Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-03-27 | Page 3 | Unfit for Hard Work

UNFIT FOR HARD WORK Roumanians Sent to California Cannot Can-not Perform Labor Sun Francisco March 6A party of nineteen Roumanians were sent here recently re-cently br thc Industrial Removal society of JCow York consigned to Slmonu Thompson of this 1 city They wero sent to the count nnd put to work preparing lad for vineyards They arc physically unfit for this labor and had to give It up Another party of Roumanians reached this city on Monday sent by tho same people State Labor Commli < loncr Mfy urs has boon Investigating these transactions transac-tions Tho Roumanians have told him they were brought out here under I promise prom-ise of employment at 530 a month Tho members of the llrst party have been provided pro-vided for and the Eureka Benevolent society so-ciety litK undertaken to look out for the latest arrivals Commissioner Mcjcrs says Unit at a conference held In his office Simons Thompson explained that they hnd t ar ranged wun uio jiiiiuHinai ixcmovni fn cloty of New York to nond them laborers They deplore tho acton in sending art sans out hero to be put ut heavy work for which they are totally unfit Commissioner Meyers will communicate at once with the New York organization