Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-11

they have tried and failed TO leave
behind them.
The steamship companies were
greater offenders under old immi-
grafton laws than they are at pres
emit. That Ia because under the So
called - per cent. law" the n Tor
bringing to this country every alien
certain TO be turned back is the sum
of 5000. Under the old law the
fine was only 500, and the steam
ship line could keep the passage
money and even make a charge for
taking back the aliens refused adj
mission at American ports, or order
ed deported after their cases have
been examined. The new law COM
pels the steamship companies not
only to refund the passage monN,
originally received, but to take the
undesirable aliens back to the point
where they boarded the ship, en-
with a dead loss facing them, the
lines have been more careful about
how they fill their steerage spaces
with this human freight.
Many Chinese Gases
There are other immigration laws
and agreements which furnish cases
for the board of review to handle.
The question of Chinese immigra-
ton is always a perplexing thing.
1t is an open secret that Chinese
laborers are ssuggled into this coun-
try to some extent. Many of them
are stopped, but the department of
labor a not the funds with which
to draw a Gordon tight enough to
guarantee absolute exclusion.
In Chinese cases and in some 9TH
ers the draft records compiled dur
ing the var are of considerable as
sistance, giving a means of informa-
ton formerly impossible. Cases will
come before the board of review. A
Chinaman will swear TO being born
in Los Angeles. His oath will be
supported by other Cinnamon. They
Will swear that they have known
him a long time. even since boyhood.
The case will appear to be perfect
ly simple. A mistake has been made,
and the Chjnaman actually is an
American citizen, having been born
in the United States. 1t is at this
point that the draft records come
into the situation. 1t will be found
that when he registered under the
draft law, this same Chinaman
swore that he was born in Cam
ton, and thus escaped military serv-
lee under the plea of being an alien.
The boards course is clear then, and
the Chinaman is sen back TO his
homeland.
The diseased, the criminal, the
politically undesirable. the physical
ly unfit. the feeble-minded or
DOWNRIGHT insane. the illiterates, the
deaf and dumb, as we'll as aliens in
excess of the quota allowed the
country from which they came con-
nnually are knocking at the once
wide-open doors into this country,
Stowaways and those likely to be-
come charges arrive with their pitia-
bic pleas 10 be ollowed to remain,
Those already here of the same ma
tionality add their fearful pleas and
often considerable influence to the
EFFORTS of these new arrivals to try 10
break down the law, which congress
In Its wisdom has found necessary
Tor the protection of America and
American labor.
The board of review naturally the
point OF attack for the bitterness
engendered by disappointment, has
the unwelcome task Of disposing OF
all these cases Actually. the Sec
rotary of Labor finally acts. but he
IS frank TO confess that the unpleas.
ant and heavy task-sometimes sew
enty or eighty cases are acted upon
in a single day-fails on the shout
ders OF this instrument of the gev-
eminent headed by Chairman Robe
Carl White. and consisting of t. v
L.Powderly, once Commissioner Gen.
eral of immigration, A. E. Reitzel
y. j. Shaughnessy and George W
Bope.