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-Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

he United States is meant years since first arrival in the United States. No deduction is ne spent abroad. This table includes only races with 40 or more males reporting. The er, is for all foreign-born.]

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ards the 1,788 foreign-born male employees, concerning whom ion was obtained in this locality, 60 per cent have been in ed States under five years. Only 8.7 per cent have been in ted States under one year, while 18.2, 17.7, 10.3, and 5.1 have been in the United States one, two, three, and four spectively. Of those who have been in the United States nger period, 12.5 have a residence of from five to nine, 4.4 ce of from ten to fourteen, 5.5 from fifteen to nineteen, and cent a residence of twenty years or over. No Swedes or s and only 1 per cent of the English and 1.2 per cent of the = compared with 20.3 per cent of the Greeks and slightly proportions of the Russians and South Italians, have been in ted States under one year. The Bulgarians, 68.3 per cent have been in the United States one year, show a considerger proportion with this period of residence than do the and a very much larger proportion than do the Russians, talians, or North Italians, the last named reporting 22.1 per No Irish, Lithuanians, or Scotch, and only 1.5 per cent of the s and 2 per cent of the English, report a residence of one year. portions of English, Irish, and German with a residence of three years, as contrasted with the proportions of the other re very low. No Bulgarians, and only 1.2 per cent of the compared with 15.2 per cent of the Slovaks and 12.5 per cent Lithuanians, report in the four-year group. The proportions other races with this period of residence range from 7.8 per the North Italians to 2.1 per cent of the Russians.

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been in the United States longer than nine and than fourteen years. The Russians report the with a residence of fourteen years, while the Lit per cent, report the largest. As regards those w United States from fifteen to nineteen years, the per cent, show a slightly larger proportion than English, or Irish, and a considerably larger prop the other races. Only 1 per cent of the South very small proportions of the other races of recen been in the United States twenty years or over. the Irish, English, Germans, and Scotch with this range from 71.8 to 48.5 per cent.

RACIAL CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AT THE

The racial composition of the operating forces the South at the present time is set forth in the fol shows the number and percentage of male employe whom information was secured:

TABLE 639. Male employees for whom information was secured,

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paring the totals of the preceding table, the significant sclosed is the large proportion of native-born employees red with the foreign-born and the native-born of foreign The white employees, native-born of native father, form cent of the total number furnishing information, and the the same nativity group, 39.1 per cent. On the other hand, yees of native birth but of foreign father constitute only 6.9 And the foreign-born 21.5 per cent of the total. The princiof foreign birth employed in the South and furnishing on for the preceding table are the South Italians, Greeks, Russians, and Germans, and the second generation is made ally of Germans and Irish.

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CHAPTER III.

ECONOMIC STATUS.

cupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United Statesy earnings [Text Tables 640 to 642 and General Tables 364 to 366].

OCCUPATION OF IMMIGRANT EMPLOYEES BEFORE COMING TO THE UNITED STATES.

tent of the training received before coming to the United the immigrants now in the iron and steel industry in the set forth in the following table, which shows, by race, the e of foreign-born male employees in each specified occupae coming to the United States.

-Per cent of foreign-born male employees in each specified occupation before coming to the United States, by race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

ludes only races with 80 or more males reporting. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.]

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ove table shows that of the 1,501 foreign-born male employees ocality for whom information was obtained a much larger on (47.6 per cent) were employed in farming or in farm an in any other occupation before coming to the United 20.4 per cent were employed in general labor, 8.9 per cent trades, 2.5 per cent in trade, and 9.1 per cent in occupations n specified, while only 9.2 and 2.5 per cent, respectively, were in the manufacture of iron and steel and in other manu

my Greeks, less than 1 per cent each of the South Italians sians, and only 6.3 per cent of the Slovaks, as compared with cent of the Germans, were employed in the manufacture of steel abroad. The Germans in other manufacturing, as in

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