New Britain herald., 1922-12-22
'COOLIE SMUGGLING
 0N THE INCREASE
Such Is Report oiLabOr Secretary Who Seeks Law Revision

Washington, Dec. 22.-Declaring
 that the present condition under the
 federal laws restricting Oriental i'm
 migration is "disgraceful" Secretary of
 Labor Davis proposes thorough and
 comprehensive revision of the laws.
 The secretary asserted that plots for
 evading the law are innumerahle and
 cited instances of widespread schemes
 to bring prohibited Orienatls into the
 country. He said:
 Tt seems to me that the present
 situation with reference to Oriental
 labor under our law is simply dis-
 graceful. The pressure for entry into this country is tremendous and appar-
 ently well financed. The schemes
 and plans and plots for circumventing
 the law are most astute and clever and in numbers are beyond belief. . One of the first acts of the present administrationo this department was to cancel an arrangement. apparently
 Innocent on it's face, for bringing so-
 called industrial students to the
 United States for the purpose of stimulating trade relations between the two countries. It was discovered that those who had secured this in nocent-looking concession had plapned to bring prohibited Orientals into the laborers to the United States at a profit to the promoters of the plan of not less than s3,000,000. The details Of the plan were most astounding, far reaching, and complete. Some of the best brains in America had been em- ployed to help carry out the scheme. Tor months after the concession had been cancelled most unusual efforts were made to have it reinstated and to punish those who had a part in canceling It. Bribery and corruption is reported as resulting from all this in most astounding degre.
 "The subject is worthy of the most careful consideration by congress and most thorough and comprehensive revision of the law.
 The secretary of Labor pointed out that Orientals coming to the United States as seamen take advantage of the navigation laws permitting them to take shore leave for sixty days while awaiting another berth to re- main permanently. He told of whole crews slowing away for the trip across the Pacific while illicit immi- grants were listed as the bona flde crew of the ship. On this point the report said:
 50 extensively has this practice grown that the reported assertions at the port of San Francisco alone amount to from 75 to 150 per month. Desertions at Atlantic ports of this same type of seamen have been very extensive. The evidence seems con- elusive that nearly all of these are not real seamen but secure berths as such with the sole view of obtaining shore leave at an American port and never returning. It is practically inn possible to locate such deserter sea- men of the Oriental races as have reached the section devoted to their races in our large cities. It is not an exaggeration to say that prior to the requirement of bond of $ooo there were added to tho coolie popu- | lation of the United States not less than 150 to 200 per month. In the summer of 1921 information from various sources reached this office that about 5000 Chinese seamen were i then in New York and that they were becoming menace to the representa- lives of their own race. Careful in showed that there were not less than 2,500 of such seamen in that city. Gradually these have been absorbed in industry.
 "In addition to these sources by , which Chinese laborers are added to our population through methods de- clared unlawful, there is a constant and ever-growing stream of unlawful entry not only of Chinese but also or other excluded races. The thousands ,f miles of our land border offer splendid opportunity for smuggling md at present there is much Of this unlawful traffic from the islands Of he sea lying southeast of us. Every ear thousands of Chinese pass round or through the United States ,n their way to Cuba >and other !