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Show "Che. 1 (Copy fur Thl Derurt innnt Supplied by thr Anifrlcnn Li-kuwi Noww Hi'ivUnv) ONE-QUARTER MILLION IDLE Director National Americanism Com-mission Com-mission of Legion Cites Condition Condi-tion In United States. More Hum a quarter of a million workmen uro unemployed In the United Stntes, according to n recent survey conducted by Garland W. Powell, director of the nntlonul Americanism Amer-icanism commission commis-sion of the Aiuerl-enn Aiuerl-enn Legion. Mr. Powell stntos that his unemployment unem-ployment figures were based on questionnaires addressed ad-dressed to all state chambers of com- V & merce and to state G. W. Powell. ofllelals of Legion. "The results of this census directly refutes many arguments In favor of lowering the bars against alien Immigration Immi-gration this year," said Powell. "There Is an organized movement afoot among certain employing Interests to repeal the present 3 per cent act for limiting limit-ing Immigration, on the plea of a scurclty of labor. The American Legion Le-gion wants to bring the true condition condi-tion of affairs before the country. We are not alarmists, but we do not feel that the true business Interests of the country will be forwarded by bringing In all the cheap foreign labor that Europe Eu-rope can supply. We want to see Amerlcon Industries manned by American Amer-ican labor at a living wage." Powell declared that he could bring forward statistics to prove that In the coal Industry alone, three miners were struggling to make a living on work enough for just two. "The American Legion Is pro-American," said Powell. "We are absolutely abso-lutely neutral In economic disputes, because be-cause our membership Is made up from all sorts of occupations, employers and laborers alike. But we feel It our duty to warn the American people, that the population of this country is already one-third foreign by birth or extraction. Unrestricted immigration would Europeanlze this country in five years more. That Is a condition we do not desire." |