I know. too. that the pig iron made in India and the pig iron made In China is made under the supervision of American overseers and American skilled workmen. and the pig iron made in the United States is made under the supervision ot Americans. making identically the same labor as when made abroad. Over 50 per cent of the men employed in the blast furnaces in Pittsburgh can not speak the English language. Eighty per cent are foreign born. Not onetenth of the unskilled labor used in the manufacture of pig iron today in Pittsburgh and at Gary but what are either foreign born or of alien parentage. Sixty per cent and over of the miners at the Mesabi Range. digging this ore. are foreign born. and ninetenths of them do not stay in this country more than 10 years. according to the reports of your Commissioner of Labor. It is a question of foreign labor both here and there. either .way. The work about the pigiron furnaces is simple but onerous.
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