The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-05
ORGANIZED LABOR MAKES STRONG
 PROTEST AGAINST BILL PERMITTING
 COOLE LABOR TO ENTER HAWAII FREE
ONLY 38.4 ?. L. OF FOREIGN BORN HERE
 ARE NATURALIZED


 males 2l years old and over enumer- ated at the 1920 census, 3,314, ,577-or 47.8 per cent-were reported as natural ized and 1,116,698-or lo1 per cent having taken out first papers, according to the preliminary statement just issued by the Bureau of the Census, Depart states the citizenship status of the adult foreign born whites and shows that in Connecticut there were, at the time of the 1920 census, 184, ,568 foreign-bo males and 16O,334 foreign born females
 Of Connecticut's foreign born white men 7o,826 were naturalized, 28,o46 aliens and the citizenship of 6,o85 was not reported. So there were 4 per cent more aliens than naturalized On the other hand I5.2 per cent. had taken out first papers. A comparison with the percentages of the 1910 census shows that the situation has changed but slightly.
 papers. A comparison with the percen- tages of the 1910 census shows that the sityation has changed but slightly
 Of the foreign-born women in the state, 68185-Or 42.5 per cent - were naturalized and 81,216-or 5O.7 per cent. were alien. The citizenship of o,708 was not reported and first papers had been taken by 1,227.
 COnnecticut's percentage of naturalized white males-384-was next to the low est in the New England states group, Maine being lowest with 365 per cent. Rhode Island with 48.9 per cent natural ized led the New England states. In the case of the women Connecticut had the lowest percentage naturalized and Yer r11n nf1f1 1an1
 Honors for the greatest percentage of naturalized foreign born males went to the West North Central states-Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. Of these North Dakota, with 73.3 per cent. of her 7o,o43 for e1gn born white men naturalized, was in first place and led the country. Arizona was lowest with only I78 per cent. of it's foreign born white men naturalized
 New York was the state with the greatest number of alien males 446,858. This number, however, was only 33.o per cent of her foreign born white males. South Carolina has onl y o2I aliens, or 23.o per cent of her foreign-born white males
 Altogether o3.o per cent, or almost two-thirds, of the foreign-born white males ot voting age were either citi- zens or on their way to becoming citizens. The corresponding per centage in 1910 was SAP, the per centage of naturalized citizens at that time being 45,6 and of those who had taken out first papers 8.6. The most striking change is in the number who have taken out first papers-57o,772 in 1910 and 1,II6,6o8 in 1920.
 There was an increase of Az pG cent. in the total number of foreign born white males 2I years of age and over, of o2 per cent. in the number naturalized and of 95.6 per cent in the number having taken out first pa pers, together with a decrease of 5.7 per cent. in the number reported as aliens and decrease of 53.8 per cent Tn the number for whom the citizen ship status was not asCertained. These changes are the net result of two causes: CD Prior to the entrance of the United States into the world war large numbers of aliens applied for citizenship papers, while those who had already taken out their first pa pers and were eligible for the full citi- zenship status availed themselves of the opportunity to assume it (2) a very great IeQuCl1On III the 1n1luX or aliens took place during the second half of the decade IoIo-Io2o SThe re- suit was decrease in the proportion which aliens represented of the total foreignborn white population, with corresponding increases in the pro- portions of men who were naturalized and of those who had taken out their hrSt papers.
 In 34 states and the District of Columbia the proportion naturalized increased in A states and the district the proportion having first papers in creased and in B states and the dis trict both these proportions increased. For Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona the returns show very considerable increases in the proportions alien. These in creascs were due wholly or mainly to the presence in 1920 of large num- bers of natives of Mexico, this class Of the population having more than doubled during the last decade-in- CreaSing from 2Io,8o2 in 1910 to 477,- 52I in 1920. In Nevada and Califor- nia also the influx of Mexicans re- suited in increases in the proportions alien, but these increases were less pronounced than those in the other states named.
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