The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-12-03
'CONGRESSFACES
HUGE PROBLEMS
Nation Is In ThrOes of Drastic
Reimbursement Period, Says
Butte Man.
IMMIGRATION IS A PROBLEM
Country Expresses Utmost Confidence
in the Newly Elected Harding
Administration as Capable of
Normalizing Conditions and
Ably Handling the Tasks.

That the new congress and the
incoming administration will have
some of the most tremendous pro-
blems to solve ever put to
American lawmakers and admins
traitors, but that there is a prevail
ing confidence throughout the
country that such problems will be sue
cessfully handled, is the statement
of John H. Mcintosh, state man
ager of the Associated Industries
of Montana, who has just returned
to Montana from an eastern trip.
REIMBURSEMENT is Painful.
Gust now the country, and that
includes every industry, is in the
throes Of the most drastic period
of readjustment of modern times -
said Mr.. Mcintosh, "and this causes
a wave of pessimism to exist, but
the master minds Of finance and
Industry believe the readiustment
process has now reached the most
trying stage, that business affairs
will right themselves within a few
months and that the spring will
witness general revival of bust
ness, but on a lower established
price level for commodities ami
StueIdl living neccSSlCloS.
Confidence in Harding.
Mr.. Mcintosh states that bust
ness men and farmers generally of
the east and middle west have
faith and confidence in the presi-
Dental administration of Senator
Harding. Harding will start with
the united support of the entire
country and is counted upon to
give a safe, sane and business-like
administration. Among the big
problems facing the new admin
istratiOn is that of taxes. immigra-
ton, or-adjustment, and of course
peace with Europe and the world.
Immigration Serious Question.
"Out here in Montana it is hard
to understand the great danger of
unrestricted Immigration" said NJ.
Mcintosh, "but the problem strikes
at the very roots of the national
life. Just think-the immigrants
are pouring into the port of New
York at a rate of thousands a dav,
Many of them are wholly unde-
sirable. Few of them are properly
distributed where they can meet
the needs of industry and nothing
is being done to properly assimilato
them. | talked with Commissioners
Wallis, of the Ellis Island bureau.
and also visited the Island and saw
with my own eyes the horror of it
all. Some are diseased. the great
majority are poverty stricken and
we are actually bringing into this
country thousands Of Europe's worst
criminals through the laxity of the
immigration laws. | learned that in
Italy there are 100000 natives await
ing the chance to embark for America.
There are 100000 Poles and Polish
Jews congested at or near Danzig
waiting the chance to come. There are
millions of Germans, Slovaks an.l
Spaniards. eager to sail. And we take
them in with little idea of assimiatirg 2
them and leaving it to luck for them to
become Americanized. In New York
City alone there are 100000 foreigners
who can neither read nor write Eng
llsh. These foreigners form the larger
part of our army of common labor
but too little thought has been given
to the human and national phases OF
their life in America"
Of Interest to Montana.
In New York Mr.. Mcintosh, repre-
senting the Associated Industries of
Montana, attended the sixth semi-an-
nual meeting of the National Indus
trial council, which is composed of the
executives of every state industrial
organization in the United States. AT
these conferences state laws covering
labor and industry are discussed and
compared. Also ideas are made uni
form in support of constructive nation.
al legislation and in antagonism to
destructive measures.
The Montana industrial executive
heard free discussion on the Kansas
Industrial court, aimed to eliminate
strikes and lockouts; anti-pcketine
laws, as they are applied in othel
states; the state constabulary laws of
Pennsylvania and other states that
have adopted the plan, and other mat
ters of interest to employers generally
Some of these matters will be given
consideration by Montana employers.
Mr.. Mcintosh states that there is q
surplus of labor in most industrial
centers for the first time in years. The
labor situation in Montana, on the
whole, he states, is quiet. Large forces
of the mines and smelters have been
laid off because of the stagnant condi
ton of the metal market, but this con
dition is expected to right itself in the
next few months.
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