The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-17
DARKEST EUROPE IN
LEAGUE AGAINST j: S.
Austria Hungary Government
$. neutrality-suspicious.
With Steamship Company.
Guarantee 10000 Emigrants a
Year Under Penalty Of 100
Crowns Per Head Less.

Washington, D. c., March 15.-Al
Washington is indignant over the .ex-
posures recently made in a report by
United States Immigrant Inspector
Marcus Braun, after an investigating
tour through Southern Europe. His
report is both startling and revealing.
There is sufficient in it to warrant con-
gress to pass some very strong retail
iatory measures. Among other things
Mr.. Braun says:
Il found condition Of things which
convinced me beyond any doubt that
some European governments, agencies
and private individuals are continuing
to regard this country the dumping
ground for thousands of their unde-
sirable people.
These conditions, coupled with the
arrogant and widespread assumption
that this country is but an asset Of a
large number of Europeans, subject
only to their desires and orders, is such
that If universally known in this coun
try 1t would drive the blood of humil-
iation into the face of every good
American, and description of which
would defy the pen of a Macaulay."
Il shall attempt to prove in this re-
port, by uncontrovertible evidence, that
while the number of aliens shipped to
this country who are inadmissable I'M
der our laws because of disease is con-
siderably diminished, immigrants in
admissible for reasons other than dis
ease are constantly brought into the
country in large numbers by the con-
OF ofi of
ernments and steamship agencies, by
bankers and schemers of all Sorts"
Il believe I have shown conclusively,
in my said various reports of this
year, as we'll as in my report for Aug
ust, 1904, that several European gov
ernments and more particularly the
governments of Italy and Austria-Hun-
gary, are encouraging the temporary
exodus to this country of those, of their
people whom they cannot support, and
that they employ every possible means
to keep these aliens grouped together
In this country, and under their in
f1uence for the purposes of avoiding
their assimilation with our customs
and institutions, and 1 have likewise
shown in these reports that consider
able propaganda is carried on in the
United States to assist these govern
ments in their attempts
Immediately upon my arrival on the
European continent I noticed a fever
ish activity among the various steam
i; ship agents with reference to the bust
| ness from Hungary. I saw tons of en-
ticing literature shipped to that country
and I learned that some enormous
commissions were being offered to SUBJ
agents."
|. 1T was at this time that I learned
! of the famous clause contained in the
agreement referredl to between the
Hungarian government and the Cunafd
| Line by the terms of which said gov
| ernments guarantees to the Cunard
Steamship company, for their line
| 'Fiume to New York. 10000 third class
| (steerage) passengers per year, or a
! penalty of 100 crowns for every emf
grant lacking said number
The privileged and licensed county
agents, with their multitude of SUBJ
agents, work overtime to get people to
go to America. The government off,
Gals aid them in every respect, and
only such applicants are rejected who
are under Indictment or who do not
want to purchase their tickets from the
'Adria' Steamship Company, or the
Central Ticket Office. Criminals, pau
pers and otherwise inadmissable per-
sons under the United States Immi-
grafton laws get their passports and
tickets just as quickly as they may
apply for the same
1.-The main thing seems to be that the
Hungarian government should get
plenty of 10 crowns per head for every
person leaving the country; that the
'Adria' Steamship Company should get
plenty of per cent commission on all
the emigration business, and that the
Central Ticket Office should receive
plenty of Is crowns commission. The
Hungarian government has drawn uI
! to date, since the enactment Of its
| famous emigration law, over 2,60O, 0OC
! crowns-during March 1905, from the
! North German Lloyd alone, 100000
crowns
1.-THE Italian government, however
goes even further in directing and
regulating it's emigration in a manner
! detrimental to the United States than
does Hungary. Every steamer which
| leaves an Italian port for the United
| States has so-called royal commits
sloner'' aboard who instructs and
! coaches his porteges during all of the
| two weeks trip across, devoting an an
preciable portion of that time to warn
| ing his fellow Italian passengers