to general nativity and race

The range of daily earnings according to general nativity and race of

Abstract of the report on immigrants in manufacturing and mining-Contd.

Statistical summary of results-Continued.

Average weekly earnings according to industry and general nativity

and race of employee.

Average daily earnings according to industry and general nativity

and race of employee.

Average daily earnings according to industry and general nativity of

Average hourly earnings in the slaughtering and meat-packing indus-

try, according to general nativity and race of employee..

Annual earnings of male heads of families....

Annual earnings of male wage-earners in the households studied..

Annual earnings of female wage-earners in the households studied...

Annual family income...

Sources of family income..

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The industrial significance of recent immigration-

Recent expansion of American industry.

Increase in the number of wage-earners.

Employment of immigrant labor...

Reasons for the employment of recent immigrants.

Conditions which made possible the extensive employment of recent

Present day industrial communities.

Salient characteristics of the recent immigrant labor supply.

Effect of the competition of recent immigrants upon native Americans

and older immigrant employees..

Effect of the employment of recent immigrants upon labor organiza-

Effect of the employment of recent immigrants upon industrial organ-

ization and methods..

Effect of the employment of recent immigrants upon working

Effect of the employment of recent immigrants upon wages and hours

Effect of the employment of recent immigrants upon the establish-

ment of new industries....

Abstract of the report on recent immigrants in agriculture..

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Abstract of the report on recent immigrants in agriculture-Continued.

Seasonal agricultural laborers—

Race composition

Sources whence recruited.

Conditions of employment..

Housing conditions..

Standard of living.

Americanization..

General sociological survey of the immigrants in rural communities from

whom information was secured................

Abstract of the report on Japanese and other immigrant races in the Pacific

Coast and Rocky Mountain States..

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Results of investigation.

Method and scope..

Summary for seven cities

Composition of population.

Living conditions..

Economic status..

Assimilation...

Abstract of the report on occupations of the first and second generations of

immigrants in the United States..

Male breadwinners..

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