New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
(,a1l1illetti Here
To Reorganize
Ellis Island
Commissioner General of
immigration Takes Up
Paw Raise Demand of
Marine Workers Union
Another Leper Is Found
Federal Official Asserts a
Trainload of Deportees
Is on Way From Frisco

immigration machinery at Ellis ISL
ard is going to be thoroughly over
sauled by experts. Anthony Caminetti,
Commissioner General of immigration
for the United States, arrived on the
island yesterday, accompanied by sew
sral members of mis- staff, and immedi-
atslv went into conference with the
local authoritis.
Many matters of Importance relating
20 the new policies in handling aliens
awaited the Commissioner Generals at
sention and one he took up soon after
his arrival. This was the conference
called between Frederick A. Wallis,
commissioner at Ellis Island, and rep
resentatives of the National Organiza-
ton Of Masters, Mates and Pilots of
America to hear demands for increase
OF pay by the government employees
who man the immi grafton ferry boats
and other vessels in the service.
Caminetti and Commissioner Wallis
were spokesman for the government,
while William A. Maher. secretary of
the pilots association, and other union
officers Were present.
Demand Higher Pay.
For some time the pilots, masters
and engineers and other marine work
ers employed by the immigration Blu
reau in the Ellis Island service, have
been making demands upon the gov
ernment for higher pay They have
complained that the pay is insufficient
to meet the increased cost of living.
Masters of the government boats have
had double duty, that of being both
captain and pilot of the same boat.
Their pay, as sworn into the service,
was Sl65 month, but bonus of $40
month has recently been allowed.
At the hearing yesterday it was said
by Maher that the pay for such men
BY corporations and individuals out
side of the Federal service is $210 q
month, engineers and others all get
ting a larger wage than the govern
nent is paying. The government ma
rine workers said they had a further
claim to higher pay in that they are
serving longer hours and doing double
duty.
Caminetti would not discuss the con-
ference further than to say the claims
Of the marine workers would be thor
oughly looked into during his stay at
the island
Among other things to be investi-
gated are the matter Of rigid medical
Inspection and quarantine regulations
particularly regarding leprosy cases
and the question of expeditiously dis
posing of all the Bolshevik cases and
deportations of anarchists and kin
dred classes of undesirable aliens.
Another Leper Found
Another new case of leprosy has been
discovered on Ellis Island. The pa
tent is isolated in a building far re-
moved from the others, and the Off
Gals refused to reveal his name 1t is
admitted freely that the finding Of
three cases of leprosy among immi
grants in a comparatively short time
has given the heads of the service nj
little concern.
When Mr.. Caminetti was asked about
the situation throughout the country
regarding the Reds he replied:
ut is true that we have started 6
trainload of deportees from San Fran.
cisco. My understanding is that wher
the party left the Pacific Coast we hat
only about one hundred all told, forty
eight of them being deportees of the
anarchist class. | believe, however. the
train may pick up some others from
Federal prisons along the way, so that
there may be more than one hundred