Protecting American Labor

Protecting American Labor.

Scarcely an immigrant ship comes from Europe that does not contain her quota of imported laborers, and it is this system of importation that causes so much demoralization of labor and distress at times in the mining regions of Pennsylvania. As soon as the imported laborers understand their rights and threaten to strike in defense of them, southern Europe is drawn upon for a fresh importation, and thus the supply is kept constantly in excess of the demand.--Philadelphia Record.