I do not believe this condition could ever have happened In this country. or would have- been tolerated for a single moment but for some peculiar circumstances which are often overlooked. I think they are worth recalling at this time. When these labor troubles first became serious a custom developed among employers of sending agents to those portions of Europe where unskilled labor was most plentiful and most easily obtained. where many of the people would be glad to emigrate if they only had money enough to pay their passage. These agents not only offered to pay their way to America. but to furnish them steady employment when they got here. Glad of the opportunity to get to this modern laud of Canaan these people cheerfully entered into labor contracts covering periods of years. and thus bound up they were imported to the United States to take the places of striking workmen.
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