The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-02
TAX ON FOREIGNERS
IN FRANCE?
NUMBER OF ALIEN
LABORERS is CAUSING
ALARM.

IdTIS' haFcI l. Sllall Il TAX DC
placed upon the employment of for
eigners in France? This Is the i'm
portant question submitted to parlia-
ment by Frenchmen who see a grave
menace in the rapidly increasing for
eisn labor Statistics show that for
egners are encroaching upon asricul-
tural France on all her frontiers
The Belgians come from the north
the Germans from the east the Ital-
ians cross the Alps and the Spaniards
the Pyranees to find easier conditions
in the riches of this country. In the
departments on all these frontiers the
foreign born form an average of 10
per cent of the inhabitants.
Americans as Well as all other for
eigners doing business in France may
be the object of legislation, the pur-
pose of which is to relieve Frcnchmen
from one kind of competition at home.
NJ. NJ Lerolle, Gallios and other mem-
bers of the chamber of deputies have
proposed law forbidding any com
pany or firm which has one or sew
eral foreign managers or directors
from employing more than 10 per cent
Of its staff from foreigners. Should
this bin be passed it would affect
some 50 American companies organ
lied under French law as French COM
panies, but really owned and man
aged by American companies doing
business in France, such as the oil,
agricultural, machine and insurance
companies
Americans Interested in labor prob
| lens in the United States have gath
cred here some interesting data about
Russia in connection with their study
of the general European situation. 1t
appears that Russian Workmen are
| falling back into the condition of po-
litical and industrial discomfort char
acteristic of the revolutionary years of
1908, 1906 and 1907. Official rigures of
the board of factory inspection show
there were 1918 factory strikes in
Russia last year, involving GS3 work.
men and causing a loss of over 2,200,-
0oo working days, as against AGA strikes
affecting GS3,0OO workmen in 1911 and
222 strikes affecting only 47,O0O work.
men in 1910. TO find year to com
pare with 1912 for industrial demorali-
szatlon 1t is necessary to return to the
strike statistics of 1907, the last of the
revolutionary years when 100000 men
We're out during the year.
About tWO-thirdS of the strikes last
year We're declared for purely political
purposes according to the official re-
port. They show the increasingly sue
cessful activity of political aeitators of
the social democratic and social revo-
lutionary schools. These concentrate
h.i or
in the large centers like St Petersburg
Moscow and Warsaw. The bases of
these political strikes were the shoot
ing down of workmen In the Lena gold
fields. Siberia. for which d general
strike of Russian Workmen was or
dered as protest; May day demon
strations of the solidarity of labor;
protests against elections to the fourth
| duma under the law Of 1906 which the
| radical parties refuse to regard as
legal; protests against the Introduction
| of the Workmen's sickness and casualty
law adopted last year. and a demon
stration against the infliction of the
death penalty on mutinous sailors of
the Black sea fleet.
This rapid growth in the strike
|
many Workmen were out as in 1911,
and almost Is times as many as in
1910, is being kept up in the current
year, which started out with a wide
spread strike in memory of the victims
of RED Sunday" in st. Petersburg,
January %, 1905. Fifty five thousand
| Workmen, according to the police fig
ures, or some 10000, according to pri-
Vate accounts, laid down their tools
January % in St. Petersburg alone as
a protest AGAINST the shooting of the
followers of Father Gapon by the
| troops eight years earlier, an event
which the world abroad has almost
| forgotten and which in Russia Is rarely
heard of except on the annual recur-
renee of the date
The Russian police are active in their