Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-18
CALLED SPITE WORK.
Inspector Layton Says the Huns We're
Not Contract Laborers.
PUDDLERS MAY WANTAN ADVANCE
Marvin's Business Said to be Prospering
Under the Boycott.
THE LABOR ITEMS OF ALL TRADES

R. D. Layton, Special Agent of the
Treasury Department, said yesterday tha
the reported importation Of 600 Hungarians
was nothing but sensation instigated by
spite on the part of the New York State
Commissioners in Castle Garden. Mr.. Lay.
| ton says he does not think the 600 men were
under contract, and nothing would have
| been said about it if the representatives Of
| the Federal Government and the State Com.
| m1ssioners had not been at war against
each other. He says the latter sent out the
report for the purpose of creating the i'm.
preston that the others were not attending
to their business.
To a DISPATCH reporter Mr.. Layton
said: "All this business about these men
being imported under contract is buncombe
1 have found out that this report was sent
out by the State Commissioners of New
York who were relieved by Secretary Win
dom. As THE DISPATCH stated yesterday,
there is a war going on between the State
Commissioners and the Federal Govern
ment. Formerly the State authorities had
the control of the immigrants arriving at
Castle Garden. There were SO many COM
plants made to the Secretary of the Treas
ury about the way business was done at
Castle Garden. that he sent the Solicitor of
the department to New York to make an in
vestigation.
FOUND THEM NEGLIGENT.
"The Solicitor found the State authorities
were neglecting their duties. He reported
back to the department that it would be to
the beat interests of the service to take the
matter out of the hands of the State and put
Ior EaIa L.,
done January 1. Since that time the State
authorities have been trying to create the
impression that the Federal officers were ne
glecting their duties. When the last crowd
of Hungarians slipped through, they imme-
dIately said they were imported miners.
This I have found to be untrue by investi-
cation. Where did they go? They did not
arrive in the coke country, they did not go
to the river mines, nor did they appear at
Punxsutawney. Without the means of
knowing, the kickers have discovered that
the law has been violated and 600 men have
been brought in under contract. Hundreds
of immigrants arrive every week, bat they
do not come under contract"
A LABOR LEADERS VIEWS.
John Flannery, editor of the Trades
Journal, says: II do not think the 600
Huns were imported miners. If they were
what of it? The Hungarians have as much
right to come to this country and make a
living as any other class of people. An
employer also has as much right to import
laborers as a church congregation has to i'm
port preacher. There are no more men
being imported now than there was two
years ago. 1t has been going on all the
time. The law is violated with impunity,
and this condition of affairs will continue
until the laboring people of this country
send men to Congress who will work for
their interests and not for the railroads and
land grabbers.''
The following special was received from
New York last night: "The Government
contract labor inspectors were at Castle
Garden to-day. They busted themselves
about the charges made in Sundays DIS
PATCH as to their negligence in allowing
hundreds of contract laborers to pass through
the garden. In all the emigrants in the
garden they failed to find one contract Ia
borer."