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Chicago Ill
May 30 — 1867

Maj Genl O O Howard
Washington

Genl
As you are the head of the Freedmens Bureau — the proper place for information relative to labor from this class — I suppose is through your department — and I address you for this purpose — 

Enclosed pleas find a pamphlet that explains our business — Our men are all on a strike and have been for over a month — with no prospect of them going to work — as long as they are furnished means to live in idleness — Have you any Colored Men that are miners — or do you know of any — The local mines of Virginia were formerly worked exclusively by slaves — and were called a good class of workmen — 

If we are driven to import men