The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-05
Great Immigration From
 America Miss Keller Tells
 \ Audience Of Bridgeporters Bolshevism Does Not Threaten Revoltion In America
Bolshevism Does Not Threaten Revoltion Tn America Says Expert On AInericanization Program
 Work of Inter Racial Council

VASS frances A. kellOr of the Inter Racial Council of New York addressed large gathering at the High School Auditorium last night with a vivid de- scT7ptton of Bolshevisn, it's cause, and nShe way to offset it's doctrines in this country.
 Miss Kenor is working in conjunc- SeE with the Manufacturers Associa- tion of Connecticut the Chamber of Commerce, and the States American tzation Depalrn:enL
 "BoIshevlsm cannot survive in the face of prosperity, justice and oppor- tunity," said Miss NClIor
 Through the Inter-RaciaI council of which she is a member, Miss KelIor said cO-operated effort is being launched to combat the BoIsheviki in this country
 Lynn W. Wilson introduced Miss kel1or at the meeting last night and there were representatives of many of the large manufacturing concerns comm ercial bodies. civic and reltg- 4ous organizations on the platform and In the audience.
 Among the several hundred mem bers of the council are the American Brass company, the American WOOlen company, the Standard Oil company, the United States Rubber company,
 
 Mercantile company, General Motors corporation, Thomas Ediz-n Inc. Ar mour and company, Otis Elevator company, J. P. Morgan and company National Cash Register company, Ma tional Sugar Refining company, American Locomotive company, Amer tcan Tobacco company, and other firms in every branchsof industry and manufacturing.
 There are three ways to defeat Bolshevism,'' said Miss Keuor. tThey are: To steady industrial morale; to - improve working conditions. and to understand the Immigrant and open the channels of communication so he can get information, help his coUn- trymen, and So realize that staying in America is the way to do this"
 Miss KeIIor pointed out that now that the war is over there is a flood of applications from foreign born workers in the industrial plants of the country to return to their old homes in Europe. If these foreign born workers were able to know that their relatives in the war-striclleu countries are getting along all right, there would be less discOntent here, and less desire to leave their jobs and the country, she said
 '"The immigrant must be steadied by Americans helping him to do the thing he wants to do,'' she said. ''As 1 an illustration, thousands of immi- i grants are now trying to send food | and clothing to the other side; other | thousands are trying to send money | A plan has just been worked out be 1 tween Herbert Hoover and the Inter | Racial council whereby all of these l nationals in America will be encour- | aged to give to their own people. The | commodities will be bought here by MT. Hoover who will guarantee de- | livery on the other side, paying all | overhead, and using every dollar l contributed for supplies. This will 1 eliminate fraud, exploitation and de- | lays. It will enable men to feel that l their families will get their savings ] They will not lay down their jobs to | go back and take their savings | home"
 ''The inevitable deterioration of l morale following the war is what l makes people susceptible of BoIshev- l ist arguments" she stated. ''No class . or country Is immune. This serious lacking of morale throughout the world gives Bolshevism its oppor- | tunity.
 Among the things responsible for the loss of morale are the wholesale Reorganization of industry and transportation in most countries of the world; the necessary shifting of labor, reaching as high as 50 per cent. in some countries; the extreme variations in prices of different com modities and to the serious disloca- tion of delicate price structures upon which a business man must reckon his profits; the great increases in in comes far exceeding the opportunities or the education to use them wisely
 The consequent disruption of in- dustrial and political life, have shift ed the economic values of the world and have demoralfzed the standards of both workmen and of capitalists
 Add to this" she said, "the reduc- tion of resources and of man-power by war, the crazy ideas about what industrial democracy means, and what the new republics abroad may have to offer in new freedom and the inevitable result is loose thinking or fnaction.
 tTn Europe the dete,. ton in morale Is facilitated by hunger, by Reorganization, by suffering and l above all by a lack of confidence.
 '1n America, 1t is facilitated by prosperity, by easy money, by lux ury, by power, and above all by over-conhdence'