Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-06-25
OVER MILLION
ALIENS LOOK
To HOMELAND
Planning to Desert Unit
ed States for Lands
of Nativity.
To CARRY -FOUR BILLION
DOLLARS OUT OF COUNTRY
Chicago Tribune Service.

Washington. June 24.-One millioI
three hundred thousand aliens in the
United States are planning to desert tnis
country for their homeland and they
will take with them approximately four
billion American dollars.
These facts were disclosed today in q
report by Ethelbert Stewart Of Chicago
director of the investigation and inspec-
ton service Of the department Of labor
They are the result of an investigation
conducted into prospective emigration
of aliens from the United States to their
own countries, an investigation which
will end June 20.
The estimate that 1900, 900 aliens will
leave the country is based on inquiries
made in various parts of the country up
to June ] and Mr.. Stewart says it is d
conservative estimate. The declaration
that the departing aliens will take with
basis that the average amount of money
which each alien will carry home is
$1,000.
Up to June 1 investigations had been
conducted in the following states and
centers," says an official statement from
the department of labor:
Chicago, He the Indiana Steel mill
district (South Chicago, East Chicago,
Indiana Harbor, South Bend, Gary, etc.
Detroit. Mich; Pittsburgh, Pa, and sur
rounding steel district (Bethlehem, Ran
kin, Braddock, etc. Johnstown, Pa,
Youngstown, Ohio. and Wilkesbarre, Pa.
and surrounding coal mining area. The
investigation is at present being con-
Quoted in the bituminous coal mining
districts and Lawrence. Mass, Bridge
port, Conn.,, and a number of New Eng
land towns. The population of these dis
tricts is largely alien and represents
many nationalities.
From data collected in these centers
from representative aliens of the var
ious nationalities estimates have been
made of the percentages of aliens who
plan to return to their home countries
These percentages are based on figures
giving the number of aliens of each ma
tionality in the community and the num-
Der who contemplate returning to Eu
rope. Thus, Of 1853. 49S Poles covered
by the investigation, 24.590, or 1904 per
cent will return to Poland. In some
cases the figures reported were only of
the number of aliens who will return
to their home countries and did not
show what relation that number bore to
the total population of the nationality
in that community.
However, the following figures are
representative. OF the Austro- -Hungar
ians covered, 2S.02 per cent will return;
Poles. 1904 per cent; Russians, $50
per cent; Croatians, 2I75 per cent;
Lithuanians, 9.72 per cent; Rumanians,
% per cent: Italians and Greeks, IL
per cent; Serbs, $3.50 per cent; Slovaks,
80 per cent,
Mr. Stewart states a very conserva-
tive estimate of the number who will
return to be 300, 900 and that this is
in excess of the ordinary outgo of aliens.
There are something like 400, 900, mostly
Italians, who have come to our shores
in the early spring Of, each year, worked
until fall and returned to Italy. This
migratory group has not been considered
in the investigation being conducted by
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