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Other....Proposals by Altgeld.

Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Jan. 11, 1873

....In regard to prison labor, he advocates that convicts should be attached to small industries, so that no competition with free labor may arise....

(Translator's note)

Recalling his pre-election promises: "Convict-contract labor is unconstitutional," it seems utterly incomprehensible to disregard one of his major promises upon which he rode into office.

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