The evening world., 1915-02-27
ALIEN WORKERS
ON NEW SUBWAYS
ARE DISCHARGED
All the Contractors Try to
Obtain Substitutes Who
" Are Citizens.
PLAN TO USE NEGROES.
Inquiries Made in South as to
Numbers Who Can Be
Sent Here to Dig.
PLAN TO USE NEGROES.

The contractors engaged in build
Ing the new subway lines in Manhat-
tan. Brooklyn and the Bronx dis
charged all their alien laborers to-
day in compliance with the Court Of
Appeals ruling upholdins the Allen
Labor Law.
| In place Of Italians. Hungarians
and Polacks who have not declared
their intention Of becoming citizens
the contractors employed, in all Sec
tions of the subway about two thou
sand men holding citizenship papers
who are willing to do excavation
work.
Tho Terry q Tench Company 10 the
only firm engaged In subway con-
struction what did not discharge
men. Their are no aliens on Its pay
roll. The Subway Construction Com
pany. which holds big contracts. made
no effort to employ men to take the
places OF the aliens. but other con-
Germs took all the ablebodied men who
applied.
Thousands Of aliens. swarming to
the various subway cuts at midnight
or $40 A. M. to-day were met by en-
gineers and forsmen who told them
they could not work unless they had
citizenship papers.
There was some disorder among 600
Italians who were not allowed to enter
the subway excavation at Thirty
eighth street and Broadway. Chist
Engineer Jones made Q speech 70 the
men, which was Interpreted BY fore
man. explaining the law.
He produced . blank certificate Ut
nrst citizenship and told the men that
such Of them a. had supplied thsm-
selves with such . paper By Monday
morning would be put to work.
The decision to halt all subway
work depending on "muckers." - ths
unskilled labore1 are called, VA
reached at . meeting OF subway CON.
tractors held last night at the Hotel
Manhattan. ..
| While the decision Of the Court Of
Appeals has not yet gone into effect
the contractors and Edward ~
Grout. their counsel. decided thai
there was no use In delaying COM
pliance with the law. II 10 hoped b.
the contractors that stoppage Of sub.
way work will arouse public protes,
against the Alien Labor Law.
The Rapid Transit Subway Con.
struction Company, which dropped
500 men on the morning shift In TIN
excavation In Seventh Avenue, be-
tween Thirty third and Forty-seoont
Streets, made an effort to recruit ,
working force Of citisens.
Out Of l20 native born or natural
? ised citixens who applied for worI
, at Thirty ninth Street and seventl
Avenue only twenty were taken on
and the foreman predicted that NOR
, than half Of these would throw VI
4 the Job before the end Of the day.
|. The Degnon Company dropped
ANAL army OF men on the vAriou
. sections under its control. About I
I per cent Of the entire working forc
: OF this concern 10 made up Of tn
|. aliens. d,
In secret conference to-day some q
the subway contractors decided I
J, steal q march on the labor unions N
' sponsible for the Allen Labor Law b
a arranging for the importation Of q
army of negro lab0rers.
"The law says that only America
{ citissns must be employed ON publ
Z works." said one contractor. "A
4 right, we'll obey the law--to the lst
. ter. But We won't employ the unf
: men some Of the unions would hsv
{ Us employ.
I'VE can got good husky America
). citisens from the other side Of III
!. Mason and Dixon line who will DO th
work Of muckins and digging"
Q To-days developmsnts show that
: is going to DO bitter fight to finis
y between the unions responsible e
the alien clause In the stare Labc
Law. which has practically paraiyss
contract building. and the allied cor
!. tractors, who have agreed to ODE
the law to the lstter.
: Orleans, Savannah. Charleston an
. other negro labor centres in the Sout
r A. to the number Of experienced me
4 who can be shipped on here on TWEEN
= -four hours notice.
Clarence A. Crane, secretary Of tn
. General Contractors' Association, at
;. mittsd to-day that the negro iabt
, question a. q solution of the subWa
problem was being considered anon
other thinSs. but admitted that ofte
. they were not dependable workmen.
The Flynn -O'Rourke Contractin
q Company. which 10 digging the Intel
. borough and the Brooklyn Rap
= tunnels under the East River frol
lower Manhattan, to-day began sepAl
/. Iating it, citisen and non-citisen work
A men.
u Foremsn are asking the workme
= to produce their naturalization paper
l. II they cannot do 20 they are paid o
). There are TOO men employed In Il
!. UNDER river work. Out Of this nun
= ber, ofilcials Of the contracting con
L pany estimate. 500 will have to be dit
/. charged on account OF the alien claui
!. lin the state Labor Law.
The Bradley Contracting Compan
e notified the Commission that to-day
:. shut down work on the Lexingts
4 Avenue subway Job between FoFty
& third end Yifty- third Streets and u
b tween esvsnty-nsath aal nstV-tht,