The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-09-27
Chinese CHEAP LABOR
Contractors Offer Unlimited Supply
of Coolies at From Nine
Cents Per Hour Up


sion today for the furnishing of Chi
nese labor to be employed in the con
struction of the Panama canal. The
requirements of the specifications
were in brief that the contractors
should agree to supply the commits
sion with at least $500 Chinese, the
commission having the privilege OF
calling upon the successful contrac
tor for additional labor not exceeding
$4,000. 1t further was specified that
the laborers should be on the isthmus
ready for work within three and a
half months of the opening of the pro-
posals and that the contractors should
deposit with their proposals a bond of
$4,000 as a guarantee to faithfully
carry out the terms of the contract
While the commission has been in
communication with about $50 indi-
vlduals and corporations who had sig
nified possible desire to submit pro-
posals only four proposals finally
were offered to the commission to-
| day. In the presence of the contrac-
tors and others interested, the prop
ositions were opened by w. Leon Pep
perman, assistant chief of the Office
of the administration of the isthmian
canal commission
| At the conclusion of the reading of
the proposals, Mr.. Pepperman an
| nounced that no award would be
made OF the contract until the pro-
posals had been examined by the COM
mission and it's general counsel. In
accordance with the specifications, the
proposals were made for the furnish
ing of different classes of labor at a
price fixed by the hour in American
gold.
Summary of the Proposals
A summary of the four proposals
submitted follow
The Americana China CONTRACTING
company, represented by James R.
Morse of Englewood N. j.: Common
laborers 10 cents per hour, foremen
and interpreters 20 cents per hour,
physicians 40 cents per hour, cooks
and BARRIERS Is cents per hour
International Contracting company,
| Washington, d. c., represented by
Carol Purrman, president: Labor
ers and cooks, 13 cents per hour, doc
tors 80 cents per hour, assistant doc
tors rs cents per hour, interpreters
two and half times Is cents per
hour, foremen ane and a half times
IL cents per hour.
Wa Nee Lee Hing & Co., Baltimore:
Laborers, clerks and BARRIERS IL 1-2
cents per hour, foremen and inter-
prefers Is cents per hour, doctors 25
cents per hour.
Joel Julian Reuben, Washington, D.
c., for the first $500 Chinese: Labor
ers II cents per hour, foremen 40
cents per hour, doctors 60 cents per
hour, interpreters 60 cents per hour,
cooks and BARRIERS 80 cents per hour.
For the first additional 1000 above
$500, laborers II cents per hour, for
the second addition 1,000 labors 10 rs
cents per hour, for the third addition
| al 1000, laborers 10 Sd cents per
hour, for the fourth 1000 laborers,
10 5-S cents per hour, for the fifth
| cluuIlIOudl I,UUU ldDOT0TS III IL C0uIS
per hour, for the sixth additional 1000
laborers 10 3-S cents per hour, for the
seventh additional 1000 laborers 10 ga
cents per hour, for the eighth addi-
tional 1000 laborers 10 cents per
hour, tenth additional 1000 laborers
9 3-4 cents per hour, for the eleventh
additional 1000 laborers 9 IA cents
| ner hpur and for tho rQmaindnr Of
the $4,000 laborers, 9 cents per hour