Evening star., 1938-03-27

And the Secretary Of Labor.
To the Editor of The Star.
IN LAST Sundays Star is letter bv
Samuel Finkelstein, Esq, chairman Of
three States Federal Bar Association
that is apparently opposed to any real i'm
migration restrictions and better alien de-
portation legislation, in which he calls me
F. II. Jones instead of P. H. James a COM
mon error which runs throughout the facts
and reasoning in his whole letter. The
Congressional Record of February 9, con-
tanning my letter to which he refers. shows
the name P. H. James and not P. H. Jones.
For instance, his allegation that the
Reynolds-Starnes bills would exclude alien
culturalists like Prof. Einstein and his inti-
nation that the professor was a Quota i'm
migrant are both erroneous. Existing law.
as every member Of Federal Bar Asso-
citation" ought to know, admits without any
limit professors ministers and other cul-
tural aliens (section 4, 1924 quota acD alb
solutely non quota.
Chairman Finkelstein's long letter is the
old familiar essay against further restric-
ton and more adequate alien deportation
legislation heard every time progressive
restrictive and deportation legislation has
been enacted. 1t attacks restriction and
alien deportation as policies and then
argues for scuttling existing inadequate
laws by lodging autocratic authority in the
Secretary of Labor to nullify the law. call
ing such legislative proposals progressive
when they are retrogressive and reac-
tionary
H. r. 6391, the 14th revised version of
Secretary Perkins so-called Kerr-Coolidge
BILL which Is not a deportation, but an
importation bill, would not merely weaken
but absolutely scuttle existing laws deport-
ing alien criminals because of the word
hereafter" in the first section. making
only future alien criminals deportable and
thus extending amnesty to every alien
criminal now in our country While the
bill would provide for the deportation of
few State law narcotic violators and a
few alien smugglers for gain" both of
which are negligible, the provision as to
so-called guntoters is as ridiculous as the
one deporting only alien smugglers "for
gaiE,' because it requires second of1ense
for deportation. thus inviting and condon-
ing the first offense.
The heart of H. R. 639l for which Chair
man Finkelstein really argues is the section
conferring autocratic authority on the Sec
retary of Labor not to deport 5000 aliens
guilty of grave offenses, even moral turpi-
tude crimes, during the next four years
Why discriminate against the other zoe, 900
alien criminals? "'s
The limitation of amnesty to 600 alien
lawbreakers during the next four years
impeaches the soundness of the legislative
proposal. What about the other thousands
of hardship cases of which department
ofiicials speak?
The bill, H. r. 6391, contains no further
restriction of immigration. Last year
27,762 new immigrant aliens were legally
admitted. During the past 13 years (since
the 1924 quota law), 1,054,567 new quota
immigrants have been admitted, not one
OF whom had q near relative here and
every one Of whom was a job hunter or
dependent upon a job hunter. Charity
should begin at home So should Job en-
ployment. No other country on earth
would have tolerated such an importation
Our raft is overloaded. We have all the
unemployed dependents, detectives and de-
linquents we can possibly care for without
any such influx. The Reynolds-Starnes
bills would remedy such a situation and
would deport habitual alien criminals not
covered by H. r. 6391, the urgent need for
such action having been admitted by De-
partment of Labor officials We have
enough on relief and enough unemployed
and enough criminals. H. r. 6391 should
be defeated and the Reynolds-Starnes bills
enacted into law. Very truly yours,
P. H. JAMES,
(Room 701, Southern Building)