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THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM 
the frequent inclination of the immigrants to form 
separate colonies, which are maintained sometimes for 
generations. 
4. Housing and living conditions. The congestion 
of immigrants in certain sections of our cities and 
industrial centers, the bunk-house or lodging-house 
for men without families who do not become per 
manent residents, the ownership of homes, and similar 
matters which affect living conditions, are of profound 
significance to society. 
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS 
5. The effect of immigration upon the economic 
and industrial conditions of the United States, as 
shown by: 
(a) The occupations of the immigrant and of his 
children. Have racial characteristics or the European 
customs of the immigrants so determined the occupa 
tions which they enter here as to have produced any 
material modification of the relations between agri 
culture, manufacturing, mining, trading, transporta 
tion and other occupations? 
(b) Changes in industrial methods. Has the in 
coming of the immigrant affected the use of machinery 
or modified the form of our industrial organization? 
How has it affected the geographical distribution of 
industries ? 
(c) The employment of women and children as 
wage-earners. 
(d) The displacement of American laborers or the 
immigrant wage-earners who arrived in this country 
twenty years ago by the recent immigrants from 
different countries.