The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-17
The Immigration Question.

ne" f'eH Angpss I5-rhe immie
ra5Ion Investigation was resumed, an
julius O2?enaaim y. manufacturer @
riptSs, ilformei td9 una!ssi,ner
taat taree-tourths OF his en-. Ifyee
we're females. To day the sexes wer
about equally divided. The wages a
presens we're 10 or y per cent. loweI
than ten yel-s ago. He did not think
lmmlgra@Ja hal anything ~ do with
iris.
T1a line OF examiua tim was suspend.
Ell While Congressman Ford inter
rogated the witness as to why Marion
Preston, who gaze testimony before
the com nltt=e, WAS d;%cnsrged.
The explanation waa that his pat
nar, W.l!inshi. got excited afler re.cIrr
the evidence gwen by her sad upon tie
impulse CT the moment DISCHARGED her.
"Nh3f vas there il the girls Je>ti-
moaY ma excited yo9r p; t2cr?' ak c
| FoId.
" ii, don't. know. She Knocked
NJ. WlHinskis way OF ta!S,ng," said
tia witness.
WAS her testimony trua?''
she told the truth. bat she made fun
OF the way my partner talks" said
0ppenheimer.
The most interesting testimony given
to-day was that Of Samuel Gornpere
president of the American Federation of
Labor. Chairman Ford asked n!m his
opinion on the p esent excessive imlni-
grafton. Ills opinion summarized was az
follows: be considers unhealthy and
forced immigration curse to working
men; voluntary emigration he could
not ind fault with. Gompere said four
years ago, when times were hscd
Poland aud the Jews were perseouteI.
hebrew Charity organizations were
formed here and helped thousands of |
Polish Jews TO this country
they were given employ ment in |
CLOAK and cigar factories fhe result |
was that Americans were crowded as |
well as foreigners and worked for vary
10" Waees. Witness said charitable !
m5n made money on their invest msnt
aud wanted people to believe they were
IN eiasa. The present condition OF
American cigar makers was deplorabIe.
ami q. on account OF immigration. l..
this city - per cent. OF the ciga. Nak.r,
we're aliens, 3ho never could learn 10
speak Engllsa III twenty years, AMI ths
CONDITION o. affairs was reversed Ameri-
can agar makers were compelled 10 20 to
Some other business. Witness was certain
the females wno testified would be dis
charsed for so doing. Furniture work
ers also suffered from enforced imni-
grafton, their wages having been re-
tnGed from . to 80 pr csnt. IN the past
xix years. Tle sane ststs Of affairs ex-
-'5i among tailols from the same
causes. Coal miners suGer from he
enforced immigration OF Huagarians.
Witness denied that the phrase Pluck
ma" was used in stores where miners
were compelled 80 buy suppI,es, because i
the pIopr:etors were interested ia the
stores. Miners wages mad fallen 80 per !
cen IT,, while coal was as high as usu i. Ia
Herman Stem. flannel shirt manu- ]
lecturer, said he testimony given ae :
ore the committee By Mary Berg, that t
witness was II the ha5i. Of jm2ort,ns =
GRE. 5Ders 10 work in bis factory, was +
'25eiy Ease. 'rle only true state |
nent she made" said the witness, |
@as taat | reduced wages u cent per
iczea, and III tel you now, that we q
we're going to raise wages again. She v
vas az agitator in the shop and was !
Had TO get rid of her," I
Mary +. j. Brice, iiging ct III Null d
Jerry Street, said she worked at button c
lo!es and Only earned 40 cents day d
" using her neeCls from o'clock am,
! l 10 O'Clock III the evening. She !
hares with thee families four rooms, A
Or wh'cA SIS month is paid. there
'2lng htteea DerSona in the apartments.