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The board also reported that in the investigation of the wages of 3.182 weavers weaving woolen and worsted goods in the United States It was found that these weavers were paid from 10 to 35 cents an hour. Of that total number of weavers only 42 were paid more than 30 cents an hour. and more than onehalf of them were paid from 10 to 20 cents an hour. The same boards report as to the country of birth of the employees working in woolen and worsted mills In this country states thatIn the establishments Investigated. 12.709. or 36.5 per cent of the total number of persons employed. were born In the United States and 22.230. or 03.5 per cept. were foreign born. Of the 22.230 foreizn born. 12.297 persons. or 35.1 per cent of all of the employees In the mills. were natives of Italy and the countries of eastern and south. eastern Europe. The testimony given before the committee of the House of Representatives In March. 1912. at the investigation of the strike at the mills of the American Woolen Co.. at Lawrence.