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Show UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOY-MENT DEMANDS RESTRICTIONS WASHINGTON, D. C Dras-tic Dras-tic restriction of immigration to the United States from countries in the Western Hemisphere is demanded de-manded by the ever-increasing problem of unemployment and crime, it was declared by Representative Repre-sentative Albert Johnson, of Ho-quaim, Ho-quaim, Wash., Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration when speaking of bills that are being sjwnsored by Representative John C. Box, of Texas, and himself, him-self, and which are now before the Committee on Immigration. Both of the measures plan to limit the total quota to 50,000 immigrants im-migrants a year from Canada, Mexico, and Central and South American countries. Mr. Johnson John-son proposes that for every American Ameri-can citizen who goes to reside permanently per-manently in another Western Hemisphere land, three immigrants immi-grants from that land shall be admitted ad-mitted to this country. He is of the opinion that this plan would reduce immigation from North, Central and South America by approximately ap-proximately fwo-thirds. The annual an-nual total of immigrants at present pre-sent is approximately 150,000. In urging a reduction of this number, Mr. Johnson said on the floor of the House : "If the administration and the Congress are earnestly trying to improve industrial, crime and other oth-er conditions in this country, there is nothing that can be done that wll be more important to that end than limitation of Western Hemisphere Hemis-phere immigration. We have cut off - most of the immigration stream from Europe and Asia, to our great benefit; but one result has been an extraordinary intake across our nothern and southern boundaries. "I am.told that some 80,000 or P0,000 immigrants workers, skilled skill-ed and unskilled, have domiciled themselves in New England Sthtes since the passage of the 1924 act, that the mills there at no time have been able to employ them. So even the 90,000, a limited number, num-ber, that stopped in New England after reaching the United States, added several burdens nonem-Iployment, nonem-Iployment, crime, increased taxes I for charities and schools, besides driving th older established laborers labor-ers on to newer fields, where their crrival upsets labor conditions, cuts wages, creates strikes, lockouts, lock-outs, riots, and even murder. "Look ahead. "Births over deaths in this i-ouniry are considerably more than 1,000,000 a year, which means that employment must be found each year for nearly that number of boys and girls as they become 18 to 21 years of age. The great automobile industry in the last 20 years has given all kinds of employment to young and old from work in the mines, the forests, the factory, the salesrooms, sales-rooms, clear down to the thousands thou-sands of roadsides tanks where gas is sold. Where is the next industry in-dustry to come on and take care of your grandchildren, the young boys 19 and 20 years of age. where is it, in this age of labor-saving labor-saving machines and of merger grouping and consolidations. Our population is now more than 122,-000,000. 122,-000,000. Our births are so much greater than tihe deaths, the struggle strug-gle from hand to mouth is so great it seems to me that we are called upon to close quickly the side doors and thus complete the work which Congress approved in 1924" |