The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

 section to distort and exaggerate con ditlons, is well-illustrated by an article in The New York American of August 2, wherein, underN the caption. White Man Beaten in Peonage: Wife Here Demands He Go Free" all of the har- { rowing details of cruelty to Philip Lip- kowitch In a lumber camp near Mont gomery, are set out When the article was written and published. Philip Lip- kowitch was in New York city.
 After working two months for the Robert Nixon Lumber Company at its logging camp in Autauga County, sew enteen miles from. Montgomery, Lipke- witch gave up his place and left Tor New York to join his wife and cnild last Monday. He did not express dis satisfaction with his treatment at the logging camp and Robert Nixon, Presi- dent of the company. denies that Lip- kowitch or any other man in the em- ploy of the company, was mistreated while working for his company. Mfr Nixon Is supported by voluntary state ment of James Bremner. one of the men who came from New York with Iipkowitch to work for the Nixon Company.
 The New York newspaper says that William Hochstein. proprietor of the International Shipping Office Company of that city was arrested on a warrant cWoAA 7put py <Anikic kiPhoWi Hochstein was arraigned before United States Commissioner, charged with inducing Philip Lipkowitch ito go aboard certain vessel, where he was subjected to slavery, and is be- ing detained In Alabama against his consent" Hodhstein is labor agent. He made $3,000 bond for further hearing.
 Pictures of Lipkowitch. his wife and child are published by the New York newspaper. and 1t Is made to appear that he was treated cruelty at the camp of the Nixon Company, near Montgom- cry.
 Continuing. The New York American says:
 'Lipkowitch, his wife and two chill dren--Jennie, years old, and Samuel, 5-arrived in New York from Warsaw, Russia, two years ago. The husband obtained work at his trade. hat making, and for a time all were happy. He lost his position in March, and in two months time he was out of money. Desperate over his idleness, he is said to have been induced by an agent or Hochstein to go to the Alabama timber lands to work for the Nixon Lumber Company. Several young foreigners of the East Side went on the same boat with him.
 From Montgomery, Ala, Lipkowitch
 
 days on the water and two days on train and that he was to be taken far out into the timber lands to work lie promised to write again soon and to send his wages home. No word has come from him directly since that time.
 Recently two of the men who had accompanied Lipkowitch escaped from the timber lands. They said they were subjected to slavery with all the cru cities that the old black slave suffered Once when Lipkowitch attempted to escape, they asserted, he was captured, lashed to tree and horsewhipped.
 When these stories were carried to Mrs. Lipkowitch. she reported them to Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos. the lazy yer, and they went together to Assist ant United States District-Attorney Carmody.
 'Hochstein, the proprietor of the In- ternational Shipping office Company. which is an employment agency. denied he was aware that he was sending Lij- skowitch into peonage but 1t Is charged several others have been sent to even a worse fate by him."
 Lipkowitch was in a party of twen- ty-three foreigners, who were employed by the Nixon Lumber Company, through Hochstein, to work at the logging camp. Hochstein was paid an agents fee of 8 for each man employed, and the men signed contracts to work for $1.25 a day and their board and lodg- ing. Their railway and steamer fare from New York to Montgomery was SIS, and this amount was advanced to the men, the agreement being that they were to reimburse the company out Of the first money they received
 The party consisted of Russian Jews. Hungarians and Germans. They reached Montgomery June B. were met by agents of the Nixon Company, and were sent to the logging camp near Prattville At the logging camp, the company maintains a large lodging house and dining room, where the workmen board President Nixon says he has not had any complaints of mis- treatment of these men, although near ly all of them. after working a month or six weeks, left the employ of the company. Of the party Of twenty three, only three are now employed at the logging camp.
 About July Is President Nixon re- ceived letters of Inquiry concerning Lipkowitch and request that he be sent back to New York as his wife was Ill, These inquiries were communicat- ed to Lipkowitch, who, according to MT. Nixon. said he did not desire to re- turn to New York. A New York law yer, one Kaufman, wrote MT Nixon demanding the return of Lipkowitch to New York. whereupon Mir Nixon wrote In reply that Lipkowitch was a free agent. and that he, MT. Nixon. could not force him to return to New York Finally, upon the persuasion of officers of the lumber company, when the in- quiries as to Lipkowitch had become persistent the man agreed to 20 hack to his wife and child He left Mont gomery last Monday. He had a rail. way ticket to New York city and MT. Nixon believes he was in the metropo- lis when the article in The American was published
 Without any knowledge of the criti cism by the New York newspaper of ms logging camp, MT. Nixon several days ago wrote letter to the editor or The Advertiser commenting upon the alleged mtstreatment of foreigners by agents of the Jackson Lumber Com pany of Lockhart
 Ihls letter moved James Bremner. who was of the party of twenty-three men that came from New York city to work Tor the Nixon Company. to write voluntarily the following letter: Editor The Advertiser:
 Tn looking over the columns nf to- days issue Of your paper I read with interest those cases where the immi- grants who are at work in the logging camps complain of cruel treatment. I also read MT. Robert Nixon's letter. and must say that such allegations as made by these dead beats ought to be looked into before printed. I, my self. was one of the batch who came here from New York for Robert Nixon and Company and I ought to know
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