Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-01-19
.sELECTIVE nEMIGRATION, IMPRACTICAL.


Cheap labor advocates immigrants selected the point
of their embaaOn and have the United States up
ming boards to st out the type OF labor best suited for monop
ozed industry This aurng scheme is referred to as CON
structve program"
Before immigrants could be examined at their point of en-
baon the commercial treaties with these nations would have
to be revised.
These treaties infinitely enuerae the duties of United States
consu Before the United States could authorize its consu to
examine these immigrants set other examining boards
the permission of the nations affected would have to be
cured This revision Of treaties for the United States
other nation would permit another country board
with such sweeping powers without it's consent
treaty not revised just for the accommodation of of
the parties Nations talk altrust but this is diplomacy They
act differently
vision and be conceived that any foreign nation would
out of tho goodness of its heart change treaty
this country could its physically fit labor and
keep out the less physically fit.
These foreign countries would demand equivalent
concession possibly voice authority immigration
to the United States To grant this request would that
United sovereignty mmgra
ton To state this possibility brings the whole question of
lective immigration" crashing to the ground.
1t recently declared by the chairman the
mtee immigration that lecturers and representatives
chambers of and manufacturers associations
talking about seectve immigration until they understand this
question"
Cheap labor advocates formerly posed huantarians
they extend the blessings American democracy
the worlds oppressed This attitude appealed deasts
senmentasts who always trapped by reactions patriotic
phrases.
These employers have abandoned this policy Now they
frankly demand strong backs terateS
distinction between requirements for admission and for natural
ization.
This is summary of the position these employers hold
abolish the teracy test We don't need workers who read
Only ignorant workers contented and that's the kind
want of the government would Amer
canize these immigrants What cheap ambonless
labor not American citizens"
This campaign being directed by the national association
of manufacturers which declares that the should
register distribute educate otherwise supervise
during the period Of his alienage"
This period of aenage will
concerned it suits their to have the alien
tered and distributed by the government
These employers not backward in their demands They
want the maintain steady of strong
backs and iteates flowing into this country that the
of common labor and seised viii be set by the freshly
rived immigrant from southeastern Europe.
The workers of northern Europe not wanted They
read and think They refuse be fodder for the industrial
machine They not coming to the United States shown
by the untitled quotas under the per law They
of the mercess exploitation of these employers their
smashing policy their spies thte ther subsidized
press popular fury against workers strike their
injunction judges and government aid to break strikes
The northern European worker knows these things and
not coming to the United States That why drive being
made for eraes in the Balkan section Of Europe are
willing to exchange masters in their life of serfdom.