Show FOR IMMORAL PURPOSES women are being imported along the isthmus washington ov 18 oid ft as ie calved from the isthmus of panama at the office of the isthmian canal commission today thai a rumor was in circulation cu there that n givlio ai rived recently from martinique anil ft ho had come with A large number of laborers for the canal as members of their families had really been brought for immoral purposes this rumor was deferred lef erred to jackson manager oe labor and quarters qu aiters on the isthmus who is in washington on official business connected with his department and he made the following comment we are recruiting laborers froni jamaica barbados martinique and other west indian territory in large numbers and a great many ot theoni are bringing their families and are making their home on the isthmus the lamiller of our laborers are solving the problem of chambermaids house servants and domestico domestics of all classes as well as being the only laundry workers at the present time we do not receive women for tah work and only bring them along with the individual head of the family or send for them when the individual has been long enough in our service tn demonstrate his ability as a first class laborer and has accumulated enough to benl for his family |