The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-15

committing violence upon anybody except nh
found teams OF being carted down TO toe anal
the teams standing in the road and told the drvsss
IL they undertook " put them IN again they would
punished. Consequently the whole business Of that
region suspended But the banks OF the canal
hned with ore the companies proceeded TO load their
boats and nd them along the canal 10 supply the fur
nacs Tue miners then ea%s down r ana ns
they might get through anyhow they ned up the canal
for considerable distance with ore 80 a. TO make en-
tlrey impossible We applied to the canal company In
the st instance to hep aud they said that their duty
would be confined to clearing their canal which they dd
promptly Then we applied &c the gS, , Tor n
on the canal He promptly assented and ~ soon - they
fsund that the furnaces were likely 70 be supplied fcf
the nex three or four months they returned TO work
The following relative to the nationaiiss
VIII 90 far from uninteresting:-
Mr. RossvcE."were those native born Americans.
may ask r mo, they were mostly Irishmen; should
men. but they wer. mostly frsSmsu."
motive undoubtedly 10 get higher wages; but In
stead Of treating as find people over hero DO discuss
ing IN an smcaoie spirit they struck nrst, without
The CHAiRxAs-"were those mines drowned, q they
cali u In Cornwaii" mo. they would allow the en.
they would not have got work Of course for
months HAYES en- these Absurdities comm tted but
q nsrs mostly Irish; some Germans and some Welsh,
but mostly Irish. may say that the team drivers
AM ana ns sss, no %a0sSs the
American 10 mostly found in position where he directs
something drives something, and the others In posi-
commonly with the Americans; he almost Always gets
70 b. something better than . day Iaborer."
Mr.. MArHsws-"Were these mines iron mnesf"
eyes"
Lord Euuo-oDo you include scotchmen In the word
Engl shmenf" "As TO Scotchmen. are very careful
not to lot them enter the works. for this reason that We
do not know Scotchman will 20 the proprie
tori rather afraid Of Scotchmen." "fhen II Is
bad country for Scotcnmen TO emgrato to ?" "No,
ntrnYv trv
works is II not sol 81 said that the propretors
little fearful or letting Scotchman in but as to his
facility In dong his work and his intelligence he has NO
superior In our country and no one ever saw SEQ on
beggar In America have seen SCOTCH drunksrds, but
mo Y
bring 1t with them. Our people are as rule temperate
people, and the Dad habits which they have acquired are
invariably got rid OF 81 an carly p'riod"
Mr. RoEBUcK-"Then. generally speaking, the Ameri-
IAN citizen Is sober mani" 'Genefaily speaking, and
say that there has been great Improvement In
the period which remember. The habit Of intem-
perance among the artisans was worry much greater IN
America twenty years ago than now, and think we may
say distinctly that there has been general improve
ment in the moral tone OF tho working GLASSES in America
within the last twenty years.
Inc CHAIRMAN-"In the present state Of American
society the lowest stratum Of labor confined " Irish
and Germansf" GAS general rule"
the CaA!axAs."Thers is no American labor IN to.
indeed in the lower stratum and IL American wants
to labor with hrs hands, or in occupation not requir
ing mechanical ski he takes 70 the land as gen raj
rule farm, and hence the farms in the United safes
are TO great extent in the hands of Americans"
The Earl OF LICHrKLD-"What 10 the proportion O
Irish among tho puddlers that you speak OFF, Eat the
present time should think that in the United States
least one half OF the puddlers were Irshmcn mus
explain that little. An lrishmau Ii q puddieI
when he comes to America. We have Welsh puddlers
English pudders Scotch pudders; but mover Irish
puddlers In the rail mill he Is the helper thai
the puddlor hires, and he becomes puddler himself
in time and as gen ral rule ne Is not first class pud
Gler Our good puddlers are all either Enalishmen
Welshmsn Scotchmen or Americans. We have very
large number Of pudders who Irish. and they are
usually employed In the RAIL milia"
Mr.. MArHKws-"As helpers or as ruddlers, do yot
meanf" "As puddlers they helpers for reasona
bio ttne and then they get TO be pudders"
The Irish, he further added, nearly always the
only helpers; in fact it was very rarely there was
helper an Irshman aud about one-half, possibly
two-thirds Of these helpers afterwards merged into
puddlors