Restriction of ImmigrationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 23 páginas |
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Restriction of Immigration United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization Visualização integral - 1916 |
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aliens American Federation American standard Bryan Bureau call your attention census taken cents CHAIRMAN Charles Cockran COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION common laborers Congress containing the literacy convention direct your attention Eliot enacted into law endeavors executive council fact favor Federation of Labor five minutes foreign immigration gration Gulick Halsted Street head tax House illiteracy immi Immigration Commission immigration legislation indorsed James January JANUARY 14 JEREMIAH W Jewish committee labor agencies Liberal Immigration League literacy test living wage LONDON market letter Marshall means MORRISON National Liberal Immigration Netherlands number of unemployed opposed organized labor orientals passed pay higher wages position President Prof published race RAKER received referendum vote referred resolution restrict immigration RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION SABATH Secretary Nagel secure statement Steady employment steamship companies steel take a census tion to-day unanimous United Hebrew trades unskilled labor veto veto power wageworkers York City Youngstown
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Página 22 - The commission as a whole recommends restrictions as demanded by economic, moral, and social considerations. A majority of the commission favor the reading and writing test as the most favorable single method of restricting undesirable immigration. The majority in this case consisted of eight out of nine members of the commission. Now, in conclusion, I desire to make this statement, and I do it feeling in my heart, and speaking as man to man, that it is a true statement of the existing conditions:...
Página 12 - The exclusion of unskilled laborers unaccompanied by wives or families. (d) The limitation of the number of immigrants arriving annually at any port. (e) The material increase in the amount of money required to be in the possession of the immigrant at the port of arrival. (/) The material increase of the head tax. (g) The levy of the head tax so as to make a marked discrimination in favor of men with families.
Página 17 - Whereas the illiteracy test is the most practical means for restricting the present stimulated influx of cheap labor, whose competition is so ruinous to the workers already here, whether native or foreign; and Whereas an increased head tax upon steamships is needed to provide better facilities, to more efficiently enforce our immigration laws, and to restrict immigration; and Whereas the requirement of some visible means of support would enable immigrants to find profitable employment; and Whereas...
Página 18 - The CHAIRMAN. If there is no objection, it is so ordered. Mr.
Página 19 - Me. GENTLEMEN: Foreign laborers are now available in this city for less wages than you can secure men for in your State. Are you in need of any? If so, we can offer for immediate shipment any number of them of any desired nationality.
Página 19 - The standard of wages for both skilled and unskilled labor of this country is the result of many years' effort by organized labor. When an immigrant accepts work at less than the standard wage, he not only takes the place of a man working at a higher rate, but he assists in forcing downward the prevailing rate of wages in that industry, which result carries with it a corresponding reduction in the physical, moral and intellectual standards of American life.
Página 12 - It ie the least of all the qualifications that might reasonably be required. Ability to read ie a qualification that should reasonably operate to protect the alien against the misrepresentations and false promises held out to them by the unscrupulous agents of conscienceless exploiters who seek among the submerged peoples of Europe victims for their creed.
Página 22 - I think it should bo done in one day, but go back and cover a year if necessary. Mr. MORRISON. I would be satisfied if they took a year. The literacy test is an expedient which should be adopted now, and time and experience will demonstrate what further legislation will be necessary in the interest and for the safety of the American people, for the improvement of American citizenship and homes, and for the perpetuation of the American Republic.
Página 11 - ... history can not complacently view, or quietly submit to the operation of any influence or the existence of any means the continuance of which would inevitably break down and eventually destroy the conditions of social life in America. We demand that those aliens, no matter from whence they come, be such...
Página 9 - The international unions elect their delegates in conventions, or by referendum vote, to the American Federation of Labor, and the American Federation of Labor...