Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-30
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
THURSDAY JANUARY 80, 1873
MENACE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
AND THE REMEDY FOR 1T


With less than twenty per cent of
the enlisted men discharged from the
service, and with quite percentage
of the war work sill in progress,
Harold Stone. national superintend-
ent of bureaus for returning soldiers
and sailors. sends to the federal en-
ployment service the following state
ment:
An acute unemployment situation
is developing in many parts of the
country. In many of the larger cities,
soldiers are falling to find employ
ment. Usually the soldiers who be-
long in these cities get their employ
ment back, but those who go there
from other places are finding increas-
ing difficulty in getting jobs"
Mr.. Stone might have pointed out
that in every instance where the re-
turned soldier gets his old job back
some person who has been holding
that job is thrown out of employment.
Mr.. Stone adds THE situation is
one which not only affects the indi-
vidual soldier, but is one which
threatens serious consequences unless
present tendencies are checked"
The Serious tendencies are to-
ward Bolshcvism and economic dsas-
ter induced ty strikes lockouts, bread
lines and other consequences of large
numbers of persons having no means
of earning an honest living, The hun
CRY man is a potential anarchist, as is
the man employed who does not re-
ceive enough in wages or salary to
permit him to raise a family in rea-
sonable comfort--the man who al
ways hears the VOLTS paws scratch
ing at the door of his inadequate
home, If he doesn't actually feel the
VOLTS cruel fangs.
To prevent unemployment and its
certain consequences two things
should be done without delay;
/. There should be federal provi-
sion for the employment of every
person who will work. This employ
ment should be of the useful sort
like construction of irrigation dams
drainage of lands and their prepare
ton for cultivation. such as is pro-
posed under the bin now before con-
gress known as the Lane measure,
and in the construction of branch
railroads for opening up new territory
for settlement and for encouragement
az ,,nu onSnrnrigce
9 There should be immediate leg
islation for restriction of immiGra-
ton,
The journal has pointed out repeat
eddy the dangers which face us from
the flood OF immigrants contain ia
seek admission to our shores when
peace is formally declared For the
most part the people who will come
here, if our laws remain as they are
would constitute an undesirable Citi-
zenship. They would come largely
from Germany and Austria for the
purpose of participating in the oppor.
tunities of the one country where
taxes are light, where raw material
is plentiful, where money is abundant
Under the autocracy. emigration
from Germany was discouraged; UNI
der the new democracy that will be
established, every man who wants tC
leave what was formerly the German
empire will be permitted to do SO
That the Germans will load the steer
age of every ship coming here, if we
put no further check on immigration
is the testimony of every American
who has visited Germany since tn,
armistiee was signed and of every of
ficer and soldier of Pershing's arm!
who has come in contact with Ger
man prisoners.
Emigration from Germany is tn,
one way in which they hope to escap,
the burdens of taxation. certain to b,
imposed for reconstruction purposes
and for indemnities imposed by thu
allies
These people would not be loyal II
the United States. if they came here
All Oh lHeUl are pOlsoleu Win III
virus of MARKHAM socialism. The.
would come here ready to join il
Bolshevist propaganda and to becom
partakers in |. w. w. violence.
These people are not loyal to Ger
many. because they want to escap
from that country before they ar
called upon 10 do their share in re
pairing the ruin they aided in Great
ing and to pay their part in the in
IDENTITIES which will be Demands
because of the outrages perpetrate
by their armies. They are not willinl
to do their share by their home pco
pie. and they would not bear the bur