Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-04-24

HOW They Are Crovvding American
LaoOrsrs Out OF Tneir Places.

PHuSlxyILLE, Pa, April l8.--Half u dozen
HunHarjans Left Pt1 iixvilie the other day
for their native land, taking With them a
sum OF money said 10 be not less than
1890. They had been In this oouuIry
about Ave years, and their savings repre-.
Hentsa an amount sufficient TO maintaln
them all as gentlemen of elegant leisure
for the rest 0! their lives In the little towns
to which they wore returning.
The Incident was not an uncommon ono,
but simply one Of many that are causing
big srowl OF discomfort Ia the town. Ever
since the PtDnlx Iron Company and the
Bridge Company brought this cheap labor
TO Ph@uiAyllle to take tue place of English
speaking employees VINO could not % pre-
vented from going on q strike occasionally
the bOcougn has had a sucleit OF Hun
garians. They come and go, and their
money goes with them. Tney spend as
little as possible among the mstcnants OF
the town, except with those OF their own
| nationality, and they sand away thousands
OF dollars monthly to the old country.
There are nearly 1000 OF these aliens In
Phoeaixvills, aad nearly all OF them are
| employed US luborers in the extensive
works OF the Phuaix Iron Company and
the Bridge Company. The head men IN
| those two concerns, which are practically
| one, arc all high tariff advocates, and In
| the last Presidential campaign II Is said
| that they contributed literally OF "fa." 10
| put the present. administration Into power
In order that it might stand as q bulwark
| for the protection OF American labor.
| This labor, however, was apparently. NOT
that OF the men VINO worked IN tho COM
panies mills, but OF the men who divide up
1 the profits.
Too Hunearians have taken the places OF
hundreds OF Irlsh and American lahGress,
many OF whom had families. These have
neatly all lett town, AS there il no other
l n n hEar NJ m
big iron and bridge works. PbmaiSvilio
In that way has lost PROBABLY ,bUJ people
for whom tho Hungarlans are very poor
| successors. They have .only two things to
recommend them. They will not strike.
and their labor Is cheap. They get only 81
to $l.l2 day, but it Is question II they
earn even that.
phe sight OF Hunearlans supposed to be-
at work IN the yards Of the iron aud bridge
companies is worth going miles to see.
They are generally divided up into gangs
OF four or i've men each, in charge OF an
American boss, and their labor Is chief In
moving about ths heavy Iron btEs and
doing other rou work OF the yard. The
amount OF resting tina. this requires ID
something astonishing. THIS Hnngarians,
indeed, appear to b9 resting pretty near all
the dime. Wren they do make show oil
doing something hey go about the matter
Ia listless, indifferent manner, and their
| lhDpI WDl-u hEfIu ubdE ut uhli lubiE Wages.
The companies appear 10 be satisfied With
them, however, and are not botherlnR
themselves just now about the protection
of American labor.
Several hundred OF these allen employee
are herded together In row of stone houses
belonging to the companies, just behind
their offices, known as Puddlers' row. They
live In the miserable fashion common tc
them wherever they ara found. OF the 81
a week they receiya, their living does moi
cost them over 3i.50. The rest Is boarded
goes abroad or is spent on tbs cheap anc
bad liquor OF Thtca they are so fond.
The merchants of Phnatxville are grumb
ling loudly over this state of affairs. Bust
ness, they say, Is not as good as 1t was five
years ago, beiora tbs town was overrur
with the refuse of HuugaIy's population
In what little purchases these aliens max,
they prefer the few traiesmen OF their Owl
nationality who have established them
selves here. There IL much dlscontent, bu
! tho people can do nothing for the Phu Il,
, Iron Company ard the Bridge Company
control the prosperity Of the town, and NJ
I long as they hnd the Huns2rlals cheap ant
submissive they Will employ them In pref
erence to the American labor they probes
} to be anxious to protect. Possibly, how
ever, the Hunearians will begin to strlk
alter wLile. They have started hero
weekly paper, the Slopak v Amerike, 9TH,
Sao IN AHerica,) which lays down this a
, It's platform:
. ITO keep our working class OF people II
sympathy With the labor of this country; I
Impress thsm With the Constitution AM
, citizenship on which the government OF tn
United States is founded"
III the Huns ever 90 succeed In gettinl
into sympathy with the labor OF tails CO n
, try" what VIII the big, highly protected
corporations mere do then? 1t will be utter
, estlng TO note what part OF the world the
, will draw on Ia their remarkable efforts +
, protect American industry by employing
cheap foreigners.