Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-03
Former Foes OF Re
strictiOn Have New
immigration Plan

Washington. June 3J.-F5mer gp-
/ ponents Of immigration restriction
nave adopted d new line Of attack,
and at the next session OF congress
will urge elective immigration
law.
The plan is favored by the national
association OF manufacturers. which
bas led every fRht against immigra-
ton restriction.
These employers base their new
activity on the theory that there are
periodical demands foi labor IN this
country, and that this demand should
be met by government action. After
a survey of the steel coal or agricul-
ture industry, for instance, the gov
eminent would admit the necessary
requirements.
The labor-shoftage theory Is IN OPP
position to every governmental stu
dent VINO has shown that elimination
Of waste, and not production, Is the
problem in industry.
Labor-displacing machinery can FIJI
every demand, and this can be in
creased by the elimination OF fright
full waste and destruction of life.
In the May issue of the Monthly
Bulletin, issued by the United States
bureau Of labor statistics, Secretary
OF Labor Davis pointed out that in
1923 production increased nearly one
half over 1921, while the number Of
workers increased but % per cent in
the same period.
with our present iron and steel
equipment we can produce in seven
months our needs for a year, said
Secretary Davis.
Forty per cent of our coal mines,
employing rs uer cent Of the workers
now in the industry, could, by employ
ing them all the time, produce all the
coal that we could use OF sell"
In his annual report, last year, See
rotary Of Commerce Hoover called at
tention to the nations social wastes
and the appalling loss of life in In
dusty. In 1923 the number of traffic
fatalities alone totaed $4,000 and the
number of injured were 67S,000, with
an economic loss OF not less than
5000 100000.
WASTES are legion" said Secretary
Hoover. 'Ihefe are wastes which
arise from widespread unemployment
during depressions, and from specula
ton and ovefproduction in booms;
wastes due to the intermittent and
seasonal production, as in the coal ana
construction Industries; vest wastes
from structures in commerce due to|
inadequate transportation, such as
lack of sufficient terminals; wastes
caused by excessive variations in rod
ucts; wastes in materials arising from
lack of efficient processes; wastes byI
fire and wastes in human lives.
The climax of these stupendous
losses is in the taste of human life,
which Secretary Hoover declares is
the most challenging of all wastes.
During the world war, when 1000,
600 young men were taken out OF pro-
duetion, the government met the de-
mand for harvest workers by organ
ization. 1t started the harvest work |
ers in the southwest where the grain
ripened first, and then moved them
northward. Under this system the |
labor demand of every section was
met. 1t was the first time the cry
for harvest labor was not heard.
Another movement for "seective'
immigration is urged by those who iu-
sist that the physical standard OF inn
migrants should be increased. This
plan provides that representatives Of
the government abroad shall pass on
the admissability of immigrants.
rather than wait until they arrive |
here, This plan has no connection with |
that advocated by the national aSSO-
citation of manufacturers, whose sole |
interest in immigration is to maintain |
an oyercrowded labor market.