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To meet these shortages. extensive education and training are required. retraining and reeducation of our existing manpower resources cannot be accomplished except over a prolonged period of time. Where. then. are these highly trained and skilled workers to come from? One important source has been immigration. These immigrants. according to Labor Department officials. have not increased the number of persons on our unemployment rolls. because they possessed the skills and training our economy required. Even if it were possible immediately to retrain and reeducate 150.000 or 200.000 unemployed personsa relatively small proportionto give them skills needed by the economy. there can be no doubt that the economy would be significantly stimulated. Precisely the same thing may be said about the entry of skilled and highly trained immigrants into the economy. Of all immigrant workers arriving since 1947. about one of every three reported a professional. technical. or skilled occupation. Approximately half of the 3 1/ million immigrants who entered the United States between 1947 and 1961 were reported as having occupational attachmentssee table VIIthe remainder were primarily housewives. young. and retired persons. Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that tables VII and VIII be received and made a part of the RECORD. Table VII shows the number and percentage distribution of immigrants by broad oc- number of immigrants In selected crit- There being no objection. the tables cuvational groups for 194761 and for ical occupations admitted each year. were ordered to be printed in the RECselected years. Table VIII shows the 195261. ORD. as follows: TABLE VI.-Number and percent distribution of immigrants by broad occupational groups for 191j761 and for selected years [Fiscal years] Total. 1947 through 1961 1961 1954 1947 Occupational groups Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Total admitted ------------------------------------------------ 3. 542.189 100.0 271.344 100.0 208.177 100.0 147. 292 100.0 With occupation ------------------------------------ 1.671.003 47.2 123. 688 45. 6 96.110 46. 2 65. 583 44.5 No occupation ---------------------------------------------- 11.871.186 92.8 135. 704 60. 0 1112.067 53.8 181.709 55.5 N o occupation reported ------------------------------------- (1) ------------ 11.952 4.4 () ------------ (1) ........... With occupation I --.................------------- 1. 671.003 100.0 123.688 100.0 96.110 100.0 65.583 100.0 Professional technical and kindred workers ----------------- 263. 018 15.7 21.455 17.3 13.817 14.4 10.891 16.6 Farmers and farm managers -------------------------------- 87. 083 5.2 3.002 2.4 3. 846 4.0 3.462 5.3 Managers. officials. and proprietors. except farm ------------- 83. 346 5.0 5.363 4.3 5. 296 5.5 5.886 9.0 Clerical. sales. and kindred workers ------------------------- 283. 432 17.0 25.198 20.4 16. 018 16.7 13. 961 21.3 Craftsmen. foremen and kindred workers ------------------- 268 555 16.1 17. 679 14.3 19. 396 16. 0 8. 726 13.3 Operatives and kindred workers ---------------------------- 238.141 14.3 13. 268 10.8 16. 755 17.4 10. 580 16. 1 Private household workers ------------------------------ 129. 643 7.8 8.811 7.1 8.096 8.4 4.922 7.5 Service workers. except private household ------------------- 95. 851 5.7 8.399 6.8 5.203 9.4 3.882 5.9 Farm laborers and foremen --------------------------------- 9 3. 792 3. 2 4. 799 3.9 1.622 1.7 442 .7 Laborers. except farm and mine ----------------------------- 168.142 10.1 19. 694 12.7 10.061 10.5 2.831 4.3 I "No occupation" includes "No occupation reported" group. Source: Annual reports of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. U.S. Departs Includes inmnigrants age 14 years and over. ment of Justice. TABLE VIII.-Number of immigrants in selected critical occupations admitted each year. 195261 1 [Fiscal years] Occupation Total. 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1052 195261 Biological scientists -------------------------------- 420 48 83 57 56 51 35 36 23 34 27 Chemists ----------------------------------------------- 4. 899 551 504 645 626 668 494 351 383 276 401 Dentists ------------------------------------------------ 1.271 119 110 99 129 132 159 113 116 103 198 Engineers ----------------------------------------------- 30.373 2.868 3.338 3.936 4.008 4.524 2.794 2.067 2.391 2.059 2.381 Geologists and geophysicists ---------------------------- 474 66 42 59 58 62 51 41 34 31 30 Mathematicians ---------------------------------------- 243 24 31 29 32 35 17 18 14 22 21 Nurses ------------------------------------.------------ 28.235 3.449 3.828 3.620 3.729 3.517 3.064 1.864 1.502 1.796. 1.86 Physicians and surgeons .................................- 14. 340 1.683 1.574 1.630 1.934 1. 990 1.388 1.046 1.040 845 1.210 Physicists ---------------------------------------------- 1.096 151 162 185 145 128 75 75 74 73 68 College professors and instructors ----------------------- 3.147 500 367 340 352 372 290 173 184 252 317 Teachers. not specified ---------------------------------- 19.278 2.686 2.532 2.670 2.471 2.304 655 1.549 1.356 1.227 1.828 Technicians -------------------------------------------- 12.217 1.635 1.632 1.821 1.346 1.553 1.005 840 804 602 989 Machinists --------------------------------------------- . 025 819 993 1.476 836 1.393 1.106 594 488 583 737 Toolmakers. diemakers and setters ---------------------- 7. 250 460 706 654 858 1.150 894 887 760 675 506 Pattern and model makers. except paper ----------------- 501 26 34 25 63 123 118 60 32 13 7 1 The occupational categories listed in this table are those which immigrants reported Source: 1959 through 1961: Annual reports of the Immigration and Naturalization on their arrival in the United States. It was not possible in a few instances. because of Service. U.S. Department of Justice. 1952 through 1958: Data furnished by the Immilack ci sufficient occupational detail to make a precise match with the occupations gration and Naturalization Service. U.S. Department of Justice. which appear on the list of currently critical occupations as determined by the Technical Committee on Critical Occupations of the U.S.