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...Competition is injurious under a public system of prison labor. - (a) To the outside laborer and manufacturer. - (1) Expense not an object to the State. Mass. Report as above...
...Competition is injurious under the contract system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Exploitation not reform sought. - (2) Work conflicts with discipline. - (8) Contractor's interest is to keep skilled workmen in prison. - (b) To the free laborer; Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics 1881, p. 228; Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics 1879, p. 191. (1) Undue concentration of trades, - N. Jersey Report 1882, statistics of trades of convicts committee. - (2) Competition with cheap labor, - system of letting contracts gives a contractor once established a monopoly of prison labor, - Princeton Review, 1880, pp. 239, 241. - (c) To the outside...
...Competition is excessively injurious under the lease system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Morals, all are herded together. - (2) All pretense of reform is given up. - (b) To outside competitors. - (1) Odium of system makes labor cheap. - (2) Nature of labor concentrates it on certain occupations, e.g., mining. - Tennessee troubles. - (c) To the peace of the State. - Ibid...
Best general references: U. S. Labor Comm. Report of 1886; Ohio Labor Comm. Rep. of 1879; Forum, VI, p. 414; Princeton Review, V, p. 225, Nation XL, p. 194; Westminster Review, L, p. 197; G. W. Cutler's "Lease System in the South...
...Employment in useless labor is demoralizing. - (e) It encourages carelesness. - (b) It is a wasto of material and tools...