Arizona republican., 1917-01-30

operation has not been to procure work for the unemployed or to relieve public charity from the help given to men out of work. We beg permission to bring to your notice some facts as an eX- ample.
 At Quaregnon. of 1000 workmen called up to the control, 30i have been deported. Among the latter are 297 who ale not unemployed
 At Dour. of 137 deportees, there are IT employed men.
 At Wammes, of 1S6 deportees, 13O employed
 At lrameries. of 200 deportees, 157 employed.
 At Horna, Of l4O deportees. S7 en- ployed
 At PatuIagea. of 155 deportecs l09 employed.
 At Havre, the burgomaster has in- formed the recruiting officers that all the men called up for control were em- plOyed. His remarks were brushel l aside and of 450 men called up for con- trol, 45 were deported. all employed.
 Equivalent proportions are to be found also for all the coinmunes. Has this been done haphazard? No. in most cases the choice of the workmen who have work in Belgium has been delib- l seem to prefer particularly the most skilled wOrkmen of certain industries foremen. mechanics and laborers from rolling mills glass workers shoemak- CTS, filters, electrical engineers, farm CTS.
 Thus, at the iron works and rolling mills Haume, at Haine- St Pierre, of 400 workmen passed for control, 52 have been deported.
 At the Gibson factories at La Cro- we're. 50 workmen, out of 225 called up for control. have been deported
 At the SOcete La BTugeoise at Nj caise ct Delcave' 56 out of S69
 At the Societe Anonyme des La minoirs' at La LouViere. J out of 73.
 At the factories noulonneric ct Fonderies des La Louviercs, 2 out of 131
 At the Bouvy factory at La Croyeye D out of 145
 At the Central Building Co, at Haine St Pierre, 36 Workmen and em- ployees still at work have been de- ported, say 10 per cent of the employed Workmen.
 At the Spiltoir, Heppez and Meek workshops at Haine-St. Paul. 14 men have been deported, representing 70 per cent of the working personnel
 
 40 per cent of the total number of workmen
 At the blast furnaces and foundries at La Louviere the deportation among the employees reached 70 per cent, with the result that the factory is now un- able to continue to produce.
 At the BOel factories at La Lou vierc, 249 men have been carried off, among them a chef de bureau 10 clerks. 2 foremen and PIT workmen.
 All the clerks and Workmen of those factories who have been deported were still at work at the time of the control.
 At the glass factory of Jamappes. the only plant of the kind in our dis trict, the application of the system has produced a striking result. This fac- tory was again set running on Decem- Der 1, 1915; it was going uninterrupt- edly and with increasing pressure up to the first of September, 1916. It was idle till November 10 owing to the re- pair of certain furnaces with a view to enlarging it's activity. More than half ita trained men have been taken away
 The chiefs of industry did not fail to point out to the recruiting officers how important it was for the regular running of their plants to have their staff left untouched. Their observa- . tlonS nave been hardly listened 10.
 The allegation is also made that the deportees are actually taking part in military work in Germany Never" the letter concludes, has the right of nations acknowledged such an abuse of power in favor of the vic tors and it will never consecrate it.
 Do not ask us to tell our people that it is in their own interest that they are sent to Germany; in doing so We would be traitors to our country"