The Gary schools; a general account . etwo independent organizations—The Gary Bolt andScrew Company and The Union Drawn Steel the companies mentioned form an industrialcolony of gigantic proportions, already employing be-tween 12,000 and 15,000 men, and likely to require inthe near future twice or thrice the number. Gary is thus a steel town. The steel mill workers formthe basis and the bulk of the population; there are, be-sides, executives, clerks, shopkeepers, etc., enough tocarry on the business of the mills and to sustain the lifeof the community. Leisure class there is p
The Gary schools; a general account . etwo independent organizations—The Gary Bolt andScrew Company and The Union Drawn Steel the companies mentioned form an industrialcolony of gigantic proportions, already employing be-tween 12,000 and 15,000 men, and likely to require inthe near future twice or thrice the number. Gary is thus a steel town. The steel mill workers formthe basis and the bulk of the population; there are, be-sides, executives, clerks, shopkeepers, etc., enough tocarry on the business of the mills and to sustain the lifeof the community. Leisure class there is practicallynone; Gary is a working town. Its occupations centerabout the production and fabrication of steel, and aboutsuch business, trades, and professions as are required tocare for a community of, say, fifty thousand occupational data are not available, but weknow how young men and women between nineteenand twenty, heads of families with children under twentyone, and working mothers—a total of 5,321—are occu-. ra p^ GARY 5 pied.^ The data, while covering the principal occupationgroups, are, of course, no index to the total number en-gaged in particular pursuits, and may not show correctlythe relative proportions of skilled, semiskilled, and un-skilled workers. However, on the face of the figures,it appears that three fifths of all Gary wage earners areemployed in manufacture, and that not more than afourth of those engaged in gainful pursuits are skilledworkmen. The population of the town is predominantly foreign inorigin. In 1910, only 27 per cent, were native bom of Figure iCoBiPOSinoN OF Total Population, U. S. Census 1910
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