The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-17

alone are prepared to come to Amer permit.
 In the meantime the more than 5,ooo,ooo unemployed workers in the United States are being deceived into the belief that the present 3 per cent. immigration bill now before Congres is in their interest.
 Instead of protecting the unem- ployed the bill is simply makeshift to tide over the present acute unem- ployment situation until business conditions improve
 The bill provides that the present until July I, 1923. Then the old law immigration will become effective again.
 After the armistice the American Federation of Labor urged that a law be enacted stopping immigration for four years. On Aug. 20, IoIo Representative Johnson of Washing ton introduced a bill providing for the prohibition of immigration for two years The billl was reported favorably to the House on Sept. 5. Then, while awaiting the action of the Rules Committee to provide for its consideration, the two-year clause was eliminated from the bill by the Immigration Committee, of which MT. Johnson was and is now chair man.
 Coming 100000 a Month.
 At that time immigrants at the rate of 100000 a month were food ing the United States. Congress con- tinued to juggle the immigration question and it was not until May Io, 1921, that the bill providing that only per cent. of the number of foreign-born persons of any nation ality living in the United States ac- cording to the census of 1910 could be admitted. The American Fedora ton of Labor continued to insist on the prohibition of all immigration except of blood relatives for at least three years.
 On Dec. 10, 1921, Representative Johnson introduced bill providing for the suspension of immigration for three years. Although hearings were held and much ado made about what Congress would do to protect the in terests of the unemployed, the House lmmigr ation Committee on Feb. IA reported a bill extending the per cent. law for another year, to July I, 1923.
 Corporations Foster Immigration.
 Behind all this parliamentary jug glery can be seen the fine Italian hand of the big corporations who continually are endeavoring to so flood the labor market that American standards are always in danger. It IS certain that the great mass of our people are in favor of the complete restriction of immigration. It has been authoritatively estimated that more than 12,ooo,o ,ooo people are pre- pared to come to the United States as soon as the bars are let down The big corporations and unfair employ CTS want them to come to keep wages at a low mark. The steamship com panies who will thrive by carrying of the hordes of waiting immigrants to our shores want unrestricted immi- grafton.
 Every voter in the United States who believes in maintaining Ameri- can standards should know that the 3 per cent. law is not in their interest but merely is a makeshift to tide over the present conditions for another year.
 In the meantime the immigration question: will be juggled as it has been in the past until the 3 per cent. law automatically expires and then there will be no legislation restrict ing immigration further than that in effect previously. That is the danger ahead of labor and every influence should be used to defeat the scheme.