The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-07-29
.EMIGRAAIs EllD|hG
UNITED sTl7Es.[lNs S. \
Steamship Lines have Working
Agreements With Foreign
Governments.
offsoou1ing,s of Europe Being
Dumped on Americas
Shore by Agents.

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New York, July 2s-The trans-At-
lantic steamship lines working in Sc
cret agreement with European govern
ments are deriving an annual revenue
Of $50,ooo,00o from the. transporta-
tion of emigrants to the United States,
is a charge contained in a most SEN
sational report recently made to the
department OF commerce and labor by
Marcus Braun; secret emigration agent
at Budapest.
So sensational is this report that the
government has deemed its publica-
tion inexpedient.: Four COPIES only
of the document have been prepared.
President Roosevelt. Secretary Metcaf
and Commissioner Of Emigration
Sargent each have one. The Fourth
is in New York. ~
It was primarily this report that
caused Braun's arrest in Budapest on
April 10. Returning unexpectedly to
his rooms in hotel, Braun found a
Hungarian detective ransaeking his
luggage. A fight ensued between the
men AMI Braun was arrested and
fined. -:
1t is known that the Hungarian de-
tective was endeavoring to obtain
proofs which Braun had Of the Hun
garian governments completely in
what is on unnatural and illicit emf
grafton. -. -
The essential features Of the Braun
report, besides the startling charges set
forth already. are that:
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permitted to emigrate to this country
without fumigation of their baggage,
as provided by law. -
"The organized gangs of crooks who
connive at this evasion stamp the
emigrants' belongings with counterfeit
government labels and a counterfeit
United States consular stamp, indi-
eating that their baggage has been
properly funigated.
"These counterfeits are accepted at
Ellis Island without question, and
luggage from European centers,
sco,lrged with bubonic plague, cholera,
trachoma, smallpox and the germs of
deadly fevers are permitted to enter
our ports daily. s-s 81. s,
r : & For this conterfeiting service the
Italian ganss,, in part ieula IS. charge five
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tries It IS the, custom to- promise con-
victed criminals tirn1ns,nlty sfrpm pun
ishment If they will endgrate to this
country, or IL their relatives will send
them here:'
Other discoveries made, by MIR. Braun
show how, as a nation, we are being
duped by the. governments Of Europe,
Instance, he established the facts as
to the practice in communities where
the jails were overcrowded Of Hberat-
ing prisoners and giving them assis-
tance to go to the United States, thus
treating lis as If we we're no more
thar penal colony sustained for their
benefit.
In one community in Hungary he
found that in the last three years 280
prisoners had been liberated, and that
the police records showed 180 Of them
to have been sent to the United States.
Another discovery was that institu-
tions about Budapest regularly send
parties Of pauper children to this coun-
try in care of, fictitious parents, en-
ployed for the. purpose. When these
families" are safely passed through
Ellies Island the father and mother
divide their ready-made progency, and,
going from city to city, abandon the
little ones on the streets, to be picked
up by the police and placed in Ameri-
can asylums.
Violations of the contract labor law
by American railway corporations In
connivance with both foreign gov-
ernments = and the steamship COM
panies, have also been proved by Mr.
Braun.
Perhaps the most sensational thing
in the suppressed portion Of the report
was Mr.. Braun'e presentation of true
copies Of the secret az. cement between
the Hungarian government and the
Cunard line, in which the Hungarian
government. agreed to deliver to the
Cunard line at the port Of Ffume all
the. emigrants from Hungary at a
fixed price. > !
The agreement read that no other
line should be allowed to compete, and
that there should be a minimum Of
10000 the first year. 1t IL presumed
that the agreement is at ,preeent oper-
ative, and next year the minimum is
to be, 100000. r. =, - "
Mr.. 'Braun's report carries the con-
tention that there are landed in this
country every year 100000 men and
women Of bad, and even criminal
character, Of" shady antecendents and
diseased blood. In the deportation Of
this class of their citizens the foreign
governments are active, while the
steamship companies seek that busi-
ne4s.awhich promises the largest re-
.turnE. = Va s2ts1@ 2 8 ST. zss ~ :
Last year and the year before
great proportion Of the emigration
was .af Russian Jew, Slavonian and
Polish. Suddenly. rowever, the steam
ship companies awoke to the fact that
they were supplying this country with
"a population which would never return
ito Europe. NJ i. 80. ].
I On the contrary, Italians were cus-
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