ent over $3.60
per day. The other 5 per cent of them received less than $2 per day,
which was the same wage they had worked for before coming North.[127]

This same investigation also brought out the fact that many of these
migrants were exercising a good deal of economy and thrift. For
example, 15 per cent of 162 families had savings, 80 per cent of 139
married men with their families elsewhere were sending money home, and
nearly 100, or 46 per cent of 219 single men interviewed were
contributing to the support of parents, sisters or other relatives.
Most of these contributions amounted each to about $5 per week.
Fifty-two persons were remitting from $5 to $10 per week, while seven
were sending home over $10 per week.[128]

In Detroit where Negroes were hired largely by automobile firms or by
firms making parts or accessories of automobiles, some interesting
conditions were observed. The large majority of those so engaged did
unskilled work, whereas only a very small number were found in the
skilled or semi-skilled work. Also a very large number of men and
women obtained employment as domestic and personal servants. For
example, during a period of one year, ending November 15, 1917, one
Negro employment office in this city secured jobs for 10,000 Negro
workers, both men and women. In addition, the wages paid these
laborers were found to be very satisfactory. A careful study of 194
workers showed that their monthly wages ran thus: One received between
$30 and $39, three between $40 and $49, six between $60 and 69,
twenty-nine between $70 and $79, and ninety-six between $80 and $89,
six between $90 and $99, and twenty-seven between $100 and $119,
twenty-one between $120 and $129, and four $140 or more, a month. The
other one of this number received a wage of $6 per day. Hence the
prevailing wages of colored male workers in Detroit were from $70 to
about $119 per month, since the wages of 159 of the 194 interviewed
ranged between these two amounts. The prevailing wage for women was $2
per day.[129]

In 1917 a study was made of the living conditions of seventy-five
families who had moved North to Chicago and who had been in this city
one year. The investigation discovered that the heads of these
families were employed in stockyards, Pullman service, loading cars,
fertilizer plants, railroad shops, cleaning of cars and taxis, junk
business, box and dye factories, foundries and hotels, steel mills, as
porters, in wreckin