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Show LABOR IS ALARMED. Some Fear That the Bars Have Been Let Down For Chinese. Oyster Bay, July 12. Immigration to the United States has in its relation ti the labor problem formed the subject of a conference this afternoon between the president and two of the important leaders of organized labor. Samuel Gompers of Washington and James Duncan of Quincy. Mass.. respectively the president and one of the vice presidents presi-dents of the American Federation of Labor. The conference was devoted particularly particu-larly to a consideration of the order recently re-cently issued by the president regarding regard-ing the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion ex-clusion law. An impression had been gained by many members of labor organizations or-ganizations that the order, to an extent at- least, let down immigration bars so far as,. Chinese are concerned. The president assured his callers, however, that no such construction properly could be placed on the order, and that he was just as vigorously opposed to the admission to this country of Chinese Chi-nese coolies as they could be. Mr. Gompers urged upon the president presi-dent the desirability for an intelligent, practical and humane consideration of the general question of immigration by the people and by congress. The people , of this country and of the whole civilized civil-ized world are entitled, he maintained, to such a consideration of the problem. |