The Connecticut labor press., 1920-12-11
ALIENS SWARMINC
 INTO U. S., BUT FEW
 GO ON THE FARMS
Winter Fails to Stem Tide of Immigrants Coming to
 This Country.
.23,687 CAME LAST WEEK
Eighty Per Cent. Crowd the Cities and Add to Problem
 of Unemployed.

New York, Dec. 10.-Twenty-three thousand six hundred and eighty-seven aliens arrived in the port of New York last week seeking residence in America. Despite the fact that in form CT years immigration declined to almost nothing during the winter, 1t is gaining in volume every week this year and, if present indications prove anything, the month of January will be a record breaker in this respect And at the present rate of immigration at least 100000 aliens will have arrived here seeking admittance before the close of the present fiscal year, June 30, 1921.
 This means that a sufficient number of aliens arrived in this port alone last week to populate a city the size of Pensacola, Waco, Winston Salem, Ma con, Ga.; Rock Island, H., or Fargo, N D. And 1t means that these 23,687 aliens compose a throng as large as the population of the average agricultural county of the South or the West.
 Of the number arriving last week 15,3O2 were inspected, I1,8O2 being steerage travellers and $500 cabin. The inspection force, like all other branches of the immigration service at Ellis Is land is de1uged with work. The men, panieky by the huge task before them,
 
 diligence to speed.k Already hundreds of waiting aliens are sleeping on floors. The official force cannot handle them fast enough for the limited housing capacity at Ellis Island.
 Of the inspected steamships, the Ryndam brought 1 400 steerage aliens, the Kroonland 845, Guiana 30, Gothland 1,461, France o02, Rochambeau 1,411, Argentina o22, Lapland 1,345, United States o75, Stockholm z11, Stavanger- ford 600. and Providence 1,500.
 But an average of eight of every 10 examined announced his or her inten- ton of seeking homes in towns and cities. This means that eight consumers entered to every two who announced their willingness to help produce. And the investigations of the. Department of Labor show that the chances are that half of the would be producers will never reach farming country, but will find employment in mills, factories, stores, or as 1aborers in the thickly set tied areas. And to make the situation more discouraging about s per cent of these aliens have elected to remain here in New York, where every day adds re- cruits to the ranks of the unemployed.
 One per cent of the incoming aliens profess to be skilled workmen. The rest are laborers, needle trades workers and merchants When the merchants" are asked to be more specific they admit themselves to be pack ped1ers or push cart men. Ninety-fve per cent. of these latter are headed for the East Side of New York city,
 In statement by Frederick A. Wal lis, commissioner of immigration for fhe nortE of New York deO1Ored the fact that America has so little to say as to who shall emigrate from the Old World to the new. .He reiterates his statement that l5,000,000 Europeans are clamoring for transportation to the United States and that this country lacks the means to stop the immigration of undesirables