The Connecticut labor news., 1923-08-25

IO II OI ASC, "IlNh SPOdhS IOl llIN iron and steel interests of the nation, also admits that iron and steel manu- lecturers, their dream of unrestricted immigration shattered, are turning with success to Canada, Mexico and their own rountry, for additional workers. This Is almost as if the Iron Age had branded as bunk" the assertion of the Steel Trust that it was impossible to find workers with out letting down the bars of imml- grafton, as heretofore the Iron Age has featured the we-must-have-mo immigration cry of the steel interests.
 The Iron Ages admission that the fight for unrestricted immigration is lost is published under a Washington date line with the heading; "No Lib eralization of Immigration Laws, Outlook Is That Congress May Tighten Present Provisions" The article follows:
 Efforts looking to the Hberaliza- ton of the three per cent immigra- ton law apparently will be futile. While for a long time the sentiment of the country seems to have been directed against any further letting down of the bars, large employing in- terests have been urging, that this IS necessary if relief is to be obtained from the shortage of labor.
 Fight on Law Futile.
 Easily the iron and steel industry that typifes this situation With elimination of the I2-hour day, the increasingly difficult.
 The Fact well he facRd however, that no matter how plausi- ble may be arguments to relax the immigration laws, every indication appears to point toward the improb- ability of such action by Congress.
 "The truth of the matter-is that the tendency is toward tightening the law There can be no doubt that industrial interests as class have become thor ough1y convinced of the need of se- lective immigration, though on a more generous basis than now is all lowable, but running counter to this view IS that of administration officials and many members of Congress, and President Coolidge IS expected to continue the Harding policy on this question.
 Because of this 1t would be wide of the mark to charge propaganda of organized labor with complete respon- sibility for restrictive legislation en- acted and which perhaps is in pros pect. No doubt, it is pointed out, the active campaign that always has been carried on by organized labor for the limiting of immigration has been ef- fective to substantial degree, but likewise 1t IS held to be true that or ganized labor found a strong public sentiment back of it in the past for certain degree~of restriction, though this does not imply that approval was given to the insistence of organized labor upon the so-called literacy test.
 Rather, 1t is maintained, the coun- try as a whole saw that under pre- vious laws many of the immigrants, constituted hodge-podge that was excessive fn quantity but lacking in quality It was contended that while this did afford greater source from which to draw laborers, relatively the supply was small for either the fac tory or the farm, with the result that a large number of undesirables were thrown upon the country, many of them willingly disposed of by their native lands.
 What Conference Board Urged.
 ''The National Industrial Confer ence Board in a recent report on The Immigration Problem in the United States surveyed at great length the present three per cent law in which 1t urged many far-reaching changes and improvements, but it went on record in favor of consideration of the human side of immigration and de- dared that selfish economic atti ude alone will not serve. It treated he subject from an extremely broad ooint of view and took into account and international social ques ions as we'll as economic progress. It also pointed out that injustices and inconsistencies arising from imper ect administration should, if possible, l ,e avoided in the future and went on | o say that the State Department and 1 of Labor do not work in !. It urged more careful se- ection through the issue of passport -ises
 ''The report on these points appears o accord with recommendations of i ,ecretarv of I ahor Davis who now iS