The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-06


 may smother tha immigratioR bill alould not cccasiCn much grief, Although this bill is framed up by leaders of .bo American Federation Of Labor it is not very sensible policy. As far is it's being equitable at all, that is far from being the ccse.
 It is true that the bill provides fer C lit0rccy test but it al3o vory positively takes away tho right of asylum for political refugees in tht man struggles for the very prin- ciples that animated the lib artarians Of any time in hi3 land and seeks a rofugc in tEc United States 26a. .nst tho rapacity of the powers of opprcs- zion which he struggled against, he finds the admission te hGG hoped in tlis asylum denied hin. But apc from this, it is a useless policy. Gr2nted in brief that it iS not very difficult to realize that chccp labor cen easily be introduced into Amor ica and being introduced used as club to force down wages in this country. That is self evident, but it is also evident that the remedy for this is not in shutting the door on fellow workers of other national ities, but in getting them organized, as follow workers with those who are here to struggle, in the same struggle for better conditions, Labor men should have larger than ment, and it's only pettifoggins policy to close the door against alien workers in the nope that there by those who are here will better their condition in the absence of competition
 1t may be admitted that immi- grafton. free and unrestricted has reduced wages in many lines of in dustry. But none of this immigra tion has really been as effective iH 
 reducing wages or so Gccentuated labors struggle for improved stand ards of living as the continual in- ventions and Improvements in the mechanism of production. And arc we to take the stand that because this is so labor must fight there fore all mechanical improvements, all labor saving devices and all those things make for industrial aG- vancement and technical progress?
 That used to be the Y4cW put for ward, but is so no longer. Men realize that the real direction ot advancement lies not Tn an opposition to technical improvements and labor saving devices in industry. They know that they must accept this in- evitable tendency and make the best of it.
 Human" beings all the world over are always and ever seeking where they can get the highest possible re- muneration for their labor. They are subjects of the human instinct common to all existence, the instinct to live. That's the main driving force in society and it is that driV- ing force which keeps up q perpe- tual flow of immigration to the shores of America.
 If men have faith in the labor movement they ought at least to be- love that the labor movement cosld take care of all increased immigra- tion and if it cannot, then in the name of Heaven it is high time that it began asking itself the question why not.
 If this or that organization falls downs and fails to organize the workers as they come into any in- dustry, there must be reason, and that is nearly always to be found in the organization itself.
 We know very well that immi- grafton brings into this country many who can neither read nor write. who are possessed for the greater part df an .nnsublimcd ami mai instinct to live as well as they possibly can, whose notion of mat ters of economics are hay and un- certain and who know little else bu, how to work hard. to eat and sleep brothers to the OK.
 That situation is not impoved ny labor men throwing up their hands