Immigration

by Henry Pratt Fairchild

[236]. Streightoff, op. cit., p. 162.

[241]. In this investigation pupils are listed by their own nativity, rather than by that of the father.

[242]. Rept. Imm. Com., Greek Padrone System, pp. 7, 8. For an account of the operation of the system in England, see Wilkins, W. H., The Alien Invasion.

[243]. For a fuller description of the system, and a more detailed account of its crying evils, see Fairchild, H. P., Greek Immigration, and Rept. Imm. Com., The Greek Padrone System in the United States.

[244]. For an illustration of such a contract, see Rept. Imm. Com., Greek Padrone System, Abs., pp. 23–24.

[245]. Cf. Addams, Jane, Twenty Years at Hull-House, p. 221.

[246]. Rept. Imm. Com., Contract Labor, Abs., p. 12, which compare throughout.

[247]. Clyatt case, 197 U. S. 207.

[248]. Cf. Rept. Imm. Com., Peonage, etc.

[249]. Rept. Imm. Com., Immigrant Banks, p. 35.