Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-27
By rREpERIc j. HAsk1N

New York City. Aug 25.-The wide
| spread prevalence of employment
In this country is proving no check to
the incoming tide of aliens. The green
on with her torch. altho the No More
Help Wanted" sign occurs with dismal
frequency thruout the land. Every
liner brings IN its hundreds Of immi-
depression of their respective countries
only to encounter a. similar, If less des-
perate depression here.
While most of them are destined to
| Join friends or relatives, the great ma
jority have no definite assurances that
abserce of any such prospect. however,
does not seem to bother them. They
are more than willing to take their
chances with the 100000 Americans
now out of jobs. Their immigration.
they feel. is by no means a case of
jumping from the frying pan into the
| fire.
Talk with some of these self-confi-
dent aliens at Ellis Island. and you
will better understand the spirit of
grim hopefulness which inspires them.
A good many are of a much higher
type than that which demanded en-.
| trance to this country before the war
A surprising number of Norwegians
have been coming in. for instance. as
well as Firms. Danes, and Dutch farm
| 'is' puI- VI 1puiSS theN Oo npt p'Si III
to match numbers with the Italians,
Russians. and Czecho- -Slovaks. All of
the immigrants manifest a great
easerness to obtain work. but they are
particular as to the kind. Scarcely
any will consider going on farms. They
want to stay in the big cities and so
Into the factories and shops.
| Wandering about Ellis Island, the re-
porter observed group of tall, husky
Norwegians who were headed for the
lumber camps of the Northwest, sew
eral Germans who had been promised
work in bakeries and dclicatessen
shops in New York. silent. patient
group of Dutch peasants who were
going to be taken care of by the Dutch
immigration headquarters. and few
shop work in Chicago. AS far as could
be ascertained. the great mass of
others had nothing further in view
than a welcome from friends and rela-
tives.
Some Typical c..es
Ono of the Czecho- slovaks said that
his brother had found factory job
for him in Chicago He spoke enthu-
siastically in giant Slavic sylls bles,
which an interpreter neatly converted
into plain English. In the old country.
the man. explained. he had made only
on farm. He laughed scornfully
when it was suggested that he might
find farming more congenial than
factory work in this country.
| No: the new immigrants know what
| they want In the way of work and, as
good chance of getting It. They have
all the advantages on their side when
II comes TO competing with America n
born workmcn. Tho immigrant may
not be able to speak English and he
may not be acquainted with American
/ ~ theeo fhiprc ucn
necessary Upon arriving in this coun-
| try. he is met by friends or relatives
who speak his own language and who
Immediately escort him to colony
signs on it's stores and he can read its
newspaper. There he finds people
from his own province. perhaps his
own little town-peoplc even who
know his family. They cluster around
him and pay him cytrnvaEant compli-
ments while h. gives them the latest
news from home. There is falas. Mr..
| Nolstead) wine. as n rule, and food of
tho peculiar, native kind to which he
has been accustomed.
| Somewhere in the district. moreover
there is almost always a relative who
stands in With one Of its prominent
mcr-a man who controls many Jobs
and knows tho location Of many
others, This important parsonage ia
frequently an Amcricnnborn member
| or tnF race Wnp. 'NEittlNR
has remained in his native colony be
cause II yielded him abundant profits
" tho immigrant fails to obtain en-
| pioymcnt thru him. there IN always tho
| foreign employment agency to which
| he may apply.
Thus it may b. seen that tn. rlirh.
Of the newly y-arrived immigrant Is by
| no means ms narrowing al some arc
\ wont to depict II. Compare II, indeed.
| with the lot Of the average unemployed
| American workman. who. lacking this
| racial clannishncss. is an Isolated unit
in tho community, and its superior sd-
vsntaEes will be apparent.
| In tho past. perhaps. before large
| foreign colonies were built up IN all OF
| our big cities, tho immigrants struE-
Glc was urduly srduous. but since tho
war. conditions have improved for him
| For one thing. ho in no longer cast off
1 like deadwood from his native land
| and left to drift for himself by an allen
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