The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-15

land; instead the proposition is to reduce the excessive number of un employed by exporting Porto Rican labor to other places.
 They first tried 1t on Hawaii. There they were supposed to be blessing. But it was rouEd that they had to face unfamiliar condi. tions of production and could net compete with Asiatic labor. The Porto Eican laborer in Hawaii was branded Ly the American latifunl- ists there as a failure and he rre- ferred his oriental coo]ies. The fact that the Porto Rican was from An.- erican soil could not appeal to the | planters of Hawaii at all. Big pro | fit is what they wtre after, and whether 1t came from one class of workers or another did not matter. Now it is proposed to ship Porto Ricans to the island of San Domin- go. Since the United States assumed practical if unnamed sovereignty over that island things have been very peaceful. American capitalists have acquired enormous concessions. They have got control of huge tracts of valuable land and valuable mineral rosourccs The San DomiI gan raise on the pap of revolt when things didn't suit him, is not a very efil- cient wage slave. The American i capitalist has already discovered | this fact. And in his quandary he turns to Porto Rico where he knows there is C big supply of excess ! labor.
 1 He therefore proposes to solve the: unemployment question in Porto Rico and the employment question in San Domingo with one move ment.
 The Industrial Worker said that four-fifths of the troubles in the world ere economic not political. / Take San Domingo. It has no such beautiful political institutions as had Porto Rico at any stage ot the game. Spain really afforded Porto Rico an excellent system o: laws and the people were contented therein.
 | San Domingo on the other hand was a republic wherein land tenure was not very sacred and the lati- fundist of the present day the bis plantatiOnist, was conspicuous by his absence. Any San Domingan that wanted it could get piece or ground and cultivate it himself He was always having political trouble, because now and then political lead CTS fought out some little scheme of graft.
 Despite all this the San Domingan was hundred per cent better oI if a laborer than the Porto Rican, ani even today although American capt. talism is fastening upon the coun- try like a blight, they are paid twice and three times as much as is paid for labor in Porto Rico.
 The scale is interesting. In Porto Rico the average worker in cotfeo fields received 35c. day; sugar 65c.; tobacco 45c.; fruit soc. la San Domingo thct troubled lane whose internal woes have occasioned crocodile tears in the kept press and forced American potential occupa. iton, the coffee worker gets $1.25 sugar $1.00, tobacco $1.35, fruit I$1.50. Moreover these scales are ac' tually falling in San Domingo since Americans have started to efficient
 ly develop the country. and they propose to smash it altogether b, dumping a portion of the Porte
 Rican population there.
 They don't intend to take all tho
 surplus population by any means The Porto Rican planters would ob } ject to that ill fact they did so
 and there has passed between inter ested ones in Porto Rico and inter ested ones in San Domingo yer, , gratifying correspondence whereii . 1t is pointedly stated that only { ! portion of the unemployed in Pcrt'
 Rico will be taken as immigrants } The economic pressure will still b sufficient to keep down wages il , both places. Porto Rico as an ex ample. of colonial government tn hoa,, fhorofnro d 1nrn anf ahiay .,ns