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Show A a U" ALIEN LABOR SNARL I IS WORRYING BOISE I I 0 1 BoIbc, Ida.. May 29 The alien labor question in Boise and Idaho promises I to be aparamount befoio public atten-; atten-; tlon. Judging from tho development ' In this city within the past few days. i Xura Case, recognized representative ; of tho Pacific Paving company, now ' engaged in installing many blocks of , ; city paving here, waa convicted of i j -violating the laws of this state through J tho hiring of aliens who have not j taken out their f.rat citizenship pa- i f pers Case was fined $75 when a found guilty, but was released on a I "wr- ' habeas corpus aud will Imme-i" Imme-i" 'f llately carry the case to the supremo j court to test Its constitutionality. ;f ' Tho trouble that seems to have j? found Its origin In Boise through the U employment of Greeks, Italians, Span- I lards and other foreign labor In pref- JJl crenco to Americans may become in- I( teruational In scope, declare promlueut I itti attorneys here. Involving as it does? jj the treaties between the United !, States and other foreign countries aud 5 X the rights of the citizens of each. 1 'i Owing to the treaties between the I n "United States and certain of these I J foreign countries, notably that of i 5i Grccco, the courts of soveral states, Ij h including New York, Oregon and Coll-fl Coll-fl J fornla, have hold that the alien labor 'j : laws of those states wero unconstl-ft unconstl-ft ! iutlonal in that they conflict with tho A ' Tights In this country tluit foreigners P f are entitled to under the terms of ex-fl ex-fl 'j ifetlng treaties. 'i f v Trouble Long Brewing. gj The trouble In Boise has been brow- . 4ng for some tlmo, duo to the fact that ij thero has been a great deal of Jj jmbllc cfjn tract work In progress, con- slstlng principally in the laying of pavement Jn tuedms.ness and residen- I tlal sections. The Paotfic Paving i .company has charge of the work and f nost ot tho lijhor has been performer oy foreigners, it la claimed, in pref- t erence to native labpr. t Tho city qouncil first took action n the alien labor question by declarer ,nK that all foreigners engaged on public work In Boise niuBt declare their intention to become citizens, Attracted by tho work afforded them in this city, many fo reigned nocked to Boise. The ruling of the council barred them from work, but thoy were not slow to bombard the federal fed-eral court and declare their citizen-flhlp citizen-flhlp intentions. This permitted many of them to secure employment. Agitation against 'the foreigners continued and native laborers, through their representatives, Edward Teesdale, swore swore to a complaint against the paving company's representative, repre-sentative, charging him with violation viola-tion of the alien labor law in existence exist-ence in this city which prohibits the employment of aliens on public work of any kind except where the foreigners for-eigners have declared their Intention to and secured their first citizenship papers Case, tho dofendant, in his appeal to tho suprenie court asserted that the law was unconstitutional in that it conflicts with the fourteenth amendment amend-ment to tho constitution of the United States. In his petltiou he holds that sections 1458 and 1460 of the revised code of Idaho are In violation of the federal civil rights bill and of section sec-tion 1 of tho treaty of commerce and navigation between tho United States and the kingdom of Greece, concluded conclud-ed Deccmbor 22, 1837. The sections of the law are also held to he In conflict con-flict with section 1 of the constitution of Idaho. nn |