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Number af male employees for whom detailed information was secured, by general nativity and race. [This chart shows only races represented by 50 or more employees.]

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THE PREPARATION OF THE REPORT.

In preparing the data collected for publication two general divisions have been observed, as follows:

Part I. General survey of the industry

Part II. Study of the industry in Michigan.

The tabulations which appear in Part II are based upon the information secured for employees; those for Part I include both employees and households. Four separate tabulations for the Tennessee min ing employees have also been made and appear in Part I.

CHAPTER II.

RACIAL DISPLACEMENTS.

History of immigration-Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and members of their households-Racial classification of employees at the present time--[Text Tables 7 to 11 and General Tables 4 and 5].

HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION.

No statistics which afford any insight into the racial movements to the several copper-mining districts or set forth the nativity or race of employees of the industry during past years are available. The racial movements to the copper mines of Tennessee have occurred within the past few years and have been the result of the efforts of the operators in that region to attract immigrant employees in order to meet the demand for labor growing out of the extension of mining operations and the inadequacy of the native labor supply. The history of immigration to the Michigan copper-mining range is set forth in detail in Part II of this report."

PERIOD OF RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF FOREIGN-BORN EMPLOYEES AND MEMBERS OF THEIR HOUSEHOLDS.

The character of recent and past immigration to the copper mines may be readily seen from the series of tabulations which follows, showing the period of residence in the United States of foreign-born mine workers and members of their households. Length of residence in this country and period of employment are not necessarily identical but they closely approximate each other. The first table and chart submitted embrace the same data as the table following but present it in a more summary form. All the employees with a period of residence of less than five years appear in one group.

TABLE 7.-Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

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

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a See Chapter II, Part II.

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Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race. [This chart shows only races with 100 or more employees reporting. The total, however, is for all foreign-born.]

Of the total number of foreign-born male employees, 45.3 per cent have been in the United States under five years and 20.8 per cent five to nine years. The proportion of foreign-born employees who have been in this country twenty years or over is greater than the proportion that has been here from ten to nineteen years. The most recent arrivals are the Lithuanians, 90 per cent of whom have been here less than five years. In addition, more than 50 per cent of the Croatians, North Italians, Magyars, and Slovenians have been here under five years. More than 70 per cent of the French Canadians, Germans, and Irish, and the greater part of the Canadians other than French and the Norwegians have been here twenty years or over.

The table below shows, by race, the percentage of foreign-born male employees who had been in the United States each specified number of years:

TABLE 8.-Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States under 1 year, 1 year, 2 years, etc., by race.

(STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

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

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Of 4,622 foreign-born male employees in the copper-mining industry the greater proportion have been in the United States less than ten years, while slightly less than 20 per cent have been in the United States twenty years or over. It is seen that a greater proportion have come in the last five years than any preceding period of the same length of time. With the exception of the English and Swedes. the bulk of the older immigrant races reporting have been in the United States twenty years or over, while of the more recent races all except the Poles show less than 10 per cent who have been in the United States twenty years or over. With the exception of the English, but small proportions of the older races have come to the United States within the past five years, while with the more recent races the reverse is true.

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