To the North Atlantic Statesthe New England States. I continue the quotation from the report of the Immigration Commission: Of the races of old immigration. the French Canadians. English. and Irish were principally employed. these races reporting to the number of 13.043. 5.274. and 4.287. respectively. The southern and eastern Europeans were represented in greatest numbers by the Poles. with 8.920 : the Portuguese. with 5.911 : and the Greeks. with 2.739. Of the male operatives of foreign birth 15.8 per cent and of the females 34.5 per cent had been engaged in the same industry abroad. On the other hand. 56.2 per cent of the male and 50.7 per cent of the female employees who were foreign born had been farmers or farm laborers in their native countries. The average weekly wage for male employees 18 years of age or over was $9.68 and that for females 18 years of age or over was $7.97. The average annual earnings of male heads of families who were employed as cottonmill operatives were $470 and the average annual family income was $791.
Keywords matched
Immigration immigration foreign born