Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — OBJECT TO IMPORTED WORKMEN. [ARTICLE]

OBJECT TO IMPORTED WORKMEN.

Employes of a ( arpet Manufactory in Philadelphia o-i a Strike. Some weeks ago John & James Dobson, the extensive carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia, imported a number of weavers from Lnister’s milis, Bradford. Englaud. The weavers were intended to be put to work at manufacturing velvet in the plush department of the inihs-. The importation of the English opera-

lives has caused the greatest dissatisfaction among the old hands, and recently when three of the imported weavers and one loom-fixer began work at the looms all the operatives in the plush department, to the number of 500, left their looms and quit work. At the termination of the day s work 500 more hands employed at various work struck out of sympathy with the striking plush weavers. The striking employes claim that the Dobsons have violated the contract labor law by importing the weavers from England, but the Dobson’s claim the right to bring them over under the clause in the law which permits a manufacturer to import workingmen for the purpose of starting a new industry.