The Portland daily press., 1883-10-20
THE SENATE COMMITTEE.

BOSTON, Oct 19.-Before the Senate Com.
mittee OF Labor and Education to-day Jno.
keogh' printer from Fall River formerly q
mill operative, testified to the harmful effects
OF mill work on the health of operatives.
I'M. Mather, member of the English Com
mission appointed to inquire into the condi-
'lohai' lecnnlcal and Industrial education in
'he various countries of the world with a view
10 improving the condition of the technical
and industrial schools of England. sail he had
sisi'eo 20 cities and $50 educational establish
ments In this country. He thinks there are
some very fine institutions for technical educa-
tion In the United States, at the head OF W hich
stands the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nIology. But those institutions are more for
sao purpose OF turning out chiefs or captains
oi oi inc industrial art rather than to educate
the common people. One of the greatest
neeus OF tne Y nlted States is system of in
dustrial education going side by side with the
common school, which shall teach not ouly the
use OF simple tools. but the elementary prin-
ciples of the service which underlie all indus-
trial art, and which will form the subject of
labor IN the after life of the pupil. He says
the United States is a great country and ali
mems chances here are the greatest ia the
world.
Chas. II. Dalton, Treasurer of the American
Cotton Mills of Lowell, spoke of the diff
culties in the way of AmeriC ans finding foreign
markets owing to the superior facilities OF
England by her great shipping.
hooert Howard gave some statistics supple
mentary to his former evidence given in New
York
Charles j. D. Chance, currier, of LYNN.
Mass, testified he had been active in organ
izatfon of trades unions and had been black
listed among employers. and found it hard to
obtain employment. There are 1000 tanners
ana curriers' in the Massachusetts, trades
union. The whole number in that trade In the
United States is about 10000 Has heard for
twenty years of human skins being tanned
about here, and has seen five or six such tanned
skins within three or four years, the last about
year ago-a woman's skin, SO perfect as to be
unmistakable. He stated the name of the
tannery and persons who saw 1t.
Albert U. Carleton, member of the Knights
OF Labor. favored eight hours for days
labor. He regarded the telegraphers' strike as
success In calling universal public attention
to monopoly.
Chas. P. Harrington, an officer of the Stone
cutters Union, favored an eight-hour plan,
discountenanced the convict contract system,
payment OF wages weekly, abolition of all
payments truck, first lien ON property for
workmen's wages, equal pay for equal work by
both sexes, national bureau OF labor statistics
employers liability by law to meet injuries by
machinery, and a stringent law if possible for
enforcement against black-lsting men for aid
ing organizations of trades
George w. Warren, banker and merchant of
Boston, spoke for currency based on gold
Alone
Col. Carroll D. Wright added to the reasons
stated yesterday why surplus earnings of fac
tories could not be divided among working peo-
pie contributing to their production was be-
Cause that from this surplus had to be dedueb
ed the cost of management, There are 14,354
manufacturing establishments in Massachu-
setts, with annual profits of $34 ,0000 900. so the
cost OF management would average $2404 each.
His view of the convict labor system is that
the state might use the product for its own pur-
poses.
Senator Blair asked if the State could not
export the manufactured result of such labor,
not permitting it to be sold to the United
States
Witness said this was new idea and de-
served serious consideration.
Other witnesses were examined but without
eliciting any testimony of Importance The
committee has concluded its labors here and
Senator Pugh leaves tomorrow for Washing
ton. The committed will meet again early in
November in Birmingham, Ala, and visit
other manufacturing centres in the South.