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includes business men, such as cashiers, collectors, contractors, 

 grocers, manufacturers, merchants, tailors, etc., where no wage, 

 salary, or income can be specified. Group VIII includes those 

 engaged in agriculture, as farmers, farm hands, etc., where no 

 wage, salary, or income can be specified. Another group would 

 include those engaged in miscellaneous occupations and occupa- 

 tions where information is too indefinite to make a classification, 

 as beggar, officer, student, axle mill, dynametic, fisherman, 

 railroader, sheet mill, steel mill, etc., where no wage or salary 

 can be specified; a classification left out of this study as too 

 indefinite to be of any practical value. 



This classification as to character of work and the verification 

 of wage or salary is based on information given by labor foremen 

 in some of the industrial plants in Gary, according to labor 

 conditions prevailing in Gary at the time of the investigation. 



Arranging the cases in this study according to the occupational 

 grouping given above and race or nationality group and sex, in 

 group I, irregular, low-paid work, of total numbers of both sexes 

 the Colored show by far the greatest proportion, followed in 

 order by the Old Immigration, the Americans, and the New 

 Immigration. Of the females in this occupational group, the 

 New Immigration shows the highest relative proportion followed 

 in order by the American, the Old Immigration, and the Colored. 



In occupational group II, small independent business, of total 

 numbers of both sexes, the New Immigration shows the highest 

 relative proportions (due to the large number of Jews from 

 countries of the New Immigration in this group) followed in 

 order by the Americans, the Old Immigration, and the Colored. 



In occupational group III, unskilled labor, the New Immigra- 

 tion shows by far the highest relative proportion, followed in 

 order by the Colored, the Old Immigration, and the Americans. 



In occupational group IV, semi-skilled work, the Old Immi- 

 gration show the highest relative proportion, followed in order 

 by the Americans, the New Immigration, and the Colored. 



In occupational group V, skilled work, the Americans and Old 

 Immigration show by far the highest relative proportion, followed 

 in order by the New Immigration and the Colored. 



In occupational group VI, professions, the Americans show 

 the highest proportional numbers, followed in order by the 

 Colored, the Old Immigration, and the New Immigration. 



In occupational group VII, business men, the New Immi- 

 gration shows the highest relative proportion (due to the num- 



