New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Alien Labor Flees
u. S., Terrorized by
Wholesale Raids
Inter-Racial Council Warns
of Effect ON Basic Indus
tries and Hundreds of
Foreign Born Employed

Raids and deportations have so un-
settled the foreign born that hundreds
employed in basic industries are pre-
pairing to leave the United States,
according to the Inter-Racial Council,
which launched a campaign last night
ITO make aliens better understood and
to life them from the status of mere
cogs in machine to the status of
human beings"
The council, of which Coleman du
Pont is chairman, and which includes
in its ranks more than 400 leading
financial and industrial organizations,
representatives of almost all Of the
races in America purposes in it's cam
paign, according ii its statement, to
aeT9mpl,sh Tm nFsd4 the f9l1o%1ng Rd1oSa objects
among the foreign born through ma
tion-wide educational activities.
To promote better relations among
the races in America by presenting the
side of the foreign born and "trans-
lating America to them in terms which
they will understand"
To end unrest among the foreign
born in industry.
Many Ready to Quit
"The recent raids and the deporta-
tion of aliens who have urged the de-
struction of government by force are
being interpreted by many of the for
eign born as campaign of repression
against the foreign born in general"
said statement issued by the council
Hundreds of these foreign born, en-
ployed in basic industries, are throw
ing down their tools preparatory to
leaving this country. This condition
not only is increasing the restlessness
of the foreign born in practically all
of the factories, plants and mines, but
it is tending further to decrease the
production, which already has dwindled
as an aftermath of the war.
the four years before the war was 594,-
800. According to United States immi-
grafton authorities, 1,125,000 foreign
born will leave America.
added to this condition is the sig
nificant fact, proved by Official figures,
that American industry is short 4,O00,-
900 immigrants in the field of primary
labor owing to the tremendous falling
off of immigration during the last five
years; and there is the prospect, to
quote the immigration authorities of
the port Of New York, that immigra-
tion for 1920 will be less than one third
of normal.
Discrimination Is Alleged
"The raids and deportations are not
alone unsettling the foreign born; the
apparent discrimination is unsettling
them. The person Of foreign birth,
participating in activities which are
aimed at the destruction of our govern
ment by force, is arrested and held for
deportation, whereas an Ame rican who
NAV be employed in the same shop
with him, who is a member of the
same radical organization and a par
ticipant in the same ultra-r radical
activities, is not molested.
"That is the condition which is max
ing the foreign born in America be-
lieve that there is one kind of justice
for than and another kind for the
native residents.
"Some regard for the sensibilities o1
the foreign born should be shown ir
the present crusade against destructive
radicalism So much stress has beer
placed on the part those Of foreign
birth are playing in such activities
that the impression has gone out thai
all foreign born persons are a menac.
TO American institutions, or, at least
the greater part Of them; whereas the
fact is that the great majority Of then
are loyal and are doing everything they
can to understand America and aid II
promoting its welfare"