The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-16
AMERICAN FIRMS
ORC ANIzE TO
CHECK UNREST
Form lnter-raciaI Council to
Answer Attacks of BoiSheV-
ism on Industry.

Eew Workshops to combat unres-
In Industry and to correct the mis-
taken impression that all foreign born
are Reds" because several hundred
have been deported for Boshevist ac-
tivities are being taken by the Inter-
racial Council of No. 120 Broadway,
New York
The Council, which is headed by
General Coleman du Pont, was formed
several months ago by group of in
dustrial and financial organizations. 1t
now numbers more than four hundred
members and underwriters, according
to statement just made public outlin-
ing some of the organizations activi-
ties for the new year.
Arrest and deportation of several
hundred foreign born agitators in the
United States, the Council announces,
has cast suspicion unjustly upon the
foreign born generally, and, as a re-
suit, tens of thousands of them have
given up their jobs preparatory to
leaving America. One million already
have left
Enormous Labor Turnover.
The situation has caused an enor-
nous turnover of labor, production
continues far below requirements, and
the prospect of adequate man power
for the future is anything but roseate,
the Council states.
For five years there has been no
immigration, and, as result. industry
has not been able to recruit the new
labor of which it is so much in need
the statement of the Council reads.
Now comes the demand from certain
quarters that all immigration be shut
off because of Bolshevist agitation.
''Those who propose that step be-
ieve they are helping protect indus
try from disorder, whereas the fact is
they are doing more to shatter indus
trial morale and man power than the
Bolshevist agitators themselves.
How can American manufacturers
meet the demand for increased pro-
duction If the supply of new labor is
to be shut off from them by legisla-
ton against immigration? How will
industry Withstand the continued de-
lection of foreign-born workers who, 1t
is estimated, will leave America to the
number of one million as soon as pass
port regulations are let DOWN."
Some statistics are given indicating
the extent to which many industries
are dependent upon foreign born work.
ers. Fifty-eight per cent of the work
ers in steel and iron manufactures
are foreign born, 81 per cent In the
meat packing industries, G. per cent
In the bitumInous coal mines, 80 per
cent in the glass manufacturing in
dustries, G. per cent In wooden and
worsted manufactures, y per cent in
clothing factories and "a per cent in
the silk goods manufactures. In the
bakeries, sugar refneries, railway
maintenance gangs and street main
tenance gangs so per cent of the work
ers are foreign born.
Working Among Foreign Born.
The Council is conducting a nation
wide educational movement through
the foreign press for the purpose of
interpreting America to the foreign
born.
1t is answering the attacks of Boil
ohCh AoRI Oy dNNuld
ton about American industry and
American institutions generally, a,
states. 1t Is reaching the foreign born
through leading men of their own racial
groups. Information is being given in
the languages the racial groups IN
derstand, and they are being encour-
aged to participate increasingly In
American activities
The Council is endeavoring to bring
into better relations here races such
as the Italians and Jugoslavs, Poles
and Lithuanians, Czechs and Austrians.
1t advocates law that no newspa-
per in any language shall be published
in the United States except under the
direction of American citizens. 1t is
trying TO prevent the enactment of
statutes prohibiting the foreign Ian
guage press, believing that just as an
American abroad loves the sound of
his own tongue and the familiar re-
mInders of his own national ways and
customs, so in America there should
be full allowance for these natural
and harmless emotions.
Another activity of the Council is
in the interest of better relationship
between plant arrangements and the
workers, and to that end it is making
analyses in plants and pointing out
the things that produce Americanism
as against Bolshevism.
The Executive Committee of the
Council is composed of General Cole
man du Pont, chairman; Philip T.
Dodge, Mrs. David Rumsey and DR..
Antonio Stella, vice presidents VIII
lam Loeb, Jr, Herbert F. Perkins, Guy
E. Trip, William H. Barr. managing
director, and Miss Frances A. Kellor,
associate managing director.