The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-12-19

philippines. and belonged to the pest
eeption the BACK SJ poiieemen whom l
questioned had served either in the BTU Its
isn army or in the Jamaica OF contented,
and were doing their work well Where
possible the policemen are user ~ but in
any emergency no hesitation is felt IN
using them indiscrmlnateiy' r,o white
and colored employees have brought their
families with them. schools h he,nu oe un
es sr ~, the school sfr ,s White pupils
white American teachers are ciip'os s',
Tor the Stored pupils there are 'iS sJnaDish
white American teachers: one spanna hl
teacher. and one coured American zen
er. most of them being coiore1 tedI ,,ria
iron from Jamaica. Blrbados al ai'u and il WAS
a peasant thing to see the prIue NJ and
teachers were taking in their WORN ""'
their pupils
Care of Employees.
Next in Importance to the problem OF
sanitation. and indeed now OF equal IN
portance, is the problem of securing anu
caring for the mechanics. laborers and
other employees who actually do me WORK
on the canal and the railroad IniS Sreat
task has been under the control OF Air,
Jackson Smith. and on the whole mas
s sesn T Sd, done ni n pFese and some
1900 co'ored employees on the lstn,n a,.
! went over the different places wmer r
the different kinds of employees were
of every type both at their work and ~
their homes: and conversed win prop,
ably a couple of hundred of them all
told, choosing them at RANDOM lIoni
every class and including those VINO crae
especially to present certain grievances
oimost Invariably expressed far greater
content and satisfaction with me CON
ditions than did those VINO caheu I"
make complaint.
Nearly 5000 of the white employees had
come from the United States NO man .f,
energeticaiIy doing their duty without
thrill of pride in them as Americ ,ii1,,,
They represent on the average hign
paid them will seem high. but as mat.
ter OF fact the only general COMPLAIN, n1
which found had any real basis aiho,s
the complaints made to me upon the
| isthmus was that owing TO the peculiar
distance from home. the wages were ire
really not as high as they should pc. IN
het' almost every man ma ec sP9Ke 70 more .
money-a view. however. which the aver
age man who stays at home In , ne
AS regards himself. | append figures Of
the wages paid. 50 that the congress can
confer on the subject with certain repre-
sentative labor men here In the lnitei
states. as well ms going over with MT
Stevens. the comparative wages paid on
the zone and at home; and | may then
communicate my findings to the canal
committees OF the two houses.
Chinese and Other Labor.
OF the 1900 or 10000 day laborcrs
employed on the canal Few hundred
are Spaniards. These do exceils mt
work. Their foreman told me that
they did twice MS well the West
indian Iaborers. They keep healthy
and no difficulty is experienced with
them in any way Some Italian labor
ers are also employed in connection
with the drilling. rs might be ex-
poctcd. with labor as high priced as
nj present in the United States. II has
not so far proved practicable to get
any ordinary lahnr'rs from the United
states The American wngc- workers
on the isthmus are the highly paid
skilled ecnanics OF the types men
toned previously. a steady effort is
being made to secure Italians and es-
pecially to procure more Spnninrds.
because OF the very satisfactory re-
suits that have come from their EN-
pioyment. and their numbers VIII be
Increase as Tar AZ possible. IL has
not proved possible. however. to get
them In anything like the numbers
! needed for the work, and from present
appe aranccs We shall in the main have
to rely. for the ordinary unslillcd
work partly upon co.orcd libor' Rs
from the West Indies. parity upon
Chinese labor. II certainly ought to
be unncc, ssnry to point out that the