RACIAL CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AT THE PRESENT The two tables next presented, embodying information fro employees, are representative of the racial make-up of the forces of the industry at the present time. The first tab by sex, the number and percentage of employees of each whom information was secured: TABLE 16.-Employees for whom information was secured, by sex and gen and race. TABLE 16.-Employees for whom information was secured, by sex and general nativity and race-Continued. a Less than 0.05 per cent. Information was secured for 19,946 persons employed in the shoemanufacturing industry. Of this number, 13,184 are males and 6,762 are females. Of the males, 42.7 per cent are native-born of native father, white; 33.9 per cent are of foreign birth; 23 per cent are native-born of foreign father, and less than I per cent are nativeborn negroes. Of the females, 54.5 per cent are native white born of native father; 14.6 per cent are of foreign birth; 30.8 per cent are native-born of foreign father, and less than 1 per cent are native-born negroes. Of the several foreign-born races none shows as high as 5 per cent of the total number of either males or females. The distribution of the several races employed in the industry is set forth in the following table, which shows, by locality and by sex, the percentage of employees of each race for whom information was secured: TABLE 17.-Race of employees for whom information was secured, by locality and by sex; per cent distribution. TABLE 17.-Race of employees for whom information was secured, by locality per cent distribution-Continued. |