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Show Queer American Workingmen. The coal, coke and iron bosses of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania who insist that the tariff levied in their interest is for the benefit of the American workingmen are occasionally exposed, very cleverly. Under the device de-vice of importing labor they have brought about a deplorable depression in wages, but at the same time they have revealed the falsity of their pretense as to the American workingman. In a row of some kind in the coke regions the other day fifteen or twenty men were arrested. They were striking laborers, presumably of the American variety, for whose benefit bene-fit the tariff is levied, and yet they were no sooner in jail than they appealed to the Austro-Hungarian Consul at Pitts-bnrg Pitts-bnrg for relief and he hastened to their side. v A few years ago when the American workingman got into trouble he did . not apply to a foreign consul for assistance. It must be, therefore, that there has been a great change somewhere of late. Chicago Herald, 5th. |