Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
BY NORMAN KLEIN.

The quota says: -Four hundred and
seventy-three Hungarlans may enter the
United States in year"
Many more than 473 Hungarians
ache to come here, to join relatives. tc
garner dollars in the Land of Dollars
In fact, there are $4,000 HungarlanS
on the quota waiting list.
This means that the last man in this
queue pointing toward Ellis Island
must count forty-two years before the
chance comes to see Broadway. VIII
he wait?
italy was unloading 100000 of its
citizens every year before the quota
shut the gates. Now only 2,678 may
come in legally.
Austria is allowed a quota of 1855
but 10000 have filed applications al
American consulates. Seventy-flve
thousand Poles yearn to come over this
year, but only 1892 may do so. The
quota law says 344 Lithuanians may
come in this year, but 12,2O0 would
like to.
Fifteen thousand of Dowager Queen
Marie's countrymen seek to enjoy AM
erican hospitality, but only 6O3 Ru-
manians may embark this year, accord
ing to the immigration law.
While the Soviet is making garden
spot of Russia, at least $4,000 Russians
are skeptical and feel that the. United
States is a. better place to live IN.
Only 1850 may do so during 1929 with
the consent of this country.
Thousands Defy U. S. Barrier.
The quota, we see. is a bulwark
against which many thousands of Euro
peans are crowding and showing.
The quota has put fence around
the u. S.. A. But it's only paper
fence.
are scrambling through this paper renee
about as easily as circus nareoack
riders lump through paper hoops. A
considerable percentage are Europeans.
Many are criminals, halfWltS, the dis
eased bearers of disease.
Americas ports were shut to them IN
the first restrictive law, May 10, 1921,
but it was the 1924 law that made the
smuggling of aliens really profitable
Adventures big business, amounting
to s7,500,00O to $10,000,000 year.
Foreign-born residents of Atlantic
Coast cities, especially New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and Miami, are en-
gagged in smuggling in countrymen, i'm
migration officials disclose. There are
syndicates that make business of it.
Robe Carl White, Assistant Secretary
of Labor, declared that immigration
officers traced one conspiracy to bring
5000 RumanianS into the United States.
A hundred of them were slipped through
the lines at Detroit and Buffalo before
the ring was broken up.
The aliens from Europe are smuggled
in through Canada, Atlantic ports, the
Gulf Coast and Mexico.
With the finding Of 81 New York
bound aliens aboard the steamship Car
MIA, outward bound from Trieste, Fas-
cist militia headquarters in Rome last
year officially recognized the Atlantic
traffic in smuggling Italians and an
nounced roundup of one large orr
gained ring.
Methods of SmuggIers.
Two methods were used by the SNUG
glers, who had representatives soliciting
business in many italian cities. One
was to falsify passports; the other was
to put stowaways aboard ships with
the connivance Of ships officers and
crews.
Shippers of the big transatlantic liners
never have been accused of participate
ing in this smuggling, although the
lines themselves are forced to pay pen
dltlES u 3oUU W 92,UUU WiiG1l dlLC1lS al e
caught at American ports and it is
proved they came over on these lines.
The smugglers involved in the ring
exposed by the Fascist militia were sea-
men, firemen and cooks aboard the
ships. The ring collected from $3.50 to
ST. 900 from each emigrant. Sometimes
the emigrants are wedged in behind
SmokestackS and boilers, starved and
finally nearly baked to death.
So well was the ring organized that
code message were sent to ships to as
certain whether it was safe to smuggle
men aboard at the next ports of call.
Some italians, eager to join relatives
in the United States. take steamship
passages to South American ports and
to Cuba. From there they attempt to
snuggle their way into the United
States. There are thousands of Ital-
ians waiting their chance today to
make the break for the land of liberty.
How they make the Cuba-to-Florid
dash will be told in another article.