Show V LABOR CONTRACTS I I AN INTERESTiNG CASK MAUD PUB I LIC YESTERDAY Swiss Decorators Who Were Brought Over to Put the Finishing Touches Touch-es Upon a Mansion Must Go Back j Home l I NEW YORK Dec 3ne of the most interesting contract laborers in vestigaited at Ellis island was made public by Commissioner Senner today Some time as Mrs Richard Gambrlll who owns a beautiful home on Park avenue went to Switzerland and there I left an order with a fashionable deco tor piamed Schulthess for several thousand thou-sand dollars worth of material to be shipped to New York and used in completing com-pleting the appointments equipments and decorations of her home She also requested that five artisans accompa nylhematerial to putt up and touch it offiwith their dext rots ads The Ellis Island officials are convinced that in asking these men be sent over for three mOnths the lady was unaware j I she was violating the law Inspector James McKinnon learned the mission I of the laborers and held them at Ellis island Today they were tried before a board of special inquiry W J OBrien of the board of walking i walk-ing delegates accompanied by dele i j gates from as many trades ias were represented by the material imported went to Elite island and demanded that the five men be deported Evidence produced showed that the wages of American mechanics in the lines of trade interested are from 5 to J650 per day while according to their own admissions the five men were to receive but Swiss rates of 120 to 240 per day They were also asked to work longer hours than is customary with workmen of their class in this country The men will be deported |