My personal experience with aliens of several years ago fastened in my memory some impressions that are enlightening and unforgetable. In my youth I worked In the boiler works anD( steel mills where imported aliens were used for all kinds of drudgery. Many of these alien laborers were brought to America by great syndicates that made money out of the enterprise. Large numbers of the alien laborers lived in old box cars and shacks. Because they put up with slum environment and standards of living on which an American could not exist. it followed that they could work cheaper than a nativeborn citizen of this country. Many times in my steelmill days I have seen Americans and aliens apply for the same job. and the alien get the job while the nativeborn citizen had to walk away without a job. Knowing how things used to be in the steel mills I have often wondered why nativeborn laboring men with homes to maintain and children to educate have not long before this protested loud enough for the politician to hear and heed. Having been an eyewitness and an earwitness to the brutal treatment the alien laborer frequently received. I wonder at times .just what the foreignborn laborers really thought of the manners. morals. sense of justice. and customs of some of the nativeborn Americans with whom they had their first contact and from whom they received their first impressions of America. In the mill where I worked there was a clever allen by the name of Popini.
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