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Lake Superior
Several hundred men, under written contract to work for the companies, at good wages, for a specified time, i. e., until they should have paid the expense of bringing them to the country, were brought over and distributed, pro rata, over the mines. But quite a number,, more than a majority, of these contract men, refused to work or reimburse their passage money. They were not slaves, they said, their importation was a fraud; it was true they desired to come to America, but now they were here-they would not work; the companies might whistle.
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