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From the above figure it is readily seen that the Negro worker’s job has been affected by the basic industrial fluctuations. His distribution in employment is basically as unequal as in 1920. Only in the of Forestry and Fishing, Transportation, and Mining, does his proportion approach the average number of workers, and here, it must be remembered that the Negro is working principally in unskilled and unprofitable occupations. He is overconcentrated in Agriculture and domestic and Personal Service. In the former his heavy decrease is not in keeping with the trend in agriculture; but in the latter he is considerable more than 100 per cent above the ratio of all domestic and personal service workers to the total number of gainfully employed in the country. The most significant disparity is in Clerical Occupations. Here only seven of every 1,000 Negro workers as against 82 of every 1,000 white workers are employed. In fact, the Negro actually lost by 1930 the gain he showed in 1920. The increase among Negroes in the field of Domestic and Personal Service was approximately 30 per cent, whereas the increase in this field for all workers was 23 per cent. Occupations in Which Negroes Are Gaining An inventory taken of certain skilled, professional and business occupations for Negroes shoes the following to be among those in which he has made the greatest relative gains: Technical and Industrial Architects Boilermakers Chemists Compositors Electricians Paper Hangers Painters (Bldgs-Factory) Plasterers Plumbers Stonecutters Technical, Civil and Mechanical Engineers Trade and Commerce Clerks Garage Owners Real Estate Agents Restaurant Keepers Salesmen Stenographers Undertakers Wholesale Dealers Professional and Cultural Actors Clergymen Designers Librarians Physicians Social and Religious Workers Teachers Veterinary Surgeons Public Service Firemen — Fire Departments Mail Carriers Probation and Truant Officers Fourteen The development of new occupational groups frequently provides outlets for Negro workers either directly by furnishing new fields of employment for them, or indirectly by releasing from old jobs a number of white workers. It is significant that in the new occupational fields the greatest increase shown by Negroes has been in the various branches of the automotive industry. Table V. DISTRIBUTION OF NEGRO WORKERS NUMBER AND PER CENT IN NEW OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS 1930 [[table]] Occupation | Total | Negro | Per Cent Negro Bus Conductors | 1,002 | 2 | .01 Foremen and Overseers in Air Transportation | 181 | 1 | .5 Foremen and Overseers in Garages, Greasing Stations and Auto Laundries | 6,652 | 245 | 3.1 Laborers—Air Transportation | 1,609 | 291 | 18.1 Laborers—Auto Repair Shops | 12,653 | 2,659 | 21.0 Laborers—Automobile Factories | 123,717 | 16,450 | 10.3 Laborers-Electrical Industries | 36,885 | 1,302 | 3.5 Laborers-Liquor and Beverage Industries | 8,515 | 1,598 | 18.5 Laborers—Rayon Factories | 4,962 | 675 | 13.6 Mechanics in Automobile Factories, etc. | 394,188 | 21,088 | 5.3 Operatives in Automobile Industries | 161,957 | 3,245 | 2.6 Operatives—Automobile Repair Shops | 9,452 | 617 | 6.5 Operatives in Electrical Industries | 117,327 | 577 | .046 Operatives—Liquor and Beverage Industries | 11,187| 775 | 6.92 Operatives in Rayon Factories | 20,940 | 94 | .44 Radio Announcers | 1,819 | 4 | 0.2 Radio Operators | 4,955 | 8 | 0.2 Retail Dealers Gasoline and Filling Stations | 89,190 | 359 | 0.4 Fifteen
