-IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH. GENERAL SURVEY. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. overed-Employees for whom information was secured-Preparation of data-[Text Table 633 and General Table 362]. TERRITORY COVERED. king a study of the iron and steel workers in the Southern he investigation was confined to furnaces and mills of Mary1 Alabama for two reasons: (1) The iron and steel industry important in these States than in any others of the South possible exception of Kentucky, and (2) Alabama and Marythe only two States in which persons of foreign birth are ely employed. In the remaining iron and steel producing in the southern territory native white and negro labor is xclusively used. EMPLOYEES FOR WHOM INFORMATION WAS SECURED. tensive investigation of households was limited to Alabama. information secured is presented in connection with the study irmingham district. Detailed information was obtained for dividual iron and steel workers in Maryland and Alabama. mber reporting, when compared with the total number d, is considered sufficiently large to render the statistics pre epresentative. 296°-VOL 9-11—9 121 |