Mary Quackenbos. an attorney of New York. was one such witness. among several. I read the following extracts from her testimony before the committee in the Sixtyfirst Congress: To continue: Nevertheless. from my experience in this work. I knew very well that immigration was stimulated abrond by steemship and private employment agencies. For nearly three years I had assisted the Department of Justice In the prosecutlion of peonage cases. and had sole charge of the eases in New York City against labor agents who had lared Ignorant foreigners into peonage camps. As an attorney for le Department of Justice. I filed charges against these agents before the commissioner of licenses in New York City and various licenses were revoked. immigrants had been horribly defranded. in some instances. by their own countrymen. I do not find that they are defrauded by Americans. Through the courtesy of the Department of Justice.
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