The daily Alaska citizen., 1920-01-01
WILSON ISSUES
 ANNUAL REPORT
 OF DEPARTMENT
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 else of d property right guaranteed 1 by the Constitution. It does not fol-
 low that because these rights exist il l Is necessary to exercise them. They
 must nevertheless be safeguarded.
 Turning to the question of the high cost ot living. the secretary said
 increased wages did not always bring the desired relief Increased produC- tyity, making more material avail able for wages and taking the means ot increased compensation out oI the profits of the employer was the only way in which the standard of living of the wage earner could be improved he declared.
 Reviewing the activities of the Yari- ous bureaus of tue department, the report said 254,273 aliens came to American shores during the fiscal year ending June 30, and that 245,- 647 of them were admitted and 8,626 excluded The number admitted the year before was 211, ,S53. Aliens de parting during the last fiscal year numbered 216,231 as against 193, ,268 the year before. During the last years the bureau of immigration es- |timated that 36 aliens left the coun- try for every 100 admitted.
 Aliens admitted during the past year were in possession of sums ol money aggregating Sl5,93l.241, an average of SIP per person
 Aliens expelled under departmental process during the year numbered I3,068 compared with 1869 in 1918. The total number of aliens deported, including those refused admission and 34 Chinese deported under the exclusion laws, was HIPS as against |8,9l6 in 1918.
 The number of admissions to citi- Izenship during the past year was larger than any preceding year, lamounting to 217,35S,' the report said. Leaving out of consideration the year 1918 this was far greater mum Der than was admitted in any two years during federal supervision. Military statistics show 128,335 aliens who acquired citizenship after they assumed the uniform ot the United States"
 The United States employment service at the end of the war had 1850 offices with q personnel of l,700 and an administrative force at Wash ington of 300. During the eleven
 war months of 1918 the service plac ed 2,698,887 persons in employment out of a registration of 3,675,858.
 Persons directly affected by labor disputes prot to the attention of the department during the year number ed 1,011 ,968, while the number in directly affected was 1,336,O72. Dur ing the year the department assign tu COllIIlISSIOuCiS OA So4LIiA4'''iOAA " I1,780 cases, including 587 strikes, Il 1,113 disputes and threatened strikes, 63 lOckouts and F WalkOuts. Of these 1,228 were adjusted, exclusive of 219 referred to the national war labor board The commissioners fail ed to make settlements in all cases.
 Strong recommendations for the re- vivlng and continuing of the working conditions service, which was insti- tuted during the war to investigate working conditions and to recon mend standards for their improve ment, were made by the secretary. He also urged legislation for the continuation of the U. s. training service. Tt is believed" he said, that increased skill on the part of the workers, and it's consequent stim- ulus towards greater production, is even more important in peace than in war.