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Show WOULD LIMIT ALIENS' ENTRY Progressive League of Women Wo-men Urges Against Im migration Change Denying that unemployment has been wiped out in the I.'nited States, and asserting th'at thero are workers in Ogden unable to find employment, the Women'! rrKressive league, of ' priiii. has adopted re-solutions pro-astlng pro-astlng against any changes in the Immigration Im-migration laws which will mean more I unemployment. The resolution sets forth that anion.,' the members of the league there ere wives whose husbands are anion; those unable to find emploment here. i The resolution: Whereas. Statistic prove that a general condition of unemployment . cists throughout rhe United States, and "Whereas. The membership of the Women's Progressive league of Ogden. is composed chiefly of wives and mothers of working men and working women themselves whose husband are In many cases unable to find em-ployment, em-ployment, and In others to work onl;-part onl;-part time nt a wage Insufficient to cover the rising cost of living, pro -Inp that the same condition exists lo-cally, lo-cally, and. Whereas. The Welfare committee of the league, after careful Investigation Investi-gation also finds the same condition to exist, and. , A ' ,.n'i ... m1 Vtm worker, hat the whole business structure suffers, when American workmen arc unemployed, unem-ployed, or forced to work for too low a wage, thereby being unable to purchase pur-chase the product of their own labor, bringing about a genera! business depression de-pression affecting the whoic society and. . Whereas former experience has proven that the bringing lo of cheap foreign labor has always tended to Increase this depression, therefore, bo it , "Resolved that the Women's rm-gressive rm-gressive league go on record as bclm? absolutely opposed to the plan of the Utah Associated Industries to Influ-ence Influ-ence Utah's national representatives to work in favor of any Immigration law. the operation of which would Increase thi present unemployment and general gen-eral suffering a3 did the so-called ' American plan. mrs. rich I "i; rrn. "FLORA A WILSON ALICE SNELL M OYER "Com mittee." |