Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-02-28
Congressman Langley Should
Discover the Real Cause of
This Easily.
Superior Court Judge Hams Ex-
pose of the Union Labor
Bogey.
BIGoTRr IS The Grief CAUSE

In discussing the proposed immi-
grafton bill In the columns of the
Kentucky Irish American last week
it was pointed out that Kentucky
received but few of the immigrants,
due to the hostile attitude of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics, the very small number
of immigrants coming to this section
shown in the report Of the Immigra-
ton Bureau for the fiscal year end
Ing June 80 of last year. Out of
1,197, ,S92 immigrants coming to
this country only 5000 settled in the
combined States of Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and North Carolina,
which is convincing evidence why
these States are not progressing as
fast as their sister States, who have
received the bulk of the immigra-
ton. Congressman John w. Lang
ley, Of the Tenth Kentucky district,
in investigating the immigration
question discovered that the immi-
grants arriving at Baltimore were
supplied with maps of the United
States, and that on these maps Ken
lucky was marked with bla,k spot,
this Intending to convey the meaning
that Kentucky was an undesirable
state for immigrants, but states
that he has no information as to who
or what is responsible for the boy
cott of Kentucky, and considers 1t
an injustice to the State. The in
vestigation of Congressman Langley
does not seem to have been a very
thorough one or he would have dis
covered that the greatest opponents
of immigration are the Junior Or
der, and furthermore this order is
reputed to be very strong in his own
bailVick. -. *. - n !. 1, *.
Discussing the Burnett immigra-
ton bill from a labor standpoint in
addressing an audience at Chicago
recently, Judge Hugo Pam, of the
Superior Court, said in part:
1--WE must first of all remember
that the immigrant who now comes
over does not come to take the place
of the skilled laborer. He is of the
unskilled class and comes to fill a
need in our country. The German,
the Irish, the Scandinavian immi-
grant has vacated the place that the
new immigrant comes to fill. We
will suffer If we close off the source
that is supplying this want. Nothing
is more false than the statement
that the immigrant helps to lower
Industrial and social conditions.
Turn to the South, the most back
ward section of the country. The
percentage of immigrants going
there is the minimum. Yet see what
conditions prevail there. Child la
Dor is not only tolerated, but State
assemblies refuse to pass a restric-
tion bill. Women are slave driven,
working hours unlimited, labor
unions hardly known. In the States
where immigration is greatest child
labor is not tolerated. Illinois is a
fair example. In the immigration
States laboring hours have been re-
-duced since 1872 in the wooden in
dustry alone from fifty-nine and
sixty hours a week to fifty-three
and forty-eight hours. Among the
so-called desirable citizens from
Northern Europe only 10 per cent.
belong to organized labor, while
among the so-called undesirable inn
migrants. 16 per cent. support or
ganized labor. In the South 12 per
cent. Of all labor is child labor. In
the great immigration States OF New
York and Massachusetts only per
cent. and 81 per cent. respectively
of all labor are constituted by child
labor. They call the Italian immi-
grant bird Of passage and say, for
instance, that after they dug the
subway of New York they took their
hard-earned coin back to Italy Yes,
II was declared, but they left New
York its subway. which Americans
would not have dug"
Thus II can be seen from the above
that the labor question is only a
blind to hide the real feelings of the
Junior Order and other kindred A.
p. A. societies, their sole purpose
being actuated by religious bigotry.
and II Congressman Langley or any
of our civic or commercial organiza-
tions want TO know the real cause
Of Kentucky's sloth In the march
OF progress IL can be traced to the
door of the Junior Order, who are
the real foes to its progress by their
un-American campaign of religious
bigotry.