Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-08-16
STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS.
Facts AdduCed in the immigration In
YeStigati9n.

Facts AdduCed in the immigration In
Yestigati0n.
New YORK, August s. The i'm
migration investigation by the con
gressional committee took new turr
to-day. When the committee assem-
bled, a pIeasantfaced young woman
was sworn. She gave her name a.
Mary Berg, and for six years pas
had worked for Herman Berg, a fan
mel shirt maker on East Forty-lirsr
street. When she went there 2,O0C
girls were employed working on foot
! machines. About year ago steam
was put in, and forty or fifty Rus.
slams and Poles were employed,
taking the places of the majority Of
the girls. Previous to the emylcy-
ment of the foreigners the girls made
from Sc to S8 a week. She has
known married men to take tic
places of the girls and work for 81
week. She heard the proprietor
ask one of the foreigners employed
there If he could not get HIM more
of his countrymen. He told them
he conlI, but would have to send to
Europe for them. He told him to
send and get all he could. There
had been continual reduction in
wages since the foreigners came to
the factory. She left there this
week on account of reduction in the
scale of wages. She declared that 8
shirt that was made for 60c IN 1884 is
now made for 40c, and one that was
made foTS3 is now made fer 81.
She said that many of these Russians
and Poles work here and save money
then go home and spend it and return
again 10 make more. She knew one
man who saved g 800 here and went
home, where lie invested il IN busi-
ness and lost it. He repeated the
experiment and IS now back here
for tie third time and working for
81 week in place Of the girls who
had been discharged.
Mrs. Helen Aukncr then took the
stand. She is employed in making
rubber goods. About year ago she
did somc work at making white goods
COR the purpose OF investigating the
rate of wages paid on the condition
Of these engaged in it. She found
that an expert could not earn S. a
week. The average was about 81,
while ten years ago they could make
so week. She ascribed this solely
to the giving cut Of the work to con-
tractors. These contractors. she
sald, are Russian and Polish Jews,
who take the work home. The work
is not 50 well done by these con-
tractors as it formerly was by the
girls, but the manufacturers save
large sums in rcMt and other ways.
Witness never found person who
worked for a contractor who made
S4 q week. She had carefully IN
vestigated the habits OF these foreign
laborers and gave 1t as her opinion
that they were not only filthy and
immoral in their mode of living, hut
their example is calculated to con
taminate our own people, who have
to mix with them more or less. She
described the sights 20 be most re.
Fancois Glouton, French knittcr,
had been lmport ted at their expense
and under written contract, by
McCullum, Constable & Co of Hol-
yoke. He swore and produced
copy of the contract.
DR.. Charles IIoyt, secretary Of the
tate board Of Chart es, was sworn
lie said the proportion OF foreign
oaupers in this state was forty-scycn
lines that OF native paRpers. Wit
less said he had particulars Of hun
lrcds Of cases which were assisted
0 this country. The Canadian pco-
'le did not want these people, and
IS fast as thy laliel there seat
hem over here. Witness did not
blink any other state felt the effecs
# this evil so much as New York,
n proportion to l's 2opal,tion, hut
le thought Michigan was beginning
0 feel it and Will feel it more,