The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
THOUSANDS OF
ALIENS LEAVING
Going Back to Europe with
Their Wartime
HOardings
ALL IMMIGRATION
OFFICIALS RUSHED

Measuro-Great Proportion OF Emil
grants Are Itahans-Will Reduce
Country's Labor Supply.
BOSTON Mar. Thousands of aliens
in the United States, having accumulat-
ed little money through the high wages
paid during the war, are leaving this
country for their native lands. Commits
sioners of immigration everywhere are
receiving applications for permission to
depart from the United States, and there
is no indication of immediate abatement.
Though European points are the objec-
tive point of the great majority OF these
aliens, Asia Africa, South America and
Australia are receiving a quota of this
great exodus.
As the requirement of passports to
leave the United States is war meas
urc which went into effect on Sept. IA,
1918, the immigration authorities have
no comparative figures, but they say
that the number OF aliens leaving the
country before the outbreak of the wa
sands are leaving, the labor situation is
not expected to be materially affected
thereby, as the practical abandonment of
all war work has released q large amount
of labor for peace projects. Whether the
enactment OF the proposed immigration
bill, prohibiting immigration for a peri
cd OF four years, will cause a serious
shortage of common labor, is a question
yet to be determined.
More than $500 permits to leave this
country have been granted through the
immigration officials Of Boston and its
sub-stations in the past few months. Thu
Boston Office alone has issued more thar
1000 OF them and the applications con
tinue to come in.
OF the 1000 aliens who have beer
granted permits to depart by the Bos
ton agents, approximately $500 ar,
Italians. Then come British. Greeks
Portuguese and the other nationalities
Sixty per cent of these departed o
departing aliens are illiterates an,
unless they return wittilt six mon III
and have had previous residence in thi
country Of five years they cannot com
back. Information received by the i'm
migration authorities indicates that
greater part of them have from 81 900 t
$1,000 in United States money To tax
back with them. They had accumulate
the most of this in the past three or fou
years, during the period in which wage
for lahorers advanced in some cases I
as high as $50 week. and with thei
savings they intended to settle down an
enjoy life of comparative aifluence an
ease on the little plot Of land and in III
little house under the blue skies of ''su1
ny Italy or elsewhere.
According to the immigration official
Italy, Greece and other European eour
tries are glad"to get their sons back III
der conditions like these described. The
want their help during the Reconstructed
period and they need their money. tn
United States has filled their pocket
and they arg going back as fast as til
boats will take them, and with them al
going thousands of dollars in America
money. Soon they will be located anon
their childhood friends, on their own Ii
tie farm or vineyard, to be pointed out b
their ncighbors as among those who wer
TO the United States and came back ric
Many English women, too. are goiT
back Caught in the United Stat,
when Great Britain found the situate
such that it placed an embargo on the r
turn OF any of its women, hundreds
them have been awaiting the momp'
when they could 20 back. Many are Il
wives Of men serving with the armies
France. Up to January 81 the Bostt
Office had issued more permits to Won't
subjects of Great Britain than to me
The immigration authorities in Be
ton have refused but few of the app
stations. some sixty or seventy in a
Aliens of the nations involved in the W
against the United States, or of the ne
trail countries, have had to send their a
plications to the state department
Washington. And so the remigrati
of aliens goes on and nobody can for
see the end From all over the Unit
States the applications are reaching I
Immigration officials. A few may col
back, but it is believed that the MAORI
will remain in the countries of their L
tivity bTF