The evening world., 1888-07-27
TRIBUTE PAID TO BOSSES.
HOW IGNORANT ITALIAN EMlGRANTs ARE
SwINDLED BY *BANKLRs."
The Startling Testimony Of nm Emigration
Society Oniccr Before Congressman
Ford's Castle Garden Committee-strons
Evidence that the Psdrone System Ii by
No Means Dead.

Fora's Csst'e Seroo" Su'.s
,,a anS invos.igs.iou Of smigr atom got some
startling information to-day, especially re-
garding the methods in operation for the en-
eouragement Of Italian emigration.
Robert Marc r. Secretary Of the Italian
Emigration Society, continued on the stand.
He produced n list of contractors" or
.ho,,a. ~ 90 ho oo,I.d .b.n ua sa,d tho
names given were usually nicknames' taken
for the occasion. Against some Of the names
be had act a cross. and be explained TO Chair.
~. e.. ~. A." 80, nh.a m.n
a very bad mani"
He said that these men did a large business
in advancing passage money to ~ltallans,, which
they paid by contract after their arrival here,
and on which they paid SO to 100 per cent. in
terest. too. The passage ticket. costs $21,
and $50 francs was not an Unusual figure ex-
acted from the emigrant.
These bosses keep. employment agen-
cies and furnish work to the emiRrants. They
have banks and saloons in the same store
generally. The city requires employment
agents to pay Q license fee. Some OF these
do, but most Of them pay nothing. .,.,-
offices are In Mulberry street, or Crosby
street. There they collect their laborers and
pay them of. The bosses draw the pay. of
the laborers and pay them out OF 1t. taking
out their own percentage.
TIL list of names included these starred
as shown
V Valpe, Ferro, ,Giralimo, Saracino.
"a. Coppo!a, r. Loraglio. L.. Gioja,
co, Nicola .Capobrance, IN. Fortu-
nato, Moerlius,. Jorio, Sautella,
'*Catapain.. otherwise. Guttabery de Leo
M. Marrone, Frisco \ o., .Fiorl 10, pal,
adina, F~ocarile, otherwise M. Rosa; V.Aguaro,
"Lamberti and F. Capo6ianca.
M. Marc compliance lanae OF . pdol AZ faf Tottas to to
Complaint was read. He stated that Faroane
had engaged four Italian laborers in Italy to
come here under contract to work at Saratoga
no evidence on which to detain them and
they were allowed to land. Faroane lives in
Saratoga.
Mr.. Mario specified those of the list who
be collected, if imposed, for violation of the
Contract Labor law.
Mr.. Mario presented some data regarding
the arrival OF twelve Italian emigrants on the
Company.
their arrival in May, and they informed him
that they came here under contract with An
cello Leo in Italy, in behalf of one Ungaro, of
1853 West Third street, st. Paul. Mimi. o
- boss" They had been promised work,
and they engaged themselves to pay back to
Unearo S65 or S7O-tha is 325 francs-out of
the first money earned here.
The witness said he wanted to encourage
intelligent and legal emigration. among
Italians, but this was not healthy emigration.
His countrymen came here without money
and as slaves.
To Mr.. Oates Mr.. Mario stated that farm
hands receive so to 40 cents per day and two
liters, Cone gallon) of vine in Italy. -.
Eve francs-s1-a day. This season lasts
about two months. Living ia very cheap in
Italy. however, and these wages are not no
90. so to $5 a day in Italy.
TIL witness said THE are 90, 900 italian
laborers in New York, and fully 5000 Of
them are now idle. l cannot explain the in
centive of bosses to bring them here, where
they may not get work, unless it be the great
profit in the sale of prepaid passage tickets.
There. are about 66. 900 Italians in
New York. Brooklyn and the suburbs.
The Italians are sober and industrious. They
when they have work. They write home
and that encourages others to follow them:
Fully 70 per cent. OF the Italian emigrants OF
that shows, l think, that they come on pre-
paid tickets"
Chairman Ford recalled. the case of the
eighteen emlgrants detained last fall as hav-
d Co. the Boston marble hands.
Mr.. Mario said he looked into that case.
Talked with the men themselves, and believed
that they had not come here under contract.
He obtained an affidavit from the men that
each of them had $50 francs. and that they
came of their own accord, paid their own
fares and were free men.
There might have been an understanding
bet 1--WE Mr.. Torrey and his agent at Carrara.
but he kept that from the men. each Of
whom had friends and relatives here, They
month each after they got work here.
In Naples there is the Italian Society Of