Crooked officers of the law trap him for fines. and he is the helpless victim of countless indignities. while he is surrounded by every kind of evil and cut off from every influence for good. I have seen these conditions at first hand. but if anyone should think that I am dealing in exaggeration. I would refer him to the summary of the annual report of the bureau of industries and immigration of New York State for the year ending September 30. 1911. It is as follows: In the matter of distribution of labor. that this State is without any machinery for distribution or supervision of private distribution agencies. except through a law administered by separate cities according to the standard and belief of each individual mayor. although a great part of the furnishing of labor is intercity and interstate. In the matter of transportation. that the combination of steamship agents. emigrant hotels. runners. porters. expressmen. and cabmen throughout the country. operating chiefly through New York City. forms one of the most stupendous systems for fleecing the alien from the time he leaves his home country until he reaches his destination In America. and vice versa. In the matter of living and labor conditions in labor camps and colonies. that aliens are discriminated against In regard to housing. sanitation. food supplies. and employment methods. being denied the ordinary decencies of life. that in regard to labor conditions. aliens are checked and tagged. amounts ordered by the padroni are deducted from their wages without their knowledge or express sanction. and exploitations occur in hospital charges and the purchase of supplies. In the matter of industrial calamities and personal injuries. exploitation by lawyers and their runners and claim agents and collection agents bear heavily on the alien because of his alienship and international complications with his family and property In his home country. In the matter of savings. that the private banking laws are affording only a small measure of protection. owing to evasions of the law. and no protection whatever outside of cities of the first class. that frauds in the sale of homes to aliens by means of the solving of puzzles or by means of excursions arranged to Interest aliens in 1 show" pieces of property. or by other means. are widespread . and that the settlement of affairs in the old country. when an alien wishes to settle here. is in the hands of a most unscrupulous class of lawyers. notaries public. collection agents. information bureaus. and protective leagues. In the matter of education for children. that inadequate provisions exist for taking care of groups of people who collect with the starting of new Industries In remote places. such as mines and quarries. and that adults outside of cities are wholly neglected In matters of instruction in English. civics. and naturalization. There are no systematic assimilation processes by the State and cities under way except In the largest cities. Such an indictmentand no one acquainted with actual conditions can doubt its accuracyproves that the glorious opportunities for the oppressed of other lands are largely composed of the shimmering fabric of which dreams are made. Not only that. but after he has secured employment the illiterate foreigner is under a handicap not only discouraging but deadly. Pennsylvanias record can be used here. for no other State receives more of the lowest class of immigrants than that great industrial Commonwealth. And I contend that that record shows that there is a very vital and very real connection between the ignorance betokened by illiteracy and the gory death and accident tolls of industry. Every year 45.000 ablebodied workers are sent to the surgeon or the undertaker as the result of accidents while at their daily occupations in the mines and mills and factories of Pennsylvania.
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Generalization that aliens are discriminated against and exploited in various ways.