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The Hood River Glacier
Hood River, Hood River County, Oregon
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Contractors like Twohy Bros. face challenges securing efficient white labor, as illustrated by a slow worker serving a fine, leading to arguments for importing Japanese and Chinese workers despite labor organizations' objections.
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Just what Twohy Bros. and other contractors are "up against' in securing labor was evident to Colonel Crossen and C. A. Boiders, who timed a fellow whom they turned loose on the street to serve out a fine.
In five minutes the fellow had dumped ten shovels full, when an ordinary workman should have handled twenty five.
It might be supposed that his lethargy was due to the circumstances: that naturally a man working out a fine would be slow, but contractors say it is next to impossible to secure honest white laborers these days. and that labor organizations have no grounds for kicking on Japanese and Chinese being imported.-Chronicle.
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worker handled only ten shovels in five minutes versus twenty-five for an ordinary workman; contractors report difficulty securing honest white laborers and defend importing japanese and chinese workers.
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Twohy Bros. and other contractors struggle to secure labor, demonstrated by Colonel Crossen and C. A. Boiders timing a lethargic man working off a fine on the street, who moved slowly despite expectations.