Speech #620024737

I venture the assertion that any $60 a month bookkeeper. having before him the Statesmans YearBook. the yearbooks of the Agricultural Department. the Statistical Abstract for the current year. and a few trade journals. could. with paste and shears. assemble all of the information contained within those 20 pages in 24 hours. But I did read in that dreary waste one single paragraph of interest. We are told thatThe Immigration Commission. in Its study of the woolen and worsted Industry secured detailed information from 23.388 employees. Of the total number of employees studied. 61.9 per cent were foreign born aud 24.4 per cent were of native birth but of foreign father. and 13.7 per cent were nativeborn persons of native father. The average weekly wage of the male employees 18 years of age or over was $10.49 and of the female employees $8.18. The average annual earnings of the male heads of families who were employed in the industry were $400. and of all males 18 years of age or over In the households studied. $346.