Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-12-04

other income of the department,
which totalled s6,ss4,756.
1--WE have taken steps toward
selective immigration in the act Of
1924" Secretary Davis said in sum-
marking his departmental recon-
mendations. 1--WE should go the
whole way and make sure that all
applicants for admission are quail
fled before they leave their homes.
We should make our quota law APP
plicable to Canada% Mexico, and
Central and South America. thus
closing q door which now invites
the activities of the smuggler of
aliens. We should provide for the
admission regardless Of quota limi-
tation of farmers and skilled and
unskilIed laborers needed ia the
United States when labor of like
kind cannot be found unemployed in
this country, and when no strike or
lockout exists or impends in the in
Gustry which needs such labor. To
balance this, the President should be
given power to prohibit or further
limit immigration whenever unem-
ployment in this country makes
such suspension desirable.
I'VE should proceed to humaniZe
cur immigration laws, wherever that
Is possible. Our laws should not
operate to keep members of families
apart.
Further we need complete re-
vision and codification of our
naturalization laws. To do this
would provide, for the annual en-
rollment of our alien population, and
through this enrolment would pro-
vide means of educating every alien
in American customs, our language.
our ideals, and our institutions. It
is true that this enrolment plan
would enable us to know the alien
who Is here in violation of our laws.
We should know them. This plan
is probably the only available
means to putting an end to the
scandalous bootlegging of aliens
through our seaports and over our
borders"
The United States Employment
Service. Mr.. Davis says. is "by CO.
operating with and coordinating
public employment offices through
out the country, to a limited extent,
bringing together the manless job
and the job-less man."
General sentiment has crystal
LIKED into belief that this undertake
ing is an important function of the
IeueTdl SONeIIllient, he uuuS. 1u
my opinion, the service should be
made a statutory bureau of the
Department of Labor"
The record of the department in
seeking settlement of Industrial dis
putes is illustrated by Mr.. Davis
with a series of detailed accounts
of situations considered. and he asks
that more money be appropriated to
make the Cancellation service still
more effective as the industrial
peace making agency of the govern
ment"
at is time to get down to facts in
our effort to make industry safe for
America" he says in introducing his
proposals relating to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. Our whole strug-
gle for safety in industry from a
national point of view.-is a fight In
fog. We do not realize that no
human being on The face of the
earth today can tell within thous
sands how many American workers
were killed in industry last year.
The American people are entitled to
know exactly what price they, pay in
human life and limb for prosperity.
We should make effort to get the
facts and all the facts as to in
dustrial accidents in the United
States. I wish to recommend to the
Congress the necessity of giving to
the department the authority, the
men. and the money to enable II to
undertake real Industrial safety re-
search work"
The duty of winding up one of the
lines OF heavy war expenditure is
still being taken by the department,
the report shows in a section de-
voted to the United States Housing
Corporation. which built extensively
during 1917 and 1918 around the
governments greater munition
plants and bases. Mr.. Davis
figures disclose that $685. 18,595 had
been provided by government ap-
preparation for the CORPORATION. and
that to date, $74.517, 900 has been re-
turned to the Treasury from saiSI
wage, sales, and operations OF its
property. A probable final loss of
$Sl,ooO.o0o for the government, out