. The National Civic Federation review . d1 persuading many thousands to come here who other-ise would have remained at home. More success to Italian padrone and American con-actor. For example, Rome, New York. That cityt out to the lowest bidder certain public works. Heait to New York for a gang of two to three hundredalians. They came and did the work at wages rep-senting a degenerate level for Americans. They lived1 shacks, ate animal food, wore foreign clothing, livedleaner than at home, for economys sake. They savedleir full share of the $25,000,000 annually sent to Italyf New Yorks Itali
. The National Civic Federation review . d1 persuading many thousands to come here who other-ise would have remained at home. More success to Italian padrone and American con-actor. For example, Rome, New York. That cityt out to the lowest bidder certain public works. Heait to New York for a gang of two to three hundredalians. They came and did the work at wages rep-senting a degenerate level for Americans. They lived1 shacks, ate animal food, wore foreign clothing, livedleaner than at home, for economys sake. They savedleir full share of the $25,000,000 annually sent to Italyf New Yorks Italian banks. To the town shopkeep-?s they brought little or nothing; to the State, no taxes:> the jail, assault cases; to the pjjblic schools, itch andachoma. The city of Rome, N. Y., had numerousorkingmen who would have been glad of the work,ut, as in ancient times, foreign serfs labored on themnicipal improvements while Romes proud citizensood idly by. In this respect the history of Rome hasgen repeated in a hundred American NATHAN ,President State Conference of Charities. To the employers combines that are engaged in therusade against trade unionism the hordes of fresh im-ligrants have been an inestimable blessing. Theseombines are invariably composed of intense Ameri-ans, bound by hooks of steel to every American tradi-ion save traditional American wages. Theyll drivetie American wage workers out of a trade, and whenfieir foreign non-unionists purge themselves and joinlie unions, will upbraid them for their un-Americanism. An example, the clothing trade. The New Yorkitate Department of Labor (p. 43, Report of 1902)as pronounced the sweatshop a result of immigration.)r. George C. Stiebling, of St. Marks Place, Newfork, thus defines sweatshops: Workshops in whichlothing is manufactured and which serve at the sameime as dwelling rooms to the bosses, their familiesnd boarders—overcrowded, ill ventilated, over heat-d, full of dirt, filth, vermin and stench ; con
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