+--------------------------------+------------+-----+-------+-----+ | OCCUPATIONS | PITTSBURGH | % | SOUTH | % | +--------------------------------+------------+-----+-------+-----+ | 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. _TABLE NUMBER X_ _Comparison Between Hours of Work Per Day in Pittsburgh and in South_ HOURS OF LABOR IN PITTSBURGH UNDER 10 ████████ 16% 10 HOURS ██████████████████████████████ 51% 10 TO 12 ██████████████ 28% OVER 12 ██ 4% NOT STATED █ 1% IN THE SOUTH UNDER 10 █████████████ 27% 10 HOURS ███████████████████ 38% 10 TO 12 ███████ 14.5% OVER 12 ███████ 14% NOT STATED ███ 6.5% A comparison between work hours of migrants in the South and in Pittsburgh, reveals another interesting feature. As against the twenty-seven percent who were working less than ten hours a day at home, only sixteen percent are working for a like period here. A greater number work a ten-hour day here than in the South, (fifty-one percent as against thirty-eight percent), and there seems to be a greater number working over twelve hours per day before coming North, than afterward. This is probably due to the fact that a considerable body of these men were farm laborers. _TABLE NUMBER XI_ _Comparison of Wages Received Per Day in Pittsburgh and in South_ IN PITTSBURGH UNDER $2.00 ██ 5% $2.00 TO $3.00 ███████████████████████████████ 62% $3.00 TO $3.60 ██████████████ 28% OVER $3.60 ██ 5% IN THE SOUTH