All who become a part of us are interested in a good wage. for I want it understood that I regard the foreigner who comes among us to permanently remain as entitled to the same rights and protection as the home born. and I speak of them all as American citizens. Another striking characteristic of the labor conditions in the Iron and steel industry is the large proportion of unskilled workmen in the labor force. These unskilled workmen are very largely recruited from the ranks of recent Immigrants. For the industry as a whole. not far from onehalf of the 91.463 employees in the productive iron and steel occupations Included within this investigation were of the class of inskilled workmen. In the blastfurnace deartment. the largest single department in the industry. more than twothirds of the 24.722 cmployces In productive occupations were unskilled laborers. a large proportion of whom do not yet speak or understand English. and even In the South the number of immigrants employed in the Industry Is rapidly Increasing.
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