Evening star., 1925-04-21
LABOR CONDITIONS
ARE SAT|SF FACT0RY
Only Difficulty Is in Getting
laborerS for Certain
Classes of Work.
BY j. C. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 21.-The ques-
ton of the labor supply of the United
States is still being tugged forward
and back by the conflicting attitude OF
various sections and interests. The
majority of workers and employers
admit that so far as numbers are con-
cerned the supply is ample. The trou-
BILE is to get laborers to do certain
classes of work That is what is back
of the demand of some employers for
a lowering of the immigration bars.
Fear that the newcomers will not re-
strict their efforts to those classes
causes an equally insistent determine
ton that they be maintained
Farm Labor i'm Demand.
Employment conditions throughout
the country today in general are sat
isfactory. Some men are out of jobs,
as a certain number always must be,
either because they will not accept the
Jobs open or cannot reach the point
where workers are desired. There Is
an increasing demand for farm and
construction labor, and as the Spring
progresses, these fields will absorb
practically all the surplus labor avail
able.
Net immigration under the new law.
which went into effect last July, has
fallen off nearly 70 per cent. This
has been due, in part, to the heavy
emigration of workers to Europe.
Mexico and Canada now are the chief
sources of foreign labor supply for
this country. The workers from can
ada in general give evidence of desire
to remain permanently, but in many
instances the Mexican workers intend
returning south of the Rio Grande
when the season is over.
Prejudice in Some Sections.
Extreme prejudice undoubtedly ex-
lists against certain nationalitieS in
various sections of the country. The
South-especially the cotton-manufac-
turing StateS-is strongly opposed to
alien Importation desiring to maintain
The high percentage of American work
ers which now exists. The Pacific
coast is equally opposed to the influx
of certain classes of foreigners.
This attitude gradually is being re-
lieved through education and a real
ization of the Importance of business
and industry in the lives of all. The
negro migration from the South to
Northern industrial centers practically
has ceased. For a time this trend
undoubtedly hurt industry in the
South, but Southern employers are ex-
erciSing extreme care in taking back
the workers who want to return.
Seek Return of Workers.
Birmingham employers have been
asked by several cities to send agents
to induce negro workers to come
back. They have refused to do so.
They do not want the men who have
worked in the Northern centers, be-
cause they say the travellers have
absorbed dangerous bolshevik and
anarchistic doctrines from foreign
workers with whom they have been
associated.
In the steel industry employment is
general throughout the Pittsburgh
district, and prospects are good for
this condition to continue. The steel
men are endeavoring to make up for
the drop in immigration through
greater individual worker efficiency.
More women are going into busi-
ness every day, according to depart
ment heads at Marshall Field Co,
who say that they no longer seek
temporary employment, but that they
get job and stick to it.