The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-21
POWDERLY TESTIFIES.
The Huns and yandals of Penn
sylyania.
The Immigration of Hebrews-What
Somebody Told Repsrter,
of Morton's Dairy

NEg YORK. Aug. 20-tieneral Master
| Work man PoWderly testified before the i'm
migration committee TO day on the subjse;
| Of imported contract labor. He said tAe
! system Was most repFehensibe. Describ-
/ ing the condition Of workers in Penusyl-
| vaaia mines, he saii il was miserable. Ia
! the coal regions the native miners had been
| driven ont b. HuagaFians and other cheap
! foreign woTkingInen, who live in filthy
safe, Ca the cheapes, kind Of food. Amer
icsn miners cannot compete with them.
( Their sleeping quarters are disgusting,
! their immortality startling.
! The universal opinion of American
I woFkmen, said Powderly. is that the men
who work along the Pennsylvania railroad,
! iIangarians and Italians who are de,ig
nated only by brass checks hung on their
/ paaialoons, arr not desirable A}pericsn
citizens. The Germans iosk pride in learn.
/ ing ihe Engl sh language lie thought no
I person saousd Dc admitted 10 ciLz 5nsh5p
uuIil be j. auie So read and understand
+ the Declaration of ludep epeudcnec aud n.
/ constitution II the United states. of
coutSe fofCign colsuls abroad snou'd In
guige into aud report on the character Of
every man VINO leaves foreign country
Z iOF the Juited states
LR reply to question from Gen. Spipyla,
Z fo8ovfIy said, trusts ia this country sre a
mcGace - The welfare oi the pabiic gsues-
slly. He had personal kuos ledge pf coal
trusts and kneE an iKdivsGual con
cern could No moec ship coal II Ills
city from Pennsylvania than u could by,
lie taUggl; the law shouid crush out ihis
evil
o,gesory Ncrnsicin. Russian Jew and san,
iisry Inspector. told The committee Of the
exodus % tue people OF bis place ia iS5-.
bceause u the religious prejudice Of ffus-
s.aas aud Germans since lesl - the
present. lah,l02 ai thcse people were driven
away, and ou arrival Ia tais couaify were
obliged to tad walk a. low wages. lie
knew of al offer made By Biugham'oa
/ cigar-msking firm Ia furnish homes and
employ mtn nt - these imml gEsuts-
William Martin uuSiuifa, testified thar
I the iaaux uf immigrants Ia the past tx
years, had brought the wases Of Insgalths
aown from so 70 &i-zs per day. he has
/ Rad II gardeners being brought to t1is
country andeE coutrset By Lew T. Merton
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eufhcg.
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