Present political condition of foreign-born male employees who have been in the United States 10 years or over and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming, by race.

[This chart shows only races with 100 or more reporting. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.]

NATURALIZED

= FIRST PAPERS ONLY

Of the 2,891 foreign-born male employees who have been in the United States from five to nine years, and who were 21 years of age at time of coming, 7.8 per cent are fully naturalized, while 25.8 per cent have first papers only. Of 3,887 male employees with a residence in the United States of ten years or over, and who were 21 years of age at time of coming, 71.5 per cent are fully naturalized and 14 per cent have first papers only. Of 6,778 male employees who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming to the United States, and who have been in this country five years or over, 44.3 per cent are fully naturalized and 19.1 per cent have first papers only. Regarding the employees who have been in the United States from five to nine years, the Swedes, English, and Irish show over 20 per cent and the Poles and Slovaks less than 5 per cent fully naturalized. The Swedes, Bohemians and Moravians, Croatians, Germans, and Irish show large proportions, while the Poles, Slovaks, and Lithuanians show very small proportions having first papers only.

Of the foreign-born employees who have been in the United States ten years or over, the Irish show 86.2 per cent, the Swedes and Germans slightly over 80 per cent, and Bohemians and Moravians slightly under 80 per cent who are fully naturalized. The English show 71 per cent, the Poles 58 per cent, and the Lithuanians, Croatians, Russians, and Slovaks only small proportions who are fully naturalized. In this group the Croatians show the highest per cent having first papers only.

Of all the foreign-born employees reporting to have been in the United States five years or over, the Irish, Germans, Swedes, and English show the highest per cent fully naturalized and the Russians and Slovaks the lowest. In this group the Croatians and Bohemians and Moravians show the highest per cent having first papers only and the Lithuanians the lowest.

The table next presented shows the present political condition of foreign-born males in the households studied who had been in the United States five years or over and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming, by race of individual.

TABLE 115.-Present political condition of foreign-born males who have been in the United States 5 years or over and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming, by race of individual.

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the United States.]

The totals for all races in the table above show 54.8 per cent to be fully naturalized and 21.8 per cent to have first papers only. Of those who have acquired full citizenship, the Germans show a much larger proportion, followed by the Bohemians and Moravians, Croatians, and Poles, in the order named. In the case of those who have taken the first step toward citizenship, the Croatians have the highest percentage of persons, the Bohemians and Moravians being next in order, followed by the Poles and Germans.

The relative interest manifested by the several races in the slaughtering and meat-packing centers studied is exhibited in the table next presented. It shows by locality and by race the present political condition of foreign-born male employees who had been in the United States each specified number of years and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming to this country.

TABLE 116.-Present political condition of foreign-born male employees who have been in the United States each specified number of years and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming, by locality and by race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

[By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the United States. This table includes only races with 100 or more males reporting in each of two or more localities. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.]

Of the total number of employees in slaughtering and meat packing in Chicago, Kansas City, and South Omaha who have been in the United States from five to nine years, 7.8 per cent are fully naturalized and 25.8 per cent have first papers only. In South Omaha the Bohemians and Moravians and Poles show much larger proportions of fully naturalized citizens than they do in Chicago. On the other hand, in Kansas City the Germans show a decidedly greater proportion who are naturalized than they do in either Chicago or South Omaha. Of those having taken up first papers only, greater proportions of all races in this condition are found in South Omaha than in Chicago or Kansas City.

Of those who have been in the country ten years or over, 71.5 per cent are fully naturalized and 14 per cent have their first papers. Considerably larger proportions of each race are shown to have become citizens in Chicago than in either of the other packing centers. South Omaha, however, shows the greatest proportion who have declared their intention of becoming citizens by taking out their first papers.

Over 44 per cent of those who have been in the United States five years or over are naturalized, and over 19 per cent have taken out their first papers. More Bohemians and Moravians and Germans in Chicago are naturalized than in either Kansas City or Omaha, but with the Poles very similar proportions are shown to have been naturalized in Chicago and South Omaha. Greater proportions of all races have taken out their first papers in South Omaha than either in Chicago or Kansas City.

The following table shows, by locality and race of individual, the political condition of foreign-born males, in the households studied, who have been in the United States five years or over and who were 21 years of age or over at time of their arrival in this country.

TABLE 117.-Present political condition of foreign-born males who have been in the United States 5 years or over and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming, by locality and by race of individual.

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the United States. This table includes only races with 20 or more males reporting in each of two or more localities. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.]

The larger proportion of fully naturalized persons is shown for South Omaha and Chicago, the tendency in each of these localities toward naturalization being more pronounced than that shown for the industry as a whole, while the exhibit for Kansas City is below the general showing for the total foreign-born employees. On the other hand, the foreign-born in South Omaha indicate the greatest tendency toward naturalization, 26.1 per cent of the total in that locality having taken out first papers. A similar tendency is also exhibited in Kansas City, where 25.7 per cent have secured first papers. On the other hand, only 14.5 per cent in Chicago have first papers only. The highest percentage of fully naturalized Germans is shown for South Omaha, and of Bohemians and Moravians in Chicago. In South Omaha, both the Germans and Bohemians and Moravians have the largest proportions with first papers only.