The Denver Jewish news., 1924-09-04

o. the authorities in the various en-
harkation portS. To government officials
md to relief organization he prob
lem Of the stranded refugees who were
granted visaS to he admitted To Amer
lea hut were detained not of their own
fuult-found no EXPRESSION 50 far in
any official record Of the State Depart
ment or even the Labor department.
The authorities upon whom the ref
ugees have placed their trust and as
a result Of that trust have disposed Of
their property. left their homes and
started journeying with the cncourag-
ing hope Of finally reaching their op-
portunity In the land of opportunities.
lest track Of these originally hopeful
emigrnnts in the moment Of their des-
pair. Commissioner General of lmmigia-
ti0n Husband has made the statement
to the correspondent Of the Jewish Tcle-
graphic Agency that outside Of news
paper reports. the immigration authori-
ties Of the United States have no Of
fetal record rs To the number cf Amer
lean visa holders classified rs strand
however solve the problem and remove
the responsibility?
That the authorities who have issued
these vlsas and encouraged the hopes
of these refugees have to some extent
n responsibility towards them is in
dicated by the fact that the State De
partmcnt has issued instructions
through the Consuls abroad to give
preference in the issuing of new visns
To those stranded refugees who hold
previous visas. There is however
very little salvation in this instruction
of the State Department. Tie quotas
according to the new law for the east
crn European countries. from where the
minority Of the refugees come are as
known. very limited. out Of this
megrc quota only half Of each quota
stranded refugees. in ms much as the
other half of these quotas are TO he
reserved for II certain class of near
relatives of American citizens and
agricultural laborers which have gain
ed preference by the provisions of the
very same immigration law Besides,
according to the same law only 1870
of the annual quota could he admitted
monthly. Even those refugees who
would prove TO belong To the prefer
red stock would have to continue in
their trying and eNhaustlng position Of
anticipation What is then to happen
to these eleven thousand stranded i'm
migrants toward whom certain meas
urc of responsibility has already been
admitted?
Congress nt its very last session. he
fore adjOurning passed the resolution
which will remain in the immigration
nnnuls as an act Of humane mercy. To
admit those who have already embarked
for the United States and would he
come victims of the. new law when they
would see land again. VIII congress
take up and deliberate in the same
refugees when ii convenes?
General plutarco Elias Gales, Presi-
dcnt-elect of Mexico, leader of the
Mexican working classes influenced by
an organization which would cor
respond more to the tendencies of n
labor party than to an extremely So
cinlistic party left cheerful message
during his stay in New York before
his departure for Europe.
When he assumes the reigns of the
Government in Mexico he stated he
would be prepared to ask his govern
ment to grant n large tract of arabic
land to Jewish settlers. with proper
facilities and concessions. The MeNi
can solution of the Jewish immigration
problem is not Il new proposal. II has
Eecn taken up. discussed and ever
abandoned already two years ago. How
ever. Mexico is the typical land o
changes and the sudden arrival at pow
or of what is termed to he Il MeXicaI
Labor Party may offer some new aspec
to the problem. General Plutarco Ella
Gales is not only interested in Jewisl
colonization work in Mexico, he hai
also good eye for business" Accord
ing to the interviewer of the Jewisl
Tc'egraphic Agency, the Mexican presi
dent-elect stated that Mexico under I
labor regime, where system of co
operative guilds could provide employ
mCnt for tens of thousands of Jews il
various branches of industry offers
great possibility"
1T would be at the same time tn