Show GOETHALS REVOKES I 1118 CONTRACTS VJ Tn EUROPEAN lABORERS WASHINGTON Ma May lay 11 With H.-With With a view to ending the Inefficiency and practical Insubordination U among the h S Spanish Italian Ital f ian fan and 8 Grecian n nal al laborers r rn on n the tho Isthmian h canal anal Chairman Goethals has had to revolutionize revolutionize rev rev- the system under which Eu- Eu European labor Is employed there He lie has given gl notice to the consuls from these countries that he ht Intends to place the laborers from their respective countries on the same footing that Americans must labor under on the canal On a account count of the contractual obliga obliga- obligations to commis-to recognized by the canal tanal commission commis sion l Importing European laborers re they W Je rth r ave e been permitted permitted m hitherto r to re retain their special I checks which entitled them to receive 20 cents an hour American currency even t though h their services e were unsatisfactory cf This I h has sel resulted e r In n wf the European laborers deliberately reducing the output of their work to such an extent ex- ex extent extent ex ex- tent that all the superintendents and foremen foremen fore tore men are unanimously of the opinion that the efficiency f of the contract labor r Is much c less nf than a It was a year ago g Several Sf instances verging on Insubordination Insubordination insubordination nation have resulted from the leniency the Europeans being removed from fear tear of dismissal Colonel Goethals has announced that henceforth European contract laborers will have their special contracts revoked Just as Americans In case cast their services are unsatisfactory In such suh event they may be re-employed re at wages commensurate rate with the services rendered or may maybe maybe maybe be denied dented work ork entirely |