TABLE NUMBER IX

Occupations of Migrants in Pittsburgh as Compared with Statements
of Occupations in South[5]

OCCUPATIONS IN PITTSBURGH PERCENTAGE IN SOUTH PERCENTAGE
Common Laborer 468 95 286 54
Skilled or semi-skilled 20 4 59 11
Farmer 81 15
Miner 36 7
Saw Mill Workers 9 2
Ran own farm or father’s farm 33 6
Ran farm on crop sharing basis 22 5
Other Occupations 5 1 0 0
493 100 529 100

From the foregoing table, it is apparent that ninety-five percent of the migrants who stated their occupations, were doing unskilled labor, in the steel mills, the building trades, on the railroads, or acting as servants, porters, janitors, cooks and cleaners. Only twenty or four percent out of four hundred and ninety-three migrants whose occupations were ascertained, were doing what may be called semi-skilled or skilled work, as puddlers, mold-setters, painters and carpenters. On the other hand, in the South fifty-nine of five hundred and twenty-nine claimed to have been engaged in skilled labor, while a large number were rural workers.