The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-09-24
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FOREIGNERS W0R-
RIES EMPLOYERS

Chicago, Sept. l4.-'rhousands of
foreign horn workers are leaving for
Europe daily despite restrictions. This
has caused big employers of America,
dependent upon large supply Of for
eign labor, to become panic stricken.
The newspapers, voicing the opin-
ions of Big Business, have shut down
on the talk of deportation en- masse
and the restriction of immigration.
Large organizations with millions for
publicity purposes have been formed
to educate the workers to remain in
America and advertise in Europe for
labor"
! T Coleman Du Pont, chairman of
the Inter- Racial Council which is
men in the powder trust and was one
di.iacy of Leonard Wood. In Il recent
article in Current Opinion, discussing
docs America Want immigration or
Emigration ?" Mr.. tlu Pont advocated
">electve immigration"
or course, the capitalists of the land
would like to select as possible Amcri-
cans all those foreigners who will he
'locile under evil working conditions.
He wrote:
What we need is sclcctivc imm-
grafton: a policy that will encourage
the kind of immigration best adapted
to the needs of this country and most
easily a>snllated.
In their eagcrness to obtain cheap
labor the bosses are even willing to
exonera,c the foreign horn workers
from the charge of "radicuIiSm' SO
| often hurled in the past by the news
papers. The article continues:
1.-The cry that immigration he shut
off as Il protection against ultra radi-
caliSm is sheer red hystcra, nothing
more. The fact that there is very
| little Of rahicalism among the foreign
horn is ignored, as is likewise the
fact that native Americans are gen
orally the leaders of labor agitation
and revolutionary activities.
"Only l per cent Of the foreign
language newspapers have shown a
tendency toward communsm--a much
lower percentage than among the
English language newspapers. And
We are unmindtul, also, of the fact
that the foreign born have contribut-
ed not only Drawn but brains, that
their names are linked with every
phase of our national development
from The days when the Republic was
founded on though to the present
time.
"This country no longer monopo-
Lies either the industrial or the poll
teal freedom Of the world. Other ma
tons are competing. Many--whcre
tyranny has been crushed beneath the
heel of wlf---E"W rl"vid" ll'u,mE OPP
p"rtunities, and their sons are going
home. Since the ar,niSticc, 275,OOO
have gone-:lnd with them $500
900.
"And here it must he borne in mind
that emigration from America is com
posed almost entirely of male work
men. Who have given up jobs in fac
tories, mills and mines to cast their
fortunes once more in the lands of
their birth, taking with them savings,
which at the minimum estimate,
amount to $1,000 for each cmigrlnt.
"Not only in internal conditions but
in international relations the nations
CT the world, as 4 result of the war,
have undergone profound changes, and
these changes include important u,,cs-
tons concerned with the immigration
and the emigration Of their peoples.
''rhe work Of spreading Americana
ism should be carried on with under
standing and sympathy. The foreign
born should be led into citizenship
through love for America and not
through fear.
What of the industries largely de-
prm|cnt on foreign born labor? In
Tie ease Of the tannrricS, CT per cent
Of all the employees are foreign born,
am! in the packing industry 81 per
cent. Sixty-tw" per cent Of the
workers in the hit,lminol> coal mines
are men who came here as immi-
grant,.
'!n the steel and iron inllst RIGS. IS
per cent are foreign born; in the
clothing factories. - per cent; cot
ton goods manufactures, go per cent;
"oolcn ard wor>tcd manufactures, G.,
per cent; uEar rctinrrics and railway
maintenance gangs, so per cent.
AS a result Of the uwinlling of
Immigration it has been almost i'm
pos lille for the industries to fill the
""l~ i: their unSkillcd labor forces;
and the effects Of this condition have
been felt by the public in rising
prices and in the scarcity of some of