The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-11-08
IMMIGRATION AND THE PANAMA CANAL.

Approximately 100000 European immigrants will land the
Pacific within year after the Panama canal completed
line alone equipped take 100000 immigrants More
Europe selling transportation Pacific instamen
plan The difference fare from European ports ports Of
barkaon the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard $39 the Pacific
coast as against $3.50 to the Atlantic
I'm order take of the hordes of people who will
here when the canal completed immigration station
reproduction Island-should established
climatic conditions and agricultural of the i'm
migrants will This vital than many people here realize
of right character There are 100000 acres
arabic land in the state of Washington which should be cleared and
made available for the coming hor Otherwise Second will
TEEN with immigrants with their packs their backs looking for
see that they get the right kind of kind that will
make the soil productive and add the general prosperity of the
There room Seattle for the unsd laborer
for the skilled aborer from foreign If
aliens into the sweashops they will become dissatisfied with
Placed on the land they vii be ontened and happy have stake in
the country and build up the very best kind Of citizenship
The main thing satisfactorily settle them after they
to that every promise made them lived up
Owing Misrepresentation of
migrants from Northern Europe who oeng to South
Africa and South America They being replaced by aliens of
lower type Of intelligence and the result far of
arriving aliens today is from 90 per
their here Seattle will swamped with people
who know not where they going what they intend to do
forehough given the matter they be c
M above q" words a ap general no b eds 6
agtaor but the utterances of high the world of finance
member of the syndicate that backed the Pacific
its efforts to establish terminal docks Fem
Mr. Fem belongs to class that interested seeing immense
population the Pacific 1t business syndicate
and his class But the the danger wholesale exodus
from Southern Europe of ate dependent class of immigrants
TOW much should the workers this be alive
that the shall
affcP Certain interests trying u by
eron that the immigrants will flock the land
culture and adding the wealth and prosperity of the
greatly fear that this Of the program will imaginary
than real Coming shores without money friends
with knowledge of language of probability
that they will become easy prey the Establishments
supuous employers Of labor who the incoming horde wealth
OF cheap labor Our American standard of living schedules
and hours OF employment less than nothing the
poymg class Labor conditions obtained held
of that class but in spite of it. Eternal vigilance agitation
and organization if labor is hold the of
has built the the onslaught Of
will surely when the labor market becomes congested with
immigrants from Southern Europe Organized labor
forefront of the preparation the conditions which will
arise this coast within two three years time must
besieged educational teracy
migrants at the next session of The body of
gained wormn in the woods and mills and factories of this
must be organized for their protection and Public sen
men must be aroused to the peril unrestricted immigration
this coast The time short Every
organized labor resolve do his part
must be done to hold fast that which has been toll
and sacrifice against the oncomng of European labor