EMPLOYEES FOR WHOM INFORMATION WAS SECURED. In addition to the study of households, a detailed study of 88,368 individual employees was made for the bituminous coal-mining industry as a whole. The racial composition of this total is shown in Table 12 and its accompanying charts. TABLE 12.-Male employees for whom information was secured, by general nativity and This table shows that of the 88,368 employees for whom information was secured, 61.9 per cent are foreign-born, 9.5 per cent are native-born of foreign father, 21 per cent are whites native-born of native father, and 7.6 per cent are negroes native-born of native father. Number of male employees for whom detailed information was secured, by general nativity and race. [This chart shows only races represented by 500 or more employees.] The following table shows, by locality, the race of the male employees for whom information was secured: TABLE 13.-Race of male employees for whom information was secured, by locality; per cent distribution. TABLE 13.-Race of male employees for whom information was secured, by locality; per cent distribution-Continued. The investigation in Arkansas, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee was not made in as great detail as in other States, because a preliminary survey revealed the fact that comparatively small numbers of recent immigrants were employed in these States. At the time the field work was in progress conditions in Texas and Arkansas were abnormal, and it was found that an investigation would not have yielded true results. It was also planned to study the coke industry in conjunction with bituminous mining and to embody the results of the investigation in a separate report. In the present report, however, it has been found necessary to include in the tabulations of bituminous coal mining the returns secured from employees of coke works, and to make no distinction, except in historical and descriptive matter, between mines engaged exclusively in the production of coal and mines having coke ovens in connection with their coal operations. In 1905, 10,154 persons were employed in the coke industry in Pennsylvania, 2,155 in Alabama, 1,094 in Virginia, and 2,533 in West Virginia." Detailed information was secured for about 5,000 coke employees in Pennsylvania and a comparatively small number in Virginia, West Virginia, and Alabama. These returns are included in the tabulations of this report. a Twelfth Census, Special Reports on Selected Manufactures; Pt. IV, pp. 515, 528, 529. |