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localities in Ohio, and new arrivals quickly advis relatives at home as to the existing opportun the spring of 1905, 900 Bulgarians were employe trial plants and by the autumn of the same yea The influx steadily continued and in 1907 there w at work in the two cities. The industrial dep was first felt in Granite City and Madison during and resulted in the closing down of the iron and establishments and the throwing out of employme who were principally employed as unskilled labo A considerable number returned to Europe an work in other localities or on railroad construction west. In May, 1908, the number of Bulgarians i about 2,000 and two years later it had dwindled races of recent immigration, consisting mostly of families, who had been employed for a longer per rians, remained in the community. The revival of has witnessed a return to the conditions existing b and it is expected that the establishment of nor see a return of the previous Bulgarian population

DE KALB, ILL.

This city, which is extensively engaged in the m is the birthplace of the barbed-wire industry, t that product having been started in De Kalb du of the decade, 1870 to 1880. De Kalb is located munity in which the Swedes have resided for a large numbers. Consequently, when the local w its infancy, Americans and Swedes almost exclusiv As the manufacturing of barbed wire expanded i to secure labor from outside sources, the first lab the city consisting of a number of Finns, who we wire and nail plant in Worcester, Mass., by a form who had taken charge of the De Kalb plant. The city during the early part of the decade, 1890 to arrivals were the Lithuanians, who were seeking mills in considerable numbers by 1897. The Cro 1899; the Herzegovinians and Montenegrins in 190 the two years 1902 and 1903, and the Greeks in 19 and Greeks have never been strongly represented i Italians and Macedonians, although they have be time to time, have never remained. There ha absence of Germans and Irish in any considerable n ing to careful estimates the proportion of each employed in the wire industry in De Kalb may be

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OF RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF FOREIGN-BORN

EMPLOYEES.

tables next submitted show, by race, the per cent of foreignale employees in the United States each specified number of The two tables are identical, except that the table first ted divides the residence of employees who have been in this less than five years into smaller periods.

following table shows the per cent of foreign-born male ems in the United States each specified number of years, by race:

62.—Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States under 1 year, 1 year, 2 years, etc., by race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

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

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8,598 employees who reported, 2 per cent have been in the d States under one year, 3 per cent have a residence of one year, per cent have been in this country two years, 12.1 per cent three , and 8.8 per cent have been in the United States four years. English, Macedonians, Servians, or Welsh have a residence of r one year, and less than 1 per cent of Croatians, Irish, and anians have been in this country under one year. Greeks show reatest proportion in this group, which is 7.1 per cent, followed agyars and Finns. In the group of employees with a residence e year, Macedonians show 43.5 per cent and Bulgarians 35.6 per which is greatly in excess of the percentage of any other race.

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donians 41.1 per cent in the group of persons wi years. These two races show considerably large group just mentioned than does any of the other and Scotch show no persons who have been in th years. Bulgarians and Herzegovinians exhibit tions who have been in this country three years, w Germans, English, Irish, and Welsh show very sm Canadians other than French no persons who hav States for this period of time. Herzegovinians higher percentage of persons with a residence of of the other races, while Canadians other than Irish, Swedes, English, Scotch, and Welsh show s

TABLE 563.-Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the U number of years, by race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

[By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the Un made for time spent abroad. This table includes only races with 40 or mor however, is for all foreign-born.]

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Of the foreign-born male employees for whon secured, 39.1 per cent have been in the United State 24 per cent have been here from five to nine years, been here from ten to fourteen years, 9.6 per cent ha fifteen to nineteen years, and 19.3 per cent have years or over. All of the Bulgarians, 98.2 per cer nians, 90.5 per cent of the Greeks, 81.5 per cent of th and less than 10 per cent of the Welsh, English, Can French, and Irish have been in the United States The proportion of individuals in this country from

st for the Slovenians, Russians, Armenians, Finns, Croatians, nians and Slovaks in the order mentioned, and the proportion -iduals who have been here from ten to fourteen years is largest Welsh, English, and Finns in the order mentioned. The , Canadians other than French, Scotch, Welsh, and English, order mentioned, have the largest proportions of individuals ve been here from fifteen to nineteen years; and the Scotch, Germans, English, and Canadians other than French, have gest proportions of individuals who have been here twenty

r over.

AL CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AT THE PRESENT TIME.

racial make-up of the operating forces of the Middle West is ed in the following table, which shows the number and per male employees of each race for whom information was The relative proportions are considered representative of ire body of iron and steel workers:

64.-Male employees for whom information was secured, by general nativity and race.

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Upon comparing the totals in the preceding ta native negroes form an unimportant proportion the Middle West. The white employees, nativealso constitute only 15.1 per cent of the total. the employees of the second generation, or of eign father, form 13 per cent of the total and t per cent. Germans, Irish, and English constit second generation, and the principal races of for are the Poles, Germans, Slovenians, Croatians, En Russians, and Slovaks. The proportion of Polis excess of that of any other race.

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