Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25
MEXICAN LABOR HAS MANY PECULIARITIES
 LOCAL TO THAT C0UNTRY- DIFFICULTIES
 WHICH AMERICAN MEETS ON HIS VISITS

playing Of tricks on the foreman by destroying lumber. holding tape line short of the scratch line mixing sam ples Of ore. breaking machines to get a siesta. is a trait of character that will require many years to eliminate from the Mexican loborers
 There are certain people. the world over. who do not believe in the stor- are cf human energy Money ,the Representative of human energy. is to Keep in circulation not Co store up. The Mexican is an elaborate advocate Of this principle TO give man "circulating" disposition too much money at one time win result in mak-
 ing him an unsteady employee La Gran Fundicion adopted the plan of paying every day The system is not complex and results in keeping the men at work When the timekeeper knows the rating Of each employe it requires less bookkeeping to pay him than to enter the account
 Toward the interior of Mexico the natives are adept in the are of pill fering. All houses have iron bars over
 the windows to protect interior fur nisEings Enclircling La Gran Fundi. cicn iG a high wall fadobe During
 the late war this wall made the
 grounds veritable fortress for the
 protection of foreigners. A very ar- tistie Roman arch gateway adorns the
 entrance to the works This gateway
 consists of three arches It is the
 central arch which l wish to mention in particular. It is necessary to search every Mexican who passes out through this arch This is done by a corps Of
 Mexican guards These guards look under the hat, feel over the pockets and under the belt The material which ia pifered snot SO valuable in
 small quantities, but e check has to ! be placed on the amount The men win take belting with which to make
 shoes, bars of iron to trade to native 1 backsmiths. carpenters tools and dl
 most anything they can secrete and
 carry.
 The native Mexicans live in adobe houses which are built as an Ameri can would say, inside out" Adjacent
 to the sidewalk is a wall with win
 dows A front gate is attended by a
 servant at al times The wealthy
 have inside the wall their own pri-
 vate court The poor may have a col-
 ony of many families in one court and
 one common gate entrance The home
 of a poor man consists of room
 without any furniture except a bench.
 with a dirt floor and hole in the
 wall for a window. In cold weather
 they stop up the window and build
 fire on the floor in the middle of the
 room This system may be classified
 under the head of conservation Of ! heat energy"
 It is difficult to change the habits
 and customs of race of people La
 Gran Fundicion began to build a town
 for the workingmen according to the
 American system the yard on the out
 side The Company popped water into , sinks and made these houses modern
 in every way possible The Mexicans looked upon the project with scorn. , Not one native could be induced to . occupy a house built upon such m- : usual lines The homes were after ! ward used for Chinese bunk houses The Mexicans wear very plain cloth 3 ing although they love bright cQlors Prior to the age of two years, a child inhabHs his mothers shaw or serape 3 when out in public. About the age of
 three he is given a garment which in { the United States would be called a shirt The life of one of these shirts , is sceveral years Each year the shirt shrinks some and the youth grows 3 some: the reader only needs to draw - upon his imagination to complete the - story Al about the age of ten years 8 the youth dons overalls. The older f men wear hats and always carry a ' blanket over the shoulders The /. women wear a one-piece suit resem- P bling the garment known as a 7'mother - hubbard
 - In the early eighties. when Diaz was b taking 'an interest in manufacturing a and commercial enterprises for his '- people he also instituted an educa-
 tional system for the masses similar 3 to that in the United States The in- O tenuon was to school the native ohil- Q take its place in the civilized world Il This educational system was virtual e ly abandoned about ten years later for I- a reason that only students of his - tory an dreligion can fully appreciate. n The world has always been controlled S by religion It is a question how far s the masses Of the people canstudy a S creed and not grow out of it In Mex, n ico the houses of worship are the same 8 old stone churches that were built by e the Spanish and Indians There are no S seats i'm these churches. Those who s come first go up front and kneel upon e the floor and each successive person q kneels behind his predecessor unt r the church is filled Then they knee O upon the steps out into the street and across the road. The ringing of ths chimes tells them the progress of the ll service.