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III.-THE IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE WEST.

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IL-THE IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN

THE MIDDLE WEST.

GENERAL SURVEY.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

covered by the investigation-Method of presenting data-Employees for om information was secured [Text Table 555 and General Table 312].

TERRITORY COVERED BY THE INVESTIGATION.

term "Middle West," for the purposes of this section of the f immigrants in the iron and steel industry, is used to desigterritory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers th of the Great Lakes, including the States of Indiana, Illinois, sin, Michigan, and all of Ohio except the eastern part emin the study of the Pittsburg district.

METHOD OF PRESENTING DATA.

eholds of immigrant iron and steel workers were studied and ented along with other detailed material in connection with nity D, a representative iron and steel manufacturing comof the Middle West of recent growth, and in which immigrants uthern and eastern Europe have found employment in large 5. Detailed information was also secured for more than mployees of blast furnaces and iron and steel establishments in all parts of the Middle West, and the present section of ort sets forth in a summary way the salient facts as regards on and steel workers. The number for whom information ived is large enough to be considered representative, and the d tendencies exhibited by the succeeding tabulations are to be typical of conditions in the Middle West.

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