Show ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LAWIn LAWIn In a ruling made by b the then new W secre secretary secretary secretary tary of commerce and labor Jabot Mr Straus the contract labor law which was sup supposed supposed posed d to b be ironclad has hu been demol demolished in one sweep and the th whole hot south thrown open to tho importation th of ot alien laborers assisted a by the payment of their passage and a guarantee of ot em employment employment employment on arrival The ruling was as made maae on a ease case from South Carolina in n which the state through its Immigration department sent nt agents abroad to invite immigration tion When the firt fl t shipment of Newcomers rl arrived a 11 question was raised as to the application of ot the alien labor law under the th provisions of ot which a laborer may be deported who comes under contract of or employment The department holds bolds in effect rr t that a state may do what an individual or private corporation may not do that the states may invite Imite and assist Im lm Immigration migration as they please guarantee the Immigrant employment on arrival and provide assurance of homes or any other Inducement In Under this ruling the intent of ot the th law passed by congress and approved by b the president is absolutely l nullified and as an administrative act it Is dif dir difficult difficult to gel get the ruling into courts for construction In other words the sim simple simple simple act of ot a n government cabi cabinet cabinet cabinet net officer though he be is is sufficient override to a law of the United States The result res lt of this ruling unless It ie II abrogated by the courts is to open the gates wide for immigrants in any nun num number ber and of such class as the tile state may DUl see fit to invite IDU And if it individual employers cf f labor or corporations seek seeking seeking ing supplies of ot men wield meld enough influence in iI influence fluence they the can evade eade the contract labor tabor law by the simple expedient of ot having the state do their work for tor I them I The principal movers moers In this new n v plan are the cotton Tail mill operatives op of the south the same Bam factories that have made a national can t by their wholesale employment m nt of ot child labor They find negro labor Taber unreliable rna white labor Is Ig not to be had in large numbers Northern operatives will not go to the south because be au e ot of II wages abe anti an labor conditions In their extremity the manufacturers have organized the state tate Immigration bureaus and now new the thea way a is clear for an influx of cheap la Ia labor labor bor In some sections of o the be south this new policy 1 Is s lik ly to be profitable to the th whole country because be it may bring In agricultural settlers setters who will de develop develop develop the country countr an build bund up tip a t class caes of ot small landholders new badly in the gulf guU states state In the long run mn too it may help settle the problem of or orthe the planter lanter who has hagh had to depend upon negro labor which Is I Inefficient lent and unreliable in n the extreme What will become of er the negro when he Is brought brou flit into competition with the th i Italian or the laborer from northern Europe is n a question yet jet to be solve soho but hut it seems seem certain c he will Wilt either have to change his mode of work or If else suf ur urfer urfer fer for gradual extinction under the law lair of or the survival of the fittest |