The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-20
.EM|GRAT|ONAT THE
 END 0F THE WAR
Liberation of Soldiers Will
 Drug Labor Market
TO COME TO AMERICA
Experts Think This Country Will Be in Position to Absorb Much of Un- employed-France Will Be the
 Least Affected

Paris, Sept. 15.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-The effect of the war on emigration to the United States Is a subject of less interest to France than other European countries. In late years the average of French :
 men who have gone to America an nually was less than 10000. The French are not migratory race and in the opinion of great many think ing people they will have more than
 ever reason to remain at home after
 the war when everyone looks for n great commercial and industrial im- petus.
 On the other hand. there are con- petent authorities who hold that the simultaneous liberation of 15,00o, ,00o or ! more of soldiers will drug the labor
 market in all countries, and partier- larly in France and Belgium where the demand for labor will for a consider
 able period feel the effect of the 'le-
 vastation of its industries. During the reconstruction and readjusting period
 those authorities expect that a con siderable proportion of labor will be at-
 tracted by the higher wages paid in
 the United States.
 Can Absorb Labor
 Monsieur Dal Piaz. director of the French Transatlantic line. whose func- tions require him to be posted on 1nli = grafton problems, thinks that the United States, having been least of all the great industrial countries, af- fected Aby the war. will be in shape at the end of hostilities to absoro a Ian rci6 6n1-o Ia .f ployed labor of Europe. That labor, he thinks instead of waiting for the | transition period to pass will emigra q 1 in large proportion.
 1 Monsieur March. treasurer of the 1 Federation of Labor unions. admits the | force of these arguments as applied to other European countries Russia. Ger
 many. Austria and Hungary, for in-
 stance--but he believes war will have
 no effect upon the emigration from | France.
 Aside from a few miners from the 1 north who go to the United Stares
 most of the French emigrants are iron, the south along the Spanish border l As for the former, they will ali D,
 needed as soon as hostilities end to
 bring the fuel supply up to require ments. There is no danger of others emigrating because they will find ! plenty to do while industries are beins restored III neipihg 10 repuilu.
 To Eliminate Germans | The labor situation in France AIon- sieur March thinks. will be much re- lieved by the elimination of German who were employed in considera ole numbers in France before the war All hotels will have to reconstitute
 their staffs The great proportion ot 1 the jewelry workers in Paris Were l Hungarians, who must he replaced There were also continually in Paris
 considerable numbers of Germans par ticularly in offices. working voluntarily ! without pay in order to learn the bnsi i ness and the language. No one con
 siders the eventuality of these comins
 back and the demands for French help 1 in all branches will be proportonatel, increased.
 l Labor leaders do not now nor have 1 they ever, encouraged emigration be- 1 cause they have been in closer toucl with labor conditions in the United States than anyone else and know that work Is not always 10 be had there l while there is always something .o bt done at home.
 Persons familiar with sociological