In the case of the iron and steel industry. I repeat our agents came in contact with 86.000 individuals. Of this number 57.7 per cent were foreign born. while 13.4 per cent were their sons. so that 71.1 per cent of all the employees with whom the commission came in contact were either born abroad or were the children of those horn abroad. We found that the average weekly wages paid to the men were not a subject of complaint. They amounted to $14.75 per week. and. had the men had constant employment during the year. they would have received upon an average $750 as the result of the years work. but. as a matter. of fact. we found that the 86.000 men averaged to receive only $326 a year. instead of $750. which they would have received had they been able to work full time.
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