The Denver Jewish news., 1923-02-28
MINORITY ASSAILS
Immigration REPORT
,Jewi.h relerr.ph,e Agency,

tlpDthS of the eArtn 10 ulS tie SNi''
who lays the subwnys and stretches out
the railroad tracks--he who in CRIME
and sweat swelters nt the hot furnaces
of the mammoth steel mills and who
sits with bent back plying his needle
and thread-all of these are discrim-
mated against by the new 1880 clause
in the House Immigration Bill.
This was the charge made by Con-
yrcssmen Isaac Sicgel Adolph J. Sa-
hath and Robert $. Mnloney OF the I'm
migration committee In their minority
report made public today.
The 1870 clause would substitute the
yenr 1880 as basis for the immigra-
tion quota instead of 1910 as at pres
ent.
1T is n plain discrimination" says
the report. against the immigration
from Austria. CZechO-Slovnkia. Dem
mark. Italy. Norway, Poland and Rou-
mania. 1t is too apparent that 1t is
intended not to reduce immigration
from Great Britain mad Germany, hut
to completely stop almost all immigra-
tion from nll other countries"
1T cannot he denied continues the
report. that most of the hard. COM
mon and manual work performed i'm the
United States has been done during the
past thirty or forty years by the i'm
migrants coming from those countries
designated ms southern and southeast
crn Europe. Such work for the past
century has always been performed by
the then coming immigrants"
The substitution of the = per cent
quota instead of the present three per
cent quota is also vigorously attacked
In the minority report. The three per
cent quota, It points ont. was tenn
porariiy enacted for the sole purpose
II u,fcgua riding the United States
against mn anticipated infiux Of immi-
grants after the war. Since the enact
ment of the measure. 1t was shown that
many of the fears which were express
ed were unfOunled, in fact, several of
the countries have not even made full
use OF their quotas"
The number Of immigrants leaving
the country Is quite considerable. the
report points out, the actual excess OF
people coming in over those leaving
leing only small. 1.-The three per cent
quota law would have permitted the
coming of over 355. 600 immigrants, hut
Approximately. in the Inst year, only
200. .;i54 arrived"
"we feel that the adoption Of the
1890 Census Is nnjustifiable not only for
the reason that it is discriminatory
hut because it will prevent the admis-
sion of from GOOOO to 75.OOO laborers,
who will shortly he greatly needed. We
are not interested in supplying. what
some may term cheap labor but we
are deeply concerned in the welfare 0f
the United States, whose prosperity de-
pends upon having at least n sufficient
amount OF unskilled labor. This can
he obtained in measure by using the
population figures of 1920 or 1910 as
II basis in lieu of the 1890 census as
the majority has recommended. We
doubt whether our northern and east
crn unskflled labor requirements can be
drawn from the south without at the
same time injuring the growing south
ern Industries. Surely under the
stringent provisions of the bill. no tenn
porary common labor cnn be obtained
from Mexico as was done in lD1s and
1910 to relieve. the shortage Of Labor. in
the cotton and sugar beet fields in the
southern and southwestern states.''
Attention is also called 10 the fact
that the majority report makes no pro-
vision for the admission of dOmestics.
of whom it is declared there is great
need 's-i su Ef. ID AZ s4
The majority report was also present
ed today. The details of this report.
providing for the substitution of the
year 1890 as the basis for the quotas
and the relative clause which permits
all the near relatives of American citi-
zens TO enter, have been known for
some time. The majority bill also sub
stitutes a two cent quota instead of the
present three per cent. Besides, rela-
tives. practicing clergymen are also cx-
empted from the quota restrictions.
According to gossip at the Capitol,
the Majority Bill has been favorably
received by House members and may
be expected to pass the House this
season. but Senate leaders say it has no
chance of being considered in the Sen
ate.