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Show COMPANY STORE TRADING NOT COMPULSORY, CUT WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. Conditions In I he bituminous coal fields of wostorn Pennsylvania retard tho assimilation of foreigners and at the same timo are not conducive to a stable family life. Such Is the view of tho Immigration committee commit-tee of whlcli Senator Dillingham of Vermont Ver-mont is chairman. It is presented In a report made by the committee as a result re-sult of an Inquiry covering about 50,000 cases In that section. The committee found more than 75 per cent of the miners to be foreign-born many of them unable to wrilo any language lan-guage and almost half or tnem Incapable of speaking English. Generally they live In houses owned by the companies and theso tho owners refuse to sell to their occupants. Most of tiiw purchases of necessaries are made at company stores, the price being deducted from the wages of the employes. Trading at these stores i3 not compulsory compul-sory in all cases, but it is noticeable that thoso who make purchases from company stores aro more apt to be continued con-tinued In employment In event of a partial par-tial shutdown. |