The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-02

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a theory based in the main on tn,
concept that national development
goes hand in hand with increase o.
population. In his summary MIR
Lauch aflirms what is unchallenge.
able. that there Is constant ant
widening tendency to abandon certain
occupations TO recent immigrants. IL
citing details of the process. In illus
trating, as 1t were. how one nail drive.
q another out, he points out that "ns
early as 1910 the Yankee girls who
were operatives in the New England
cotton mills began to leave their
looms and spindles because of the EN-
ployment in those establishments of
Irish women; later the Irish, who TO
a considerable extent had become an
older immigrant class. demurrcd at
tho entrance OF French Canadian fe-
male operators, and now these last
named are quitting or account of the
employment of Polish and other wo-
men of recent Immigration.
Mr.. L.auck recognizes that this ten
dency has been in large measure
psychological in it's nature, re-
sultant of the feeling liformly. he
declares, met with In all of our in
dustrinl communities, that certain
social stigma or lack OF responsibility
attaches TO native American or older
immigrant wage-earners who do the
same kind of work as Southern and
Eastern Europeans. In short, at the
last, there enters into the situation
race prejudice as differentiated from
rae. instinct. as the latter manifests
itself in the feeling of the Caucasian
towards the coiorcd races But the
more practical and significant factor
which Mr. Laucll recognizes and socks
to impress on public attention Is set
forth in his observation that whether
arising from one cause or another, or
whether the displacements have result
ed In the segregation OF certain occu-
pations within or the abandonment of
the industry by native Americans and
older immigrants, they have been
usually attended with an economic
loss or lower remuneration for the
original employees, and have directly
or indirectly resulted in the Inn
possibility of competing with the in
coming labor supply" Again, only
in the instance of small proportion
of native Americans and older imni-
grant employees has an advancement
IN the scale of occupation been made
possible by tho increase in the num-
Der OF executive and skilled positions
due to the expansion within recent
years OF all industries" Such adj
vancemcnt obviously. Mr.. Lauck ar
cues by convincing implication. must
decrease relatively with the progress
OF invention of labor-saving ma
chinory.
These conditions point logically and
unescapably to the conclusion that nm
less, as accommodates by the Immlgra-
ton Commission, all further general
les slotion concerning the admission
or aliens is based primcrily upon econ
om.c and business considerations
touching the prosperity and well be-
Ing of all the people, it is only
question OF time when the labor
problem will have sapped the very
foundations of our Industrial and So
Geological order, by eliminating the
true American spirit and impulse ana
pride IN the dignity of labor The
suppl nting process TO which Mr..
La"ck addresses himself so earnestly
and so vigorously. and which he clear
~ demonstrates he is exceptionally
fitted to discuss, is one OF undemo-
crati%ing the nation by making dis
unct cleavage between the employing
ella and the mass of industrial oper
auves at the expense of tic native
American and the older-the assimi-
iated-immigrant wage-earners who
cannot but finally become a negligible
political as well Is economic and so.
cial force and influence.