Bisbee daily review., 1909-09-22
CHEAP LABOR WANTED BY
 BR|T|SRERs
Correspondent Travelling in England Lays Bare the Hypocrisy of High Tariff Claims "To Protect Amer icanS''
By Clyde H. Tavenner Article No. 1o.)

Hee Jfdde EngfanQ receives less .n wages than the American worker, the Briton's wages go further than the Americans when it comes to purchas. ing foodstuffs. clothing, shoes and paying rent.
 At the end of the =-~z- Jne employe of the British cotton mill, receiving $4.4S a week 9th eaverage wage when the earnings of women, boys and men are included), is better of than the employe of the New England cotton mills who has received s5.S5 a week, which is the average weekly wage in the cotton idustry in the United States.
 A comparison of living conditions of mill workers in Manchester. Eng, or any of the surrounding mill towns, with those of Lowell. Mass. shows be, yond question that the English work, CTS under free trade live in better houses, wear better clothes and eat more wholesome food than the mill workers in the New England states under protection.
 In New England more than half the cotton mill workers are foreigners. The mill owners have for years been systematically crowding Americans out of their factories to make places for foreigners, who live under condi- tiones that the average American could not tolerate.
 A foreigner is seldom seen in the British cotton mill. More than go per cent of the cotton mall employees are British.
 Why is it Southern Europeans do not come here to wodk?" inquired of British manufacturer.
 "The principal reason is that we would not dare employe cheap for eign labor" was the reply, "even if it were profitable to do so, which it is not. If it became known a mill man was crowding out British to make way for foreigners I have no doubt in the world the British con sumer would refuse to buy the output of that mill"
 Rhode Island it is different. Just how different can be best shown with the words of Representative Augustus P Gardner of Massachusetts, who has made thorough investigation of the conditions of New England mill own CTS. A,v@s
 Mir. Gardner, speaking on the floor of the House on day on the subject of immigration, gave graphic descrip- tion of how the highly protected New England cotton mills import large numbers of the cheapest class of for eigners.
 For example" said Mir. Gardner, suppose I am a Syrian, conducting a Syrian boarding house in the city of Lowell Mass. Perhaps some mill sends down to me for hands. I furn- ish them at a somewhat lower rate of wages than is expected by ordinary citizen help. GAmerican heEpJ I find recurrent opportunities to supply the cotton mills with Syrians.
 Soon 1 hear that another mill is about to make an extension, so say to myself, Back there in Syria is quite a profitable mine for me Per haps go to the mill treasurer and get an advance of money. Perhaps have the money myself. I return to Syria or I send some trusted agent, very likely a Syrian resident of the United States. In Syria a number of emi- grants are gathered together and they come to America, and either by di- rect route or indirect route, finally ar, Tive at my boarding house in the City of Lowell. tell them that if they to not pay me back the money advanced I will have them arrested, that they must hand over the full wages that they get in the mill on penalty of imprisonment. Everyone knows how easy it is for a stranger to break the laws or ordinances in a land where he does not under stand the language, and they are held in ter TOT of the police.
 Meanwhile I take all their wages while I feed them and keep them alive just as I would feed and keep a horse alive that I had imported for use in a livery stable"
 In the textile trades of Great Brit ain 1,171, ,216 persons are employed Manchester itself is a great city of 543,0O0 and within a radius of ter miles of Manchester are located a halt a dozen cotton mill cities having a population of more than 100000 each You can search the great Lancaster cotton mill district from end to end and be unable to duplicate the condi tions described in Congress by Rep resentative Gardner.
 Yet the cotton manufacturing indus try is one of the most highly protect ed trades in the United States. the New England manufacturers at every revision of the tariff asking for and receiving higher duties on the ples they are protecting the American working man.