New-York tribune., 1903-07-24
PAUPER JEWS COMING.
RESULT OF KISHTNEFF.
Derlous Means of Entry-Contract
Labor La1cS Laughed at.
[FnoM TIE TRIBUNE RuREAu.l

TFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.1
Washington. July pas g result of the
Kishinef race riots and massacres. the United
States is TO receive large consignment Of very
undesirable Hebrew immigrants from that city.
This statement has just been received by Com
missioner General Sargent Of the immigration
Bureau. from Marcus Braun, confidential agent
of the service in Europe. Mr.. Braun has re-
Gently visited Kishinen.
While the majority of the victims of the race
riots I do not consider undesirable" he writes
81 notice that there any number of paupers
who want to profit by the occasion and get
their passage paid by the local committee. which
IS distributing the funds collected all over the
world"
Mr. Braun says that of those who would be
desirable acquisitions to the population OF this
country few contemplate leaving Russia. Mr..
Braun gathered his information in part from
wealthy Hebrew of Kishineff, member of the
relief committee who said that the committee
had under advisement a plan to send large
number of families here by the way Of Copen-
hagen. When his attention called to the
fact that according to the United States immi-
grafton laws, assisted immigrants were not ad-
missible here, the committeeman said that he
should leave that matter to the Jewish Cooniza-
tion Association and the B'nai Birth in the
United States
In Rumania Mr.. Braun finds that there is a
regular shipment of about three hundred Jews
a week to this country. Some of them come by
the way OF Canada, but the bulk shipped
Through Rotterdam. These immigrants, he says.
are also in charge of Jewish societies. He was
told, however that great many of them were
not assisted financially, but only asked and re-
neived the moral support of the Jewish societies
20 avoid trouble with the authorities of the coun-
tries through which they passed.
EMIGRANTS UNDESIRABLE.
While travelling in Russia. Mr.. Braun says,
he visited many centres from whence the United
States gets a large Hebrew immigration and
from personal interviews with great number Of
these would-be euigrants," he writes, Il found
them to he absolutely of the undesirable class.
But by the time they arrive at some United
States port / am afraid they are well instructed
and purified
Writing from Jassy Rumania Mr.. Braun says
that in a steamship immigration bureau he
talked with an empoye who "bluntly answered
my question as to why they book so many emf
grants for the United States by way of Canada
as follows: You see there are two reasons-in
fhe first place the control Of Canadian ports
SIS not so strict and. second. 1t is about 20 rubles
cheaper
AT my further questioning to why they
fear the control which is established at the ports
stances an emigrating family had or two
snernbers suffering from trachoma, and on ac-
count of that the whole family sent back.
1T is true he further said. that the Canadian
authorities refuse also trachomatic immigrants,
but they are not strict about it when they
find that the immigrant in question goes to the
United States
'I asked whether he was aware that the in
spection al the Canadian border was Just as
strict as at any seaport of the United States,
nd he these
grants having in most cases relatives in the
United States, were instructed by them to stay
in some place in Canada until they called for
them, and that these instructions were carried
out in every case
LAUGH AT CONTRACT LABOR LAWS.
Additional information as to the methods en-
ployed TO avoid the contract labor laws is re-
ported by Mr.. Braun from Vienna. He says
that information gathered by him there is to the
effect that our contract labor laws are laughed
at. Intended immigrants are put through such
thorough course of instruction that they are
able to meet all the questions asked. For IN
stance. the business of supplying stave cutters
for the Tennessee woods is carried on exten-
Eively. These contract laborers are sent to
Newport News or Galveston, and from there to
Tennessee by rail. He also reports discovering
p large traffic IN United States passports and
citizens papers at Fiume.
Writing from Paris, July 10 Mr.. Braun re-
ports the city Of CheassO as most important
rendezvous for intended immigrants to the
United States from the South of France, Italy,
Greece and Turkey. He declares that - per
cent Of the undesirable immigration could he
curtailed If al the little tricks and crooked
practices Of the immigration agents were
known. He reports the conviction Of one OF the
agents who was fined 10000 francs. One of the
charges against this agent was that he cheated
the Italian Government out of many passports
ct s 60 francs each.
favorile route to inject undesirable immi-
grants into the United States, according TO Mr..
Braun is to send them to Mexico and then get
them over the border into Texas at some place
off the railroad Mr.. Braun is still continuing
his investigation and furnishing the names and
offences of many steamship companies, as Wen
as Of these companies.