The Washington herald., 1907-03-14
TO ENGLAND
Factory HandstO Exported
by Government.
DISAPPOINTED IN AMERICA
TOiIers from Old Lancashire Dissat-
isaed with Conditions in south,
They Must Go Back Home, for
Which They Say They Are Glad.
The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald
Baltimore, March I3-Three married
couples, two single men. fifteen girls, and
three babies who have had a nasty ex-
perience in the South are being enter
tertained in Baltimore by the United
States government. and had a hearing
this morning before a special board of
inquiry of the bureau of immigration,
preparatory 10 expectation back to their
homes in Lancashire. England.
They arrived from North Carolina
shortly after O'Clock this morning, and
were hurried 10 the old custOm-h0use.
where they were housed and guarded.
Deputy Commissioner B. y. Stump and
Inspectors Walter L. Opdyke and r. NJ.
Burke composed the special board of in
quiry appointed by Commissioner Louis
T. Weis. and they took the evidence
upon which the expectations viii be or
dered. Assistant Attorney General
Cooley conducted the inquiry.
Four of the English guests Of Uncle
Sam will remain In this country-Frank
Nolan, George Bonner, Annie Mayer.
and Monica Roach.
Money Growing in Streets.
The experience Of the English brothers
and sisters reads like a fiction OF the
world of labor, Last fall, according to
the testimony a man named Thomas
Costello went to Lancashire, which
abounds in factories. and spread stories
of money growing in the streets Of the
American South. He got a lot OF factory
workers interested by promising them
from So 10 SIS a week wages, a home.
furniture, food, and clothing. and more
prosperity 10 the square inch than there
is trouble in South America. Well. eighty
FIVE Of them fell for the fairy tale, and
Costello bought them passage, providing
them with SIS each So that they could
pass the government inspection at Ellis
Island-so says Foreman Bowers, who is
IN general charge Of the party.
HE told US. said Mr.. Bowers that
We would have 20 say we bought our own
tickets on the boat to get through, and
we did so. An agent of the mills at our
destination was 20 have met US. but he
didn't. and we took the train straight on
for Charlotte. where we went TO work in
the Hoskins Mills. That was In Septem-
Der of last year.
"KicL1 over Traces"
''The second week we began to hint
around about our wages, and found out
that We were to get only from 80 10 70
cents day. instead Of the nice, fat
wages we had been promised. Then we
kicked clear over the traces, refused 10
work any longer. and reported the whole
proceeding 10 the government authori-
ties, with the result that proceedings
we've Instituted against the people who
brought us over for violation of the alien
contract labor law We acted as govern
meat witnesses. and when we left we got
SO each Tor our services, which will keep
US until we get back To England" The
suit was finally dismissed.
1t was a happy crowd on the train en-
route 10 Baltimore and in the old Csls-
tOm-hOuse after they reached the city
With voices not harshened by hard labor.
and some of them well trained. they
sang In the Shade OF the Old Apple
Tree" and II Was Born in Virginia. %
with a lot Of Southern airs. and laughed
and jollied their guards How long they
viii remain here is a question. Probably
only a few days.