Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-19

that it would be necessary to restrict
emigration after the war, has been
negotiating for q long time with the
authorities at Washington in order to
get the existing American restrictions on
immigration modified in favor of Italian
workers. but unfortunately it seems that
these negotiations are not leading any
where.
at is useless to conceal the fact that
Americas refusal to admit even Italian
workmen who were working in America
when Italy entered the war and left
their jobs to join the Italian army Is
creating bitterness of feeling against the
United States in Italy. 1t is particu-
larly resented that these workers are in
way being made to suffer for their
loyalty to their country, while such Of
their fellow workers as succeeded in
evading conscription and remaining in
America are enjoying all the advantages
Of well-paid employment and economic
security. The Italian people have u
feeling that they are being treated with
particular hostility by the Washington
administration. This feeling may be
wrong, but 1t exists"
Outlet for Workers Necessary
It is an absolute necessity for Italy
to find an outlet for several millions Of
workers in order to surmount the eco
nomic and social crisis that is para
lyzing her reconstruction. The number
of unemployed in Italy far exceeds the
number or Italian workmen who re-
turned from America during the war.
If these millions cannot get to America
soon, where they most desire to go, they
will have to emigrate somewhere else.
The Italian Socialists at present are
actively engaged in negotiations with
the Russian Red dictators to provide
for Italian emigration on a vast scale
to soviet Russia. Naturally, the Italian
Government, in spite of its concilatory
attitude toward the Moscow rulers. does
not regard this scheme with much favor,
There is some danger that If it is car
ried out it might prove to be but an
other plot for the bolshevization Of
Italy. No such objection exists, how
ever, against emigration to South Amer
lea, and Italy hopes to divert her emf
grants to Brazil if the United States
remains obdurate much longer.
What is true of Italy applies in a
large measure also to the countries of
eastern Europe, where there is not only
unemployment, but famine, pestilence
and war. For over a year there has
been great westward movement OF
emigrants in Europe from Russia,
Poland, Rumania and the Ukraine
Hundreds of thousands of these emf
grants have stuck fast in Germany and
Austria, because they were unable to
get any farther and above all to reach
America, still the land of their dreams.
The anti Semitic wave that is sweepinp
over the Russian border countries has
swelled the ranks OF these eastern
emigrants, many Of whom are Jews.
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Austria, where their presence serves
to aggravate economic distress md
where anti Semitic feeling il also
already running very high. But farther
West in Europe they cannot 20. at
least not in great numbers, and tbev
are serious menace to reconstruction
where they are.
Japan Seeking Emigrdnts
Emigration from Hungary has as.
sumed vast proportions since the re-
estaDllshment or reactiOnary rule in
budapest. In Vienna alone about 300
oO0 Hungarians are leading a miser-
able existence. They came TO the Ans-
trian capital in the hope of proceedin +,
at once to America, and they never pof
any farther. 1t is now stated thai fbe
japanese consulate in Vienna has IN
dGrtaken to facilitate their emigration
to Japan This japanese offer to admit
European emigrants against whom
America closes her gates is in many
ways remarkable and significant, Var
the first time in her economic bistorv
Japan is facing modern labor problems,
wage demands and strikes, and this at
moment when she hoped to conuucr
new fields in the world market through
her cheap and docie workers. Annarl
emily Japan is preparing to overcome
these difficulties by importing foreign
labor, much in the same way as Amer.
leo did in the past. "
II II Is fear of bolshevism that n