Evening star., 1928-12-06
ASKSFURTHERCURB
ON ENTRY OF ALIENS
Davis Urges Changes in Laws
to Prevent Separation
of Families.

Further restriction of the flow of
aliens into the United States is rec
commended by Secretary of Labor James
j. Davis in his annual report submit
ted to the President today, his sugges-
tions for changes in the immigration
laws also embodying humanizing fea-
lures to prevent the separation OF
families and other hardships found in
many cases.
Secretary Davis report deals extern
sively with all the activities of the De-
partment of Labor. 1t reveals with
other things, that more than 1,400, 900
workerS-men, women and children -
have been placed in jobs during the
fiscal year by the Government Employ
ment Service. In the field of labor and
industry the Governments agents of
conciliation, directed by Hugh l.. Ker-
win, have intervened in 478 industrial
disputes during the year. seeking 20
terminate disputes that disturbed pay
rolls on which $4,000 workers are
counted.
Referring to the high level of Amer
lean wages, made possible through the
operations of the tariff and the changed
viewpoint of employers. Secretary Davis
said: There is no room in our present
state of society for the employer who
believes in low wages and long hours
of labor. He will soon be as extinct as
the dodo; and when he is gone, never
more to return, none will mourn his
absence"
Optimism Expressed
The report deals specifically with the
work of the bureaus engaged in special
service for women and children, for
the supervision of naturalization Of
aliens, and the statistical study OF
wages, prices and industrial economies
are likewise reviewed. Secretary Davis
final word expresses great satisfaction
and optimism in connection with exist
ing industrial conditions and even fur
ther betterment in the future. With
respect to the long standing. troubles in
the coal and textile industries, he ex-
presses confidence that these will soon
be brought into line with other indus
tries.
The chief effect of the. immigration
legislation Secretary Davis approved
would be to cut the immigration from
Mexico, now running at nearly $4,000
per year, to slightly above 1000, while
leaving undisturbed the movement from
other countries of the Western Hemi-
sphere. However, it would also COM
promise the dispute between Iile quota
and national origins" methods of de-
terInining admissibility to the United
States, and would relieve some of the
handicaps now imposed on aliens who
are admitted.
He recommended a compromise be-
tween the quota and national origins
methods of determining admissible
numbers and indorsed the proposals to
fix a quota limit to immigration from
North and South American countries
which now have no quota.
Defeat Quota Laws.
Following the slowing down of i'm
migration from Europe, there was a
large increase in the number of Mexi-
cans entering the country" the Secre-
tary continued. They took and are
continuing to take the places formerly
filled by south and east Europeans
Under existing law they can continue
to come in increasing numbers, as they
undoubtedly will do, thus defeating one
of the main purposes for which quota
laws were enacted, namely, to. prevent
further overcrowding of our labor mar
ket.
"I want to say emphatically that