The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-11
GALlVFLL WORKERS.
ARE SO MILLIONS

full occupations increased from 57.8
per cent in 1880 to 63.6 per cent In
1910, while Of the female population,
the proportion increased during the
same period from 1917 to 1871 per
cent.
The proportion of the population
ten years Of age and over engaged In
gainful occupations increased from
47.3 per cent in 1880 to $50 per
cent in 1910 the increase being least
rapid from 1890 to 1900 and most
rapid from 1900 to 1910. In the
male population ten years of age and
over the proportion gainfuly occupied
Increased gradually from 1871 per
cent 1880 to S1.3 per cent in 1910.
while the proportion Of gainful work.
ers in the female population ten years
of age and over increased from lat
Ito 23.4 per cent.
Mississippi Ranks First.
In the several states the proportion
of the population ten years Of age
and over engaged in gainful occupa-
lions in 1910 ranged from ass per
cent in Iowa to So per cent in Missis-
sippi. The states having the small
est proportions were Iowa 46.A9 per
cent, Kansas Al per cent. Nebraska
,47.7 per cent, Utah 47.9 per cent,
and Indiana 4S per cent. The states
having the largest proportions were
North Carolina so per cent, Georgia
SIS per cent, Wyoming 62.6 per
cent, Nevada 64.3 per cent, Alabama
l64.7 per cent, South Carolina 67.6
per cent, and Mississippi SO per
cent. Except in three states-Arizo-
ma, Montana and North Dakota
there was an increase from 1901 to
1910 in the proportion Of the ,popu-
lation ten years of age and over en-
gagged in gainful occupations. The
states showing the largest increaCes
were Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Texas.
Agricultural Workers Lead.
Practically one-third 1872 per cent
of all gainful workers in the United
States in 1910 were engaged In ag-
riculture, forestry and animal hus-
bandry, and copfiderably more than
one-fourth, 81. 9per cent, were en-.
gagged in manufacturing and mechan-
ical industries. Thus over three-
fifths Of all gainful workers were oc-
cupfed in these two general divisions
of occupations. The remaining two
fifths of the workers were distributed
among the other seven large classes
of occupations, namely, extraction Of
minerals, transportation, trade, pub
lie service, professional service, do
nestle and personal service, and
clerical occupations, no class furnish
In on MIR IN 4AS
per cent Of all gainful workers. For
the males, as for both sexes combin-
ed, agriculture. forestry and animal
husbandry gave employment to the
largest proportion of the gainful
workers, 36.1 per cent, and manu-
featuring and mechanical industries
ranked second, with 29.4 per cent.
Domestic and personal service was
the principal field Of employment for
female workers In 1910, 31.3 per
cent o fthem being engaged In this
branch of occupations, as compared
with 22.4 per cent in agriculture,
forestry and animal husbandry, and
22.s per cent in manufacturing ana
mechanical industries.
Distribution by Sex.
There were 30,091.564 males en-
gagged in gainful occupations in con-
ltfnental United States in 1910, as
compared with S.0T5,772 females;
that is, of total Of $3.50. 1856 per
Isons engaged in all occupations in
1910, 1873 per cent were males and
PIP per cent were females. or to-
tai Of 29.073,233 persons engaged in
all occupations in 1910, S1.7 per cent
were males and 1873 per cent were
females.
In 1910 there were employed in
agriculture, forestry and animal hus-
bandry 10.S51,702 males and 1907
sol females; In the extraction OF
minerals, 963,7S0 males and 1.Os4
females: in manufacturing and me-
chanical industries S.837,901 males
and 1,S20,9S0 females; In trade, 81
1852 males and 4eS,0SS females;
In public service, 445,733 males and
1858 females; in professional ser
vice. 929,6S4 males, and 733,8S5 fe-
males; in domestic and personal ser
vice, 1,241,328 males and 2,530.s46
femals; and in clerical occupations,
1.143,S29 males and .593,224 fe-
males.
The figures how that in 1910 do
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