The Connecticut labor news., 1923-08-25

abroad studying immigration law and with the report just made to the De- partment of Labor by Mrs Muriel Lynch Crichton, ,FWho was sent to Eu- rope by Secretary Davis to study de- tails there. It IS reported here tha Secretary Davis since his arrival in Europe has become ever more firmly convinced than ever that the process of selection of immigrants to the United States should originate with American authorities abroad through vises of American consults, rather than permitting foreign governments to permit indiscriminate emigration from their countries.
 Keeping Out Undesirab1es.
 Mrs. Crichton in her report made rec recommendations that are known to Davis and which he Is expected to at tempt to have incorporated in law at the next session of Congress. She said that there must be selective method of admitting immigrants to the United States to keep out a great many unde- sirables who could enter under the
 present quota plan of admission. She
 goes so far to say that 1t appears as if some governments are sending their social inadequates to the United States to avoid their custodia1 care
 "The present method of selection is also held to invite immigrants of a lower plane of intelligence than is necessary to American citizenship. | She also points out that too often passports are vised abroad only to have the alien denied admission at Ellis Island. The result Is hard ship on all concerned
 Mrs Crichton favors the setting up of a clearing house abroad and suggests that t might be established at London, where all passports could be vised and the fact definitely estab- lished whether or not the applicant would be admitted It Is the opinion |of Mrs. Crichton that if there is any change in immigration legislation, 1t should be in the direction of tighten ing rather than relaxing require ments.
 Labor From the South.
 This IS taken to reveal accurately the tendency toward the immigration problem. For this reason many iron and steel manufacturers and other employers have reached the point where they no longer are depending upon immigration from Europe as a source of any great labor supply
 'This already has caused them to turn to Canada, to which country the immigration law does not apply and also to the negroes of the south and to Mexicans. From these sources the iron and steel industry has to depend mostly on negro and Mexican labor, and there now has developed large H,1x of fheca c1accec the and steel plants.
 Cautiously enough this class of labor, either native to the United States or at it's threshold, Is not as we'll understood by the iron and steel of the north as Is Eu- ropean labor It is realized that this involves a social study as to the characteristics of the negro and the Mexican and that before such labor can be brought up to the high est point of efficiency this understand ing IS necessary.
 Belief is expressed that these sources will prove to be progressively more important as sources of labor supply to 1t as time goes on and yet there are those who are inclined to think that both the negro and the l Mexican will, unless understood and made satisfied in employment in the north, drift back to the south and southwest. There has been great deal of talk, but so far 1t has never gone beyond the stage of ironing out the cycle of employment in the coal industry so that the number of em- ployes engaged can be reduced and the surplus placed in the iron and | steel and other industries.
 "The iron and steel industry, also, | of course, is constantly increasing | efficiency and changing methods of compensation. These | exertions on the part of the iron and steel industry manifestly have been 1ue in large part at least to an anti ,ipation that immigration laws not only will not be relaxed but will be iehtened."