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Now. Mr. Chairman. it is complained that the recent immigrants from southern and eastern Europe have displaced in many occupations the earlier German and Irish immigrants with a higher standard of living. The statistics of occupations compiled by the Immigration Commission from the original returns of the Twelfth Census show. however. that the actual effect of the recent immigration from Italy and Austria has been a readjustment of the foreignborn population on the social scale. The earlier immigrants. the Germans and the Irish. have worked their way upward. leaving common labor to later immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. An abstract of that compilation is presented in Table VII: TABLE VII.-Distributio of [oreignborn male breadinners according to nationality and occupation. 1900 (percentages). OcrAus- l . nga.