Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-11
News by telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. IMMIGRANTS FARMEDOUT And Cheated Out Of Their 8 Wages. RAILROAD CHIEFS IN JAIL. General Sheridan Doing
 Quite We'll. THE SENATE TARIFF BILL. Blaine To Have A Grand
 Welcome.
now FOREIGNERS ARE WORKED

HOW FOREIGNERS ARE WORKED. one of Many Cases of Injustice and r. Fraud PrReticed on Poor Immi.
 grants.
 BOSTON, July 1O.-The Globe prints 8 Springfield, Mass, special giving an inter view with Polander and wife ho>stopped last night in the police station in that city and who told story to the following effect:
 They came to America three months ago and were met at Castle Garden by a soft spoken man, who wanted them to go to work in the country, offering the man $10 a month and his wife $8 besides their board. This man. said the Polander, was the agent of Charles Parsons of Northampton. The Po- flanders were required to sign contract for three months at $10, payment to be made at necesssries purchased and with the understanding that forfeiture would follow non-fulfllment of contract. On each of these people thus engaged Parsons is said to receive $10 head delivered, which sum afterward comes out of the poor mans pay.- The money is paid Parsons by the farmer to whom he sends the help, and the farmer gets it out of the lsborer. In the case cited the man and wife after signing 0 contract the nature of which they did, not comprehend were shipped to Northampton and by Par- sons directed to Sunderland, rranKAn county, farmer, TOT whom they were engaged to work. The man says they worked there three months, when without understanding the reason they were turned adrift. Only $3 was given them for their services, but by travelling on foot and beg ging they managed to reach Northampton and thence walked to this city. The dispatch says the matter has created intense indigna- tion in the two cities named and that these are two out of large number of similar cases.
 Parsons has bsen engaged in this traffic 8 number of years and has netted $400 month therefrom. This help is secured at very low wages; men get 8 hundred dollars year and women fifty. Several cases of extreme cruelty have come to light where parents have been separated from their children, where young girls have complained of attempts at outrage on the part of their employers, but usually the circumstances were such that no witness es could be obtained who witnessed such in- dignities. One section of Parsons circular to farmers states that "being poor and ignor- ant of our language and ways they expect to work cheap. To some this is no dis have them ignorant of the knowledge of our laborers, some of them, for such wisdom proves foolishness to the employers" The extent of this traffic in New England has be- coIie enormous and not less than seven thou sand poverty-stIicken people of this stamp havs been found out throughout New Eng land by the Parsons agency. They have no redress from the most tyrannical abuse, no one to complain to who can understand or correct their grievances, and when this con fnement and abuse becomes intolerable. as it does in some cases, they clear out, leaving wages, clothing and everything behind. One case is on record where man had worked five years under this system and had never been paid g cent and was afraid to ask remuneration, having been led to believe there was State law that would subject him to the severest punishment if he so much as mentioned the subject of wages. This class of help hes been scattered through Franklin CountY