President. as to the labor of constructing the Panama Canal. if onehalf that was promised when the particular route to be followed was agreed upon is to be realized. there can be a great deal of American labor. and especially a great deal of American skill. utilized in the construction of the canal. While the majority of the work. perhaps. is digging. yet there is a vast amount of blasting to be done. work that requires peculiar skill and peculiar experience. a class of work that in the mountains commands the very highest wage of all labor of that character-$3 and $3.50 a day. and the day of eight hours. I can not help but believe that a fair limitation for alien labor in the matter of the length of the days worksay you abandon the eight hours as to them and make the limitation ten hourswill improve the quality of the work. give a more satisfactory and bettercontented mass of labor. and be infinitely more humane than the plan which is now probably undefined. but is finding a lodgment in the minds of Senators. that of the use of labor there without limitation as to time. allowing the length of the day either to the will of the Government or to the contractor. after the contractor shall be put In charge of the work. Therefore. Mr.
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