The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-10-05

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population, and from which are
scattered much of the crime and
more of disease that infest our large
cities. From the wholesale manu-
facturer, through the middlemen to
the home tenement worker, the
steps are steadily downward, of
decreasing prominence and respec
liability in business way, of de-
creasing comfort and compensation;
the profit of each one of the line,
above the wretch who tolls at the
bottom, being sweated from the
next one below him." Filth and
contagion are common. Newly
arrived immigrants are given i'm
mediate work. Work under this
system is rarely less than -, gen
orally Is or II, and frequently from
10 to Is hours out of the "a. No
American contractor or workman
can compete; yet some Americans
utilize this system to drive out
competitors more scrupulous than
themselves. "Contagious diseases
which are specially prevalent
among these people thrive along
with their work, and even death
may distract from their occupation
only the one or the few necessary
to dispose of the body"
The British report continues: 1t
is quite clear that without the
supply of cheap foreign labor upon
which the whole system as it at
present exists is based, this mode
of production cannot continue.
The system as it is conducted
applies with equal force to thous-
ands if not all other industries.
"It is possible that it may secure
some degree Of cheapness in pro
duction, but any economy in this
direction may be more than lost
through the evils that follow in its
train"
The American female coat maker
now gets $6 for work for which
few years ago she was paid IS to
$40. The factory inspectors of
Boston are quoted as saying "The
number of these Jew sweat shops
have become so great that vigorous
action is necessary to keep down
their evils. That the numbers of
these Jews are so great that their
competition has reduced wages
from SO and $14 down to 81 for
the same work, and with an increase
in working hours from 10 to 15."
OF the $50 wholesale clothing man
ufacturers in New York city, all
but 10 have their work done in
these sweat shops. Even the Gus
tom tailors are availing themselves
of the system. Restrictions i'm
posed in Boston drove dealers to
| New York sweat shops.
The statistics given of the num-
ber of Jews who rely on American
charities for subsistence, in spite
of the guarantee against this i'm
position of their own ''Hirsch
fund.-" etc., show some figures
worth attention. New York city
tax payers alone paid to two of
these Hebrew societies in the four
years from 1889 to 1892, $500, 900.
That is, New York tax payers paid
S500,000 in public donations to
keep up the sweating system and
that class of immigration. All
over the United States the public
institutions are supporting large
numbers of these aliens. In the
three main city hospitals of New
York in 1883 there were 9l9 Jews:
in 1889, 914 Jews; 1890, 1,O33
Jews; 1891, 1,195 Jews; and in
1892, 1 1,440 Jews. Note theincrease,
and all this at the expense of the
city which is guaranteed by the
Jewish societies on the arrival of
these Jewish immigrants that such
immigrants shall not become a
public charge.-JOHN NJ. BATCH
ELoR, in National Watchman.
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