The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-01-26

HIS pIOpdSdhu iido SloWu III iueSh-
sity until it has reached every cor
ner of the land. Various associations
of employers are sending letters to
all members of congress urging them
to vote for unrestricted immigration.
The National Association of Mer-
chant Tailors of America sent COM
mittee to Washington to appear be-
fore the immigration committee of the
house to demand the per cent law
be so amended that the European sup
ply of journeymen tailors may come
to our country unrestricted and in
unlimited numbers.
The false statement is being broad
casted through every avenue of pub
licity that there is a great shortage
of labor. Reports of department of
labor have been misrepresented to
prove an enormous shortage of both
skilled and unskilled workers. Secre-
tary of Labor Davis, however, in an
address delivered in Los Angeles,
November II, 1922, said there were
then 100000 unemployed in the
United States. A survey made by
the American Federation of Labor in
nearly a thousand cities and towns
shows that there is surplus of labor
everywhere. December a, Secretary
of Labor Davis in statement printed
in the Washington Star, said:
'The argument lis everywhere put
forward that because we have reach
ed a point of industrial prosperity in
the United States, after one of th'
greatest depressions we have ever
known, we must open wide our gates
to European immigration to provide
labor for our industries. I am con-
vinced that a great many uninformeG
or misled employers are using this
argument. 1t is entirely fallaciouS
for several reasons.
"There is an impression that the So
called 3 per cent law has operated tx
arbitrarily limit our immigration
from all European countries. Nothing
could be farther from the truth
Those who are now clamoring agains
the law forget or utterly disregard
the fact that the law would have per
mitted the admission of thousands Of
| immigrants during the past two years
if they had sought admission. A
any time since the law has been IL
effect, workmen for our industries Of
the racial strains which have made
America great and which up to the
past two decades made up the bulk
of our immigration, could have beer
admitted by the thousands.
"They did not seek admission. They
are not coming into America. In the
last fiscal year only less than one-hal1
of the quotas that could be admitted
under the law have come from Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
from Norway, Sweden, Denmark
from Holland and from Germany"
While Secretary of Labor Davis
emphatically declares that there is ne
shortage of labor, another member Of
the presidents cabinet takes an en-
tirely opposite stand. Secretary OF
the Treasury Mellon, whose financia
interests probably control his opin
ions, has issued warning in his re-
port to congress that the restriction
of immigration and the general re.
sumption of industrial activity has re-
suited in a scarcity of labor embar.
RAISING in some lines of business.
From reports received by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor there is
great fear of the destitution that is
sure to result during the winter
months because of unemployment. A
committee of trade union legislative
agents representing the American
Federation of Labor and all national
and international unions, having leg
islative agents in Washington, waited
upon Chairman Johnson, of the i'm
migration committee of the house, and
protested against the opening the i'm
migration question at this session.
The present 2 per cent law does not
expire until June 80, 1924. The time
of expiration was extended at the re-
quest of the American Federation of
Labor, President Gompers making a
special plea for that legislation.
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