CHAPTER V.

GENERAL PROGRESS AND ASSIMILATION.

Citizenship-Ability to speak English-[Text Tables 254 to 255 and General Tables 171 to 173].

CITIZENSHIP.

The extent to which foreign-born employees have acquired or manifested an interest in attaining citizenship is set forth in the following table, which shows, by race, the present political condition of foreign-born male employees who have been in the United States five years or over and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming to this country.

TABLE 254.-Present political condition of foreign-born male employees 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.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

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

From the data presented in the above table it appears that of the 98 male employees for whom information was secured 45, or 45.9 per cent, are fully naturalized, and that 23 employees, or 23.5 per cent,

Pave first papers only.

ABILITY TO SPEAK ENGLISH.

The following table shows, by sex and race, the percentage of foreign-born employees of non-English-speaking races who were able to speak English:

TABLE 255.—Per cent of foreign-born employees who speak English, by sex and race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

[This table includes only non-English-speaking races with 80 or more persons reporting. The total, however, is for all non-English-speaking races.]

It appears from the data presented in the above table that 89.7 per cent of the foreign-born females for whom information was secured can speak English, as compared with 75.6 per cent of the males. This low percentage of persons able to speak English for males, as compared with females, is apparently very largely due to the fact that no Greek females were included in the report. Only 55.2 per cent of the Greek males speak English. The proportion of English speaking Germans is noticeably higher in the case of the males than in the case of the females.