Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-05
FRAUD UPON OUR WORKING.
MEN.

II is stated in our dispatches, upon the
authority of W. F. Barclay, who repre-
SCENTS the coke interests Of Pennsylvania,
that the Hungarian laborers imported to
work in the furnaces 1t Pittsburg are as
great a calamity to the American laborer
in that section Of the country as the
Cinnamon are on the Pacific Coast. 1t
is stated that these imported laborers
work from l6 to IL hours out Of the "a
for 81 % per day; that as many as III OF
them will live in a single room; that a
family Of nine of them will live on S27 q
month; that their only food for six days
out OF the week is mush and water; that
they are extremely filthy; that they
spend the least possible money in this
country, and, like the Chinese, when
they have got together a few dollars, 1t
is q fortune to them, and they take 1t
and 90 back home comparatively rich.
For every one of the laborers import
ed from Europe an American laborer Is
disabled. Competition is impossible.
Our W people are driven by it from
their field of labor. 1t degrades, beg
CARS, starves the families of the Ameri-
can workman who asks merely the
slightest margin Of profit for his toll In
addition to the coarsest necessaries OF
life for himself and family.
This is protection.
There are some things in the tariff
protection issue that are not readily I'M
derstood, but there is nothing hard about
this.
The iron industry is protected by gov
eminent in all its branches. 1t draws q
direct subsidy for every article which 1t
produces Against foreign competition
in every form it is protected by the tar
id. Hungary or England may not en-
ter this market with their goods, for that
would break the American monopoly
and diminish its profits. but when the
American iron manufacturers want Hum
garian or English labor that may be i'm
ported free. There is nothing in the
tariff laws calculated to protect the
American workingman. He is the first
to feel the effects of the tariff inspired
evil of over-production, and if he refuses
to work for reduced wages he finds him.
self displaced by imported foreign labor.
The workingmen of Pittsburg have
been among the most enthusiastic de-
tenders of the protective tariff. They
have sworn by it through thick and thin,
in times of prosperity and in want, idle
ness and suffering. No argument has
been able to reach them, for they would
not hear. Under the advice and i~nstruc-
ton of their employers they have
marched in protection procession, hur-
rahed at protection meetings, and bent
the knee to the protection idols. Yet
no class Of people in America have suf-
fered so much As they from labor troubles
and lockouts.
The monopolists who are utilizing this
degraded class Of Hungarians would as
soon use Cinnamon. They regard their
laborers as mere machines. In their
minds their is no dignity or respectable
ity attached to labor. Labor with them
is mere merchandise. Its value in traffic
is all that concerns them. Having the
entire control Of, the labor market,
through laws made to build up the man
ufacturer, they buy toll at their own
price. That in bargaining for mems
labor they display as little feeling as
though they were dickering for so many
oxen, needs no further proof than has
been offered.
Don't forget it. This is protection"