Show I3IPOHTE1 liABOR There iSI great depression in the Con nellsville coke regions There are in the region 17947 ovene but only 7000 are in blast at the present time Avery A-very large number of the coke workers are foreigners and they are beginning an exodus to Europe They make the claim and probably have experience back of them to warrant it that In case of protracted dullness they can go back I to their old homes in Europe and live there until the return of good times I and then return to the coke regions and be better off than if they had remained I In the United States during the depression depres-sion These men have been induced to come to this country in times of labor troubles to supplant our native workmen The great combines and trusts have been permitted to do this but the men who have been thrown out of work have not been permitted to do anything but remain re-main idle These imported coke workers are mostly Huns and Poles and are not in any sense a desirable addition to our population Their standard of living liv-ing is so low that no American can hope to compete with them In the United States their object is in mining min-ing parlance to gut the mine and not I to develop it Of American insUtuticns I they lnow nothing and care less They are a continual source of annoyance and trouble to the government for be I I i ing foreigners their quarrels when they are serious or fatal I always become international I ternational affairs to be adjusted thrmitrh fUntumo Mr Vioti olc TVUViin iiuuuii r > < o UU5U uiyj jinuLJu cnunneis viinin a year or two the country has been treat I ed to the spectacle of such imported I I laborers as these who are returning to Europe banding themselves together for the purpose of preventing American citizens earning an honest living Alt I their going everybody should rejoice I As to their returning well they should not be allowed to return If the immigration immi-gration laws are for the purpose of excluding ex-cluding any class it is this very class that is now leaving the coke regions These laws should be rigidly enforced against them |