New-York tribune., 1920-12-02
TIFFANY &C.,
FIFTH AVENUE & 37n STREET
DIAMOND RINGS, BAR Pms AND
WRIST WATCHES
Bill Is Drawn
TOBar Aliens
For 2 Years
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try with 100000 Of them everv mooth
Tor at least year, if enough steerage
room could be found to transport them.
Wages Abroad Not Attractive
Economic and political reasons for
the exodus from Europe vary in the
different countries, but the general
causes, as gathered by the immigration
officials through consular sources, are
these:
Money. in the countries of Central
and Southeastern Europe has so de-
preciated that workers no longer find
wages attractive. Hence, they save up
enough to buy steerage passage for
America where they have been led to
believe they can earn enough to bring
them comparative luxury.
People are losing faith in newly es-
tablished governments, especially in
countries which, as the result Of the
war. have been made Zip out of sections
formerly included in other countries.
Heavy taxation imposed in so-called
buffer states due to the necessity of
Lack of crops due to the refusal of
farmers to raise them on the ground
that they woIld be forced by the mill
tary and people in large cities to accept
deprecated money.
Countries Are Ovcrcrowded
Ovcrcrowding Of the more prosper
Gus countries, as Holland by the poorer
classes from Russia and Central Eu
,ope, which, according to Dutch Off
cials, is causing an emigration OF Hol-
landers to the United States.
Neports said to be circulated by i'm
migration agencies that America is cx-
perlencing unpreced dented prosperity,
that labor Of all kinds is in demand at
wages hitherto unhcard of, and that
this country is holding out a welcom-
ing hand to the peoples of all the earth
regardless Of their condition.
Reasons which MIR. Johnson says will
be urged as argument in support of
immigration are these:
A great proportion Of the immigrants
now arriving are dependents. In one
week there arrived in New York LOO
immigrants, who had less than 81 and
LOO who had less than $40 Some of
them were SO insuficiently clad that
they could not be permitted to walk
through the streets. Their admission
was obtained through the certifcation
of friends or relatives already mere
that they were not likely to become
public charges. Many of these people
had worked since the end OF the war
to save up S120 for Storage passage
and $40 for wise of passports. with the
result that thy arrived here pcnniless.
A great majority Of them were women
and children who were crowded into
homes already overcrowded.
Want to Settle in Cities
Four-ffths of all the immigrants re-
fuse to settle anywhere but in the big
cities. Onefourth, or about $4,000
month, settle in or near New York.
ahout 100000 families. Others 80 to
Philadelphia, which has q shortage of
$4,000 homes; Detroit, where they an
ticlpate big wages. but where already
there arc signs of increasing unemploy-
ment; Akron, Ohio, already overcrowd-
ed by workers who went there for high
wages; Boston, st. Louis and Chicago.
The immigration problem is held to
be particularly germane to the prob
lem of what to DO with the immigrant.
The population is congested beyond the
highest point ever previously reached.
For every 121 families in the country
there are only 100 homes, and every
shipload Of immigrants makes the con-
gestion greater.
Organized labor has pointed out that
excessive imm grafton must be the pre-
cursor of unemployment.
4. F. of l.. Issues Warning
The American Federation Of Labor
has sent this warning to the House
Committee on Immigration: at is abb
solutely necessary for every Union to
impress upon members of Congress
that American labor as we'll as all the
people should be protected from the
menace of excess immigration. No
other question is of such vital i'm
portance to the workers. Not a mo-
mcnt should be lost in launching a
campaign in favor of restricting all
immigration for at east two years.
The laws should also include provl
sion that in times of Unemployment,
after the two years have expired i'm
migration may be stopped at any time
Mr.. Johnson said that if the sent
ment Of the fifteen members of his
committee was Il criterion Congress
would vote in favor Of suspcnding I'M
migration altogether.
"Sevcnty per cent Of the immigrants
now arriving are non-wage enrners,"
he said, "ths is perilous condition.
Congress is thoroughly alive to it.
have no doubt that action will be
taken next week"
Senate Prepared to Act
Mem bcrs Of the Senate said they
were prepared to act. Senator WILL
lam II. King, of Utah, a member Of